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Named to head the new command, which is unnamed as yet, was the Army's Lieut. General Paul D. Adams, 54, a West Pointer ('28) who is proud of his rating as both a paratrooper and a combat infantryman. Adams, who will be promoted to full general for the job, commanded the land forces during the U.S. intervention in Lebanon in 1958, and he knows how hard it is to get troops to the right place at the right time. Says he: "The unified command is the only way to get the job done...
...early dusk at Trung Lap, U.S. Captain Edward Nidever, a West Pointer, was bent over a chess game. Comfortably dressed against the heat in shorts and sneakers, Nidever was about to move a pawn when the humid silence was broken by an outburst of rifle fire. "The Civil Guard's catching hell again," said Nidever as he slung an ammunition belt across a bare shoulder, grabbed a carbine and headed for the door...
...credit to any campus. Often against advice from brother officers ("They said I was selling my career short"), the new professors have chucked everything, as one of them says, "to get a tremendous educational institution started." Head of the law department is Colonel Christopher Munch, 40, a West Pointer ('43) with a law degree from the University of Illinois, who says: "I'd rather do this than anything in the Air Force-including Judge Advocate General...
...long-suffering witness won permission, at one point, to step from his glass cage and point out on the map locations of German-occupied territories. Every policeman in court rose. Three crowded behind him. Eichmann moved the pointer uncertainly, trying to locate Bialystok. With the air of a teacher dismissing a nervous student, Hausner took the pointer away and found the place...
...uproar mounted, President Kennedy called the Pentagon to see what all the shouting was about. Connecticut's Democratic Congressman Frank Kowalski, a West Pointer ('30) and retired colonel, demanded an investigation of West Pointer Walker (class of '31). Said he: Walker has done nothing wrong, he should be vindicated. If not, he should be given the works." And the Army decided to put General Ted Walker on the shelf until it could find out if his political views outbalanced his fighting talent...