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...takes Freshman Garcet several lonely months before he breaks through to acceptance, and he does it the hard way. In a successful dawn attack on a Chinese hill position, much of his platoon is wiped out, and he is badly wounded. Back in the aid station, he hears from a dying platoon member the first words of greeting, eloquent in their sense of sudden loss: "I wish I had gotten to know you better...
Then word came from Lucky Luciano, No. 1 exiled racketeer, who has plenty of money but also plenty of problems created by Italian police: he has to report every Sunday, observe a dusk-to-dawn curfew and stay away from bad company. Luciano announced: "I absolutely refuse to be in any way involved in this affair. It is not my business. I am very happy in Italy. I lead a disciplined life...
...that he and they could do together some time after class. To the amazement of parents and teachers alike, the students took the hints: they began showing up for extra work, not only on weekends but as early as 5 o'clock in the morning. Harrington's Dawn Patrol classes became a standard fixture in Albuquerque. Though he never drove them ("You can't brutalize a course and expect a kid to go on with it"), he led hundreds of students into stages of science that they would not otherwise have confronted until well into college courses...
Free Treatment. Today, as Director of Secondary Education in Albuquerque, Harrington still keeps a benevolent eye on his Dawn Patrol alumni. They include at least 25 physicians, 8 preachers. 8 geologists, 7 chemists, 12 lawyers, 17 schoolteachers, 7 college teachers, and more than 65 engineers. After hearing Harrington's story, a teacher in the Denver audience rose and commented that a man would be crazy to keep the hours he had. "Well," answered Harrington with a smile, "one of my earliest Dawn patrollers has become a fine psychiatrist who seems to feel that he wouldn't have been...
Just before dawn one morning a year ago, cars sped up to the factory gates of the Kohler Co. in Kohler, Wis. Out jumped scores of determined men who promptly began picketing the plant. Last week the same union pickets shuffled along the sidewalks at the plant gates, as the United Automobile Workers strike against Kohler of Kohler celebrated its first unhappy birthday. It is one of the longest-lasting major strikes...