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...Chief of Staff of the Army has been coveted by William C. Westmoreland ever since his days as a plebe in West Point's famed Class of '36. Last week, after 46 grueling months of battles and frustrations as the supreme commander of 533,000 American fighting men in Viet Nam, the prize was his. Ironically, General Westmoreland, 54, the jut-jawed epitome of a "straight arrow" soldier to untold thousands of sweat-stained G.I.s in jungles and paddies, will leave Saigon this week a frustrated, disappointed...
...West Point, Abrams found the lowly estate of a plebe demeaning, and retaliated with his own guerrilla war against upperclassmen, aiming potshots with his BB gun judiciously due south of retreating backs and once smearing an upperclassman's radiator with Limburger cheese. His pranks found more acceptable outlets in stage-managing the academy's 100th Night Show, and his aggressiveness was more usefully employed on the football field. He graduated a mediocre 185th in his class of 276, but one course in which he excelled was horsemanship. That led him into the cavalry and, with the army...
...highly questionable" referee's calls deprived Freshman wrestlers Mark Faller and John Imrie of victories in the finals of the 42-school Plebe Tournament Saturday at West Point...
...other wrestling last weekend, freshman team captain Paul Catinella, 137, took third place at the Plebe Invitational Tournament held at West Point...
...push-ups-but no longer over a bayonet; the yearly dose of close-order drill has been slashed by 70 per cent. Gone are the interminable handson-heels "duck walks" that once sent Douglas MacArthur to a hospital. Forbidden, too, are such hazing tortures as "shower formation," in which plebes braced at attention until perspiration soaked their bathrobes. Instead of requiring the traditional gibberish reply to the upperclassman's question, "How is the cow?"* a plebe may be ordered at dinner to deliver a ten-minute lecture on Viet...