Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accusation came from an ultraconservative organization called the Stay American Committee. Formed last October to "combat Communism in Phoenix," the committee put up a slate of city councilors, chose as its mayoralty candidate Insurance Man W. Buckner Hanner, 45. To start off his campaign, Hanner, a World War II fighter pilot who boasts of his membership in the John Birch Society, charged that Charter Government's city manager system was part of a plan launched by the National Municipal League (a thoroughly respectable association of U.S. civic leaders who work for such reforms as urban renewal, Metro government...
...jewelry making, largely because they depended on patrons for a living and their patrons wanted all three. Today's painters and sculptors, free of that pressure, largely shun jewelry making, uncertain whether it is an art, a trade, or merely a manner of preserving precious stones. To combat the notion that jewelry makers are not artists but artisans, London's 800-year-old Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths this month is showing the largest recent collection of fine jewelry. For every piece from Boucheron and Cartier, Harry Winston and Tiffany, there is a Calder, a Jean Arp, a Giacometti...
...Army has had few tougher combat generals than James Alward Van Fleet, 69, who won three Distinguished Service Crosses, three Silver Stars and three Bronze Stars during a distinguished career that included leading an Army corps in Europe, defeating Communist guerrillas in Greece, and commanding the Eighth Army in Korea. But solid as was Van Fleet's reputation for bravery, it was occasionally matched by his reputation for shooting from the lip. Last week, on the eve of his recall by the Kennedy Administration as an Army consultant on guerrilla warfare, Van Fleet arose before a gathering of conservation...
General Maxwell Taylor, just back from a fact-finding tour of South Viet Nam, conferred at the White House with President John Kennedy on what steps the U.S. should take to shore up President Diem's government. Kennedy still opposes sending U.S. combat troops, but may agree to the dispatch of 1) U.S. Army engineers to repair the flood damage, 2) logistics experts to improve the inefficient supply system, 3) more anti-guerrilla trainers, and 4) helicopters to give government troops greater mobility in the nightmare terrain...
...problem of the Minutemen is that different units have different ideas about the organization's reason for being. DePugh sees the Minutemen as a combat group. He sanctions such operations as last week's Illinois exercise, where everything from land mines to 20 mm. antitank guns were made available by a Collinsville, Ill. member who, as an ordnance expert, is licensed to buy and sell weapons under the National Firearms Act. But others, like the San Diego Minutemen, stress survival. Says San Diego Photographer William F. Colley, 39, under whose leadership 2,900 California Minutemen have buried medicine...