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Texas Trail. Texas-raised, Christian learned reserve as a Marine serving with U.S. occupation forces in Japan after World War II. He picked up his journalism later as a reporter for the old International News Service in Austin. In 1956, he joined the staff of Senator Price Daniel, was Daniel's press secretary from 1957 to 1962, when Daniel was Governor. He did the same until 1966 for Governor John Connally, then traveled that old Texas trail to the White House to become a presidential assistant (working with Rostow on foreign affairs) and an understudy to Bill Moyers. When...
Hempstead, N.Y., thinks that it can solve its water problems by desalting sea water with heat produced by burning rubbish in a "clean" incinerator, while Bergen County, N.J., plans to use its garbage to heat a community sports center. New York City's commissioner of air-pollution control, Austin Heller, reckons that if air-pollution could be prevented, the city could generate 25% to 50% of all the electricity it needs with garbage-fueled furnaces, thus possibly paying part of the cost of collection. After a tour of Europe, where garbage technology is years ahead of the U.S., three...
...Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Texas and a Rhodes scholar, Morris has long breathed the breezes of freewheeling dissent that blow through Austin. For two years, he edited the controversial Texas Observer, which startled and infuriated many Texans with its outspoken views on almost any topic. Joining Morris on the staff will be two new contributing editors: David Halberstam, 33, a foreign correspondent for the New York Times, and Larry King, 38, a freelancer who has written extensively for Harper's. Managing Editor Russell Lynes is being replaced by Senior Editor Robert Kotlowitz, 42. Like Fischer, Lynes...
Product of a three-month Viet Nam tour in the summer of 1966, this book follows elements of the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) and the 101st Airborne Division through the string of Central Highlands skirmishes, ambushes, successes and failures that were known as Operations Crazy Horse, Austin 6, and Hawthorne II. Marshall, at 66 a retired brigadier who once was the youngest American company commander in World War I, viewed most of the terrain and some of the fighting himself, meticulously interviewed survivors and strategists to produce his staccato narrative...
...Austin, who has been at Vassar since 1963, was graduated from Oberlin College in 1930. Her new duties include supervision of student room assignments and the senior resident program...