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DIED. General Charles Hartwell Bonesteel III, 68, commander in chief of the United Nations troops in Korea (1966-69); after a long illness; in Alexandria, Va. Bonesteel served as operational planner for the Normandy invasion under General Omar Bradley and after the war helped lay the groundwork for the Marshall Plan. Throughout the '60s and '70s he repeatedly called for expanded conventional-as opposed to nuclear-capabilities...
Harvard finished first in five of the 18 events during six hours of racing, and Gregory E. Stone III '75 took two of those wins in the double sculls and the elite singles events. Stone, ranked as the number two oarsman in the nation, narrowly beat out his longtime rival, first ranked James Dietz, a member of the New York Athletic Club, in both events...
WHEN Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, invited the leaders of four principle minority organizations on campus to sit on his new committee to review the nature of race relations at the College, he never expected accusations he was denying minority members a voice in the students selection process...
...issue of Harper's magazine that traced the phrase to the backpacks of mules in the U.S. Southwest. "I'll have your guts for garters!" a military expression, can be found in Robert Greene's 16th century The Scottish History of James the Fourth, Act III, Scene 2: "I'll make garters of thy guts, thou villain." "Sock it to me," of disc jockey notoriety, can be found as far back as Mark Twain: "In chapter 33 of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, the Yankee, who is, naturally...
...brass joined in supporting the treaty, including Vice Admiral Robert L.J. Long, deputy chief of naval operations (he also read a supporting statement from his boss, Admiral James Holloway III, who was on an official visit to India, Iran and Pakistan), and Lieut. General D.P. McAuliffe, commander of U.S. forces in the Canal Zone...