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...courts-martial, that of Lieut. William Calley Jr., who is accused of murdering 102 civilians. Beginning in its November issue, Esquire magazine is giving Calley a chance to reflect on his Army experiences with the aid of a professional writer, John Sack. Self-serving though it is, the first-person account is a haunting revelation of one man's uncertain and contradictory reactions to the Viet...
Inside the Third Reich is likely to be the last, best first-person story of what took place at the power center as Hitler moved from political triumph to military disaster. While he was murdering Jews, ravaging Europe and destroying Germany, life at his court was a round of bickering intrigue, interminable monologues and atrocious boredom...
...this first-person account of gropeshrink, Jane Howard presents herself frankly as a rather too prim Midwestern miss who became a busy New York bachelor-girl reporter and found herself starved for what the movement promised to provide: emotional closeness. Assigned by LIFE to do a piece on Esalen Institute, a sort of Harvard of the emotions, she got so involved in the movement that she decided to do the whole sensitivity circuit. The result is Please Touch...
...lacquered rostrum in Peking's Tienanmen Square during a mass rally protesting the U.S. role in Indochina. His statement, which was read to the throng by Lin, claimed that the U.S. had been reduced to "utter chaos at home and extreme isolation abroad." In a rare use of first-person language, Mao's statement went on: "I am convinced that the American people who are fighting valiantly will ultimately win victory and that the fascist rule in the U.S. will inevitably be defeated." In the meantime, Mao & Co. demonstrated their opposition to U.S. "aggression" in Cambodia by calling...
Stupid Bowlers. Fitzpatrick won his Pulitzer for a first-person, 1,500-word account of S.D.S. Weathermen on the rampage last fall in Chicago. "I got the story because I can run like a scared antelope when I have to," he says. "I ran five miles with those kids that night, and I kept up with them." After the running, he really had to pour on the steam, banging out some ten pages against a deadline only 40 minutes away, finishing so close to it that he did not even have a chance to read the story over...