TRAINING: Tank Senator

Second youngest member of the U. S. Senate is Massachusetts' 38-year-old Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (Youngest: West Virginia's lame duck, Rush Holt, 35.) Youngster Lodge is an isolationist like his famed Senator grandfather, who torpedoed Woodrow Wilson's plans for U. S. participation in the League of Nations, but he is also an advocate of a potent U. S. defense force. He is a captain in the cavalry reserve, keeps his tactics shiny by attending summer camps and maneuvers. Last week, on two weeks' active duty at Fort Knox, where one of the new armored divisions is being formed, he...

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