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...Clark signed alone in a tin-roofed movie hall at Munsan, the allied truce base, three hours after the Panmunjom signing, and Kim and Peng presumably signed in their own lair at Pyongyang. Behind Clark, ramrod stiff, jaws clamped tight, sat ROK Major General Choi Duk Shin. Spotting him after the signing, Clark said, "I'm glad you came." "Thank you," said General Choi...
West Pointer Summerall was an oldfashioned soldier who preached "the full life under God and government." But last week, part of his own life came to an end: at 86, still ramrod straight, he told The Citadel that he was leaving. "I have," said he, "loved The Citadel as I have loved no other institution. What the future holds I do not know." Remarked one cadet, quoting from the plebes' traditional reply to upperclassmen: "May your classes be soirees and your sorrows negligible and on your leave may there be some beautiful femmes, some canoes, lots of skags, full...
Handsome, ramrod-straight Air Lieut. General Thomas D. (Tommy) White, 51, was picked to succeed General Twining as vice chief of staff. He is a linguist (five languages), an amateur ichthyologist, a notably competent officer and a good airman, but his most enduring fame stems from a bad landing which he made on a Leningrad airstrip in 1934. As U.S. air attache in Russia, West Pointer White flew Ambassador Bill Bullitt from Mos cow to Leningrad in a two-place Douglas O-38F, found he had no power as he came in to land. The plane hit the runway, nosed...
...mission in London, he went up & down the service stairs at Claridge's Hotel, and had his wife screen all visitors and telephone calls. He is sharp of eye and of mind, has a square jaw and a balding head, holds his middle-sized frame ramrod straight. A horseman and hunter, he has fine stables at his 150-acre estate in Lake County, 24 miles out of Cleveland, a stable of brood mares at Lexington, Ky., a training stable at Charlottesville, Va., and a plantation complete with game preserve at Thomasville, Ga. He rides to the hounds, shows...
...cloth patch with saliva, 4) puts a lead ball on the patch, 5) sets patch and ball in the muzzle, 6) taps the ball with a little mallet or some other appropriate tool, 7) trims away the excess cloth, 8) shoves the ball down the barrel with a short ramrod called a bullet starter, 9) works the ball home with a long ramrod, 10) deposits a priming charge in the pan. He uses black powder instead of smokeless (which is too powerful), so each shot envelops him in a dense cloud. After a five-shot event, he is powder-blackened...