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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: Who Were History's Great Leaders? | 7/15/1974 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Eminence Gris | 5/6/1974 | See Source »

Commander, U.S.N. (ret.) New Orleans

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 28, 1974 | 1/28/1974 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROPAGANDA SINCE GOEBBELS | 10/23/1973 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 3, 1973 | 9/3/1973 | See Source »

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