Word: marshaling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Army investigators later found 25 German bodies, counted 35 machine guns put out of action by York. General John J. Pershing described York as "the greatest civilian soldier of the war." Marshal Ferdinand Foch told him: "What you did was the greatest thing accomplished by any private soldier of all the armies of Europe." York went back to the U.S. a sergeant with the Medal of Honor, received a wild hero's welcome...
...interest of world peace, is not to be confused with next October's "Belgrade Conference" of the neutralist bloc, which neither China nor Russia can attend. And the "Belgrade Conference" in turn is not to be confused with the Yugoslavia meeting to be held this month at Marshal Tito's hunting lodge. The lodge meeting will be the most exclusive of all. Just Tito and Rumania's Gheorghiu Dej, whose head may have swiveled last week but was certainly not turned. Their reported subject: how to head off both the Moscow and Peking pre-summits, as well...
...third force" in France, minus De Gaulle. They kept him in the dark about the Normandy invasion, allowed him to set foot on French soil only eight days later. But De Gaulle was unperturbed. As soon as he landed in France, he declined an invitation to lunch with Field Marshal Montgomery. "We have not come to France to have luncheon with Montgomery," he said scornfully, and headed straight for the first sizable town to be liberated-Bayeux. He promptly took over and installed his faithful deputy Francois Coulet as administrative head of the region. Coulet promptly fired the incumbent Vichyite...
...other ailments of hard living), Bangkok papers carried the names of more than a hundred women who claimed publicly to have enjoyed his favors and hoped to get a piece of his estate. Among an inner circle of 51 mistresses, whom the old-school Thais delicately call "minor wives," Marshal Sarit had generously scattered villas, autos and other largesse, and fathered at least nine children. Many minor wives actually filed court claims for a share of Sarit's tickels, or baht, as Thais call their money...
Indeed, thanks to the energetic strongman's flair for financial wheeling-dealing, his fortune turned out to be even more spectacular than his dalliance balance. Contesting Widow Thanpuying Vichitra's claim to the marshal's estate, Sarit's two sons by a previous wife estimated that their father was worth at least 2.8 billion tickels, or $143 million. That seemed a lot of baht for a career soldier. So, before allowing his estate to be distributed, Sarit's successor, Thanom Kittikachorn, appointed a five-man committee to see if any government funds had lodged...