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...Albans, a prep school in Washington, he went to West Point, excelling in soccer, wrestling and tennis, and finishing 216th in the class of 1952, a year after Aldrin. Not even Collins' closest friends at the academy knew until senior year that he was the nephew of General J. Lawton ("Lightning Joe") Collins, famed World War II commander of the 25th ("Tropic Lightning") Division on Guadalcanal, leader of the breakthrough at St.-L6 after the Normandy invasion, and later Army Chief of Staff...
...Long Island Rail Road cars they swarm With Morning Telegraph or Racing Form And A rmstrong's Scratch Sheet, pouring towards the gates Beside which other literature awaits As benefice, whose fain purveyors call In accents more than audible by all, "Jack's Little Green Card!", "docker Lawton!!", "Hey, Got that Daily Double again today!!!" Don't trust these men, no matter how sincere Solicitude may cause them to appear...
...have been Martin Luther King blaming the cost of warfare in Viet Nam for starving the Great Society at home. Aguinaldo himself seemed to be little different from Ho Chi Minh as he pinned his hopes on the dissenters' pressure. "The continuance of the fighting," protested General Henry Lawton before the guerrillas killed him, "is chiefly due to reports that are sent out from America." Had Senator Fulbright been around he would have found reason to worry. McKinley's Cabinet actually debated whether to prosecute the Nation and three U.S. newspapers for treason...
Karen Hagstrom, of Comstock Hall and Gloucester (Economics); Kathleen T. Harney, of Boston (Classics); Kathryn Hume, of Cambridge (English); Joan R. Mertens, of Eliot Hall and New York City (Fine Arts); Jean P. McClung, of Wolbach Hall and Lawton, Okla. (Anthropology); and Wendy C. Sanford, of Cambridge (English...
...waged a campaign to force unlimited currency upon the nation, thereafter remained a cantankerous critic of Administration policies from public power to Marshall aid, was finally defeated in the 1950 primary by Congressman Mike Monroney shortly after being exposed for trading in the cotton commodities market; of pneumonia; in Lawton, Okla...