Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This kind of justice to G.I.s might make some U.S. citizens feel better about turning over U.S. Soldier William Girard to the Japanese courts, but Tokyo's Mainichi had a deeper worry: "This is like telling the world that in Japan you can do anything if you are drunk. Perhaps we should advertise Japan abroad not as the land of Mt. Fuji and geishas but as a paradise for alcoholics." About twelve Japanese a year win acquittal on murder charges by proving they were drunk or drugged (a plea that is no defense at all in U.S. courts). Announced...
...confiscatory taxes: "The present tax structure is probably adequate to socialize the United States. The budget is but the guesswork of a small group of individuals, temporarily gathered in Washington, whose previous training and experience has little to do with the nation's need." As the old soldier thundered on, a small stockholder, Mrs. David Davis, miffed because Sperry Rand had not passed out refreshments ("Other companies give you sandwiches and cold drinks''), stopped him in mid-charge, earned herself some solid-gold applause: "I love my country. I love to pay taxes...
...insisted with true Bergeracquian heroism on playing anyway. His performance certainly did not suffer, except for an occasionally gravelly voice. Morse can summon the panache, the spirit of bravura that the role requires. He becomes in turn all the things that make up Cyrano's character--braggadocio, courageous soldier, learned wit, testy quarreler, gallant lover, poetic lyricist, resigned indigent, noble altruist and pathetic but proud moribund. He gets a lot of variety out of his famous Nose Speech; and he correctly performs his Moon Travel Scene with a foreign accent. His Cyrano is first-rate acting...
...couple passed by, one sentry, a stocky half-Indian named Romeo Vásquez Sánchez, snapped his heels together at attention, slapped his rifle up to present arms. Then Soldier Vásquez Sánchez stepped back, flipped off one set of hall lights, and raised his 7-mm. Mauser to his shoulder. As the President half-turned, Vásquez Sánchez shot him through the heart. Doughty Castillo Armas, 42, who overthrew the only Communist-dominated government that the Western Hemisphere ever had, died at once...
...Percy Howard) Newby, 39, is a puckish soldier turned professor, proletarian turned sahib. His The Picnic at Sakkara (TIME, Aug. 29, 1955) was a rich and penetrating fantasy of life in the Nile delta in the last hours of King Farouk. In Revolution and Roses he has moved on in time to the period when an Egyptian army clique led by General Naguib and Colonel Nasser turn out Farouk and take on the cumbrous business of governing a country that had "never had any real independence since...