Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Notwithstanding his brash independence, Quesada ably fulfilled his jobs in the demanding years that followed. He was commanding general, Twelfth Fighter Command in Africa, deputy commander Northwest African Coastal Air Force, and before D-day took over the Ninth Fighter Command. On D-day plus one, Quesada landed his own P-38 fighter plane on the Normandy beach ("My first step was not on European soil-it was on a dead German...
Right Flank March. A month later, he put Supreme Allied Commander Dwight Eisenhower piggyback in the cockpit of a P-51 and took him on a go-minute ride along the beachhead ("Eisenhower was very pleased, but we both caught hell from the Joint Chiefs of Staff"). During the great armored-tank drive across Europe, Quesada's Ninth Tactical Air Command, rather than troops, became Lieut. General George Patton's "right flank": he had put a fighter pilot in each of Patton's lead tanks "so that we would have quick communications with fighter pilots. I wanted...
...Command Decision. Another recent incident that blew up a storm occurred last month, when a National Airlines pilot was rolling his 707 down a Miami runway. Suddenly one engine flamed out. Though the plane was within three or four knots of critical takeoff speed and thus technically should have aborted, it looked to the pilot as if such action would almost certainly lead to a crackup. Making his decision in an instant, the National pilot kept going, lifted the plane off the ground, circled around and landed safely. Still, an accompanying FAA flight inspector filed a complaint against the pilot...
...brought to the surface some old inter-union disputes that threaten to split the A.F.L.-C.I.O. In particular, it rekindled a smoldering feud between Meany and able, aging (70) Asa Philip Randolph, head of the Sleeping Car Porters union and conspicuously the only Negro in the A.F.L.-C.I.O. high command. Honest A. Philip Randolph is no steady supporter of crafty Congressman Powell, but he felt obliged to defend Powell and rebuke Meany...
...Negro members of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. With such numbers, Randolph could press to crack open the all-white locals (in the building trades, among papermakers, boilermakers, etc.), get Negroes into apprentice training programs now closed to them, and lift Negroes to loftier positions in the A.F.L.-C.I.O. command. Chapters of Randolph's all-Negro group are abuilding from New York to the Pacific Coast. Despite Meany's opposition to such racially based splinter groups, the founding convention is set for Detroit this May. And Meany's whittling of Congressman Powell cannot help sharpening the splinters...