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...stop singing (the Army judge advocate in Washington later reduced the term to two years). Equally revealing of the military mentality was an episode that occurred recently at the naval base in Long Beach, Calif. Fed up with the hippies, peaceniks and other irritating agents, base officials barred any cars bearing the stylized love daisy, the ensign popular with antiwarriors, from the installation. One day an officer who was driving a daisy-festooned car was detained at the gate for 15 minutes. He turned out to be the new base commander, en route to his own welcome-aboard ceremonies...
...weapons. It includes legislators who benefit politically from job-generating military activity in their constituencies, workers in defense plants, the unions to which they belong, university scientists and research organizations that receive Pentagon grants. It even extends to the stores where payrolls are spent, and the landlords, grocers and car salesmen who cater to customers from military bases...
Mamie Eisenhower never liked flying, and in a day when most people take planes, the Eisenhowers often traveled by train. It was by train that the general returned for the last time to his boyhood home of Abilene. A ten-car train was assembled, and the coffin was put aboard baggage car No. 314. The "Old Santa Fe," the private car that carried Eisenhower to Abilene in 1952 for his first campaign speech, was put on for Mrs. Eisenhower and members of the family. At first, the route was kept secret, perhaps out of fear that spectators might be hurt...
...small (pop. 11,000) farming town in the southwestern part of the state, 10,000 people gathered from as far away as 50 miles to greet the train as it stopped to change crews. Some put their hands to their hearts, but most just watched silently when the baggage car, bearing a length of crape and an American flag, came into view...
...mistrustful blacks. One of the priorities facing his undermanned and undermanaged force of 92 officers is to halt an unexplained wave of snipings. Since the beginning of last year, 31 people have been wounded, two killed. Only last week a man was shot in the back from a speeding car...