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...2nd Lieutenant...
Runner-Up. In Sitka, Alaska, the Sentinel carried an advertisement: "For Sale: Engagement ring, 3 weeks old, never worn. Was tied for 2nd place with six others. Will sell cheap...
...night a month ago, but all news of it had been blacked out by censorship. A young pro-Communist lieutenant colonel named Wahab Mocmour, who has recently armed some 1,500 plantation workers, launched a 300-man detachment in a fullscale, all-night attack against the headquarters of the 2nd Regiment of the First Military District. Rebel casualties: 48 killed, an unknown number wounded. The 2nd Regiment lost two dead...
...among them, and that they are those of a powerfully built person of advanced age but undetermined sex. With this intriguing information −pending further Vatican disclosures about the bones or about additional excavation −the account ends. Archaeologists Toynbee and Perkins conclude only that "at least since the 2nd century, the belief [that St. Peter's bones lay in the Aedicula] has been, and always will be, a wellspring of devotion...
...Army, which had hoped to shave off 50,000 men without touching the 17 divisions currently authorized, grimly admitted that it could not. As a result, the 2nd Infantry Division, which in three wars fought conspicuously at Chateau-Thierry, Saint-Lô and Heartbreak Ridge, will be deactivated, replaced on garrison duty in Alaska by one of the Army's smaller, streamlined new battle groups. ¶ The Army announced that 18 antiaircraft artillery battalions will be closed out, 15,000 civilian employees dropped, 16 depots, arsenals or other service facilities shut down. Among the casualties: Murphy Army Hospital...