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...army till 1946, Hal served most of his time with the First Infantry Division of the Regular Army, a job which carried him into North Africa as the platoon leader in a machine gun company. After receiving and recovering from, an injury in Tunisia, Kopp was sent back to the states to serve as R.O.T.C. Commandant at the University of Connecticut...
...Since last January I have rushed southward three times into Central America in answer to five-alarm calls. I have stood stock still in Managua's central plaza howling Periodista! Periodista! (Journalist! Journalist!) at a platoon of General Somoza's guardia who were charging across with bayonets fixed. I have smudged my nose on San Jose's cold pavements when police fired in the general direction of a mob of which I, unhappily, was one. All in vain. Somehow or other the revolutions don't seem to carry through down here any more...
...first anniversary of Philippine independence, the citizens of Calapan, capital of Mindoro province, awoke to find their town invaded and occupied by local revolutionists. Led by Nestor Romero, a 31-year-old Bataan veteran, 31 convicts broke out of the provincial stockade, disarmed their guards and a platoon of sleeping military police, and took over the town. They captured the mayor, the governor of the province, and Paul Leuterio, majority leader of the Philippine House of Representatives. After a 15-hour reign of terror, MP reinforcements routed the rebels, killed Romero...
...Allen Matthews was the oldest man in his Marine company, and known to the rest as "Pop." By the twelfth day of the battle for Iwo Jima, only three men were left of his 32-man platoon. Then, from Iwo's craggy, ridge-locked plateau came the whee-ee-eet-whee-ee-eet of the moaning Minnies.* There was a moment of blackness, a scream, and then silence...
With only four snow-eating machines at its disposal, the high command of the Cambridge Street Department attempts to clear main thoroughfares and streets serving hospitals and churches once a snowfall has stopped. Thus, by the time the snow platoon reaches an unimportant lane off the beaten path--Holyoke Street, for example--the unpleasant melange of snow, slush, and mud has frozen over with two-foot sink holes and ridges at appropriate intervals. It is now too late. A regiment of men would be needed to chop out the ice by hand, and more scientific means prove futile. Salt removes...