Word: norstad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...white-and-blue caps and gowns, the 117 graduating students of Eisenhower College in Seneca Falls, N.Y., were waiting politely for inspiring words from their main speaker, World Magazine Editor Norman Cousins. Cousins, however, was nowhere to be found, so Trustee Chairman and ex-NATO Commander General Lauris Norstad announced that he himself would read a homily delivered by Eisenhower back in 1950. As for Cousins, he had confused his dates and gone out golfing. "I have been invited to make about 100 commencement talks in the past 30 years, and this is the first unmitigated disaster of this sort...
...Lauris Norstad, LL.D., chairman of Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., and former NATO supreme commander...
...assignments have been exceptional. He studied French civilization at the Sorbonne and German at Middlebury College in Vermont, and received a master's degree in foreign affairs from George Washington University in 1963. From 1956 to 1960 he served as senior aide-decamp in Paris to General Lauris Norstad, then Supreme Commander of Allied Forces, Europe. Donaldson holds a Silver Star, Bronze Star, Distinguished Flying Cross and Purple Heart...