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...FROM THE MEXICANS, I SUGGEST THAT TIME'S BOOKS EDITOR TRY TO BE IMPARTIAL TO THE EXTENT OF COMPILING THE NUMBER OF CONGRESSIONAL MEDALS OF HONOR WON IN WORLD WAR II BY TEXANS SERVING IN THE ARMY, NAVY AND MARINE CORPS AS AGAINST THE GREATEST NUMBER WON BY SERVICEMEN FROM OTHER HIGH REGISTERING STATES...
...conducted under a system of proportional representation, the coming election will be under a majority system. The U.S. Embassy, which has long pressed for this reform, hopes that it will produce a stable one-party government. Before it left office, the coalition managed to put through a clause disfranchising servicemen (Greece has 160,000 men under arms) and withholding the vote from women. This may hurt Marshal Papagos, who is popular in the army, but the majority voting system should help him. He is now favored to win, and if he does, the U.S. Embassy won't mind...
America Calling (Sun. 4 p.m., CBS). A new show featuring phone calls between servicemen and their friends and families...
...June 7, 1948, said Dewey, John Sparkman became the "busiest Jim Crow agent in America."* On that he voted against 1) abolishing segregation in the armed forces, 2) an anti-lynching measure to protect members of the armed forces, 3) exempting servicemen from paying poll taxes...
...doggone thing." Occasionally, Reed gave advice to future recruits, e.g., "Don't volunteer for anything. I've said this before as a civilian, and as a soldier I can't emphasize it too much." For hundreds of Houston parents, Reed came to typify their own servicemen sons; they flooded him with pies, cakes, homemade candy, books. When he wrote wistfully that he wished he had "a teaspoonful of Texas soil to put under my pillow at night," he got nearly a truckload, packed in small envelopes. But when Reed was home on a furlough, City Editor Johnston...