Word: kosters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John Koster New York City
Before the 15-hour sale ended, some bidders had grown grouchy as they saw the cost of the prize soar. "They sounded as if they had low blood sugar, and I offered to send them sandwiches," recalls Webb. For the winner, Elaine Koster, 37, editor in chief and publisher of New American Library, the problem was breathable air. The cooling system in her office overlooking a gaudy flank of the Americana Hotel had been shut off. At 8 p.m. she retreated to her more comfortable West Side apartment for the final and triumphant round...
...literally a day for the books. In addition to the Puzo package, Koster was chasing rights to publish works by Franz Kafka. She was outbid by Pocket Books, who paid $210,000. The Prague pension clerk would have been fascinated by the rituals of a modern paperback auction. He had envisioned the adrenal new world in his novel Amerika. But could he have imagined that he would be in six figures...
...Angry Nurses. Two nurses, Sandra Kramer and Valerie Koster, found foul conditions at the Public Health Service Indian Hospital in Shiprock, N. Mex., where they began working in September 1974. They complained to superiors and finally wrote an open letter to President Ford, an action that received considerable local publicity. "The focus here," they said, "is on filling out forms, doing the least work with the least effort and just getting by." The Indian Health Service fired the nurses in January 1975 for "lack ... [of] ability or ... desire to become a responsible employee of the IHS." Public pressure forced...
...that West Point graduates had not hesitated to lie in Viet Nam-falsifying body counts, concealing the bombing of Cambodia, covering up My Lai. Indeed the commander of the Americal Division, which included the platoon led by Lieut. William Galley at My Lai, was headed by Major General Samuel Koster, who became superintendent of West Point in 1968. Two years later, Koster resigned after he was accused of taking part in the campaign to cover up the facts about the massacre at My Lai. Koster was demoted, censured and retired in disgrace...