Word: pointers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Missing Report. One of the first things they investigated was a report made by Lieut. Colonel John H. Van Vliet Jr. As a wartime prisoner in Germany, West Pointer Van Vliet had been one of four Allied officers forced by the Germans to go under guard to Katyn. When he was liberated in 1945, Van Vliet promptly made a report to Major General Clayton Bissell, chief of War Department Intelligence in Washington. Bissell had him dictate a full account of the trip, marked it "Top Secret," and swore him to silence. Then, somehow, the Top Secret report disappeared. Bissell said...
According to experts, here is the procedure; grasp your watch or clock firmly in your left hand; secure an equally tenacious grip on the hour pointer of your instrument with your right; turn the pointer a full circle counterclockwise; put the clock down; return to the business of the moment...
Blaik's informal talk at Leone's Restaurant in Manhattan-which brought out more cameramen and curious sidewalk neck-craners than usually attend a motion-picture première-was, in many ways, a restrained and gentlemanly performance. The coach, a West Pointer ('20) himself, made no attempt to play on the emotions of his audience. He spoke sadly of the cadets' mistakes, but defended their characters and pleaded that they be allowed to leave the Academy with their reputations unbesmirched...
...even the college basketball gambling scandals pale in comparison. The honor code had been set up in 1817 by the "Father of West Point," stern Sylvanus Thayer, given its final shape during the tour of General Douglas MacArthur in the '20s, and came to occupy in a West Pointer's mind, Ike Eisenhower once said, a position "akin to the virtue of his mother or sister...
...honor system, such incidents should have been reported. Accused cadets charged, however, that such cribbing had been going on at the Academy for years among men who have since served in Korea, where some of them have died in battle. Academy officials replied starchily that once a West Pointer graduates and is commissioned, he starts with a clean slate, is considered "an officer and a gentleman." But if such cheating had gone on before, unchecked and unpunished, the 90 were being sharply punished, while others, equally guilty, went free. The cadets also angrily insisted that scores more of their classmates...