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PFC Elgin Baylor, 6-ft 5-inch basketball star of the L.A. Lakers and for 2 weeks a reservist with the 63rd Infantry Div., finds difficulty fitting into standard Army cot. Engineers of the 63rd solved the problem by wielding two cots end-to-end.

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