Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Calling the Shots. To some experts, Westmoreland's prime weakness as a commander (and every commander has one, military men are quick to point out) is the opposite of the late Douglas MacArthur's. He is too willing to accept orders from Washington without fighting for his own views. "He hasn't had what it takes to insist all the way that his own best ideas prevail," says a former high officer. "No other general has ever had to suffer a command structure like this. But a general has got to know what is right and what...
...instructions and exhortations to his soldiers before the battles can be credited, Giap's ambitions in the general offensive were boundless. The attackers were led to be lieve that they were really going to take and hold the cities and towns and bring the war to a quick and victorious end. The South Vietnamese government was to be smashed. The Army of the Republic of Viet Nam (ARVN) was expected to desert to the Viet Cong in wholesale units. The Communists confidently anticipated that the population would welcome the attackers in a great popular uprising. The result would leave...
...biggest problems at the Winter Olympics is winter. At Grenoble last week, heavy snow and gale-force winds, followed by a quick thaw, forced postponement of the men's downhill ski races and two-man bobsledding, then threatened to wash out the tobogganing altogether. The slippery slopes played havoc with the U.S. ski team: two fractures, a sprained ankle, a dislocated shoulder and a gashed head. A television helicopter crashed into a snowbank, forcing a French skier to veer off course into a fence, and a runaway toboggan smacked headlong into a spectator...
...General Lewis B. Hershey is no ogre. Washington reporters consider him one of the nicest and most accessible high federal officials in town. He is the one man they know will never refuse their late Sunday evening telephone calls to his home for reaction quotes. At 74, he remains quick, articulate, and frighteningly well-informed. Just about the only thing distinguishing him from your kindly grandfather is that he is in charge of the draft and really likes...
...face it," says Killy. "I am risking my whole reputation on three quick races. If I win, everybody will say, 'Well, of course, he was supposed to win.' If I lose, they will say I let them down. I don't want to make alibis, but I tell you that in skiing, it takes nothing to lose. The wrong wax oh the skis, a spot of soft snow, a slight miscalculation and-poof!-the race is over. I can only do my best. That...