Word: marshaling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Early last week, 200 students gathered near the cafeteria where Meredith was eating. They slung eggs, pop bottles, and at least one Molotov cocktail at troops and U.S. marshals. Scores of cherry bombs were hurled with slingshots. Next day, firecrackers exploded all over the campus. A Coke bottle smashed the window of a car carrying Meredith, laid open the face of an accompanying marshal...
...crowd was issuing a warning to its Stalinist enemies. In addition, Izvestia stated emphatically that the Soviet decision to withdraw the Cuba missiles was "the only correct one in the prevailing circumstances," which sounded as if a defense of the move had become necessary. Finally, Moscow dragged from disgrace Marshal Kliment Voroshilov, 81, only last year berated by Khrushchev as an "antiParty" type. Now Pravda carried a long article over his signature praising the achievements of the Soviet Union as well as the "Leninist" leadership of Comrade Khrushchev, and pointedly recalling Stalin's errors. By thus using the broken...
Behind the façade of normalcy, grim business proceeded. The Chaika limousines of Moscow's top officials rolled in and out of the Kremlin as the Council of Ministers met. Defense Minister Marshal Rodion Malinovsky put his vast air, sea and land force on a state of alert. None of this could disguise the fact that, stage by stage, Khrushchev was backing away from conflict. His offer of a deal with the West told the astonished Russian public for the first time that Russian missiles were in Cuba. His agreement to withdraw them was of course hailed...
...Soviet superiors, Stashinsky was a hero: he was flown back to Moscow, received the Order of the Red Banner signed personally by Marshal Kliment Voroshilov. At a lavish stag party, Secret Police Boss Aleksander Shelepin himself gave him the high award...
...NATO's Defense College in Paris. The speaker was Kurt Hahn. 76, who founded Bavaria's famed Salem School in 1920 and went on (after Hitler forced him out of Germany) to start Scotland's tough Gordonstoun, where Prince Charles goes. The speech gave British Air Marshal Sir Lawrence Darvall an idea: a chain of international schools based on Hahn principles. Sir Lawrence, then head of the Defense College, had often been impressed by the way NATO got men divided by language., history and prejudice to work together without friction...