Word: cyr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talent. If he had never piloted a plane, for example, how much sweeter the triumph of posing before fawning New York crowds as a returning aeronautical hero. He could not read a word in Le Figaro, but he came on convincingly as a French navy lieutenant named Royal St. Cyr...
...highest-ranking soldier, an acid-tongued officer who was honored for his leadership (commander of French troops in Italy in World War II) but not for his obedience, being constantly at war with authority, whether it was his civilian superiors at the War Ministry or his old St. Cyr classmate Charles de Gaulle, with whom he disagreed on Algeria so bitterly and so often that De Gaulle forced his retirement in 1962; of uremia; in Paris...
Giap earned his reputation with victory against the French in 1954, when he became the first modern commander to drive a white European nation out of Asia. Then he was largely unknown, except to his French adversaries, who dismissed him with St.-Cyr-bred contempt as a sometime schoolmaster who had been awarded his general's stars by Communist bush politicians. But Giap's native army defeated his far-better-equipped foe by entrapping a French force of 12,000 in the mountain fortress of Dienbienphu and liquidating it, thus destroying the will of the politicians back...
Were it not a highly useful poor boys' school, costing less than $800 a year for room, board and tuition, Texas Agricultural & Mechanical College (8,057 men) might best be known as the only campus in the world to combine the mythology of St.-Cyr, Heidelberg and the Alamo. Often called Texas Athletic and Military, it hatches ferocious football players and in both World Wars had more Army officers than West Point.* It is the nation's largest military college and the only land-grant college that still bars women. To some it seems to be dying...
...government last week chose Air Force General André Puget, 51, recently eased out as chief of the French General Staff for his foot dragging over De Gaulle's Algerian policy. It will not be smooth going at Sud Aviation either for Puget, a quiet, amiable St.-Cyr graduate. Though Sud Aviation made $8,300,000 last year, it has yet to recoup the original development costs of the Caravelle, and faces even greater outlays on the Mach 2 Super Caravelle, which it plans to turn out in cooperation with the British Aircraft Corp...