Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most significant upshots of Defense Secretary Wilson's recent "draft dodging" accusations, leveled against the National Guard several months ago, will become effective five days hence, on April first...
...Crimson five finished with a 12-9 won-lost record, quite an improvement over the 8-16 performance of its immediate predecessor. With a few less mistakes, four more games could have been won, including the two Yale losses, Coach Floyd Wilson commented. "No longer are we the league's pushovers," he added...
...previous seasons such a strong show against the league's best was undreamed of. This year the Crimson gained the confidence that it could win. This assurance, lacking in the past, was termed by Coach Wilson as the team's outstanding contribution for future seasons...
...last December, according to the court-martial charges, Colonel Nickerson wrote his memorandum against the Wilson order, sent it to William F. Hunt of Reynolds Metals Co. and John A. Baumann of Radio Corp. of America (both employed at Redstone), Editor Bergaust of Missiles and Rockets, and to Washington Columnist Drew Pearson. "We took one look at it," said Bergaust later, "and decided we didn't want the stuff around. So we mailed it back to Nickerson, registered. Fortunately, we kept the receipt...
...technically and tactically this weapon is very similar to artillery," he said, "and very dissimilar to aircraft." Nickerson's attorney, Robert K. Bell, former law partner of Alabama's Senator John Sparkman, implied that during the trial he might well grill high defense officials, from Charles Erwin Wilson on down...