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...troubles. Some of the officers present during these sessions later called Packard "unreasonable." One result of the mess is that Vice Admiral Thomas F. Connolly, the Navy's air-operations chief, faces early retirement. Packard, too, may be tiring of his Washington job. He seems eager to decamp for his California ranch...
...Point in 1944, and his duty assignments have been exceptional. He studied French civilization at the Sorbonne and German at Middlebury College in Vermont, and received a master's degree in foreign affairs from George Washington University in 1963. From 1956 to 1960 he served as senior aide-decamp in Paris to General Lauris Norstad, then Supreme Commander of Allied Forces, Europe. Donaldson holds a Silver Star, Bronze Star, Distinguished Flying Cross and Purple Heart...
...times he was wounded; the third time he copped a real "blighty" (a wound serious enough to get him home for keeps). It did not properly heal for many years, but even so, Macmillan counted himself a fortunate survivor of a doomed generation. Sent to Canada as an aide-decamp to the Governor General, he married the Governor General's daughter, and then reluctantly joined the family publishing business...
...nights a week, the solemn chess-players in the Quincy House Junior Common Room have to decamp to make room for a 15-piece jazz band. This aggregation, known as the Gary Berger Band, demonstrated in its first public recital Saturday night (a benefit affair for Tocsin--"Peace through Jazz"?) that there ought to be more jazz in concert at Harvard...
...would-be conquerors. Nor is it simply a great and exciting war story. To Ségur, as it did to most who survived it, the retreat from Moscow had a deeper personal and political meaning. As a ruined aristocrat who embraced the French Revolution and became aide-decamp to the Emperor, Ségur took the long, cold view...