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...Crimson, is in third place in the polling with 111 votes, followed by Yale (86), St. Lawrence (75), and Northeasterner (63). Princeton is in sixth place with 58 votes. Brown in seventh place with 56 votes and R.P.I., Dartmouth, Tufts. Army, Clarkson, and M.I.T. bring up the rear in that order-all with less than 20 votes...
Guerrilla. In World War II, Khrushchev took charge of the mass guerrilla movement that scorched the black earth of the Ukraine in the Wehrmacht's rear, won the Stalingrad Medal for his services as a political commissar. At war's end he went back to the war-charred Ukraine with orders from the Kremlin to 1) revive its agriculture and heavy industry; 2) liquidate the Ukrainians who had collaborated with the Nazis. He succeeded on both counts. "Half the leading workers have been done away with," he boasted...
...Lavin, he had been able to send no fewer than 247 back to duty. The great majority went back to combat within four or five days, and most of the others got service (e.g., as stretcher bearers) in the forward area. Only three cases did Lavin send to a rear-area hospital in Seoul, and one of them soon returned to duty...
...generals' cries for manpower and psychiatrists' pleas for enlightened treatment of battlefront emotional cases. The policy began to emerge early in World War II. The Army swung away from the practice of treating every case of "combat fatigue" like a hot potato, sending the soldier back to rear-area hospitals, and often to a medical discharge which helped to make him a psychiatric case for life. The new idea was that most war neuroses do not originate in childhood fears but in a normal, understandable fear of being wounded or killed...
...Berkeley's Emerson Grammar School, he was already reading Russian authors, and during study periods, he would spring from his seat to pace about the rear of the classroom, a book in his hand. He never cared what his classmates thought of him, or how he looked, or whether his shoelaces were tied. Nor does he care today: his tie is frequently askew, his suits (he has four) slightly wrinkled. He lapped up mythology ("Vulcan," he wrote at eleven, "was the god of goldsmiths, ironsmiths, leadsmiths, silversmiths, coppersmiths, brassmiths and Mrs. Smiths-there...