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...under his command, Walt finally closed with major elements of 71,000 guerrillas and regulars threatening I Corps. Though the Marines pulverized the Communist forces, they took high casualties. Walt's critics cited the U.S. losses as the reason for his surrendering command to Lieut. General Robert E. Cushman Jr. Actually, it was known long before the DMZ battles that Walt, bone-weary from endless rounds of 15-hour days, was leaving Viet Nam at the end of his second year...
...other Princeton pitchers -- Graham Marcott and Steve Cushman have been brilliant at times and awful at times. Cushman threw an eight-strikeout shutout against Maine but was clobbered in his next outing...
Died. Alvin Cushman Graves, 55, U.S. nuclear physicist and director of the Test Division at Los Alamos, a pioneer in atomic research, who nearly lost his life in a laboratory accident in 1946, when he absorbed 200 roentgens of radiation (he suffered loss of hair, a cataract and temporary sterility), in 1948 became director of the U.S. atomic testing program in the Pacific, later headed a long series of experimental atomic projects including Operation Ivy, the 1952 top-secret thermonuclear explosion at Eniwetok; of a heart attack; in Del Norte, Colo...
This year's Harvard winners are: Donald A. Bloch; David A. Brown; Jeff Cheeger; Stanley F. Cohen; Timothy E. Connor; Lawrence J. Corwin; Keith M. Cushman; W. Bowman Cutter III; Robert H. Donaldson; John B. Dunlop; Barry M. Dym; Joseph W. Esherick; Nicholas W. Fels; David S. Forman; Douglas G. Frame; Donald Gertmenian; Raymond E. Glazier, Jr.; Robert L. Goldberg; Harold R. Goodyear; Richard H. Grossman; Gerald O. Grow; Alfred F. Guzzetti; Gordon P. Harper; Wilbur D. Hart III; John J. Hartman; Peter H. Herman; Paul L. Hoch; and Paul S. Hoff...
While Sears President Crowdus Baker concentrates on building catalogue sales (26% of total volume) with added outlets and faster deliveries, Cushman is working to strengthen a weakness in Sears's domestic chain: the 13-state Eastern region that generates 40% of all U.S. retail sales. Long dominant in the Midwest, Sears has rebuilt some Eastern stores and opened many new ones, is erecting a mammoth distribution center in Secaucus, N.J., to service them. Meanwhile, capitalizing on its Latin American experience, Sears next year will open stores in Madrid and Barcelona, use Spain as a wedge into the Common Market...