Word: pearling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time since pre-Pearl Harbor days has the vast organism created to protect the nation against foreign enemies been under such furious homefront attack. No segment is immune: the uniformed professionals, their civilian colleagues and superiors at the Pentagon, their supporters in Congress, their suppliers among big business and big labor?all feel the criticism and distrust from several directions at once. Students, intellectuals, pacifists and the New Left have long been opponents. Now they are being joined by more influential voices from the center and even the right. Congress, until recently amenable to almost any proposal from the military...
...billions on military strength" when the rest of the world desperately needed economic and technological help. Subsequent events have in many respects confirmed his skepticism. When he died last week at 78, the military's image was tarnished and its leadership more severely questioned than at any time since Pearl Harbor...
...remain neither lieutenant colonel nor Ersenbeing for long. In 1941, he was given the temporary rank of colonel, then brigadier general (he was not permanently awarded the B. G.'s star until 1943). Five days after Pearl Harbor, Marshall ordered him to Washington to assess the situation in the Philippines. Next, Marshall asked for a paper on the organization of U.S. forces in Europe. On June 8, 1942, Ike submitted a document entitled "Directive for the Commanding General, European Theater of Operations." On June 11, as commanding general for Europe, he went to work on his own recommendations. Marshall...
...broke the old mark held by Neville Hayes '67 by 0.6 seconds. Captain Martie Chalfie earned an additional two points for the Crimson with his eleventh-place finish. Princeton's Olympian Ross Wales was easily the winner in 1:53.7, while Paul Katz of Yale and Dave Pearl of Navy came in second and third...
CAROL CHANNING AND PEARL BAILEY ON BROADWAY (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). Broadway songs that Carol and Pearl would have loved doing on the stage provide a point of departure for the Hello, Dolly! stars in this two-woman show...