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...decisive one." Just how seriously that exhortation was taken was proved during one of three Viet Cong raids last week on U.S. Special Forces camps. When two Viet Cong battalions hit the camp near Nam Dong with a predawn barrage of white phosphorus mortar shells, U.S. Master Sergeant Gabriel Alamo and an Australian warrant officer fought their way to a weapons pit, fired parachute flares that illuminated the whole battle area-themselves included. They kept the flares burning even as the Viet Cong zeroed in on them. When the shooting stopped, Alamo, the Australian and 48 defenders were dead...
Deep in the heart of Texas is a man who has become even more of a martyr than the heroes of the Alamo. He is Major Claude Eatherly, who, according to ban-the-bomb legend, led the atomic raid on Hiroshima, repented what he had done and, racked by guilt, turned to a life of petty crime to punish himself. Between times, he discoursed on the total sin of the atom bomb. Wrote Edmund Wilson: "He seems to have been unique among bombers in having paused to take account of his responsibility and in attempting to do something to expiate...
...Houston, Dallas was the nation's fastest growing major metropolis between 1950 and 1960. As a result of their experience in promoting Dallas as the site of the 1936 Texas Centennial Celebration, the city's merchants and bankers organized the Dallas Citizens Council (DCC). San Antonio, with the Alamo, and Houston, with nearby San Jacinto Battlefield offered more historic settings for the Centennial, but unhistoric Dallas promised $3,500,000 and well laid-out fair grounds, and won the contract. Through his experience in the venture, banker Robert Lee Thornton felt a need for a permanent group of Dallas businessmen...
...Drakensberg Mountains of South Africa, a crew financed by mighty Joe Levine is making Zulu. It concerns an incident which was a kind of Alamo in reverse-on Jan. 22, 1879, some 130 British soldiers stationed at a remote mission called Rorke's Drift successfully withstood an attack by 4,000 Zulus. The South African government, eager to see new Hollywoods springing up out of the veld, is earnestly cooperating. It has supplied soldiers, giraffes, prop men, leopards, spears-everything but phalaropes. Director Cy Enfield also called on Dinizulu, paramount chief of the Zulus, and Dinizulu came through with...
Were it not a highly useful poor boys' school, costing less than $800 a year for room, board and tuition, Texas Agricultural & Mechanical College (8,057 men) might best be known as the only campus in the world to combine the mythology of St.-Cyr, Heidelberg and the Alamo. Often called Texas Athletic and Military, it hatches ferocious football players and in both World Wars had more Army officers than West Point.* It is the nation's largest military college and the only land-grant college that still bars women. To some it seems to be dying...