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There is something touching in the process by which purely utilitarian things, such as bridges, Model Ts and old penny bubble-gum machines, become vaguely mythical collectors' items. Last week in Britain, the new London Bridge, an unprepossessing rig of steel and concrete, was partially opened, but it was merely a means of getting from one side of the Thames to the other. However authentic the reconstruction in Arizona, the old bridge has vanished; monuments cannot be transplanted. London Bridge without London is, after all, not London Bridge. How does Cochise greet Charles Dickens...
...some reason, are better shots than the men are." Children were used, Calley said, to throw hand grenades or plant mines. He concluded "that it was essential that troops in Viet Nam put out of their minds the World War II and Korean concept of giving candy and chewing gum and things to children. The Communists used that American philosophy against...
...South Viet Nam. But many other military men do. "Nobody raises an eyebrow now if someone suggests that out in the field, where the arm of military law is relatively relaxed, 90% of all noncareer G.I.s smoke grass," reports TIME Correspondent James Willwerth. "It is as common as chewing gum here, and the young officers are smoking it nearly as much as the enlisted...
...middle-aged prep night at the shrine of Boston High School hockey, the Arena, and as the faithful alumni ruined their pin-striped behinds on the bubble-gum parked by generations of Southie and Eastie fans, Harvard slaughtered Yale in a predictable mismatch...
...wear, is now designing plumbing and chocolate boxes and playing with his own theater. St. Laurent is creating men's clothes-and sheets and towels too. In fact, Yves will soon be owned frock, shirt and shoulders by Squibb Beech-Nut, Inc.-and may well be designing gum wrappers in a few years...