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...joined the Marines for a four-year hitch. "I was very gung-ho. They sent me to Parris Island; then, right in the middle of my training, they dropped the Bomb and the war was over. I felt a little like General Patton ?they stole my war." With 45 months left to serve, he was sent to language school, then eventually assigned to a desk in Washington, where he taught a correspondence course in creative writing. He also worked on the graves detail, where he learned that he really did not want the war they stole...
...late Paul Mus, a French-born Yale professor who grew up in Viet Nam. Ho was awfully good at simply dropping out of sight. Too often, as a result, Halberstam has had to make mere chronology do the work of biography. Though he mercifully avoids the rah-rah, gung-Ho, Holy-Ho rhetoric of the New Left, Halberstam makes it clear that he admires his subject. The value of his book lies in the fact that it briskly enumerates Ho's strengths and U.S. weaknesses, Ho's sure manipulative grasp of Vietnamese xenophobia, his deceptive simplicity, as well...
...Gung-Ho for Growth? Whatever the numbers, the President has to decide on which of two policies to emphasize. Should he aim for a modest rate of economic recovery, risking a continuation of high unemployment? Or should he strive for a faster snapback, risking more inflation later? Every sign now indicates that the President, prodded by Chief Economist Paul McCracken and Budget Boss George Shultz, has made a decision to go for speedy, job-creating growth. It remains to be seen whether John Connally, Nixon's surprise choice for Secretary of the Treasury, will alter the strategy. Though...
Tonis predicts that if gung-ho recruits do not mellow, they will not last long on the Harvard police...
...costs of such accurate demonstration identification far outweight the benefits it would have to Bowie and others who are gung-ho on prosecuting. The University would more and more take on the atmosphere of a police state with increasing polarization between the Administration and students. The number of CRR hearings would skyrocket as students could justifiably demonstrate that the Administration was engendering a fascist community...