Word: larsens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Monsoon rains are already pelting South Viet Nam, but U.S. officers are confident that "we'll be able to cope with anything they can throw, rain or shine," as Major General Stanley ("Swede") Larsen, commander of U.S. and Korean ground forces in the Central Highlands, put it. Though the Reds have not mounted a single offensive operation of more than battalion size since Jan. 1, many officers in Saigon expect them to strike in considerable force some time before summer's end, quite possibly at the narrow waist of South Viet Nam in the Central Highlands area. "They...
...last week took two important steps forward. It acquired a name and a team of top officials. General Learning Corporation's first president is Richard L. Shetler, until now a vice president of G.E. Also elected by the boards of the two parent companies was Roy E. Larsen, chairman of Time Inc.'s Executive Committee, who becomes interim chairman of the new company...
President Shetler is a pioneer in G.E.'s aerospace and defense work, was general manager of the company's Defense Programs Division in Washington and headed G.E.'s "think" factory known as Tempo. Roy Larsen, TIME'S first circulation manager and president of Time Inc. from 1939 to 1960, has long had a working interest in education. He helped organize and became chairman of the National Citizens Commission for the Public Schools, and was a member of the President's Committee for the White House Conference on Education...
Graduate School of Education has acquired more than an acre of land near Larsen Hall for the construction of its new $3.8 million library...
Fran P. Hosken, an "architectural writer," observed that neither building expresses the spirit of the subject studied there. She complained that Larsen Hall "lacks all reference to people in its blank walls -- such references as windows, floor divisions, or some means for the eye to orient itself to 'read' the building." "Why should a building concerned with . . . teaching shut out the world and turn inside itself?" Miss Hosken asked...