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Enraged, the student replied, "It's your business to sign my card, not to give advice." The adviser sighed and signed, and our man strode out haughtily, well pleased with himself...
Into a huge tent near Gunnison, Colo, last week strode brisk, blue-eyed "Colonel" Arthur Weimer Thompson, dean of U.S. cattle auctioneers. In his clarion voice he addressed his audience of 1,500: "You men are the backbone of America. Burn all the cities down-you farmers and ranchers will live. Tear up the farms and ranches-that's the end for everybody...
...readiness. His officers wore their sidearms at desks, at meals and in the air; his "A.P.s" (air police-Air Force for M.P.s) cradled loaded carbines ready for sabotage or parachute attack. Even ground crewmen worked at their big planes with their guns beside them. At one base Curt LeMay strode by a master sergeant who had laid aside his piece to dive into his lunch bag. The C.G. rounded up all the maintenance men for one of his longer speeches. "This afternoon," said he, "I found one man guarding a hangar with a ham sandwich. There will be no more...
...National Palace, 32-year-old Major Carlos Paz Tejada, army chief, strode into a cabinet meeting, told President Arévalo that the army had been forced to take over to keep order...
Huff. It was a grey day, with just enough rain to annoy but not enough to refresh; in the musty conference room, of Andrew Carnegie decor, it was just as depressing. Then in strode Harry Truman with his usual cheerful step. For a man deep in fateful decisions he looked singularly unruffled. Never the worrying kind, since war broke out in Asia, the President had, nevertheless, on several occasions, seemed weary. Last week, even the weariness was gone...