Word: forte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army duty officer at the Pentagon routed General Lightnin' Joe Collins out of bed at 5:30 one morning last week to read him the first pink secret dispatch about the Chinese counteroffensive. Collins rubbed his eyes and dialed General Omar Bradley, asleep in House No. 1 at Fort Myer, Va. All that day the Pentagon's brass-level was gloomy with misgivings. Next morning the whole thing exploded when Douglas MacArthur defined "the entirely...
...Fort Wayne 92, Philadelphia...
That night, at a big dinner for Erle at Fort Benning, General Marshall pointed another moral. He said that this nation had to have an enduring system of national defense instead of a "feast & famine" military program. While he was Secretary of State in 1947, Marshall recalled, the country had only one and a third infantry divisions, yet people were urging him to "pour it on the Soviets and give them hell." What the country needed, he said, was a system "that will not collapse at every change of the wind and temperature, a system that will keep us prepared...
Night Attack. Up in the citadel the distant sound of mortar fire awakes the garrison commander. He snaps on a flashlight, hurriedly cranks the field telephone. But the duty officer can only guess from the direction of the noise that the attack is at Tanmai, a small fort west of Moncay manned by about 40 Vietnamese soldiers. Tanmai has no radio or telephone...
...Minneapolis, the Fort Wayne Pistons over the Minneapolis Lakers, 19-18, for the lowest score in modern professional basketball history, the first home-court defeat for the Lakers in 29 games...