Word: platooned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cornell is the most underrated team in the Ivy League, but with a devastating ground game, a rock-ribbed defense, and a year of experience with the two-platoon system, they could be the team to beat. Last year the Big Red lost to Colgate whose defensive unit, which yielded only seven touchdowns in 1964, is still largely intact. Last week Colgate bombed Lafayette, 40 to 0. Oddsmakers have listed Cornell as a two-point favorite, and this should be a close one. But if Cornell wins big, watch...
...Young Jr., executive director of the Urban League: "It's not enough to deplore the violence. This is but a symptom." Jesse Gray, leader of the rent strikes in Harlem during 1963: "We need 100 skilled black revolutionaries, dedicated men ready to die. We must make each a platoon captain, and each must get 100 more. New York can be changed by 50,-000 well-organized Negroes. They can determine what will happen to the city." Harlem Politician Percy Sutton: "If you tell the white man you're not going...
...trooper. "It is terrible and miserable," wrote one Red soldier killed at Due Co before he could mail his latest letter. "Airplanes bomb and strafe, and we can do nothing about it. The fighting situation is tough, too serious and difficult. Sometimes we can muster only one platoon for military operations. I am sick almost every day with stomach pains. Drugs are low. Our rice turns sour. We would like the battalion commander to handle this problem. Give my regards to the battalion commander...
Mark Bramhall and Marjorie Lerstrom drew the two roles most chopped up by the crossfire between Brecht and Farquahr. Farquahr's Worthy is an amorous country gentleman of leisure and a bit of a buffoon; Brecht's is a shoe merchant who plans to sell his boots to the platoon Plume recruits, and his mental temperature oscillates between extremet canniness and extreme romanticism. Bramhall might have made the role gell a bit better by treating some of Worthy's protestations as posturing. Miss Lerstrom faces the same problem with Melinda and resolves it by throwing herself vigorously into the lady...
...copper-rich central African nation of Zambia is the focus of Japan's most intense trading drive. Last month a twelve-man Zambian trade delegation was swept through Tokyo with a platoon of geishas, even treated to a reception with the Emperor. The Zambians took away their first trade pact with Japan and promises of investments in a fertilizer plant, textile mill, transistor radio assembly plant, steel mill and luxury hotel. For its part, Zambia lifted all restrictions on Japanese imports...