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This is understandable enough. If Reagan had replied fully to a panelist's invitation to specify those hypothetical crises where the U.S. would be justified in intervening with force, he might have duplicated what some view as Dean Acheson's classic omission in 1950 of defining the U.S. "defensive perimeter" in Asia in a way that appeared to exclude South Korea, thus seeming to give a green light to the North Korean invasion of that country...
...picked up a host of nicknames appropriate to his many roles. For his dour countenance he came to be known as Grim Grom; for his ability to conceal his mood, Washington diplomats began in the 1940s to call him Old Stone Face. The sobriquet, former Secretary of State Dean Acheson wrote in his memoirs, "accurately described an impenetrable mask which may well have contributed to his amazing and unique record of survival...
DIED. Lila Acheson Wallace, 94, ebullient, strong-minded co-founder and -owner of Reader's Digest, with her late husband DeWitt Wallace, and one of America's greatest philanthropists; in Mount Kisco, N.Y. The couple met in 1920 when he was struggling to start his new venture, and she began married life stuffing solicitation envelopes in a Greenwich Village basement. As the Digest quickly prospered, she kept her editorial influence largely indirect. But it was she who took the lead in the childless Wallaces' vast (more than $60 million over 30 years) charitable efforts. Personally overseeing many...
Truman never changed. He had virtually no affectations, Clifford noted, and no inferiority complex. He viewed his days as a farmer as a blessing, a source of strength. In Truman's mind that put him on a par with his Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, the aristocratic product of Groton, Yale and Harvard; not above, but certainly not below. They loved each other...
Board Chairman. Acheson M. Callahan, pointed out that before late 1982, when removal permits became a possibility. Harvard had no incentive for neglecting maintenance...