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...speed of 42 m.p.h. without refueling (v. 100 miles and 18 m.p.h. by the Panzer IVs of Rommel's famed Afrika Korps). It can cross rivers simply by driving underwater, locate targets in the night with infra-red and starlight viewfinders, and pinpoint their range with a laser beam. Automatic devices have reduced the standard four-and five-man crew to three, and a sophisticated stabilization system keeps a big 152-mm. gun so steady that it can fire artillery shells or guided missiles accurately even as the tank rumbles over potholes...
...Douglas so appealing? Gulp hard. "I want to make as many persons happy as I can," he says. He's that kind of guy. Arrow-straight, true-blue, sincere as all get out. He asks his guests to show snapshots of their kids, and the ladies at home beam. He adds: "I don't smoke, I don't drink, I get home every night. I'm a square." The view from across the board is something approaching mystical adoration...
...insolent in his blue blazer, tanned by the Carribean--or was it Innsbruck--sun, corrupt in his basic indifference to our ragged emotion and hope. He wore a blue plastic badge as a catchet of his sterility. The opportunists from mass media delayed the game so that they could beam coast to coast a clicheridden conversation with the rival managers...
Eleven gritty little new faces will beam out from under helmets and faceguards when the Crimson takes the field against Lafayette tomorrow. Only on e of them is a sophomore--Ray Hornblower--and he will be running back punts. Most of the others are juniors who saw limited action last year...
During the next five weeks, their dark almond eyes will beam on a group of lecturers from business schools in the Boston area, and their stiletto-like fingernails will flick through books on such subjects as real estate management, production cost analysis and product marketing. Then they will visit major U.S. industrial firms, dropping in on General Mills or IBM or Mobil Oil to get a firsthand look at how their male counterparts in the U.S. turn a profit...