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...audience is too small to reach his books on the shelves). The Glass children have no need to do anything better than mother or father; they just are superior. Father Les ("Less") is a midget personage when compared with any of his offspring. Mother Bessie is a slightly comic sergeant major to her own young, all of whom have spiritual commissions. In the magic Glass family, the kids, like the stars of a radio quiz show, have taken over even as breadwinners...
Perhaps the weakest article in the entire issue is Richard B. Stone '63's discussion of the Taft-Eisenhower fight for delegates in Louisiana in 1952. Stone, who attended the 1960 GOP convention as an honorary Sergeant-at-Arms, brings his objectivity into question by a display of apparent pro-Eisenhower bias in the opening paragraphs. Without explanation, he declares that Taft was an "ultraconservative isolationist" and that "Many believe that Taft could never have beaten Stevenson, and that he was exclusively the candidate of rock-ribbed Republicans...
...There, in the early morning sunlight, he was spotted huddled beneath the steering wheel by one of the mutineers. Crying "All right, you have me!", Olympio surrendered and, prodded by rifle butts, was hustled down the driveway, past a mango tree and through the green gate. There he balked. Sergeant Etienne Eyadema, commander of the rebel detachment, later declared: "He could not stay there. There would have been demonstrations. He would not move. I shot...
...standing strength of 250 men-exactly one company. This angered both the "army" and the demobilized, hard-eyed Togolese veterans of French colonial wars, who had fought from Indo-China to Algeria but could find no place in their homeland's armed forces. Recently, a tough ex-sergeant, Emmanuel Bodjolle, 35, jobless and with a family to support, organized a conspiracy with 30 other noncoms. Last week, after Olympio tore up a final plea to take into the service at least 60 of the most qualified veterans, Bodjolle snapped: "Bon. Ça va." That midnight his battle-tough insurgents...
...last July, Sergeant First Class Roque Matagulay, 31, a Guam-born U.S. military adviser with a Vietnamese detachment, ventured out of his compound near the coastal town of Phanthiet, 90 miles east of Saigon, on an off-duty hunting trip. Instead of game, Sergeant Matagulay ran into a band of Communist Viet Cong guerrillas, was held captive until his release last month. Last week, in his first press conference since he was freed, Matagulay depicted the spartan life and grim dedication of the Viet Cong...