Word: edwin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first snowflakes were flecking Edwin Walton's windows when his barn roof flashed red in the night. Explosions that followed the first great fireball were still reverberating as the Waltons reached the wreck of Trans World Airlines Flight 128 close to their ranch house in Hebron, Ky. The four-jet Convair 880 bound from Los Angeles with 82 persons aboard was approaching the Greater Cincinnati Airport when it clipped saplings on the bluffs above the Ohio River, caromed over a ridge, sliced through tall timber, and then ploughed into an apple orchard half a mile away...
...Committee has ten Faculty members acting as sponsors. They include Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor, and Robert G. McCloskey, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History and Government, as well as Masters Richard T. Gill '48 and John H. Finley...
...volunteer faculty has 25 professors from Cornell (including Historian L. Pearce Williams and Philosopher Edwin A. Burtt) and neighboring Ithaca College, 40 Cornell graduate students, plus high school and elementary teachers. Rent-free classrooms have been provided by a local junior high school, while Cornell offered lab and library privileges. The college's only expenses are for janitors and a secretary, and its $5,000 annual budget is covered by contributions from Ithaca residents, among them Cornell President James A. Perkins and Historian Clinton Rossiter, who plans to teach at the school next year...
BEYOND VIETNAM; THE UNITED STATES AND ASIA by Edwin O. Reischauer. 242 pages. Knopf...
Books about Viet Nam have become a sizable industry. In 1967 alone, more than 50 authors produced observations, histories and critiques of various kinds; some of them are reasoned and informed, too many of them either superficial or passionately prejudiced (see box). Edwin Reischauer, 57, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan, who now teaches Japanese history and politics at Harvard, has written a different Viet Nam book. True to its title, it ranges far beyond that country. Despite Reischauer's severe strictures against U.S. policy, it is a responsible and a hopeful book; despite its sober style, it glows with...