Word: baton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...standard battlefield uniform was a camouflage jungle suit, a baseball cap with three stars and a baton that, he joked, was always on hand "to spank the Viet Cong." He relished the spotlight and was candid enough to admit it. "I like being a hero," he said with disarming frankness during last year's Cambodian invasion. Less well known was the fact that the "Patton of Parrot's Beak," as he came to be nicknamed, was also a skillful administrator who had commanded three of South Viet Nam's four military districts and at times was considered...
Fresh from his Washington get-together with President Nixon, Britain's Prime Minister Edward Heath caromed back to his home town of Broadstairs, Kent, whipped up a practiced baton and led the choir through its annual Christmas carol concert. The P.M. knows at least as much about conducting a choir as conducting a parliamentary majority; this is the 27th year he has presided over the caroling, and only his first at No. 10 Downing Street. "An improvement, on the whole," he said of the choristers. "Must be something to do with the change in climate." It was obvious that...
Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps (Columbia); Debussy: Pel leas et Melisande; 3 LPs (Columbia). Under the baton of that red-blooded logician, Pierre Boulez, all is rite in Stravinsky's polysavage world and all is light in Debussy's interplay between symbol and reality...
...Baton Rouge...
...mind-and his monicker; instead of trying to beat them, he joined them. As Minnesota Fats, he prospered, became president of a billiards-equipment company and starred in a TV show. Now he, not Gleason, is playing Minnesota Fats in a movie called The Player, currently being shot in Baton Rouge, La. Too well known for hustling, Fats now plays exhibition games-with no frills. After watching dinner-jacketed players at a New York tournament, he once observed that "dressing a pool player in a tuxedo is like putting whipped cream...