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DIED. Edward F. Gibbons, 63, chairman and chief executive officer since 1978 of the F.W. Woolworth Co.; after a brief illness; in Valhalla, N.Y. Gibbons strove to revive the stodgy company with more detailed budgeting, more specific planning and fewer stores that catered exclusively, in his words, to "old birds like myself." Only last September, in a decisive move to streamline and, he hoped, strengthen the business, he resolved to close all 336 outlets of the flagging Woolco discount chain (cutting the company-by 30%) and to sell Woolworth's British subsidiary...
Similarly, Clarke strove to make his actors feel what it is like to be a killing machine. Although most of the troupe members were five or six at the height of the Vietnam war, Clarke has a clearer memory of the war because both his brothers fought...
...boys. He emigrated more than a decade ahead of such refugees from Nazism as Gropius and Mies. He settled in California, which is a long way from Yale, Harvard, New York City and Chicago, where architectural history, if not always made, is almost always written. Perhaps to compensate, Neutra strove so stridently for more than his share of recognition that irritated critics may have given him less than he deserved...
...problem is that these centers have intensely personal characters, so you don't know how they will grow and orient themselves," says Sherwin, an expert on the history of the arms race. He explains that in the Cold War climate of the 1950s and 1960s, many scholars strove to show how broadly nuclear weapons could be used by the United States, especially as a deterrent to Soviet aggression in Europe. Sherwin is one of a growing number of experts who questions the effectiveness of deterrence over the long term as U.S. and Soviet nuclear arsenals bulge and the danger...
...insidious as ever. The story was a new twist on an old tale--how American public officials lied to each other and to the public over the course of the long war. Specifically, a CBS documentary ("The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception") showed how the U.S. military successfully strove to "supress and alter" estimates of Communist forces in Vietnam before the January 1968 Tet offensive...