Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bowditch, playing magnificently, and Sullivan reeled off seven straight games to take command of their match against Jim Biggs and Gordon Aydelott. Sullivan hit winners for the last four points and a 3-6, 6-2, 6-3 victory. With the doubles now tied at one-all, the match was decided in the third doubles, where Adelman and Pollen had won the first set, 6-2, but dropped the second, 4-6, to Phil Meyer and Doug Floren...
Soon after he took office in January, Kennedy was faced with making a command decision on Cuba. His early hopes of avoiding clashes with Fidel Castro had rapidly faded. Now the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency urged upon him a project that the CIA had been working on for months during the Eisenhower Administration: an invasion by U.S.-trained Cuban refugees, with the U.S. providing air cover and logistical support. Shockingly misinformed, the CIA assured the President that the invasion would touch off uprisings against Castro and massive defections from his armed forces...
...question about the fighting qualities of Major General Edwin A. Walker, U.S.A. During World War II, Texas-born "Ted" Walker often blacked his face, led his troops on bloody night raids against German units in Italy. In the Korean war he won further combat distinction, and in 1957, commanding troops of the 101st Airborne Division and the National Guard, he handled the Little Rock school crisis with such no-nonsense determination as to earn even the grudging admiration of segregationists. Since then, as commander of the 24th Infantry Division in West Germany, Walker has been known as a stern taskmaster...
...take place ("Someone committed treason," charged a council member), Castro had 10,000 troops on hand to meet the men coming up the track bed. Heavy artillery pinned the invaders down. The invasion ship carrying all the broadcasting equipment was sunk, and with it another landing craft. The Castro command threw its Soviet-built T-34 tanks into the fight; a dozen jets, some of them MIGs flown by Czech pilots, shot down five of the invaders' twelve B-26 bombers. Other Castro aircraft swept over the exposed troops in strafing runs. A desperate call for help went...
Friendly Peasants. Months may pass before the full story of the disaster in the swamp is known. The CIA and the Pentagon, which sponsored and embarked the exile army, obviously were under instructions to keep their lips zippered tight. But from the exile command, which sat helplessly by while 1,300 of its countrymen were ground up by Castro's military machine, came a tragic account of miscalculation, compounded by political bickering, distrust and gross ineptitude...