Word: pointings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strapping (6 ft. 4 in.), blue-eyed, blond Konstantin Rokossovsky, 52, a hard-hitting Red army field commander in World War II, had in point of fact been born in Poland. His native city, however, was not Warsaw, but the small town of Slovuta, in Volhynia, a province which for centuries has been alternately Polish and Russian. Far from being a child of the working class, he was reared at the aristocratic Nicholas Officers' School in St. Petersburg. In World War II he commanded the armies that relieved Stalingrad, crossing the Don to close a ring around the Nazis...
...point a rumor spread that the learned judges were thinking of ordering a bathing-suit parade for their own eyes alone. Following the maxim expressed by one woman, "Never trust old gentlemen who are not too old," several mothers of contestants turned to Juan Gualberto Cardinal Guevara for advice. The cardinal gravely informed the tribunal that a bathing-suit parade, public or private, would be contrary to religion and modesty. The girls appeared fully clothed...
Prince Charles, quietly celebrating his first birthday at Clarence House, had his accomplishments summed up for him by the British press, which unbent to the point of talking a little baby talk. The royal child weighs 25 Ibs., is tall for his age, has six teeth, already has taken his first steps, and has had his name put down for the Grenadier Guards. Only available quotes-considered adequate by most Britons-as his 40-lb. birthday cake was cut: "Papa...
Otherwise, there were the usual conferences and brief interviews; and as always, the stack of "reading-for-tonight" papers on the floor mounted to the toppling point. At 50, Robert Hutchins was slightly mellower in manner. But he could still get excited-now puffing a Fatima and pacing about, now plumping himself down in an easy chair to declaim across the room. Long ago, he had made up his mind what the ideal university should be. He thought Chicago was beginning to show signs of becoming one. "It is not a very good university," he said recently, in typical Hutchins...
Battle Plans. At West Point, where meticulous Coach Earl ("Red") Blaik spends four hours at the planning tables for every hour on the practice field, organization reaches a precise, military perfection. Squads of specialists, drilling on separate fields and concentrating on detailed battle plans hatched by the commander in chief, can point for and defeat a stronger foe. After eleven months of intense prep aration (TIME, Oct. 17), Army did just that to Michigan. Says Blaik: "It's like plotting a military campaign. I get a tremendous kick out of it." Like Notre Dame's Frank Leahy...