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...more than a third of the American perimeter caved in, yielding yard by yard to Viet Cong pressure. Young troopers took reckless chances to fetch more bullets and grenades. Using his master sergeant as a sort of artillery spotter, Specialist Four Samuel Townsend, 21, a draftee and former high-school athlete from Detroit, pitched grenades with deadly accuracy at an enemy now less than 30 yds. away. In some spots the fighting was even closer. Private First Class Edward Edwards, 20, clubbed down one surprised Viet Cong with his rifle butt. SP4 Richard Hazel, 21, sprinting for a rifle, literally...
...whole experience was mildly disillusioning to the former high-school stars -- one of the players was an All-Chicago choice from a high school that had two courts better than the IAB's; the top prospect, an All-New York City player named Paul Clegg, quit even before the first game. They followed the Harvard syndrome of deteriorating while playing amid a persistently negative atmosphere and on a team that their high schools could have beaten...
There is a growing suspicion among at least 20 college basketball coaches that they have just wasted two whole years working furiously on their defenses and doodling the name Alcindor on the backs of old envelopes. It was heartbreaking enough when Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr., the most sought-after high-school basketball player in the U.S. two years ago, decided to pass up their scholarship offers and go to U.C.L.A. instead. It was worse when the coaches checked their schedules for 1966-67 and discovered that they would have to meet him in person. Now Lew Alcindor...
...defends the student deferment on the grounds that, in the long run, it is in the nation's interest to protect its human resources. An educated student who has already cost thousands of dollars to train is obviously more valuable and of greater potential to the state than a high-school drop-out. The college student will almost always make a larger contribution to the Gross National Product than someone who does not achieve the same level of education...
...Harvard but dropped out after a year. Scott, whose poem bad news has been published in Los Angeles magazine, has been contacted by Alfred A. Knopf Inc. and Harper's magazine, is planning to return to college this fall. Schulberg is equally high on the talents of Leumas Sirrah, 18, a high-school student whose poems are generally lyrical abstractions about God and life, and Jimmy Sherman, 22, whose four-stanza verse TH' WORKIN' MACHINE is being set to music by television's Steve Allen...