Word: wings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britain's Liberal Party. Son Dingle, 52, former chairman of the trust that runs the London Observer, was for 14 years a Liberal M.P., is now a prominent Laborite and an ornament of the British bar. Son Michael, 44, a former Labor M.P.. edits the Bevanite left-wing weekly Tribune. But most prominent of all the Foot sons at the moment is 50-year-old Sir Hugh, who, as Governor of Cyprus, has been energetically working to bring peace to Britain's most troublesome colony...
...second line of Bruce Gillie, Mike Graney, and Dave Vietze is another of Weiland's innovations that has proved successful. Gillie, a former wing, has looked very well at center of this line, and Graney has been scoring consistently...
...best air force in South America, a 200-plane wing including Canberras, Sabre jets and Vampires, rose in revolt last week against its commanding officer, Venezuela's Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez, 43. Because the airmen quickly lost heart when other armed forces failed to join them, the revolution failed. But Major General Pérez Jiménez, far from relaxing over an easy win, was left nervous and nettled...
...many of them to the FBI, the capitalist press and other students of the party line. Orders for its demise came from the party's national executive committee, apparently because 1) it has become a costly luxury to sustain, and 2) Editor John Gates belongs to the "right-wing" party faction that now balks at blind obedience to Moscow...
LEADING CONTENDER for $500 million supersonic fighter contract for 300 jets for West German air force is Lockheed's needle-nosed F-104 Starfighter, with Grumman's swept-wing Tiger and France's delta-wing Dassault Mirage close behind. Germans turned down Britain's experimental Saunders...