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...ceremony introduced at the exercises, Mrs. Gilbert presented "Founders Awards" to three alumnae "who have made distinguished contributions in their fields of activity." The awards were given to Mrs. Walter B. Cannon, a civic leader; Dr. Martha M. Eliot, a leader in child welfare, and Miss Mabel Wheeler Daniels, a composer...
Decisions to this effect came last week after a two-day Hawaii conference. On hand were Defense Secretary McNamara, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Earle Wheeler, Admiral U.S. Grant Sharp Jr., commander of all U.S. forces in the Pacific area, General William C. Westmoreland, commander of U.S. servicemen in South Viet Nam, U.S. Ambassador to South Viet Nam Maxwell Taylor, and a bevy of Assistant Secretaries of State and Defense...
Suddenly the rice came alive with bursting, 4.2-in. mortar shells. "It was the biggest pile of junk I've ever seen," said Associated Press Correspondent John T. Wheeler, an ex-Air Force officer now covering the war. When a chunk of the junk slapped through the throat of a U.S. adviser, Wheeler picked the wounded man up and began searching for a medic. But the South Vietnamese were already on the run, and armored trucks went bumping wildly across the hills in retreat without regard for the fleeing troops on foot. None would stop for Wheeler...
...More Grinding. Wheeler finally got the wounded American officer out, and though U.S. sources later described the retreat from Viet An as "a break from contact" with the Viet Cong, it was clearly a bug out. The main reason was simply that the Vietnamese soldiers had been in steady action for more than a year with hardly a break. Even with the artillery and air support that was lacking at critical moments in Viet An, troops so weary could hardly be expected to perform with skill in the grinding day-in-day-out war. The only sure cure for battle...
...testimony, Vellucci is a wheeler-dealer, and organization man. He solicits and trades favors. At a recent private dinner, for example, one of Cambridge's leading businessmen approached Vellucci and said how pleased the business community was that the city had actually lowered the tax rate...