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Died. Brigadier General Robert Reese Neyland, U.S.A. (ret.), 70, aloof, single-wing wizard whom Knute Rockne called "football's greatest coach," a Texas-born, West Point-educated authoritarian who in a quarter century of time borrowed from his official career as an Army engineer built the University of Tennessee's Volunteers into the nation's "winningest" football team, ran up a record of 171 wins...
Died. Admiral Richard Lansing Conolly, 69, U.S.N. (ret.), daring amphibious assault commander who earned the nickname "Close-in Conolly," and more medals than any other U.S. flag officer in World War II for his muzzle-to-muzzle duels with enemy coast artillery, after the war served twice as Deputy Chief of Naval Operations and headed the Naval War College before moving on to the presidency of Long Island University, whose enrollment increased fivefold during his administration; in the jetliner crash into Jamaica Bay, N.Y. that took 94 other lives, including that of his wife, Helen Jacobs Conolly...
...child-has an opinion. Those opinions differ wildly. Many feel that blast and fallout shelters are cowardly. "They would convert our people into a horde of rabbits, scurrying for warrens, where they would cower helplessly while waiting the coming of a conqueror," said Major General John B. Medaris (ret.), former chief of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency. Others believe that other moral values are at stake. Said Rabbi Maurice N. Eisendrath. president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations: "It is the morality of men and affairs which challenges us, not the morality of moles or other underground creatures, slithering...
Colonel, U.S.A. (ret.) Riviera Beach...
...Bastogne," of the military diplomat who commanded U.S. troops in Berlin (1949) and Korea (1953), of the scholarly Superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point (1945), of the restless, rebellious Army Chief of Staff under Dwight Eisenhower. They are the words of General Maxwell Davenport Taylor, U.S.A. (ret.), soldier and statesman who, by a remarkable turn in the wheel of fortune and the special needs of John F. Kennedy, last week had the biggest, toughest job of his career: military and intelligence adviser to the President of the United States...