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...scholarships, awarded on the basis of "character, intellect, leadership, and physical vigor" were given to Paul Douglas Sheats, of Washington, D.C. and Eliot House, Frank Ira Goodman, of San Antonio and Lowell House, Eliot Dexter Hawkins, of New York and Eliot House, and Martin Alvord Kramer, of Tulsa, Oklahoma and Eliot House...
...think Eisenhower says something on Monday. does something else on Tuesday, and qualifies both on Wednesday," Howe says. "He has shown a complete failure to control his subordinates." Regarding Dulles' and Eisenrower's recent rebuke of McCarthy, he states, "I think they'll do some qualifying of the vigor of yesterday...
Dean plunged into the combat training with his customary vigor. He had a theory that by the time the 44th reached the Siegfried Line most of the enlisted men who knew how to operate flamethrowers would probably be dead. He organized a flamethrower school for junior officers so they could train new technicians as the division moved along. At one of the training sessions, a young captain spilled napalm on his uniform, which promptly burst into flame. Dean knocked him down in the dirt to extinguish the fire, and some of the flaming liquid spilled on his own leg. Dean...
...with his boundless vigor and good health, his steel nerve, brash confidence and the support of the vast majority of his people, Ramon Magsaysay was one man who was not afflicted with doubts or fears. "The people," he vowed, "will have their...
...recent months the clamor in France for pulling up stakes and getting out of Indo-China has been louder than ever beore. This may seem rather a paradox, in view of increased vigor and will to win in the theater itself, under General Henri Navarre (TIME, Sept. 28). But since the end of the war in Korea, France is the only Western nation shedding blood on a major scale to fight Communism in Asia. Hence the resurgence of the blood & dollars theme-which could not be raised very loudly while the U.S. was fighting in Korea. Also. France now faces...