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Cool Command. Born in 1887 in London's Kennington district where his father was vicar, he got his first taste of soldiering at the Royal Military College at Sandhurst and was almost expelled at one point for setting the shirt of a fellow cadet on fire. In World War I, after three years in India, he fought on the Marne and was badly wounded at Ypres. He emerged from the war at 30 a lieutenant colonel. By 1938, after more service in India and the Middle East, he was a major general. During the opening months of World...
...those who know Vidal simply as the Dracula of late-night talk shows, his federal dreams may sound like terminal hubris. In fact, they are in his blood. Eugene Luther Vidal Jr. was born Oct. 3, 1925, in the Cadet Hospital at West Point, where his father Eugene, a one-time football hero, taught aeronautics...
...Cadet Nicholas Coleman, U.S.A.F. ROTC, Ohio University Athens, Ohio
...tense months, the U.S. Military Academy had been preparing for the invasion-in some ways the most threatening in its 174-year history. In compliance with a law passed by Congress last October, West Point, the Naval and Air Force academies will each have admitted up to 150 women cadets for the first time by this summer. Last week 20 prospective female cadets journeyed to the hills 50 miles north of New York City to spend a day and a half learning what life would be like as Fourth Classmen, or "plebes," in West Point's 4,400-cadet...
...entrenched males were wary, but not hostile. "Our attitude now is better than it was last November, and in November it was better than in September, and by June it will be even better," said one cadet. "We have to accept it. We have to make it work...