Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tough ride," Gibney cabled. "The general's expert jeep driver treated the jeep as if it were a plane while we rocketed along the narrow, crumbling, dusty roads. Taking that jeep ride was the best way of finding out how tireless and driving a man Walker is. There were no wasted seconds-even for lunch. The general did suggest that I take time out to eat with the drivers while he was conferring at a regimental command post, but I was too interested in the conference to accept his offer...
Military Fundamentalist. Toward the end of the war, Walker had become such an expert in the tactical management of armor that Patton considered creating an all-armored corps of three divisions and putting Walker in charge of it. "Johnnie" Walker's colleagues do not remember that he ever argued with anything Patton ever said, or, in fact, answered anything to a Patton order except "Yes, sir." A military fundamentalist, Walker believes wholeheartedly in the ancient military dictum that a man must learn to obey orders before he can give them. Of Patton's many commendations, Walker prized this...
Rear Admiral Ellis M. Zacharias, 60, U.S.N. (ret.), would be the first to agree with his publishers' estimate of him: "America's greatest intelligence expert." His first unblushing bid for the title was Secret Missions (TIME, Dec. 23, 1946), a postwar expose of U.S. naval intelligence in which it didn't take much reading between the lines to guess that Intelligence Officer Zacharias had been a live brain awash among saltwater boneheads...
...sensitive work clearly places him in the first rank of screen directors. The film is full of fine performances, especially by Actors Sloane and Webb and Actress Wright. Broadway's Marlon Brando, in his first movie appearance, does a magnificent job. His halting, mumbled delivery, glowering silences and expert simulation of paraplegia do not suggest acting at all; they look chillingly like the real thing...
Efficiency Expert. In Washington, D.C., Hosea Savoy explained why he had burglarized the same store three times: "It was near my home and I didn't want to walk...