Word: command
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...bureaus in Berlin, Washington, Dallas and Tokyo all contributed to this issue's cover story on Walton Walker, commanding general of the Far East Command's Eighth Army. The story's opening account of one of the general's trips to the Korean front came from Frank Gibney, TIME'S Tokyo bureau chief, who went along for the ride...
...roads. Taking that jeep ride was the best way of finding out how tireless and driving a man Walker is. There were no wasted seconds-even for lunch. The general did suggest that I take time out to eat with the drivers while he was conferring at a regimental command post, but I was too interested in the conference to accept his offer...
...dimly lit room. The auditor says: "When I count from one to seven your eyes will close." He keeps counting to seven until the patient's eyes close. (The patient, says Hubbard, is still awake but in "reverie.") In a typical procedure, the auditor may next command: "Let us return to your fifth birthday." The patient's mind is then supposed to slip back along its "time track" to that birthday. Having "returned," he "relives" the experience...
...Force said that it was taking only planes that could be spared without disrupting civilian airline schedules. But if the airlines did have to supply more planes later, they were a lot better prepared than when the Air Transport Command called them for World War II. U.S. commercial airlines now boast a total of 1,660 transport planes, almost quadruple the 1941 fleet...
Life in the Harps, a teen-age Manhattan slum gang, was as rigidly hierarchical as in a primitive tribe. When the president wanted to issue a command, his personal stooge called the gang to attention by shouting "Time! Time!" If a fellow had his initials scratched on the arm of a deb (a girl member), no other Harp was allowed to touch her until she formally declared that she was through with him. Modeling themselves after such movie heroes as Alan Ladd ("The way he beats his women! He stomps them"), the Harps treated their debs with elaborately casual brutality...