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...outset, the J.C.S. executive agent was Admiral Arleigh ("31-Knot") Burke. At 6:23 p.m. the J.C.S. signaled Vice Admiral James Lemuel ("Lord Jim") Holloway Jr., commander of a dormant but newly activated interservice "Specified Command," to begin the deployment. Signaled Admiral Burke to the Marines of the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Regiment, 2nd Division, due to land on the Beirut beaches: "As you land, you will be writing another chapter in our country's history. I am confident you will uphold traditions of the Navy and Marine Corps. Good luck...
...sooner had tall, weathered. 38-year-old Lieut. Colonel Harry Hadd of St. Paul set up his command post (code name: "Sick Leave") and identified his unit as the 2nd Battalion of the 2nd Marine Regiment than one of his men appeared with a "Lebanese officer" in tow. Barked Colonel Hadd: "If he's not armed, let him loose." Thereupon the "officer" nervously identified his uniform as that of the Arab Airways and asked in English, "I know you're busy, sir, but could you tell us how long this will last? We have a lot of planes...
...years Belgian Archaeologist Edmond Fouss has been excavating Roman and pre-Roman ruins near the village of Buzenol in southern Belgium. Three weeks ago his workers came on a wall of stone blocks apparently taken from a monument built in the 1st or 2nd century A.D. and made into a fortification. Many of them are carved, showing scenes of ancient provincial life. On one of them are a man and woman holding hands. Nude dancers gambol across another...
...Massu joined the Free French in Africa, was nicked in the calf by an Italian bullet in a desert battle, calmly cauterized the wound himself with a cigarette, fought on across North Africa and into France and Germany as a lieutenant colonel with General Le-clerc's famed 2nd Armored Division...
With this bit of elegiac poesy, Punch last week began five pages of sardonic advice to its readers on "Britain's New Role: Learning To Be a 2nd Class Power." Instead of sighing for the golden days of Empire, Punch urged that Britons look to the wonderful possibilities of the future "once it has been established that Britain is operating in the second division...