Word: norstad
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Waiting Game. The second episode centered on General Lauris Norstad, retired Supreme Allied Commander in Europe and now president of Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. Norstad disclosed that last March he tried, through an intermediary, to sell President Johnson on a highly unorthodox peace plan. It called for the U.S. to announce an un conditional bombing pause. After that, the President himself would fly to Geneva and hole up in a hotel room to await representatives from the other side -presumably including agents from Red China and the Viet Cong...
What if nobody turned up? "If I were President," said Norstad, "I would get down on my knees three times a day and pray" for somebody to appear. But if nothing happened after a week, he added, "the President would have to stand up and say, This is not leading anywhere and I'm going back to Washington to get on with the business of running my country.' " Having proved his good faith, said Norstad, the President would then be able to increase the pressure on Hanoi without qualms...
...Lauds Norstad, LL.D., president of Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. and former NATO commander...
...Jeanette MacDonald. At the gate gawked 1,500 extras, while the supporting players, in the Church of the Recessional, read like a photomontage of yesterday's film clips and more recent headlines. Irene Dunne, Mary Pickford and Nelson Eddy stood in the pews; Barry Goldwater and General Lauris Norstad (now president of Owens-Corning Fiberglas International) were pallbearers. But the star was Miss MacDonald. As her recorded voice sang Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life, a canary caged in the church chimed...
...Norstad was the first to admit his plan is "imperfect" as it stands. But he insisted on its merit as a measure toward "putting at least one of the rooms of our house in some order. It would bring the NATO nuclear capability under the collective authority of the alliance, while still respecting the sovereign rights and responsibilities of the separate nuclear powers." As such, he said, "it is worth considering...