Word: samuel
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Duty & Dogs. In the enlisted ranks, few Negro G.I.s are better known than Sergeant Lonnie Galley Samuel, another Silver Star winner, who leads a "Blue Team" of an Air Cav battalion. His job: to draw enemy fire from a chopper, then land and engage in hopes of provoking a major battle ("Sam" has provoked a batch in the past year). Asked why he does not apply for a commission, Sam, at 41, laughs: "I can't do that, man. I'd be the oldest lieutenant in the Army...
Jampacked G.l.s. Designed as a tandem team for providing weekly passenger service across the North Atlantic, the Queens were the culmination of a dream born in 1840 when Samuel Cunard's Britannia became the first regularly scheduled transatlantic liner. At the time that the 80,000-ton Queen Mary made her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York in May 1936, only the French Line's Normandie could rival her for size and speed.* Within six months, work was underway on her even bigger sister ship, the 83,000-ton Queen Elizabeth, whose maiden trip to New York...
...Founding of Harvard College. Samuel Eliot Morison...
...Presidents. In practice, most boards rely on the advice of the university president. "If you have a president you believe in, you go along with him," says University of Illinois Trustee Harold Pogue. State University of New York Trustee Morris Iushewitz, acknowledging the strong hand of S.U.N.Y. President Samuel Gould, insists that "We are not manipulated except for the good of the university, and in that sense I don't mind being manipulated." Alabama's self-perpetuating board is an example of how trustees can protect a school and a strong president, Frank Rose (TIME, Apnl 21), against...
Bunkum is fast-talking James Nicholson, 50; Ballyhoo is fast-talking Samuel Arkoff, 48. They are the president and chairman of American International Pictures. Since 1954, they have reeled out 130 lowbudget, lowbrow features, grossed about $250 million, and built A.I.P. into the nation's largest independent film company...