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...nation's commander in chief took the affirmative on the currently hot question of collegiate debates. Though they are members of the armed services, said Dwight Eisenhower, the cadets and midshipmen of West Point and Annapolis are also students. They should therefore .be allowed to debate: "Resolved, that the United States should extend diplomatic recognition to the Communist government of China." At week's end, however, the academies' ban still stood...
...used to have three institutions at the Academy," said a Navy commander. "Billy goat, Tecumseh and 'Spike' Webb. Now we have only two." Unfortunately, the Navy can do little about its loss. Tecumseh's bronze hide is still proof against the weather and the pranks of midshipmen. Replacing a billy goat is not too difficult, even at Annapolis. But time is beginning to catch up with Spike, the bald and bandy-legged little boxing coach who taught generations of officers and gentlemen to box. He has turned 65, and the rules of the Naval Academy have forced...
Quaint Habit. Spike made Navy boxing his life. He taught all his midshipmen the same jabbing, skipaway style that saved Gene Tunney after Jack Dempsey flattened him for the famed long count in 1927. And he was a bug on conditioning. All Webb teams did road work before reveille; all Webb boxers developed washboard bellies. They needed them. Coach Webb had a quaint habit of slamming his fist into any abdomen within range, by way of greeting...
...brief ceremony at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis last week, the three midshipmen who had been denied their commissions pending a completed security check solemnly raised their right hands and thus became officers, seven days after the rest of their class. Said the Navy's official release: "The Navy regrets the workload involved in screening and clearing such a large number of men in the time available resulted in a delay in the clearances of the three...
...Annapolis, Md., 852 U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen (out of an original class of 1,123) got their diplomas in the traditional cap-tossing ceremonies in Dahlgren Hall. Not all were headed for the Navy; the Air Force took 221 as second lieutenants, the Marine Corps commissioned 63. Eight graduating middies got their degrees but no commissions. One man was dismissed for marrying against Academy regulations; four others were honorably discharged for medical reasons. Saddest of the eight were three midshipmen who will get no commissions until they are cleared by a tardy security investigation. Refusing to elaborate, a Navy spokesman...