Word: patton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chilling reality that as the last line of defense, every time he makes a mistake the enemy gets six points. In the N.F.L., the safety man who comes closest to achieving the impossible is the New York Giants' squarejawed, sturdy (5 ft. 10 in., 180 Ibs.) Jimmy Patton...
...Nixon Committee" ("Anyone who considers himself a celebrity," said a Nixon aide, "is eligible to join"). The heads of the Big Three farm organizations, the American Farm Bureau Federation, the National Grange and the National Farmers Union, came by to talk farm policy. Said Farmers Union President James Patton afterwards: "He had some very worthwhile ideas ... I also found him to be a good listener...
Safe, Cubular Things. Manhattan-born Lundy won his rebel's spurs honorably. An automatic-rifleman with Patton's Third Army, he was one of 16 out of a battalion of 360 to survive, ended up for eight months in an Army hospital with his left arm nearly shot off by a German tank. At Harvard's Graduate School of Design, after the war, studying with Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, Lundy began as the wildman of the class: "Everything came out that had been bottled up during the war," he explains. "I gave it the works...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). The story of Patton and the Third Army...
...took him on a go-minute ride along the beachhead ("Eisenhower was very pleased, but we both caught hell from the Joint Chiefs of Staff"). During the great armored-tank drive across Europe, Quesada's Ninth Tactical Air Command, rather than troops, became Lieut. General George Patton's "right flank": he had put a fighter pilot in each of Patton's lead tanks "so that we would have quick communications with fighter pilots. I wanted somebody in those tanks who could talk fighter pilot lingo." Quesada chalked up 90 combat missions before war's end, went...