CHAPTER ONE Riots & Rockets – Army Days (1968-1971)

Riots & Rockets Army Days Map (1968-1971)
Family in the Military
The Vietnam War Heats Up
The Decision to Enlist
Fort Holabird and Intelligence Training
CIAD in the CD of OACSI at DA in DC
The Vance Report
Directorate of Civil Disturbance Planning and Operations
Bernardine Dohrn-The SDS Revolutionaries Then and Now
The Army Operations Center (AOC)
The Blue U and CIA Training
The Safeguard Anti-Ballistic Missile System
Huntsville, Alabama, and the Army Missile Command
NORAD and Cheyenne Mountain
Johnston Atoll and the Origins of Space Warfare
Kwajalein Atoll—The Ronald Reagan Missile Test Site
Kent State University and the Aftermath
Yale, The Black Panthers, and the Army
The Secretary of the Army’s Special Task Force
Getting Short—The 1971 Stop the Government Protests
1974 Congressional Hearings on Military Surveillance
Lunch with Gen. William Westmoreland

CHAPTER 2 Becoming a General Counsel 

Recruitment by J. Roderick MacArthur
Rod MacArthur and The MacArthur Foundation
Hiring Lawyers
Copyright and Trademark Mastery
Hammacher Schlemmer
Bradford Then and Now

CHAPTER 3 Jane Byrne Burned – Chicago Politics in the 1970s

Jane Byrne vs. The Chicago Tribune
The Machine Weakens after Daley’s Death
Mayor Byrne’s 90-Day Report Card
Mayor Jane Byrne’s Secret Transition Report
Rob Warden
“Innuendo, Lies, Smears, Character Assassinations and Male  Chauvinist”
Rally ‘Round the First Amendment
Will She or Won’t She?
The Aftermath—Harold Washington Defeats Jane Byrne

CHAPTER 4 Before the Deluge—United Press International

Transitioning to United Press International
UPI—Second Banana to the Associated Press
Moving to Nashville as UPI Assistant General Counsel
UPI Begins Its Descent into Bankruptcy
Ruhe and Geissler Lose Sway as UPI Implodes
The Los Angeles Blow Up
UPI’s Bankruptcy Unfolds with a Shock

CHAPTER 5 Inventing the Future—Encyclopaedia Britannica

A Milestone in Evolution of the Human/Machine Interface
The Proper Study of Mankind
The Encyclopædia Britannica First Edition
The Encyclopedist’s Art
William Benton, EB Owner and Publisher
Robert Hutchins, University of Chicago President
Mortimer Adler, Philosopher
Charles Van Doren, EB Editorial Vice President
Reinventing the Encyclopedia in Electronic Form
Solving the PC Data Storage Problem
Patricia Wier, EB, Marvin Minsky, MIT, and Alan Kay
Peter Norton Takes Britannica into the Software Business
Harold Kester, SmarTrieve, and Compton’s Encyclopedia
Dr. Stanley Frank, Vice President, Development
Compton’s Patent R.I.P.—An Afterthought
A Look Back from Encyclopaedia Britannica

Acknowledgments

Appendix 1 – Excerpts from Encyclopaedia Britannica Petition for a Writ of Certiorari in the Supreme Court of the United States

Appendix 2 – The Building of Britannica Online