Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prudently keeps the Vice President from boarding the same plane with him, even though the two are, as they were last week, landing in the same city about the same time. But in New York Ike picked up another traveling companion, Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, visited with his old soldier comrade while the pair shuttled easily across...
Astor to Oscilloscope. New York's modernized old (1904) Astor Hotel reminded Old Soldier Eisenhower of more leisurely times. "During my cadet days at West Point," he told New York Promoter William Zeckendorf. "I stayed at the Astor when I was in the city, but I did not get a bill until after I was graduated, and the management gave me 25% off." Soon the Columbine lifted him back to Washington and more technological advance. He headed a Cadillac cavalcade out to inaugurate the National Broadcasting Co.'s new Washington color-TV studios. Staring at winking oscilloscopes...
...will implement our union slowly but surely in order to avoid mistakes," rasped the old soldier in a radio broadcast to the Federation's 8,000,000 citizens. Though he did not say so, the mistake Nuri Pasha meant most to avoid was precipitating a showdown any sooner than necessary in the inevitable struggle for Middle East supremacy between the new Federation and Nasser's dynamic United Arab Republic, which has four times as many citizens but no oil wealth...
...sleepy (pop. 365) village of Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, 150 miles southeast of Paris. But these were expectant sounds that reverberated in the imagination of Colombey's first citizen, a towering man of 67 with an equine face and the stiff, awkward movements of a French career soldier. And they were sounds that drove him at last to pick up the telephone, an instrument he dislikes, and summon an aide from Paris to receive a typically laconic statement: "For twelve years France, at grips with problems too harsh for the regime of political parties, has pursued a disastrous course...
...stood the rest of France? The armed forces still stationed in metropolitan France were a question mark. Late in the week two air force generals serving on France's joint chiefs of staff were placed under house arrest, and next day France's No. i soldier. General Paul Ely, chief of the joint chiefs, resigned in protest. The nation's 280.000 hardbitten police, who constitute a virtual army in themselves, still seemed loyal to the Fourth Republic. Paris, ringed by its famed "Red belt" of industrial suburbs, was as apt to be dominated by leftist mobs...