Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many of the generals complained bitterly. But Reid had one tough soldier on his side-Brigadier General Elias Wessin y Wessin, 40, the army's tank commander, who holds the unorthodox notion that military men should stick to military pursuits. With Wessin y Wessin's backing, Reid pushed some officers into plush retirement, shipped others to overseas posts or out to the boondocks. Reid himself took over as secretary of the armed forces and sprinkled the army staff with U.S.-trained officers...
...title will find The Love Goddesses a disappointment. But movie buffs will happily sit through Harlow, Hayworth, Turner, Monroe, Taylor, Loren and Bardot to see tempestuous Pola Negri taking a whip to small-town prudes (Woman of the World, 1925); a giddy Greta Garbo clomping around in a tank suit for her first Swedish film (Peter the Tramp, 1922); and durable Claudette Colbert sharing her milk bath with two thirsty black cats (DeMille's Sign of the Cross, 1932) in what must be the only known instance of a striptease accomplished swallow by swallow...
...common way of using marijuana is the spur-of-the-moment party in a college student's apartment, a teen-ager's home when parents are away, or a car at a drive-in movie. "The whole car fills up with smoke, like a big tank full of it-it's wild," reports an 18-year-old coed in California's Marin County...
...Minh, now President of North Viet Nam, then swung to the right, served briefly as a public-relations man for General Nguyen Khanh after Khanh seized power a year ago. One day last week, troops appeared in the streets of Saigon, and Colonel Thao popped out of a tank turret, explaining: "This operation is to expel Nguyen Khanh from the government." With Thao was Catholic ex-General Lam Van Phat, who led an abortive September "coupette" and had been on the lam ever since...
...typical Tank session was held early last week. Before the Chiefs arrived, Filipino stewards set ashtrays, note pads and pencils (five black and two red for each Chief) round the hexagonal, Formica-topped table that is the room's centerpiece. Behind a sliding panel on one wall were maps of countries and areas scheduled to come under discus sion. On another wall was a screen for use in showing slides to accompany staff presentations. Also in the room were a 23-in. television set and six tele phones, one of them a direct line to the White House. Aides...