Word: victor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...says. "I know most of these people personally and I know when something will hurt them. I can get away with nuances and insinuations that will sting them a little." He is, says a friend, "lethally neutral." Every target -tycoon or President, Republican or Democrat, general or sergeant, victor or vanquished-gets equal time...
Throughout U.S. history, wars have almost invariably ended with a clear victor, a stirring surrender ceremony, and a touch of grandeur. There was Cornwallis capitulating at Yorktown; Lee yielding to Grant; the bowed Japanese aboard the Missouri. But Viet Nam, it is all too apparent, is a war unlike any other that the U.S. has ever had to fight. Accordingly, U.S. policymakers last week were sifting several shreds of evidence that may hint at a different and less dramatic conclusion...
Floridian "Chappie" Chapman, 54, was the dark horse choice between two other, better-known lieutenant generals, both also 54: popular, barrel-chested Lewis Walt and acerbic, shrimp-sized (5 ft. 4 in., 134 Ibs.) Victor H. ("Brute") Krulak. Walt and Krulak have vastly more combat experience than Chapman and both are experts on Viet Nam. Both are also controversial. Waltwhom the President last week named assistant commandant-has been criticized, unjustly, for not being aggressive enough during his two years as the Marine commander in Viet Nam. Krulak, a favorite of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and President Kennedy...
...IMPERIAL COLLECTION OF AUDUBON ANIMALS edited with new text by Victor E. Cuhalane. 307 pages. Hammond...
...direction attributed solely to Victor Fleming, much of the picture was actually directed by Hollywood master George Cukor (Philadelphia Story, A Star Is Born) and, to Fleming's credit, it is impossible to see where Cukor left off. The shooting has a kind of gutsiness without equal today: that they dared to punch over three climactic scenes with nearly identical sweeping pans of sil-houettes-against-sunset is only a little less hard to believe than that all three shots are profoundly stirring...