Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Army Chief of Staff also represents a breed that is now rare in the Pentagon-the battlefield hero. From infantry combat in the thick of two Asian wars, handsome "Johnny" Johnson came away with a dazzle of decorations and the single-minded conviction that the American soldier must be hardier, wilier and brainier than ever before if he is to win the kind of war that the U.S. faces in Asia today. "Johnson's spirit of intellect and leadership," says the 1st Air-Cavalry's Brigadier General Richard Knowles, "is felt by every private in Viet...
...turning out a new kind of soldier for a new kind of war. Johnson insists: "Every soldier has to be a follower. Every soldier has to be a leader. And this applies to the private. The ideal soldier must be an intelligent and courageous man." He adds quietly: "The battlefield is a very lonely place...
...COUPLE. Scarred from the battlefield of marriage, two husbands try to find peace and comfort in an all-male stronghold. After some sidesplitting domestic misadventures, they decide to go back into the marital fray...
Plainly, Lindsay needed an extraordinary campaign organization. He got it, thanks to his own hardheaded analysis of the battlefield and the brilliant backroom masterminding of his campaign manager, Robert Price, 33, a blue-jowled, Rasputin-like Bronx Republican. G.O.P. Senator Jacob Javits, a magic name in New York's Jewish districts, came on as campaign chairman. Money flowed in from the Rockefeller family, New York Herald Tribune President Walter Thayer, and from purses farther west-notably from Tire Tycoon Leonard K. Firestone in California and Food Magnate H. J. Heinz II in Pittsburgh. In all, the Lindsay campaign cost...
...Even by battlefield standards, the op- erating room was bizarre. The patient lay on a bed in a storage shed, separated from a three-man team of doctors by a 10-ft. wall of sandbags. A 4-in.by 10-in. hole had been cut in the wall at bed level, and a slightly larger win dow above it was fitted with bulletproof glass. Behind the sandbags and peering through the window, Air Force Major General James Humphreys was all set to start a long-distance operation. With a scalpel attached to a 6-ft. pole, and a pair of pincers that...