Word: commander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unflagging battle against civil-rights legislation, House Rules Committee Chairman Howard Smith has been serving as a quietly effective Dixie doodler. Virginian Smith bottled civil rights in committee for two months until a majority forced it out. When the measure reached the House floor last week, "Judge" Smith took command of Southerners marshaling to defeat or disembowel it. The bill's backers steeled themselves for diatribe and delay, quorum calls and quixotic demands. But with gaunt, mild-looking Howard Smith calling the shots, they were never more wrong...
...waved away three times before making it on the fourth try. Said the President: "Bet the poor kid was crying his eyes out." The Navy was fairly obvious about its yen to get into the strategic bombing business with, but after, the Air Force's Strategic Air Command. In one notable performance, two A3D Sky Warriors (at 41,000 ft., a top speed of over 600 m.p.h.) and two F8U Crusaders (at plus 45,000 ft., an average speed of 650 m.p.h.) made the first carrier-to-carrier transcontinental flight in history, taking off from Bon Homme Richard...
...concentration for exploration of all facets of early Christian and early Byzantine antiquities. These facets are many. Since the Byzantine Empire extended roughly from the Adriatic on the West, the Danube on the North, the Euphrates on the East, and Palestine on the South, students must be able to command not only Greek, Latin, and French, but German, and the Slavic tongues or Arabic depending on the scholar's inclination...
...Communist Party of the U.S.S.R. The view bore little resemblance to the popular image of the off-duty, semicomic, garrulous Khrushchev tippling his way through diplomatic receptions. This was Khrushchev during office hours, not only sober but sobering: a tough, shrewd, vigorous man with the air of confident command. In sharp contrast to China's Chou Enlai, who cautiously read his answers to selected written questions on See It Now (TIME, Jan. 7), Khrushchev played by U.S. ground rules, asked in advance only for what fields the questions would cover. Producer Ted Ayers replied so broadly that he left...
Lieut. General William H. Tunner, 50, European Air Force boss, trading hats with Global Warrior Everest, takes over as Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations. "Terrible" Tunner, impatient, coldly efficient, has made his biggest mark as a top transport troubleshooter. West Pointer Tunner headed up the wartime Air Transport Command's ferrying division, later brilliantly steered the arduous Burma-China supply shuttle over "the Hump," the 1948-49 Berlin airlift, and the combat air supply in Korea. (A Tunner-made motto: "We can fly anything, anywhere, anytime.") The job of European Air Force boss was Tunner's first...