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...squelch all boat-rocking at least until he secured his U.S. citizenship) underlines the truth that the tragedy of America admits of few clear villains. In like manner, Cowan understands that the shocking racism of many Peace Corps volunteers (one wanted to enlist in the Marines after his Ecuadorian stint so that he could shoot Vietnamese and pretend that they were "Ekkies," i.e., Ecuadorian spic/nigger/kikes) was a horrible perversion of their stymied idealism...
...mean, however, that its troops were going home. Only the 340-man honor guard, carrying the colors, left Viet Nam as First Infantry members. The large majority of the division's 17,000 men have been reassigned to vacancies in other outfits to complete their one-year stint in Viet Nam. The transfer process is more efficient than filling such vacancies from Stateside, of course, but it does not please the individual G.I.s. "Man, Nixon's just foolin' the people," said one disappointed trooper. "The division's goin' home, but all of us are stayin...
Todd pitched less than an inning all last season but earned the third spot in the pitching rotation after hurling seven innings of one hit shutout ball on the Spring tour. Against a ST. Louis farm club, Todd held the pros hitless in a three-inning stint...
Deal to Forget. Coaxed back into competition, Esposito won a scholarship to Michigan Tech, where he earned a degree in business administration and a place on the All-America Hockey Team. He turned professional in 1967 and after a stint in the Canadiens' farm system, he was called up to the N.H.L. last year to fill in for the injured Gump Worsley. The Black Hawks saw and thought enough of Esposito to get him in an off-season deal the Canadiens would now like to forget. In Chicago's first game against Montreal this year, Tony stopped...
...chairmanship provided that no significant opposition arises. If he says yes, it is virtually certain that he will be elected chairman when the Democratic National Committee meets in Washington March 5. O'Brien will have to leave a political-consulting firm he recently founded, following a brief stint as the president of a New York brokerage house, and slow the work on a book on his years with Kennedy and Johnson. With his party $8,000,000 in debt, viciously at war with itself and seriously intimidated by the strength of Richard Nixon, it will...