Word: combating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Disclosed at his press conference that the U.S. would probably use tactical atomic weapons in a major military action. "In any combat where these things are used on strictly military targets for strictly military purposes," he said, "I see no reason why they shouldn't be used just exactly as you would use a bullet or anything else...
Education of all is "the last best hope" of America to develope its democratic ideals. Secondary schools, especially, must combat the appeal of Communism to the uneducated. Discussion of democracy should be held in all subjects, and more than its ideals should be covered. In every course some of the problems of a democratic nation are exposed...
...appointed chief of the U.S. (and United Nations) Far East Command to replace retiring General John E. Hull. A handsome six-footer, Taylor was wounded once and jumped twice into battle with his 101st Airborne Division in World War II. He was the Eighth Army's last combat commander in Korea, incidentally learned Korean (he also speaks French, German, Italian, Spanish and Japanese). On a recent flight to Washington, lean-flanked Max Taylor, who believes in constant conditioning, exercised with dumbbells in the plane aisle, read nine Greek plays in translation and a volume of Philosopher Immanuel Kant...
...deputy chief of staff for plans and research. Brooklyn-born Gavin ran away to join the Army at 17, and soon won a competitive exam for West Point (although he never went to high school). A pioneer paratrooper, he jumped nearly 100 times and fought 422 days in combat with his 82nd Airborne Division, later wrote the Army's standard Airborne Warfare, in which he developed the doctrine of "vertical envelopment...
When the Reds seized power, they promised to do away with such "feudal practices" and to set up health centers, and they launched roving health teams to combat epidemics and contagious diseases. Peking now reports that since 1950 cholera has been wiped out, the incidence of plague reduced by 90%, of smallpox by 95%. Actually, the Reds' whole health program has foundered because of lack of doctors. The Reds' own press soon had to admit that aggrieved Shanghailanders had coined a tag phrase, "Three long, one short," to describe their medical care: long periods of waiting...