Word: classman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then, a long-faced, slight (5 ft. 11 in., 170 lbs.) Air Force second classman from Eureka, Calif, named Richie Mayo took command. Earlier, Quarterback Mayo had been knocked limp by Army linemen, as he desperately retrieved a high center pass and tried to kick on the run. But Mayo got up off the ground, and in the second half, he pulled up the Air Force with him. A daring fourth-down pass put the Air Force on the Army 15. Two plays later, he so artfully faked a hand-off up the middle that the converging Army defense never...
...Senate decided that the U.S. could ill afford to lose the school. Henceforth Kings Point cadets will be appointed by their Representatives and Senators, will know for the first time that their diplomas will be as valid as those of West Point and Annapolis. Said one relieved first classman: "It used to be a gamble to come here. Now we've got a school...
...plebe, he was assigned for guidance to 2nd Classman Dwight Eisenhower...
...posthumously last week to Colonel Robert R. Martin, 48-year-old infantry officer from Toledo, Ohio, who stood his ground before a Communist tank, fired his last bazooka rocket when it was only 15 yards away. The medal will be presented to his son, Robert Jr., 19, a third classman at West Point...
...regulations of the U.S. Navy and of the U.S. Naval Academy reflect decades of service wisdom in facing up to all sorts of military situations. But the regulations have nothing explicit to say about what to do when a starling comes to roost on a second classman's shoulder in the middle of June Week ceremonies at Annapolis (see cut). That left the matter up to Drummer Peter F. H. Hughes of Chicago to work out for himself...