Word: commandism
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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With the further achievement of a work able platform, the Nixon command was beyond question, and like good soldiers falling to. Nelson Rockefeller and then Barry Goldwater stepped into place behind him. The platform itself, polished and ready in time for Chuck Percy's delivery (with film clips) before the convention, was one that Dick Nixon-as well as the others-could support with ease; it sparkled with all the high-minded goals of the Democrats' platform, yet when in doubt saluted the merits of enter prise and fiscal conservatism...
...five of its 1,600 Europeans had fled. The Congolese garrison had successfully held the town against a Belgian attack; yet not a shot was fired as the Moroccans moved in. Several truckloads of mutineers were hauling off loot from European homes; at Ben Omar's command, they sheepishly returned the stolen goods to the sacked houses...
General's Problem. In temporary tactical command of the U.N. forces was Britain's Major General Henry Templer Alexander, who has been "seconded" to Ghana as commander in chief of the Ghanaian army. Early last week the Belgians were taking advantage of the confusion to parachute troops into smaller cities throughout the country, planning attacks on Matadi, Thysville, Stanleyville -Premier Lumumba's home town. Alexander cooled off the Belgians, rushed tough Ethiopian troops to Stanleyville and sent Colonel Ben Omar and his Moroccans down to Thysville and Matadi...
...editor and friend. In appointing Editor Allen as a trustee of the Farrington estate, the court stipulated that Allen would have to give up all participation in the newspaper's editorial affairs. He chose to be a trustee and turned the paper over to his able second-in-command: Managing Editor William Ewing, 56, a mainland-trained newsman who has worked with Riley Allen for 24 years...
...International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers started bargaining in Manhattan last week for a new contract, when the loman G.E. delegation simply rose and stomped out. The reason was-as a G.E. flack discreetly put it-that I.U.E. President James B. Carey shouted "a twice-repeated command of obscenity" at Philip D. Moore, chief G.E. negotiator...