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...Announced that with regret he had abandoned plans to attend the annual reunion of his old World War I outfit, the 35th Division, at Topeka, Kans.-the first he has missed since becoming President...
Green to combat but trained to leadership, many in the '48, '49 and '50 classes had gone off to become section and platoon leaders, but they had had to learn the deadly lessons of combat under enemy fire. One outfit, Able Company, 7th Regiment, 3rd Division, went ashore at Wonsan last November with West Pointers leading three of its four platoons. By February, two had been killed and the lone survivor, All-America Quarterback Arnold Galiffa, had been taken out of front-line combat to become General Ridgway's aide. In another company...
...shoes, thy cufflinks, thy watch, every accessory thou hast on thy person?" Only too happy to oblige, Hatterr is sent packing back to town in a dirty towel and is promptly fired. He finds out later that the swami is working on the side for a secondhand clothing outfit...
Lucas-who now represents U.S. automobile finance dealers-cried that it was "unconscionable and inequitable." Myers is now a Washington representative for an outfit called the National Foundation for Consumer Credit. He is wiser now. he said. "A Senator is against inflation and somebody hands him something like Regulation W, and he hasn't much time and he's told it's against inflation so he accepts it ... People should be educated as this Senator-after study, thought and consideration-was. The fact is," he added righteously, "Regulation W is highly inflationary...
Wang's outfit was in the rear; his buddies in advanced positions would have a different story to tell, but most are not around to tell it. The Chinese reinforcements never had a chance to move up. Wang saw perhaps one killed and two wounded in his own battalion by artillery, another 50 wounded and taken back north. He had not learned that in his area, one company of 120 was down to 40, another company had 30 wounded in strafing by U.N. planes. He did not see mound after mound with the epitaph: "Here lies a warrior...