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...write letters to the commanding general. Second, when they do write, they rarely praise drill instructors, their traditional scourge. But the most significant fact about the letter is that it was composed by white men-all but two of them from Texas-in praise of their drill instructor, Staff Sergeant Joshua Ashley, a Negro. No presidential report could better document the dramatic gains in status and esteem that the Negro has made in the armed forces of the U.S. within the past few years...
...there is no evidence that the funnies are read in the Elysee Palace, though France's other national hero could hardly help noticing his pint-sized rival. Goscinny, a sergeant in the army reserve, has decided against sending a complimentary copy of Astérix to the general. "It would be a provocation," he said, "especially if I dedicated it to 'my dear fellow reservist...
Early Warning. To prevent such errors, Philadelphia police are developing a new specialist: the "civil-disobedience man." Founded in 1964 by former Commissioner Howard Leary, who now heads New York City's police, the Philadelphia civil-disobedience squad consists of only 24 members: a lieutenant, a sergeant, four policewomen and 18 elite policemen, half of them white and half Negro. Picked for warmth, patience and maturity (average age: 38), C.D. men are schooled in sociology and human relations; they study civil rights under University of Pennsylvania law professors. However small in numbers, the squad is worth a division...
Laurence Senelick, a section-man and graduate student in English, will direct The Flea in His Ear. The one undergraduate director now scheduled for a Spring slot on the mainstage is Daniel Freudenberger '67, who will do Sergeant Musgreve's Dance...
...just as well be hailing a cab on the bandstand. None of the musicians look at him." The compulsion to say what he thinks has led the stick-thin drummer (5 ft. 8 in., 125 Ibs.) into a lot of free-swinging battles. He has thrown punches at his sergeant in the Marine Corps, where he had been a judo instructor, and at Frank Sinatra, who is now one of his closest friends. Today, his heart condition keeps him limited to an occasional "one-or-two-punch thing in the parking...