Word: pointers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prisoner Rule. General Dodd is a candid, friendly man who has admitted openly that he does not understand Communists. A 52-year-old, Indiana-born West Pointer, he is a former deputy chief of staff of James Van Fleet's Eighth Army. After Koje's most violent riot last February, he was sent to the island to take over command from Colonel Maurice Fitzgerald. He found a bad situation. U.S. personnel were reluctant to enter some of the fanatical Communist compounds. The Communists elected their own leaders and councils, ran their enclosures like self-contained Red fortresses, organized...
...Japan one day last week, a heavy spring rain swept across the runways and drummed on the roof of a large corrugated metal shed. Inside, the leather-jacketed crews for ten U.S. Air Force B-29s crowded into the briefing room. "Gentlemen," said the major, as he laid his pointer on a ten-foot map of Japan and Korea, "our target for tonight is the rail bridge at Sinhung." Said the captain: "You'll each be carrying forty 500-pound bombs with nose fuses . . . Flak is expected to be meager until the release point. We don't believe...
...until the atomic scientists discovered how to bring off small, controlled, atomic explosions. Then a young Army ordnance expert who is also a nuclear physicist, Colonel Angelo R. del Campo, drew up some sketches and took them to the AEC laboratories at Los Alamos. Working in high secrecy, West Pointer del Campo spent months juggling the requirements of artillery against the requirements of an atomic charge. (Sample: the mechanical parts of an atomic bomb need only be strong enough to withstand the bumps of turbulent air; the mechanical parts of an atomic shell must be 4,000 times as strong...
Dartmouth hold possession of the ball for most of the rest of the period, but declined several foul shots to take the ball out of bounds for the two-pointer. Finally, with five seconds to go, they tied it once more, and Biggs cut across the key-hole to score the clincher on a one-handed shot...
...Temporarily, the State Department is filling both McGhee's and Rusk's posts with career diplomats: Middle East Expert Burton Y. Berry and Far East Specialist John M. Allison. Probable permanent successor to McGhee: West Pointer Henry Byroade, 38, an Army colonel on detached service, who is now running State's German Affairs Bureau...