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...members: the University of Virginia and the affiliated Mary Washington College, Randolph-Macon College, General Assembly's Training School, Union Theological Seminary, Virginia Union University, University of Richmond, Medical College of Virginia, the College of William and Mary and the affiliated Richmond Professional Institute, Longwood College, Hampden-Sydney College, Virginia State College...
...Very Unsettling." Admiral Brown's Sunday punch is Task Force 60, built around the 45,000-ton attack carrier Coral Sea with some 100 planes, the 40,000-ton Randolph with 80 planes, the heavy cruisers Salem and Macon, and about twelve destroyers. Task Forces 61 and 62 are amphibious groups that can put ashore a reinforced Marine battalion that will soon be equipped with atomic rocket weapons. Task Force 66, recently detached, but on constant call, is a submarine hunter-killer group led by Antietam, a 30,000-ton attack carrier with 80 planes. All together, this taut...
Died. Major General Charles Macon ("Bull") Wesson, 78, onetime West Point ('00) line-bucker, later Chief of Army Ordnance, who took over that appropriations-poor department in 1938, had held the post for three years when the U.S. staggered into World War II without an outstanding tank design or artillery piece and still using World War I helmets, by his retirement in 1942 had fired up the Army's weapons program to nearly full steam; in Washington...
...mystic also predicted the disaster which befell two Navy dirigibles, the USS Macon and the USS Akron. He says he foretold the month, year, and location of the demise of the former, but only the location of the Akron's similar fate--in each case six months before the accident. The Chief was also forewarned of the tornado which struck Worcester...
DAVID RHODENHISER Macon...