Word: williams
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Lieut. Colonel William R. Corson would be an unusual soldier in any man's army. He speaks Malay, Vietnamese, and three dialects of Chinese, reads Russian, French and German. He is completing a doctoral thesis on China's finances. A slum kid who dropped out of high school, he won a university scholarship at 15, studied as a mathematician under the late Nobel prize winner Enrico Fermi. He fought the Japanese as a World War II Marine, won a master's degree in economics and political science, and fought in Korea and Viet Nam as a tank...
...methods in Viet Nam, which he neglected to get cleared by top Marine brass. To be published on July 1, the day after Corson retires from the corps, The Betrayal (W.W. Norton & Co.; $5.95) is an angry book that derides the search-and-destroy strategy devised by Army General William C. Westmoreland and scorns U.S. diplomats and politicians for trusting "corrupt" Vietnamese generals who rule in Saigon. At first, Marine Commandant Leonard F. Chapman Jr. contemplated a court-martial for Corson, but he was prompted to milder punishment by second thoughts about publicly airing the long-festering quarrels between...
Before his battle with the Kennedy family was joined over The Death of a President, Author William Manchester, 46, and his publishers, Harper & Row, pledged to deliver most of the book's profits to the John F. Kennedy Library, planned for construction at Harvard University. In the first installment toward an eventual contribution of $5,000,000, author and publisher presented the library with $750,000 in royalties from the more than 1,250,000 copies sold so far. Said Jacqueline Kennedy in accepting the gift: "All the pain of the book, and now this noble gesture of such...
...Chester A. Arthur, James Buchanan, Grover Cleveland, Ulysses S. Grant, Benjamin Harrison, Andrew Jackson, Andrew Johnson, William McKinley, James Knox Polk and Woodrow Wilson...
...simply "not true." Relatively youthful (56) in A. & P. terms, Alldredge came up through storeside ranks, was named president in 1963, became chairman in 1966, and two weeks ago was given Jay's key title of chief executive officer. Parading a new management team, including fledgling President William J. Kane, 55, Alldredge promised "a fresh start...