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...movies, and Ken Follett's Eye of the Needle is about to-even as he puts together yet another World War II saga. If World War II films have naturally been less numerous than books, they have also-ever since George C. Scott swaggered across the screen in Patton in 1970-tended to be more spectacular and ambitious. TV is cluttered with World War II documentaries and dramas, ranging from the recent six-hour reprise of Ike's war years to perennial showings of The Commanders. The popular real-life espionage book A Man Called Intrepid is only...
...Chrysler appears to have one hope: to stay solvent in any way possible until lacocca, who is to auto sales what Patton was to tank warfare, can bring forth the cars to save the company. He will need help-and not just from Washington. The United Auto Workers rejected his plea for a wage freeze, but delegates from its Chrysler council agreed to reconsider making concessions once the UAW agrees to a new three-year contract with GM and Ford. Said UAW President Douglas Fraser: "We'll take into consideration whatever is needed for the survival of Chrysler Corp...
...weekly problem sets are really no problem--they are basically a rehash of Fisher's lectures. Grading is relatively easy; students receive four out of a possible six points on each problem set for just following instructions. And although head section man Bruce Patton urges students to hand in nine of the assignments, few complete more than the required number...
...tensely feared and hated man in Washington." From the '30s to the '60s, scoops in his syndicated column ("Wash ington Merry-Go-Round") or on his Sunday radio broad casts became headlines: the Roosevelt court-packing plan, F.D.R.'s destroyers-for-bases swap with Churchill, the Patton soldier-slapping incident, Sherman Adams' vicuna coat and many other tales, worthy and less worthy...
...occasion crossed the line into vindictiveness so as to keep the felled foe from getting up." Perhaps a Quaker idealism, the conviction, as Anderson says, that military people "should regard war as a catastrophe, not an opportunity," helps explain Pearson's unrelenting animus toward Douglas MacArthur, George Patton and James Forrestal. He thought them dangerous men. Back in the '30s MacArthur had sued Pearson for close to $2 million. Pearson got out of the libel suit only after turning up a Eurasian chorus girl whom MacArthur had discarded, and agreeing not to publish, for as long...