Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mauldin's encounter with him, he expressed his disapproval of Mauldin's portrayal of the front-line soldiers: the cartoons could influence too many rear-echelon soldiers-all the way back to England, if not the U.S.-into affecting similar sloppy appearances in order to look like combat soldiers...
...present the Army has 856,233 men, assigned to 14 divisions (five of them in Europe, three in the Pacific theater), five regiments, 80 air defense battalions, one infantry brigade, one combat command, one armored group. The Navy, with 620,405 men on active duty, has 376 warships, 16 fleet carrier air groups, 31 carrier antisubmarine squadrons, 47 supporting air squadrons. Air Force strength is 819,410 men; the prime weapons are 37 strategic wings (including some 600 B-52s), 19 air defense wings, 32 tactical wings. The Marines have 176,847 men assigned to three divisions (a fourth...
...seen such political behavior during my 40 or 50 years of public life," shouted Nehru to a crowd of 200,000 in the Kashmiri capital of Srinagar. Ayub, he said heatedly, "is basically a war-minded soldier. While the United States thought it was providing arms to Pakistan to combat Communism, it is very well known all over the world that Pakistan has military aims against peaceful countries...
...dedicated apprenticeship. The smallest (5 ft. 7 in.), most soft-spoken and most reserved of the astronauts, he tried the Air Force briefly as an aviation cadet just before World War II ended, later re-entered it after getting a mechanical engineering degree at Purdue. He flew 100 combat missions in the Korean war (Distinguished Flying Cross, two Air Medals), returned to the U.S. as a pilot instructor at Bryan, Texas. Says his pretty wife, Betty (they have two boys): "He told me Korea was safer than teaching cadets how to fly. He said flying was even safer than driving...
...billings, Manhattan's Cunningham & Walsh agency put in a new, young management team. Founder John P. Cunningham, 63, moved upstairs to chairman of the executive committee. New head of the agency is softspoken, Kansas-born Carl W. Nichols Jr., 37, a World War II Marine combat lieutenant who joined C. & W. in 1946 as a market researcher, later supervised the Johns-Manville account. Nichols promptly began an austerity program, will drop 10% of the agency's employees...