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...will boss the policeman (TIME, Sept. 13 BACKGROUND FOR PEACE...
...coral dust from the roads. But they managed to stay with the foot soldiers, pausing to explain the action, letting the microphone gather the battle noises: wounded groaning, Jap bullets pinging against metal, the sharp splat of mortar shells exploding, the high hum of planes, artillery in the background, and the cries of men giving battle directions...
...like a field ripe unto the harvest. So he became a Navy chaplain, served nearly eight tumultuous months. By the end of that time, the Navy asked Chaplain Gatlin to resign. He refused, was thereupon relieved from active duty because of "a definitely narrow and sectarian religious view and background . . . a disqualification for effective service-in the Navy's chaplaincy." He is now pastor of the First Baptist Church, Pulaski Tenn...
...London, British and Gaullist representatives worked toward an agreement to transfer civil affairs in liberated French areas to Gaullist control, as soon as the military situation allows. In the background was the understanding that the U.S. would approve that kind of an agreement, so long as Washington does not have to come right out and say that it has recognized General Charles de Gaulle's Committee of National Liberation as the Provisional Government of France...
Lutes's office in the Pentagon Building would be an imposing background even for a trumpet-voiced, four-star general. Lutes, with his two stars and barely audible voice, mumbles: "I didn't want the damn thing. They built it for Admiral King and when the Navy decided not to move into the Pentagon Building I fell heir...