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This evaluation is specifically applicable to such officers as Generals Lemnitzer and Decker, whom your article mentions critically but whom I consider first-rate, loyal, forceful and competent military leaders...
...from 1959 to 1960, then moved up to chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and President Kennedy have made little secret of the fact that they feel Lemnitzer does not have the forceful personality to fit the job. Lemnitzer's successor, General George Decker, 59, is a first-rate controller, a crack golfer and a man who has been described as being "as colorless as a bushel basket full of fog." Army Secretary Elvis J. Stahr, on leave from his job as president of the University of West Virginia, has yet to learn...
Nebraskans were quick to retort. "Nebraska has some of the finest schools in the nation," said State Education Commissioner Freeman Decker. Sorensen's speech was "the most disparaging, untrue statement that I've ever heard," said Mrs. Fred Walker, chairman of the education committee of the Omaha chapter of the American Association of University Women. "It's extremely bad for a Nebraskan to come into his own state, without figures and statistics, to make such a statement...
...provided the best living quarters for a bunch of young women in search of a Harvard education. In recent years, College officials talked eloquently about the obligation to expand. Stopping their ears to anguished complaints from the undergraduates, they converted singles into doubles with the purchase of several double-decker "bunk beds." Overcrowding reached its peak a year ago, with one dorm housing more than double the number of students it had been designed...
...Radcliffe Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will initiate 11 new members at 9 a.m. this morning in Agassix. They are Rosemary Faulkner, Mai B. Milk, Hester Eisenstein, Victoria Spurgeon, Myra Lakoff, Anne B. Thompson, Mrs. Pamela Myrick Staley Herr, Sarah Fuller, Nancy Decker, Sara Sweezy, and Mary Rhinelander Morgan...