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Rockefeller: "It would bankrupt the social security system and be a personal disaster to millions of senior citizens and their families." Despite zero temperatures, Rocky clutched hundreds of hands and rattled off a spate of quick speeches to shivering but receptive crowds. Always easygoing and folksy, Rockefeller engaged a platoon of little boys in a snowball fight in Jaffrey, and that same night wound up straddling an onstage chair to hear the Keene Lion's Club chorus rehearse. The Lions roared Brotherhood of Man, and Rocky cracked: "You ought to go down to Washington and sing...
...small unit, encircled in the village of Idiofa (see map) and reinforced by a platoon of commandos, had piled up 500 rebel dead, but was unable to break the siege. At Gungu, another government outfit mowed down 100 guerrillas who staged a suicide charge with bows and arrows, spears and pangas. But the troops were cut off when rebels dug trenches across the local airstrip. Hardly had the commandos ar rived at Kikwit when one of their top officers, Army Chief of Staff Lieut...
...rule undoubtedly will revive the three-platoon approach made popular by Paul Dietzel at LSU. In the Ivy League both Dartmouth and Penn have used this system, and Tom Harp, Cornell's coach, became acquainted with it while he was at Army...
Just in case no one in the University does feel like a twenty-minute race, the College's athletic coaches have drafted a few starters. A platoon from the wrestling team, a few ice hockey players, and some of the basketball squad will run. Veteran distance runner and Dunster House tutor Erich Segal is rounding up a Faculty group...
...Tufts scrimmage Yovicain appeared to have a good start towards two good line units, and he feels he will need at least that many to with-stand the pressure of the Redmen's two platoon club. "They killed Maine with depth," he reports...