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What wasn't part of his schedule was work, as in academics. Throughout high school--which ends after 11th grade in Quebec--and a two-year junior college stint, Desulniers ate, slept and played squash (two out of three isn't bad), usually playing up to five matches a week. "Last spring, in fact," he said between bites of a tunaburger, "I took the second semester off, strung racquets and played squash...
Most impressive, perhaps, was Turner's 1972-74 stint as president of the Naval War College at Newport, R.I., which won him acclaim for his reforms of the curriculum. He jettisoned what he regarded as outdated and irrelevant courses in strategy and geopolitics and invited ideologically diverse civilian experts to lecture. In a 1973 address at the college, he warned that if military minds did not shape up fast, "the think tanks will be doing our thinking for us." He spurred far-ranging brainstorming seminars on how recent international developments affect U.S. strategy. One topic, for example...
...Florida in 1942, Tolliver moved to New York in his youth where he became proficient on the cornet. After three years of college he went under the wing of that great alto saxophonist Jackie McLean, who gave him a solid start on his own recording career. After his stint with McLean, Tolliver became one more great musician to work under the tutelage of Max Roach. He played on several popular recordings in his two year stary with Roach, including the classic "Members Don't Get Weary" on which he met pianist Stanley Cowell. He later teamed with Cowell...
Some good news on the Mall front, Roy Ayers is moving in at the end of January for a five day stint...
...policies on the economy began during his undergraduate days at Georgetown University. After earning his bachelor's degree in 1948, he spent most of the next 20 years in various Government jobs, studying economics part time at Georgetown and the University of Maryland (Ph.D., 1960). During a brief stint as an associate professor at Indiana University in 1959-61, he originated the concept that the economic impact of the federal budget is best gauged by what the surplus or deficit would be if the economy were operating at a 4% jobless rate, which most economists then regarded as full...