Word: marshaller
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...graduated from West Point the day of the Normandy invasion and who spent his graduation leave in Father's headquarters, has not only pored over the documents but revisited the battlefields. He has interviewed soldiers from both sides and all echelons, from squad leaders up to Field Marshal Montgomery. For the human or Willie-and-Joe side of war, though, the reader will still have to go to the likes of Cornelius Ryan (The Last Battle). Eisenhower earned a master's degree in English from Columbia, while his father was university president, with a thesis on The Soldier...
...risking the backlash effects of helping some needy people at the expense of others who refuse to share their gains-or does it sorely need a unifying national challenge, a moral equivalent of Pearl Harbor? To lead and heal the nation, Richard Nixon will have to marshal immense compassion and intellect. The presidential imperative to comprehend the real forces of the age-and link them constructively to the unique character of the "Citty upon a Hill"-may never have been so difficult...
...summer of 1944, the Allied armies had advanced nearly to the hip of the Italian boot. But the going was slow. Through a series of intelligent and tenacious rear-guard actions, German Field Marshal Albert Kesselring exacted a high price in blood and patience for each rocky mile. In addition to the Allies, Kesselring had to deal with ferocious Italian partisans. One group, armed with parachuted weapons, carried on by blasting freight trains and ambushing German patrols in and around Monte Sole, the most prominent peak of a collection of modest Apennines 15 miles south of Bologna. Because Monte Sole...
...last week was Arthur da Costa e Silva, President of the republic. In the wake of an army coup the week before that had closed down the Congress, caused widespread arrests and limited civil rights, Costa e Silva chose an obvious audience. In a 15-minute speech, the retired marshal gave the commencement address to the graduating class of the army's high-command school in Rio de Janeiro. Since the audience included military men who had engineered the coup, Costa e Silva went out of his way to stress two points. One, hardly necessary for him to state...
...growth, believes that progress in Brazil can only come about through continuing military rule. This latter group, whose spokesman is First Army Commander Syseno Sarmento, so far controls the military in Brazil-and is unhappy with what it considers a more lenient posture by Costa e Silva. The old marshal therefore declared himself to be "a companion in arms" who "not even for one day forgets his loved days in the Brazilian army. The tranquillity and the order of this country are our responsibility...