Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tactical Air Command. McNamara's solution was to merge the three divisions and all Stateside units of TAG into a unified command that became known as STRIKE. To command STRIKE, McNamara picked the Army's General Paul D. Adams, 55, a let-the-chips-fall combat veteran of World War II, Korea, and a leader of the hastily assembled U.S. police force sent to Lebanon...
...also a a sunning display of Technical competence; the color quality is magnificent, and several of the scenes (especially the single combat of the Cid and another king's champion) have all the subtle tints and shadings of a medieval triptych. Moreover, the composition of even the battle scenes was obviously planned, so that they are much more impressive than the usual sand-box pandemonium of the run-of-the-mill spectacular...
...medicare, he intends to use it to highlight the whole package of domestic legislation that he wants. He has already worked out a tentative schedule to appear in about 15 states, and beneath his easy and businesslike manner his aides sense a new and expectant mood of political combat. In characteristic Kennedy fashion, he poor-mouths the chance of picking up a few extra Democratic seats in Congress in the process...
...excellent as the war lover, and Robert Redford digs beneath his own blond good looks to mine compellingly into the nature of goodness itself. While War Hunt is lean on frontline fighting, one head-punching artillery barrage that lasts perhaps three minutes of screen time stings with a combat reality few war movies achieve in hours...
...more than to medicine, TV's new weeklies are turning to World War II. NBC will ship somebody called Ensign O'Toole out to the Pacific, while ABC will fight in both hemispheres and on all fronts: Combat will follow U.S. soldiers from Normandy across France and into Germany; The Gallant Men will campaign in Italy; and Ernest Borgnine, in McHale's Men, will skipper a PT boat in the South Pacific as a sort of Marty Fitzgerald Kennedy...