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No Heroes. Since the emphasis in the Special Forces is on organizing and teaching partisans-so that they in turn might fan out and pyramid their own numbersthe men are chosen for their high intelligence and maturity as well as for their physical courage. "This is no place," says Group...
Attacking modern critics who favor an ironic tone, he said that "ours is the most thin-lipped, thin blooded culture of the century. Dry irony has risen to the point where a minor writer like Laforgue is favored over Victor Hugo."
With Lumumba gone, the strongest man around is the man responsible for his death: Katanga's cold-blooded President Moise Tshombe. But Tshombe runs only one province, and is heartily disliked outside it. Last week his well-equipped army, led by 400 Belgian officers, struck into northern Katanga, easily...
"Your article on Marilyn Monroe," read the letter to Columnist Al Ricketts of the Pacific Stars and Stripes in Tokyo, "was just plain lousy, unfair, unjust, un-100% red-blooded American, and nuts to you." The reader's gorge had risen over an unchivalrous evaluation of the film actress...
Faust contains not just great lyrical speech, but ditties and doggerel, not just shadowy metaphysics but bright worldly wisdom, not just a welter of incident but a web of dreams, not just a prologue about stagefolk but another between the Devil and God. There are archangels along with procuresses, chunky...