Word: lieuts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists into the Korean war. "More American aid came for Formosa. The rulers began to feel more secure in their position, and old ideas which led us to our downfall on the mainland reared up their ugly heads again." Chief culprit, Wu thought, was the Generalissimo's son, Lieut. General Chiang Ching-Kuo, who heads the secret police, runs the political department in the armed forces. Wu charged that once "a dastardly attempt" was made on his life, said that Chiang refused to give a passport to his 1 5-year-old son now living with...
There is a time to retreat, just as there is a time to advance, and last week Lieut. Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, zealous leader of Egypt's revolution, knew that the time had come to retire to more defensible lines. "Our trouble." said he, "is that we kept acting like idealists instead of politicians...
...only dummies have ridden in this disquieting sled, which can withstand forces up to 100G's. So when Lieut. Colonel John P. Stapp, 43 (TIME, January 18), head of the test project, called for human volunteers a fortnight ago, he could not have been sure how many would respond. Flying at the speed of sound in a comfortable airplane designed for the purpose is not the same thing as sliding at the same speed in a rocket-pushed sled at zero altitude...
...Died. Lieut. General Robert Charl-wood ("Nellie") Richardson Jr., 71, old-time cavalryman, World War II chief of Army forces in the mid-Pacific (1943-46); of a heart attack; while visiting in Rome...
...plane crashed in Alaska; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Chief of Hawaii's Army air units when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor (1941), he saw more than a fourth of his 231 aircraft destroyed, was relieved ten days later (with Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, Lieut. General Walter C. Short) and sent back to the U.S. Neither blamed nor exonerated in ensuing investigations, he held training commands until his retirement...