Word: directing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...General Spandidakis. Constantine resisted. "You've succeeded in taking over the country," he said. "At least allow the Premier to be a civilian." To Colonel Papadopoulos he said: "You haven't got the faintest idea of how to run a country. All you can do is direct artillery fire." Eventually, the colonels agreed to accept Constantine Kollias, chief prosecutor in the Greek Supreme Court, as Premier. He was summoned to the Defense Ministry. Said Constantine to Kollias: "If you do not accept, my country will be in anarchy." Kollias accepted...
...whatever yardstick one uses, the American policy of isolating China has not worked," he said. "Communist control has continued. China has not remained isolated from the rest of the world." Now, Findley added, the war in Vietnam moves daily toward inviting a direct confrontation between the two nuclear powers...
Died. Anthony Mann, 60, movie director, a onetime off-Broadway bit-player who rose to direct Broadway shows like 1936's So Proudly We Hail before going to Hollywood, where he turned out over 40 films of meticulous workmanship but uneven merit, including The Glenn Miller Story and El Cid; of a heart attack; in West Berlin...
Messages to Moscow. It was Roessler's inside information, according to the authors, that allowed Soviet Marshals Zhukov, Rokossovski and Eremenko to draw the Wehrmacht into the encirclement of Stalingrad and thus turn the tide of the war in the East. Roessler also provided Russian propagandists with information-direct from Hitler's headquarters-that was used over loudspeakers to break the German resistance: "Panzer grenadiers of the 24th, we shall not be south of Voronezh the day after tomorrow as your leaders have assured you. Save your bread, your ammunition and your gasoline. The luckiest will be those...
...almost no enemy opposition when they land in their drop zone, the 50-odd men in the platoon soon discover that they are in fact hopelessly trapped. After a few days of unrelieved agony, death becomes relatively unimportant. What matters more is how it will come. Using prose as direct and brutal as a trench knife to the gut, and with utter fidelity to military fact, the author meticulously ticks off the manner in which each man dies. The Cauldron may not win a prize as high art, but as an unsparing and authentic eyewitness account of the sights...