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Troubled. Washington might never have learned of Lavelle's raids had not an Air Force sergeant in Viet Nam involved in falsifying the reports become troubled when his immediate commanding officer quipped that even the President did not know what the fighter-bombers were doing. The sergeant wrote Iowa Senator Harold Hughes "to inform you of what is happening and to find out if this falsification of classified documents is legal and proper." Hughes suspected not, and had a copy of the letter hand-carried to Air Force Chief of Staff General John Ryan on March 8. Within...
David B. Durk, LL.D., Amherst class of '57, New York police sergeant. Your college greets you with the proudest title of all, "a good cop." You expand our imagination of what a man educated here might do to achieve a more decent and a more humane society...
...Sergeant Bill Tillman fired a brand-new wire-guided missile which corrected its direction in mid-air and blew the turret off an oncoming tank. As the sun rose, 22 North Vietnamese tanks were left burning on the plain. Although the marines had some bad moments and had to give a little ground, they did so in good order and finally held firm; the North Vietnamese tanks had not proved to be all that formidable...
Though Air Force Sergeant Tor Olson, 22, might be called a washout of sorts, he is anything but unhappy about that appellation. In March, the 145-lb. Olson was comatose and near death from liver failure brought on by hepatitis. Today he is not only alive but well, thanks to the first successful flushing, or "total body washout," of a patient's circulatory system. Colonel Gerald Klebanoff of Wilford Hall Air Force Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, attempted the pioneering procedure af-ter Olson had been in a coma for three days and showed no indications of reviving...
...women or even kill the bad guys; he did endure and make a fortune for Trendle. The Lone Ranger lasted 20 first-run years on radio and twelve on television, and the show's popularity inspired Trendle to create two more true-blue heroes: The Green Hornet and Sergeant Preston of the Yukon...