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...longer be acceptable." But the Department of Defense and the Commander in Chief felt differently, and next month, after the first vacation in his Army career, Old Soldier Dean, 54, will be back with the troops as deputy commander of the Sixth Army, at San Francisco's Presidio-where, 30 years ago, he raised his right hand and said: "I, William Dean . . . do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same . . . and that I will well...
...illness as cancer passed their diagnosis on to the Atomic Energy Commission, for whom he worked. The AEC, fearful that Twitchell might disclose atomic secrets during periods of delirium, promptly moved the young engineer into a private room in the Letterman Army Hospital at San Francisco's Presidio. Last week William Twitchell died, thereby at last escaping the 24-hour-a-day surveillance which specially screened male nurses had maintained over him for the past two months...
...Texas and its inhabitants as I am to do 447 printed pages on the political and social situation, historic background, etc. of Cuba, where last winter I spent 44 days. The last time I saw a Texas "steak topped by a couple of eggs" was in August 1916, at Presidio when doing Mexican Border service with the and Texas Infantry...
...other delegations were already in San Francisco before him. Secretary of State Dean Acheson, John Foster Dulles, and a contingent of Senators and Representatives busied themselves with preliminaries. In Washington they had just signed a treaty of mutual assistance between the U.S. and the Philippines. At the Presidio in San Francisco, the envoys of the U.S., Australia and New Zealand listened to the U.S. Sixth Army band play God Save the King and The Star-Spangled Banner, then signed a mutual-defense pact...
Into Sixth Army Headquarters at San Francisco's Presidio last week trooped a platoon of dealers in Army surplus goods. They had been summoned by Colonel Paul Steele, supply officer, who was anxious to buy back some of the $15.7 billion worth of the property the Government has sold as surplus (for 27.2? on the dollar) in the U.S. since World War II. Colonel Steele gave them a list of urgent needs: 32,000 field jackets, 100,000 blankets, 37,000 combat boots, etc. By week's end, after spending $600,000, he had filled most...