Word: commands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came General Maxwell Taylor, Army Chief of Staff, who was ready to help fight the President's war despite the fact that the Army is suffering from budget and manpower cuts. "Our setup in the Pentagon," he said, "is defective in that we do not have this permanent command post [at the Joint Chiefs level] ready to conduct military operations at any hour of the day. The Secretary of Defense is a man who has been given great responsibility. I must say you can't discharge a responsibility without great authority. Consequentially, by nature...
...Department general counsel, onetime (1945-46) Assistant Secretary of the Navy for material procurement, longtime Navy-oriented opponent of military unification. Hensel's point: the new proposals would veer U.S. military organization 180°, from a Joint Chiefs setup geared to planning to an area concerned wholly with command. "The chairman [of the Joint Chiefs would] be the only adequately informed top official; the civilian heads of the military services . . . greatly weakened...
...Harold) White (Thunder Out of China, Fire in the Ashes) projects a well-crafted first novel. A June Book-of-the-Month Club co-selection, The Mountain Road combines a pistol-paced war story with the education of a quiet American major whose cultural reflexes are slower than his command decisions...
Possessed by Duty. Major Philip Baldwin is a rear-echelon engineer officer with a fever for field duty. He volunteers to command a seven-man demolition team whose main target is the twisting mountain road along which all vehicles, including his own and the pursuing Japanese, must travel. The road is an undulating mass of Chinese refugees moving in grim lockstep with fear, famine and misery. In their eyes, the Americans are the dei ex machina shielded from fatality by the jeep, the SCR-300 radio and the K-ration...
...Orange and Black opened the scoring after three minutes of the first period, and showed it was in command of the game by netting two more goals before the seven-minute mark. However, the Crimson defense suddenly clamped down on the visitors and did not allow another score for seventeen minutes...