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...commanding general of Fort Ord, Calif., was surprised to receive this letter, written last month by 43 members of A Company, 1st Battalion, 3rd Brigade. First, recruits do not often write letters to the commanding general. Second, when they do write, they rarely praise drill instructors, their traditional scourge. But the most significant fact about the letter is that it was composed by white men-all but two of them from Texas-in praise of their drill instructor, Staff Sergeant Joshua Ashley, a Negro. No presidential report could better document the dramatic gains in status and esteem that the Negro...
...thousand-and-one nights at the old house. Last week the Met staged its new production of Lohengrin, and it, too, was a shocker-not for spectacle, but for lack of it. The stage was virtually stripped clean of scenery. Choristers stood in rigid rows like drill teams awaiting inspection; principal singers stirred hardly at all, and when they did, it was with the slow, deliberate movements of dream figures. The audience loved it, loudly bravoed Conductor Karl Böhm and Mezzo-Soprano Christa Ludwig. But the real star of the evening was not there: Richard Wagner...
...ominously hissing stack of 700 Mark-24 magnesium parachute flares. He barely had time to dog down the hatch on the locker and race for a phone when the flares began to explode. Fire bells clanged; klaxons sounded the call to general quarters. Loudspeakers shrilled: "This is no drill! This is no drill...
...defending champion Bruins prevented winless Princeton from taking a single shot on goal while clobbering the Tigers by the misleading margin of 2-0. Brown, meanwhile, got off 24 shots in what the Brown Daily Herald called "a rather dull half-field drill...
...retrieve ancient ice, Army engi neers, led by Physicist B. Lyle Hansen, used a thermal drill with a hollow, elec trically heated head that melted its way down through the sheet, while leaving a 51-in. ice core intact inside it. Every 5 ft. the drill was stopped so that the core could be returned to the surface for study...