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...cess), U.S.M.C., is a run-of-the-regiment marine. When he strips to his skivvies and turns out for a track meet, the dark, handsome, Berlinborn pole vaulter is the pride of the corps. Last month in Washington, he hoisted himself 15 ft. 10¼ in. and broke Don Bragg's world indoor record. Fortnight ago in Manhattan, he became the first pole vaulter in history to clear 16 ft. (TIME, Feb. 9). Last week Uelses issued an open challenge: "I'll compete anywhere, anytime, against anyone. All I want is an invitation...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). First of two programs on guerrilla warfare, as taught by the U.S. Army at Fort Bragg, N.C., and on Okinawa...
...Airborne!" The next day the President took advantage of a long-scheduled speaking trip to the University of North Carolina (see EDUCATION) to see an Army division at close hand. The division was the lean, tough, combat-ready 82nd Airborne at Fort Bragg. For Kennedy, the excursion into the field was his first as Commander in Chief, and he enjoyed it thoroughly. Kennedy rode slowly past the massed units of the 10,268-man division. When the inspection was done, Kennedy praised the 82nd for doing "in peacetime what other men do in war, and that is, live hazardously...
Before leaving Fort Bragg, President Kennedy visited 300 men of the 82nd who had not participated in the performance; they had been on combat alert. One paratrooper startled the President by shouting in his face: "Airborne, all the way!" Replied the President of the U.S., with every reason to mean what he said: "That's the spirit...
...Jump Again." At the 82nd Airborne's jump school at Fort Bragg, N.C., last week, a trainee leaped from a 35-ft. tower and was jerked up like a marionette by the wire attached to his shoulder harness. When he reached the ground, the trainee's lips were flecked with blood. The instructor ignored it. "Your exit was too quick and you didn't keep your elbows in," he snapped. "Jump again." Near by a captain walking behind a row of trainees suddenly barked: "Hit it!" The men bowed seemingly in unison and shouted: "Airborne!" But four...