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...Army is getting ready to pull out of Korea by the end of next month. The 7,500 occupation troops will be transferred to Japan, Hawaii and the U.S. Withdrawal raises the uneasy question of South Korea's future; its U.S.-sponsored government faces a strong Communist regime which the Red army left behind when it withdrew last December from the area north of the 38th parallel. To allay South Korean jitters, the U.S. Army is leaving a large part of its equipment, including arms, ammunitions and transports, to the young South Korean army...
Harvard's 1914 crew, which started the rowing world by winning the Grand Challenge Cup in the Henley Regatta on the Thames that year, will gather tomorrow for its thirty-fifth reunion, a feature of which will be a short "pull" on the Charles...
...chance in Madison Square Garden. The hard-boiled Garden crowd went wild as Vince savagely carved up clever old Tony Pellone and knocked him out in the seventh round. Sportwriters compared him io Petrolic, even to Jack Dempsey, hailed him as a new, slashing pug who might pull boxing out of the doldrums...
...efficiency of four oarsmen plying eight oars versus that of four oarsmen plying four; the speed and power derived from eight short oars versus that of four slightly longer oars; and the stability of a quad where the oarsmen are kept in balance by an equal and straight pull of both arms versus the tendency to roll that is always present in fours and eights...
Eliot didn't startle anybody by winning the race; it remained for Leverett to pull the surprise of the afternoon by finishing only three-quarters of a length behind the champions. The Bunny oarsmen are inexperienced, but they're great in stature, strength, and determination...