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...That's all right," she replied cheerily, cheerily as she could after being awakened by the phone. "I'll wear my boots and raincoat. I really love football, I'm really gung-ho...
Theoretically, the I.C.C. has the authority to check on all alleged violations of the Geneva accord. But in Laos' thick jungles, such transgressions are difficult to prove. "People talk about the Ho Chi Minh trail back into North Viet Nam as though it were the New Jersey Turnpike." said Major General Reuben Tucker, chief of the U.S. Military Assistance Advisory Group in Laos, just before leaving. "It's actually a complex system of trails in dense jungle, nearly impossible to penetrate and move around in." While fighting has come to a standstill, the U.S. is not taken...
...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...
Schirra spent time on carriers and at naval shore bases. When the Korean war got going, he was assigned to an Arkansas National Guard squadron as an exchange pilot. His flying mates remember him as "a gung-ho, heads-up, by-the-book Annapolis man." but they forgave him because he was such a good pilot. He flew 90 missions, mostly ground strafing and low-level bombing. His missions got him credit for 1½ MIGs, a Distinguished Flying Cross and two Air Medals. He also buzzed a U.S. camp, blew down lines of tents and was hotly reprimanded...
Thirty demonstrators gathered in the rain at the Commonwealth Avenue restaurant and picketed solemnly for two hours. Their signs read "28 Flavors But Only One Color" and "100 Arrested in North Carolina For Eating At Ho...