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After a summer of six weeks in a Marine boot camp, I also discovered that I was not able to suppress the disgust which my peers in the officer training program (as well as the training and its goals) elicited...
...much interest in the other Crimson seniors either, although scouts from the Jets and Chargers showed up at practice in October to look over Varney and Frisbie. Varney was probably too slow for their liking and Frisbie, for all his spunk, is not large. Both had poor seasons to boot, missing the All-Ivy team for the first time in three years. And Farneti, who did have an outstanding year, does not exactly have the size of a pro linebacker at six feet and 215 pounds...
...coincidentally, Rivers' district came to reflect his legislative bent. One recent survey of his home district of nine counties, including Charleston, noted an Air Force base, naval base, Polaris missile submarine base, Coast Guard station, the Sixth Naval District Headquarters and the Parris Island Marine boot camp. While Carl Vinson was still chairman of the Armed Services Committee, he once remarked to Rivers: "You put anything else down there in your district, Mendel, it's gonna sink...
Radio in a Boot. In 1960, Lotz turned up in West Berlin, where he applied for and received West German citizenship. A year later, he arrived in Egypt, set up a riding school and horse farm, and began impressing important people by giving away tape recorders and cameras, refrigerators and washing machines...
...stable in the Abassiye Garrison and get a permanent pass to the camp. Later he trained his horses at a practice race track beside the armor depot near Heliopolis. All the while, he was relaying his gleanings back to Israel on a tiny transmitter he kept in a riding boot. Through German friends, he established that Egyptian rockets were not an immediate menace because their guidance systems were unreliable. He also learned that the Egyptians' HA-300 jet interceptora great worry to the Israelis at the time...