Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unity is not uniformity. If private and parochial schools are divisive . . . then so are ynagogues and churches, so are yachting clubs and vets' organizations, so are Knights lemplar and Knights of Columbus. God deliver us from the spectre of an America in which the cookie-cutter of democracy stamps out millions of rigidly uniform dolls of the same neutral grey. Even Macy's dolls come in different sizes and colors...
...remind Mrs. Fred Norton that . . . several million successful American soldiers found removing the uniform no impediment to being a successful citizen...
...below). Three hours later came more news about Matt Ridgway: he would soon be replaced as commander of U.N. forces in Korea. The reason: President Truman had chosen him to succeed General Eisenhower at SHAPE. The change will be effective approximately June 1, the day Ike doffs his uniform to seek the presidency...
...European allies wanted and formally requested an American for Ike's job. The choice fell between two men: Ridgway, and General Alfred Gruenther, No. 2 man in SHAPE under Ike and perhaps the smartest planner in a U.S. military uniform. A superb administrator, a crack bridge player, Gruenther knew NATO's problems and NATO's leaders, who privately hoped he would get the job. But the leaders were happy to accept Ridgway. Gruenther himself had once said he was too introverted for so extroversive a job as supreme commander. In his brilliant 33-year Army career...
...first time she snorts powdered heroin she vomits. Soon enough she is warming capsules of Horse in a spoon over a burner, mainlining the drug directly into a vein. Each dose sends her into a nerveless Nirvana: "Nothing itself in a uniform of gold, and Nothing loomed bigger than Anything ever could hope to be." To get the nothing her dreams are made of, Diane takes to shoplifting, finally sinks to old-fashioned prostitution. At novel's end. Author Mandel feebly suggests that psychoanalysis may save...