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...month-long project—the first major road project in the Square since the Red Line was extended in the 1980s—will also reconstruct parts of JFK, Palmer, Church, and Winthrop Streets and add new street lamps...
...same time punished for failing to go by the book. It seems a mass of contradictions, until one realizes that the aim of West Point, unstated perhaps, is to produce leaders who are bold yet also reflexively carry out orders. "The mission of West Point," states General Bruce Palmer Jr., '36, "is to put iron in your soul...
...values cherished by West Point sometimes get twisted or lost on the battlefield. In Viet Nam, the questionable enemy "body counts" served up by senior military leaders--many of them academy graduates--"cut right against the integrity we were taught at West Point," concedes General Palmer, a deputy commander of U.S. forces in Viet Nam. (His much criticized superior, General William Westmoreland, '36, was a cadet first captain and later superintendent of the academy.) The Viet Nam War is an awkward subject at West Point. In class, cadets are taught that the military leadership was not blameless, but most subscribe...
...away he guessed what was happening. He yelled, 'Get out! Get out!' The two boys escaped by running into the forest. The father was swept away. He disappeared." But another cousin, Lucia Volgang, remains optimistic he will be found. "We are still hoping for a miracle." --By Jay D. Palmer. Reported by Roberto Suro/Rome
...billion to the company. To remind GM's executives of its lures, Missouri erected a billboard in downtown Detroit that read GIVE US A RING. Another sign said CHICAGO WANTS YOU. Celebrities were enlisted as well. Boxer Ray ("Boom Boom") Mancini touted Youngstown, Ohio, and Golfing Great Arnold Palmer praised Westmoreland County, Penn...