Word: henderson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...About Face!" In World War II, commanding the famed 1st Battalion of the Seventh Marines. Chesty Puller saved Henderson Field on Guadalcanal one long, rainy night by fighting off the equivalent of a Japanese division. Puller's men shoved away Japanese bodies to keep open their fields of fire. When the water supply gave out, they urinated into their liquid-cooled machine guns to keep them operating. Puller was wounded twice by bullets and half a dozen times by shell fragments...
Other members are Douglas B. Harding '63 and Tom Siporin '64 of Leverett House, David B. Lotman '64 and Michael C. Joseph '64 of Lowell House, Cornelius J. Minihan '63 and Hartej S. Sandhu '63 of Quincy House, and James B. Henderson '65 John P. Russo '65 and John W. Harmond '65, all of whom were named by the Freshman Council...
...good cellar are classic assets, nowadays the only essential for diplomatic success, as the State Department's Loy Henderson insisted, is "political sensitivity-without it a Ph.D. is useless. With it a high school student is invaluable." Messrs. Kennan, Reischauer and Galbraith will not win the cold war by setting fine tables. But they have personable wives, and. above all, they possess political sensitivity to the highest degree...
...California, became an instructor at Harvard and Princeton, but, through it all, he yearned for politics. He bounced around the Washington agencies, and in his spare time constructed an elaborate system for price regulation. In 1941, when Galbraith's system was published, he was hired by Leon Henderson as an official in the newborn Office of Price Administration, later became OPA deputy administrator. Galbraith looked on helplessly for two years as his six-man staff swelled to 16.000 and every one of his mechanisms for price control proved unworkable. From a stint at FORTUNE, which he credits with teaching...
Seniors Bruce Johnstone and John Livingood have won this year's Gerald Henderson Memorial Tournament, the annual University golf championship...