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...first question mark is Wally Cook, the lean sophomore right-hander whom Shepard has named to pitch for the Crimson. Top hurler on last year's powerful freshman team, Cook has the best potential on the pitching staff but was disappointing in last week's loss to Navy...
...they handed a protest petition to the Red Chinese. The monks of the city's three great lamaseries prepared to die before letting the Dalai Lama be taken from them. Hidden stores of arms were passed out to the furious populace. Khamba tribesmen with their rifles, swords and lean, savage dogs began to filter into Lhasa. The nervous Chinese set up machine-gun posts, trained artillery on the Potala and the Norbulingka palaces...
...Snake Charmer. The man who stands between Iraq and all-out Communism is a lean, hard-muscled and ascetic professional soldier with a fixed, snaggle-toothed smile. His name Abdul Karim Kassem. On the face of it, Karim Kassem, 44, seems a weak reed on which to rest the free world's hopes. Modest in deportment, moderate in conversation, Kassem is nonetheless inordinately and naively suspicious. (He recently asserted that one section of the U.S. embassy in Baghdad lured Iraqis in with stories that automobiles can be bought there-and then filled them with anti-Kassem talk.) Cursed...
...flew off to Damascus for a much-publicized meeting with Nasser, and Egyptian MIGs began operating on Iraqi airfields, Kassem recoiled, began looking for allies against the eloquent Aref and his Nasserite followers. The Communists, who, alone among Iraqi political parties, had emerged from Nuri's police state lean, hard and well organized, were only too ready to give Kassem the help he wanted-for a price...
Taking command (in August) of Army forces in Alaska: lean, grey-haired Major General John H. Michaelis, 46, onetime (1947-48) aide-de-camp to Chief of Staff Dwight Eisenhower, combat-proved commander (1950-51) of the famed 27th Infantry ("Wolfhound") Regiment, which held off North Korean armies in the Pusan perimeter while U.S. forces massed for a crushing breakthrough...