Word: caissons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FORRESTER A. CLARK, JR., Lowell; Freshman, J.V., Varsity Football; Hockey; Hasty Pudding, President, '57-'58; Varsity Club; House Crew; Caisson Club...
...letter sent to Army ROTC cadets reminding them of their "obligation" to join the Caisson Club has caused angry comment by several cadets who feel that they are being forced to join an extracurricular activity which is officially completely voluntary...
...Devere Armstrong, head of the AROTC unit, denied that any pressure had been exerted. "As commissioned officers," he said, "cadets will be expected to join officers' clubs. We feel that the Caisson Club is a form of training for this side of military life. Anyone who joins ROTC is the recipient of many advantages paid for by the government, and accepts therewith a moral obligation to support his unit. However, I have not myself participated in any pressure on any cadet--as far as I'm concerned there is no pressure...
...letter urging cadets to join, which was postpaid by the Army, was signed by Joseph Speidel '59, treasurer of the Caisson Club. "All I'm trying to do is make it easy for them to pay," Speidel said...
...August 1948, Stalin's heir apparent, the tough and flamboyant Andrei Zhdanov, died at 52 of what his doctors called "paralysis of the heart." The old tyrant gave Zhdanov the most pompous funeral since Lenin's, and walked behind the caisson with tears in his eyes. As boss of Leningrad before and during World War II, Zhdanov had placed a clique of up-and-coming young administrators in crucial posts. Scarcely had his body been lowered into a grave at the foot of the Kremlin wall when his chief rival, pudgy Georgy Malenkov, joined with Secret Police Boss...