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"It is inconceivable to me.'' cried crusty U.S. Navy Captain Douglas Dismukes in 1925, "that an officer with my record should be passed over for promotion to admiral." Largely to appease Sea Dog Dismukes, who, although credited with saving the torpedoed transport Mount Vernon in World War I...
Several weeks ago Congress, in a tidy-up move, voted to scuttle the Tombstone Law, and the special privilege it gave to the Navy Department. Since then, a couple of dozen Navy captains and five rear admirals have put in for retirement before Nov. 1. when the Tombstone Law goes...
Although the ending of the Tombstone Law dictated the precise timing of the marines' departure, all three had another reason for retiring before the mandatory age of 62: they had been passed over when President Eisenhower named Major General David Shoup, 54, to become Marine Corps commandant effective Jan...
In seven handsome villages near Cedar Rapids, Iowa, some 1,400 members of one of the nation's strangest sects sat down last week to sausages, hams, homemade cheeses, beer and wine. The Amana Society was celebrating the 100th anniversary of its charter in Iowa, and the neat homes...
Communist Curtain. Amana's ex-peasants practiced a non-Marxist communism, holding all property in common because possessions foster false pride. Bearded church elders dictated every man's job, had the women cook for all in big communal kitchens, punished any show of vanity, such as wearing "world...