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...presidential campaign had only three weeks left to run, but the Republicans still didn't hate Adlai Stevenson and the Democrats still didn't hate Ike. In 1952, the two-platoon system had come to politics too. Each party had not only picked a candidate but had provided its foes with a living, breathing, campaigning villain. Last week the G.O.P. was so sore at Truman and the Democrats so incensed at Bob Taft that both Ike and Adlai were still good guys to millions on both sides of the political fence...
RESHEVSKY was born into a rabbinical family in Poland and learned chess as a kibitzer at his father's knee. At six, he was giving his father the odds of a rook and winning easily. Sammy came to the U.S. when he was nine, and promptly defeated a platoon of Army officers in simultaneous play at West Point. Then, when he was eleven, someone discovered that the boy wonder had never attended school. Merchant Julius Rosenwald, a Patzer and philanthropist, soon remedied this defect. Six months of tutoring brought Reshevsky up to high-school level and he went...
Lahar is not an exponent of the two-platoon system. Captain Main often goes both ways. Simmons, leading offensive halfback, is described in a Colgate press dispatch as one of "the top defensive backs in the East." Although some of his lighter linemen would give way to replacements, Lahar would very likely use a tackle like Tomanek, 220-pound sophomore, for the better part of a game...
Coach Norm Shepard said before the game he would use a two platoon system--"We'll have several men going both ways." When the Nichols Jr. College players took the field, however, they discovered they were facing, not a two platoon system, but a three team set-up--far more devastating as the final score clearly shows...
...right,' he said sadly, wiping at his bleeding face with a grimy shirtsleeve. 'I was supposed to back up the platoon with my B.A.R., and I had picked out a swell place where I could see almost every inch of the path the platoon was taking. I saw the lieutenant take the patrol over a little knoll and I knew that if they were going into an ambush, that was where it would be. Then I saw the ambush. I saw about six or eight Chinese rise up from the rim rock with their machine guns-they were...