Word: davison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gutsy but Risky. Old Jay is any thing but, of course. He is John Davison Rockefeller IV, 34, an émigré to Appalachia by way of Exeter, Harvard, Yale, the Peace Corps and the U.S. State Department. He is young, handsome, rich and married to the pretty blonde daughter of Illinois' Republican Senator Charles Percy. So what is a guy like that doing in a place like West Virginia? He is running for Governor and, for all the opportunistic, Johnny-come-late-ly overtones, his commitment to the state runs deep. He went there eight years...
When last seen, Bruce Davison was being devoured by vermin in Willard. He is back, with no visible scars, in The Jerusalem File. This is an adventure in which the only rats are a mob of blood thirsty Arabs who cruise about in a ramshackle black sedan gunning down their enemies...
Harvard has a long tradition of good singing under the legendary Doc Davison, and Elliot Forbes. Current conductor F. John Adams has scheduled an ambitious start for the Collegium; their first concert is of works from Byrd and Bach to Brahms and Debussy. In the spring they will join the Boston Symphony for one of the new Spectrum Concerts: religious music of Bach, Del Tredici, Josquin, and Messiaen. Adams has also planned an informal chanson and madrigal session on the banks of the Charles...
...Davison strongly encourages white officers and noncoms to attend sensitivity sessions with black soldiers at which both groups openly explain what they dislike about each other. In Viet Nam Davison once said, "I think you have to discriminate in favor of and overcompensate for the blacks." At his new headquarters in Heidelberg, he insists: "We should be able to create conditions in which the black soldier can feel that he is getting a fair shake." Davison has also continued the use of flying squads, originated under his predecessor, which make unannounced visits to units to check on discriminatory practices...
Street Clinics. The new commander's biggest strides have been against drugs, to which he is applying lessons learned in Viet Nam. "The really difficult part," General Davison said recently, "was to get officers and NCOS to understand that we weren't dealing with dope fiends, but with young men who had a very real-life problem and who needed compassionate, humane concern and not punishment...