Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...sisters, brothers, mother, wife, and possibly some in-laws to help out. The Kennedy organization is already setting up clubs in each of the state's 55 counties. Last week Kennedy made a flying trip to West Virginia (his seventh in 18 months) to open his Charleston command post, shake a few hundred hands, and eat lunch with 50 stony-faced labor leaders (both the A.F.L.-C.I.O. and the United Mine Workers have proclaimed their neutrality in the impending primary) before buzzing back to the Wisconsin front lines...
...command of the U.S. Air Force last week began flying through its biggest peacetime maneuver to show that in wartime its men could perform well-even if its old machines might not. The command: the Military Air Transport Service, whose primary military assignment is to move soldiers and supplies to distant battlefields and trouble spots. Because MATS does not fire missiles or drop bombs, and because its main chore is to move and service ground forces, it has become a sort of stepchild, limps along on a small fraction of the Air Force's $18 billion budget...
...reports of military activity, but rebel bombs have been exploding in Algerian towns. On the main highway out of Algiers, four Frenchmen were kidnaped last week, and four more were mowed down in an ambush in the center of Affreville, just 44 miles from the capital. Reshuffling the top command, the F.L.N. installed a tough, 28-year-old guerrilla with the nom de guerre of Houari Boumedienne as rebel army chief of staff...
...strategists-Lawyer (and onetime White House aide) Clark Clifford, Representative Charlie Brown and Administrative Assistant Stan Fike-to mull over the situation. There were predictions that Symington would make his formal declaration of candidacy earlier than planned-around April 1. But some of Symington's own high command felt that it was a lot later than he thought. Said a St. Louis advocate: "Symington has waited a year and a half too long to put together the kind of organization Kennedy has. What Kennedy has to do after Wisconsin is to catch one of several states...
...Warren soliloquized about his gravely wounded comrade-in-arms: "Morir! . . . Tremenda cosa!" ("To die! Tremendous thing!"). Finally he sang the great aria, "Urna fatale del mio destino" ("Fatal urn of my destiny"), giving it the flooding warmth of color and the vibrant depth of feeling that only he could command...