Word: marshaling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Needs You." Dillon, with his banking and diplomatic experience, was obviously an excellent choice for Kennedy's purpose. They had first met in 1956 at Harvard, when Dillon was grand marshal at the 25th reunion of his class and Senator Kennedy the winner of an honorary degree. After the ceremony, they dropped by the select Spec Club (both men were members) to chat, later became friends and occasional golfing companions. But when President-elect Kennedy asked to come to Dillon's house (Dillon thought it should be the other way around) and came through several days later with...
...case of an uprising. Should all these home-grown forces fail or defect, as was the case in Hungary, there remains the formidable Russian army in East Germany. 350,000 to 400,000 strong. Last week these forces got a new commander experienced in quelling popular uprisings: much-decorated Marshal Ivan S. Konev, who, as boss of all Warsaw Pact troops in 1956, had a hand in crushing the Hungarian freedom fighters...
Major Force. S.A.O. makes no secret of its plans for a "decentralized and corporative" metropolitan France, should it ever come to power. Its political ideas echo those of the discredited Vichy regime of Marshal Petain in World War II. In the prevailing gloom, even former "moderate" Europeans in Algiers accept the S.A.O. line. Said one: "S.A.O. next year will be a major force not only in France but in Europe. It will be Europe's sole effective anti-Communist organization...
...soul-baring, grim message of our young, brilliant President has given life again to the famed declaration of a World War I French Marshal: "They shall not pass...
...open manhole from which floated the ball-game scores. Chinese listeners in San Francisco may soon-if the electronic wrinkles are ironed out-watch the video version of Gunsmoke while their radios blast out a Cantonese translation, courtesy of a local radio station. "Grab a hunk of sky," mouths Marshal Matt Dillon from the TV screen. "Ghur sao chiu tin" rasps radio's Cantonese cowpoke...