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...Harvard win was also highlighted by the return of Dean Sheppard, who was back to compete at 158 pounds after taking the fall semester off. He notched a key, 3-2, victory over the Chief's Doug LeRoy to keep the Crimson in contention before the deciding three bout rally. "I thought I was in pretty good shape, this being my first match of the year," Sheppard said...
...Laird told the President that his intelligence people had recommended a P.O.W. camp at Son Tay as a likely target for search and rescue. Nixon was enthusiastic. On Aug. 11 he gave a go-ahead for planning the operation without actually authorizing the mission. The Pentagon assigned Brigadier General LeRoy Manor, head of air commandos at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., and Colonel Simons, an ex-Green Beret then stationed at Fort Bragg, N.C., to lead what became known as Joint Contingency Task Group Ivory Coast...
Brig. Gen. Leroy J. Manor, one of the raiders' commanders, estimated that the camp had been evacuated as long as three weeks ago. He dismissed the possibility of a security leak...
...dress! I didn't want to buy it, but ole Debbil, he MADE me. You don't like it? Well, what you SEE is what you GET. OOO-WAAH-O!" The sly black face next appears supported by a clerical collar. Now it is the Rev. Leroy of the Church of What's Happening Now. "Reverend!" cries an elder. "There's a blue El Dorado illegally parked outside." The good pastor favors the elder with a seraphic grin. "The Lord smiled down on me in last week's raffle...
...hilarious pair, Geraldine and the Rev. Leroy, are one and the same-Clerow ("Flip") Wilson, 36, America's fastest-rising comedian, black or white. Not so long ago, Flip was scratching something like $15 a night out of low-rent nightclubs along the Eastern seaboard. Then he made a one-night stand on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show. The stocky, moon-faced comic became-quite literally-a star overnight. Now his own NBC-TV variety hour, The Flip Wilson Show, is the most successful new hour in an otherwise dismal fall season...