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...Army National Guard. The dispute, sparked by the Army's insistence on a six-month training program for all National Guard recruits and the Guard's opposition to the plan (TIME, Feb. 11-18), ended in an armistice worked out with the mediating hand of Chairman Overton Brooks of a House Armed Services subcommittee. The treaty-or, as Louisiana's Brooks called it, a "memorandum of understanding"-permits the Guard to set up an eleven-week training schedule for 17-18½-year-olds until the end of the year. Then, beginning next Jan. 1 (instead...
...soothe both sides, the subcommittee suggested that its chairman, Louisiana's Overton Brooks, approach Pentagon and National Guard with a compromise: institute until June 30, 1958 the eleven-week training plan for 17-18½-year-olds, with a bonus for six-month volunteers, i.e., instead of spending the remainder of their eight-year military obligation in the Guard, they could shift after three years to the Standby Reserve. Largely amenable to the compromise. Guard officers were nevertheless rankled by the Army's permitting Generals Guerard and Green to testify. Snapped Walsh: "The Army is guilty of playing...
...Sentry, a Civil War episode seen on NBC's Goodyear Playhouse. John Gay's original drama told of an attempt by three Confederates to destroy a railway bridge behind the Union lines, and the beat-up veterans were given a grimy reality by George Grizzard. Frank Overton and Si Oakland. But Author Gay had more success in writing his strongly individual characters than in handling the quirks and coincidences of his plot...
...Despicable Sergeant Bunt was racked by the ailment which bears his name and signifies an obsessive desire for the other sex. He had wasted no time stockading huts or seeding patches. First he had made himself a wife out of old canvas and straw, fully intending (he assured Captain Overton) "to go straight with her." Alas, "just for a bit of variety," Bunt had then made himself a girl friend named Lola, who had long hair of combed ship's rope. When quarreling broke out between the two women, said Sergeant Bunt, he took Lola's side, killed...
Paid in Pink Shells. It was but a beginning. In a cave, the entrance to which was marked by a ship's red lantern, dismayed Captain Overton found many "immoral effigies" of ladies constructed of gourds and coconut shells. They were brightly but lightly dressed in "a set of signal flags." Inside the cave were bucketfuls of pink sea shells. "I made myself pay one [pink shell] every time I went . . .," Bunt explained, hoping that this example of self-control would show that he had tried at least to keep some check on his Buntism...