Word: gen
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Kempton attempts to heighten ev ery detail into the importance of gen eralized truth. "Michael Tabor," he writes of one defendant, "had an intensity that overrode mere precedents; by mere presence, now and then un abashedly malign, he enforced the illusion that the insulted had come to vengeance." The language is accurate enough in its grand way, but eventually the reader cares less about the defendants than about the author, gesticulating here and there in a peculiar kind of 18th century jive...
...Army Gen. Hugh B. Hester, ret., has said that ROTC is self-defeating because, in anything, ROTC programs distract students from more useful study in regular Arts and Sciences courses. Because of their rank and because of time wasted on ROTC courses of little value, ROTC graduates, Hester wrote this summer, often prove more difficult to train in complex technical skills than do regular college graduates new to the military...
ANDREW JOHNSON was impeached on the grounds that he failed to follow proper procedure in appointing his Cabinet. Richard M. Nixon allowed L. Patrick Gray to serve--apparently illegally--as "interim" FBI director for almost a year. His new chief aide, Gen. Alexander Haig, is now serving at the White House while allegedly illegally retaining his military commission so that he can accumulate enough military service to qualify for a general's pension...
...Harvard graduate was among a group of Peace Corps volunteers held captive for two days in Uganda by order of its president, Gen. Idi Amin...
...memorandum, written by then CIA deputy director Lt. Gen. Vernon Walters, said that Gray advised Nixon that top-level advisers were involved in the coverup. The memo was obtained by NBC News...