Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cocktail-party diplomacy was not the bouncing Russian strongman's only propaganda weapon last week (see box). Two days later Nikita Khrushchev laid about him again in an interview (conducted without the aid of interpreters) with the U.P.'s veteran Moscow Correspondent
Yale coach Jordan Olivar lacked experienced halfbacks and tackles, and had only one veteran for the quarterback slot. That one--Dick Winterbauer--has proved sufficient, however. Saturday, he moved into the total-offense lead in the League on the strength of 206 yards gained on 31 plays. He threw 14 completed passes, two of which went for touchdowns...
...executive committee are led by 58-year-old Ferhat Abbas, "grand old man" of Algerian politics and a onetime moderate, whose failure to wring concessions from France has turned him into an embittered extremist. His close aide is Dr. Mohammed Lamine-Debaghine, 40, bitterly anti-French veteran nationalist who is subject to bouts of depression caused by attacks of neuralgia that partially paralyze his face. Both he and Abbas have served as Deputies in the French Assembly...
From the first crack of the hammer by veteran Auctioneer Louis J. Marion, paintings by Picasso, Signac, Pissarro, Lautrec were knocked down at the top prices Parke-Bernet had noted in their confidential books. But when a handsome view of the Tuileries by Edouard Vuillard, appraised at $25,000, was placed on the stand, there was a long-drawn sigh of delight, followed by a bedlam of bids as 18 green-uniformed bid callers and four assistant auctioneers tried to keep up with the rush that shot the price in 2 min. 15 sec. from a $15,000 opener...
...tribute, Bethlehem Steel made Grace honorary chairman, and abolished the post of chairman. Named chief executive was Grace's longtime (since 1945) second-in-command, President Arthur Bartlett Homer, 61, a precise and analytical Beth Steel veteran (since 1919) who bossed Bethlehem's World War II shipbuilding program. One of Homer's first pronouncements in his new job: Grace is recovering from his illness, is itching to return as an active adviser...