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...Army Lieut. David Meredith, 26: the National Service Rifle (.30 cal.) championship of the National Rifle and Pistol Matches, scoring 796 points (out of a possible 800) and hitting the center bull's-eye 79 times in 160 shots. Another winner at the month-long matches: WAC Lieut. Margaret Thompson, who outshot 2,000 male competitors with a .30-cal. rifle to win the Navy Cup, firing a perfect score...
...personal secretary, Johnson has brought in Mrs. Juanita Roberts, an attractive and efficient former WAC, who is still a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve...
Unbeliever Murray is a tough, wisecracking divorcee of 45 whose forebears arrived in Massachusetts in 1650. Daughter of a Pittsburgh contractor, she served on Eisenhower's staff in World War II as a WAC officer-cryptographer, later studied law at Ohio Northern University and South Texas College; she has spent 17 years as a supervisor of social workers. A former member of the leftish Socialist Labor Party, she claims to have forsaken Christianity at 13, after reading the Bible; since then, reason has been her only faith, and she boasts: "Nobody has ever beaten me in an argument...
...bounced out of the Navy. His self-confidence shaken, Cadwell could not face returning to the outside world. Now Cadwell is not only out of the hospital but enjoying a normal life. He earns $1.70 an hour in a small Los Angeles plant, has married an ex-WAC from Texas, lives in a middle-class bungalow, bowls on weekends...
...South's most sensitive issue, the race problem, neither paper has shown any inclination to copy the Press's boldness. The Chronicle generally temporizes, the Post-run by onetime WAC commander Oveta Gulp Hobby-usually maintains editorial silence. This month, when Federal District Judge Ben C. Connally ordered the city's laggard school board to step up the rate of public-school integration, only the Chronicle and the Press editorialized on his decision. The Chronicle was mild and vague: "It is hoped that all citizens will cooperate." The Press said: "Judge Connally's order...