Word: commandism
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...rightist circles, and terrorists openly boast that "this time we will stage summary executions ourselves." In the garrison town of Castiglione, 25 miles from Algiers, a hundred junior officers met in secret to discuss how they could best save the idea of "Algérie Francaise." The army high command, which last January promised to keep pro-ultra paratroopers out of Algiers last week moved a paratroop regiment into the city for "rest after operations...
Like Casey. In Manhattan, Kennedy had another audience which, somewhat surprisingly, was not on his side. When he turned up for the annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Dinner at the Waldorf (a politician's command performance) in black tie and found Nixon in white tie and tails, he seemed so comfortable that Nixon was moved to comment that whichever man won the election would outlaw the agony of full dress. In his speech, Kennedy produced some spirited quips. Only the host, Francis Cardinal Spellman, he said, could have brought together at the same banquet table two political leaders...
...Hunk of Iron." It was largely Nixon's unmistakable Republicanness that led Republican chieftains at the Chicago convention in 1952 to pick him from Dwight Eisenhower's short list of acceptable vice-presidential prospects. The new President was reared in the military gospel that a second in command should always be trained to take over in case of accident, accordingly decided at the start that his Vice President would sit in the councils of the Administration, learn its secrets, share in its decisions, and so be prepared to take over if the President died in office. Ike laid...
When the first edition of the Denver Post reached Editorial Page Editor Mort Stern's desk one day last week, Stern opened it to the editorial page. After one horrified look, he sped a Stern command to the composing room. Two hours later, when the Post's second edition hit the streets, the work of Editorial Cartoonist Paul Conrad was gone...
Despite the bumpy first half, last night's HRO concert turned out well. It has shown again that it is not afraid of doing ambitious compositions and doing them well. Their strong point complements that of the Bach Society Orchestra, which has shown itself to be in impressive command over small-scale pieces. From the good first showings of both these orchestras, I'm certain that a rewarding season of undergraduate music is in store for Cambridge...