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...black Kuwaiti flag, which had been outlawed during the occupation, fluttered from buildings, bridges and hats. A baby dressed in an outfit made from the flag was held up to be kissed by the liberators. A woman in black robes blew kisses at U.S. Marine Lieut. General Walt Boomer, who rode atop one of the troop carriers. "We'll never see anything like this again in our lifetime," Boomer declared. "Makes you appreciate freedom, doesn...
...They surprised me by not fighting harder," says Marine General Walt Boomer of the Iraqi forces. "But if they had fought for every bunker, the outcome would have been the same." There is little doubt of that, but allied casualties would have been much higher. The coalition's commanders and troops can say they did, in the end, play Saddam's game -- and beat...
Bush has created his own pantheon of military heroes, relishing the performances in the war and on television of men like Schwarzkopf, Marine Lieut. General Walter Boomer and Air Force Chief of Staff Merrill McPeak. So far, those commanders have been able to do just what they promised, Bush has said admiringly in his planning sessions. Yet, says one of the President's close counselors, "the President is afraid to let himself believe these assessments...
What could be next? Appropriately enough for an aging boomer generation, the shiny pate is becoming acceptable, even noble. Cheers' Ted Danson has gone public with a hint of skin gleaming through his thinning strands. Television luminaries Charles Kuralt and Joe Garagiola are boldly bald, so who knows? Maybe it will soon be time again for the Yul Brynner look...
...Life, a quarterly published by Fox TV's owner, Rupert Murdoch, is almost sweet by comparison. The inaugural issue features an article by syndicated humor columnist Dave Barry, the baby-boomer laureate, and at least a dozen other stories ape his smirky, adolescent style. The magazine exudes this attitude most succinctly in a column by Mike Kelly, who deplores the emergence of a less macho, more candid style of masculinity: "I don't know any New Men. I don't know any women who know any New Men. I don't even know any women who want to know...