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Meeting No. 4. Bob Stevens, a man-of-good-will trained in a family textile business, walked with Karl Mundt into the Capitol's room P-54. Later, a Washington quipster observed that when Stevens entered the room, he was "like a goldfish in a tank of barracuda." Meeting...
Dec. 30. The Army selected the easiest way out, decided to discharge Peress honorably within 90 days, unless he selected an earlier date. March 31 was selected as the discharge date.
November-December. The personnel board decided that Peress should be separated from the Army. How should this be done? One way was to court-martial him. But for what? He had done nothing but invoke his constitutional privilege as regulations provided. (Earlier in the year, the Army had court-martialed...
Feb. 1. Peress went back to Camp Kilmer and asked for an immediate discharge. He was a hot case; his wish was promptly forwarded to the Pentagon. The Pentagon approved immediate.separation. The same day, in a letter, Senator McCarthy asked the Army to hold and court-martial Peress.
Charlotte's life story resembles Christine's. He was a sensitive boy, quiet and lonely, with a penchant for dressing up in women's clothing. Like Christine, he was drafted into the Army; unlike Christine, he found it too hard. In 1948 he got a medical discharge...