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...whose countries have decided to go. A quarter of Australia's Olympic-bound athletes have withdrawn in the face of a public outcry over the country's decision not to boycott and the prospect of poor competition in some events. Among those stay-at-homes is Tracey Wickham, 17, holder of world records in two swimming events...
...armed forces. But such authority can amount to very little. General Chun himself flagrantly ignored a Korean-American agreement on prior consultation last December, when he ordered reserve units to help him arrest some 40 rival officers. More cooperatively, the Seoul government last week asked General John Wickham Jr., U.S. commander of the joint forces, to release some Korean units under his command for "crowd control and internal security." He obliged...
Even in courses where the case and support materials are similar, there is a tremendous diversity of approach among teachers all professing to be using the same "method." A paper issued in 1977 by Arch R. Dooley, Philips Professor of Manufacturing, and C. Wickham Skinner, Robison Professor of Business Administration, stresses just that diversity. The report, called "Casing Case Method Methods," claims that "the phrase 'case method' embraces such an array of pedagogic practices that the term itself has no precise connotation...
Many physicians encourage counseling of the partner before and after surgery and some, like Dr. Robert Wickham of Manhattan's Roosevelt Hospital or Dr. Ralph Benson of the University of Wisconsin Medical School, insist on it. But others, like New York University's Dr. Jordan Brown, are "not sure the partner of my patient is of equal concern." Baylor Plastic Surgeon Frank Gerow is more blunt. Says he: "It's important that women not be superfamiliar with what's being done. This is a man's operation for a man's problem...
...account for the country's business-as-usual atmosphere? Said the commander of U.S. forces in Korea, General John Wickham Jr.: "It demonstrates the maturity of the Korean people." A Korean business tycoon speculated: "With our TVs, refrigerators and all, so many of us now consider ourselves the middle class -the backbone of the country-that we knew we couldn't afford to go to pieces over Mr. Park's tragedy and possibly invite another North Korean invasion...