Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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COLLEGE ALL-STAR FOOTBALL GAME (ABC, 10 p.m. to conclusion). Outstanding seniors from the 1965 collegiate season meet the Green Bay Packers, champions of the pro National Football League, in the 33rd annual College All-Star game at Soldier Field in Chicago...
...fill the new post, Johnson screened 21 candidates recommended by his field commanders. Wooldridge was summoned from Viet Nam, where he had been sergeant major of the 1st Infantry Division (The Big Red One) whose C.O., Major General Jonathan O. Seaman, says flatly that Wooldridge is "the best soldier in the Army." Articulate and tough-minded, the Texas-reared sergeant vows that he will not "pester General Johnson with the complaints of people who only think they have problems"-but intimates that he has views of his own and will press them...
...seems as brutal as it is effective. Suspects are encouraged to talk by a rifle fired just past the ear from behind while they are sitting on the edge of an open grave, or by a swift, cheekbone-shattering flick of a Korean's bare hand. (Every Korean soldier from Commanding General Chae Myung Shin on down practices for 30 minutes each day tae kwon do, the Korean version of karate.) Once, when the mutilated body of a Korean soldier was found in a Viet Cong-sympathizing village, the Koreans tracked down a Viet Cong, skinned him and hung...
Died. General Andrew G. L. McNaughton, 79, Canada's foremost soldier, respected scientist and diplomat; of a heart attack; in Montebello, Que. McNaughton's intense belief in independent Canadian nationhood overlaid everything he did, whether serving as president of his country's National Research Council (1935-39), or sitting as a member of the Atomic Energy Commission (1946). But Canadians know him best as the World War II commander of Canadian troops in Europe, who bitterly disputed Allied plans to commit his men piecemeal, arguing that his divisions should form a single force "pointed at the heart...
Author Sandoz did a first-rate job in researching and recounting Custer's last battle. One fanciful notion about Custer's motivations, however, seems to be just too speculative to be taken seriously. Miss Sandoz reasoned that the 36-year-old soldier was burning to be President of the U.S. He began his march toward the Little Bighorn on June 22, five days before the Democratic National Convention was to meet in St. Louis. Custer, according to the author, hoped to achieve a spectacular victory over the Sioux, after which the convention would be stampeded into rewarding...