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Named within 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...
...Fifth Circuit. Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas all fall under its jurisdiction. So it is that when an opening occurs on the court, segregationists and civil rights lawyers hold their respective breaths until the President nominates a new man. Because of the court's work load, it was expanded last year from nine to thirteen judges. This week the final vacancy will be filled when Claude Feemster Clayton, 58, takes the path of office. When news of his nomination came down, waiting lawyers on both sides of the integration fence breathed sighs of relief. Mississippi-born...
...meeting in City Hall last night, MBTA engineers said it was not technically possible to do this. Instead they proposed to eliminate an underground bus tunnel at the north end of the station. Buses would then load on the surface in Flagstaff Park...
Hammell, who then left the shop, said that Weinstein told him next day he had killed Green "by choking him and hitting him in the head with a board." Weinstein gave him $50 to help stuff the body into a trunk and load it in a rented car, Hammell told police. Then Weinstein, Hammell and two teenage friends drove into the countryside to find a burial place. Hammell said that the ground was either too muddy or too hard, and they decided to return to Philadelphia and throw the trunk in the river...
...harvests $25,000 for an appearance in which he tells a few jokes ("The tornado was so bad a hen laid the same egg twice") and does songs (She Was a T-Bone Talking Woman but She Had a Hot-Dog Heart}. In Las Vegas, he sings "You load 16 tons and what do you get? A hernia." That's good for $40,000 a week...