Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four civilians. One, Air Force Captain Joe H. Engle, who last June rocketed an X-15 experimental plane to an altitude of 53.1 miles, has already reached the lower fringes of space. Two are Viet Nam veterans: Lieut. Commander Paul J. Weitz, recently returned home after flying 132 combat missions off the carrier Independence, and Lieut. Commander Ronald Evans, who was on duty with the U.S.S. Ticonderoga piloting a Crusader when advised of his selection...
Since the banning, the political press, both right and left, from Le Figaro to Combat, have joined in attacks on the government. Said the liberal newspaper Le Monde: "We are stupefied by such a decision, stupefied by the grave blow it strikes against freedom of expression." France's 23-man Board of Censors, which had approved the film, last week threatened to resign. The "Manifesto 1789," signed by French leaders in all walks of life, protested "against the formal attack on liberty of expression" that the ban signaled to them. The French film industry may well, out of spite...
...also be a mask. In the past ten years his drawings have taken a cerebral and sometimes sobering turn. Doubt and anguish are registered by a tiny figure poised atop an enormous question mark, which is itself hovering on the edge of an abyss. Brave but hapless little Indians combat a great American sphinx...
...buddy taught him drums and guitar, and they formed a combo. But they couldn't hack it playing honky-tonks, so Sadler tried the Army. Then came eleven rigorous months of Special Forces training that qualified him for his green beret as a combat medic. Along the way, at Fort Sam Houston, he says, "I started writing songs because I had a terrible time playing anybody else's music." His first audiences were the boys in the barracks and the girls in the bordellos below the border in Nuevo Laredo. "The Army doesn't like...
Tough Talk. It was a few months later, while on patrol in Viet Nam's Central Highlands, that Sadler's short combat career was ended. He fell on a Viet Cong-planted punji pole, suffered an infection that left one leg scarred and partially numb. He returned Stateside, talking both tough ("You get a sort of satisfaction out of a good shot, leading a man running across a field and bringing him down") and tenderly ("We're overgrown social workers"). Mostly, though, he preferred not to talk at all except in his songs...