Word: finests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enemy's manpower squeeze has already begun to seep down into the Delta, making it more than ever ripe for American thrusting. Not long ago the government captured an unprecedented 55 soldiers of the main force So Trang battalion, once one of the Viet Cong's finest. Among them was a boy of only 14, and the average age of the 55 was 17. They had been press-ganged into the Communist ranks only ten days before...
...Regner, 22, Notre Dame, 6 ft. 1 in., 245 Ibs., and Bob Hyland, 20, Boston College, 6 ft. 5 in., 258 Ibs. A few seasons ago, most pro teams would not consider drafting college guards, simply because they were too small. No longer. Regner, say the scouts, is "the finest guard in the country," and Hyland was a stick-out despite the fact that he played for a team that compiled a 4-6 record against mediocre competition...
ECCE HOMO by George Grosz. Grove Press. $15. Germany's savage satirist, who died in 1959, represented by some of his finest thrusts at pomposity and obtuseness. The drawings and water-colors done in the between-wars period reflect Grosz's deep pessimism as he watched the wavering fall of the Weimar Republic, with Hitler waiting in the wings of history. "Once you have glimpsed these corrosive portraits, these street and bedroom scenes," writes Author Henry Miller in a foreword, "you will never forget them...
...Jeff Grate, who Floyd Wilson has called "one of the finest natural athletes I've seen at Harvard," start playing up to his potential this year after a somewhat disappointing sophomore season? Grate can jump -- he's one of the few 6 ft. 1 in. players anywhere who can stuff the ball with two hands. He's quick, and can shoot and pass well, but he tends to be careless at times...
After we had exchanged greetings, he extolled the friendliness of the people of his state. "Finest people in the world," he claimed, "and the very best of 'em live right up here in the Hill country." "But you know the trouble with people?" he continued. "People just don't read. And even when they do, they don't know what to do with a piece of information when they get their hands...