Word: corson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cornell's new president, Dale R. Corson, picked chiefly for his popularity with students and faculty, left it up to individual professors whether to hold classes. The boycott proposal has already been endorsed by the departments of psychology, chemistry and Romance studies, and moratorium organizers lined up a leading war critic, Republican Senator Charles Goodell of New York, as the speaker at a peace rally...
...Cornell University mailed questionnaires to students, faculty and alumni seeking their nominations for a successor to James Perkins, who resigned the presidency after the crisis last spring. Last week the trustees filled the post with the man who was the preferred choice of all three groups, Provost Dale R. Corson...
...Adlai Stevenson, soul uncle to all. SP4 A. R. WAYMAN, U.S.A. Avon Park, Fla. Sir: Aero engineers stole the moon out of Junes Medico pioneers took the heart out of tunes About all that's left in the bowl luv, is soul. ESTHER ANN GOLDBERG Lyndhurst, Ohio That Corson Book Sir: In its criticism of Lieut. Colonel Corson's book, The Betrayal [June 28], TIME again underscored one of the major contradictions of the American involve ment in Viet Nam: We cannot make our local allies worth defending without taking them over completely and becoming blatantly colonial...
MICHAEL W. DUNLOP St. Louis Sir: TIME should take with the proverbial grain of salt the statements of critics as well as protagonists on Viet Nam. For example, you cite Lieut. Colonel Corson as having me proudly announce "the distribution of 150,000 more tons of fertilizer in five northern provinces in 1967, failing to mention that the region's rice production fell by 150,000 tons during the same period...
First, his memory is faulty. We didn't bring 150,000 tons of fertilizer into Corps in 1967; it was more like 12-13,000 tons. Second, I was stressing the importance of using fertilizer to counteract precisely the type of production decline which Corson cites. Without fertilizer, rice output in I Corps would have declined even further. I learned a long time ago that just because a statement appears between hard covers in a book does not make it true. Corson's book is replete with allegation, short on fact...