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...machine had won the first round. When the lie detector was introduced, its grim little pointer spotted surprised liars almost as soon as they opened their mouths. Hardened virtuosos who could fool a cop, a clergyman-or even a wife-were no match for the polygraph...
...academic grind, which no West Pointer can laugh off, proved only a passing problem to Blockbuster Blanchard. Differential calculus could hardly be mastered in five easy lessons, but neither could shot-putting, for that matter. In fact, it took Doc almost a whole season to get good enough to win the Indoor Intercollegiate 16-lb. shot-put title. Starting from scratch, he worked up to a solid 50 feet in just one winter...
...Laconic, independent Major General Walter Hale ("Tony") Frank, 59. West Pointer, onetime air officer at Hickam Field, Hawaii, was chief of the Air Service Command in England until he was sent back to service at home...
...Roger," said West Pointer Smith and headed across New York City. He was flying Old John Feather Merchant barely under the thick cloud layer...
Cigar-chewing, grey-haired West Pointer Twining is an old footballer, likes to have ex-athletes on his staffs. When he replacedable Curtis LeMay in Guam last week, he said of his new command: "It's like taking over the Notre Dame football team from Knute Rockne...