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Barnaby expects the Ivy League to be extraordinarily tight. Harvard, Penn, and Dartmouth will fight it out for the championship. Princeton and Yale may cause some trouble. But Barnaby is optimistic. "All these guys are good tennis players. The potential of a good outfit is there...
Firepower v. Footwork. The President's new platoon also includes a military star: Lieut. General Bruce Palmer, 53, who was appointed last week as commander of Field Force II-a composite outfit of infantry, artillery and armored divisions that recently attempted, in vain, to wipe out the Viet Cong base headquarters near Cambodia. Palmer-who commanded the 23,000-man force in the Dominican Republic-replaces Lieut. General Jonathan Seaman. Having already proved his diplomatic deftness, Palmer will now have to adapt to a type of warfare where firepower counts less than footwork...
...Prince Rainier, 43, came up a winner. Monaco's Supreme Court decided that the Prince's government was perfectly within its rights when it issued itself 600,000 new shares of stock in the Société des Bains de Mer, thus guaranteeing control of the outfit that runs the famed Monte Carlo Casino and 33% of the principality's real estate. The big loser: Greek Shipping Magnate Aristotle Onassis, 60, who hitherto controlled the Société with 500,000 shares. Onassis' next move may well be to offer his shares to Rainier...
...self-protective deviousness in his nature. He ran away, he tells his lawyer and the court, because one day the mud-and-blood bath of battle got to be too much for him. He doesn't have the foggiest idea if he ever intended coming back to his outfit. All he knows is that he desperately wanted to go home. It is an affecting, truthful defense, but the law gives Hamp's military judges no option; he dies before a firing squad...
Coach Sieja's outfit, which topped Harvard, 15-12, also beat Cornell earlier in the season, 14-13. But last week the Big Red looked impressive against Columbia, losing 15-12 to the team which clobbered Harvard, 21-6. Cornell's only Ivy win was against Yale, the League doormat for the last few years...