Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BRITISH army which Richardson depicts is one where command is based on wealth rather than merit, and army life is ruled by absurd traditions and savage discipline. This is the army of which Lord Cardigan (Trevor Howard), the man who was to lead the charge of the Light Brigade, is the symbol: the film's Cardigan is a cantakerous old fool who purchased his command, and squandered it with the evil courage of a suicide-victim...
...protesters, rightist vigilante groups have taken on the task. Roman Catholic laymen have formed a "society for the defense of tradition, family and property" and collected 1.5 million signatures on a petition to Pope Paul warning against leftist infiltration among Brazilian priests. One group, calling itself the "Communist-Hunting Command" has fanned across the nation. The vigilantes have invaded even the theater, most of whose producers and actors sympathize with the left. In the midst of one performance of the theater-of-violence satire Roda Viva, a whistle blew and men armed with clubs, pistols and boxing gloves rose...
...World War II. In 1949, Jean Prouvost, a press baron (Paris-Match, Paris-Soir) as well as France's largest woolens manufacturer, purchased a controlling interest in Figaro. But because he had served briefly in the collaborationist Vichy regime, both Gaullists and leftists opposed letting him assume editorial command. So he signed an agreement with Figaro's noted editor, Pierre Brisson, who had killed off the paper during World War II rather than knuckle under to the Nazis. The agreement gave Brisson and his colleagues complete freedom to direct the paper...
...high jinks in space. On his first mission, he smuggled an unauthorized steak sandwich aboard the spacecraft. In mid-December 1965, during the rendezvous of Gemini 6 and 7, Schirra pulled to within a foot of the other spacecraft and held up a sign for Gemini 7's command pilot, West Point Graduate Frank Borman. It read: "Beat Army." Later, on the same flight, he reported that he had sighted "an object" going into polar orbit. "Stand by," said Schirra, "it looks like he's trying to signal us." He then whipped out a harmonica and began...
...Phoenix, 67% in Denver and 145% in Miami. In such metropolitan areas as Boston, Atlanta, Houston and front-running Dallas, more apartments are now going up than one-family houses. That condition has long prevailed in New York City, whose prosaic brick or concrete residential towers command attention mostly by sheer size. The current behemoth is Co-Op City, a 15,400-apartment complex now rising on the site of a former swamp in The Bronx. Both in and out of New York, the quality of construction often leaves something to be desired; many builders admit that noise traveling through...