Word: pate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Concerning the Pentagon reorganization plan: One would think from the testimony of General Pate [May 12] that the personnel of the Marine Corps are more in favor of defending the corps than the Constitution. But are we going to sacrifice the effectiveness of the defense of our country to preserve the fraternity of the corps? The corps was created by men to do a job, not ordained by God and to be preserved as such...
Flank Speed. Marine Commandant Randolph McCall Pate damned the presidential torpedoes, sailed flank speed ahead. Fearful that the traditional role of the Marines as a Johnny-on-the-spot expeditionary force might be curtailed-or just plain obliterated-four-star General Pate declared: "I don't see anything wrong with the way we're functioning...
...Pate's big worry was that "present good intentions" to preserve the Marines "are no insurance against future damage to our usefulness; only in the law can we find such insurance...
...open or closed, ruled Sir William P. Hildred, I.A.T.A. director general, but they must be "cold . . . simple . . . unadorned . . . inexpensive," and consist of "a substantial and visible" chunk of bread. The association ruled out "materials normally regarded as expensive or luxurious, such as smoked salmon, oysters, caviar, lobster, game, asparagus, pate de foie gras," as well as "overgenerous or lavish helpings which affect the money value of the unit." Carriers that have been serving just such lavish sandwiches consoled themselves by reflecting that the ruling, after all, did not affect the chef's imagination. Said a spokesman...
...years to outdo each other with fancy extras that sell more tickets, as chief purveyors of smorgasbord-type sandwiches on their flights. Samples (from the SAS menu): five slices of ox tongue, a lettuce heart, asparagus and sliced carrots-on a slice of bread; five slices of liver pate, fried crisp bacon, mushrooms and sliced tomato-on a slice of bread. Seconds are available for the asking, and SAS, for one, passes around a tray from which a passenger may take as much as he wants. But European airlines insist that they are perfectly within their rights just so long...