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Wellesley's Ola Elizabeth Winslow, 55, Pulitzer Prizewinning biographer (Jonathan Edwards), authority on American literature, who could never walk across the campus without a pocketful of seeds for the birds, catnip for the cats, and a troop of neighbors' children following, Pied Piper fashion, behind. Up at 5, she was a prodigious and painstaking worker, gently persuaded a whole generation of students to take after...
This week, 32,000 U.S. troops will begin dropping in parachutes or landing in troop-carrier planes on the green hills around Fort Bragg and Camp Mackall, N.C. Jet fighters will whisk overhead, giving them air cover. Cargo planes will fly in with all their supplies, for "Operation Swarmer" is designed to prove that a combat area, e.g., an island base for strategic bombers, can be taken and held by airborne troops entirely supplied...
...Operation Swarmer the Air Force has assembled virtually all the troop-carrier and cargo planes that would be available if the U.S. were attacked this week. Nevertheless, the Air Force's able, 43-year-old Lieut. General Lauris ("Larry") Norstad, in command, has had to tailor his plans to his restricted fleet of aircraft, dropping one regiment at a time on the North Carolina countryside...
...more than just another chunk of territory (about twice the size of New Jersey, 3,000,000 population) for the vast Red Asiatic domain. In their conquest of Southeast Asia, the Japanese had found Hainan valuable as a base and a staging area for troop movements. The new Red imperialists could put it to similar uses, increasing their threat to Indo-China and other countries touching the South China Sea. However, the immediate significance of Hainan's fall was that it furnished further proof that Nationalist troops still could not or would not fight effectively. More than 400 miles...
Four of the adventurers climbed in-Dickie, Willie Von Hof, David Hahn and Roland Riemer, members of Boy Scout Troop 193. Three pals left behind were a little dubious about the plan and warned the four not to try it. But Dickie and his crew, in cowboy jeans and cowboy shirts, paddled off, leaving their pals to watch the shoes, socks and fur-lined jackets which they had left on shore. They had one good oar, a broken oar and a piece of a board. In almost no time at all, carried by the brisk wind, they were...