Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...failed to stand firm in Eastern Europe, China and Cuba, and Communism has continued its advance. In Viet Nam it would be far better to face the enemy now rather than later, when he may be able to threaten us with nuclear arms. We are engaged in mortal combat with a despicable, determined and desperate foe, and should neither give nor seek quarter...
...article on the Joint Chiefs of Staff was well written and very enlightening. Now that Mr. McNamara has replaced combat commanders with accountants, we can take great solace from the fact that, while we may not be able to win the next war, we will have a nice, clean set of books...
...womanly Norma Reich, 36, who arrived there Oct. 19 from Manhattan to see her husband, a major in the 3rd Marine Division, likes him so much that she wants to stay there. Try telling that to the Marines, who (unlike the Army and the Navy) regard Okinawa as a combat-ready assignment and limit dependents' visits to 60 days. So Norma took her 60, then flew to Japan and bounced back on a 60-day tourist visa that expires Feb. 12. The leathernecks are getting pretty chafed about it, but Norma is determined to stay. She even bearded...
Though the XC-142A's performance resembles that of a fast-flying helicopter, the resemblance ends there. It is the largest plane of its type in the world, can carry 32 combat troops or four tons of cargo. The two that were flown last week are the first of five to be delivered to the Air Force this year at a cost of more than $100 million. "With an aircraft like this," said LTV Executive Vice President Paul Thayer, as he talked of the brush-fire wars the plane might be used for, "a clearing in a forest performs...
...Chairman Earle Gilmore Wheeler, 57, is a handsome, strapping West Pointer who, with the exception of five months in a World War II combat area, has served his entire Army career at desk jobs far removed from battlefields. A onetime math instructor at the academy, Wheeler still doodles with algebraic equations during J.C.S. sessions. As director of the Joint Chiefs' staff, he was assigned in 1960 to brief Presidential Candidate John Kennedy on military developments; his performance led to his appointment by Kennedy as Army Chief of Staff in 1962. In that job, he won McNamara's favor...