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Drawing for Stars and Stripes, the Army's newspaper, Mauldin was telling it like it is long before that dreadful phrase was invented (see cut). Mauldin also became a kind of ombudsman for the G.I. in his war with officers and gentlemen. When the general who administered Naples, for example, started handing out four-day jail terms to war-weary troops for minor dress infractions, Mauldin-and Willie and Joe-were there with a cartoon. "Them buttons was shot off when I took this town, sir," a bedraggled Willie tells a well-scrubbed rear-echelon lieutenant. In Mauldin...
...senior generals from Vietnam made a public statement saying that there was no need to worry about the fate of Khe Sanh, because if conventional weapons didn't work, we would use tactical nuclear weapons. When I read that I became very much exercised and I telephoned the two gentlemen, who were science advisors before I was, and chairmen of PSAC under Eisenhower, namely (James) Killian (chairman, MIT Corporation) and (I.I.) Rabi (professor of Physics, Columbia University). They agreed with me that this was a very dangerous thing even to talk about. And we constructed a telegram to ex-President...
...billion federal budget -is enjoying the perquisites of power. Staff officers ride through the capital in chauffeur-driven Mercedes sedans, just as civilian politicians used to do. In the expensive suburbs of Lagos, there are scores of new homes and apartment buildings whose owners are officers and gentlemen. Many Nigerians believe that corruption is worse in Lagos today than it was in 1966, when the army seized power...
...Gentlemen," said the briefing officer, "I have to tell you that this is not a practice blackout. It is the real thing. We have just had a flash that the Pakistan air force has attacked our airfields at Amritsar, Pathankot and Srinagar. This is a blatant attack on India...
...examples include brilliant pranks like Peter Brook's Midsummer Night's Dream and strident vulgarities like Tom O'Horgan's Jesus Christ Superstar. The latest merry-an-drew is Producer Joseph Papp, who has turned loose a dramatic demolition team on Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona...