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Died. Joseph Ridgway ("Uncle Joe") Grundy, 98, millionaire worsted-yarn spinner and Republican politician for more than half a century, whose expression of apple-cheeked innocence belied a diehard brand of economic reaction now known in political dictionaries as "Grundyism"; at Nassau, in the Bahamas. The son of a Pennsylvania Quaker textile magnate who dabbled in politics, Grundy learned early about men and machines, efficiently mobilized them for causes challenged even by some fellow Republicans as "Government by a few, for a few, at the expense of the public," but which he proudly pursued as articles of faith "next...
...doctrinaire Marxists and Trotsky partisans to avowed Communists. But the conservatives split their majority between two parties: the United National Party, which ruled for eight years after negotiating Ceylon's independence within the British Commonwealth in 1948, and the Freedom Party of the late Prime Minister Solomon West Ridgway Dias Bandaranaike, who governed from 1956 until his assassination last September. In last week's election, the United Nationalists leaped from eight to 50 seats. But the Freedom Party, without a leader of stature, worked up so much sympathy by parading Bandaranaike's weeping widow that it finished...
...Lemnitzer. 59, son of a Pennsylvania shoemaker, has spent his 39 years since West Point getting jobs done and going away before anybody noticed he was there. Never the dramatic sort to pack pistols like Patton or a hand grenade like Ridgway, he was the workhorse officer who planned Allied landings in North Africa in 1942, negotiated the German surrender in Italy in 1945, organized Defense Department's NATO rearmament program (1948-50), commanded U.N. forces in the Far East (1955-57), was marked for the top job years ago. Yet his name was always widely met with...
...steadily up the brass rungs of the Army's ladder since the day in 1929 when he pinned on his shavetail's bars at West Point. General George C. Marshall tagged him as a comer early in World War II. He served with distinction as General Matt Ridgway's deputy commander, jumped with the 82nd Airborne Division on Dday. At 37, succeeding Ridgway as boss of the 82nd, he was the youngest division commander in the U.S. Army...
...Staff." The solution, finally arrived at in 1950, was to name him commander of the U.S. Air Force in Europe. Six months later, Norstad took on his first NATO assignment : Commander, Allied Air Forces, Central Europe. Last year, after serving as air deputy to SACEUR's Matthew Ridgway and Alfred Gruenther, he succeeded Gruenther as boss of SHAPE...