Word: pates
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then came the trial's most surprising performance. Down from Washington to testify in McKeon's behalf came General Randolph McCall Pate, commandant of the Marine Corps and the man who approved the court-martial and, in April, angrily called McKeon's action "deplorable." Tieless and affable, Marine Pate first went out of his way to shake McKeon's hand and murmur "Good luck to you, my boy," before he took the witness stand. If it were up to him, he said haplessly, in answer to "Zuke" Berman's hypothetical question, his only punishment...
...Agree & Regret." After Pate came crusty, gravel-throated Lieut. General Lewis B. ("Chesty") Puller, five-time winner of the Navy Cross and a living legend of the corps. He barked that the Marines' only mission is "success in battle," added that if "we are to win the next war," the nation's youth must get a lot more of the kind of training that Matt McKeon had tried to give Recruit Platoon 71 at Parris Island. Both he and General Pate, Puller roared, "agree and regret that this man was ever ordered to trial...
...deaths. But they cleared him of the more serious charges of "oppression" and culpable negligence. McKeon, the court found, was not drunk the night of the march, nor had he been criminally negligent. McKeon, Zuke Berman, the prosecution and the press took the verdict as clear evidence of a Pate-weight sentence to come. Then, next day, came the stunning blow...
...outdid yourselves. The cover portrait looks exactly like Stevenson, from his bald pate down to his tiny chin. Congratulations to TIME and James Chapin...
...Moscow's Dynamo Stadium, First Party Secretary Khrushchev, straw hat perched precariously on his egg-bald pate, volubly told a crowd of 75,000 that Western friendship for Yugoslavia had been based only on 1) the Soviet Union's conflict with Yugoslavia and 2) the hope that Yugoslavia would return to capitalism. Khrushchev's speech, underlining hostility to the West and stressing the unity of the "Socialist" camp, gave a sharper edge to Tito's prepared address. What Tito had to say, read in faltering Russian, tamely supported Soviet policy on the two Germanys (though Belgrade...