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Today in 1951, as Donald Kirk David rounds out his tenth year as dean, the Harvard School of Business Administration finds itself simultaneously at the peak of its nation-wide prestige and at the height of its financial wealth...
...Kremlin official roused U.S. Ambassador Alan Kirk on a peaceful Moscow Sunday to hand him a polite little note. The Russians were pleased to accept a U.S. invitation to sit down at the Japanese Peace Treaty conference in San Francisco early next month. Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko would be in charge of a four-man delegation including the Russian ambassadors to Washington and London...
...Moscow, Ambassador Alan Kirk made the five-minute drive from Spasso House to the Foreign Ministry just outside the Kremlin's walls, and was ushered in for a 20-minute talk with Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Soon after, Alan Kirk's report reached Washington: the Russian peace feeler looked like the real thing...
...story's Wilder-style "hero" is an unscrupulous reporter (Kirk Douglas) who has been broken from big-city dailies to a job covering the humdrum local news of Albuquerque. Hungering for a break that will send him back to the big time, he stumbles on a disaster reminiscent of the Floyd Collins story of 1925: a cave-in has pinned Leo Minosa, owner of a roadside curio shop, deep in a nearby labyrinth of ancient Indian cliff dwellings...
...military attache his routine jobs amounted to sending and relaying secret dispatches and advising Kirk on Military Affairs. But he also had a few extra-curricular obligations, one of which was running an old chateau near Louvenciennes. At one point, the chateau's maintenance crew, all member of the French underground, left their jobs to take part in shearing off the locks of the town's women collaborators. Since Admiral Kirk had to get his daily shave, Bundy had to take charge of the chateau's ancient plumbing...