Word: marshalling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...last week a refreshing note came from an unexpected quarter. Said Thailand's Premier Sarit Thanarat to reporters: "Thailand is the pivot of the free-world alliance in Asia. If one of our neighbors becomes dominated by Communists, rocket bases will be an absolute necessity." Tough Field Marshal Sarit named no names, but his message was obviously meant for Laos and, especially, Cambodia, whose Prince Sihanouk has been busily courting the Chinese Communists...
Died. Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, ' 74, unrepentant Nazi, one of Hitler's top military strategists and his last commander in chief in the West; of heart disease; in Bad Nauheim, Germany. A career soldier and World War I pilot, Kesselring developed the combined ground-air attack strategy that was the key to early Nazi victories, at war's start commanded a single air fleet in Poland, later bossed all German air forces in North Africa and took charge of the Mediterranean theater in the slow retreat up the boot of Italy. Condemned to die by the British...
...sister Cecile, 21. Together they had made a remarkable record. Greg had not only been chosen one of Harvard's two student commencement orators, the first Negro so honored, but was also graduating magna cum laude, while Cecile (cum laude) was elected Radcliffe class president and senior-class marshal...
...Russia's nuclear pushbutton, if Khrushchev's tirades last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) were to be believed, is a trimly athletic, strikingly handsome career artillery officer-and a Khrushchev favorite. Marshal of Rocketry Mitrofan Nedelin, said Khrushchev, is "a remarkable soldier, a hero of the Soviet Union, a splendid artilleryman who knows more about rocketry than anybody...
Nedelin, 57, was virtually unknown in the West-except to other general staffs-until a month ago, when Khrushchev, in an offhand remark at the Czech embassy, revealed that the marshal had been given command of Russia's brand new rocket force. A member of a favored branch (Stalin once called artillery "the God of war"), Nedelin became adept in World War II at Stalin's vaunted "artillery offensives," massing 300 pieces or more for each kilometer of front. His rise to favor with Nikita apparently began when both men were serving in the Ukraine during...