Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam dilemma for Uncle Sam except to fight it through. But it depends on how you say it: you may stay American, or you may adopt the Hitler-youth mentality, as you do in that article. "New men are greeted at reception centers with brass bands," you boast. Can you have forgotten that the same was true in Auschwitz...
Died. Lord Ismay, 78, Britain's wartime chief of staff and confidante of Winston Churchill, a strapping, pug-jawed soldier who won the respect of Allied brass at conferences from Casablanca to Yalta as Churchill's tough but tactful "man with the oilcan" by putting machinery in motion to implement the statesman's broad decisions and showing a sure diplomatic hand which he later used in 1952-57 as NATO's first secretary-general; of congestive heart failure; in Broadway, England...
...still likes to see "A Christmas Carol" performed on TV or that those same damn carols do get to him now and them. But the Maiden Aunt knows, for beneath her dignity and austerity she is an incurable romantic. After all, those wreaths still do appear on colonial brass knockers...
...justice, Johnson believes that the Army should treat its involuntary employees with particular solicitude. A "private's general," he takes pride in the good chow and creature comforts that soften a draftee's adjustment to military life. New men are greeted at reception centers with brass bands. At Fort Jackson, S.C., and Fort Dix, N.J., drafty, double-decker wooden barracks are giving way to modern brick buildings that resemble campus dormitories. They have bathrooms on every level, rooms with from two to eight bunks, telephones, lounge rooms and Laundromats. There are automatic dishwashers and potato-peeling machines...
...sudden switch, Subandrio served notice that he was through with President Sukarno and ready to side with Defense Minister Abdul Haris Nasution and the rest of the military brass, who are consolidating their hold on the country. Whether his move will be successful is in doubt. Many officers still suspect Subandrio of sympathy with-if not complicity in-the coup attempt, and the army shows no willingness to settle for anything less than a clean-broom housecleaning of all Reds and Red sympathizers.* Stepping up its campaign' to discredit the Communists, the army last week made public the confession...