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Viet Nam is no war for the classic military historian. It offers no vast clash of arms; no divisions sweep and pivot to the grand strategy of latter-day Clausewitzes. Instead there are quick, dirty fire fights-usually on no more than platoon or company scale-set in copses of bamboo and thorn vine so thick that men kill at a range of 10 ft. without having once seen each other. It is a war of leg-shearing booby traps and dung-smeared punji stakes, of professional skill and personal courage. It is also a war that is tailor-made...
...amorous, democratic and the soul of good fellowship. When sober, he is mean, arrogant, priggish and smoldering with hatred for his fellow man. Puntila sober, as Brecht sees it, is a class-conditioned animal. Puntila drunk is Rousseau's child of instinctive natural goodness. Some richly comic scenes pivot on this personality split. Puntila sober wouldn't dream of fraternizing with his chauffeur Matti; Puntila drunk begs Matti to marry his daughter. Puntila drunk gets engaged to four separate girls; Puntila sober throws the brides-to-be off his estate...
...pivot of this debate: the Moynihan report a much suppressed, much leaked Labor Department document that strips away usual equivocations and exposes the ugly truth about the big city Negro's plight...
...similarity ends there. Princeton has experience -- Thomforde is the only sophomore in the starting five. They also boast incredible balance. Guard Joe Heiser (14.8), forward John Haarlow (13.8), forward and captain Ed Hummer (13.3) and speedy guard Gary Walters (10.8) have divided the scoring almost evenly with the big pivot...
...freshman game, Harvard's Ernie Hardy scored 22 points in a 88-60 win. Hardy stars because he jumps higher than anyone else on the court -- so he can be a pivot man although he's only 6 ft. 4 in. HARVARD SCORING FG F T Kanuth 7 4 18 Gallagher 8 0 16 Royer 5 1 11 Martell 5 0 10 Grate 4 1 9 Waichowski 3 2 8 Dressler 3 1 7 Johnson 2 2 6 Beller 0 4 4 McCullough 2 0 4 Griswold 1 0 2 Markowski...