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...couple of G.I.s popping open beer cans with Mama-san and her whores. Through the bead curtain, a hand lobs a lump of steel. Thump and roll. "Grenade!" Soldier scoops it up, hesitates in stupid disbelief. FLASH! BLAM! So begins-and 140 minutes later, in an almost exact replay, so ends-The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel. Between these two unanswerable exclamation points, Playwright David Rabe strings the lifeline of the soldier, Pavlo; then on that cord he attempts to hang what he sees as the rags of national honor, bloodied by the Viet...
Congress has drawn a bead on the issue of its own prerogatives. "Do you question Congress's right to bring back forces from Europe?" Senator William Fulbright demanded of Rogers at one point last week. "We're opposed to arbitrary limits," Rogers replied. Nixon in turn is opposing withdrawals partly as a matter of presidential pride and power. But the issue goes far beyond that...
...Tsinghua University, where Cowan and the younger players broke off to play table tennis with some of the students. Steenhoven, the Chrysler man, was invited to drive a truck that had been built almost entirely by the students. "I complimented them on the quality of the chrome, the bead of the arc welding, and the high-quality workmanship," he said. "I drove the truck very badly, I'm afraid, partly because the press was out there in front and I was afraid I might kill a couple, so I stalled the engine a couple of times...
...investigators are hunting even bigger game. They are drawing a bead on the affairs of William J. Crum, the unchallenged "Money King of Viet Nam." As told by congressional investigators and Government witnesses, Crum sat atop a sprawling $40 million consortium of corruption that reached all the way to MACV headquarters. His enterprises were manifold and very often illegal. He smuggled and traded in the black market. When necessary (which was often), the subcommittee was told, he bribed or pressured high-ranking civilian and military personnel. At one point, he held a virtual monopoly on the sales of all slot...
Paul Blum used to earn $30,000 a year selling securities for Hallgarten & Co. Now he grosses that much as the bearded and bead-wearing proprietor of Old Stuff, San Francisco's most exclusive junk shop, which he bought in 1969. His inventory runs all the way from a 2nd century Roman glass vial to a vintage 1955 rubber Donald Duck. "My days are enjoyed as a merchant of funk," he boasts. "What I like about it is selling tangibles instead of intangibles...