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JAMES GAVIN, U.S. lieutenant general (ret.): Among leaders who have made the greatest impact through the ages, I would consider Mohammed, Jesus Christ, maybe Lenin, possibly Mao. As for a leader whose qualities we could most use now, I would choose John F. Kennedy...
Gris seems to have felt a certain helplessness in the presence of outdoor nature. Compared with his still lifes, for instance, a set of landscapes that he painted at Céret near the Spanish border of France in 1913 are almost embarrassing: he could not reduce the intractable organic shapes of hill, tree and terrace to anything much better than a set of decorous formal clichés whose color verges on the garish. Indeed, the only part of the great outdoors he could handle with ease and pleasure was the sea -itself flat, rotating upward to face...
Commander, U.S.N. (ret.) New Orleans
...highly trained professional military force of 500,000-600,000 capable of handling the sophisticated weapons for national defense, and an annual military budget of between $25-30 billion will provide this nation with all the security possible through military means. Hugh B. Hester Brig. General U.S. Army (Ret...
Died. Rear Admiral (ret.) Frank W. Fenno, 70, Navy submarine commander who, shortly before the fall of Corregidor in 1942, stole into enemy-infested Manila Bay in the U.S.S. Trout to deliver a cargo of ammunition and slipped out two days later to carry most of the Philippine treasury to safety; of cancer; in Kensington, Md. On his way to Pearl Harbor with the loot, Fenno sank two enemy vessels, winning the first of three Navy Crosses...