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Through the week the tedious negotiations in Korea (see above) were uppermost in the President's mind. Just before he left Washington for a weekend with 120 top-ranking officers and defense officials at the big Marine base at Quantico, Va., the President had another conference on Korea. The meeting delayed the departure from the White House, and although the motorcade roared down to Quantico at 70 m.p.h., the President was late, and the official welcoming party was confused and missed his arrival. When he finally caught up with the President, Quantico Commandant Lieut. General Clifton B. Gates...
...Quantico, Va. last week, the Marine Corps showed off its new Mighty Mite a pint-size cousin of the wartime jeep (40 inches shorter and 1,300 lbs. lighter) The spunky little auto has no muffler (the tubular frame acts as one) and no axles (each wheel is independently sprung), and can plow through knee-deep mud, ford streams, hit 45 m.p.h. on a level highway, climb an 87% grade and be airlifted by helicopter. The Marines have ordered ten Mites powered by 65-h.p. Lycoming air-cooled engines, from Mid-America Research Corp. of Wheatland...
...from a hitch in the U.S. Information Service, and had a flair for leadership. She helped set up the Marine Corps' first boot camp for women, at Hunter College, New York. After that she commanded a battalion, and served on the staff of the general in command at Quantico. When the war ended, she was 29 years old, a major, and was commanding 2,600 lady marines (as many as are on active duty in the whole corps today) at the Marine Air Station at Cherry Point...
...asked her to come back to take charge of the Women's Reserve. She did. In 1948 the Women's Reserve was integrated into the Marine Corps. Judy was promoted to lieutenant colonel, and eventually put in command of the women's officer-training detachment at Quantico...
...Apple Picker. From Quantico the Stevenson motorcade moved on to Richmond, where Saturday afternoon crowds on Richmond's streets gave Stevenson only a lukewarm reception. That evening at Richmond's Mosque Auditorium, Virginia's political boss, Senator Harry Byrd, was conspicuously missing from the speaker's platform. Busy picking apples, Byrd's friends said. But the audience was pleased as Stevenson invoked the magic name of Robert E. Lee and praised the Confederacy's constitution...