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Engaged. William L. Calley, 32, former U.S. Army lieutenant whose 1971 conviction for murdering 22 Vietnamese civilians was overturned, then reinstated by the federal courts; and Martha Penelope Vick, 29, buyer for her father's jewelry store in Columbus, Ga., whom Galley met five years ago; in Columbus, where Galley is now on parole, working for a construction company...
...another decision last week the Supreme Court wrote finis to the legal aftermath of the My Lai massacre by refusing to review the case of former Army Lieut. William Calley Jr. Galley's 1971 court-martial conviction for the murder of 22 Vietnamese civilians in 1968 had been thrown out by a federal district judge, then reinstated by a federal appeals court, whose decision now stands. Of 25 Army officers and enlisted men charged with My Lai-related offenses, only Calley was convicted (two generals were censured). His original life sentence was reduced by Army authorities to ten years...
...somewhat annoyed with Daly's suspicion that I "rushed the book out to aid the UFW in the crucial farmworker elections now underway." Had he checked, he would have learned that the book was completed and in galley form before there was any inkling that a secret ballot election bill could ever be passed through the California legislature. It is common knowledge that there is a one-year lead time between the completion of a major book and its publication date...
...deadline for returning the corrected galley proofs was a Wednesday noon, New York time. The final compromises that permitted passage of the bill were not reached until late Monday night. On Tuesday, I waited ten hours in Governor Brown's office before getting my interview to complete the chapter. It was a hundred miles back to my home late Tuesday night where I transcribed the interview and completed the chapter. The final copy was dictated over the phone to my publisher in New York Wednesday morning. He jokingly accused me of turning the venerable Norton publishing house into a daily...
...with opposition was certain," he wrote, "for that has been true of every advance Harvard College has ever made...Strange rumors float about, and the less solid they are the lighter and easier they float. Some people seem to think that the student is to be chained in a galley and fed with a spoon...