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Japan's preparations for that attack are recorded in an exhaustive new history timed to coincide with the anniversary, At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor (McGraw-Hill; $22.95). Author Gordon W. Prange, who died in 1980, began interviewing many of the Japanese principals while serving as a historian on General Douglas Mac Arthur's staff in Tokyo after Japan's surrender. He learned of the daunting tactical problems that faced the planners: how to find precisely the right bombing altitude and bombs to pierce armor-plated decks, how to perfect both torpedoes...
...think that she had a great deal of vitality and was a person of social conscience," Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold of Harvard Hillel, who had known Gordon since she was a child, said. "She was a very hopeful person," he added...
...quiet girl and shy, but a very sensitive student," Mary E. Vogel, a non-resident tutor at Dunster House and leader of Gordon's Sociology tutorial, observed. "She was interested in the Cambridge community and excited about a paper on the role of the University in the Cambridge community," Vogel said...
...Gordon was driving east on Storrow Drive at about 9 a.m. Sunday when her car went out of control and struck a bridge abutment at the Arlington Street exit, Officer Frank L. Muolo of the M.D.C. police said yesterday. She was alone in the car and no other vehicles were involved in the accident...
...daughter of Dr. Roy Gordon, professor of Chemistry, she was born on Dec. 10, 1962 and graduated from Buckingham. Browne and Nichols School in Cambridge...