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SAMUEL I. NEWHOUSE HEINRICH NORDOFF LAURIS NORSTAD DAVID M. OGILVY WILLIAM OGLE WALTER O'MALLEY
Among military leaders: Generals Maxwell Taylor, Lauris Norstad, James Van Fleet, Omar Bradley, Mark Clark, Lyman Lemnitzer, Carl Spaatz. James H. Doolittle, Admirals Arthur W. Radford, George W. Anderson, Arleigh Burke...
When General Lauris Norstad, retiring from SHAPE, dropped in at Ottawa last winter and allowed that Canada was not living up to its NATO commitments. Pearson, after a thoughtful week off, announced a switch in Liberal policy: since Canada had made a nuclear commitment to NATO and NORAD. it should live up to its obligations, and at a future time re-examine the rights and wrongs of the commitment...
...Nattily turned out in a grey civilian suit complete with vest, former NATO Supreme Commander Lauris Norstad, 55, showed up in Manhattan to take on a new post: president of the international division of Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. Explained Norstad, who turned over command of NATO to Army General Lyman Lemnitzer this month: "I did not want to stay on the fringes of the military. You need the stimulation of a fresh challenge." Fresh challenges are sure to come at Owens-Corning (1961 earnings: $14,300,000 on sales of $226,900,000), which is eager to expand its overseas...
Last week, like a diva making her positively final appearance. Norstad once again bade ceremonial leave to his old associates. The warmest and most unexpected leavetaking came from Charles de Gaulle, whose attitude to NATO has not been exactly ardent. At a ceremony in the Court of Honor of the 17th century Hotel des Invalides. General de Gaulle draped over General Norstad's shoulder the crimson sash and golden star of the Legion of Honor, its highest award. Like a courting giraffe, le grand Charles bent to give Lauris the buss that only one hero can bestow upon another...