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Golden Fleece. Yet, as it has done everywhere else, the G.I.'s heart inevitably goes out to war's forlorn victims. Marvels a Viet Nam veteran in the Pentagon: "Imagine a really gung-ho West...
...faculty at Wolters and Rucker consists increasingly of gung-ho Viet Nam veterans who imbue their students with the sense of mission that marks their units in the war zone. "The heli copter has done a great job," one gunship pilot tells his students. "If the chopper hadn't been in Viet Nam, that place would have been long gone by now." The close-cropped heads of warrant officer candidates nod enthusiastically. Says Major General John Tolson, commander of the Army Aviation Center: "They don't seem to find what they want in college. They just want...
...most naturally is dancing, making love, and drinking; and once he gets the hang of it, the consort finds he has a natural bent for doing the same thing. He beds down with a nubile native girl named Tia and sends the royal yacht home without him. Soon three gung-ho paratroopers arrive by helicopter and forcibly take the consort home, but he is so dispirited and uncooperative that it is finally decided that the best solution is to assassinate him. How the prince consort survives this plot is the climax to a story that is well written and amusingly...
...hate for any of your readers to go away from TIME [June 25] believing that I am a gung-ho soldier or that I approve of the way the Army does many things. The Army in peacetime is still an unfortunate hybrid of feudalism and socialism, neither of which particularly appeals to me. I might add that I got into military broadcasting mostly by chance, and if I had known the odds against me last summer, I would never have volunteered for the draft...
...activist bloc of Black and William O. Douglas. In William J. Brennan Jr., another Ike appointee, the bloc picked up a fairly dependable fourth vote. The decisive fifth came in 1962, when the ailing judicial restrainer, Felix Frankfurter, retired, to be succeeded by President Kennedy's gung-ho Labor Secretary, Arthur Goldberg...