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...modern military leadership. Like the members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, with whom the commandant meets regularly as an associate member, Chapman is largely a product of Robert McNamara's industrialized Pentagon; last August he was given the Armed Forces Management Association's annual merit award for his mastery of management techniques in running the corps. Over the past six years in various staff jobs at the Marine headquarters-and for the past five months as assistant commandant. Chapman became known as a man of quiet competence. As a fellow officer described him: "You never catch...
Last week's news that ABC has paid $800,000 for the Academy Award-winning French film A Man and a Woman came as no surprise to the industry. All year long, old and not-so-old movies have been winning the ratings race, even from prime-time shows. TV's appetite for more and better movies can only increase. But as the demand goes up, so do the prices, and turning a profit on such expensive shows becomes more and more of a problem...
...size, sumptuosity, style and snob appeal, this resplendent volume wins any 1967 publisher's award for conspicuous taste. Suggested prize: a gold-trimmed watch-fob-cigar-cutter holder in champagne-tanned platypus pouch. Avoiding today's exhaustive and exhausting travel writing, this volume combines 18th century illustrations with prose from the past. The travelers' tales date from the period when English was at its best and travel did not exclude wonder, awe, respect-and suspicion. "The first thing an Englishman does on going abroad is to find fault with what is French, because it is not English...
...with a great big red, white and blue LBJ button; you'd probably survive about as long as Eichmann would have had he been stripped naked, branded, and let loose in the streets of Tel Aviv. Think of suggesting to an SDS meeting that a petition be circulated to award Walt W. Rostow an honorary (not electric) chair from Harvard. Then speculate for a minute, about telling your friends in Adams House what it is like to machinegun Viet Cong from a helicopter over the Mekong...
...president-elect of the American Cancer Society; last year he received the prestigious Albert Lasker Clinical Research Award. Farber has been professor of Pathology for 20 years and has been on the Medical School Faculty since 1929. The Wolbach professorsrip is in honor of the former pathologist-in-chief at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital from 1917 until...