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...Boston, 275,000 people -- the largest crowd ever -- turned out to watch the Annual Veterans Day parade. The chief marshal, Brig, Gen. Costas L. Caragenis, called the reaction to the parade a "direct counter attack to the protests of a small national minority against our position in Vietnam...
...surprisingly, the code's judicial niceties have moved the services to demand and get more authority for handling minor offenses by meting out punishment without trial-for example, up to seven days in the brig and three days on bread and water. Beyond this, however, the accused is entitled to three kinds of courts-martial, basically ranked according to punishment power...
...modesty. "We expect to keep the cup awhile," he said. If the Yanks wanted to win it back, they had better "get someone like me to take charge." That was enough to make any aspiring U.S. Davis Cupper shudder. Hopman runs his team like a Marine sergeant bossing the brig. He puts his players through punishing four-hour practice sessions, fills their spare-time hours with such joys as cross-country runs and weight lifting. With younger players, he dictates menus, bedtimes, social activities. "Don't forget," Hopman explains, "these boys are in their late teens. They need guidance...
...Brig is a raw slice of new American cinema filmed on an off-Broadway stage by Jonas and Adolfas Mekas (Hallelujah the Hills) with such brutish authenticity that it won a Venice festival grand prize as best documentary. Part drama, part polemic, with shockwave sound and a nightmare air that suggests Kafka with a Kodak, the movie does exactly what it sets out to do-seizes an audience by the shirtfront and slams it around from wall to wall for one grueling day in a Marine Corps lockup...
...area of 8½ square miles and a population of 2,700. Only 100 years ago, it was a virtually unknown battleground of savages who guzzled coconut toddy and sported necklaces of human teeth; in 1852 the Nauruans inhospitably chopped up the entire crew of the visiting American brig, India. Since the turn of the century, however, life for the islanders has been one long enchanted evening...