Word: pointers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. General Charles Pelot Summerall, 88, onetime (1926-31) Army Chief of Staff, and president (1931-53) of The Citadel, a military college of South Carolina; in Washington's Walter Reed Hospital. West Pointer Summerall. commissioned in 1892, commanded an artillery platoon in the storming of Peking in 1900 during the Boxer Rebellion. Armed with his famed credo. "Artillery exists only to protect and support the infantry," he commanded the ist Division and later the V Army Corps in France in World War I, was credited with achieving artillery effects without precedent in U.S. military history...
...Lieut. James W. McDonald, a West Pointer from Huntington, N.Y., tough jung'e training of combat teams from the Canal Zone's 33rd Infantry Regiment was the basic mission for both expeditions: choosing historical routes was an interest-arousing flourish. But playing the role of a conquistador caught McDonald's imagination: for Operation Balboa he briefed himself carefully under Balboa Expert Juan Rubio of the University of Panama. Then he followed the most authoritative route over the isthmus' north-coast range, down a remote river and across the densely jungled central plain. At length he faced...
...doctor to have a "dream," i.e., to receive from the spirit world an oracular directive on tribal policy. Hunter-Hero Pierre de Beauvilliers suspects a sinister hand when a Negro clutching a flamingo feather (the summons to a dream powwow) is murdered. Pierre gets on the scent like a pointer, and soon every trail is dotted with silent tribesmen padding to the rendezvous where the dream (a Commie plant) will be revealed and a huge arms cache is to be doled out. Author van der Post writes beautifully about the African landscape, and intelligently about the Reds' dangerous ability...
...topflight Army engineer. West Pointer Somervell had wide administrative experience in government, served with distinction during the 19305 as New York City's Works Progress Administrator, took over the job of Army supply in 1942. The super-holding company which he bossed delivered men and supplies...
...defiantly, "is the modern doctrine of war." But after eleven days of fighting, most of his troops, punished by the Mustangs and harassed by the Loyalists, stumbled into the borderline buffer zone created by the Organization of American States. Back in San José, President Figueres, referring to West Pointer Picado's tactics, chortled: "You can send them to school, but you can't give them brains...