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...summer of 1956, two young graduates of Dallas' Highland Park High School embarked on the most rigorous ordeal of their young lives: the plebe year at the U.S. service academies. Annapolis Midshipman Alton K. Thompson and West Point Cadet Charles Paddock Otstott (who had spent a year at Southern Methodist University) had impressive records to maintain. At Highland Park, both were presidents of their senior class, both were members of the National Honor Society, and both were recipients of the top award given by the National Honor Society for all-round excellence in grades and extracurricular activities...
Last week, as they went off to relax on postgraduation leaves. Ensign Thompson and 2nd Lieut. Otstott left behind them still more impressive records. Each commanded his academy's undergraduate battalions, each was graduating class president, each led his class both academically and in military standing. For Highland Park High's prize alumni,* only one more goal was left to shoot for in the distant future: Chief of Staff for their respective services...
Approximately 600 highland farms are up for sale, many of them at cut prices by owners who talk bitterly of leaving the country. Half a dozen of the angriest settlers were at Nairobi Airport to greet homecoming Michael Blundell (see box), the moderate who accepted the new plan in London and bravely agreed to try to sell it to his fellow whites. One kept booming through a bull horn: "Shame, shame; shame on you! We have been betrayed by you, Mr. Blundell!" Others cried, "You rat!," and their leader, wiry little highlands farmer, Major Jim Hughes, 63, hurled a handful...
...LIONEL G. GROSS Highland Park...
...Oceanport, N.J. TACKLES 70 Batcheller, Gordon D. '60 20 6:1 195 Washington, D.C. 79 Connors, David W. '62 18 6:0 210 Worcester, Mass. 71 Deitrick, John E. Jr. '62 19 6:2 195 Bronxville, N.Y. 73 Fisher, Robert S. '60 20 6:1 210 Highland Park, N.J. 75 Harris, John M. '62 19 6:2 215 Cincinnati, Ohio 68 Lynn, Richard J. '62 19 6:0 190 Binghamton, N.Y. 72 Tornrose, Russell T. '62 19 6:1 205 Salisbury, Mass. 76 Trout, Gary C. '61 20 6:2 205 Schenectady, N.Y. 78 Woolley, Clark...