Word: pointeres
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...panels of polished black granite, set below ground level, inscribed with the names of all the 58,022 who died in the Viet Nam War--struck many veterans as insulting at the time it was chosen. "A black gash of shame," Tom Carhart, a Viet Nam veteran and West Pointer, called it. Novelist James Webb (Fields of Fire), now an Assistant Secretary of Defense, wanted a white memorial, set above ground, with a flag. "A memorial should express more than grief," he says. "It should honor the service of those who died...
...Captain Anna Collins (15 points on 7-11 shooting) and Trisha Brown (12 pointer) joined Keffer in double figures for Harvard...
...automatic drip machine ($40), complete with filters, creamer and sugar bowl. The Take-along Desk Drawer ($40) fits tiny office supplies in a lightweight nylon case--a mere 5 1/2 in. by 9 in. Contents include a paper punch, scissors, 6-ft. tape measure, screwdriver and a telescoping presentation pointer for meetings...
...East Room of the White House, fascinated by the scene playing out before him. Lyndon Johnson had summoned House members for a briefing on Viet Nam. L.B.J. could not contain himself. As Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara described the war, Johnson would leap up, take the pointer from McNamara and jab it at the map. "Tell 'em what's happening here, Bob," Johnson would command. "Tell 'em what's going on down there...
That Muzak should soothe the inhabitants of the Pentagon is fitting, for the whole system was basically the creation of an unusual general, George Owen Squier, a West Pointer ('87) who devoted much of his Army career to science. Assigned to evaluate the military potential in the experiments of the Wright Brothers, he became in 1908 one of the first passengers to fly, for all of nine minutes, in a Wright machine. As a young artilleryman, he invented the polarizing photochronograph to measure the speed of a projectile...