Word: wings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will hopefully heal the breaches between Paris and Algiers and Corsica. More important in the long run, his statements and those of his spokesmen have indicated that de Gaulle will attempt to work for a settlement in the long-standing Algerian war, rather than give in to right-wing demands for an even stronger military effort, as many have feared. Here, of course, he will have to play a delicate game in avoiding alienating the generals, whose support is now so important for French unity...
When the Miami wing of the Civil Air Patrol first got a bill for dockage of a 64-ft. yacht, the Mayan, at a Fort Lauderdale marina, Lieut. Colonel Claude F. Lowe, executive officer, just laughed and laughed. Everybody knew the Miami CAP was so poor that its members had to pay their own office phone bills. Then, when a Coral Gables man called to ask if he too could give the CAP a yacht, Lowe began to think that something was fishy...
...said Manning, the boats were given to the New York wing of the CAP, and the contact man there was one Lieut. Colonel Hugh M. Pierce, an Eastern Air Lines pilot who flies the Miami-New York...
...Maintain Security." By last summer the Miami yacht case was burning up the wires between Florida wing CAP headquarters and Washington. Washington appointed the deputy commander of the New York CAP, Colonel A. W. Sutter, to go to Florida to investigate. Sutter messaged ahead: "As you realize, this is a highly confidential and personal matter, and in my opinion the fewer people cognizant the less embarrassing. It is alleged that in the neighborhood of $400,000 is involved." Falling in with Sutter's theme, Washington CAP headquarters ordered the Miami CAP: "Cease all investigation. Maintain security...
...candidates for this year's presidential election, scheduled for June 8, are Salazar's man, Admiral Americo Tomas, who is not even bothering to campaign, a left-wing lawyer named Arlindo Vicente, and the rule-breaking Humberto Delgado. An Air Force general who long and loyally served the regime ("A government of tyranny. I know. I was in it for 30 years"), Delgado, 52, spent the last five years in the U.S. as Portuguese Military Representative to NATO. His handshaking, baby-kissing tactics may result from his having witnessed two U.S. presidential elections, but his tubthumping, demagogic oratory...