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...acre site in Flushing Meadow looked less like a showcase last week than a sordid battlefield of machinery and men. And inside the administration building, the generalissimo of it all. Fair President Robert Moses, kept things moving like the centurion in the Gospels, who described himself as a man who says "Go. and he goeth; and to another. Come, and he cometh...
Pineapple Juice. Democrat Inouye has another sort of tradition. Born in a Honolulu slum, he enlisted in the famed Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team in 1943, won a battlefield commission and later a Distinguished Service Cross in Italy in a bloody action that cost him his right arm. A lawyer and a onetime (1954-58) majority leader of the territorial house of representatives, Inouye became Hawaii's first and only U.S. Representative in 1959 (the state will have two after this year). In Washington, Inouye has backed the Kennedy Administration all the way, taken enthusiastic care of Hawaii...
...BATTLEFIELD (214 pp.)-Graham Greene-Viking...
When it came to explaining what World War II was really like, the great battlefield commanders proved no match for novelists and "the day that" documentarians. Compared with the fugacious naturalism of Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead or the precise tapestry of Cornelius Ryan's The Longest Day, the historically important memoirs of Ike or Monty have all the vitality of quartermaster supply reports. One of the war's few Great Captains who can hold his own with the professional writers is Viscount William Slim, commander of Britain's "forgotten" Fourteenth Army...
Adams, who seemed to be everywhere on the battlefield, made a point of eating supper one night in the field with a bearded guerrilla unit wearing tattered civilian clothes. The menu: catfish stew and fried water moccasin. "You keeping clean?" Adams asked one guerrilla. "Yes, sir," was the reply. "We wash our socks and underclothes every day. It doesn't get them clean, but it keeps the smell out." "That's important," said the general with approval. "Always keep the clothes next to your body clean. When you're moving fast, that's what slows...