Word: samuel
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Edward C. Banfield, Garrett Birkhoff '32, John N. D. Bush, Giles Constable '50, Elliot Forbes '40, Frank B. Freidel Jr., John K. Fairbank '29, George W. Goethals '43, Albert O. Hirschman, Samuel P. Huntington, Howard M. Jones, and George B. Kistiakowsky...
...nevertheless, a flawed book. Although Manchester considers himself a historian, it is not truly history, for the events of Nov. 22, 1963, are still too recent and Manchester's emotional trauma much too evident. Although he rather pretentiously alludes to his own gargantuan labors with Samuel Butler's classic line, "Poets by their sufferings grow," Manchester's writing falls far short not only of poetry but often of good prose. But all this is rendered comparatively irrelevant by his basic achievement, which was to assemble an overwhelming mass of detail-so much detail that the story becomes...
...Their Knees. Even so, more than a third of the American perimeter caved in, yielding yard by yard to Viet Cong pressure. Young troopers took reckless chances to fetch more bullets and grenades. Using his master sergeant as a sort of artillery spotter, Specialist Four Samuel Townsend, 21, a draftee and former high-school athlete from Detroit, pitched grenades with deadly accuracy at an enemy now less than 30 yds. away. In some spots the fighting was even closer. Private First Class Edward Edwards, 20, clubbed down one surprised Viet Cong with his rifle butt. SP4 Richard Hazel, 21, sprinting...
Countryman has already received a reply to the latest letter. Rep. Samuel N. Friedel (D.-Md.), chairman of the Sub-Committee on Accounts of the House Administration Committee, reported that his committee cut $50,000 from HUAC's original $400,000 request. Friedel gave no indication, however, that the cut was motivated by Countryman's letter...
...often depends upon his ability to unearth research grants. "You need the federal loot to do the research to do the book to get the loot," says Stephen Trachtenberg, an assistant to U.S. Education Commissioner Harold Howe. "Research aid comes too easily to the researchers," adds Engineering Science Professor Samuel Silver of Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory. "We've come to expect...