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Robert Frederick Sink (3 April 1905 – 13 December 1965) was a senior United States Army officer who fought during World War II and the Korean War, though he was most famous for his command of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, part of the 101st Airborne Division, throughout most of World War II, in France, the Netherlands, and Belgium.
In 1950 she was Detroit's Woman of Achievement. Sink was the focus of Charm Magazine in 1956 when they called her a "Symbol of Detroit's Working Women". In 1980, the University of Colorado awarded her the George Norlin Award from in recognition of outstanding achievements. Virginia Sink died in on 20 November 1986 in Pontiac, Michigan. [8] [5] [6]
George Skakel (/ ˈ s k eɪ. k ə l / SKAY-kel; July 16, 1892 – October 3, 1955) was an American businessman. He founded the Great Lakes Carbon Corporation (later to be part of SGL Carbon ), and was the father of Ethel Kennedy , the widow of Robert F. Kennedy .
Georg Ludwig Ritter von Trapp was born in Zara, Dalmatia, then a Crown Land of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (present-day Zadar, Croatia).His father, Fregattenkapitän August Johann [7] Trapp, was a naval officer who had been elevated to the Austrian nobility as Ritter von Trapp when he was awarded the Order of the Iron Crown Third Class.
[6] [7] He grew up as one of three children in a Jewish family [8] in Van Nuys, California. His mother Lila (1930–2012) was an English professor and his father Frederick (1925–2013) owned a shoe store. [3] He earned a BA in political science from UCLA in 1974. [7] Fink was also a member of Kappa Beta Phi. [9]
The series follows the story of a ten-year-old boy named George Shrinks who is only 3 inches (76 mm) tall. George lives with his musician father Harold, his artist mother Perdita, and his little brother Harold Jr. ("Junior" for short), finding adventure with them and his friends (primarily his best bud and neighbour Becky Lopez) in mundane situations - something that comes naturally as a ...
George Lester Jackson (September 23, 1941 – August 21, 1971) was an American author, revolutionary, and prisoner. While serving an indeterminate sentence for stealing $70 at gunpoint from a gas station in 1961, Jackson became involved in the Black power movement and co-founded the prison gang Black Guerrilla Family .
Dean Rusk with President Johnson and Robert McNamara, February 9, 1968. David Dean Rusk (February 9, 1909 – December 20, 1994) was the United States secretary of state from 1961 to 1969 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, the second-longest serving secretary of state after Cordell Hull from the Franklin Roosevelt administration.