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...General. Tall and polished, Bus Wheeler, 59, is a Washingtonian by birth and a Washington general by training. Unlike his five predecessors and many other prominent alumni of the Joint Chiefs, Wheeler has always been the planner and strategist, never a war hero or even much of a combat vet eran. He had only five months of frontline infantry service during World War II, and even that was a staff assignment; during the Korean War, he was assigned to the Pentagon and Trieste. Though all too clearly no Patton type, he is known nonetheless as the most gifted tank officer...
...Diem regime. A Northerner, Quat is now thought to be interested less in the presidency than in being chosen as a stronger candidate's vice-presidential running mate. The third civilian is Ha Thuc Ky, 48, a forestry engineer and Hué businessman nominated by the Dai Vet Party, a small, ultranationalist grouping. No relation to Premier Ky, he, like Quat, can best hope for the role of a running mate...
When it is completed in the early seventies, it may attract more than a million visitors a year. Twelve acres of new real estate will be opened up in the heart of Harvard Square. No one has vet predicted precisely the consequences of the Kennedy development, but there has been ample speculation: land values around the site will inevitably rise, and the competition for potential building sites will become increasingly intense. Over the long run, the prospect is for major redevelopment all around the Library site, and specifically more growth westward along Mt. Auburn...
Capitalists in Communist China? In deed yes, says Barry M. Richman, a professor at U.C.L.A.'s Graduate School of Business Administration and a vet eran Sinologist. Writing in the Harvard Business Review, Richman describes Mao's country as "a land where some 300,000 capitalists still receive interest on their investments, and where many of them are still serving as managers of their nationalized enterprises." Striking a Bargain. Richman, a Ca nadian citizen, toured China for two months last spring, found that many businessmen had not only survived but thrived on Red soil. Though small-stuff storekeepers...
Graduated from Andover in 1942, Coffin spent a year at the Yale School of Music, then entered the wartime Army, where after 1945 he served as liason with the French Army, until he left in '47. Returning vet Coffin promptly whooshed through Yale in two years, zigged to Union Theological Seminary for one, zagged to the CIA as a Russian specialist for three (by now we're up to 1953); at last he decided that Yale Divinity School was where the right questions were being asked, and was ordained a Presbyterian minister...