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CHARLES M. FREELAND Dyer...
...exercise purposes, Iran was called "Freeland" and, rather inappropriately, considering the conditions that prevail over much of well-refrigerated Russia, the invading forces were dubbed "Sun-land." But since Iran shares 1,500 miles of its northern border with Russia, the name did not fool anyone. Staged in cooperation with the mideast CENTO military alliance and planned by U.S. General Paul Adams' Tampa-based MEAFSA command (see box), the war games were clearly designed to buck up a nervous U.S. ally in whom the U.S. has invested one-half billion dollars in military assistance. Said one U.S. State Department...
HELENA W. FREELAND Honolulu...
Shoot If You Must. In Kingman, Ariz., when gun-waving Convict Charles Turner burst into an Episcopal parsonage one jump ahead of a sheriff's posse, 82-year-old Miss Louise Freeland ordered him to drop the gun, took him by the arm and marched him outside to the waiting officers, explained: "I didn't want to see him shot. He probably would have bloodied up my favorite chair...
...bargain (of the three miniatures Peale painted of Martha between 1772 and 1791, only one, at Yale University, had hitherto been known)'. Mount Vernon's small, 1⅛-in.-by-1½-in. oval likeness framed in a gold pendant (see cut) was acquired from G. Freeland Peter Jr. of Charlottesville, Va., a direct descendant of Martha Custis Washington. Tradition has it that Washington actually wore the pendant during the Revolutionary War campaigns. Said Mount Vernon Director Charles Cecil Wall: "We think this miniature should be the recognized portrait of Martha Washington-the way the American people should...