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...late 1951 Hoffmann returned to France, but through a freak accident (his subscription to Le Monde had expired three days before a change in the application deadline was announced) he arrived home too late to apply to civil service school. Instead he languished in the French army, fulfilling his military obligation in Paris as an aide to the Minister of War--until January, 1955, when Bundy wrote and invited him to fill a vacant Instructorship at Harvard...
...coast known as "The Street Without Joy." All at once the lead chopper erupted in a burst of fire and smoke, then crashed on its back in a flooded paddyfield, carrying five men to death. Whether the Dong Ha bound Huey was destroyed by Communist gunfire, sabotage or a freak accident may never be known, though Hanoi was quick to crow that its gunners had downed the bird. What was known was that the U.S. Marine Corps had lost its first division commander to be killed in any war: Major General Bruno A. Hochmuth, 56, two-star boss...
Speed kills. It really does. Amphetamine, methedrine, etc. can, and will, rot your teeth, freeze your mind and kill your body. The life expectancy of the average speed freak, from the first shot to the morgue, is less than five years. What a drag...
...first impression was that Jim Morrison was a real drug freak and that he must have stolen the idea for "Light my Fire" from the Stones' "Going Home," released earlier that summer. One year later I am still convinced that Morrison is not putting us all on when he sounds like he has just come down from a methadryne high. But I have changed my mind about "Light My Fire." That song and most everything else the Doors have done is all their...
First, it is a part of a genre, not just a freak. Broadway sees at least two sex comedies every season. Sex comedies have nothing to do with real people, real love, or real sex, and it was a sex comedy, I think, that Walter Kerr called "the kind of play that gives flops a bad name...