Word: generalships
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...small, private dinner last October, Austria's Ambassador to the United Nations, Kurt Waldheim, played host to Soviet Ambassador Yakov Malik and George Bush of the U.S. Rising for a toast, Malik ponderously wished Waldheim, who was campaigning hard for the secretary-generalship of the U.N., fulfillment of "all his wishes." That was as close to an open endorsement as any candidate could ask. Last week, on his 53rd birthday, Waldheim got his wish. He was elected over eleven other candidates to succeed the retiring U Thant...
...John Kennedy's. One J.F.K. appointment to a district court in Mississippi was William Harold Cox, a college roommate of Senator Eastland's who had addressed blacks from the bench as "niggers." Writes Victor S. Navasky in Kennedy Justice: "No aspect of Robert Kennedy's attorney generalship is more vulnerable to criticism" than his appointments to the Southern courts. On the evidence thus far, the Nixon Administration is earning a more positive appraisal...
World War I puts the "connoisseur of bad generalship," as Fair styles himself, to the same exquisite torture an oenophilist might face in the cellars of the Tour d'Argent. There were so many foolish commanders that it is hard to pick only one or two for special commendation. Sir Douglas Haig, however, can at least be called representative. The battle of Loos (September 1915) was typical of his style. He began the engagement with a gas attack that hurt the British more than the Germans. Next morning he mounted a massed assault by nearly 10,000 troops against...
...most encompassing. The indictment was filed in Detroit because, it was charged, the conspiracy was born at a secret meeting of the Weathermen in Flint, Mich., last December. Among those indicted was Weatherman Leader Mark Rudd, 23, the former Columbia University student who rose to S.D.S. prominence through his generalship of the student uprising there two years...
...producer-promoter of this unusual event is Murry Woroner, the Miamian behind radio's popular computerized boxing series (TIME, Nov. 8, 1968). For the fight, a panel of several hundred sportswriters and ex-boxers rated each of the champs on 129 characteristics (speed, tendency to cut, ring generalship). The results were then put through an NCR 315 computer, which spun out a punch-by-punch script...