Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year when politicians are deeply suspect, what better way to woo voters than by pronouncing a plague on both our major parties? Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa, 69, famed semanticist and ex-president of San Francisco State College, did precisely that in his campaign for the U.S. Senate from California. A backslid Democrat who now calls him self a "Republican unpredictable," Hayakawa explained the difference between the two this way: "Republicans are people who, if you were drowning 50 ft. from shore, would throw you a 25 ft. rope and tell you to swim the other 25 ft. because it would...
...knew that West Point graduates had not hesitated to lie in Viet Nam-falsifying body counts, concealing the bombing of Cambodia, covering up My Lai. Indeed the commander of the Americal Division, which included the platoon led by Lieut. William Galley at My Lai, was headed by Major General Samuel Koster, who became superintendent of West Point in 1968. Two years later, Koster resigned after he was accused of taking part in the campaign to cover up the facts about the massacre at My Lai. Koster was demoted, censured and retired in disgrace...
Ajootian has continued the Harvard tradition of outstanding hammer throwers. In 1962, Edward Bailey won the coveted NCAA hammer-throw crown, 14 years after Samuel Felton nailed down the 1948 national crown...
...Died. Samuel Eliot Morison, 88, master of the historical narrative, who wrote more than 50 books chronicling American and maritime history; after a stroke; in Boston. A skilled yachtsman and popular Harvard teacher since 1915, he sailed 10,000 miles retracing the course of Columbus for his 1943 Admiral of the Ocean Sea, which won the first of his two Pulitzer Prizes; in World War II he served on a dozen ships (he retired a rear admiral), collecting information for his 15-volume account of U.S. naval operations in that conflict. Critics also acclaimed his two-volume The European Discovery...
When one of the big shots in the History Department eventually writes the "official history" of Harvard after its 1936 tercentary, where Samuel Eliot Morison '08 left off, odds are he won't mention Chester W. Hartman '57, a former assistant professor of City Planning at the Graduate School of Design...