Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...COVER) Television monitors glared eerily in the darkened U.S. Air Force command post at Sunnyvale, Calif. At a winking control console sat Lieut. Colonel Charles Glenn Mathison, commander of the 6,$4Qth Test Wing (Satellite), listening through earphones to the crackle of reports from a vast communications network. Mathison made a final check with radar tracking stations scattered around the earth. All were ready. From Cape Canaveral, Fla. came the word: "RF system ready." At T minus 10 seconds, "Moose" Mathison gave Canaveral the go-ahead: "Ready to launch." Canaveral's countdown neared its end: ". . . eight, seven, six, five...
...Khrushchev's peaceful coexistence has always had its hard underside; after all, the summit conference was precipitated in the first place by his threats to West Berlin. In Paris last week, Rodion Malinovsky was an overt reminder of the brute force that Russia's Communists command if they chose to turn tough. He was also the visible symbol of one of the forces that press upon Khrushchev...
...once he joined the Reds, Malinovsky rapidly became the very model of a modern Marxist officer. He was sent to the Frunze Academy, Russia's equivalent of the Command and General Staff College, acquired a wife, four children, and more important, a Communist Party card. Somehow the purges that all but shattered the Soviet officer corps in the '30s never touched him. Stepping into the shoes of executed superiors, he was a one-star general commanding a cavalry corps when World War II broke...
Before World War II ended, Malinovsky had plenty of practice in improvising offensives. As commander of a Ukrainian army group, he directed the capture of Bucharest, Budapest and Vienna. Then, shifted to command of Russia's Far Eastern armies, he mopped up Japanese forces in Manchuria in the "one week war" that Stalin launched against a Japan already negotiating surrender...
...morning Post comfortably ahead of its chief local rival, the afternoon Houston Chronicle, and its Sunday circulation is the biggest in Texas. Editorially, the Post's blanket news coverage and lively writing have made it the equal of any paper in the Southwest. But Bill Hobby is taking command of a paper made outstanding by others- who have left...