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...Soldier Dwight Eisenhower, no battle holds more lasting interest than a three-day conflict in which he never fought. Ike first visited Gettysburg as a West Point cadet assigned to traipse the fields and trace the engagement's moves and countermoves. As a World War I lieutenant colonel, he was stationed there at a temporary Army post called Camp Colt. In 1950, as a retired general, he bought a farm on the battlefield's edge. As President of the U.S., he entertained such guests as Viscount Montgomery. Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle and even Nikita Khrushchev with fragmentary...
Married. First Lieut. Peter Dawkins, 23, Army's 1959 B.M.O.C., a Rhodes scholar at Brasenose College, Oxford; and Judith Wright, 22, University of Maryland alumna who followed him to England as a kindergarten teacher; in West Point's Cadet Chapel...
...almost stoic calm in the face of the unknown was the product of both an introspective nature and a long and dedicated apprenticeship. The smallest (5 ft. 7 in.), most soft-spoken and most reserved of the astronauts, he tried the Air Force briefly as an aviation cadet just before World War II ended, later re-entered it after getting a mechanical engineering degree at Purdue. He flew 100 combat missions in the Korean war (Distinguished Flying Cross, two Air Medals), returned to the U.S. as a pilot instructor at Bryan, Texas. Says his pretty wife, Betty (they have...
AWOL from the Oxford University cricket pitch went its bang-on, "blue"-aspiring batsman, First Lieut. Pete Dowkins, 23, Army's 1958 All-America halfback and currently a Rhodes scholar. His destination: the States and a month's-end marriage in West Point's Cadet Chapel to Judi Wright, 22, a University of Maryland alumna who followed him to England as a U.S. Air Force schoolmarm...
Pilot-to-be John D. Sullivan Jr., 21, is top cadet in a class of 217 at the U.S. Air Academy. Son of a retired druggist in Worcester, Mass., Sullivan was appointed in 1957 by U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy. In four years he completed 205½ semester hours, compared with the national college average of 124. He was top man in basic sciences, electrical engineering, military studies, social sciences and overall academic achievement. Sullivan hopes to fly for SAC, then study science in graduate school and some day teach at the academy. Said he happily last week: "Today...