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...another classmate, but with all upperclassmen plus the officers of the executive department as a police force, only the first class was able to get by with very much. Infractions of the generally accepted moral code (including cheating) were held to a minimum by the general disdain of the regiment for such practices and any infraction of either the moral code or of major Academy regulations were reported even by classmates . . . E. K. PERRYMAN JR. Annapolis '45 Bethlehem...
Private Life: Wife, Cécile Bonnefoy; two sons, Pierre, 22, second lieutenant in a Moroccan rifle regiment (and also a St. Cyr graduate), and Michel, 13. Fond of cigars, bridge, music-hall ditties, dancing (but no jitterbugging...
...been demonstrated that in combat in Korea, Negro soldiers serve more effectively in integrated units." With this terse announcement by the Army, Supreme Commander General Matt Ridgway last week broke up the Army's famous all-Negro 24th Infantry Regiment. Within six months, by his order, all segregated units in the Far East Command, both combat and service, will be abolished, and their men will be moved into units side by side with white troops...
Then the Hashemite regiment of the Arab Legion assigned to guard Abdullah rushed in. The men fired crazily, clubbed with their guns, stabbed with their bayonets, killed at least 20. Other legionnaires, usually tightly disciplined, rushed through the Old City, looting, and shooting at anything that stirred...
...unhappy family moved to the coldly formal Châateau de Laeken, just outside Brussels. There Leopold and his mother, Queen Elizabeth, with a regiment of nurses, governesses and tutors, supervised young Baudouin's preparation for the King business. Like his sister & brother, the young prince rose each morning at 7, pattered in to wish his grandmother good morning, did setting-up exercises before breakfast. He was bitter when his sister bested him. "I'm a man," he told the gym instructor imperiously. "The idea of your thinking I can't do as well as a girl...