Word: soldiering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...known as Kennedysmo, cab drivers cheered him and the paparazzi clicked their shutters as if Sophia were the target. In Paris he placed a bouquet on Marshal Alphonse Juin's coffin. France Soir captioned its picture: "The young lion of politics before the body of the old soldier." The newspaper also observed that the object of Kennedy's visit was "the White House-in 1972." That was all right with French voters. At a Picasso exhibit in the Grand Palais one young Frenchman said: "Picasso is completely outclassed. It is Bobby who is the hero of this exposition...
...bounced down the aisle of Peking's Great Hall of the People, dressed in a tailored People's Liberation Army uniform topped by a soldier's fur hat. She sat in the front row near Premier Chou En-lai and Foreign Minister Chen Yi, who did not seem to mind when the cameras left them to zero in on her. While an Albanian song and dance troupe went through its paces, she peered through her thick-lensed glasses, smiled frozenly through buck teeth and applauded energetically. Thus last week, on film released by Peking and shown...
Some 310 million leaflets will shower enemy areas, more than 1,000 for every Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldier. The theme of this year's campaign is aimed at the enemy's softer instincts, and is embodied in the official Tet poster of maidens carrying bouquets of apricot flowers. One local leaflet elaborates on the theme by tying it to Operation Cedar Falls, which razed V.C. farms and granaries in the Iron Triangle last month. "Are your rations scarce?" it asks. "Three hundred of you have rallied, and they are now where they can be well...
Died. Marshal Alphonse-Pierre Juin, 76, France's highest-ranking soldier, an acid-tongued officer who was honored for his leadership (commander of French troops in Italy in World War II) but not for his obedience, being constantly at war with authority, whether it was his civilian superiors at the War Ministry or his old St. Cyr classmate Charles de Gaulle, with whom he disagreed on Algeria so bitterly and so often that De Gaulle forced his retirement in 1962; of uremia; in Paris...
Party members in the barracks periodically conduct cleansing sessions, in which the soldier and his comrades sit around a table and discuss any improper thoughts they have caught themselves thinking. This constant self-criticism is carried into the army's upper echelons. A recruit, for example, may be surprised when a colonel walks into the barracks in a private's uniform and begins to help clean the latrine. The colonel is merely conforming to the "Officers to the Ranks" movement. When this program began in 1959, officers were expected 'to spend a month of every year living like privates...