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Oddly enough, another junior named was Greenidge's counterpart for Yale, Tom Schmidt. To make room for two middle guards, the coaches chose only three defensive backs, slighting some of the League's excellent "rovers...
...kill at Tay Ninh demonstrated, the arsenal of American weapons in Viet Nam is the deadliest ever developed for man-to-man combat. The U.S. infantryman in Viet Nam today shoulders six times the firepower of his Korean War counterpart; behind him stand rank upon rank of mobile mortars and howitzers that can be called in by air as quickly as he needs them. Overhead hover helicopters bristling with machine guns, rockets and automatic grenade launchers; above the "gunships" circle jet fighter-bombers armed with searing napalm, white phosphorous and bomblets that can unleash deadly patterns of tiny steel pellets...
Healthy Sign? What can the union do for the Soldaten? "We demand better pay," snaps Union Leader Willi Zimmermann, 48. He explains that a German sergeant with five years' service draws only $150 a month (v. $270 for his U.S. counterpart), and is seeking $40 a month more. Zimmermann also demands "easier" promotion, more recreational facilities, increased health coverage, and a pension plan equivalent to that of civil servants. Fair enough within the framework of current union de mands, but Zimmermann goes further. "It is ridiculous," he says, "for a highly trained soldier to perform menial tasks like guard...
...Northern Ireland and longtime chairman of The Spectator, who in 1918, in order "to draw together in the bond of comradeship the English-speaking people of the world," founded the English-Speaking Union of the Commonwealth, to facilitate cultural exchanges, give scholarships, hold conferences, in 1920 founded a U.S. counterpart, saw the groups grow to more than 100,000 members; of a heart attack; in Marlow, England...
...made it clear that Kerr "doesn't speak for me," and has successfully fought for more U.C.L.A. autonomy in such matters as budget making and seeking federal funds on its own. Proud of his school's progress so far, Murphy envisions U.C.L.A. becoming a model modern counterpart of the great medieval universities, blending quality and quantity, serving as an intellectual laboratory for an increasingly urbanized world...