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...perfect Hollywood script. Even down to the debilitating, personal injury junior year in a losing effort against the Crimson's biggest rival, Dartmouth, followed by gratifying vindication senior year, when Tsitsos, sustaining a hip pointer, scored two touchdowns to help Harvard smash the Mean Green...
...commander's office turned out to be a reporters' briefing, designed to prevent errors in reporting. A large artist's easel in the corner of a carpeted room held about ten posterboard diagrams, each bearing at the top the official seal of the WACS. The commanding officer, pointer in hand, whipped through the structure of the army, the structure of the base, the format of training, and the mission of the army. My notes for that briefing include: "WAC basic training: 1) battalion--basic training brigade--company--unit...." The rest went by too fast for me to catch...
Died. Carl Andrew ("Tooey") Spaatz, 83, architect of American air strategy during World War II; of heart disease; in Washington, D.C. A wiry, energetic West Pointer, General Spaatz directed the bombings that paved the Allied path from Africa to Sicily to Italy, then engineered the massive daylight bombardment of crucial German industrial targets. He later carried out the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki after his opposition to the atomic bombing of cities had been overruled. When the Air Force became the military's third full branch in 1947, the erect, taciturn general was named its first chief of staff...
...year will become a pit for trench warfare next season. Outside the 30-yard line, in third-and-short and fourth down situations, the interior line will fight it out not only for the first-down yardage, but also for every foot to reduce field goal distance. The three-pointer, in its virtual obsolescence, may become as precious as a touchdown...
Dartmouth, 1-13 and winless in the Ivy League, edged the Big Red out of the basement. Columbia, 2-15 overall and 1-5 in the Ivies, put the pressure on too, dropping a one-pointer to Cornell January...