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...cluttered with the no doubt essential references to Kennedy family gags and Soviet impulses to claim all inventions as their own. So they often do. Carter Wilson, who wrote the book, wants to make an invariably temperate and reasonable liberal under fire sound exciting, a difficult job, and Geoffrey Platt struggles hard to spread his unruly paste of comedian's chatter far enough to fill out a major role. Platt is clever...
...good crop of freshmen coming up completes the cross country team's rather auspicious picture for next fall's campaign. Yardling captain Eddie Meehan won a good percentage of his races this year including the freshman Big Three--in this case by almost 200 yards. Mike Platt took a third in the same race, edging out fourth-place teammate Jeff Peck. All three will be strong contenders for positions among the top twelve next year...
Freshman captain Eddie Moehan and Mike Platt were one-two for the Yardlings as they also pulled an upset, 22 to 37, over the Green. Jeff Peck and John Weinstein backed up the leaders coming in fifth and sixth...
...Yardling team was also successful thanks to a one-two finish by Ed Meehan and Mike Platt. Meehan covered the three-mile course...
...Force last week closed its books on the case of the Bumping Colonel and the Angry General. The colonel: Lieut. Colonel Charles Platt Jr., who bulldozed his way onto a Military Air Transport Service plane in Japan last month, unseating half a dozen Stateside-bound G.I.s. The general: Lieut. General Robert Whitney Burns, boss of U.S. military forces in Japan, who ordered the plane to return to its base and personally drove over to Tokyo's Tachikawa Airport to put the G.I.s back in their seats and to chew out Colonel Platt (TIME, April 13). As punishment for having...