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...Major George S. Patton. 38. also on Harkins' staff. Father: the late George S. ("Blood and Guts") Patton...
...loved true honour more than fame," read the inscription under the picture of Robert Gardner in the Nashua, N.H. high school yearbook of 1941. Gardner became a professional soldier, fought under General George Patton in World War II, served in a combat unit in Korea. This spring Staff Sergeant Gardner was sent to South Viet Nam as a military "adviser." It was to be the last overseas assignment of his 20-year hitch; next year he planned to retire and enroll in a Florida umpires' school in hopes of becoming a major-league baseball umpire...
World War II found Harkins assigned as assistant chief of staff to General George ("Blood and Guts") Patton, serving under that skilled, flamboyant leader from North Africa to the bloody slash into Nazi Germany. Outwardly, the two were totally different: Patton, a shootin', cussin' swashbuckler; Harkins, quiet, firm, invariably polite. But a fellow officer says, "I really think that inside, he and Patton were the same." The same, certainly, in their drive for victory...
Marination by Mother. Budd has already run the 100 in 9.2, lowering the 9.3 mark set by Mel Patton in 1948. He is certain that he is just beginning to test his real speed. At the I.C.4-A. indoor meet in Manhattan recently, he clocked a record-tying 6 sec. flat for the difficult 60-yd. dash not once, but twice in the same day. Outdoors at the longer distance, with his flashing acceleration, there is no telling what...
Harkins, a onetime cavalryman and deputy chief of staff in World War II to hard-driving General George Patton, was nicknamed "Ramrod" because it was his job to see that Patton's orders were obeyed swiftly and efficiently. Boston-born, Harkins has a reputation for tact and diplomacy as well as drive and discipline, all of which he will need in the job ahead. The U.S. is committed to a three-stage "pacification" program in Viet Nam that calls for 1) anti-guerrilla training and military re-equipment of the Vietnamese army, 2) swift-moving offensive operations against...