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Back at Syracuse University in the early 1960s, Lou Reed was a platoon leader in the campus ROTC unit. He was already dabbling in extreme forms of social behavior and cultivating notoriety like a rare hothouse herb. He also wanted out of his military commitment. To make sure that the authorities would oblige, he recalls holding a gun to the head of his commanding officer. It wasn't loaded, but this was no time to take chances. Lou got the boot...
Paulovich tucked that experience under his belt when he decided to spend the summer at Marine Platoon Officer Candidates School in beautiful downtown Quantico, Virginia. Too short to be eligible for the Marines, Paulovich says he slept on a board the night before his physical and stood on his tip-toes at the weigh-in. "Sarge" (his nickname from day one of sophomore year when he returned to Cambridge sporting a Frank Freidel crew-cut) finished in the top 5 per cent of his Marine class and plans to take a commission following graduation from Harvard next year...
...boys in Company C, they are a demographically balanced platoon in the manner of World War II movies: a hippie, a black, a farm boy, a redneck and so on. The roles are played by unsown actors, who, like all good soldiers in a losing cause, are destined to fade away...
...final working day of the Johnson Administration. The Government's interest in IBM encouraged several other suits against IBM by rival computer companies (some of which have since been settled). To organize the defense, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, a prestigious New York law firm, began moving a platoon of 35 attorneys to an IBM office building in White Plains, N.Y., for courses in electronics, computer technology, accounting, company organization and business procedures. "In a case as big as this, there are hundreds, thousands of issues," says Cravath, Swaine Partner Thomas Barr. "So first you get an education...
Paul Dietz, a slender youth in wire-rimmed glasses, loves war games of all kinds-from World War II platoon fights to dungeons and dragons. Says he: "I like to look at the mistakes commanders made in the past, as an intellectual exercise." Colin Camerer has a more direct interest in combat, since he lists as his main concerns "business and power." He adds: "Someone's going to be making decisions, and frankly I want to be there." Eugene Stark, by contrast, has a more modest policy: "I try to appear as normal as possible. If you go around...