Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even in today's big war of divisions, the Green Berets have somehow man aged to remain individualists; occasionally they come up with a grandstand play that is hard to equal. Last spring, for example, two elephants were needed in a remote village to work on a new sawmill. The Berets tranquilized the animals, set them on a free-swinging platform and helicoptered them to an otherwise inaccessible location...
Despite such feats, the likelihood is that the Green Berets will hardly recognize themselves-or, for that matter, their surroundings or their enemy-in John Wayne's version. In the movie, the camp's single .50-cal. machine gun sits splendidly unprotected on a little hillock and the commanders direct the battle from a fragile watchtower that the Communists somehow manage to miss to the last; in reality, Green Beret camps are heavily bunkered, often reinforced with cement. In the movie, an evening's relaxation for Special Forces officers involves an outing to a Miami-style club...
With people taking so many foolish chances in the movie, the Green Berets will probably not even want to use it as a recruiting come...
Miami, Jan. 8, 1969-The Green Bay Packers today defeated the Oakland Raiders 6-0, in the third annual Super Bowl game at Miami's Orange Bowl. The winning touchdown was scored by the Packers' general manager, Vince Lombardi, who took a handoff from Publicity Director Chuck Lane with two minutes to go and scuttled six yards around left end with his aloha shirt flapping. A crowd of 17 fans turned out for the game, which was blacked out on nationwide TV. There was some fear that the game might have to be postponed when beer vendors refused...
...American movie-watcher is occasionally duped by hand-held camera into feeling that what he is watching is reality. But those who see a slick Hollywood color job directed and lead-roled by John Wayne know different. About every fifth person walking out of The Green Berets was giving a detailed description to his friends about how it was filmed in Georgia, how it cost $3,000,000, and how it would've cost lost more if the army hadn't lent them most of the stuff...