Word: edwin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...servicemen in Europe, it is the "Oversexed Weekly." To Major General Edwin A. Walker, late of the 24th Infantry Division stationed in West Germany, it is "immoral, unscrupulous, corrupt and destructive." To its proprietor, Marion Rospach, 36, a stocky, energetic divorcee with a tomboy bob, it is a paper of high moral tone because it refuses to cover sodomy cases or "trials involving indecent assaults on children." But the Overseas Weekly, an English-language tabloid published in Frankfurt, West Germany, balks at little else, takes particular delight in headlining the missteps of military brass. By last week, the Overseas Weekly...
...EDGE OF SADNESS (460 pp.)-Edwin O'Connor-Atlantic-Little. Brown...
...thank you for allowing my brother, Major General Edwin A. Walker, the attributes of loyalty, capability and courage. You have overdone his anger, but that is minor compared to a man of solid principles...
There has never been any question about the fighting qualities of Major General Edwin A. Walker, U.S.A. During World War II, Texas-born "Ted" Walker often blacked his face, led his troops on bloody night raids against German units in Italy. In the Korean war he won further combat distinction, and in 1957, commanding troops of the 101st Airborne Division and the National Guard, he handled the Little Rock school crisis with such no-nonsense determination as to earn even the grudging admiration of segregationists. Since then, as commander of the 24th Infantry Division in West Germany, Walker has been...
...vital component: a chemical element that was fissionable (explosive) but not so radioactive that it would disintegrate before the big bang was touched off. The bomb builders found what they wanted at the University of California's famed Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley, where Drs. Glenn Seaborg and Edwin McMillan had put together some synthetic plutonium, element 94. Until then, plutonium was no more than a lab curiosity, but it proved to be properly fissionable, and it was so slightly radioactive that only half of it would disintegrate in 24,100 years...