Word: ridgway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Damascus, Syria was calm. After Gamal Abdel Nasser had resigned himself to Syria's breakaway from the United Arab Republic ("May Allah help beloved Syria"), the world's nations hastened to welcome the newly independent state. In a blaze of flashbulbs and official smiles, U.S. Consul General Ridgway B. Knight drove up to the rose-walled Foreign Office in Damascus last week and presented a note extending formal recognition. Three days earlier, the new regime, coolly and without publicity, accepted Soviet recognition. Said one longtime Western observer: "This is the most pro-Western government Syria's ever...
...Army's Chief of Staff from 1953 to 1955, General Matthew Ridgway fought publicly for a bigger budget for conventional warfare-and was eased out of the Pentagon. General Taylor, Ridgway's successor, waged a behind-the-scenes battle-and resigned in 1959 in frustration. Next came two men who have been criticized for their lack of drive. General Lyman ("Lem") Lemnitzer, 62, a brilliant staff officer with little combat experience, served as Army Chief of Staff from 1959 to 1960, then moved up to chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and President...
...Brigadier General Taylor became artillery commander of the Army's first airborne division, the 82nd, commanded by General Matt Ridgway. He soon found that it was his kind of outfit. "I don't like to jump," Taylor once confessed frankly, "but I like to be with people who like to jump." Taylor went into action with the 82nd in Africa and Sicily, soon earned a reputation as a tough, resourceful officer and was singled out for one of the most dramatic cloak-and-dagger missions...
...17th anniversary of its D-day liberation from the Nazis, the Norman village of Sainte-Mère-Eglise had a distinguished visitor: U.S. Ambassador to France James Gavin, better known locally as deputy commander of Matt Ridgway's hard-nosed 82nd Airborne Division, which liberated the little town of 1,261 to screen the Allied beachhead during the Normandy landings of 1944. Said the ambassador as he clambered out of his official Cadillac last week for a nostalgic slog toward the sea: "I wouldn't have recognized anything in a car. Last time I used this road...
...Ph.D. ('23) Frances Willis was the Foreign Service's first career woman to become an ambassador (to Switzerland in 1953), will find in Ceylon another woman who has risen high in a normally male domain: Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike, widow of the late Prime Minister Solomon West Ridgway Bias Bandaranaike, who has exhibited a mind of her own in leading Ceylon down the neutralist path...