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...platoon sergeant. He trained as a horse soldier, but in 1942 he was transferred to Fort Meade, S. Dak., where the cavalry was experimenting with mechanization. The concept was shaky at first. "Their idea for a while was to have us all run around on motorcycles," says Glover. "I rode a big old Indian 45 all the way down to maneuvers in Louisiana, 1,500 miles, and then rode it all the way back." There is a glint in his eyes as he talks...
...N.P.A.'s shadow is almost everywhere. In Ilocos Norte last week, four mayors of small towns sought refuge in Laoag after the guerrillas kidnaped workers at a nearby construction site. One evening, after a reporter rode through the hills outside Laoag to a military camp, the commander said, "I am surprised to see you. I don't even allow my men to travel that road at this hour. Things may look normal, but they aren't." The province, which is Marcos' ancestral home, has been deprived of the pork-barrel largesse that rolled its way during his regime. Aquino...
...unheroic style. Here is Ulysses S. Grant, who rode into battle with a cigar in his mouth and was all too often drunk, but who became commander of the Union armies because President Lincoln said of him: "I need this man. He fights...
...rode the glass elevator up and down in the Heritage Grand Hotel lobby. With its burgundy velvet furniture, powder blue walls and Christmas bulbs everywhere, I might as well have been visiting the Grand Ol' Opry...
...rode two late scores to a 29-17 victory and a 2-0 Ivy mark. Harvard, Princeton, Penn, and Brown are bunched behind the Red with one league loss apiece...