Word: generalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aodai-clad Vietnamese girls pranced out to drape them with plastic leis and give each of the departing troops the country's yellow and red flag with a two-foot pedestal. Defense Minister Nguyen Van Vy spoke his gratitude at length-in Vietnamese, later translated. The U.S. commander, General Creighton Abrams, offered his congratulations: "You have fought well under some of the most arduous and unusual combat conditions ever experienced by American soldiers. You are a credit to your generation...
...Mary's shoulder-Jackie was never like that." One theory holds that Mrs. Gallagher decided to tell all after Jackie married Aristotle Onassis last fall. But TIME Washington Correspondent Bonnie Angelo reports that Mary Gallagher was looking for a ghostwriter more than two years ago. Air Force Brigadier General C. J. Mara, the Gallaghers' neighbor, offered Washington Freelancer Angele Gingras $350 to look over the material...
...acquaintances of Jackie's would quibble with the general thrust of My Life. Her acquisitive bent was well known, and since John Kennedy's death she has spent much time shopping, partying, lunching at chic restaurants and roaming the world in search of pleasure. But the Gallagher article was overdrawn and one-sided. "There isn't a secretary in the world who couldn't do this to her boss," complains one of the old Kennedy inner circle. The problem is finally whether or not to betray good taste and personal ethics, especially since Mrs. Gallagher signed...
...born in Rome, where his father, Major General James L. Collins, was military attache, and he grew up in Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C. After attending St. Albans, a prep school in Washington, he went to West Point, excelling in soccer, wrestling and tennis, and finishing 216th in the class of 1952, a year after Aldrin. Not even Collins' closest friends at the academy knew until senior year that he was the nephew of General J. Lawton ("Lightning Joe") Collins, famed World War II commander of the 25th ("Tropic Lightning") Division on Guadalcanal, leader of the breakthrough...
...Since June 1967," U.N. Secretary-General U Thant reported to the Security Council, "the level of violence has never been higher," and "open warfare had been resumed." He admitted the 1967 cease-fire had "ceased to be respected" in the Suez Canal sector and hinted that he might be forced to order the withdrawal of the 92 U.N. military observers posted along the canal. "They cannot be expected," he said, "to serve as what amounts to defenseless targets in a shooting gallery...