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Died. Robert Cushman Murphy, 85, expert on oceanic birds and sea-life conservation; in Stony Brook, Long Island. In 1912 Murphy shipped aboard an Antarctic whaler as assistant navigator, and brought back bird, plant and fish specimens never before seen in the U.S. Among the discoveries of his 61-year career were the skeleton of the New Zealand moa, a flightless bird of centuries ago, and the cahow, a sea bird believed to have been extinct since the 17th century. As bird curator at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, he sailed on more than a dozen ocean...
DUNSTER HOUSE LIBRARY. Songs for soprano and piano. Works by Cushman and Schumann...
Tenth in his class at Annapolis, Cushman fought heroically in the Pacific theater, winning medals at Bougainville, Guam and Iwo Jima. In Viet Nam he was an able successor to General Lewis Walt as commanding general, 3rd Marine Amphibious Force. For the past 21 years he has served as deputy director of the CIA, missing much of the ferment and debate that has shaken the services...
...Tank. For all of Cushman's rugged virtues, there were many in the Marines and in the Pentagon-including, some think, Chief of Naval Operations Elmo Zumwalt Jr. and Army Chief of Staff William Westmoreland-who would have preferred someone else in the top Marine slot. The popular choice in the Pentagon for the job was Marine Chief of Staff Lieut. General John R. Chaisson, 55. Something of a Renaissance officer in the mold of Zumwalt, Harvard-educated Chaisson is a brilliant speaker and a tough-minded intellectual whose interests range far beyond the boundaries of military thought...
...Great Guy. But the President, for his own reasons, passed over Chaisson and Assistant Corps Commandant General Raymond Davis, 56, the only other plausible candidate, for Cushman. The choice was partly personal. From 1957 to 1960, Cushman served as Assistant for National Security Affairs to then Vice President Nixon. When Nixon assumed the presidency eight years later, he appointed Cushman to the CIA, where his chief responsibility was to represent the agency on the United States Intelligence Board, which is the hub of the U.S. intelligence-gathering network...