Word: marshaling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also a history of producing men on horseback, from Napoleon Bonaparte to Napoleon III to the "brav' général" Georges Boulanger, who failed to seize power only through a crucial loss of nerve in 1889. The first elected President of the Third Republic was a soldier, Marshal MacMahon; the last act of the Third Republic was to surrender its powers to another soldier, Marshal Pétain. The rebirth of France began when General de Gaulle disobeyed the Pétain government, which had made peace with the Nazis, and launched the Free French movement...
Raoul Salan fought with "remarkable courage" (according to the official citation) against the Nazis in the six-week war of 1940. The armistice with the Germans confronted him with the first of many crises of conscience: Should he support the government of Vichy's Marshal Pétain or switch to De Gaulle and the Allies? Stationed in Dakar, Salan waited four years before joining De Gaulle...
...East-West nuclear test competition that should lead to war by 1970. The astrologers of Nepal foresee more immediate consequences. Mani Prasad Ti-wari predicts political changes in China, possibly a revolt in Nepal, natural disasters in Russia, and "civil disturbances" somewhere southwest of Washington, D.C. Nepalese Field Marshal Kaiser Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana, an amateur astrologer, expects at least an earthquake near by, and foresees another disturbing possibility: "I would not be surprised if this heralds the coming of a new age in which women will have more rights...
...Chief Marshal, he will choose 150 aids and other officials connected with the Commencement activities. He will preside at the Commencement luncheon in the Fogg Art Museum and later in the afternoon will lead the procession into Tercentenary Theatre for the annual meeting of the Alumni Association...
Dean Watson has been chosen Chief Marshal to lead the alumni at Commencement this year...