Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Indeed, Military Historian and Columnist S.L.A. Marshall contends that the U.S. Army is taking the same relaxed route as did the French Army of Marshal Petain that he visited in 1937?and that proved so ineffective in World War II. "Once you deviate from the sanctity of an order, you're in trouble," he warns. "And we are right on the ragged edge of reducing discipline to the point of danger...
...RAID LAUNCHED NOW? New York Post Columnist Pete Hamill sarcastically suggested that it might have been staged in order to get the Son Tay prisoners home for display at the White House on Thanksgiving. There may be a modicum of truth in that, but a major factor in President Nixon's mind was his recent conclusion?supported by Pentagon doctors and specialists consulted by the Administration ?that lengthy confinement under difficult conditions has cost the lives of a number of American prisoners in both North and South Viet Nam. A recent list had marked as dead six Americans whose...
Unwitting Help. Criticism of the trip started with Sydney's Anglican Archbishop Marcus Loane, who announced in October that he would not attend an ecumenical service with the Pope; Loane cited such doctrinal differences as papal infallibility to explain his refusal. A columnist in Turin's La Stampa criticized the Dacca stop, arguing that the papal visit would pull needed men and equipment off relief operations. A Catholic monthly in Colombo asked whether papal visits "help clarify fundamental issues or mystify them," pointing out that the Pontiff could give equally impassioned speeches in "racist Portugal" and in "underdeveloped...
Simple fatigue is another factor in the capital's sexual mores. Society Columnist Ymelda Dixon thinks that the men of power are simply pooped. "With the hours they put in, with the stresses they face, they're probably impotent from sheer exhaustion." Knowledgeable Swinger Barbara Howar agrees, and points out that another reason for the situation is that power is a sex substitute. One highly sexed and beautiful lady, who has much solid experience in both bedroom and board room, admits that a full day of power wielding leaves her so depleted that she wants nothing so much...
...there were not a William F. Buckley, U.S. editors would have to invent a James Jackson Kilpatrick. The need for a columnist and commentator with a conservative view and a gift for language has never been more apparent than in these Nixon-Agnew days; Kilpatrick fills that need for 170 newspapers via the Washington Star Syndicate and for Washington's WTOP...