Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what he had said. According to Ulmer, the outspoken Ringgold then told him the authorities were looking in the wrong place for culprits. Asked Ulmer: "Are you telling me that you have firsthand knowledge of cadets who have violated the honor code apart from what we know?" "Yes, sir," said Ringgold. Ulmer promptly advised him that he would have to go before an honor code review board once again. Ulmer later explained that he was "morally obligated" to turn Ringgold in after the cadet had volunteered the information. Ringgold's case is still pending...
...double time until taps at 11 p.m. For many exhausted cadets, the major recreation is sleeping. There is still some hazing at the Point, such as forcing plebes to know the number of lights in Cullun Hall (340) and the capacity of Luck Reservoir ("Seventy-eight million gallons, sir, when the water is flowing over the spillway"). But the sadistic practices of the past have been abolished-doing deep knee bends over the point of a bayonet or forcing a cadet to run up five floors of the barracks, don a new uniform and get back down in 21/2 minutes...
...Sir George Weidenfeld, chairman of Weidenfeld and Nicolson, publishers: a life peerage. A Viennese-born, onetime BBC news commentator, Weidenfeld had earlier been knighted at Wilson's request in 1969, and is the publisher of Wilson's memoirs...
...Sir Joseph Kagan, chairman of Gannex-Kagan Textiles and a longtime personal friend of Wilson's: a life peerage. Kagan is best known in Britain as the manufacturer of the Gannex "mac," as much a part of Wilson's attire as his ubiquitous pipe...
...Sir Lew Grade, chairman of Associated Television Corp., Ltd.: a life peerage. Rotund, cigar-chomping Grade, a Russian immigrant (ne Win-ogradsky), began life as a music-hall performer and became a prominent showbiz impresario...