Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...then drove to the nearby American cemetery, past crowds of women who hailed Ike with a birdlike warbling that sounded like you-you-you. Ike laid a red, white and blue wreath, stood bareheaded for a long two minutes in tribute to the dead of his former North Africa command. Then he drove on past big, shouting crowds to the airport, and four hours after he landed in Tunisia, was steaming toward Toulon...
...NATO's Continental members, France is the only one that has refused Norstad authority to send its planes into immediate action in event of a Soviet attack, the only one that has refused to hook into the Europe-wide air-warning-and-command net that NATO hopes to finish building by 1961. (Given the small size of Western Europe-Paris lies only 350 miles from the Communist frontier of East Germany-this is roughly like refusing to agree to coordinated air defense of Chicago and Minneapolis...
Into the Pit. Six hours and several miles later, the party reached a Chinese command post at Konka La, more than 16,000 ft. above sea level. The prisoners were herded into a 6-by-7-by-15 ft. pit normally used for storing vegetables, and covered with a tarpaulin through which whistled the bone-cracking Himalayan wind. For food there was only dry bread; they were refused water or permission to leave the pit to relieve themselves...
...jumped 60% (to $80 monthly) in a decade; Danes and Norwegians average 84? an hour, v. 42? ten years ago, while Swedes get a minimum $1.16 an hour, v. 50? an hour in 1948. The British secretary who once considered herself lucky to draw $1,100 annually can command better than $2,800 in 1959. The sums may not be princely by U.S. standards, but they are enough to open up a new way of life...
...executives often rise with giddy speed to their high perches, teeter briefly, then disappear with the first rough wind, it is perhaps because they have little administrative and command background for the big job. And so some hang on, but many fall...