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...Without yesterday's ruling this would not have been possible," said Harney "It's got all the earmarks of good, colorful, exciting foot ball without the rigidity of the platoon system used at the other schools," he added...
...swept up to a polling center with three Jeepfuls of cronies armed with fraudulent ballots, Sister Teresita Felicitas blocked their way. Elsewhere, when a young tough ordered Sister Proxedor to leave her poll-watching center, she stood her ground and prayed. And as soon as the polls closed, a platoon of nuns escorted the ballot boxes to the safety of the provincial treasurer's office. Said Antonio Lahoz, a lay colleague: "The sisters' presence probably gave voters the moral strength to resist any pressure against voting their consciences...
...sexual prow ess to Perham as if she had not witnessed his failures. He alternately fasted and gorged on junk food, used the name Kevin with girlfriends and clients and spoke in a variety of voice inflections. "Knowing Fred Coe," said a schoolmate, "was like having a platoon of friends...
Every man in the platoon was in thrall to Mommy dearest; at 31, Fred could not resist the pill-popping, unstable Ruth Coe, who was often his "date" at realty open houses. She also accompanied him on frequent hairstyling appointments. "If Kevin hesitated in the middle of a sentence," recalled the receptionist, "Mrs. Coe would fill in the word. They're that close!" Then, one evening, after a quarrel about his lack of accomplishment, Ruth vandalized Coe's car. "Don't let Son upset you," she once told Perham. "He's not worth it." Perham...
Longest War: ABC's 18-hour The Winds of. . . brought Herman Wouk and a platoon of stars to prime time and proved that, with a $40 million budget and $35 million worth of on-air promotion, a mini-series can still snag record numbers of viewers...