Word: davenports
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Into a presidential adviser's office last week moved General Maxwell Davenport Taylor. His official title was that of Military Representative of the President, and he was to serve as a military and intelligence planner in the cold war. The specifics of the job were vague, but there is nothing vague about the views that Max Taylor brings to the White House: they have been bluntly and controversially stated in his 1959 book, The Uncertain Trumpet, and in his public statements...
Last week, at the request of John F. Kennedy, General Maxwell Davenport Taylor, 59, former (1955-59) U.S. Army Chief of Staff, agreed to return to active duty with the title of Military Representative of the President. Taylor, who in the wake of the Cuban fiasco recently completed a top-secret study of U.S. cold war capacities, will keep watch on military planning for world crises, serve as the White House's watchdog on the work of the Central Intelligence Agency. A brainy, courageous combat warrior, but not much of a team player, Taylor is likely...
Meanwhile, a Radcliffe official reported that college diplomas are still being in Latin--at last for the Class of 1961. "We didn't learn of the revision ," Ruth Davenport, Registrar, said yesterday. "Nothing has been about the future. I don't know if we would have changed to English if we'd been about Harvard...
Ellot will battle Davenport in the big clash for the Harvard-Yale intramural football title at 2:30 p.m. on the varsity practice field. (Last year Davenport played Dunster for the title, and won 16 to 0.) In the football games last year. Adams House was the only Harvard representative that won, beating Saybrook...
Eliot vs. Davenport...