Word: lieuts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Word to the Cops. By afternoon, Rhee called in Army Chief of Staff Lieut. General Song Yo Chan and placed Seoul under martial law. Rumbling into town with old Sherman tanks, the 15th ROK Infantry Division took over from the hated police. Genial, able General Song was firm, but his sympathies clearly lay with the students. "Call on me any time," he told a student delegation. As for the police, he warned bluntly: "Policemen found beating, torturing or abusing anyone will be dealt with under martial...
Into print last weekend burst a pair of nonprofessional writers: Army 2nd Lieut. Peter Dawlcins, West Point's All-America halfback in 1958, now a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, and German-born Scientist Wernher von Braun, one of the top U.S. missile scientists. In The New York Times Magazine, Dawkins compared U.S. and British attitudes toward collegiate sports ("We Play to Win, They Play for Fun"). In This Week Magazine, Rocketeer von Braun presented Part One of a serialized novel titled Life on Mars. But professional writers needed to read only the leads and relax. Dawkins starts...
Last fall Navy Lieut. Commander John E. Draim of the Naval Missile Center at Point Mugu, Calif, wondered why the ocean, which the Navy naturally loves and appreciates, could not be used as a launching pad. A water pad would be costless, he figured, as well as self-cooling and self-healing...
...Nationalist China capital of Taipei, Mme. Chiang Kai-shek unveiled a bronze bust of China's good friend and defender, Lieut. General Claire Chennault, the original Flying Tiger, dead since 1958. The likeness, catching the essence of Chennault's leathery, steel-spined courage, is in a children's playground and faces Chiang's official mansion. Cabled the President of the U.S.: "While his mortal remains lie among those of America's soldiers of all wars [in Arlington National Cemetery], his spirit is memorialized today in Free China...
...Heaving a borrowed 16-lb. shot like a pingpong ball, Army Lieut. Bill Nieder (6 ft. 3 in., 242 lbs.) got off a put of 65 ft. 7 in. to break the world record by a whopping 1 ft. ½ in. at the Texas Relays in Austin...