Word: flak
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...flak from Harvard fans Saturday was punter Gary Singleterry. Here he was featured in the game program, and next thing he's littering the stands with souvenir footballs off the side of his foot. But there was an explanation. First, the wind. But, more important, there was B. U.'s number 44. His name is Bruce Taylor, and he's an All-American who averaged 18 yards on punt returns last year. There was no way he could do that if the ball landed in the stands...
...that mattered little on Hill 937. When the battle was over-while helicopters flew out stacks of holed American helmets and bloody flak jackets-TIME Correspondent John Wilhelm found a piece of cardboard and a black 101st neckerchief pinned by a G.I. knife to a blackened tree trunk. "Hamburger Hill," a soldier had scrawled on the cardboard, and someone else had added the words, "Was it worth...
...confirmation of this patriotic cliché emerged from a military study intended to evaluate flak vests, helmets and first-aid procedures. Using helicopters, 62 Army and Marine interviewers were able to reach 7,600 wounded men while their memories of the fighting were still fresh - often within 30 minutes after they were...
...Angels,"* but aside from one swastika that appeared on a crash helmet (it was ordered rubbed off), there is little of the Hell's Angel type in the four young soldiers. Their helmets are camouflaged, they carry .45s, and instead of leather gear, they wear flak jackets and fatigues. "Back in the world," as they refer to the U.S., they all grew up around engines, and Viet Nam has never seemed so like home...
Married. Orval Faubus, 59, ex-Governor of Arkansas now directing Dogpatch, U.S.A., a sprawling Ozark park; and Elizabeth Westmoreland, 30, a Dogpatch publicity flak;* both for the second time; in Little Rock...