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Drummed out of his command of the 24th Infantry Division on charges of playing partisan politics, Major General Edwin A. Walker, 51, wallowed for five months in a colonel's billet at U.S. European Army headquarters in Heidelberg. But last week came word of his release from Pentagon purgatory and reassignment to Hawaii, where he will become assistant chief of staff for training and operations in the Pacific-a prestigious post indicating that the combat-proved Texan still had a shot at a third star...
...diplomatic immunity and must be returned to Cuba. Although the State Department claimed that no "swap" was involved, it was hardly a coincidence that that same day Castro released an Eastern Air Lines Electra valued at $2,500,000, that had been hijacked and flown to Havana on July 24th. Harris reluctantly released the boat. Said he, in a formal statement: "We recognize the paramount responsibility we have as American citizens, and in an effort to demonstrate national unity, we are relinquishing our equity in the Cuban gunboat." But he insisted that his legal rights had been overridden...
...servicemen in Europe, it is the "Oversexed Weekly." To Major General Edwin A. Walker, late of the 24th Infantry Division stationed in West Germany, it is "immoral, unscrupulous, corrupt and destructive." To its proprietor, Marion Rospach, 36, a stocky, energetic divorcee with a tomboy bob, it is a paper of high moral tone because it refuses to cover sodomy cases or "trials involving indecent assaults on children." But the Overseas Weekly, an English-language tabloid published in Frankfurt, West Germany, balks at little else, takes particular delight in headlining the missteps of military brass. By last week, the Overseas Weekly...
...former Secretary of State has a book coming out on the 24th of this month entitled Sketches from Life, excerpts of which have appeared in Harper's and The Saturday Evening Post. "I can't write anything more--fiction or non-fiction--until my secretary has taken a well-earned rest," he says cheerfully. "My secretary, a marvelous person who edits all my writing, the kind of person who can quote secondary sources, has told me that she needs a year...
...Korean war he won further combat distinction, and in 1957, commanding troops of the 101st Airborne Division and the National Guard, he handled the Little Rock school crisis with such no-nonsense determination as to earn even the grudging admiration of segregationists. Since then, as commander of the 24th Infantry Division in West Germany, Walker has been known as a stern taskmaster who required officers and enlisted men alike to sweat through daily calisthenics and often take a one-mile run. But last week the Pentagon abruptly relieved General Walker, 51, of his command. The reason: charges that Walker...