Word: nathan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hand for the interservice farewell to Generals Weyland and Partridge at Boiling: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Nathan Twining, Air Force Chief of Staff General Thomas D. White, Vice Chief of Naval Operations Admiral James S. Russell, Army Chief of Staff General Lyman Lemnitzer...
Accepted by the University of Puerto Rico for a year's graduate course in social work: Nathan Leopold, 54, a hospital laboratory technician in Puerto Rico since March 1958, when he was paroled from an Illinois prison after serving 33 years for teaming up with Richard Loeb (murdered in a jailhouse brawl) in the 1924 thrill killing of little Bobby Franks...
Educator Wriston, who stoutly denounced the "bullying of the intellectuals" during the white-hot heyday of McCarthyism, trained no fewer than five topnotch university presidents, including Harvard's Nathan Pusey and Wesleyan's Victor Butterfield. In his new book, Academic Procession (Columbia; $4), President-emeritus Wriston, now head of Columbia's American Assembly and the Council on Foreign Relations, pleads for a continuing faith in the ever-revolutionary ideals of U.S. democratic education. He also deplores some of the fancy new means that may be obscuring education's real ends. The fact that the word "curriculum...
Practically all textbooks, he believes, are time-wasters, and "the lecture is the slowest and least effective mode for the transmission of knowledge." For Wriston, the book is the thing, and he proudly recalls how young Nathan Pusey arrived at Lawrence in the '30s and promptly started 30 sophomores reading Aristotle's Poetics. "The effect was electric. Instead of teaching down to them, Pusey challenged them to reach...
...other star to testify was Admiral Arthur Radford, who retired in 1957 but came back recently as acting chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff while Air Force General Nathan Twining is recuperating from a lung cancer operation. Radford, 63, earns $12,000 a year as a director of the Philco Corp. (electronics), and about the same amount in retirement pay. The amount of influence exercised on Pentagon people, he said, "is very small-but I wouldn't say it doesn't exist." Besides, retired officers probably have less influence than most people think. "They are really...