Word: reservist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jake Hess, 32, a naval reservist who wangled two weeks of active duty during race time aboard a Navy tender that happened to be tied up in Newport...
Olivier Dubos was no more eager than any other young French reservist to be called back to the service and sent to Algeria. A towering, 35-year-old reserve lieutenant who held the Croix de guerre for World War II gallantry, Lieut. Dubos was bitterly resentful a year and a half ago when his call-up separated him from his wife, his three children, and a well-paid bank job in Paris. But the massacre of 302 Moslem villagers by the rebel Front de Libération Nationale in the isolated hamlet of Kasba Mechta (TIME, June 10, 1957) changed...
...head. He learns that he is taken for a Swiss named Anatol Ludwig Stiller, who disappeared six years ago. Stiller, it seems, callously abandoned his wife, Ballet Dancer Julika, when she was half dead with tuberculosis; he also left unpaid debts and broke Swiss law by failing, as a reservist, to ask the authorities for permission to leave the country. "I'm not Stiller!" Sam keeps shouting. But after Stiller's old conscript's uniform, much moth-eaten, is tried on Sam for size and found baggy, he is told: "You've grown thinner...
Maine's U.S. Senator Margaret Chase Smith is in close touch with U.S. military reserve programs. Commissioned after World War II, she is now, at 59, a lieutenant colonel in the WAF reserve. Her administrative assistant, William C. Lewis Jr., is an ardent Air Force reservist ("about 90 days' " training in the past twelve months). He was passed over for promotion from colonel to brigadier general last spring-despite the Senator's persistent efforts on his behalf. Last week, when the promotions of eight other reserve colonels came up for approval by the Senate Armed Services Committee...
...sabre, Mitch Thomas, Dough Runnels, and Dave Silbert will start, with Don Tingle ready for substitution. Dough Fitchen, Bob Scrivner, and Bill Chapple will start in epee, while Bruce Parker will replace Tony Enders as a reservist...