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...secrecy vanished when a fortnight ago a sign went up on the toughest part of Route 19; WELCOME FIRST AIR CAV, it said; PASS SECURED COURTESY A CO 2ND BN ABN 502ND. The "First Cav" is the U.S. 1st Cavalry (Airmobile) Division, and it calls itself the "First Team"-the proud boast of a unit lineage that extends back through Korea and the Philippines to General Custer. Last week, by helilift direct from the U.S.S. Boxer and by road convoy from Qui Nhon, the First Team arrived in full force along Route...
Call from Bull. Heaviest fighting began in the west, where Echo, Gulf and Hotel Companies of the 4th Marine Regiment's 2nd Battalion landed in helicopters and were immediately pinned down by automatic-weapons fire from a low ridge ahead of them. After two hours, Marine jets swooped in with rockets, and the battalion's tough commander, Lieut. Colonel Joseph ("Bull") Fisher, led a walking skirmish line up the ridge, with every third man firing from the hip. "Come on, you marines," yelled Bull Fisher as enemy bullets zipped past, "those ain't pinball machines firing...
...unnatural. In defining what they meant by natural, theologians turned to an idea of the Stoics-that the nature of something was defined by its purpose. Just as the eye was for seeing, the generative organs were for generating. And only for generating. Thus, St. Justin Martyr in the 2nd century wrote: "We Christians marry only to produce children." Even stronger in tone was St. Augustine. Apart from childbearing, he gloomily concluded, "the marriage chamber is a brothel . . . husbands are shameful lovers, wives are harlots...
...York Conference of the Methodist Church in Bridgeport last month, Tenor Saxophonist Ed Summerlin, with sextet and chorus, presented the first performance of a new Liturgy of the Holy Spirit, with words by Poet William Robert Miller. Based vaguely on a Christian service described by the 2nd century theologian Hippolytus, the eclectic 14-part liturgy included jazz anthems in fairly conventional "cool" style, ballad-like congregational hymns reminiscent of Kurt Weill, choral passages as modal as a 14th century Mass. Florida-born Ed Summerlin began writing jazz for use in churches six years ago, when he poured out his grief...
...MARINE CORPS. The corps now has three divisions of 18,000 fighting men each. Of these, the hallowed 1st Marine Division is in combat readiness at Camp Pendleton, Calif. The 2nd Division has sent slightly more than one-third of its men to the Dominican Republic, but the others remain at Camp Lejeune, N.C., on call for anywhere. The 3rd Marine Division is largely deployed in the Pacific area, and has furnished most of the corps' contribution so far to the Vietnamese fighting, particularly around the Danang airbase. Attached to each of the three divisions...