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...DIED. Frank McCarthy, 74, retired U.S. Army brigadier general and film producer who marshaled his military expertise to help create the films Patton (1970) and MacArthur (1977); of lung cancer; in Woodland Hills, Calif. McCarthy served as an aide to Army Chief of Staff General George Marshall during World War II and as an Assistant Secretary of State in the Truman Administration...
While serving in the Congo in 1960, at the beginning of his foreign service career, Frank Carlucci was a passenger in a car that struck and killed a bicyclist. The driver took off, leaving Carlucci facing an angry crowd. There was some pushing and shoving, and before he could be rescued, Carlucci ended up with a knife in his back. Thus when he was appointed last week as President Reagan's new National Security Adviser, Carlucci became the first man to have been stabbed in the back even before he assumed that highly exposed post...
...moment there seemed to be a sigh of relief. The choice of Frank Carlucci, an experienced and capable diplomat and Government official, to head the National Security Council received widespread bipartisan plaudits. And by calling for a special prosecutor to look at all aspects of the affair, the Administration seemed to be signaling that it was eager to avoid any appearance of a cover...
...inner thoughts; he is the older and wiser writer looking back and assessing the consequential forces in his life. Says Simon: "The audience listens attentively because it knows this character is going to become a very successful writer who will write the play the audience is seeing." This frank, almost naked address to the audience gives the play a startling immediacy, despite its nostalgic setting, and a confessional tone far less common in the theater than in the novel...
...line, and really going up strong.” Cusworth’s improvement of physique and health, along with the rise in his overall level of play, reflect the benefits of his coming back for a fifth season after sitting out the 2003-04 campaign, Harvard coach Frank Sullivan said. “He’s a little different than he was last year, you can see his maturity, and I think that’s the thing we’re going to miss the most,” Sullivan added. “Well obviously we?...