Word: commandism
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Tanganyika's Nationalist Julius Nyerere (see box). But on Legco's debating floor, few can match his organization of a case or his smooth command of English. And he is second only to Kenyatta as a Swahili orator, whipping African crowds into a frenzy of chants and shouts by the skillful rhythm of his speeches...
...against Moumié's UPC. But what seemed like a surrender was actually a shrewd move. In the "general's" absence, a strong and respectable opposition has grown up within his party, and Moumié himself seems to be slipping: in the face of his personal command to boycott the referendum, a record 75% of the entire electorate still went to the polls...
Going It Together. Since then, De Gaulle no longer challenges NATO's power to order planes of all member nations into immediate action in case of a Soviet attack. (In tactful return, Norstad saw to it that a French officer would command the aircraft of France, West Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg.) On their own initiative French diplomats have proposed some new form of NATO "association" for France's Mediterranean Fleet-which De Gaulle pulled out from under NATO command last March...
...Homestead A.F.B., home of the Strategic Air Command's 823rd Air Division, corpsmen and nurses carried the vaccine out to flight crews and ground crews in the alert areas to avoid any break in their availability...
During World War II, a chairborne British army officer was assigned to a secret project "not essential to winning the war." In command was an air admiral, assisted by a full colonel, assisted by a major. Fourth in line was Captain Parkinson. One day the admiral was sent on a mission, the colonel went on leave, and the major was taken sick. Left in full charge, Captain Parkinson found that he did all of the project's work in an hour...