Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From West Pointer Clay, 60, now board chairman of Continental Can Co., came an old soldier's plea for a more unified military command, rooted in a strong Defense Secretary and bolstered by a chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff with sole military authority for decisions. Today's Joint Chiefs setup, said Clay, is "just another committee." Clay also added his vote to those (notably members of the Rockefeller Report panel) who have been demanding a setup whereby senior officers would belong to the same service, wear the same uniform and stand above interservice rivalries...
...quarrel with the main lines of Menderes' foreign policy. By sending the 5,000-man Turkish Brigade (717 dead, 2,156 wounded) to Korea, Menderes doused the memory of Turkey's World War II neutrality in a general wave of admiration for the tough Turkish soldier. It was Menderes who, in 1952, ignoring a Soviet warning that Russia "could not remain indifferent," led Turkey into the NATO alliance...
...Good Soldier Twining's point reflected Dwight Eisenhower's growing irritation at admirals and generals who have used the committee's platform to sound off for favorite causes that have been overruled. But all the military discipline in Washington could not erase the shattering charge by the missilemakers themselves that the U.S. is falling far short of doing all it can in the missile program...
Split at Midriff. Khalil is a soldier turned politician. A onetime brigadier in the Sudan Defense Force under the British, he fought at Gallipoli in World War I, in the western desert and Italy in World War II. As a politician, he presides over a constituency that is one of the world's most complex. The Sudan is nearly four times as large (967,500 sq.mi.) as Texas, has a population (10.2 million) less than that of the New York metropolitan area. From Wadi Haifa, astride the Nile at the Egyptian border, the Sudan stretches south 1,250 miles...
...years older and wryer-a screenwriter on leave from his wife. The prose still has an unwashed smell, but it has been sponged off here and there with the English lavender of Henry James. The details are still gutsy. In the earlier book, a lonesome U.S. soldier tries to make a pet of an owl, thoughtfully breaks its legs so that it will not escape; in the Hollywood retelling, the girl screams and vomits uncontrollably at the inevitable Mexican bullfight...