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Training in amphibious warfare, culminating in an assault landing exercise at Camp Pendleton, Virginia, will highlight the summer program for sophomore NROTC midshipmen this year. The 37 student officers will get three weeks of aviation indoctrination at Pensacola, Florida, in addition to the three weeks of amphibious training at Little Creek, Virginia, to prepare them for their practice landing...
Wild & Woolly. The 1951 championship, backed by the fast-growing 41-college association, was not on the grand scale of the famed Pendleton Roundup, but even the old pros admitted that the kids put on quite a show. Before the competition began, the Hardin-Simmons College cowboy band came whooping into the Coliseum, followed by the Apache Belles, a 34-girl marching and dancing group from Tyler Junior College, dressed in abbreviated white satin outfits and Indian headdress. Down behind the riding chutes, the college cowboys carefully checked over their equipment-from the slick "piggin strings" (for tying calves...
Marines Pass in Review (Sat. 5 p.m., ABC). Written, acted and produced by Marines and played to a cheering, whistling Leatherneck audience, the first transcribed show leaned heavily on a Camp Pendleton band that was as handy with a love lyric as a marching song. Sandwiched among the musical numbers were several Marine Corps skits, balanced neatly between toughness and sentimentality. Possibly the biggest surprise for Marine veterans was a middle "commercial" selling the hearty, frolicsome outdoor life of boot training...
...called Samuel A. Maverick a cattleman [TIME, Sept. 4]. He was an attorney. Maverick moved his law office from Pendleton, S.C. to Texas sometime after 1830. He accepted 600 head of cattle as an attorney's fee, and from this number hoped to breed a much larger herd. His unbranded yearlings fell into the hands of other cattlemen who promptly placed their brands on the cattle. After ten discouraging years Maverick sold his depleted stock for the amount of the original...
...Best." Craig drives his men unflaggingly. They grumble about it, but they worship Craig. At Pendleton's Navy relief carnival last month, when Craig had already been ordered to sail for Korea with his combat team, a Marine corporal approached Mrs. Craig and said: "Excuse me, ma'am, but I'd like to talk to you, if you don't mind." As Mrs. Craig continues the story, "The man said he was a little drunk, and he was, but he wanted to say that he had been posted away from the brigade to another outfit. Then...