Word: posting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sideslipping. Hap was the first to direct artillery fire by airborne radio, the first to show that planes could be used for reconnaissance. The first air mail was a mail sack he flew five miles across Long Island, N.Y., and plopped down in front of the Garden City post office. But he spent World War I chained to a Washington desk...
Ulate resumed the presidential custom of walking to the San José post office every day to get his mail. He also walked to work. Coming out of his two-story stucco house on the capital's north side one day last week, he struck out as usual past the corner grocery and crossed the Parque Morazán toward the palace. In the park, a fat waiter passed him. "Buenos dias, Don Otilio," said the waiter. The President of Costa Rica tipped...
Washington's Corcoran Gallery, which prides itself on showing the best in modern American art, housed a newcomer last week. The debutant, a shy, gentle man with a Pinocchio-sized nose, was the Washington Post's cartoonist, Herbert Lawrence Block, 40. He had won a Pulitzer Prize (1942), but he'd never seen anything like this. Eyeing the 194 cartoons, all signed with the economy-size pen name (Herblock), one dowager gushed to Block: "There's a complete timelessness about your cartoons. They'll last, I think, for at least ten years...
...time for Congress to inquire searchingly into the extent to which the law has been violated and the courts of the United States hoodwinked by a Federal agency. And we think the law should be made so clear that even Attorneys General can understand it. Editorial in the Washington Post...
...requirements for a commission are that the applicant be between 21 and 26 years old, and that he hold a master's or doctor's degree, or a bachelor's degree with three years practical experience. Further details may be obtained at any Army office or post...