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...Lucius W. Nieman Fellows for 1976-77 will be: Robert J. Azzi, photojournalist with Magnum, Incorporated; Tony Castro Jr., a reporter for The Houston Post; Rodney W. Decker, a columnist and editorial writer for The Deseret News, Salt Lake City, Utah; Melvin M.S. Goo, editorial writer for the Honolulu Advertiser; Kathryn Johnson, news reporter for the Associated Press in Atlanta...
...class ring of one of the academies starts with a tremendous advantage. Fully 43% of the Army's generals are West Point "ringknockers"; 56% of the Navy's admirals went to Annapolis; 34% of the Air Force's generals attended one of the academies. Says General Melvin Zais, 60, an ROTC graduate from the University of New Hampshire: "The West Point influence is like a drop of blue ink in a glass of water. It isn't much in volume, but it influences the coloring of the whole glass. West Point permeates our resource...
...close to him"? The phrase, or something like it, pops up in The Final Days and in the novel ground out by newly minted Author John Ehrlichman; Knopf only knows where it will appear next. All of which prompted Christian Science Monitor Columnist-at-Large (and TIME Books Contributor) Melvin Maddocks to weigh in last week with excerpts from a recently discovered 5th century manuscript titled I Was Never Really Close to Attila the Hun. Samples...
Trying to keep the campaign from becoming another Titanic, senior Ford advisers recently held an emergency summit conference. Among those attending were Republican Heavyweights Melvin Laird, Dean Burch and Bryce Harlow as well as some G.O.P. congressional leaders and two savvy fund raisers, Detroit Industrialist Max Fisher and California Businessman Leon Parma...
...Melvin Powers, shop steward at Stillman Infirmary, called the University's action a "deliberate attempt to avoid paying unemployment compensation...