Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most important casualty of the purge was Defense Minister Peng Teh-huai, 58, a tough-minded, nearly illiterate soldier's soldier who fought United Nations forces to a standstill in Korea. Peng's replacement: Marshal Lin Piao, 51, a graduate of Chiang Kai-shek's Whampoa Military Academy and a Communist since 1927. Gaunt, balding, intelligent, Lin Piao commanded the Red forces that cut to pieces the best U.S.-trained Nationalist divisions in Manchuria in the late '405, was Peking's first choice to command Chinese "volunteers" in Korea, but was soon hospitalized-whether from...
Direct Methods. At the hub of the argument is Stanford's new dean of the School of Medicine, Pediatrician Robert Alway, 54, a hard-driving administrator whose passionate interest is to improve his school. He is also a man of tough, direct methods. When he was chosen as dean last year, med-school department heads submitted their resignations as a matter of course. Customarily, the new dean refuses. Not Alway...
There had been plenty of other offers. Shrewd, tough and resourceful, Otto Graham was an All-America tailback at Northwestern University, passed and ran the Cleveland Browns to seven league championships in a glittering ten-year professional career that ended in 1955. Last year, proving he could coach big-time football as well as play it, Graham turned assorted college players into a smooth unit that trounced the world champion Detroit Lions in the annual all-star game...
...Tough (Canon; United Artists) is a title that means next to nothing in a picture that means nothing at all. With a pretense of social protest, the film tries for realism as it pans in on Spanish Harlem and enters slums where children sleep on pallets and adults line up nine-deep to use the bathroom. But what the cameras actually record is little more than a Puerto Ricochet from the smallest-bore gangster plot in the film maker's gun cabinet...
Actor Saxon, born in Brooklyn in 1935, is not a convincing Puerto Rican, but if Cry Tough has a redeeming feature, it is his quiet, unmumbling appeal as an upcoming young actor...