Word: wac
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eisenhowers were inseparable until Ike was named Supreme Allied Commander and went to England to direct the invasion of Europe. He allegedly had a brief romance with the WAC who served as his driver, but after the war he was reunited with Mamie. When Ike finished his second term, the couple retired to a farm in Gettysburg, Pa., near the battlefield. After Ike's death in 1969, Mamie withdrew even further from the public eye. Asked last summer how she would like to be remembered by Americans, Mamie replied, as "just a good friend...
...Human Rights Commission and delegate to the General Assembly; of cancer; in Manhattan. The granddaughter of the founder of the Pillsbury flour company, Lord served as a volunteer in numerous health and welfare organizations. In 1945 during one of her many tours of Europe for the WAC, Lord struck up a friendship with General Dwight D. Eisenhower, and in 1952 became co-chairman of the National Citizens Committee for Eisenhower-Nixon and campaigned tirelessly for the Republican ticket. In 1953 when Eleanor Roosevelt resigned her post on the Human Rights Commission, Eisenhower named Lord to replace her; she served until...
...cagers take a sojurn in cactus country where they will play coach Fred Snowden's Arizona five in Tuscon. The Wildcats went 21-5 last year finishing as runner-up to Utah for the Western Athletic Conference title. Both Arizona and Arizona State University are forsaking the WAC in favor of the Pacific-8, which next year will...
...maid in Upstairs, Downstairs, British Actress Jean Marsh was helping the Allies win World War I by serving tea at the Bellamys and moonlighting as a bus conductor. But lately she has been embroiled in World War II, filming The Eagle Has Landed, in which she plays a British WAC gone awry aiding Michael Caine, a German colonel, in a plot to kidnap Winston Churchill. How could the prim Rose of Upstairs switch from kitchenling to quisling? Easy, she says: "I'd do it to anyone for the money...
Fernwood was sure Moore could handle such a weapon. When she bought the first one, he had taken her to a nearby firing range to check her out. Moore, who claimed to have had training with guns as a WAC, "did rather well," Fernwood said. She had paid $125 for the first gun, also by check...