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...Wang Yao-wu, a peppery, 40-year-old Shantung man. Stocky, muscular and tanned, like most Shantung peasants, he has a ferocious temper, a vivid and profane vocabulary. He is of the very core of the old Chinese Army, a Whampoa Academy cadet who fought his way up from platoon to army group commander. But in Hunan he used methods long neglected in China...
...first time in history, group sponsors will participate. There'll be 21 girl sponsors in all, one from each platoon leader, company commander, battalion leader, and the regimental commander...
...first time in the history of the Unit at Harvard group sponsors will participate in the ceremonies. Each platoon leader, company and battalion commander, and the regimental commander has chosen a girl to act as sponsor for his group. Flowers will be presented to the sponsors before the review. Also for the first time, Harvard will have a chance to hear the newly formed V-12-NROTC Drum and Bugle Corps...
...Robertson arranged with the commander to send a delegation across the river to meet U.S. higher-ups. Colonel Charles M. Adams, commanding the 273rd, greeted the delegation at his regimental headquarters, then started out for the Russian camp at two o'clock in the morning, with a platoon in ten jeeps. When they arrived at six, there was more grinning, saluting, backslapping, feasting and toasting...
Like a sensitive plant growing in a bull pit, the U.S. paratroop platoon modestly expanded to a battalion, then to a provisional group...