Word: inge
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paper what they had seen and heard. While he was half way round the earth from New York, he was able to cover the last-minute points that Writer Jason McManus wanted for the story by means of the telex, which maintains instant communication between the Time & Life Build ing and the far-off banks of the Chao Phraya...
...William L. Langer '15, Coolidge Professor of History, emeritus, will return to Harvard next year to teach a graduate seminar in European history. Since his retirement in June 1964 Langer has been doing research and writ- ing. He is the former director of the Russian Research Center and Center for Middle Eastern Studies...
...discernment situation could be fall ing in love, suffering cancer, reading a book. But it need not be a private experience. The Rev. Stephen Rose, editor of Chicago's Renewal magazine, argues that "whenever the prophetic word breaks in, either as judgment or as premise, that's when the historical God acts." One such situation, he suggests, was Watts?an outburst of violence that served to chide men for lack of brotherhood. Harvard's Harvey Cox sees God's hand in history, but in a different way. The one area where empirical man is open to transcendence, he argues...
...third is Chen P'an-t'ing, deputy squad leader of the Machine Gun Company. In September, after returning from a visit to his family, he showed some dissatisfaction with the grain situation, and said: "Some people are saying in China there once appeared a Sun Yat-sen and the grain was piled sky-high." Twenty days later he was reported to the Deputy Political Director for "reactionary remarks." Fearing "some kind of punishment," Chen used a Thompson gun to kill himself...
Whatever the catastrophic political results, Ryan argues that Eisenhower made an eminently sound military decision when he ordered back the advanc ing units of the U.S. Ninth Army and refused to consider Berlin a worthwhile military objective. That is an argument that is still debatable. What cannot be disputed is the Allies' great mistake in accepting Stalin's word that he also considered Berlin to have no strategic importance. Actually, Stalin always considered the city a prime prize. Through interviews with surviving Soviet military people, Ryan provides a fresh account of how Stalin called his marshals to Moscow...