Word: ellsworth
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...response to the charge that he had concealed crucial information from President Johnson and the Joint Chiefs, Westmoreland pointed out that he did not report directly to them; his "bosses" were Admiral Ulysses S. Grant Sharp, the commander of U.S. armed forces in the Pacific, and Ellsworth Bunker, the U.S. Ambassador to South Viet Nam. Moreover, Westmoreland said that on several occasions he had discussed with Admiral Sharp the disagreement among intelligence sources over the significance of the nonuniformed cadre...
...DIED. Ellsworth Bunker, 90, patrician, unflappable diplomat under seven Presidents, who epitomized the old-school foreign service officer during his many key assignments; in Brattleboro, Vt. A graduate of Yale, Bunker was an executive in the sugar industry for 35 years before President Truman named him to be Ambassador to Juan Perón's Argentina in 1951; he was later posted to Italy, India and Nepal. Bunker helped avert a war between The Netherlands and Indonesia in 1962, and three years later mediated between factions in the Dominican Republic. Called from retirement and sent to Viet...
Organizers of the Harvard-Yale party in Colorado are a bit more relaxed. "It will probably be a quiet event," says Rocky Mountain Harvard Club President D. Bruce Ellsworth '48. "People will watch the game, eat a bit, drink a bit, and then leave," he adds...
...time to focus on real problems and real solutions, not on fake solutions at the expense of many. Let us lower the drinking age and raise the penalties for the irresponsible and the praise for the responsible. Ellsworth A.I,. Fersch, J.D., Ph.D. Lecturer on Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry Harvard Medical School
...most daring attack of the week-and certainly one of the most embarrassing-occurred when 19 Viet Cong commandos of the C-10 Sapper Battalion made the U.S. embassy their target. When Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker opened the white reinforced-concrete complex last September, few American missions ever settled into more seemingly impregnable quarters. Looming behind a 10-ft.-high wall, the six-story symbol of U.S. power and prestige is encased in a massive concrete sunscreen that overlaps shatterproof Plexiglas windows. Saigon wags soon dubbed it "Bunker's Bunker...