Word: command
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bombers of the Strategic Air Command will still pack the U.S.'s main nuclear punch in the early 1960s. Backing up SAC will be nuclear submarines armed with Polaris solid-fuel intermediate-range missiles, plus IRBMs deployed in Western Europe, plus U.S. fighter-bombers, with a mighty nuclear wallop, on alert at bases scattered around the perimeter of the Communist heartland. But what made the headlines was the missile gap, and the public confusion was greater than ever...
...Gaulle at least was able to prevail over his own troublesome generals last week. Sad-eyed General Raoul Salan, No. 1 soldier in Algeria during last summer's settlers' revolt, was made military governor of Paris. Impetuous paratroop Major General Jacques Massu was assigned to a field command entirely divorced from politics...
...Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, a U.S. Air Force orchestra was on hand to blare out Old Soldiers Never Die as 96 former command and staff comrades offered their twelfth annual salute to the stern, bayonet-spined Old Man, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, turned 79. Among the many who wired birthday greetings: "Your old friend and assistant, Dwight D. Eisenhower...
...earlier years of the Eisenhower Administration, Artur Rubinstein, Hildegarde and Marian Anderson, among others, have played the White House.*Only last year some show business commentators-including Critic Coe-blamed the Eisenhowers for requesting too many command performances (traditionally unpaid) from well-known entertainers. Ike never cared much for White House vaudeville (the acts are booked by Mary Jane McCaffree, Mamie's secretary), prefers movies, which he takes along on his vacations (he likes westerns, but has been known to protest when they show cavalry procedure incorrectly). As for Lawrence Welk, both the Eisenhowers and the Nixons...
...move more advantageous to the invading forces could scarcely have been planned by the Allied high command-as in fact it was. The truth is, General Montgomery did not make an inspection tour of North Africa in 1944; he was much too busy in England. The trip was actually made by Lieut. M.E. Clifton James of the Royal Army Pay Corps, a small-time character actor who bore such a staggering resemblance to Monty and mimicked him so well that not a man in North Africa twigged the substitution-not even Monty's onetime batman...