Word: commandant
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...given command of the Profaci family. At 40 he was the youngest of the Mafia chieftains. Until then, his virtue had been his caution. Except for law-enforcement agencies, hardly anyone knew who he was. Though he had been arrested a dozen times on minor charges, he had been convicted only three times. He was fined twice for gambling, and he was jailed for 30 days in 1966 because he refused to tell a grand jury what he knew about mob infiltration of legitimate business. His bigger operations were largely untouched by the law or publicity: gambling in Brooklyn...
McNamara brought the same technological assurance to the war in Viet Nam. At first he was too busy with reorganization to notice it. But as it grew, he willingly took command of what came to be called "McNamara's war." In 1964, he made his famous pronouncement that American troops would be home by Christmas of 1965. When that did not happen, he pressed hard at the White House for a greater troop commitment. He was mesmerized by the feat of getting the forces to Viet Nam: "We put 100,000 men across the beach in 120 days...
...demonstrate his command of the situation, Hussein last week escorted visiting Lebanese Premier Saeb Salam on a tour of a refugee camp at Zizia, 15 miles outside the capital. Twelve months ago, the King would have faced demonstrations or even death. Now a Palestinian girl presented him with a lock of her hair, symbolizing the camp's wish that he recover their homes from Israel...
...Secret Doubts. As leaks continued, TIME polled two dozen editors across the U.S., asking how they would have played the story had they, and not the Times, received the Pentagon papers first. Although most newspapers do not command as much newsprint space as the Times, the great majority of editors, in the words of Denver Post Executive Editor William Hornby, "would have done just what the Times did." The little (circ. 13,500) Daily News in Anchorage, Alaska, has a tiny news-hole, and seldom exceeds 16 pages a day; yet it ran the entire Times package, word for word...
...rehabilitation centers in Los Angeles and Houston, the Sight Switch -which costs $700 to $900-is remarkably easy to operate, even for the untrained. As one built-in safety feature, the computer is programmed to switch off the motor and bring the chair to a halt whenever one eye command for movement is not promptly followed by another...