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...regular hiking companion with Major General R. McC. Tompkins, U.S.M.C., former commanding general, Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, S.C., and now commanding general, 3rd Marine Division, Viet Nam, I wish to correct your statement concerning the general's " . . . limp at the end of a ten-mile hike" [Nov. 24]. From my observation of General Tompkins, as we hiked with thousands of (wide-eyed) recruits on weekly twelve-mile jaunts at Parris Island, I can assure you this statement is incorrect-there is no limp. The general does carry a walking stick when hiking which, in his words...
...hours as Hochmuth's successor was Major General Rathvon McClure Tompkins, 55, a Colorado-born veteran of Guadalcanal, Tarawa and Saipan, where he won the Navy Cross and picked up a load of Japanese shrapnel that still causes him to limp at the end of a ten-mile hike. Known as "Tommy Two-Star" behind his back, Tompkins served in the Dominican Republic during the 1965 crisis before becoming commander of the Marines' Parris Island boot camp in June, 1966. When Marine Corps Chief of Staff Lieut. General Henry Buse called from Washington to ask Tompkins how soon...
...campus stringer at Oxford. The story, for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, was about the price of wolf's urine at the London Zoo. "It seems," he recalls, "that the Oxford drag hunt used wolf's urine for the drag and they were upset about a sudden price hike...
...members of the corps de ballet in a strike that revealed how low life at the top can be. The girls, members of the American Guild of Variety Artists, are demanding a 40% raise in salary over the next three years; the management is offering only a 15% hike. A first-year Rockette currently makes $99 a week, or $26 less than the lowest-paid Music Hall stagehand. That breaks down to $4.12 a performance or roughly 20 a kick. The dancers must rehearse 120 hours without pay for the nine new extravaganzas mounted every year at the Music Hall...
...Fire. Salaries were the dominant issue in all the disputes; yet teachers also insisted-perhaps a little too often-that they were equally concerned about the conditions that keep them from doing their jobs more effectively. Some of the requests seemed reasonable enough. In addition to a $500 salary hike, Baltimore teachers, for example, won the right to refuse such time-consuming chores as toilet patrols and supervising afterhours playgrounds. But there were other contract demands that school boards clearly could not consider. Striking teachers in Oak Park, Mich., demanded the right to fire their principals and to turn...