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Money isn’t the only self-sufficient aspect of the club. Members also have to find their own transportation to weekly coaching sessions at Ridgetop Farm in Millis, Mass., an hour southwest of Harvard...
...Caley's wilderness is not as remote as it once was. Sydney's suburbs lap at the range's feet, and at night the sound of trucks several kilometers away drift faintly into tents. On one ridgetop a mobile phone rings. But these are small intrusions into a stern wilderness. There are few walkers out here, and standing on one of the many ridges, the view in every direction is of implacable bush. There are still unexplored gullies out there; in one such nook, north of Caley's route, the Wollemi pine, which Wyn Jones helped identify, made international headlines...
...were able to bail out, I'm glad to say." In the second of the day's kills, Olds dived on the fleeing MIG-17 only to have a second Red fighter ambush him with blazing cannons. Scat's Sidewinder blasted the first MIG over a ridgetop, and as he wheeled for home Olds shouted over the intercom: "Nailed that bastard!" His gibs, 1st Lieut. Steve Croker, of Middletown, Del., recalls: "We were screaming back and forth at each other like a couple of excited kids...
Shore Party. Next day the general went ashore. On a ridgetop near Kimpo airfield he pulled on his corncob pipe and talked about bygone battles in the Philippines. To Vice Admiral Arthur Struble he said: "I've lived a long time and played with the Navy for a long time. They've never, never failed me." Then he drove back to the waterfront...
...Blood. Then came Lieut. Colonel John G. Cassidy's battalion. In four days of bitter fighting Major General John R. Hodge's XXIV Corps troops won and lost the ridgetop three times. The Japanese met them coming up, popping out of caves and old tombs to hurl grenades and satchel charges-heavy explosives, carried on a handle like a satchel, and usually used to blast fortifications. Japanese artillery fire pounded them while they were on top. Then Japanese infantry charged furiously with fixed bayonets and ousted them...