Word: combatancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Heisman Trophy winner at West Point, Dawkins went to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, won combat medals in Southeast Asia, earned a Master's at Princeton and is about to complete his doctoral thesis there (topic: resistance to change in large institutions). Long regarded as Chief of Staff material, Lieut. Colonel Dawkins, currently one of 18 White House Fellows, was in Viet Nam as an ARVN adviser in 1965-66 and again the next summer, when he collaborated on an Army "pacification" study. In the Pentagon in 1970, he helped refine the concept of an all-volunteer army. Last...
Gerald M. Edelman, 45, is an accomplished violinist who once chaired a symposium on the scientific basis of stringed instruments. He is better known as the discoverer of the molecular structure and composition of antibodies, the blood proteins that combat disease in the body. The 1972 Nobel laureate was born in New York City, educated at Ursinus College and the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. Now a specialist in immunology...
Charles B. Rangel, 44, a former high school dropout, now represents one of the nation's largest black communities in Congress. A Harlem native, Rangel returned to New York City after combat in Korea to win a law degree, appointment as an Assistant U.S. Attorney and election to the state assembly. After a bruising contest in 1970, he narrowly defeated Adam Clayton Powell for the Democratic nomination to Congress. Two years later he was re-elected with 96% of his district's vote. The ebullient Rangel is chairman of the congressional Black Caucus and a Judiciary Committee member...
...negotiations. The President last week had his hand strengthened for any bargaining on military matters when the Senate, adopting a position urged by Kissinger, rejected a proposal by Senator Mike Mansfield for the withdrawal of some American forces from Europe. The Administration maintains that the Soviets should pull back combat units from Eastern Europe if the U.S. reduces its strength hi West Germany...
...committee, the administration figured out a way to justify construction of a new freshman dorm in the face of a shrinking incoming class and overcrowding among upperclassmen. Von Stade sent freshmen a letter asking for volunteers for a second tour of duty in Harvard's oldest dormitories. As combat pay, von Stade offered them guaranteed affiliation with one of their top-rate Houses and the pick of accommodations in the Yard...