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...well-to-do suburbs; the more obstreperous Journal-American, with its line-up of combative columnists, is directed primarily at city dwellers. The Sunday Tribune, with its emphasis on arts and fashions, appeals to the city's smart set, and may have a difficult time accommodating the earthier features of the Journal...
...Everything rusts or mildews," complained Navy Lieut. Commander Richard Escajeda, head surgeon of the marines' "Charlie Med" hospital at Danang. "The sterilized linen never dries. Bugs crawl into our surgical packs. Mud is everywhere." An earthier-or muddier-protest came from a jungle-hardened trooper in the 1st Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment, bivouacked with the U.S. 173rd Airborne Brigade. "Ya know, I been here for six weeks, and for five of 'em I've never been dry," he lamented. "If a man ain't wet with sweat, he's drenched with rain...
...added more that he composed himself. But also, as The Merry Muses makes startlingly clear, he scrubbed and reworked some of these materials to create some of his most famous poems. One such poem with a bawdy original is Comin' Thro' the Rye, in which a much earthier verb appears in the line: "Gin a body kiss a body/ Need a body cry." Another ballad, John Anderson, My Jo, is known to every schoolboy as a touching tribute to the strength of marital affection in old age: its source, doubtless known to every schoolboy in all Scotland, turns...
...there were other, earthier problems. Webb quickly decided that Holmes (TIME Cover, Aug. 10) attached entirely too much urgency to the moon race and upstaged Webb's own pet scientific probes as a result. Late last year, Holmes asked an additional $400 million for the moon program. Webb curtly refused to take the request to Congress, and Holmes put up a fuss. After that, Webb began bypassing Holmes and going to other officials for advice in policy decisions...
...those busy, busy weeks. Traveling westward, he watched massive demonstrations of nuclear weaponry in the broiling heat of desert missile ranges and from the breezy decks of aircraft carriers. He made speeches on subjects ranging from the bright future of the U.S. Air Force to the nation's earthier civil rights dilemma. He politicked with Democratic officeholders and made a chatty appearance at another of those $1,000-a-couple fund-raising dinners...