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Miracle man Don Pompan evened the team match at three-apiece heading in to the doubles, though, resorting to his patented third-set lightning in dispatching highly-touted plebe Dave Andrews...
Although the story is a somewhat amateurish mess and the characters are made of plywood, Truscott's book bristles with engaging, sometimes horrific lore about the ordeal of West Point, circa 1968, its codes and disciplines. His description of Beast Barracks, the two sum mer months before plebe year that turn oafish high school graduates into passable cadets, has the ring of first-rate journal ism. Truscott possesses a subversively accurate ear for the intonations of officers...
...Annapolis, Plebe Carter was resolute enough not to sing Marching Through Georgia as part of the hazing process, no matter how often or hard his rear end was pummeled. Trying to reassure one campaign audience that he did not always want to be President, Carter said, "When I was at Annapolis, the only thing I wanted to be was Chief of Naval Operations...
...scandal has touched off both criticism of and strong cadet support for the code. According to Plebe John Cook. the strictly enforced code "means you can trust each other completely." Adds Senior Cadet Hank Keirsey: "It's just something you accept absolutely. People's lives depend on our integrity." But another cadet complains that the "code doesn't really develop integrity because it is based on fear...
...UMass crowd went home naked, however. The Minutemen's first freshman heavyweight boat won the shirts off the backs of freshman lights by virtue of its half second win. The Navy plebe boat is not allowed to leave the Annapolis campus, except for the Sprints, and thus it did not make the trek north. The Crimson will face Yale and Princeton next week for the Goldthwait Cup in preparation for the Sprints...