Word: commander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...officers' seminar in Washington last fortnight, Air Force General Curtis LeMay, who means what he says and says what he means, tossed aside his staff-drafted notes and growled, "I don't want to offer you platitudes." Whereupon LeMay, longtime (1948-57) boss of the Strategic Air Command, now Air Force Vice Chief of Staff, proceeded into blunt analysis of the role of reserve and National Guard outfits in modern defense establishment. By last week, with the angry replies coming in. Curt LeMay may have wished he had stuck to platitudes...
Outside Conservative Party headquarters in London's Smith Square, jubilant crowds stumbled over TV cables and shouted noisily at each new bulletin heralding the election of yet another Tory M.P. At 1:25 a.m., long after the Laborites at their glum command post across the square had conceded defeat in Britain's 1959 general election, an elegant, grey-haired figure in evening dress stepped from a sedan to a surge of Tory cheers. "Well done, Mac," shouted voices. "You did it!" The tall, patrician-looking man paused for a moment, his handsome wife in blue evening gown...
...Matter of Muscle. But even in its new guise, the pact retained many of its old weaknesses. Though it has to its credit the improvement of transport and communications lines between its Middle Eastern members, CENTO still has no unified military command; the real muscle guarding the Northern Tier is supplied by the bilateral U.S. treaties. And CENTO still has a soft spot in Iran, where Russian pressure alternates between threats and blandishments in an effort to force Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi into the neutralist path...
...Kelly Field, Texas. Stirred by Charles Lindbergh's historic flight to Paris in 1927, many promising young men flocked to Kelly to win their wings. Among the class of 1929 graduates: Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay; General Samuel E. Anderson, chief of the Air Materiel Command; retired Brigadier General La Verne (''Blondie") Saunders, a hero of World War II; Major General Haydon L. Boatner, the Army's Provost Marshal General; Lieut. General Roscoe Wilson, Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff; the late Major General Robert F. Travis; Lieut. General Francis ("Butch") Griswold, vice...
Having made out well on the English already at her command, blonde Bride Anne-Marie ("Mia") Rockefeller, Norwegian daughter-in-law of New York...