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Last week the Army still had 59 inspectors combing the post. A recruit of ten weeks flopped down on the pine needles at lunchtime and stared disgustedly at his mess kit. He had just spent the morning running through a combat-in-cities course...
...mess kit was a quarter-inch of greasy beef stew and lima beans. "If it wasn't for the food my mother sent me, I'd starve," the recruit said. "Eight lima beans. Count them, eight." The mess corporal was sorry: "I would like to give them more to eat, but there isn't enough to go around. I got to feed 15 or 20 more than my ration every...
...Robert Dunne sat Cheryl's parents, Darrell Labrenz, 25, and his wife Rhoda, 20. They had been childhood sweethearts at Dalton (pop. 400) in Wisconsin's dairyland. Little more than a year ago, they joined Jehovah's Witnesses and moved to Chicago with their first child, Kit. (As often happens in cases of Rh incompatibility, there had been no difficulty with the first-born.) Now, red-eyed and distraught, each with a Bible in hand, they fought off the city health authorities...
Second team lineup is Bill Conboy, Bill Eastham, Woody Kingman, john Bardis, John Beer, Doug Worrall, Jim Callahan, Hennon Morris, Dune Robertson, Hollis Hunnewell, Don Louria, Bill Letson Brcue White, Kit Liang, and Doug Purdy...
...austerely handsome man of 56, tramped alongside the lead tank of a column, critically watching the two lines of infantrymen shuffle up the road a few hundred yards ahead. Neatly hooked to the web harness he wore over his trench coat were a paratrooper's first-aid kit and the hand grenade that has become as famous a trademark as George Patton's pearl-handled pistols...