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...NINTH--SCOTTISH MOOR has been sharpened for this effort...
With only three exceptions, Hadrian's plan worked perfectly. Like U.S. forces on search-and-destroy missions in Viet Nam, Roman cavalry patrols regularly harried the forested valleys and bare fells rising to the Scottish border. Caledones creeping through the furze or wheeling down on the moors in small war chariots soon learned the bloody lesson that the sector in front of the wall was as Roman as anything behind it. So manned, however, the wall was expensive. Divine estimates that no fewer than 35,000 troops, 63% of the entire garrison force of Roman Britain, were tied...
...yesterday, though weakened by a mysterious influenza virus, it attacked the regatta when it needed to, leaving a strong Scottish Argonaut eight three seconds behind in the opening round of the Thames Challenge...
...Scottish Argonauts, while considered a strong crew in England, can't match the caliber of Eastern college competition which the Crimson defeated so easily this year. American crews have traditionally cleaned up English eights during Henley's earl rounds, and it is quite probable that the other two American entries, the Penn freshman heavies and M.I.T. varsity lights, would have 'rounced the Argonauts by well over a length...
...what do you think about? It doesn't take much insight to guess that uppermost in your mind, this last year or two, has loomed the inescapable fact that you are destined-some would say doomed-to be a king. From the dour orthodoxy of a Scottish public school you have been launched into a university society where political thought is in turmoil, where the most radical social theories from revolutionary socialism to out-and-out anarchy are bandied about like cocktail-party small talk. Your position prevents you from taking an open part in these discussions...