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Thanks to the plenitude of its comforts, Los Alamos has a low personnel turnover-about 20 a month-and few of its nuclear specialists really believe that they will some day go home to Ann Arbor or Chapel Hill. Notes Robert Porton, an ex-Army sergeant who helped found Los Alamos' radio station: "There are still some scientists who have been around since 1943 and still talk about going home, but they don't really mean it. If they go back to the old home on vacation, they always come scurrying back here." Boyd West, the C.P.A...
Under such conditions, Sellers decides, it should not be too difficult to lark out, pick up the packet, and nip back with a perfect alibi before the warden knows he is gone. But just before he can put his plan into effect, the friendly old turnkey is replaced by Sergeant Sidney ("Sour") Crout, who is notoriously "the most wickid screw what ever crep' down a prison corridor." Best scene occurs in a prison quarry, where an "accidental" blast blows Sergeant Crout to comical tatters and leaves him staring at the audience with an expression like...
...late. Hopefully, Captain Phelan asked T-AKL 17 to stand by through the night; he thought his tower would hold together and that his men could get off on Wasp helicopters in the morning. But in the morning all that could be recovered was the body of Master Sergeant Troy Williams floating in the fast-running sea. Wasp with its destroyer guard searched through a long two days. Divers investigated tapping sounds coming from the twisted underwater wreckage. But there were no survivors. The sounds that might have been made by men hanging on in some submerged air pocket were...
...handful of returned Belgian army officers last week turned it out 3,000 strong for a snappy if belated Armistice Day parade. As he brought the troops into the line of march on Boulevard Albert I, a Belgian captain turned to Mobutu, whose highest rank under Belgian rule was sergeant, and announced with a smart salute: "All is ready, mon colonel.'" The army band broke into a new national anthem that nobody had ever heard before, and the 75,000 spectators liked the show well enough to refrain from breaking out with the bicycle chains they had brought along...
...Army technical sergeant in World War II, David Greenglass committed parts of the A-bomb to memory, passed on his data to his sister, Ethel Rosenberg, and her husband Julius for transmission to the Soviet Union. As an accomplice to the espionage, Greenglass turned state's evidence against the Rosenbergs, drew a 15-year stretch in 1951. Two years later, the Rosenbergs were electrocuted at Sing Sing. After more than nine years in a federal pen, Greenglass, 38, was turned loose in Manhattan last week, went off to join his wife Ruth and their two children. On emerging from...