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...knocked out by Patterson in his pro debut, wanted to manage Clay. So did Patterson's manager, Cus D'Amato. But Cassius was looking for something classier. At first, Sportsman Billy Reynolds seemed to have the inside track. There was only one catch: Reynolds wanted to give Sergeant Martin "a piece of the action." Clay refused. "Martin's amateur," he said. "He can't teach me any more. I need the top-notch people...
...residents of the Birmingham area and onetime employees of the Hayes Aircraft Corp. there. Riley Shamburger, 36, was a major in the Alabama Air National Guard and a World War II veteran, with more than 12,000 flying hours. Thomas Willard Ray, 30, was a former Air Force staff sergeant. Leo Baker, 35, had been an Air Force tech sergeant and a flight engineer for Hayes. Wade Carroll Gray, 38, had been a Hayes test pilot...
...counterattack at Beit Miran. Said he: "About 25 miles from San'a we were ambushed. My company never got a chance to fight. In a few hours, more than 100 of us were killed, and I surrendered. Nasser has apparently had to call up the reserves. Complained Sergeant Ibrahim Mohsin Alkati, 32, who was a Cairo truck mechanic before he was recalled to duty: "I didn't even know there was a war on in Yemen. I thought we were supposed to help train the Yemeni republican army...
This pacifist paradox is illustrated in an incident of the Korean war. Three U.S. soldiers, a sergeant and two privates, rescue a North Korean airman (Enrique Magalona) downed in an inlet. When they radio headquarters, they receive a command worded with discretion but ice-clear in intention; shoot the prisoner. The sergeant (Kirk Douglas) brusquely orders the privates to do it. The first (Robert Walker) refuses. The second (Nick Adams) raises his pistol-but cannot pull the trigger. The sergeant explodes. A private replies: "Why not shoot him yourself, sir? And look him right in the eye." The sergeant...
...scene is scarcely credible, but in other episodes the character of the sadistic sergeant fits Douglas like epidermis-the actor has a jaw like a barracuda and a grin full of rusty fishhooks and what have you. Walker, 21-year-old son of Jennifer Jones and the late Robert Walker, is the ideal idealistic dogface-and he has the looks and the charm of his famous father. What's wrong with the picture is its script. Scenarist Henry Denker says some things that cannot be said too often: a life once lost can never be replaced; anyone who kills...