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Primates are social animals; they live in groups. The organization of these societies is complex, and poorly understood. One thing is certain, however--the society increases the survival chances of the individual. Cut off from his troop, the individual baboon will not last very long. It is easy to see why: physiologically, he is poorly equipped for solitary life in the African veldt. Compared to his greatest predator, the leopard, the baboon not very big, or very strong, or very fast. To exist, he has developed society--as an instrument of defense...
...Candidate Walker, he was an excellent combat officer. He had a distinguished record in World War II and Korea, commanded 101st Airborne Division and National Guard troops during the Little Rock school crisis. Last year, as commander of the 24th Infantry Division in West Germany, he put on a troop indoctrination program that got him in hot water. In speeches he labeled Harry Truman, Eleanor Roosevelt and Dean Acheson as "definitely pink." His "pro-blue" instruction program urged troops to vote for conservative candidates back home. Officially admonished and transferred to a command in Hawaii, Walker bitterly resigned from...
Major General Edwin A. Walker, commander of the Army's 24th Infantry Division in Germany, came under fire both for speeches and for his troop education program. He labeled Harry Truman, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and former Secretary of State Dean Acheson as "definitely pink." Walker's "pro-blue" educational program boosted conservative candidates for office back home and brought on charges that Walker was dabbling in partisan politics. After he was admonished and reassigned to another command in Hawaii, Walker resigned from the Army. He found a champion in South Carolina's Senator Strom Thurmond, himself...
...Europeans placed flowers at the spot where a 16-year-old boy had been killed while putting up S.A.O. posters. As the week's toll climbed from 20 to 30 to 40, the authorities advanced the curfew from 9 o'clock to 7, rushed police and troop reinforcements to Algiers. French police claimed to have arrested 106 European "extremists," including five "killers." A police raid on a villa in an Algiers suburb uncovered the secret headquarters of Jean-Jacques Susini, 28, propaganda chief of ex-General Raoul Salan's Secret Army Organization. Susini escaped, but police seized...
Turning Point. It was to demonstrate that determination in the only language that Communism can understand that Kennedy ordered an armored U.S. troop convoy to travel the Autobahn from West Germany through East German territory to West Berlin. The journey made for some dramatic headlines, but its real significance was somehow diluted by the flood of international crises. Kennedy well recognized that if the convoy were stopped, the shooting might start. "Talking to Kennedy was like talking to a statue," recalls a White House aide. "There was the feeling that this mission could very well escalate into shooting before morning...