Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the time the boarding seemed imminent until the final message, Pueblo's communications were relayed simultaneously from Yokosuka through several command tiers to the office of the Commander in Chief Pacific (CINCPAC) in Honolulu and all the way to Washington. Yet there were some unaccountable lapses. At Yokosuka, Rear Admiral Frank L. Johnson got the messages quickly enough, but he knew that there were no naval aircraft available to help Pueblo. He turned at once to the Air Force's Lieut. General Seth J. McKee, who is commander of U.S. forces in Japan and chief...
Clifford treads the corridors of power with sure feet, exuding cool aplomb and "command presence." He helped draft the 1947 and 1949 laws that unified the armed forces and has maintained a close liaison with both the Pentagon and Capitol Hill. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright admits that his close personal friend "certainly has great qualifications...
...greatly from his country's lavishness to composers. Sadler's Wells commissioned not one, but two operas, in the awareness that any composer can profit by first mistakes. The second, a comedy called A Penny for a Song, presented last November, shows the composer in even greater command of expressive forces than the relatively primitive Mines. Meanwhile, Mines has become established in the European repertory, with performances in Italy, France, Germany and Sweden, and one now in preparation in Czechoslovakia. With three operas (including an early one-acter), four string quartets, two symphonies, and a sheaf of smaller...
...small group of overeager young in evidence on many campuses." They act, he said, on "the assumption, which they invariably call their 'analysis,' that Western society, and especially American society, is rotten through and through." These "Walter Mittys of the left," declared Pusey, "...fancy themselves rising to positions of command atop the debris as the structures of society come crashing down." He blamed the Dow sit-in at Harvard last October on "some few" students who "managed not only to move the demonstration inside the building, but also to maintain there something very like a state of siege for more...
...Cream & Orange Juice. Finally Mehli Mehta relented, began teaching him the rudiments of the baton. One day, when Zubin was 16, his father let him conduct a Bombay Symphony rehearsal. "The moment he got onto the podium," says Bombay Cellist George Lester, "he instantly took command, gave us our correct cues and put us under his spell...