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...Linda W. Atcheson...
Some are resigned or bewildered. Beethoven had asked for wine; when it finally came he said: "Too bad! Too bad! It's too late!" As the plane in which he was riding was about to crash, George C. Atcheson Jr., diplomatic aide to General MacArthur, said: "Well, it can't be helped." Tolstoy: "I do not understand what I have to do." Thomas Arnold, headmaster of Rugby: "Ah, very well...
...rest of the 11-man team is composed of Bill Proctor of Texas, Everett Parker of Dartmouth, Ken Hirsch of Penn, Ron Gagnon of Providence, Norm Dorsen of Columbia, Don Ross of Yale, and John Horty of Amherst, Dave Atcheson of Stanford, and Lennie Pastolove--a last minute replacement for Derek Bok of Stanford...
...time the Hurley-burly fizzled out, Atcheson had been appointed political adviser to General MacArthur. In Tokyo he spent a hard few weeks before he overcame suspicions in MacArthur's headquarters of his political views. But career man Atcheson, like many another
...citizen, had learned the impossibility of dealing with Communists. He became one of the most determined and able opponents of Soviet meddling and delay in Japan. MacArthur appointed him chairman of the Allied Council for Japan and recommended him for the rank of Ambassador. George Atcheson's major job on the day his plane crashed: pushing through a Japanese peace treaty despite Russian obstructionism...