Word: gavin
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Lieut. General James Maurice Gavin, 53, now president of Arthur D. Little, Inc., largest private research and management consultant firm in the U.S., will get the touchy and prestigious post in Paris. Onetime boss of the Army's Research and Development section, ex-Paratrooper Gavin petulantly resigned from the Army in 1958 after losing a battle to push his service farther into the space and missile business. Hustling into print with his book, War and Peace in the Space Age, Gavin impressed the then Senator Kennedy (who reviewed the book for the Reporter magazine) with his argument that future...
...running for the prestigious post in Paris are Under Secretary of State Livingston Merchant and two retired Army generals who blasted the Eisenhower Administration defense policies: onetime Chief of Staff Maxwell Taylor and onetime Research and Development Chief James Gavin. Merchant will definitely pluck some plum, if not the Paris embassy then another major one. Among several contenders for the ambassadorship to Japan are John D. Rockefeller III, Harvard's Edwin O. Reischauer and Jeffrey Parsons, who is likely to be replaced as Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs by U. Alexis Johnson, at present Ambassador...
Ustinov, Tony Curtis, John Gavin, Nina Foch, John Dall, Herbert Lorn, John Ireland. Even in reserved-seat release at advanced prices ($1-50-$3.50 ), the movie will have to run for at least a year before it returns an investment ($12 million) that comes close to matching the average annual revenue of the Roman Republic in the time of Spartacus...
Crassus, actually only a competitor for the consulship while Spartacus was on the loose, is presented as the Dictator of Rome. To compound the cinematic crime, Caesar, the empire builder, is portrayed by Actor Gavin, a rose-lipped, sloe-eyed young man who looks as though he never got to the first conjugation, let alone the Gallic Wars. And Antoninus, a Roman poet, is played by Actor Curtis with an accent which suggests that the ancient Tiber was a tributary of the Bronx River. To these blunders is added the customary quota of glaring goofs (a map of Italy that...
...their special fields or assigned to specific facets of the story, were Washington Bureau Chief John Steele, White House Correspondent Charles Mohr, State Department Correspondent John Beal, Latin American Specialist Jerry Hannifin, New York Correspondents George Bookman and Bill Smith, Chicago Senior Correspondent Murray Gart and Montreal Bureau Chief Gavin Scott...