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...combat-bound Huey are years ahead of Denver and Darien, decades ahead of Birmingham and Biloxi. "The only color out here is olive drab," says a white sergeant. Despite the foxhole comradeship of most G.I.s in Viet Nam, the war is not all interracial amity: vicious racist graffiti from both sides mar the walls of latrines in Saigon; whites and Negroes slug it out on occasion along the nighttown streets of Tu Do and in "Soulsville," the Negro's self-imposed ghetto of joy along Saigon's waterfront. Sometimes they shoot it out. Like their people back home...
THESE riveting statements are among the entries in a graffiti contest we have just conducted in the cause of general amusement and TIME promotion. Of course, graffiti (from the Italian, meaning scratching or scribbling) have been seen on walls since antiquity, forming an enduring kind of subliterature. Recently they became a fad, appearing on lapel buttons, car stickers and on almost any available surface, including (as we found) TIME advertising posters...
Getting into the spirit, Columnist Art Buchwald recorded several graffiti from Washington: "Governor Romney-Would you buy a new car from this man?" "Adam Clayton Powell uses Man-Tan." "George Wallace uses hair straightener." "Walter Lippmann-God is not dead. He is alive and appearing twice a week in the Washington Post...
Everybody is getting into the act. Our cover subject for this week hazards: "General Sarnoff is really a corporal." And then again, the sculpture that Robert Berks did for our cover is bound to evoke an obvious if awful contribution from graffiti fanciers, and so we might as well be the first to say it: "Johnny Carson is a bust...
...fighting in Szechwan was only the most prominent of Mao's troubles last week, as spelled out in the big-character graffiti of wall posters. China-watchers did not believe all the vivid writing on the walls, but even at a discount the poster accounts added up to widespread turmoil. Some 35,000 autoworkers in Manchuria were said to have wrecked eight schools used by the Maoists as bases. The posters described clashes in Peking and Shanghai, claimed that fighting took place in Shantung in east China, in northwestern Sinkiang, the site of China's nuclear installations...