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...first thing of consequence I did before leaving Saigon for Da Lat, the central highlands, and language training was stop at the USO. GI's coming straight in from an 'operation' could check weapons and get showers, hamburgers, real milk and listen to rock'n'roll there. Huge galvanized buckets of anonymously addressed letters in geographical arrangement stand around for anyone to go through (nobody does). The letters come from school children and little old ladies usually and aren't the type soldiers are eager for. There are stacks of old magazines, junky concession stands, and a "boutique' selling...
...usually hawkish Senate Armed Services Committee refused to appropriate funds for "fast deployment ships" which could bring thousands of GI's to an embattled nation with incredible--and disturbing--speed...
...landed on the shelves of book stores in the U.S. shows the marching feet of a group of G.I.s and, among the soldiers, a marcher in nun's habit. Inside, the book opens with a first chapter that is largely about TIME. This rather unlikely combination occurs in GI Nun (P. J. Kenedy & Sons; $4.50), the story of Sister Mary Xavier Coens, B.V.M., and a troupe of girls she took to Europe for the U.S.O. in the summer of 1964 to entertain U.S. servicemen...
...Labrador, Newfoundland and Iceland. The troupe is doing folk singing, modern-jazz dancing, sing-alongs, satirical skits and, our reporting indicates, living up to the way we described the girls of three years ago: "Vigorous and venturesome." In picking up that description for the title of Chapter 1 of GI Nun, Sister Xavier carefully added a word of her own: "Virtuous...
Born in Bavaria, Germany, in 1925, Rosenberg came to the United States at age 14 in 1940 knowing no English. He attended George Washington High School in New York. He went to Cornell on the GI Bill, received his B.A. in 1949 and an M.A. in 1950. Stanford awarded him a Ph.D...