Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reason for the G-man boom is The FBI Story (Random House; $4.95), by Pulitzer Prizewinner Don Whitehead, a 20-year A.P. veteran now Washington bureau chief for the New York Herald Tribune. No mere puff job, Whitehead's book is a searching, definitive history and, though done with FBI cooperation, takes a well-balanced view of the bureau. To the surprise of Author Whitehead, Random House and newspaper editors, the book turned out to be a runaway bestseller, sold 150,000 copies in five weeks (initial print order: 35,000); last week the publishers planned to print another...
...Congress; the key to an improved Republican congressional electoral showing lies in an improved Republican congressional record. In the somewhat unwieldy House, divided 233 Democrats and 200 Republicans (with two vacancies). Leader Joe Martin would just have to do the best he could-and Joe is a skilled veteran at getting what is possible. But it was in the Senate, cliff-hanging between 49 Democrats and 47 Republicans, that the G.O.P. had its best chance to demonstrate that it really believes in the kind of Republicanism that got Ike elected. And upon the massive shoulders of Senate Republican Leader William...
...Black Sea to Moscow. It is uniquely fitted to move in on crises ranging from local riot to local war without setting off a big global bang. "We can exert flexible force tailored to fit any situation," says Vice Admiral Charles Randall ("Cat") Brown, 57, the weathered combat-carrier veteran who has commanded the Sixth Fleet since last August. "We can raise our voice without shouting. And without firing a shot we can create terrific repercussions...
...born and raised in Tuscaloosa, Ala. (pop. then: 9,000), grandson of a Civil War veteran and son of a respected lawyer and Democratic bigwig. At the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, he was awarded so many demerits for drinking, practical joking and all-round roistering that he was expelled, was reinstated only on his father's plea and on probation. This shocked him into hard work and he finally graduated-far, far down the list-in 1921. After an assignment in 1924 to the Navy's first aircraft carrier Langley, he turned to naval aviation. Not long...
...also indicative of Crimson superiority that B.C.'s veteran third line of Leary, Captain Joe Moylan, and Carl Marino was not only outhustled but out-played as well by the varsity's third line of Holmes, Reilly, and Bill Collins...