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...would still be alive, countless villages would be undestroyed, millions of acres of land would be growing rice instead of breeding mosquitos and malaria in bomb craters. Lyndon Johnson actually did bring four years of destruction to an actual country called Vietnam (as well as killing thousands of American Gl's). Let us mourn Johnson's death no more than we mourn those who suffered and died because of his life...
Died. Gerhard Küntscher, 72, German surgeon who in 1939 developed a novel means of setting bone fractures; of a heart attack; in Glücksburg, West Germany. Küntscher's innovation was to drill a hole lengthwise into each section of a broken bone, then insert a metal pin to join the break. The stability of the pin led to quicker recovery, and after winning adherents during World War II, the technique has been widely adopted by orthopedic surgeons, particularly for athletes, who break bones often and whose speedy recovery may be vital to a team...
...Project Appreciation repair a Gl's shattered limbs? No, of course not; but in a small way Project Appreciation is letting our servicemen know Americans do care...
...coming back from the war last July and applying for a job, only to find that helicopter crew chiefs are in short demand and high supply. One of the more startling figures to come from the combination of depression and war is that 24 per cent of returning Gl's are now unemployed...
Sutherland has just finished a film for Warner's called Klute in which he co-stars with Jane Fonda, who plays a prostitute. (Currently, he has also joined Fonda and a number of other entertainers in expressing their willingness to entertain Gl's on American bases-as a counter to the Hope-Raye junkets to Asia.) And he's also completed a cameo appearance in he screen adaptation of Trumbo's Johnny. With associations like that it's only natural to ask how Hollywood views his political involvement...