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Last year 6,000 German troops, joining U.S. Seventh Army veterans in "Winter-shield" maneuvers along the Danube, put on a dazzling show. In one swift swoop, a German armored unit, theoretically knocked out a battalion of Seventh Army tankers and infantrymen...
...Thomson, 41, Republican Senator-elect from Wyoming, who would have been the first man in the state's history to move up from the House of Representatives (where he was Wyoming's lone delegate for six years); of a heart attack; in Cody, Wyo. The youngest infantry battalion commander on the Italian front in World War II, Thomson forged an equally successful civilian career as a lawyer, rancher and businessman, as a politician belonged to Senator Barry Goldwater's conservative school...
Later on in the afternoon he waxed a bit more serious, but still made his point comfortably in introducing the theme of the International Battalion, Freiheit." "This is a song about men," he explained, "who fought against Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco a few years before it was fashionable...
Wyoming. A hard-driving Cheyenne lawyer, Keith Thomson, 41, commanded an infantry battalion in Italy during World War II, will bivouac naturally with Barry Goldwater's conservative camp in the Senate. As Wyoming's lone Congressman since 1954, Republican Thomson plumped for Army reform, favored calling older reservists to active duty and campaigned against "welfare statism as opposed to free enterprise." He opposes aid to education, public housing-any kind of federal largesse...
...sister who seemed never to arouse his resentment or cruelty. Their rundown, rented "villa" stood on a hillside in wild country that was a hunter's paradise. With his father, who had an antique shotgun, Marcel and a local Huck Finn type bagged enough birds to feed a battalion. They roamed the dramatic forests like the Comanches they pretended to be, and formed one of those enduring boyhood friendships that can later be seen as one of the milestones of a life. Young Marcel repaid his friend for the treasure of country lore by teaching...