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...following an order if it "is such that a man of ordinary sense and understanding would know it to be illegal." Moreover, every U.S. serviceman arriving in Viet Nam is given a printed card entitled "The Enemy in Your Hands." It advises bluntly: "It is both dishonorable and foolish to mistreat a captive. It is also a punishable offense...
...points. But many of them are neither original nor entirely valid. He mints a bright aphorism here and there. "Men who believe themselves deeply engaged in private thought are usually doing nothing," he writes. And again: "One should always cherish his critics and protect them where possible from foolish error." But his writing is too often didactic and his logic oversimplified...
...late '40's Hollywood took up not far from where it had left off ten years earlier. Movies like The Best Years of Our Lives, Crossfire, and Gentleman's Agreement (not to mention some of the more foolish ones like Pinky) reflected the same social preoccupations which, if in more outspoken and less glossy terms, had characterized American theatre...
...evangelist against this foolish suntanning habit," says U.C.L.A. Dermatologist Dr. J. Walter Wilson. "But trying to persuade people to stop lying in the sun for hours is as difficult as getting them to give up smoking." Simply put, suntans may look good but they are very bad medicine. The sun's rays eventually cause the skin to wrinkle and sag, aging effects seen most clearly on the back of a cowboy's neck. The rays also produce lentigines, the brown marks often called liver spots. By far the worst result, however, is skin cancer...
Though some congressional critics had suggested boycotting the speech, Fulbright persuaded them that it would be "foolish" and "disrespectful of the soldiers in Viet Nam." About the only notable absentee was Dirksen, who was stricken with pneumonia after a long spell in his garden on a chilly day and was confined to Walter Reed Army Hospital. Twenty-three Governors, the Joint Chiefs, the diplomatic corps and the entire Cabinet-excepting Rusk, who watched on TV-were on hand...