Word: hand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dwight Eisenhower, symbolizing the dangerous early days when he flew to Europe as NATO's first Supreme Commander, who brought the alliance's purpose into clearest focus with the greatest simplicity. "Look at the hand," he said, raising his hand, fanning his fingers in a gesture that many of his old NATO officers well remembered. "Each finger is not of itself a very good instrument for either defense or offense, but close it in a fist and it can become a very formidable weapon of defense . . . The need, as we reach for a lasting peace with justice...
Robertson's hand-picked successor: his Deputy Assistant Secretary James Graham Parsons, 51, Groton and Yale ('29). "Jeff" Parsons, onetime protégé of farsightedly anti-Communist Ambassador to Japan Joseph Grew, is a Foreign Service officer who served ably as deputy chief of Mission to Japan (1953-56), as U.S. Ambassador to Laos (1956-58), and sees eye to eye with Virginia-bound Walter Spencer Robertson on the need to base policy on the principle-proved correct again in Tibet-that Red China is "the enemy...
Large Legend. Turning back unescorted, the C-118 jettisoned 1,800 gallons of fuel so that it could touch down safely at Tachikawa. There it found a one-man, three-star welcoming committee on hand. General Burns had driven eight miles from his home in Fuchu to put the Platts off, put the bumped airmen back on, and order an investigation. Last week, the investigation over, a six-officer board blamed "administrative error," found Platt innocent of bumping the G.I.s, pointed to the fact that the Pacific Express had indeed gone off with eight empty seats-just as the colonel...
...much that the state's top Democrat, Presidential Hopeful Jack Kennedy, was off on Senate business, for he was represented in the two seats of honor by brother Ted and by Powers himself, a leading Kennedy lieutenant. Perhaps it was better, thought some, that Jack was not on hand for the evening's main event: a formal speech on "Religion and Politics" by Boston's outspoken Richard Cardinal Gushing...
...Jeeps. And even such visitors as got past the gun-toting sergeant at the ministry door were never more than a few feet from the business end of an automatic weapon. Padding up and down the corridors of the ministry, young officers of the Iraqi army kept firm hand on submachine guns or machine pistols...