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...while at the same time assessing an illness growing from rigidity." Said Washington Correspondent Arthur White of his visit to the Naval Academy: "There was all the brass again, spit and polished in blinding white uniforms, yes-sirring and no-sirring and stirring old memories." Added W.W. II Army Sergeant White: "They get more than their share of raps in our antimartial society, and I thought of Kipling's lines: 'For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Chuck him out, the brute!"/ But it's "Saviour of 'is country" when...
...York Correspondents John Tompkins and Roland Flamini spent the week at West Point, where they were given carte blanche to ask questions. "I had forgotten how carefully scrubbed and polite cadets are," said Tompkins, an Army staff sergeant in the South Pacific in W.W. II. Concluded Flamini: "Some may find it hard to accept West Point's honor code as anything more than elitist mumbo jumbo -but there is something to the place." That "something" and the scandal's scope are the story: edited by Ronald Kriss, an ex-Army specialist third class; written by James Atwater...
...five huge fans whirled lazily overhead, the mace-bearing sergeant at arms stomped into Georgetown's 19th century House of Assembly to declare the presence of the Speaker of Guyana's Parliament. Opening last week's regular session on the eve of the former British colony's tenth anniversary of independence, the Speaker then interrupted a droning debate about a pension scheme, with a notable announcement: after a three-year boycott, the opposition People's Progressive Party, led by dedicated Marxist Cheddi Jagan, had agreed to take its seats in Parliament. The return...
...drill-sergeant type named Marvin rants a bit and goes over the rules four or five times. We already know them: no chatting, smoking or notetaking; no getting out of the chair for any reason except for "the maximum" of one food break per day and widely spaced bathroom breaks. Around Manhattan, est is known as the "no-pee therapy." Bladder control is crucial. At some sessions, trainees have been known to announce "I have just wet my pants and it doesn't matter," sitting down happily, if soggily, to tumultuous applause...
...Bernstein of being an accessory of two Puerto Rican girls they had apprehended earlier for shoplifting. Even though no stolen merchandise was found on Bernstein and the two girls denied knowing her, the store insisted on pressing charges. "You might have a false arrest on your hands," warned the sergeant at the police station when Bernstein was brought in and fingerprinted. False arrest it was, and the innocent Bernstein never quite recovered from the ordeal. Psychiatrists found her a "seriously ill young lady who has a tenuous social and psychological equilibrium as a result of the events...