Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Military Retreat. His plane at the ready, Bulli met with the commander of the alert crew that he relieved, and received the Positive Control envelope (containing Fail Safe procedures, codes, frequencies) and the black combat data box (target information, maps, radar photos). Signing for it in the presence of a supervising officer, Bulli, 37, now legally assumed responsibility for the thermonuclear bomb in the bay. The spring was drawn: Plane 264 was ready to roll, had a full load of fuel and a multimegaton bomb aboard that is equal in force to ten Atlas ICBMs...
...seven days of their alert duty, Bulli and the other five of his crew go into a military retreat. They sleep in the same quarters, stay always within reach of one another. They travel in a blue station wagon that is striped with a yellow band and topped with a revolving red Grimes light, is always kept warmed up and ready...
...defend his territory was the general surgeon-who, ironically, was himself the king of specialists little more than a generation ago. As orthopedists (bone and joint men) spread out from the big medical-college centers, many surgeons find themselves driven back from the body's extremities. As they retreat to the trunk, they find gynecologists, urologists and others staking claims on some particular organ or area. Only half the general surgeons polled still do orthopedic operations; only one in five does urological, plastic or heart-artery procedures...
...Attack & Retreat. Questioned specifically on General Power's testimony to the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee, Ike had uncommonly harsh words for generals who dispute him. "There are too many of these generals who have all sorts of ideas," said he testily. "I have been long enough in the military service that I cannot be particularly disturbed because everybody with a parochial*viewpoint all over the place comes along and says the bosses know nothing about...
Then, having refused to sound retreat, De Gaulle went on the offensive. "Frenchmen of Algeria," he said, "how can you fail to see that in rising up against the state and against the nation, you are surely heading toward ruin and at the same time running the risk of causing France to lose Algeria at the very moment when the decline of the rebellion is becoming evident? . . . How can you listen to the liars and the conspirators...