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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grew up in the same neighborhood in Allentown, Pa., as Lee Iacocca, and was a close schoolgirl friend of his sister, Delma. (Lido was a slender, soft-spoken kid-several years our junior-in those days.) But I would like to say that his success couldn't happen in a nicer family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 1, 1964 | 5/1/1964 | See Source »

Army training methods are excellent. At Fort Jackson, S.C., last week, Company B, 2nd Battalion, ist Training Regiment fidgeted in new, stiff fatigues and listened to Sergeant Delma Stanfill bark out the basic facts about a gas mask. At the end of the drill, after they had practiced donning the mask, another sergeant tested them by dropping smoke and tear gas grenades near by. About 20 of the basic trainees bolted in terror for the woods. In the past, trainees have cried for their mothers. But, after this first day of panic, most of the trainees complete the tough, eight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: This Is the Army | 10/13/1961 | See Source »

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