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Mandarin Generals. In South Viet Nam itself, many units are still apt to strike live-and-let-live bargains with the Communists in their areas. But ARVN is much better led than it was before Thieu began replacing the old mandarin generals with battle-seasoned officers and the products of improved training academies. One grim sign of a new aggressiveness on the platoon and company level is the soaring casualty rate among lieutenants and captains...
...population of 3,000,000 is the largest in Europe, squalid shanty towns known as bidonvllles (after bidons, flattened gasoline cans that provide the basic building material) surround practically every major industrial city. In Switzerland, where the migrants now account for one-sixth of the population, a tourist is apt to discover that the only Swiss citizen in a restaurant is the man behind the cash register...
...Washington or New York and that the people who work for them are exposed to similar ideas. "Our profession," says Atlantic Magazine Editor Bob Manning, "does attract a certain kind of guy. He's curious. He's got a considerable amount of skepticism. He's apt to question the motives or statements of everybody in power." It is probably also true that most journalists tend to be liberal. More specifically, it is a condition of their profession, as of most others, that journalists are friendly with their fellows-and are apt to compare notes on stories...
...flight controllers joyously lit up their customary cigars as a heartfelt message flashed on a big screen: WELCOME BACK. A few minutes later, NASA's Tom Paine arrived with greetings from President Nixon ("Wonderful team. A job well done"), who also smoked a splashdown cigar in Washington. An especially apt comment came from J. Leonard Swigert, the astronaut's father. Sipping champagne with reporters in his Denver home, the 67-year-old doctor said: "It was a wonderful beginning and a beautiful landing. But I wouldn't give you two hoots for the interim...
...earned Hicks national honor. Last year, at the annual conference of weekly-newspaper editors, he won two awards for courageous leadership. But in Monroe County, birthplace of Estes Kefauver and a haven for bootleggers, Hicks is no hero. Even those who support him in some of his crusades are apt to turn against him when they discover he plays favorites with no one. "It's tough to write about an old friend who's on the board of deacons at church with you," says Presbyterian Hicks. "But you have to treat all people alike and never back down...