Word: frankness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HERMAN'S HAT, by George Mendoza, illustrated by Frank Bozzo (Doubleday; $4.50). When the clown gave Herman his big black hat he warned: "Once you place it on your head you must never take it off or else everyone will know what you are thinking." And Herman, naturally, is thinking all sorts of unimaginable things. Glowing illustrations heavily influenced by Marc Chagall...
TIME Correspondent Frank McCulloch, who spent 31 years covering the war, recalls: "I have seen men pushed out of airplanes, shot with their hands tied behind their backs, drowned because they refused to answer questions. I have also seen the bodies of women and children disemboweled by the Viet Cong." He recalls a young Marine who flung a Vietnamese woman to the ground and robbed her at knife-point of all her money because she failed to produce 15 piastres in change for some cookies he had bought from her. He saw Americal Division troops pound sand into the mouth...
...well be Captain Ernest Medina, the company commander, who has not been charged and thus may testify for the prosecution that he gave no unlawful orders, and that Calley misinterpreted those that were given. If Medina is charged, his lawyers might try to pass the buck upward to Colonel Frank Barker, the task force commander, who was killed after the massacre. Some observers argue that the Army hopes to convict the lowest-ranking officer who is charged in the case. All the men under him might then try to get off by claiming that they were simply following his orders...
Last July, Frank Shakespeare, the new director of the U.S. Information Agency, asked USIA officers stationed in Eastern Europe what sort of government they thought the people of those Communist lands would choose, had they a free choice. The overwhelming consensus of the diplomats was Dubček-style socialism. The blond, boyish-looking Shakespeare, 44, only five months on the job, was shocked. "You mean you don't think they'd choose a U.S.-style democracy?" he asked...
...receive benefits, too. There are trips to New York. San Jose, and M.I.T. Your name becomes a house-hold word. You may become a star on our softball or marathon team. People like coach Harrison, Frank Champi, Jimmy Fair, and Dana Getchell will talk to you, maybe...