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...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...
...colorful cupolas it deserves a reaction of apathy, if not disdain. But once a Committee looks beyond the obvious architectural and spiritual separateness of the dormitories and finds functions that answer a specific need, the House can develop a valid ralson-d'etre, and command respect, if not gung-ho enthusiasm. Such needs that we feel we have partially met are those of increased contact with older members of the academic community, especially women in graduate school and the Institute; the purely practical function of longer lunch hours, and, through the House Dinners, the opportunity to meet people who share...
...Marine! Burke Davis has written a gaudy, bloody, gung-ho account of the horn combat leader who eagerly went off to war with his green eyes gleaming malevolently, a stubby pipe clenched in his crooked mouth, and a copy of Caesar's Gallic Wars tucked into his duffel bag. The son of a wholesale grocery salesman, Chesty Puller-he always walked with his chest up and out, like a pouter pigeon on parade-spent only a year at Virginia Military Institute before quitting in 1918 to enlist in the Marines, only to be thwarted when World War I ended...
...emphasis to accentuate the positive is helpful. I feel very happy." As for the Administration, in quieter times it might have been squirmingly embarrassed. But the way bigger news was breaking, the White House paused only for a brief tch-tch at The Klotz Botch. "Herbie's plenty gung ho," shrugged one Presidential aide, "but in the wrong direction." Said White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger dryly: "I don't think anyone in the Administration thinks the President's name is not in the papers enough...
...permission, PEO was expanded 19 months ago from 30 to 162 men. The recruits were seasoned soldiers; of the present force, 37 temporarily dropped out of the military to come to Laos and the rest were drawn from the retired list. Under their flapping shirts is more than one gung-ho tattoo, such as "3rd Division Forever." At the top is Heintges, Coblenz-born son of a former German officer, and a 1936 graduate of West Point who rose rapidly through the infantry officer ranks during heavy fighting in Italy and France during World War II. After...