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...visitors follow their usual two-platoon policy in the Stadium this afternoon, then the Crimson squad will meet a brand new team at the start of the second half...
...Chicago, the Detroit Lions, National Football League Champions last year, agreed to the intercollegiate limited-substitution rule, played an exhibition game of one-platoon football with the College All-Stars, kept their regular quarterback, Bobby Layne, on the bench, and still outshone the Stars in every department. Final score...
...less about American lead ership in the world," he said, "because we are trying to be a good partner . . . We want to do what is right, what is just and what is decent and try to get [other nations] going along because they believe in the same things ... A platoon leader doesn't get his platoon to go [with him] by getting up and shouting and saying 'I am smarter; I am bigger; I am stronger; I am the leader.' He gets men to go along with him because they want...
...years, from Soissons to Shanghai, Gates earned 29 decorations and four stars along with his scars. He fought through ten campaigns, commanded every unit from platoon (45 men) to division (20,000) in combat, and led the first big Marine victory in the Pacific (on Guadalcanal, where his 1st Marine Regiment killed 1,000 Japanese overnight on the Tenaru River). Perhaps his hardest fight came after the war, when President Truman and Pentagon brass tried to make the Marines a lightweight police force...
...Department. "We sometimes wonder who the Secretary of State might be," he said. "I was going to say Secretary of State (William F.) Knowland, Secretary of State (Richard) Nixon, Secretary of State (John Foster) Dulles, leaving some state of confusion. That is what I call foreign policy by the platoon system...