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Jordan said, "We ought to work out some system on this substitution rule." He recalled pre-war days, before the two-platoon system had become popular. At that time, a man could not return to play in the game quarter once he was taken out. "It worked out all right then," Jordan added...
Hyde, a daring experimenter, the first to install a Split-P formation, has gone traditional for this game. He will stick with the customary two-platoon system, and no wonder. For the Open defensive unit is one of the finest extant...
This was relatively easy. The only rail road running east from Cairo to the Egyptian outposts along the Israeli border crosses the Suez Canal by a small swing bridge at El Ferdan (see.map). One night last week, a British lieutenant quietly led his platoon along the moonlit sand dunes approaching the bridge, where Egyptian soldiers stood on guard. There was a short, fierce battle, but in 15 minutes five Egyptians were dead and the British, with no casualties, had the bridge...
...fiery Mrs. Barbara Castle, were elected to serve alongside him on the 25-man committee. Defense Minister Manny Shinwell was beaten. Attlee's moderates, with the powerful bloc votes of the trade unions, still held control of the party directorate, but the vote served notice that a solid platoon of rank & file Laborites shares the daydreams of the "Bevanly Host" (more class-war Socialism; opposition to rearmament). In Bevan's language, the U.S. is almost as flagrant a disturber of the peace as Russia...
...everybody does, while statistics-keepers and sports scribes go berserk in the stands, and Margarita introduces Harvard '55 to the double four platoon system and substitutions incredibly unlimited...