Word: camped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Situation in Hand. Near Camp Lejeune, N.C., Acting Marine Sergeant Bruce K. Moore was fined $25 for spanking an eight-year-old neighborhood hellion merely because the lad had conked Moore on the head with a mud ball, tossed rocks at Moore's dog, got mud all over Mrs. Moore's newly washed sheets, gleefully winged stones into the toilet of the Moore apartment...
...quit "since I didn't like to practice." Five years later, he took up the oboe and developed great virtuosity, playing in the Woodrow Wilson High School orchestra and band, plus "a few college orchestras." For two summers, he occupied first oboe position at Interlachen, famed music camp in Michigan--"my love of music derived from my experience there"--and after his freshman year at Harvard, he attended the Eastman Conservatory for a summer. "I then had great doubts about the value of a University versus a conservatory education for a musician. But I finally decided the University education...
...night, for two weeks, he transferred 500,000 troops and 2,700 guns from St. Mihiel to the Argonne front, caught the Germans flat-footed at the first shot of the Argonne offensive. Said tight-lipped General John J. Pershing, who later took George Marshall as his aide-de-camp: "He's a man who understands military...
Grandly ignoring the incident, Moscow propagandists kept right on oozing words about the "spirit of Camp David," which, they said, Nikita Khrushchev had created...
...return, the U.S. will keep its four biggest Philippine naval and air bases-Subic Bay, Sangley Point Naval Air Station, Clark Field and Camp John Hay-as well as three lesser installations. Philippine President Carlos Garcia, who clearly intends to point with pride to the base agreement in the forthcoming Philippine off-year elections, was quick to praise Bohlen's statesmanship and to declare that "less capable hands" might have imperiled U.S.-Philippine friendship. But Garcia's warmth did not necessarily augur an easy time for Bohlen's prospective successor, John D. Hickerson, now U.S. Ambassador...