Word: pattonism
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...Potash. Dubinsky's blend of social conscience and business acumen is shared by Patton, 63, who announced his retirement at the N.F.U.'s annual convention in Denver. Patton, who wears a piratical black patch over his left eye (it was removed in a cancer operation), built the N.F.U. from a struggling organization of 80,681 dirt-poor, Dust Bowl farm families to its present eminence as one of the Big Three of U.S. agrarian lobbies, with a membership of 750,000-mostly small farmers-in 40 states. Under Patton, the son of a union leader, the N.F.U...
When word leaked out a year ago that West Germany was supplying Israel with $80 million worth of "secondhand" Patton tanks, the response from the Arab world was torrential in its outrage. All but three of the 13 Arab countries (Morocco, Tunisia and Libya) broke diplomatic ties with Bonn, and Egypt's Nasser threatened the ultimate retaliatory blow: recognition of East Germany. Chancellor Ludwig Erhard hastily suspended the shipments and vowed never to panzer to Israel again. Last week the U.S. confirmed that it had picked up the tank deal with Israel where Bonn had left off. This time...
...spearhead drive across the center of France and Germany; of a heart attack; in San Antonio. A sober professional who in 1905 flunked out of West Point (for failing geometry), then climbed from buck private to four-star general, Hodges had little of the personal flair of a Patton or a Montgomery; but he was a solid tactician whose 450,000-man force liberated Paris, fought its way out of the bitter Battle of the Bulge and smashed the Nazis' Siegfried Line...
...wink at any moment. Leslie Caron perfects her crying technique, the one where she ever so emotionally quivers her upper lip over those embarrassing buck teeth and turns bravely liquid. Alain Delon's limp wrist isn't quite that of an underground leader and Kirk Douglas's General Patton is something to behold. About the only activity for the audience (aside from falling asleep) is identifying the innumerable faces that appear in cameo roles throughout the film, but perhaps most sterling of these is Anthony Perkins as an American soldier (no kidding). Poor Mr. Perkins dreamed of seeing Paris...
...fight. Again, in October 1950, moving among dazed, defeated soldiers in Korea, he vowed not to be bound by the "school solution." In the Pentagon, Johnson has labored devotedly to instill those lessons. Cigar-chomping Army Vice Chief of Staff "Abe" Abrams, an iron-nerved commander who led Patton's tanks to relieve the siege of Bastogne, calls him "the toughest man I have ever known." Moreover, General Johnson expects the other 1,016,920 soldiers in his Army to be equally tough. "What an individual can do depends on his state of mind," he says in a gravelly...