Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...battle is not yet won," exhorted Pompidou. "Finish them off; yes finish off those who are in the camp of revolution and negativism." At weeks end, in a final appeal for support Charles de Gaulle spoke to the French on television and radio. "My calling and my mandate command me to show you the road you must follow," he declared. "In our voting, we must provide ourselves with a Parliament able to pursue the necessary policies with a strong, continuing and coherent majority...
...could not quite guarantee Pompidou his first choice, they certainly lessened his chances of ever having to settle for the second. The Gaullist sweep among France's voters-and the turn of events that led to it-have clearly made Pompidou the President's indispensable second-in-command and undisputed heir apparent. "My signature," De Gaulle calls him, and now that seems to carry the imprimatur of succession...
...Pompidou who, more than anyone else, managed to guide France through the greatest peacetime crisis in more than 100 years. While De Gaulle brooded alone in the Elysee, thinking in characteristically bold strokes about how to end the chaos, Pompidou all but ran the government from an emergency command post set up near his office in the Hotel Matignon. When some Ministers started cracking under the strain (one took to packing a pistol under his coat, another wanted to crush the rebellion in the same way that he had put down Algerian terrorism), Pompidou calmly took over their responsibilities. Sleeping...
...thoroughly unstuffy man who, when asked by a pretty young Trudeau-bopper for a kiss, can respond: "Why not? It's spring." A broad-minded and cultured member of academe, he also canoes, exhibits championship-caliber diving, practices yoga, loves driving fast cars and, as a bachelor, can command the company of beautiful women. A serious political thinker with some unusual views of Canada's future, he has nonetheless answered hecklers with an impudent "so's your old man." He dresses with a style and extreme casualness that stands out in Canada. After a trip to India...
Highly Mobile. Why the change of heart about Khe Sanh? The U.S. command in Saigon explained that the tactical situation in northernmost I Corps had been altered dramatically. Whereas the North Vietnamese had the equivalent of only six divisions below the Demilitarized Zone last January, they now had eight. To counter that increased threat, U.S. commanders reasoned, the 271,000 allied forces in the area would have to be highly mobile. A fixed and exposed base like Khe Sanh would no longer make sense. That argument was sensible enough, but it came a little late. Many critics felt from...