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...often happens, the battle, code-named Operation Attleboro, got its start with a minor fire fight. A U.S. company on a routine rice hunt stumbled onto a Viet Cong platoon and traded blows for an hour. But that night the enemy struck back, mortaring two base camps -a tactic sometimes used by the Communists to divert the Allies from more serious business near by. Still not certain if something big was up, U.S. commanders dispatched six battalions of the 1st Infantry Division to the scene by plane and helicopter...
...planned raids, New York City cops swooped down on Goldy's Diner in South Ozone Park, Queens, and arrested six coffee drinkers who claimed that they were simply going hunting with the grenades, pipe bombs and rifles in their car. At the same hour, another platoon of policemen moved in on a Westchester County country house, which was flying a U.S. flag with 13 stars not far from its hillside fallout shelter; they found enough arms to fill a truck. In Syracuse, Brewerton, and Bay Shore, L.I., officers flushed more weapons by the score...
...harsh and demanding rule that Lord Randolph imposed upon the boy Winston. This is not the Churchill who was frustrated at Yalta but the Churchill who was flogged for stealing sugar from the pantry at his prep school, the Churchill who collected toy soldiers (at a few shillings a platoon...
Fifty-six freshmen will wear game suits this afternoon. It is impossible to say how many will play, but this much is sure: even in this age of two-platoon football, the boys Lamar likes will see action both on offense and defense...
Nebraska's Bellevue district, near Omaha, has refused to let teachers break contracts until replacements are found. Districts in Georgia and Massachusetts have turned to what they call "two for one" or "platoon" systems, in which two teachers, often housewives with degrees, are hired for each vacancy and each works only half a day. Maine is seeking teachers from Tunisia, Greece and Turkey in a "reverse Peace Corps...