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There is, in many ways, an air of unreality about West Point. Says Ted Sullivan, '79, now a New York stockbroker: "The difference between the regular Army and West Point is light-years." In the Army, West Pointers are sometimes regarded as aloof and cliquish, called ring knockers for ostentatiously flashing their class rings. Non-West Pointers complain about the so-called West Point Protective Association in the Pentagon that favors and promotes academy grads...
Punishment is merciless for writers of novels that ring in the mind. Unsophisticated readers demand the same bells next time, only louder. Sophisticated readers pretend they do not want an encore, although they really do, and they are vigilant in condemning repetition...
...collar air. When high school football came along (to continue our ton of history in a thimble), it meant that every Thanks-giving the bosses' sons played the sons of the laborers. Through the years things changed--both towns now sport enough alabaster shirts to have a lot of ring around the collar in the summertime--but the deep and abiding rivalry over high school football remained white...
Although he had admitted passing a classified FBI manual to his blond KGB lover Svetlana Ogorodnikova in exchange for promises of $65,000 and a $675 trench coat, the defense insisted that Miller was trying to infiltrate a Soviet spy ring. One of the two jurors who voted against the conviction on three major counts of espionage later told the Los Angeles Herald Examiner that he felt the confession had been coerced. "He was browbeaten and swayed by the [FBI] interrogation," said the dissenting juror. "He would have signed anything put in front of him." Undeterred, prosecuting U.S. Attorney Robert...
Privately, however, Louis was a womanizer and profligate who disastrously mismanaged his finances. A combination of pride and debt drove him to overstay his time in the ring. He lost his crown, became a referee and, briefly, an overweight professional wrestler. The battle between the Good Colored Boy and the resentful black man finally claimed its victim in the late '60s: he became a drug user and a blurting paranoid, convinced that murderers were stalking him. His last job before his death, in 1981, was as a "greeter" in a Las Vegas casino, where he signed autographs and played golf...