Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peace is going to be hell on me." His death in an auto accident only three months after losing the military governorship and only seven months after the armistice may have seemed to him to have come too late rather than too early. "The proper end for the professional soldier," George Patton liked to say, "is a quick death inflicted by the last bullet of the last battle...
...working capital, which he then invests in the black market. He can double or even treble his investment in six months. The G.I. gets his "key money" back at the end of his tour by selling the hooch, complete with furniture and moose, to an incoming soldier. Prices currently range from...
KRAFT SUSPENSE THEATER (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Robert Goulet stars in a World War II drama as a goldbricking soldier accused of being a Nazi infiltrator. Color...
...with the Dance. The incredible old soldier actually looked healthier than when he started the tour, despite Paris' fears that the long journey might prove too strenuous for a man of 73. But the southern exposure obviously agreed with him, and he was feeling so well that he complained about one day's schedule not being full enough. Seasoned De Gaullologists were startled to see him hugely enjoying a colorfully costumed Bolivian "devil dance," despite his dis dain for things folkloric. They were stunned when in Chile he actually responded with a big wave to photographers' shouts...
...sons-pompous, bookish Blaine Shelby, 33, and happy-go-lucky 14-year-old Sam-tell the story in alternate chapters. Angelina Hughes, a beautiful hoyden in love with Blaine, disguises herself as a soldier and fools everyone but perspicacious Sam, who stumbles upon her bathing nude in a river. Among the good guys are O'Hara, an Irish sergeant with a heart of gold; Hobbs, a sly, tall-tale-telling frontiersman; Spie-buck, a 6-ft. 4-in. Shawnee guide; and shrewd, Lincolnesque Colonel Alex Doniphan. The bad guys are legion, ranging from scoundrelly Mexicans to brash American bullies...