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Died. Admiral William Harrison Standley, 90, chief of U.S. naval operations from 1933 to 1937, wartime Ambassador to the Soviet Union, where he kept lend-lease flowing while pressing Stalin to tell the Russian people about U.S. efforts on their behalf, grew so disgusted that after the war he campaigned against the Communists with such fervor that in 1959 he bitterly protested when San Diego used a red Christmas star atop a civic center; of pneumonia; in San Diego...
This is all to say I think the Crimson can still win the Ivy League championship. There are problems--primarily the Dartmouth and Princeton teams--but Harvard has shown enough promise, in its erratic way, to lend substance to dreams of future conquest...
...many sides of the crisis. Producers Robert Drew and Associates seem to feel, not illogically, that men--and the problems they face--make events. "Crisis," therefore, is an ingenious interweaving of portraits and problems. With monologue, dialogue, or a single frame of the camera, Drew's technique can lend insight into men who shape events. He captures Robert Kennedy on the telephone. "Hi General," he begins; "Listen, I'm not very much in favor of picking the Governor up and lifting him away. I'd rather just push him aside a little." His voice is almost childish; his energy...
...President also solicited a letter from Brother Bobby's Justice Department insisting that the sale did not violate the 1934 Johnson Act, which prohibits loans to governments that have defaulted in payments of obligations to the U.S. Though Russia still owes $800 million for World War II lend-lease, the Justice Department argued that no loans would be involved in the present deal...
...proud and useful" was his advice to his beautiful daughter "Scottie." It was the fate of the father to be too proud by half, and to be praised for his faults rather than his virtues. These considerations lend a double pathos to the reading of his letters. He was rich: he was young and successful: and the diamond of his genius seemed as big as the Ritz. But the letters inexorably trace him to a Hollywood hotel where he worried about his weekly rent and Scottie's account at "Peck & Peck & Peck & Peck & Peck." He wondered aloud in letters...