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...fine batteries of field artillery for the 120th F.A. Bn., and in just 1½ hours! You made no mistake in your fine report on General Abrams. As a staff officer in the 4th Armored, I saw the devastation he wreaked on German armor with the 37th Tank. Sleep well, America...
...with five troopers like Indians closing in on a wagon train. Not until Hitler's Panzer divisions blitzkrieged France out of World War II in 1940 did the Army really begin its own tank program. Assigned to the brand-new 4th Armored Division, Abrams rose to command the 37th Battalion with the rank of major, drilled his tankers incessantly in marksmanship-particularly on getting in the second shot. Says Abrams: "We really shot much too much, but God, it paid off later...
...37th Battalion was a fearsome weapon of destruction from the moment it wheeled into action in Normandy in July 1944. From the start, Abrams showed the feel and flair of the born combat man. As General George Patton's Third Army led the conquering sweep across Europe, the 4th Armored Division led the Third Army, the 37th Tank Battalion led the 4th Armored-and Abe Abrams led the 37th. Leaning out of his Sherman tank, he chomped on a huge cigar and rallied his tankers with his war cry: "Attack! Attack! Attack!" Said Abrams...
...sigh. Don Juan exposes the poor young thing to his invincible romantic glower. She looks at him curiously, as though he were one of her mother's old beaux. "Kiss me." he murmurs torridly. She readily complies, suffers no evident reaction, coolly informs him: "You're the 37th. I want to kiss 50 men before I get married.'' Smugly, she assures him that she is in love with her fiancé. Has Don Juan never been in love? "People who can love" he replies, with regret he had not realized he felt. "can be counted...
...control and local financing of schools; 91.4% of school revenue comes from local governments, and state aid is sparse. No state depends more on local financing; only Massachusetts spends less per capita on state aid to public education. While Nebraska is 25th in per capita personal income, it is 37th in spending per pupil. The average U.S. classroom teacher earns $5,215 a year; in Nebraska she earns $3,990. Said Democratic Governor Frank Morrison, who figured that Speechwriter Sorensen knew his statistics: "We must do better...