Word: truman
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...earlier, an unlikely punishment for such an offense. It is hard enough as it is for a newspaper reader or television watcher to tell fact from fiction. On television, where the ability to create plausible fiction has run low, writers of "docudramas" put words never spoken by Churchill or Truman into their mouths. The confusion is compounded when the public is assured it is getting authentic words mouthed by actors...
...every year University officials remain tight-lipped, at times even touchy about the process of choosing honoraries and a speaker (Bok said he was "uncomfortable" discussing the subject, and would not go into details), the topic permeates dining hall conversations, and The Crimson confidently predicts honors for Harry Truman and harasses every source in town for clues as to who else will be in the spotlight. As with most commencements, the lustre is meant to be supplied by the speaker: a distinguished, recognizable figrue who has something suitable to say to a hot and sweaty crowd as another generations representatives...
Though she is now playing her game in a new arena, Forman's behavior over the past two years is no different than before. The same energy which led her to take on the Boylston St. big-wigs won her a Truman scholarship, and allowed her to lead the Augustana student government and newspaper, serve on 27 different committees, and earn "pretty good grades." This same driving force propelled her to the position of key aid to the South Dakota speaker of the house by the beginning of her senior year in college. And this year, while several...
...more surprised than First Lady Nancy Reagan, 59, at the successful christening of the 560-ft. guided-missile cruiser U.S.S. Ticonderoga at the Ingalls shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss. Said she: "All I could think of was 'Lord, I am going to go down in history with Mrs. Truman!' " First Lady Bess Truman had struck out when she tried to crack a champagne bottle against the nose of the C-54 U.S. Capitol in 1945. Though that plane got no kicks from champagne, this ship did. Nancy, a righty (natch), uncorked a swing with enough brut force to christen...
DIED. Harry Vaughan, 87, retired Army major general who as military aide and loyal adviser to President Harry Truman from 1945 to 1953 embroiled his boss in a number of embarrassing controversies, among them receiving seven deep freezers from lobbyists in 1945 and three years later for accepting a medal from Argentina's Juan Perón; of a heart attack; at Fort Belvoir...