Word: albert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strategic plan to defeat potential enemies. They sent the assignment to Army Chief of Staff General George Marshall, who called in Brigadier General Leonard Gerow, chief of war plans. Gerow turned to the best-qualified, brightest man he could find, a 44-year-old infantry major named Albert Wedemeyer...
...Junior Albert Leger nabbed 21st place in the men's cross country competition at the Eastern Championships held this weekend at Breadloaf...
...contend with embarrassing cases of scientific fraud. According to a number of scientists, the tremendous pressures to "publish or perish" may be a factor in the trend. These pressures have been exacerbated by the intense competition for limited federal research funds. "Science is more expensive these days," says Albert H. Hastorf, Stanford's provost. "You need a big grant or you are out of business." Many leading research institutions have attempted to deal with the problem by tightening up procedures for handling cases of suspected fakery...
...Nordic competition, Albert Leger and Margaret Waters both placed second...
...stories of figures as varied as Somerset Maugham and Theodore Roosevelt, Isak Dinesen and Lyndon Johnson have sold briskly and drawn critical raves. The volumes have rescued the genre from charges that it was succumbing to the as-told-to stories of celebrities like Phil Donahue, such drugboilers as Albert Goldman's Elvis and George Plimpton and Jean Stein's Edie, essentially a snip-and-paste collage of interviews. Moreover, these new lives are not exclusively devoted to the scholarly examination of papers and letters. "Not long ago, most biographies were compiled by diligent researchers," says Michael...