Word: commandism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Around the world, U.S. Navy and Air Force bases were on a tighter state of readiness (none more so than ever-ready Strategic Air Command). Back home in Washington, the President called in congressional leaders to brief them fully on the crisis, to show all who might have believed too much of Adlai Stevenson's election oratory that the U.S. stood united...
...communiqués it was easy to believe that what had taken place in Egypt was "an immaculate war." In London Defense Minister Antony Head announced that British casualties "did not exceed 85, of whom not more than 20 were killed." And from the beginning the Anglo-French high command emphasized the careful concentration on purely military targets, the deliberate effort to spare Egyptian lives and property...
...near Elath after a brief engagement and Quseima after forty-five minutes . . ." Only once, at the crucial road junction of Abu Aweigila on the Jerusalem-Ismailia highway, did Egyptian armor and artillery succeed in stalling the Israeli advance (TIME, Nov. 12). Tough Moshe Dayan, dashing about Sinai in a command car from hotspot to hotspot, promptly took charge. "Our infantry was inching along taking casualties under heavy artillery fire," he said later. "About 1 p.m. I told the commander he must take Abu Aweigila before 5 and darkness. I told him if he got in close the Egyptians couldn...
...Europe she has appeared before both opera and concert audiences from Stockholm to Mi lan. While studying in Paris she met her husband, a Spanish journalist named Luis Rodriguez, lost him 14 months later (he died of a liver ailment), two days before she was to sing a command performance of Le Cog d'Or at London's Covent Garden. She went on (as the Queen of Shema-khan) despite the tragedy, now thinks "singing helped...
...staggers into the desert to find God than one who flies to Palm Springs to freshen up his tan. According to the script, that was the kind of fellow Moses really was, at least as a young man. There are moments, in fact, when it seems that the Seventh Command ment is the only one DeMille is really interested in; to the point where the Exodus itself seems almost a sort of Sexodus-the result of Moses' unhappy (and purely fictional) love life...