Word: pointers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Discipline Is Essential." The man who has lately done most to demilitarize Culver is its sixth superintendent, retired Air Force Major General Delmar T. Spivey, 56, a West Pointer ('28), World War II bomber pilot, and onetime head of the Air University's War College. Shocked at the turncoat performance of some U.S. prisoners in Korea, Spivey turned down fat offers from industry, decided to devote himself to educating youngsters "in the real meaning of citizenship...
...first U.S. general officer to land in conquered Japan; of pneumonia following surgery; in Asheville, N.C. A soldier's soldier who believed that "the best way for a general to find out what is happening is to go up where the bullets are being fired," West Pointer Eichelberger saw his first combat in 1918 as a member of the U.S. Expeditionary Force in Siberia (where he won three Japanese medals for bravery), earned an enduring place in the affections of Army men by bringing in winning Football Coach Earl Blaik during a prewar tour as Superintendent of West Point...
Named to head the new command, which is unnamed as yet, was the Army's Lieut. General Paul D. Adams, 54, a West Pointer ('28) who is proud of his rating as both a paratrooper and a combat infantryman. Adams, who will be promoted to full general for the job, commanded the land forces during the U.S. intervention in Lebanon in 1958, and he knows how hard it is to get troops to the right place at the right time. Says he: "The unified command is the only way to get the job done...
...early dusk at Trung Lap, U.S. Captain Edward Nidever, a West Pointer, was bent over a chess game. Comfortably dressed against the heat in shorts and sneakers, Nidever was about to move a pawn when the humid silence was broken by an outburst of rifle fire. "The Civil Guard's catching hell again," said Nidever as he slung an ammunition belt across a bare shoulder, grabbed a carbine and headed for the door...
...credit to any campus. Often against advice from brother officers ("They said I was selling my career short"), the new professors have chucked everything, as one of them says, "to get a tremendous educational institution started." Head of the law department is Colonel Christopher Munch, 40, a West Pointer ('43) with a law degree from the University of Illinois, who says: "I'd rather do this than anything in the Air Force-including Judge Advocate General...