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...afternoon a battalion of reinforcements from the two Jitna was helicoptered in to join the Hotel Company assault, and more marines came ashore from the Talladega at dusk. Still the Viet Cong clung to their positions...
Offshore stood the helicopter carrier Jwo Jitna and the attack-transport Talladega, each carrying additional marines, plus two destroyers and the mis sile light cruiser Galvston, whose six-inch guns provided heavy artillery support. From the air, two squadrons of Phantom II jets and five squadrons of Skyhawks dropped tons of napalm and bombs on Viet Cong positions. It was a devastating punch, involving more than 5,000 U.S. ground troops; every one of them was needed, for the V.C. were tough and well dug in. "It was almost like Normandy," said one Marine commander. "They fought us from hedgerow...
...College. The Birmingham concert that night was well-attended and the reception that followed was memorable for the numbers that were participating and the spirit that was in the air as informal singing developed, led by students from Miles and Harvard. A visit to Mr. Epps's alma mater, Talladega College, was another high point of the tour. Archie Epps was a co-leader in these musical occasions...
...Congregationalist minister, Gallagher was himself so ordained after graduating from Minnesota's Carleton College ('25). In 1933 he took on a difficult, decade-long task, the presidency of Alabama's Negro Talladega College, where he adroitly worked to heal local race relations, became a top white official of the N.A.A.C.P. In 1952, after serving as professor of Christian ethics at the Pacific School of Religion irr Berkeley, Calif., then as U.S. Assistant Commissioner for Higher Education, Gallagher took over City College. It was a bad moment: City was dishonored by one of the messier basketball-bribe scandals...
...baby-doll bride, "a pretty girl with peculiar eyes, one brown and the other blue." the Rev. Alvin Horn, Grand Dragon of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan. trotted her down to Tuscaloosa to show off at a race-baiting get-together the boys had planned. But back in Talladega. Barbara Ellice's daddy sicked the sheriff on the honeymooners, and Barbara Ellice got clamped into custody. The reason: bouncing (5 ft. 8 in., 145 Ib.) Baby Doll is only 15. It was all news to the Reverend, a 45-year-old widower with six children, aged...