Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...holiday wreath was on the front door of the Gettysburg farmhouse, the tree was trimmed, and Dwight Eisenhower, 75, just a week out of Washington's Walter Reed Hospital after recovery from his November heart attack in Augusta, Ga., settled down with Mamie, his son John and four grandchildren for a private and grateful Christmas. His doctors' greetings: he can take short strolls and climb stairs now. Said Ike with a grin: "I expect I'll be playing golf again within a month-but slowly...
...understandably thinks that Staff Sergeant James Reid, 45, a World War II truck driver who was assigned to the Medical Corps, did more than just his job. His recommendation for a Silver Star notes that he kept on tending the wounded even after machine-gun fire chopped down a tree he was using for cover on that terrible night in the la Drang Valley. Of the 21 men whom Reid treated, only one died. Says Captain William Shucart of St. Louis, surgeon for the 1st Cavalry's 7th Regiment, 2nd Battalion: "I was pinned down elsewhere, and Reid treated...
Tough Decisions: Triage (pronounced tree-ahj) is French for "sorting," and because of the word's emotional overtones, most military medics prefer not to talk about it. But it is a process of sorting that works for the greatest good of the greatest number. The triage officer looks over the wounded and makes the vital, split-second decision as to which require immediate surgery, which can wait a few hours, and which need only more first aid. Sometimes he must also make the conscience-racking decision that a man is beyond help or hope, that it would...
...believe they won't remember which store had the gaudiest display or what TV ad was most outrageous; they will remember making and wrapping gifts for the family, making holiday cookies for company, the family's going to church together, Christmas carols, the stable under the tree, the smell of turkey, and all the visiting and getting together with family and friends. Christmas is the time when people are a bit less selfish than usual and have more love in their hearts for God and man. Maybe all the externals and trappings of Christmas have...
...trip to Washington last week, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson promised that his government would not add to the U.S. burden by cutting back its military commitments in Asia-and, looking a little like a Yorkshire Santa himself, went out with Lyndon Johnson to light the Christmas tree on the White House lawn. West Germany's Chancellor Ludwig Erhard, who was to arrive this week for politician-to-politician talks with Johnson, is another European leader who has expressed repeated support and sympathy for the U.S. role in Asia...