Word: rucker
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Died. Major General Bogardus Snowden Cairns, U.S.A., 48, developer of the armed helicopter, commandant of the Army Aviation Center at Fort Rucker, Ala.; in the crash of a light helicopter; at Fort Rucker. "Bugs" Cairns's career told the modern history of cavalry. After West Point ('32), he started out on horseback, had switched to tanks by World War II; last year at Fort Rucker, he took over the whirring, still-experimental cavalry of the sky. The general loved his "choppers," once said: "Like Wellington's cavalry, the helicopter can strike like a wolfpack and bite...
Render Unto Caesar. At Camp Rucker, Ala., Bible Salesman Leon Willie, 26, was fined $150 for gambling with minors after two G.I.s complained that he had taken $165 from them in a dice game...
...full to overflowing, the nearby towns small, and housing scarce, the chiselers are out. So reported the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee, headed by Texas Democrat Lyndon Johnson, this week, after inspecting more than 20 such localities. They issued a first report on three of them: Camp Breckinridge, Ky., Camp Rucker, Ala., Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. Camp Rucker and Fort Leonard Wood were bad enough, but Camp Breckinridge took all prizes: CJ An old doll house, built by a widow for her daughter, was the home of a sergeant, his wife, mother-in-law and three children. The house...