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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blond, long-legged (6 ft., 185 Ibs.) "Opie" Weyland, California-born Texas A. & M. graduate, made his first general's fame as head of the XIX Tactical Air Command, which supported General George S. Patton Jr.'s Third Army on its advance through France and Germany. High point: Weyland's planes protected Patton's southern flank during the first streak to the Seine ("You do the worrying about my flank," said Patton), strafed 20,000 German troops so mightily that they surrendered to U.S. airpower...
...hand for the interservice farewell to Generals Weyland and Partridge at Boiling: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Nathan Twining, Air Force Chief of Staff General Thomas D. White, Vice Chief of Naval Operations Admiral James S. Russell, Army Chief of Staff General Lyman Lemnitzer...
...passengers happily shouted campaign cries and drivers leaned heavily on their horns, all drenched with the celebrated spirit of aloha, that flavorsome. catchall Hawaiian term that means peace, warmth, kindness, hello and goodbye, and good luck. And this time, even aloha had an added special flavor injected by the general awareness that Hawaii was on the threshold of a new epoch, sharpened by the fact that there were 81 different elective offices at stake-in the state legislature (25 in the senate, 51 in the house), in the U.S. Congress (two in the Senate, one in the House...
Already the Big Two were close enough to being a speaking-and-dealing reality that Western European diplomats were openly discussing it. "You don't know General de Gaulle," snapped a French government official, "if you think he is going to stand idly by and let Russia and the U.S. settle everything." In Britain, the Economist surprisingly took the opposite tack. Ignoring the usual British argument that the West would be lost without the benefit of Britain's deeper diplomatic savvy, the Economist saw an Eisenhower-Khrushchev meeting as "an alternative to the summit," iaatly declared...
...there is any color appropriate to offset the general grays and blacks, that color is red. One scene ends with the upstage area bathed in red, which brings to mind the blood with which the play is drenched (there are over a hundred references to blood in the text alone). In the settings, for which Mr. Hays is also responsible, the color of blood makes several appearances: in the castle hangings, in the royal carpet, in the two thrones (though these last seem to suggest the red lacquer of China rather than the rough furniture of medieval Scotland). Marie...