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...marines, day in and day out, in methodical, grinding patrols against the Viet Cong, are killing an average 40 Viet Cong a week-at roughly the cost of one marine dead and five wounded a day. Typical was a night's work last week. After dusk a Marine platoon surrounded a hamlet in which V.C. had been reported hiding out, split into five squads and sat down to wait. No one spoke, no cigarettes were allowed, nor was mosquito repel lent, despite the stinging swarms-for a trained soldier can smell the chemical 50 yards away. Around...
...each stand the silver planes, bombs aboard, on phased alert: the first wave is on five-minute call, the next on 15-minute call, then a group on 30-minute call, finally a wave on an hour's notice. On the average, within 17 minutes of a platoon leader's radioed call for help, the jets can be over the target with almost any combination of weapons he might need: .50-cal. machine-gun bullets, cannon shells, Bull-Pup missiles, Zuni rockets, napalm, 260-lb. to 3,000-lb. bombs. At the newest of the fields...
Leverett uses a two-platoon system with a line that averages over 200 pounds. Key to the defense is Joe Augusclak '66, captain and linebacker. One of the best of a good crop of sophomores is Ed Stump at offensive center...
...Hamp, a young cobbler from Islington, the only survivor of his World War I platoon. He is a prisoner in a dugout cell, waiting to be tried for desertion, while outside rumble the guns of the Passchendaele offensive. Picking his way past a detail that is digging out a flooded latrine comes the officer assigned to defend the deserter: correct, unsmiling Captain Hargreaves...
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...