Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Texas, a weird call to arms was sounded by Edwin A. Walker, sometime U.S. Army major general, who resigned his commission after being officially admonished for wild right-wing talk. Walker appealed to Americans "from every state" to march to Barnett's aid. His cry rang out all over the Deep South with a special meaning-for Walker was the man who commanded the U.S. troops that President Eisenhower sent to Little Rock...
...battle, he was observed by newsmen and a campus minister to be holding forth at a sort of informal command post. Every now and then somebody would run up to him and ask for military counsel. One man who got close to him reported that "there was a wild, dazed look in his eyes." Late that morning, soldiers at a roadblock arrested Walker as he was attempting to leave town in a car. He was arraigned on charges of insurrection and seditious conspiracy and sent to the U.S. prison and medical center in Springfield, Mo., for observation. At week...
...Nhommarath, in central Laos, the Pathet Lao has cooped up the I.C.C. inspectors in a fenced-in compound to keep them from checking on the withdrawal. With a straight face, the Pathet Lao commander said to the I.C.C.: "We've put up the fence to prevent wild buffalo from attacking...
Gung-Ho, Heads-Up. Wally was a wild boy. "I hated to open the front door," his mother recalls, "and see the police chief again." After attending public schools in Oradell and Englewood. N.J., Wally went briefly to Newark College of Engineering, and in 1942 got an appointment to Annapolis. He graduated in 1945. 215th in a class of 1,045. Just too late for World War II. In 1946 Wally Schirra married svelte, blonde Josephine Fraser, stepdaughter of Admiral James L. Holloway, who commanded in the Northeastern Atlantic and Mediterranean area during World...
After a season of varied fortune, the heavies last spring lost the four-mile Yale regatta by about three feet. "It was a real wild race," recalled the coach, "something like that game ending with a field goal Saturday at Cornell...