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...PATROL (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). In "Kill or Be Killed Raid," on a mission against Rommel's Afrika Korps, the Rat Patrol's leader, Sergeant Sam Troy, played by Christopher George, is forced to attempt to kill one of his own men to prevent him from falling into German hands...
...Secret of Santo Vittoria (Simon & Schuster) by Robert Crichton, 41, a World War II combat veteran, is very likely the funniest war novel since Mister Roberts. The Troy of his hilarious Iliad is a wine-producing village in southern Italy, a town so poor in everything, including fertilizer, that its inhabitants stalk oxen with a broom and a pan. The Hector of the tale is the village mayor, a paisano whose native cunning has been reinforced by the study of Machiavelli. The Agamemnon of the story is a German captain assigned to rob the village of its only precious possession...
Paul D. Bishop, of Cincinnati, Ohio (History and Literature); Mark N. Blitz, of Woodhaven, N.Y. (Government); David E. Faris, of Denver, Colo. (English); William C. Lance, of Troy, Mich. (Economics), and Theodore M. P. Lee, of Red Wing, Minn. (Physics...
Friday afternoon in Philadelphia, hampered by a cold, blustery wind, the Crimson distance medley quartet of Troy Burns, Jeff Huvelle, Bob Stempson, and Jim Baker, finished sixth in a strong field that included Georgetown and Villanova. Burns however, whipped through his half-mile leg in 1:52, while Baker ran the anchor mile in a quick...
...very well, particularly in two Costa translations. Derek Mahon, an Irish poet and Trinity man now in Cambridge, has conquered a deceptively relaxed idiom, and but for an occasional relapse into bluster ("The great wings sighing with a nameless hunger") uses that idiom most effectively. "The Fall of Troy," by Rachel Hadas '69, is a successful exercise in academic wit; her logic doesn't always carry, but the bulk of he poem rings true...