Word: cadet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contrast, Ramfis' younger brother, Rhadames, 15, is well liked at Kemper Military School in Boonville, Mo., 100 miles east of Kansas City. When he overstayed leave to attend sister Angelita's wedding (TIME, Jan. 20), he walked off his twelve demerits in the yard, like any other cadet. Bradford's agents also patrol outside the school, but are not allowed on the grounds. Rhadamés' official allowance, possibly augmented by money from home, is the standard $3 a week...
...began flying at twelve (he lied about his age). On his 16th birthday he enlisted in the Marine Corps, arrived in France too late for combat, was discharged as a corporal, and went back to Ohio State University for a degree in mechanical engineering. As a senior R.O.T.C. cadet, he won an Army commission; six years later he resigned it to work more than ten years in the management-consultant field. He returned to the Army as a captain of ordnance in 1939. Reason: "Once you've been inside, you miss the life, the friends." Medaris was a lieutenant...
...muddled Texas A. & M. officials in their great posse hunt for a new football coach (TIME, Jan. 27), Iowa State's Jim Myers, 36, had righteously proclaimed that he would stay put. But after 2,229 Aggie students sent him a pleading telegram and a pair of cadet emissaries came to call, Myers switched horses ("I don't feel I've doublecrossed myself"), signed a four-year contract with the Texans wortu around $60,000 a year...
Appearances, however, can be deceiving, and in this case they probably are. Jack Barnaby's squad survived a long trip to West Point, the very fast Army courts, and a well-conditioned Cadet team, and defeated Army, 8 to 1, Saturday. In doing so, the Crimson gave every indication that it is still a squash power to be reckoned with in intercollegiate competition...
PETER A. A. BERLE, Adams; freshman, J.V., house football; freshman, varsity ski team; ski club, Cadet Commander of Air Force ROTC...