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Other officers are Lawrence M. Butler '64, of Quincy House and Chelsea, Narthex; Michael J. Goodkin '63, of Eliot House and Merrick, N.Y., Treasurer; and Marshal Field III '63, Adams House and Chicago...
...outside a tiny inner circle knows who are the dominant stockholders in La Générale, but the persistent rumor that the Belgian Royal Family owns a major interest is reinforced by the traditional presence of the royal court's Grand Marshal on the board of auditors. The royal tie dates back to 1822, when King William I of The Netherlands founded the company to finance development projects in his scraggly Belgian province. When Belgium won independence in 1839, La Générale got the country going with loans, and half a century later King...
...Swiss journalist, who took the pictures on the following pages. Gigon and other foreign visitors tell a story that supports the refugees' version of Red Chinese reality, sharply contradicts Peking's propaganda as well as the enthusiastic tales of such impressionable visitors as Britain's Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery. In fact, even Red China's normally boastful leaders guardedly admit serious trouble. In his comfortable villa at Hangchow, Chairman Mao Tse-tung told France's ex-Cabinet Minister François Mitterand that he knew "Western newspapers have printed large headlines on what they call...
...army. The peasant rank and file was naturally bitter at the suffering of its families in the communes. Red army officers resent the use of their men as a labor force. Because of army protests in 1959, Defense Minister Peng Teh-huai was replaced by more pliable Marshal Lin Piao, who instituted a new and supposedly chastening system of sending officers into the ranks for one month each year to wear "ordinary soldiers' uniforms and to eat, live, drill, labor and play together with fellow soldiers." Even generals undergo this treatment, which seems clearly designed to discourage the emergence...
Unmoved by the defendant's recollection that "I drove various types of vehicles from Alamein to Berlin with no trouble to anyone except the Germans," a London court hit Field Marshal Lord Montgomery, 74, with a $28 fine for steering his Daimler the wrong way on a one-way street-and into another...