Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Along with economic crisis, government corruption has spread. A fortnight ago, while lecturing army brass on the "meat problem," Perón got a frank assessment of how his prestige has slipped. Looking El Lider square in the eye, one of the assembled colonels made a mordant pun: "The problem, my general, is not only of the flesh but also of the spirit...
Asked what he thought of the Lampoon as a publication, Ibis sighed and brought froth an image: "It's like chamber music with a bawdy brass chair interrupting all the time." But his distaste was tinged with a shade of admiration...
From the Pentagon floated rumors that high Army brass was sharpening long knives for a counterattack on Van Fleet. The brass would find that he was well entrenched on Capitol Hill. One Senator wrote to Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens asking that Van Fleet be kept on active duty "because the country needs him." And Styles Bridges was so taken with Van Fleet that he offered him a job as military advisor to his Appropriations committee. Van Fleet promised to think it over...
...counterpart bawling for Petrillo. After playing for dances until around 11, he is likely to be up at 6 without even so much as a cup of coffee, bouncing over pitted streets to one of the airfields to play ruffles & flourishes and the General's March for visiting brass. In winter weather, instruments have to be doused with antifreeze, and metal mouthpieces have to be kept in pockets until the last minute. Army bands are not required to play in temperature, of less than 20° (though they often do, in contrast to Marine bands, which almos never play...
...considerable number of the professionals are persuaded that cuts can be made without hurting efficiency. Last week it was more obvious than ever that President Eisenhower was going to have to help Secretary Wilson by throwing the weight of his military knowledge and prestige against the phalanx of Pentagon brass...