Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With victory already assured, coach Jack Barnaby juggled his doubles lineup to give Levin and Jarvis a rest. Parrot and Gonzales took command at the number one spot and rallied to win 12-10. Terrell and Rick Sterne coasted to a 12-6 triumph at number two. Barnaby inserted Eric Wise and Ted Wheeler, two untested sophomores, at the third position. The newcomers responded like pros and banged out an easy...
Perhaps realizing that they needed a little experienced help, the new junta, including not only sergeants but privates and police patrolmen as well, summoned home Colonel John Bangura, a counselor in Sierra Leone's Washington embassy, to head an interim ruling council. As second in command, the junta brought home Lieut. Colonel Patrick Genda, the ambassador to Liberia. As they arrived in Freetown, both men were greeted by happy crowds clutching signs that read "Welcome to Freedom" and "Welcome, Our Saviors...
...pilots in tiny FAC planes hovered continually over the battlefield to locate the more easily indentifiable targets. To coordinate all the activities, an ABCCC (Airborne Command and Control Center) was kept in the sky high over Khe Sanh at all times. It was a C-130 Herky Bird packed with the latest electronic gear, which enabled the Air Force colonel on board to talk with Marines on the ground, pilots in the surrounding sky and his own superiors in Saigon...
...accompany film crews into the ghettos. Boston Mayor Kevin White, following the practice of Chicago and Los Angeles, set up a rumor-control center in his office where TV newsmen checked their facts with the mayor and his aides, who manned telephones linked to the police department and storefront command posts in the Roxbury ghetto. In Washington to offset the impression given by smoke-shrouded aerial photos that the capital was an inferno, WTOP televised a wall-size map showing that the fires were confined to a relatively small area. When Baltimore Comptroller Hyman Pressman made a heated speech demanding...
Modern corporations usually make it a practice to prepare carefully for any change in command. But few are as forehanded as Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, the Thundering Herd of Wall Street. The biggest brokerage house in the world, with 170 offices and a $369,443,000 annual business with 914,000 active customers, Merrill Lynch announced last week that it was beginning to transfer leadership of the Herd to a group of executives who have been on the street only since World War II. The heir apparent for the top job has not only been grooming...