Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shaken and visibly disturbed by the shooting in Los Angeles. He did what he thought had to be done. He promised the stricken family any help that the Government could provide, appointed a commission to study the causes of violence, and called, in the most vigorous language at his command, for an end to the "insane traffic" in guns-a trade, as he observed, that makes instruments of death as readily purchasable as baskets of fruit or cartons of cigarettes. Almost as he spoke, Congress sent him a crime bill with a gun-control section, but the measure...
...newsmen and their producers seemed themselves too numbed to grasp full command of the story until several hours after the shooting. Huntley and Brinkley seemed uncommonly beside the point; the early reporting hours demanded more footwork and fast talk-and less punditry. NBC anchorman Frank McGee shared with Sander Vanocur the credit for the coolest and ablest reporting on any channel...
...article in The Art Journal Coolidge assigned some rather large responsibilities to this community of scholars. He wrote that because the church, the court, and the legislature no longer command influence in molding opinion, the university has become a "tribunal of intellectual appeal," and the university art museum must pass judgment on aesthetic ideals...
...lieutenant general, Krulak was given command of Fleet Marine Forces Pacific. His huge bailiwick extended from El Toro, Calif., to Khe Sanh, with overall responsibility for 80,000 Marines fighting in Viet Nam. Krulak helped to mold tactics for a new type of war, combining hard fighting with civic action among the Vietnamese that only North Viet Nam's massive infusion of regular troops could nullify...
...strike funds), and the nation as a whole was tired of the inconveniences of living in an immobilized country. Partly, too, it was the response of a nation to a heroic leader. The turnabout illumined the dilemma of the majority in an age of instant communication, when extremists can command publicity that inflates their influence out of all proportion to their numbers. When De Gaulle took his stand, the ordinary middle-class people of France finally had an opportunity to stand up and be counted in the battle for France. Their choice was plain: order, not revolution...