Word: commandism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More important, although the 101st was designed for airlifting, there are still general doubts about where its transport planes are coming from. Last May Air Force General Otto P. Weyland, boss of the Tactical Air Command, told a Senate investigating subcommittee that under present capabilities, the Air Force could not move a combat-loaded division from the U.S. to the Far East in less than "a week or ten days." The implication: the transports needed to move the 101st in trigger-quick time may simply not be available...
...pilot, Captain Helmut H. Wilters, taking copious notes. He was one of 50 to 60 volunteers from several countries being rush-trained to replace the departed pilots. Shiaty tutored him meticulously. When the Italian helmsman-changed every hour on account of the strain-just once failed to follow a command, Shiaty called to the mate: "Another helmsman...
...five years Japan's "Little Stalin" was a teak-jawed, cold-eyed ex-factory worker named Shigeo Shida. All other top Communists had fled to China after General MacArthur ordered a crackdown on Communists in 1950. Shida stayed, went underground and took over command by default. A hardened revolutionary with a taste for cold-blooded intrigue and a record of twelve years in prison, Shida built up a strong following among the younger, tougher comrades. He appointed himself chief of the party's "military committee," decreed a policy of unflinching violence. "We must always be prepared to give...
Drew's departure leaves the Tories with no obvious successor, but a handful of likely candidates among their senior M.P.s. The party high command expects to call a convention for November or December to pick a new leader, then start the national buildup that they hope will give him a fighting chance for victory next year...
...news of its record-breaking flight was a farewell accolade to the man who built it. At 62, Bell President Lawrence Dale Bell, for 45 years a pioneering airman, announced that he was moving over to board chairman, leaving the operation of the company to his second in command, Vice President Leston P. Faneuf...