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Economics and Brush Fires. John Kennedy was grim as he faced the group. He talked rapidly; Army Secretary Elvis Stahr and Army Chief of Staff George Decker both started to take notes, could barely keep up. In the cold war, said Kennedy, the U.S. faces two major challenges. One is economic, but the U.S. can and will intensify its economic contest with the Soviet Union. The other threat is military-probably not on the cataclysmic scale of all-out nuclear war but rather in the form of Communistexploited brush fires throughout the world. In Communist jargon, these are known...
...Lemnitzer does not have the forceful personality to fit the job. Lemnitzer's successor, General George Decker, 59, is a first-rate controller, a crack golfer and a man who has been described as being "as colorless as a bushel basket full of fog." Army Secretary Elvis J. Stahr, on leave from his job as president of the University of West Virginia, has yet to learn his job, recently admitted publicly that he did not know the difference between a battalion and a battle group...
Issues and Answers (ABC, 4:30-5 p.m.). Answer man will be Secretary of the Army Elvis Stahr...
...Elvis J. Stahr Jr., 44, Secretary of the Army. As an undergraduate at the University of Kentucky, Democrat Stahr won the highest marks in the school's history, a Phi Beta Kappa key and a Rhodes scholarship. He has worked for a Manhattan law firm, and taught at the University of Kentucky's law school after wartime infantry service in the C.B.I. theater. He took leave from teaching to serve as a special adviser to Army Secretary Frank Pace during the Korean war, spent 19 months as vice chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh before stepping...
...Monroe Stahr was the last Hollywood tycoon, F. Scott Fitzgerald was the last U.S. romantic. To the end his writing was preoccupied with flowers, perfume, rain, the rustle of women's clothes, warm darkness and music in the night. He sometimes deliberately blurred his narrative line, resulting now in effective suspense, now in mere teasing. Yet this fragment contains scenes of beauty and power. Completed, it might or might not have been a Citizen Kane about the movie industry...