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...apart to support each other effectively. The Sioux, recovering from their surprise, made short work of Custer and the 212 cavalrymen whom he led. His last stand probably lasted no longer than 20 minutes. Afterward, the bodies of the soldiers were stripped and mutilated and left to rot in the sun. Most of the bloated, discolored corpses found on Custer Hill were never identified. Custer was a fortunate exception. His stripped body was found sitting behind a natural breastwork at the top of the hill, indicating that he may have been among the last to be killed. The Sioux...
Last fall Harvard's Army ROT unit formed a counter-guerilla platoon. About 15 or 20 cadets continue to practice bridge-building, ambus demolition, and small-group movements as an extra-curricular active for which they get no ROTC credit...
...does not invite to violence. Sociologists have long suspected that within given social classes, crime rates are the same for marihuana-users and non-users. Yet even today, the Bureau will happily shower the inquisitive with rabid little pamphlets documenting crimes, horrible withdrawal-symptoms, and even cases of "brain-rot" induced by marihuana...
...Greene for dunking Richard Sale's crimson novel about the Hollywood prize scramble into a vatful of whitewash. The book described a rat race in which the victors were merely the best of breed. The movie describes a demiparadise besmirched by Stephen Boyd as a vicious nominee ("That rot inside" is his tragic flaw) who forgets that truth and beauty are the Only Real Rewards...
...York Supreme Court that the strike was illegal, and that Mike Quill and eight other T.W.U. officials should be jailed. Said Quill: "The judge can drop dead in his black robes and we would not call off the strike. Personally, I don't care if I rot in jail...