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...Loving You As I Do." When World War II came. Thurmond put down his gavel. As a lieutenant colonel in the Army's crack 82nd Airborne Division, Thurmond went into Normandy by glider on Dday, was injured when his glider crashed, stayed in action until his men had secured their objective; his gallantry won him a Bronze Star. Today. Thurmond is a major general in the Army Reserve...
...82nd anniversary of Stalin's birth cut no ice in Moscow, where Pravda-which in the late dictator's prime regularly praised his name as many as 300 times per issue-wrote him off with a single mention: a reference to "the serious obstacles that the Stalin cult of personality placed in the path of the development of Marxist-Leninist theory...
...wowed the President and his party. After fighter-bombers had seared a jump area with Napalm and blasted it with 500-lb. bombs, six C-130 transports lumbered overhead at 1,250 ft.-and the sky turned alive with paratroopers from the 101st Airborne, the sister division of the 82nd. Behind the men floated the equipment of war-a 105-mm. howitzer, a self-propelled antitank gun, an 18,000-Ib. bulldozer dangling from six 100-ft. chutes that blossomed like giant flowers...
...Moving to the target range, Kennedy watched delightedly as one 82nd paratrooper smashed all the red water-filled heads on his dummy targets with his .45. Blazing away with a newly issued M-14 rifle, another marksman so fascinated Kennedy that he called for the target, grinned as he held it up and displayed the riddled bull...
Before leaving Fort Bragg, President Kennedy visited 300 men of the 82nd who had not participated in the performance; they had been on combat alert. One paratrooper startled the President by shouting in his face: "Airborne, all the way!" Replied the President of the U.S., with every reason to mean what he said: "That's the spirit...