Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...head the new Ballistic Missile Force, SAC's Commanding General Thomas S. Power tapped strapping (6 ft. 4 in., 225 Ibs.) Major General David Wade, 47, SAC chief of staff since mid-1956. A veteran bomber pilot, Louisiana-born General Wade saw Air Force duty in two wars, but he carried out his most daring exploit on the ground: stationed in Japan during the Korean War as commander of a B-29 wing, he won the Soldier's Medal for plunging into the burning wreckage of a fighter plane and hauling the pilot to safety...
Bernard M. Shanley, onetime appointments secretary to President Eisenhower (TIME, Nov. 18), but party regulars prefer veteran (19 years) U.S. Congressman Robert W. Kean...
Nervy Foe. The well-heeled rebel leaders who are financing the bomb throwing like to draw a distinction between themselves and Cuba's political gangsters of the past 25 years. In Batista they have taken on the shrewdest and nerviest veteran of the gun-slinging school. A dirt-poor lad from Oriente province, he painfully acquired the rudiments of an education, carefully plotted and led the "sergeant's revolt" that won out in 1933. He voluntarily relinquished power, a rich man, eleven years later...
...damp victory kept the Lions running well toward the front in the race for professional football's Western Conference championship. And even the Lions' veteran (30) Quarterback Bobby Layne. the man with the golden arm. admits that it is such defensive experts as Schmidt that keep the competition close. "Everyone is using a four-three defense* now," explains Layne. "And from the four-three they can do anything. Say the four linemen rush you -then you've got seven men in the secondary, and you've really got to pinpoint your passes. Or they...
Pastor Siegfried Schmutzler, 42, is a blond, ramrod-straight veteran who does not mind a fight. Last week he won a notable struggle with the Communist government of East Germany...