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...Joint Chiefs, Bradley later joined the Bulova Watch Co. and served as its chairman from 1958 until stepping down in 1973. The old soldier spent his last four years at Fort Bliss in Texas, where he sometimes lectured on leadership. In accepting West Point's highest honor, the Sylvanus Thayer Award, in 1973, Bradley reflected on the low prestige of the military after the Viet Nam War. "The profession of arms is often a lonely profession. It is misunderstood by many. My wife has called me a warrior who hates war. I am sure that is true...
Chauvinists in the Corps of Cadets always maintained that it would be a cold day before West Point bestowed its prestigious Sylvanus Thayer Award on a woman. Well it snowed, in early October on the Plain last week, and there stood Clare Boothe Luce, 76, accepting that award from General Andrew Goodpaster for her accomplishments in politics, diplomacy and the arts. "I suspect," said Luce, "that the fact that this is the first year that there are women in all four classes [at the Point] is not unrelated to my good fortune." Luce accepted an engraved saber from ranking cadet...
...honor code that has become so important to West Point -and the U.S. Army-began under Colonel Sylvanus Thayer, superintendent from 1817 to 1833. A Dartmouth man with a backbone of iron, Thayer changed West Point from a humdrum school for the sons of wealthy families into a first-class engineering institution. After studying European military systems, he also imposed on the cadets a kind of Prussian discipline that lingers today. Thayer had strict rules against lying and stealing, and what was called "irregular or immoral practices...
...casualties among Africa's first generation of leaders have been heavy; Nigeria's Sir Abubakar Balewa, Togo's Sylvanus Olympio, the Congo's Patrice Lumumba were all killed. Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah was overthrown in 1966; Kenya's brilliant young Tom Mboya was assassinated...
...replacement in 1817 was Major Sylvanus Thayer, the man most responsible for shaping West Point's future. A graduate of the class of 1807, Thayer envisioned a school that would not only produce leaders in wartime but would also train engineers and scientists to develop the growing country. Despite his ability, Thayer was constantly thwarted by Congressmen who saw the fledgling academy as a waste of money and a potential instrument of federal power, and so tried to have it abolished. Political favoritism in Washington forced reinstatement of dismissed cadets. Lack of funds became so crucial that cadets were...