Word: lieuts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...board's stern action undoubtedly grew out of a reminder that Lieut. General Lewis B. Hershey, the director of Selective Service, sent to the nation's 4,088 draft boards on Oct. 24-just two days before his memorandum advising that all draft-deferred protesters who act against the "national interest" be inducted immediately. In his earlier notice, Hershey pointed out to the local boards that the draft law clearly states that it is unlawful to mutilate or abandon registration cards. Any man guilty of doing so, Hershey advised, should be reclassified and declared a delinquent-which under...
...disposal-a tip-off to the junta's ubiquitous secret police that the King had some travel in mind. His method of heralding the coup was even less auspicious: he simply sat down at his palace desk in the Athens suburb of Tatoi and wrote a letter to Lieut. General Odysseus Anghelis, the army chief of staff and a junta supporter. In it, the King told the general that he had taken full charge of the government and armed forces, and warned him not to take orders from anyone else...
...junta insisted that it would retain the monarchy and appointed as temporary regent Lieut. General George Zoetakis, who was sworn in by Archbishop Leronymos, formerly the chaplain of the royal family and the King's personal confessor. Pictures of the King and Queen, which had been taken down from government offices in the first hours of the countercoup, were put back in their accustomed places. Orthodox priests were ordered to retain the passages about the King and royal family in their Sunday prayers...
Fastest-rising star is Sydney, Australia, which was only put on the R & R list two months ago; its appeal is great surfing, a change of diet ("No rice on the plate," says one G.I.), and a place where everybody speaks English. Says Lieut. Tom Ryan, of the 1st Airborne Division and Big Rapids, Mich.: "It's great just to see white girls with round eyes again." Major Norman G. Lau-meyer of Long Prairie, Minn., a helicopter pilot of the 1st Cavalry Division and a farmer in civilian life, took a day's flying tour to inspect...
...enemy in the entire country. Quite a few under it." And Dwight Eisenhower was always "the pro from the White House. I knew him when he was a general-he had authority then." In the '60s, Hope declared that he had "played the South Pacific while Lieut. John Kennedy was there, and he was a very gay, carefree young man. Of course, all he had to worry about then was the enemy...