Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite detailed questioning of three witnesses in the Fort Jackson, S.C., courtroom, Attorney Charles Morgan Jr. of the American Civil Liberties Union was unable to find any evidence that Green Beret men had tortured or even beaten Viet Cong. What they had to tell were gory tales about...
...Green Beret master sergeant who is now "military editor" of muckraking Ramparts magazine, testified that Vietnamese irregulars, usually Montagnard tribesmen, cut off the right ears of slain enemies to collect up to $10 per capita bounty from Special Forces. "Cutting off an ear," he explained, "was considered proof that you had killed a man." It was a gruesome practice indulged in by irregular troops-not the regular Vietnamese army. Asked about Vietnamese mistreatment of prisoners, Duncan said: "Beatings and general brutality were the order of the day. Normally, when it started, you would turn around and light a cigarette...
...Life. Author Robin Moore, who lived with the Special Forces in Viet Nam while doing research for his bestselling book The Green Berets, said that U.S. troopers were helpless to prevent the Vietnamese from committing atrocities. Nevertheless, he added, "we have greatly increased our own casualties in an effort not to make a move that would kill civilians. I've seen what happens to Americans who get captured by the Viet Cong...
...staple on his breakfast table, and a well-balanced diet to nourish him all through his youth, the average U.S. college freshman of the '60s is half an inch taller than his father, and still growing. It is no surprise, says Vince Lombardi, coach of the pro champion Green Bay Packers, that "today's football player is bigger, faster and sharper mentally." Today's baseball player is bigger too. In almost every sport, the good big man is displacing the good little man. For those who are not big enough, or energetic enough, modern science lends...
There are some 30 million teens in the U.S., and they spend $12 billion each year. That enchanting fact has prompted publishers to go after a share of the teen green. The first adolescent stirrings were detected more than ten years ago when two events of major import to teendom coincided: the birth of Elvis Presley as an idol and the death of James Dean. Suddenly publications bearing either one's name were selling half a million copies. Soon magazines were riding, first, the Beatles, then the Rolling Stones, and now the Monkees. Currently, half a dozen monthlies...