Word: pattonism
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...scurrying for shelter. As the sun rose higher over the semidesert land-flat, dotted with brush, a low mountain range to the north-Indian troops peered anxiously toward the border. What they saw sent them in a hasty retreat to the mountains: over the arid earth came 70 U.S.built Patton tanks and, in the dust cloud behind the lumbering giants, a full brigade of Pakistani infantrymen...
...officials spoke ominously of a nearby Indian armored division capable of moving into the Chhamb area within 24 hours. It might well move with caution, since India's armored equipment consists mostly of aged British Centurions and U.S. World War II Shermans-no match for Pakistan's Patton tanks...
...community, never noted for consistency, today embraces almost as many splinter groups as the Greek Parliament. The Farm Bureau's biggest and noisiest rival, the Denver-headquartered National Farmers Union, is at the opposite end of the ideological and political spectrum. Headed since 1940 by Kansas-born Jim Patton, 62, Farmers Union has 750,000 members, strongly supports the Government's hand on the plow. Says Patton, whose favorite pastime is taking pokes at the Farm Bureau: "What Charlie Shuman doesn't realize is that we've got the welfare state...
...Farm Bureau meeting some years ago, he thundered that the federal farm program "denies the unmistakable pattern of God's law." On hearing about Shuman's remark, National Farmers Union President Patton retorted: "This is Shuman's arrogant attempt to make God a member of Farm Bureau." Given the chance, Shuman might try. The Farm Bureau is a way of life to him, and his commitment is wholehearted. Says he: "It's going to take complete and total sacrifice in the Farm Bureau if we're going to accomplish our objectives...
...Lyndon Johnson. In Washington, Ayub could have argued that India, armed with American weapons since its border fight with Red China in 1962, had become dangerously aggressive and should receive no more U.S. military aid. But Ayub's forces did not hesitate to use their own American-supplied Patton tanks in the Rann, as Indian reconnaissance photographs showed last week...