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Perhaps it is the Santa Ana, blowing in from the Mojave Desert. Or a kind of Morse code flashed out by the traffic lights along Sunset Boulevard. Or maybe John Galley, head of production at Warner Bros., has the answer. "At best," he says, "this business is a crap shoot." Whatever the reason, each year Hollywood producers put their money on only two or three numbers-two or three kinds of movies. The themes for 1977: war, jocks and women...
...Norwegian Christian Radich (below left) provide less jarring sleep for trainees than do officers' bunks, which are usually fixed; cadets on the same ship happily trim each other's hair. Members of the British schooner Sir Winston Churchill's all-women crew face the inevitable galley chores (bottom left), while men aboard the Christian Radich try to keep fit with rigorous daily calisthenics on the main deck...
...honor code by cheating on a relatively insignificant exam knew that West Point graduates had not hesitated to lie in Viet Nam-falsifying body counts, concealing the bombing of Cambodia, covering up My Lai. Indeed the commander of the Americal Division, which included the platoon led by Lieut. William Galley at My Lai, was headed by Major General Samuel Koster, who became superintendent of West Point in 1968. Two years later, Koster resigned after he was accused of taking part in the campaign to cover up the facts about the massacre at My Lai. Koster was demoted, censured and retired...
Cheating practices are as varied as the causes. Yalies talk of the student-possibly mythical-who walked into the school print shop as exams were being run off, sat down on an inked galley and walked off with a set of test questions on the seat of his pants. Another student, totally unprepared for his exam in Chinese history, labeled...
Higher Standard. The problem is far from new. Critics recalled last week that after First Lieut. William Galley Jr. was convicted in the spring of 1971 of murdering at least 22 South Vietnamese civilians at My Lai, Carter warned that "the ruling will seriously demoralize our troops." He described the conviction as a message to American soldiers that "we don't approve of your actions if you carry out orders." The next day, he proclaimed American Fighting Men's Day in Georgia to honor U.S. servicemen in Viet Nam. A month or so later, Carter modified his stand...