Word: infantryman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Victor A. Lundy, a 36-year-old ex-combat infantryman (Purple Heart) and Harvard graduate who settled in Florida six years ago, promptly began making a name for his small, Sarasota-based firm by arguing that a house need not be a box, or even box-shaped. In his top-prizewinning house for Samuel H. Herron Jr. at Venice, Fla. (see color and blueprint). Lundy threw a parasol of laminated southern pine arches over the living areas as an independent roof shelter, then skillfully combined the whole series of circles and rectangles into a floor plan that he hoped would...
Pork Chop Hill. Director Lewis Milestone (All Quiet on the Western Front), working from S.L.A. Marshall's battle report, has produced a nerve-shattering study of how the American infantryman met his trial by fire in Korea...
Pork Chop Hill. Director Lewis Milestone (All Quiet on the Western Front), working from S.L.A. Marshall's battle report, has produced a nerve-shattering study of how the American infantryman met his trial by fire in Korea...
...star football players ranged the field. The Air Academy's first All-American, Tackle and Captain Brock Strom, graduated No. 7 in his class. Strom is going to M.I.T. for postgraduate training (astronautics). West Point's celebrated All-American Halfback Pete Dawkins, a Rhodes Scholar and future infantryman who will attend paratroop training school this summer before leaving for England, ranked No. 10. But West Point's mighty Tackle Maurice Hilliard barely managed to squeeze into a commission by holding down the "goat's'' last place. Less fortunate was Navy's All-American...
...taking it, the Communists posed two questions that were crucial to the course of the peace talks at Panmunjom: 1) Was the U.S. high command, with a war-weary public at its back, still willing to incur large casualties merely to hold a little ground? 2) Was the U.S. infantryman, his morale weakened by a Congress-coddling rotation policy that moved him out of the line before he had learned to do his job or love his unit, still able to meet the test of battle...