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...class of 65 men from other services, including seven West Pointers, who were the first to become marines upon graduation since the early 19th century. The Army gave 43 more graduates to the Air Force. The Air Force lost one man to the Marines, sent most of its new 2nd lieutenants (all qualified navigators) on to pilot training. Swapping hit the Navy hardest: 57 Annapolis graduates (including the No. 1 man) chose the Marines. 83 the Air Force, six the Army. As 10,000 Annapolis spectators laughed, the Army's Lieut. General James F. Collins swore...
...circles at uniform speed. Aristotle returned to the idea of an immobile earth and placed it in the center of nine concentric, transparent spheres, outside which was the Unmoved Mover who kept the whole machinery turning. To make the heavens jibe with Aristotle, the Alexandrian astronomer Ptolemy, in the 2nd century A.D., posited a universe of wheels within wheels called epicycles. Of this system, the best comment is perhaps that of Alphonso X of Castile, who said: "If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I should have recommended something simpler...
From a pine-covered knoll near Hof (pop. 60,000) in central Germany, five G.I.s of Bravo Company. 2nd U.S. Armored Cavalry, last week stood watchful guard on a section of the Iron Curtain. Staff Sergeant William S. Nolen Jr.. 21. of Mt. Holly. N.C.. in charge of this pinpoint on 500 miles of West German frontier, had his .30-cal. machine guns dug in. his field telephone ready at hand. Beyond the barbed wire and strip of plowed land that marked the border lay the peaceful green hills of East Germany's Thuringia-and as close...
There is no evidence that 2nd Lieut. Glenn Gray and Major Edmund Love ever met during World War II. Gray, now philosophy professor at Colorado College, served as a counterintelligence operative in the European theater, while Love, now a professional writer (Subways Are for Sleeping), served in the Pacific as an Army historian. But if they had met, the conversation might have gone something like this...
...Baseball Results NATIONAL LEAGUE Pittsburgh 9 (1st Game) Philadelphia 2 Philadelphia 10 (2nd Game) Pittsburgh 5 Cincinnati 11 Milwaukee 10 Los Angeles 17 St. Louis 11 San Francisco 3 Chicago...