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...into effect and new textbooks written and printed, Red Chinese education is bound to be chaotic. Already Mao's revolution is producing its own backlash among the youth-a new hippie-type, dropout group that Shanghai newspapers are castigating as "wanderers": "Instead of fighting on the battlefront, they wander around school campuses, parks and streets; they spend their time in swimming pools and playing chess and cards. They take an attitude of nonintervention in the struggle." But Mao's men tend to give such wanderers short shrift. The aim of education is preparation for political action, and Maoist...
...plebiscite to call back George II from his wartime exile in London and to restore his throne. Though George died in 1947, his brother Paul, who succeeded him, traveled the breadth of the peninsula with his German-born wife Frederika, rallying support for the government. They went to the battlefront in Jeeps, crossed mountains on muleback and even took meals with the peasants in the countryside. The U.S. poured in $300 million in aid under the Truman Doctrine, and General James Van Fleet went to Greece to advise the military. Thus, it was in the Greek hills that the West...
...news from Viet Nam gave more reason for optimism than pessimism. As one Administration leader after another reported in recent weeks, the U.S. was gaining steadily on the battlefront. The Harris poll showed that the stepped-up bombing raids on Hanoi and Haiphong were endorsed by 5 out of every 6 Americans. And ratings of the President's own popularity, after hitting a nadir of 46% in May, had curved robustly upward (to 55% ). So why was Lyndon Johnson so out of sorts...
...that Field Marshal Rommel put his criminal elements together in a motorcycle battalion and subsequently awarded them several unit citations. Many of us at Kentucky State Penitentiary are youthful offenders; some, like me, have had military training. We beg for a chance to prove ourselves on the Viet Nam battlefront...
...flesh by World War I. Beckmann suffered through the war, on the front as a hospital corpsman, and later in a hospital for two years, recovering from a nervous collapse. For Beckmann, the war was a rehearsal for the Apocalypse. In the torn bodies he carted away from the battlefront, he personally witnessed the horror and agony which announced not only the end of the nineteenth century but also the breakdown of Western Christendom. Thirty-four years later, suffering from the heart condition that would end his life, he wrote to his son: "Could it be...that my pains...