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Poverty pervaded all the towns in the colonels' youth. Each of the leaders needed family sacrifices to get him into high school, cadet school and finally the comfortable middle-class security of an army commission. "Our breaths stank from hunger," Ladas remembers bitterly, adding that the first meal that ever made him feel stuffed was served at cadet school. A friend recalled last week that Makarezos as a boy "used to hang around when they dug potatoes. He would pick up the culls and take them home for his mother to cook." Poverty was complicated by what Greek peasants...
...closing seconds of the round. Robertson uncorked what had become the trademark of Harvard boxers--a combination jab, cross and hook followed by an inside right counter. The last blow landed under Well's ear and sent the bewildered Cadet spinning to the canvas for his first collegiate defeat...
...cindermen combined five individual victories and several gritty backup performances to set up a showdown race in the meet's final event, the two-mile relay. Army sought to duplicate the result of December's dual meet, when a narrow win in the same relay climaxed a 57-51 Cadet victory...
President Ayub Khan of Pakistan has been in politics for more than a decade now, but he has not forgotten some of the elementary lessons he learned as a Sandhurst cadet many years ago. Last week, with Pakistan in its fourth month of unprecedented civil disorder and with opposition pressure steadily mounting against him, the former field marshal began a cautious tactical retreat to blunt the onslaught...
David Karapetian '69, cadet commander of Army ROTC, defended the presence of ROTC at Harvard as "consistent with the ideals of a liberal arts institution in light of its obligations to the realistic needs of the larger society...