Word: pointers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long-suffering witness won permission, at one point, to step from his glass cage and point out on the map locations of German-occupied territories. Every policeman in court rose. Three crowded behind him. Eichmann moved the pointer uncertainly, trying to locate Bialystok. With the air of a teacher dismissing a nervous student, Hausner took the pointer away and found the place...
...uproar mounted, President Kennedy called the Pentagon to see what all the shouting was about. Connecticut's Democratic Congressman Frank Kowalski, a West Pointer ('30) and retired colonel, demanded an investigation of West Pointer Walker (class of '31). Said he: Walker has done nothing wrong, he should be vindicated. If not, he should be given the works." And the Army decided to put General Ted Walker on the shelf until it could find out if his political views outbalanced his fighting talent...
Skipping the traditional oral intelligence briefings that come packaged with map board, pointer and colonel attached, he demands tightly written papers that he can scan with his built-in, wide-screen-camera mind. Answers to hard questions are demanded with computer speed. The Pentagon's "action officers" now act; "project officers" project. Says a staffer: "I've never been so flattened out since law school. Among other things, he's piling on the work to find out who can produce; if you can't, you're out." And McNamara keeps a special task force...
...Vienna State Opera and later with the Met. Debeljevic attends every one of his wife's rehearsals and performances, selects engagements that fall within the "frame" of her career and ruthlessly rejects others, helps design her personal wardrobe. He also walks the dogs (a Weimaraner and a pointer), parks the car, and always travels with her: "Someone has to carry the money. She never does. She sings, as she says, for the dog biscuits, and I do the worrying." To help her relax, he took up yoga with her, and when she needs slimming, he goes on a diet...
...artists had ever been shown at the Academy. One was Joan Floyd of Bristol, who had a painting hung in 1928 when she was 14, but gave up her career for marriage. The other was Master (later Sir) Edwin Landseer, whose Portrait of a Mule and Portrait of a Pointer Bitch and Puppy created a sensation in 1915 when Landseer was only...