Word: cavalryman
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During his protean career, John Huston, 56, has been a boxer, cavalryman, painter, writer and Hollywood director of such classics as The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The African Queen and Freud. What next? The ever restless Huston will soon move in front of the camera -to play the Boston Irish Cardinal Glennon in Otto Preminger's film, The Cardinal. Snorted a poker-playing crony: "The only problem is getting the robes off him when the movie's finished. He'll be pax vobiscuming all over the joint...
...Give Us Time." As President of the junta, the military appointed General Manuel Pérez Godoy, 59, a cavalryman with a folksy style. "This palace is the home of the nation," he chatted at a press conference, "but do not come too late at night, as I may be sleeping." Army Commander Nicolas Lindley was named Prime Minister. Air Force General Jesús Melgar, the new Agriculture Minister, quickly scored with consumers by persuading butchers to knock down meat prices. The generals reaffirmed their intention to hold a simon-pure election next June. There were even stories that...
Harkins, a onetime cavalryman and deputy chief of staff in World War II to hard-driving General George Patton, was nicknamed "Ramrod" because it was his job to see that Patton's orders were obeyed swiftly and efficiently. Boston-born, Harkins has a reputation for tact and diplomacy as well as drive and discipline, all of which he will need in the job ahead. The U.S. is committed to a three-stage "pacification" program in Viet Nam that calls for 1) anti-guerrilla training and military re-equipment of the Vietnamese army, 2) swift-moving offensive operations against...
...easy. The Rayburns were a poor farm family, and Father W. M. Rayburn-a Civil War cavalryman who had ridden to Appomattox with Robert E. Lee-was barely able to feed his eleven children. "Character is all I have to give you," he told his sons. "Be a man." Sam went off to East Texas College, paid his own way by sweeping floors and ringing the school bell. Before he left home, his father pressed $25-the family savings-into his hand...
...tired and shambling Joe guards the three equally exhausted Germans he has flushed from some bloody pocket of the war. Mauldin's caption, inspired by a news dispatch: "Fresh, spirited American troops, flushed with victory, are bringing in thousands of hungry, ragged, battle-weary prisoners." A cavalryman sadly administers the coup de grâce to a Jeep with a broken axle. Relaxed before battle, Willie angrily casts his eye on his buddy's unlovely countenance: "Why th' hell couldn't you have been born a beautiful woman...