Word: brooklyns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ritchard G. Cable of Rochester, N.Y. (Mathematics); David L. Engel of Dayton, O. (Economics); Alan N. Granger of Berkley, Mich. (History and Literature); John A. Gresham of Mt. Lebanon, Pa. (Social Relations); Albert J. Hudspeth of Houston, Tex. (Biochemistry); Bruce R. Leslie of Brooklyn, N.Y. (Biology); G.W. Schaumburg Jr. of Provo, Utah (Applied Mathematics); Allen Trasher of Norfolk, Va. (Sanskrit); Ronald L. Trosper of Milwaukee, Wisc. (Social Studies); Pieter M. Visscher of Minneapolis, Minn. (Physics) and David A. Wendt of Haddonfield, N.J. (Social Studies...
...David Harrison Jr. of Los Angeles, Calif. (Economics); Richard G. Harrison of Baltimore, Md. (Chemistry); Jeremy P. Kagan of Mt. Vernon, N.Y. (History and Literature); Philip J. Kapian of Cambridge (Government); Lowry Pei of St. Louis, Mo. (English); Charles Popper of New Rochelle, N.Y. (Applied Math); Victor Rosov of Brooklyn, N.Y. (English); Peter J. Swift of Upper Montclair, N.J. (History) and Mark J. Webber of St. Louis, Mo. (German...
Though Levy, 30, tried vainly in the 13-day trial to excuse his rebellious conduct as a matter of principle, the pallid, intense Brooklyn dermatologist appeared to be more often stricken by confusion than conscience. Though claiming that he refused to teach Special Forces aidmen simple skin-disease remedies because he believed they would commit war crimes in Viet Nam, he was unable to support the charge. In a switch of tactics, his attorneys last week argued that to teach the Green Berets medical skills would have violated Levy's professional ethics, since the troopers were combatants first...
...part in the Paris Air Show, the U.S. went all out, displaying sophisticated aircraft and spacecraft and flying two Sikorsky jet helicopters last week from Brooklyn all the way to Le Bourget Airport-the first nonstop crossing of the North Atlantic by whirlybird (they were refueled en route). Britain and France also put their best fleet forward with striking new military and civilian aircraft and a full-scale model of their jointly developed supersonic transport, the Concorde. But it was the Russians who stole the show, simply by taking the wraps off space hardware-some of it a decade...
...seemed at first a pedestrian case ambling toward a predictable conclusion. An obscure physician from Brooklyn, drafted into the Army and clearly a military misfit, was haled before a general court-martial, charged with preaching antiwar dogma to enlisted men and refusing to teach them dermatology as he had been ordered. But last week the case of Captain Howard Levy took on unexpected significance both as a precedent in military law and as a chapter in the worldwide debate over the Vietnamese war. For the first time in a U.S. military court, the war-crimes doctrine of Nürnberg...