Word: commander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though long retired from active command in the French army, Juin by his stand might stir up troublemakers among the 400,000 soldiers on active duty in Algeria. Taking no chances, French Defense Minister Pierre Guillaumat curtly summoned Juin to his office in Paris and reminded him of "the government's will that military chiefs hold themselves entirely apart from political discussions." And in his first order of the day to the troops in Algeria, as President and "Chief of the Armies," De Gaulle himself sternly declared: "In full knowledge of the facts, I have fixed what must...
Then, a long-faced, slight (5 ft. 11 in., 170 lbs.) Air Force second classman from Eureka, Calif, named Richie Mayo took command. Earlier, Quarterback Mayo had been knocked limp by Army linemen, as he desperately retrieved a high center pass and tried to kick on the run. But Mayo got up off the ground, and in the second half, he pulled up the Air Force with him. A daring fourth-down pass put the Air Force on the Army 15. Two plays later, he so artfully faked a hand-off up the middle that the converging Army defense never...
PANAMA, Nov. 3--American Army riflemen with bayonets bristling took command at the Panama Canal Zone border today after anti-U.S. Panamanians tore up an American Embassy flag, and fought for hours with U.S. canal police...
...When Major General John Medaris, head of the Army Ordnance Missile Command at Huntsville, Ala., last week announced his retirement, Spaceman von Braun and Army pressagents played it as a protest against the space mixup. But Medaris, 57, made it clear that he had decided to retire two months before to get a toe hold in private business or education before he reached the retirement...
Healy, 62, accepted invitations from the Air Defense Command to witness an interceptor missile shoot called Project William Tell II at Tyndall Air Force Base (near Panama City, Fla.)-and, incidentally, to absorb some good-natured press-agentry that would help still public complaints over loud jet noises and chimney-rattling sonic booms...