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...used like Phantom jets for close ground support, pursued North Vietnamese soldiers through jungle and elephant grass, dropping their 30,000-lb. bomb loads as close as 600 yards to allied positions. Everywhere ARVN soldiers went, they stumbled upon phalanxes of enemy bodies, or survivors walking about in a daze, talking of "death from...
...spectacle pretends to justify itself, of course. Throughout the massacre, dumb, stupid Honus wanders in a daze, finally coming to recognize the criminality of American imperialism and the unchecked evil that is the Army to which he has pledged his loyalty. The sequence ends with Honus vomiting in disgust, while, for some unfathomable reason, the focus blurs to spare us this ultimate indignity...
Love of violence, including the spillage of blood, is nevertheless basic to pro football's mystique. Almost every game sees one or more players helped off the field in a wounded daze, and authentic pros suit up despite injuries that would send normal men reeling in pain to a hospital bed. Football, in short, is the ultimate demonstration of machismo. No one who was there is ever likely to forget the 1962 N.F.L. championship game between the Green Bay Packers and the New York Giants. It was the coldest day since Perry discovered the North Pole, and vast sheets...
Boiling Sea. From Huaras (pop. 93,000), a survivor reported another scene of chaos: "Bodies of victims are being buried in trenches-not in coffins, for none can be obtained, but wrapped in blankets, and many children in old newspapers. Survivors wander around in a daze, like sleepwalkers, looking for food and water. Many children were choked to death by the dust that hung over the city. All we have is thirst, hunger, the stench of dead bodies and despair...
...rated U.S. heavyweight such as Jimmy Ellis or Leotis Martin is anyone's guess. There is considerable question as to how well Urtain can take a punch; his jaw seemed suspiciously fragile in the Weiland fight when a patty-cake left by the West German put him in a daze for a few moments. Still, Spaniards have ultimate faith in their boy. Insists Roberto Duque, president of the Spanish Boxing Federation: "If Urtain ever learns to box, he'll be world champion...