Word: young
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University of Michigan until a 220-Ib. center fell on his 135-lb. frame and broke three ribs. He studied law, served as a captain of infantry in World War I, and returned home to become an assistant U.S. attorney (in which job he convicted, among others, a young bootlegger named Sherman Billingsley, now owner of Manhattan's posh Stork Club...
After three years at St. Cyr, France's West Point, young De Lattre became a lieutenant in the dragoons. He saw action in World War I; in 1921, a captain, he began service under France's late great Marshal Hubert Lyautey in Morocco; in 1929 De Lflttre was called to the general staff. By 1939, at 50, he was the youngest general in the French army...
...Clean Passion. Outstanding on the other side of the reconciliation movement was a blond, blue & starry eyed young German drawing teacher, Otto Abetz. Under his leadership, the two countries exchanged students, published a Franco-German magazine at Stuttgart. Abetz attended a vacation camp in the Black Forest where French and German youths pledged themselves to pacifism and eternal friendship...
...easily accessible for interviews, at which he does nearly all the talking-in French, with a rasping Turkish accent. Midnight strollers in Damascus often see Zaim's Cadillac, preceded and followed by armored jeeps and outriders, speeding home from the Defense Ministry to the dictator's pretty young wife and two children (she is about to have a third...
...high school, fought with the Japanese forces, and are now completing their economic studies at Tokyo's Keio University. Their common background even includes the purge of both their fathers: Tanaka's because he was a wartime cabinet member, Matsu-moto's as a general. However, young Tanaka is a conservative, young Matsumoto a Communist. They typify the two vigorous parties in Japan-and the way Japanese youth is torn...