Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Assad: 'Sadat has a fixed determination to overcome obstacles and move toward peace. He makes big moves and breaks impasses. With Assad, each issue when you get to it becomes major, and you have to bargain over every point. It's so time consuming! Sadat makes command decisions. Assad had his lieutenants there, and I had to convince them too.' In describing Assad, Kissinger was also describing the Israelis to themselves...
Whoever directs, Peter Hall will rule. He may command through persuasive fluency and crisp decision, but he must also woo the paying customers and the satraps of subsidy. At least 80% of the 2,450 seats must be filled or the prevailing ratio of $2 in government subsidy for every $2 in theater receipts will go perilously awry. There has been quite audible grumbling about the $30 million that has already gone into what one sour critic has labeled "the concrete Xanadu on the South Bank." Hall has astutely muted such criticism by occupying the premises, and the government...
...land, Soviet generals command 2.5 million men, supported by 40,000 tanks, compared with the 790,000 men and 10,100 tanks in the U.S. Army...
Died. Angela Baddeley, 71, stage and screen actress for 60 years, mostly in supporting roles, who found a new career as the crotchety cook, Mrs. Bridges, second-in-command of the class-conscious squadron of servants in BBC-TV's Upstairs, Downstairs series; of the effects of flu and bronchitis contracted while starring as Madame Armfeldt in the musical A Little Night Music; in Essex...
With five minutes left, Cheryl Gelzer took command for the Crimson hoopsters. Shooting for 9 of game-high 12 points in the final minutes, Gelzer gave the lead back to the 'Cliffe...