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...Marines' dearest specialty-marksmanship. Even the sergeants had had to admit (in private) that there they had done pretty well-90% of them had qualified on the pistol and automatic rifle ranges, 75% with the Springfield. Betweentimes, swathed in coveralls, they had hiked, practiced open-order fighting, strung barbed wire. In the late afternoons, after 45 minutes of football, baseball or boxing, they had gone to chow, sometimes back to school again in classrooms where officers and noncoms threw theory at them in great gobs, had put them through weekly examinations. In classroom they had been confronted with...
...leggings, left an expanse of white sock showing between his trousers and Army shoes. Over all he yanked dun dungarees and a warm canvas jacket, spotted with grease. On his head he set a heavy, padded leather helmet-the tankers' standard headgear. Around his neck he reluctantly strung a new gadget much hated by the Armored Force: a recently designed dust-mask, undoubtedly useful for preventing silicosis, but in Company D parlance a goddam nuisance after hours of heavy nose-pinching...
...Jacques, his older brother Antoine, their widowed father. Father Oscar is a pious, pompous, severe, uncomprehending and walled-in old man who hides in his heart a mortal fear of death, who snatches at straws of immortality by devoting himself to good works. Jacques is a rebellious, brooding, high-strung adolescent, destined to seek feverishly the meaning of his own life. Antoine is an egoistic, hard-minded doctor, devoted to his work and proud of being a man of action. Theirs and a half-dozen other lives wind around one another like raw nerves, in alternating anguish, ecstasy, dullness, peace...
Thus starts the day for some 40 of the Navy's fledgling fliers. At 13 Naval Reserve Aviation Bases, strung across the U. S. from Opa Locka, Fla. to Oakland, Calif., the day starts in similar fashion for 380 young men, serving a 30-day apprenticeship for flight training...
...mansion grounds were covered with a vast litter of gnawed bones, pieces of meat, slices of onion, potato chips, paper napkins, paper plates. Then at night the crowd danced in the street, to the tune of hillbilly bands, by the light of the moon and of colored globes strung across the rear of the Capitol lawn...