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...correspondents in Cape Canaveral and elsewhere, trotted out scale models of the shuttle to describe how it func tioned and scrambled to round up "experts" who might be able to explain what had happened. ABC got former Astro naut Gene Cernan to its Houston studios. CBS brought on Leo Krupp, a former test pilot for Rockwell International, and NBC recruited former Astronaut Donald ("Deke") Slayton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Covering the Awful Unexpected | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

...assassinations. The pair made millions and spent millions, traveling with an entourage that would pauper a Saudi prince, taking over entire floors of famous hotels. Like Henry VIII, a part he played with gusto in Anne of the Thousand Days, Burton lavished jewels on his consort: the 33-carat Krupp diamond, the 69-carat Cartier diamond and the lustrous Peregrina pearl that King Philip II of Spain gave Mary Tudor in 1554. Liz and Dick made a couple of good movies together, including Virginia Woolf and The Taming of the Shrew, and some fine glitzy entertainments, like The V.I.P.s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Mellifluous Prince of Disorder | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

...three decisions which McCloy has been attacked for--the failure to bomb Ausehwitz the interment of the Japanese Americans and the Krupp case--are all matters much clearer in hindsight than they were at the time. In each case a strong argument can be make on either military or legal grounds for the decision which McCloy made or participated in These were 51 49 decisions made by men during national crises under the pressure of time and with incomplete information. It is a false and insidrous analogy to compare the decision makers in these cases to the Nazi war criminals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: John McCloy | 5/25/1983 | See Source »

Perhaps some of the outrage directed to McCloy on this matter can be attributed to his controversial decision to order the unconditional release of Alfried Krupp, the armaments magnate. Krupp had originally been convicted for employing slave labor from the concentration camps in his family's munitions factories during the war. McCloy received a barrage of criticism back home for freeing this man who for many was a living symbol of the Nazi nightmare. This is a point consistently raised by students protesting the scholarship naming. McCloy, Brinkley says, simply saw the commuting of Krupp's sentence as a symbolic...

Author: By Mary Humes, | Title: Honorable or Criminal? | 4/30/1983 | See Source »

...also helped oversee the Japanese internment, he complied with American policy to refuse to bomb the Auschwitz concentration camp and he argued against easing immigration quotas for Jews. When overseeing the restoration of West Germany, he commuted the sentences of several Nazi war criminals, including the notorious Alfred Krupp, who ran his armaments factory with slave labor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weighing Evils | 4/27/1983 | See Source »

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