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When Jim Sloan, 23, returned to Harvard after service as an Army sergeant in Viet Nam, he was laughingly labeled "the resident fascist pig of Adams House." Richard Parish, 22, was an Air Cav rifleman when a chunk of Communist shrapnel ripped his right shoulder to the joint; back in Michigan as a civilian, the Negro high school graduate was unable to pass physical examinations at either Cadillac Motors or Detroit Edison, and reluctantly began drawing disability pay. First Lieut. Leo Glover, 26, won a Silver Star and a Purple Heart near the DMZ as a Marine air controller, then...
...well-developed will to power is mandatory in a strong President, but Johnson seems to have been endowed with an excessive share. He is egotistical enough to turn a sizable chunk of Texas into a memorial to himself (including a special plaque at the Hye Post Office immortalizing it as the spot where four-year-old Lyndon Johnson mailed his first letter). He is a "hill and valley" man, way up one day, deep down the next. He can be so overbearing to aides and so intolerant of debate within his official family that many of his best lieutenants have...
...accomplished some of its lesser objectives in Viet Nam. Its intervention has bought time-time for such nations as Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia to reinforce their own political, economic and military defenses against subversion. And it has helped the process of nation-building in a truncated chunk of a former French colony; for all its political deficiencies, South Viet Nam is at least starting toward democracy. Third, and perhaps most important, the U.S. became involved in Viet Nam at least partly because of a desire to contain Chinese expansionism; in the past two years, China's internal upheavals have...
While 1967 retail sales are expected to wind up 4% ahead of last year's level- at a record $314 billion- a sizable chunk of that increase reflects inflationary rises in retail prices rather than growing consumer demand. The effects of inflation-are also disturbingly apparent in the burgeoning costs confronting merchants for labor, promotion and goods. Because of the cost squeeze, retailers may well have trouble maintaining profits unless there is a substantial increase in their sales volume...
...stylistic problem of How I Won The War is the unintelligibility of a healthy chunk of its dialog. A lot of laughs must simply be drowned in garble...