Word: electricians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fifth session of the sergeants' slow-motion trial, the prosecution, after a month of stalling, finally produced its star witness, Mrs. Sukran Gall, Turkish-born wife of a U.S. electrician. Admitting that she had been employed by the Turkish treasury to entrap the Americans, Mrs. Gall testified that she had bought nearly 5,000 illicit dollars from three of the sergeants. But under questioning she admitted she had never, in fact, received any money directly from the sergeants, instead had dealt through the Turkish manager of the N.C.O. club maintained by U.S. forces assigned to NATO's southeastern...
Nixon (as the electrician began to shout): He's like Mr. Khrushchev-he always gets the last word...
...Lecturer. The hecklers' assault began at a hydroelectric dam near Novosibirsk, where 30-year-old Electrician Grigory Fedorovich Belousov thrust himself forward and proclaimed belligerently: "The Soviet Union has no military bases outside her borders, but the U.S. has many in foreign countries. Why is that, I'd like to know...
...land between East and West one clear day last week, a U.S. Navy P4M Mercator patrol plane lumbered along at 7,000 ft. above the Sea of Japan, 55 nautical miles east of the North Korean coast. A few minutes after noon, Tail Gunner Donald E. Corder, 20, aviation electrician's mate, spotted two red-starred MIGs, already boring down in a gunnery run on the Mercator. Their guns began to spit bullets. "They're firing at us," he shouted into the intercom. Lieut. Commander Donald Mayer, 35, barked a fireback order. But cross-conversation blocked the intercom...
Only 29, Dave King bumped around in his teens as an electrician's and plumber's helper. He played in troop shows for the R.A.F., parlayed a 1954 one-shot on the BBC's Television Music Hall into his own show, became Britain's top-rated comedian. An even more striking one-shot: his decision to ask his agent to bring some TV films to Perry Como, who as producer of Berle's show was brooding about how to fill Berle's summer air time. Assured of employment until October...