Word: combate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Being in charge-and in combat-is nothing new to him. As a sergeant in World War II, he commanded a tank. During a battle near the Nazi lines, a shell fragment ripped into the left side of his face, and plastic surgery left him with a stiff, dour expression that matches his personality. Smiles come hard to the new Governor, even if he were of the mind for them. Ogilvie built his public reputation as a federal prosecutor, gaining wide publicity in 1960 when he prosecuted a Chicago gang boss on income tax fraud. Ogilvie's masklike, bespectacled...
...have failed to assume the proper share of their own defense. Most of NATO's European partners spend less than 6% of their gross national products on defense, v. the U.S.'s 10%. One consequence is that NATO has never met its defense goals. At present, NATO combat-ready troops, whose divisions are below full strength, are outmanned by Warsaw Pact forces along the Central European front...
...relaxed, fulfilled, only when writing well or when life's hostilities were out in the open-during war. "Having a wonderful time!" he wrote friends after his baptism of fire as a World War I ambulance driver. As a correspondent in World War II, he reiterated: "I love combat." Baker suggests that Hemingway's "esthetic of pleasure and pride" in "killing cleanly" may have been applied to war as well as the hunt...
...namesake has partly straightened out a minor confusion of a very confused night. The Alan Winslow who spoke in University Hall last Wednesday (as reported more or less accurately by the CRIMSON) is not an industrial engineer with Harvard. He is a Harvard College graduate, '47; a WWII combat inf. s/sgt. w. Purple Heart and cluster; a teacher; author of Vietnam and the Decline of American Democracy; a present member of the Harvard Graduate School of Education; and the author of a letter to President Pusey (and others) on ROTC which I hope the crimson will reprint Alan f. Winslow...
Though he ridicules the students cruelly-and unfairly-Capp so far has never been attacked on campus. "But I do demand $1,000 more for talking at Ivy League colleges," he says, "as combat pay." He alternates gibes with patriotic pronouncements, defends the flag ("It looks better waving than burning"), and offers a simplish "solution" to the Viet Nam problem ("I say shoot back"). The S.D.S., he says, should be renamed S.W.I.N.E. for "students wildly indignant with nearly everything." He handles hostile audiences firmly: when one activist leaped up at a Kentucky campus appearance and yelled an obscenity, Capp said...