Word: pointer
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...West Pointer ('36), Clifton took leave shortly after graduation, worked as a cub reporter for the New York Herald Tribune. He decided to become a career newsman, was on his way to Army headquarters in New York with his resignation when he saw a military parade on Fifth Avenue led by an old West Point friend. Clifton tore up the resignation, stayed in the Army for 29 more years. In Italy, during World War II, Artilleryman Clifton's huge 240-mm. howitzers plastered Cassino with 250,000 shells in 120 days, and Clifton won the Legion of Merit...
...school started as a gleam in its mother's eye. Two decades ago, tiny Bonnie Cone, a math teacher hardly taller than a blackboard pointer, began directing a program of college extension courses for ex-G.I.s, using what had been the lost-and-found department of a Charlotte, N.C., high school. This month the school that grew from there, with Miss Bonnie pushing it all the way, was designated the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, the juridical coequal of the state university branches at Chapel Hill, Greensboro and Raleigh...
...West Pointer Jim Warner, a flop in the mile indoors, is expected to avenge his loss at Ithaca to Eli Rick Wilmer. Harvard's Jim Smith scored a fine second place in the winter championships but will be hard pressed to repeat that performance tomorrow afternoon...
...William F. McKee, 58, retired Air Force general, will become Federal Aviation Agency administrator, replacing undynamic Najeeb Halaby, who has resigned and plans to write a book called Washington Cockpit. Virginia-born, West Pointer "Bozo" McKee is little known to the civilian aviation industry, but made a name for himself in the Air Force as a management expert; he is the only non-aviator ever to be made a four-star Air Force general. McKee was Air Force Vice Chief of Staff before he retired last August to join the National Aeronautics and Space Administration...
Dedicated Lawyer Sir: Your article on Pointer v. Texas [April 16] was as clear and as accurate a summary of the Supreme Court's opinion as could have been written. I remember when Orville A. Harlan was appointed to represent Pointer in his appeal. Harlan was handling a number of appeals for various indigents-a burden borne by a very small percentage of the bar in this community. After Mr. Harlan entered the Pointer case, he not only expended far more than the $100 paid him by the state, but the time devoted to briefing and arguing the case...