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...incident is a reminder that G.I.s have long acted as if the roads of Viet Nam belonged exclusively to them; the wise Vietnamese gets out of the way when he sees them coming. Many Americans, moreover, are prone to boast that they would not stop for an accident if they could possibly get away. As one Army major in Saigon put it: "There is a long-established pattern of force and offense among Army drivers. You assume the road is cleared until it proves otherwise." Route 1 proved otherwise...
Lonesome George McGovern may have his political problems, but money, the traditional bane of most presidential aspirants, is apparently not one of them. His campaign, which staffers boast is the "best financed" of any Democratic contender, is running $200,000 in the black, and should become $300,000 blacker by the end of the year. The reason: a variety of fund-raising gimmicks. McGovern has used direct-mail solicitations overseen by Morris Dees (a Montgomery-based wizard who made his millions in the mail-order business). There have been conventional fund-raising luncheons like one in New York City last...
...women sued and won in the Franklin County circuit court. The verdict, recently upheld on appeal, put the courts in the unusual position of considering an academic point of history. Turilli now says that he will ask for a new hearing on the grounds that his television boast was not legally binding...
...quarters, as he sweats for hours in jampacked trains and buses or bounces over potholed roads, and as he peers with smarting eyes through the ubiquitous smog. The Japanese are somewhat shamefaced that while Paris has had a complete sewage system for 200 years, only 9.2% of Japanese homes boast flush toilets. That total includes even Tokyo, whose 11.4 million residents account for one-tenth of the country's population. "We have lacked investment in social-overhead capital," says Sato, "and this is a good moment to improve that...
...David Douglas Duncan is one of the greatest photojournalists alive, the Hemingway of a profession that, in its strenuousness and immediacy, cannot have Prousts. "Have camera, will travel" is its motto and its boast. In the last 30-odd years, much of that time working for LIFE, Duncan has been nearly everywhere and done nearly everything-from catching monster squid in the ocean off Peru to recording the home life of Picasso. He has been shot at by Japanese ack-ack gunners, Korean snipers and Vietnamese rocketeers. All this is documented in a retrospective show now at the Nelson-Atkins...