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...marching 50 miles in 20 hours, according to the terms of an old Teddy Roosevelt order. The Marines responded. And so, it seemed, did everyone else who could muster up the same kind of spirit it took to swallow gold fish, raid for panties or whirl a hula hoop...
THROUGH THE HOOP (351 pp.)-Michel Del Castillo-Knopf...
...hoop, hreep, hrope!" bellow the R.O.T.C. drill sergeants, and to many U.S. college students the whole idea of uniforms, parades and dull "military science" classes appears more than ever to be preparation for a doughboy war in an age when more academic learning would serve the nation better. The Navy's 53-campus "Holloway" volunteer plan, offering complete scholarships, produces a steady supply of bright young officers, but Air Force R.O.T.C. at 187 schools harvests only 4% of trainees as commissioned officers, and the Army's 247-campus program is notoriously archaic. Among college administrators, who consider...
Indeed, Mr. Scully, class of '65, can do all sorts of wondrous things with a basketball. He steals it, he dribbles it, he posses it, he grabs it away from fellows several inches taller than his 6 ft. 1 in. stature, and he throws it through the hoop, which after all is the object of the whole affair. For the first few games he was a hit hesitant about his shooting, but in the Crimson's four Ivy games Scully has been the first or second leading scorer in all of them...
...into hundreds of tiny shrimps (a magnifying glass is included). By the time these are eaten up. the instant fish are ready for life in a bigger tank and a grown-up diet. The instant fish kit ($2.98) is produced by Wham0 Mfg. Co.-the entrepreneurs of the Hula Hoop...