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Downgrading the Military. Papadopoulos then moved swiftly against his antagonists. In a series of deft maneuvers, he transferred several leading hardliners. Most notable: ex-Colonellonnis Ladas, who lost his post as chief of the country's internal security system. Isolated from their former colleagues in the army, the hard-liners had no alternative but to bow to the Premier's orders. Consolidating his control over the Greek military, Papadopoulos appointed Lieut. General Odysseus Anghelis, a reliable career officer, to the newly created post of Chief of the Armed Forces...
Released in 1958, Morgan resumed his practice in Washington, D.C. This time he chose the name of a Californian, Lawrence Harris, a member of the D.C. bar who had never practiced there, and he claimed Harvard Law School as his alma mater. He had lost none of his flair. After a particularly florid and emotional summation at one mur der trial, Morgan spun around before the astonished jurors and fell in a dead faint. He tried some two dozen criminal cases before he was uncovered again. Convicted of fraud, he was sent to Leavenworth prison in Kansas...
Lasky raises valid questions about Kennedy's zealous pursuit of Jimmy Hoffa and his tendency at times to make cavalier statements on Viet Nam that could have been too easily misinterpreted by Hanoi. But these get lost amid endless sniping at Kennedy's wealth, protective friends, staff-written speeches...
...debugging took longer than expected, and the company began losing money. To make matters worse, Thomas Watson's IBM an nounced that it would bring out its own supercomputer, the 360/91. As a result, many potential purchasers held off buying the multimillion-dollar 6600 machine, and Control Data lost as many as 50 sales. When IBM was slow in producing the 360/91, and then turned out only a few before discontinuing it, Control Data's crusty chairman, William C. Norris, felt that he had been had. "IBM has been out to get us," he said...
...begin to get ready for its Christmas tournament, a two-night stand at the University of California at Santa Barbara, December 27 and 28. Depending on the draw. Harvard will play one night against Santa Barbara or Texas Christian University--the defending Southwest Conference champion -- or Fordham -- which has lost only to Columbia, by nine points...