Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other's photos, and Nixon noted that the support of a star like Sammy could not be bought with a dinner at the White House. Also acting it up for the President were John Wayne, James Stewart, Pat Boone and Charlton Heston. Although an incumbent President can readily command a surface loyalty, it was no small achievement for Nixon to hear himself praised from the rostrum in strikingly similar terms by Barry Goldwater and Nelson Rockefeller, Ronald Reagan and Ed Brooke. The smiling faces of such onetime villains as China's Chou En-lai and Russia...
...snag came after Air Force General John Lavelle admitted to the House Armed Services Committee that he ordered the falsification of records of unauthorized bombing missions while under Abrams' command in Viet Nam. Lavelle was demoted to lieutenant general and forced to retire for his cavalier transgressions. In testimony given before the committee, he told Congressmen that he thought Abrams might have known about at least some of the illegal air strikes (TIME, June 26). But he added that he was "positive" Abrams knew nothing of the false reports that Lavelle ordered filed by airmen who took part...
Iowa's Democratic Senator Harold Hughes, however, has been pressing for a fuller investigation. "The primary issue is not General Lavelle," Hughes told the Senate, "but the command and control system which permitted-and then allowed to be concealed-the unauthorized attacks against North Viet Nam. Nor should General Lavelle be made the lone scapegoat if it turns out that others in the chain of command are also responsible...
...Betty") Stark, 91, ranking U.S. naval officer at the time of Pearl Harbor; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Stark was appointed Chief of Naval Operations in 1939 by President Roosevelt, but after Japan's 1941 surprise attack, he was relieved of his post and transferred to command of U.S. naval forces in Europe. Though highly decorated during World War II, the Pearl Harbor disaster haunted Stark's career. Before his retirement in 1946, he was criticized by a Naval court of inquiry for failing to exercise "superior judgment" during the critical two weeks preceding the attack...
...Yard in a gray three-piece suit his back stiffly erect from a polo injury three years ago. His name is Francis Skiddy von Stade Jr., and for most of the Class of '76, he is the most direct link with the overlapping jurisdictions and tangled paths of command that make up the Harvard Administration...