Word: 32nd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...citizens are ready to sacrifice. Last week, across the U.S., 82,000 reservists and National Guardsmen prepared to answer a call to active duty. Among them were 10,000 officers and enlisted men from 72 Wisconsin communities. They were members of the National Guard's famed 32nd Division-and there could be no doubting their spirit...
...Arrow Tattoo. The 32nd is a crack outfit. It earned its shoulder patch, a red arrow piercing a battle line, in the Meuse-Argonne during World War I. Its first casualties were suffered when the troopship Tuscania was sunk by a German submarine. In World War II the Red Arrow Division fought its way from Buna to Saidor to Hollandia to Aitape to Luzon in 654 combat days-more than any other army unit in the nation's history. Along the way its men won n Congressional Medals of Honor, 49 Legions of Merit, 153 Distinguished Service Crosses...
...Reminiscent of Oxford's 17th century dean, Dr. John Fell, whose reputation survives in one lethal quotation. He once threatened Poet Thomas Brown with university expulsion, promised to rescind the order if Brown could deliver an impromptu translation of Martial's 32nd Epigram ("Non amo te, Sabidi, nee possum dicere quare; Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te"). Brown's translation...
...fifth weekend in a row, the President helicoptered into the Kennedy compound at Hyannisport, but this time with a surprise present for a special occasion: Jacqueline Kennedy's 32nd birthday. Labeling the gift a "private matter," White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger was equally reticent about the ensuing family celebration. When buttonholed on whether the birthday cake was bought or donated, Salinger-still slightly burned by the fallout over Jackie's last major social function, at Mount Vernon-smoothly replied: "It was baked...
...Ruth's record is forever safe ... it can never be taken from him," barked Cleveland Manager Jimmie Dykes last week. But Dykes's dictum was beginning to sound like wishful thinking. Minutes after he spoke, New York Yankee Rightfielder Roger Maris whacked his 32nd home run, thus zoomed 18 games ahead of Babe Ruth's pace in 1927, the year he reached his record...