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Wendell's ablest successors in the Golden '80's were George B. Morrison '83, two-year winner of the Intercollegiate mile, Charles H. Kip '83, the outstanding shot putter and hammer thrower of his day, and middistance runners William H. Goodwin '84 and Wendell Baker...
...finally doing something about the blatant corruption that has traditionally attached to the powerful and tempting "warlord" posts of the corps commanders. It appointed as IV Corps (the Delta) commander General Nguyen Due Thang, the country's onetime pacification chief, who is generally regarded as one of the ablest, brightest and most honest officers in the Vietnamese army. He replaces General Nguyen Van Manh, a portly, indecisive officer who has presided over the steady disintegration of the government's Delta position. In II Corps, which comprises the Central Highlands, General Lu Lan, a respected combat officer, took over...
...fact, Gardner - the ablest administrator of urban reform in the U.S.-had inspired the coalition in the first place. More than a year ago, sensing the imminent fall of congressional axes on Great Society funding, HEW's Secretary told a group of university presidents that the "nation would benefit greatly by a revival of local leadership outside Government." He warned a Cleveland audience last April: "It will be a sad end to a great enterprise if the epitaph for our society turns out to read: 'All the best people bemoaned the quality of leadership, but none sought...
...years as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, John Gardner has proved one of the ablest Cabinet officers in a generation. It was he more than any other man in the Administration who presided over the initial construction of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. Last week, Gardner, 55, resigned, in a fundamental rupture with the President over the programs whose once-bright hope had lured him to Washington in the first place. For the President, his departure was perhaps the most damaging blow yet to the withering vision of profound, creative social change...
...BENIGN DESPOTISM. "I have the ablest staff that ever served any President in my memory. There's not a playboy among them. They aren't sitting around drinking whisky at 11 o'clock at night. They aren't walking around with their zippers unbuttoned." -Washington, July...