Word: cannoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sidearm. In Antwerp, Belgium, Soldier Hendrik Verheyen was court-martialed and sentenced to 13 months in prison for stealing his unit's cannon...
Josephine Hull '99 is among the Cliffe alumna who will receive citations. Other recipients are: Cecilia P. Gaposchkin '25, Phillips astronomer at Harvard; Doris z Stone '30, associate in Anthropology at Tulane University; Cornelia J. Cannon '99, teacher and author; and Marian Sharkey Doyle '14, past vice president of the League of women Voters and a past member of the National Loyalty review Board...
Organist Mayer is a slight, white-married little old man who trots about West Point as if he owned it, lovingly patting each cannon. He can still set the "battle-thunder" stop and play his rousing "military paraphrase" on the West Point Alma Mater, which is a whole musical war, including artillery, heavy bombers and bugles. But Mayer's own losing battle is with the hard facts of Government service. "I sometimes wonder," he reflects on his past, "how an artist came to spend his entire life on a military post...
From 14 thin divisions and 900 aged aircraft in 1949, NATO strength has grown to: 7,000,000 soldiers, among them nearly five British and better than five U.S. divisions stationed in West Germany; 5,000 tactical aircraft, most of them jets, on 160 airfields; batteries of U.S. atomic cannon and stockpiles of Matador guided missiles; twelve national navies; a vast trelliswork of communications, pipelines, storage dumps, officer-training schools. The immense martial array is controlled by three main international commands: SACLANT (for Atlantic convoy routes), CHANCOM (for the English Channel) and SACEUR (for Europe and the Mediterranean). Behind...
NORTH AMERICAN Aviation's newest Sabre jet, the F-86K, armed with four 20-mm. cannon (instead of the standard rockets) and equipped with a new all-weather fire-control system, will go to NATO air forces...