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Talce-Offs & Landings. In Buffalo, police finally caught up with elusive Airman Frederick R. Scott. 24, after he had gone AWOL six times, re-enlisted five times with the aid of fake discharge papers, collected some $4,000 in re-enlistment bonuses.
When Walt Whitman's Drum Taps, a book of Civil War poems, appeared in 1865, a 22-year-old reviewer named Henry James laced into the good grey poet. "To become adopted as a national poet," wrote young James, "it is not enough to discard everything in particular and...
The new plan in this respect merely adds teeth to the reserve requirements of the 1951 Selective Service Act. Under that act, all inductees or enlistees contract for an eight-year military obligation. After serving two-years a man still is supposed to serve six years in a Ready Reserve...
Last week Army draftees learned that 44,000 of them will be discharged a month or two ahead of schedule in May and June to help the Army reach its new manpower cut of 73,000 men by the middle of the year. Lowered draft calls, 11,000 in February...
Baldwin said he could not believe there were buses parking there all the time. "We have no buses scheduled to park there, of course," he stated. "The drivers sometimes have many passengers to discharge and thus are occasionally held up. But if they weren't there I don't see...