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Please tell Mario Puzo that he was not alone in the forests when he was tracking Senecas and Iroquois as a youth. I, too, loved with a passion the novels of Joseph Altsheler, and couldn't take them out of the public library fast enough. Doc Savage, too, of course. But while my friends all know about Doc Savage, most of them have never heard of the Altsheler books. If Puzo wants to set up a small Altsheler memorial from little boys who grew up to be writers, I'm ready...
...these questions that's probably one more right than you'll get after taking this Harvard Sports Quiz. We've chosen only the highlights of the past few years from our trivia file here at the Crimson Sports Cube, so don't go crazy just because Kevin Carr or "Doc" Hines aren't listed...
...refugees frequently cite disaffection with Haiti's regime, although it has been liberalized somewhat under Papa Doc Duvalier's son Jean-Claude. "I can't say anything against the government or I go to jail," says Andre Gerard, 22, a Haitian who arrived in Miami by way of the Bahamas. Adds Ivon Louis, 27, "It's still the same thing, man. Papa and Baby are the same...
...believed, like Doc Peret, that somewhere inside each man is a biological center for the exercise of courage, a piece of tissue that might be touched and sparked and made to respond, a chemical maybe or a lone chromosome that when made to fire would produce chain reactions of valor that even the biles could not drown. A filament, a fuse, that if ignited would release the full energy of what might be. There was a Silver star twinkling somewhere inside...
...worse, pieces of them. His courage is not in question; the Company remembers how Cacciato got the Silver Star for shooting a Viet Cong in the teeth. But one day the goofy kid checks out, marching to Paris, and the squad is sent to bring him back--Paul Berlin, Doc Paret, Oscar Johnson, the Lieutenant, and the rest--but in Paris they lose him, just as they lost him all along the way. This is a wonderful idea for a novel, but even in this novel it doesn't quite happen--at the Laotian border the squad turns back...