Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inflexible leadership, his refusal to introduce democratic reforms. And no one was happy with the way the anti-Communist war was going. Last fall the Viet Cong opened its new campaign, boosting the killing to an average 800 a month. Many soldiers blamed Diem for keeping political officers in command, refusing to allow even a company to move without his sanction. Along Saigon's Rue Catinat, the sidewalk cafés buzzed with rumors of assassination or a coup...
Died. Silliman Evans Jr., 36, brisk, self-assured publisher of the Nashville Tennessean, which he took over from his late father at 30; of a heart attack; while cruising on Tennessee's Old Hickory lake. A printer's devil at eight and the Air Transport Command's youngest World War II pilot at 18, influential Democrat Evans backed Lyndon Johnson for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination, was recently appointed to the Johnson-led President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity...
...present the Army has 856,233 men, assigned to 14 divisions (five of them in Europe, three in the Pacific theater), five regiments, 80 air defense battalions, one infantry brigade, one combat command, one armored group. The Navy, with 620,405 men on active duty, has 376 warships, 16 fleet carrier air groups, 31 carrier antisubmarine squadrons, 47 supporting air squadrons. Air Force strength is 819,410 men; the prime weapons are 37 strategic wings (including some 600 B-52s), 19 air defense wings, 32 tactical wings. The Marines have 176,847 men assigned to three divisions (a fourth...
...which had had a front-page seat at the fight, could only wonder why Jack Kennedy had not chopped Chester Bowles down with one purposeful command, rather than set up an unseemly spectacle as he tried to coax the amiable big-thinker into quitting...
...flow of new diamonds coming from the Congo and South African mines because of racial and political upheavals, has driven up prices, e.g.. a flawless, two-carat blue diamond that retailed for about $3,500 on West 47th Street only two½ years ago, can now easily command $4,000. Furthermore, the great De Beers "Syndicate," which sells 95% of the world's total rough diamond production, still rations stones to dealers on West 47th Street as well as to those around the world...