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...Crimson in his senior year, an honor he still mentions with pride, he wrote conservative-minded editorials that infuriated many of his New Deal colleagues. After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1941, Weinberger enlisted in the Army and met his wife Jane, then a nurse, aboard the troopship that carried him to the Pacific theater in 1942. He saw action in New Guinea and ended the war as a captain on the staff of General Douglas MacArthur, another hero of his. After mustering out, Weinberger practiced law in San Francisco, but quickly grew restless in the private sector...
Louisiana's department of corrections is thinking of bringing a World War II troopship out of mothballs to serve as an auxiliary prison. The Florida State Prison at Starke has 646 inmates living in Army tents and converted warehouses. Georgia's maximum-security prison at Reidsville is so overcrowded that 119 prisoners are forced to double up in 8-ft. by 5-ft. cells. "It ain't pretty," says a prison guard. "But it's all we can do right...
...Coronado, Calif. A 1916 graduate of West Point, Styer saw action against Pancho Villa's guerrillas in Mexico and in the trenches of the Western Front in 1917. While returning to Washington to join the Army General Staff in 1918, he survived the torpedoing of his troopship. In World War II, he served as a liaison officer with scientists developing the atomic bomb, witnessed the Japanese surrender in the Philippines, and headed the military tribunal that convicted Japan's General Tomoyuki Yamashita and sentenced him to death for wartime atrocities...
...Brass Bands. At Lisbon's port, the scene was much the same last week as the troopship Niassa arrived, carrying 1,400 soldiers from Guinea-Bissau. There were no brass bands, nor for that matter were there any high-ranking government officials. One by one, as the soldiers were demobilized on ship, they walked off carrying homemade guitars, cardboard boxes or cheap suitcases with their belongings. Many sported T shuts with pictures of Amilcar Cabral, the assassinated Guinea liberation leader against whose cause they had so recently been fighting. Some, but by no means all, were enthusiastic about returning...
...largest and most luxurious passenger liner when she was christened in 1938. The Elizabeth was designed as part of a transatlantic team with the Queen Mary, but her maiden voyage to New York was delayed by the outbreak of World War II. The Elizabeth performed heroically as a troopship, carrying as many as 15,000 jampacked G.I.s on a single voyage. After the war, the elegantly refurbished liner became the last word in gracious living afloat, traveling 896 times between Southampton and New York. Capable of carrying 2,300 passengers and a crew...