Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major fault with the team is that it lacks vital freestyle depth. Nevertheless, the team does contain some varsity material in divers Bill Murphy and Tim Mahoney, freestylers Bill Swisher and John Bragg, and individual medleyist Dan Thompson...
...routine request, and the Army responded routinely. The widow of Robert G. Thompson, a World War II staff sergeant who died last October, applied for permission to bury her husband's ashes in Arlington National Cemetery. As it happened, Hero Thompson, a Distinguished Service Cross holder, was also ex-Convict Thompson, one of eleven U.S. Communist Party leaders who were convicted in 1949 of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. Government. Nonetheless, the Army approved the widow's request...
Last week the Pentagon had second thoughts. Under a year-old Army regulation, ex-servicemen who have been sent to prison for five years or more are ineligible for burial in a national cemetery. Thompson had received a three-year sentence for his 1949 conviction, jumped bail, was recaptured and sentenced to an additional four years. In all, he spent five years and one month in prison. With Thompson's ashes already at Arlington awaiting burial this week, the Army asked U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach to rule on the problem...
...page letter to Deputy Secretary of Defense Cyrus Vance, Katzenbach found Thompson's prison record "disqualifying" under the regulation. Katzenbach's ruling was cheered by veterans' organizations and hissed by word warriors of the left. Said Florida's Democratic Representative Charles Bennett, who had taken the House floor to protest Thompson's burial at Arlington: "Any other decision would have been an affront to the noble young men who have given so much of their lives to our country." Tass, the Soviet news agency, condemned the decision as "a mockery of an American patriot." Thompson...
...THOMPSON, '69 DOUGLAS CAMERON, '69 Harvard University Cambridge, Mass...