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During the war, he served with the Signal Corps in the Pacific. He returned to Chicago in 1945 and his expert reporting has been the back ground material for such diversified cover stories as Harold Stassen (Aug. 25, 1947), with whom he traveled 27,000 miles during the last Presidential campaign; F.B.I. Chief J. Edgar Hoover (Aug. 8, 1949), Defense Secretary Louis Johnson (June 6, 1949), Roy Roberts, of the Kansas City Star (April 12, 1948) Iowa Farmer Gus Kuester (April 29 1946), and President George Albert Smith of the Mormon church (July 21, 1947). Last summer Bell covered...
...precisely the way rebellious Navy airmen had hoped. Instead of fighting it out with camera guns at 40,000 feet, they will have to leave the decision up to the 18,000 vacuum tubes of the Army's $400,000 electronic brain at the Aberdeen (Md.) Proving Ground...
...world, have policed 600,000 natives who live in hopeless poverty. When a typhoon (dubbed "Gloria" by meteorologists) swept the island last summer and caused widespread damage, the Army finally investigated the situation. The island's command was shaken up. Major General William W. Eagles, commander of ground forces, was replaced by breezy Major General Josef R. Sheetz, a convivial hustler who had done an able military government job in Korea. Air Force troops on Okinawa are commanded by grey, quiet-spoken Major General Alvin C. ("Ack-Ack") Kincaid, whose slightly absent-minded philosopher's air belies...
Sheetz and Kincaid are faced with other morale hazards. Recreational facilities consisted of a few broken-down movie shacks and football fields. Okinawa had become a dumping ground for Army misfits and rejects from more comfortable posts. In the six months ending last September, U.S. soldiers committed an appalling number of crimes-29 murders, 18 rape cases, 16 robberies, 33 assaults...
...caused by the vastly more powerful bombs developed since those were dropped at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But it hints that an enemy might prefer to explode its bombs underwater to spray Washington with radioactive water. A spray of far-flying radioactive rubble from a bomb that penetrated the ground or buildings before exploding might be even more effective...