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...better than What is better than owing $64 million? Well, owing only $20 million-as, now, does Lammot du Pont ("Motsey") Copeland Jr., a great-great-great -grandson of the founder of the Du Pont dynasty. Climaxing one of history's largest personal bankruptcy actions, his overworked platoon of Wilmington lawyers settled with a creditors' committee, whittling down his debt from a series of misbegotten enterprises...
...Cadets have earned the same rap that often applies to the mediocre baseball player--"they are all run, no field." Unfortunately for the Army platoon, any team which expects to knock off the Crimson must have at least some semblance of a field contigent. "We don't have anything in the long jump and triple jump, and the high jump should be no problem for Harvard," a candid Crowell said...
...quiet, comely heiress to a famed publishing fortune who spent much of her time preparing for her intended marriage to Steven Andrew Weed, 26, a graduate philosophy student. Kidnaped on Feb. 4 by the obscure revolutionary band that grandiosely calls itself an army but is more of a ragtag platoon, she seemed close to release two weeks ago, after her family started a free-food program for the Bay Area's needy and aged that the S.L.A. had demanded. Then she stunned her family and friends by announcing that she had renounced them, joined her abductors, and adopted the name...
...muddy blue and white Tel Aviv bus, with its sign, "In military service," halted near Suez city, 85 miles east of Cairo. This was the last stop before the Egyptian-Israeli cease-fire line 13 miles farther south. The ginger-haired civilian driver opened the door alongside a platoon of soldiers waiting by their halftracks at the edge of the road. "This line is closing down," he said happily. "See you in Tel Aviv." The soldiers cheered and clapped their hands. They were getting...
...touch football, Lowell uses a two-platoon system, freely alternating offensive and defensive teams. Most of the players participated on last year's team, and the experience showed in the 19-15 victory over Eliot House last week which insured their second straight touch football championship...