Word: civilianizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Donny Reid's troubled Caribbean island, that is saying something. Soldiers with machine guns ruled the Dominican Republic for 31 years under Dictator Rafael Trujillo. Even after his assassination in 1961, the military held the real power-partly out of habit, partly because there was no civilian strong enough to run the country. In 1963 the generals ousted President Juan Bosch in favor of a civilian triumvirate that was expected to serve as a front. To all intents and purposes, the civilian leadership has now been reduced to Donny Reid, and in the past 15 months he has proved...
After 20 shots of cognac, Thompson "decided to hell with it." He walked into East Berlin wearing civilian clothes; no one checked his pass. He contacted Communist intelligence officers, said he wanted to defect. Three men questioned him for six hours in the sun porch of a private house overlooking a lake. Thompson was pretty drunk; the Soviets told him they didn't think he would be a good spy and sent him back...
...fellow to watch out for is Scott. Only last summer Scott was the dashing, heroic flyer in Leon Uris' sweaty saga about the Berlin airlift. Now here he is again, successfully making the transition to civilian life as an idealistic, heroic young automotive executive. His battles in Detroit, working for Author Gilbert, are as simple as when Uris used him in Berlin. He fights for honest salesmanship and for improvements in the product. He indignantly opposes a loudmouthed supplier who is bribing and blackmailing Tony. At the end it looks very much as though Scott will marry...
...third largest city, where the population dared not leave the city limits. From Quinhon to the 17th parallel, the countryside swarmed with cocky Viet Cong units-some operating in battalion and regiment strength, many now openly wearing olive-drab uniforms and fatigue hats rather than the civilian-style black "pajamas" that once gave them military invisibility...
Confident of Victory. Roosevelt, on the other hand, has never held public office (last spring, however, he was elected Democratic state committeeman). Just before World War II the President's son went overnight from civilian to captain in the Army Air Corps Reserve, causing an outbreak of "I Want To Be a Captain Too" clubs, spent the war flying photo-reconnaissance missions. During his remarkably checkered business career, he has been a news commentator in Minneapolis, a Christmas-tree grower in New York, a rancher in Colorado, and a businessman in Havana. He is now married to wife...