Word: macarthurs
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Hosannahs ring through the land and words of praise pour forth from hundreds of typewriters. General MacArthur, the conquerer of Japan, is hailed as the new hero in the sports world for his efforts in bringing a cease-fire in the vitriolic war between the Amateur Athletic Union and the National Collegate Athletic Association. But we can not join in the celebration, for MacArthur's truce is a tenuous and fragile arrangement imposed by the powers and prestige of the Presidency of the United States. It solves none of the basic issues. In fact, it ignores some major considerations...
...battle MacArthur halted is a strange one, as it involves practically no substantive dispute regarding actual athletic competition. The squabble is primarily over jurisdictional rights and "paper" eligibility rights...
...MacArthur settlement, announced Monday, is actually quite a victory for the NCAA, and the college group has been noticeably more enthusiastic about it than the AAU. The NCAA got pretty much all it asked for--equal representation on the committee which rules on Olympic selections and an end to the AAU ban on Track and Field Federation meets. In return, the NCAA ended its boycott and agreed that the AAU should continue to represent the U.S. to the International Olympic committee. The later concession, however, is buffered by the NCAA's new status on the selection committee. The NCAA also...
...oilman. He fought savagely for continuance of the 27½% oil-depletion tax allowance; all the while he remained chairman of the board of Kerr-McGee Oil Industries Inc., and sneered at conflict-of-interest charges. As an Oklahoman, he supported President Truman's ouster of General Douglas MacArthur-mostly because he feared that MacArthur might expand the Korean war to the point that National Guardsmen of Oklahoma's Thunderbird Division might be called into combat. "You say I'm an Oklahoma Senator more than a national Senator?" he often asked. "Yes, that's what...
When the dispute began to threaten America's effective participation in the 1964 Olympics, President Kennedy intervened. He called on both sides to cooperate and apointed General Douglas MacArthur to arbitrate the quarrel...