Word: two-platoon
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...right guard slot is shared by Wendy Inhoffer and John Slenkiewicx. Inheffer was a defensive standout in the old two-platoon days and will start if the Tigers kick off. Sienkiewicz's offensive blocking has won him half the position...
...visitors follow their usual two-platoon policy in the Stadium this afternoon, then the Crimson squad will meet a brand new team at the start of the second half...
...strength from Dienbienphu. The French were pulling back from their antique forts and were concentrating in mobile groups at centers like Namdinh. The French redeployment was no simple matter: Communist guerrillas had often worked so closely around the forts that full-scale offensive operations were needed to withdraw a two-platoon garrison. The day after the fanon ceremony, Cogny had to send 2,000 men, 200 vehicles and 15 tanks to rescue 110 Vietnamese infantrymen from Doaithan and Thanhne, a couple of surrounded forts less than 20 miles from Namdinh. Cabled TIME Correspondent John Mecklin, who rode with the French...
Like Doaithan, the fort was decayed and rotting. The signs of siege and uselessness were everywhere: overgrown paths, cracked-mud earthworks and rusting barbed wire. The two-platoon Vietnamese garrisons had long been immobilized, their mission-protecting the countryside from Communists and collecting rice-a bitter joke. The Communists-barefoot guerrillas, not even regulars-had even burrowed deep into the outer fort defenses...
Third lines may make the difference tonight. Kelley credits his victory over Northeastern to his use of a five-man, two-platoon third line and the three resulting goals...