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...duty, burying his grief in work. The rewards were scarcely commensurate with the efforts. Ike's rise up the promotion ladder was painfully slow. In 1922, he was transferred to the Canal Zone?an inhospitable place in those days?where he became executive officer to Brigadier General Fox Conner, commander of the 20th Infantry Battalion. Next to Eisenhower's parents, Conner was probably the strongest influence in his life, introducing him for the first time to the serious study of military history and strategy. At West Point, Eisenhower remembered with distaste, this had been "an out-and-out memory course...
Even before the museum closed for its renovation, Elliott had displayed a showman's flair for lively, avant-garde exhibitions. In the museum's auditorium, courageous Hartford patrons have been exposed to the underground films of Bruce Conner, the dances of Merce Cunningham, the electronic music of Karl-heinz Stockhausen. But Elliott does not think of himself as primarily an exhibitionist. "I think there are too many special exhibitions going on," says Elliott with a trace of exasperation. "You exhaust your public with temporary shows and they never get upstairs to see your permanent collections...
After showing O'Conner the warrant for his arrest, the police escorted him from the fourth floor of the M.I.T. Student Center. Neither O'Conner nor the fifteen supporters spending the night at the sanctuary offered any resistance. The Armed Forces Police took O'Conner to Fort Devens in Ayer, Mass...
...Conner had been absent without leave from Fort Bragg, N.C. since September 14. His sanctuary at M.I.T., the longest ever held, began on October...
...M.I.T. administration maintained the neutral position during the sanctuary that it would neither treat O'Conner as a trespasser nor obstruct his arrest...