Word: attackers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eight"-they must still check the order with base command; they must go through several cross checks on message and frequency to ensure against decoy; they must get yet another confirmatory order to proceed. In a normal tactical situation, the only man who can give the final order to attack is the President of the U.S., who relays it to General Power, who relays it to his commands. In a catastrophe situation with the President out of action, the order can be given by a complex of top officials in Washington. And even beyond Fail Safe point...
Rattles & Fairy Tales. With an assurance born of experience-it was he who only six months ago led the attack that toppled Gaillard's predecessor, Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury-Soustelle began by labeling Gaillard a "puppet" of the U.S. "If French policy is made in Washington," said Soustelle, "did you call the Assembly back here to play with baby rattles? A week ago you said the good offices mission was at an impasse. What caused you to change your mind? Only one new fact: the letter from Eisenhower...
...followed Van's career, e.g., Juilliard Dean Mark Schubart, Pianist Norman Shetler, is that he is not playing significantly better in Russia than he was able to play in the U.S. He has always had the technical equipment: the twelve-note span, the bravura style, the big percussive attack. But in preparation for his Moscow trip (which he says was revealed to him a year ago in a séance as a journey to "an agrarian country" where he would win a gold medal), Cliburn put in a grueling two months of six-to-eight-hours...
Died. John S. Coleman, 60, president of Burroughs Corp. and onetime (1956-57) president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; of a heart attack; in Detroit. Under his leadership, Burroughs developed from a maker of adding machines to a diversified company pioneering the field of electronic computation...
...Orleans restaurateur, onetime prizefighter, bodyguard of Governor Huey Long, flashy-dressing sporting figure who liked to show up at such events as the Kentucky Derby wearing diamonds from head to toe, including diamond-studded teeth and a few carats on the zipper of his pants; of a heart attack; in New Orleans...