Word: combate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Send me men girt for the combat...
...caricature cruel? Many a reader of Paris' left-wing daily Combat (circ. 58,000) complains that Staff Cartoonist Jean Pinatel's banana-nosed version of Premier Charles de Gaulle is a clear case of proboscis profaned. Last week Pinatel snapped back at his critics. Beside an amiable, big-nosed De Gaulle, Pinatel drew an evil-eyed, small-nosed De Gaulle, then offered his defense...
...Moreover, "since the public commonly says that politicians cannot see farther than the end of their noses, my caricatures give De Gaulle the opportunity to be much more farseeing." On top of that, he went on, the general himself likes the drawings. Wrote De Gaulle in a letter to Combat: "The sketches of Pinatel are at once droll and melancholy, like life itself...
...Beefsteak Priority. Reducing that vulnerability is the top-priority enterprise in the Navy's program for 1958-and far beyond. "The primary mission of every combat ship in the Atlantic Fleet is antisubmarine," says Admiral Jerauld Wright, commander of the Atlantic Fleet. "Everything else is secondary." And Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke has placed a no-limit ceiling on the operations of Goblin Hunter Thach and his Task Group Alfa. "If Alfa wants beefsteak for breakfast," Burke ordered, "give 'em beefsteak...
...soon to be used. Within hours after Pearl Harbor, Lieut. Commander Thach, now in command of Fighting 3, sailed out across the Pacific aboard the Saratoga. The carrier took a torpedo before the airmen ever got into a fight. Switching to the Lexington, Thach got his chance in combat off the Gilbert Islands. He and his squadron climbed into the sky, knocked down 19 out of 20 Japanese planes; Thach himself got three, and then-Lieut. Edward ("Butch") O'Hare, whose performance that day won him the Congressional Medal of Honor, killed five, damaged a sixth within six minutes...