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...David Halberstam. 118 pages. Random House...
Even larger ones are ours: Why did the U.S. become so deeply mired in Ho's country? Why is success so elusive? Those questions have tantalized David Halberstam since he returned in 1964 from 15 months in South Viet Nam as a New York Times reporter. The answer, essentially, is always the same: from John F. Kennedy to William Westmoreland to the freshest shavetail just off the jet at Bien Hoa, "They" underestimated Ho. That is to say, they failed to understand the Vietnamese, for in his own artfully complex personality, Ho was Viet...
Allard K. Lowenstein and David I. Halberstam '55 will speak at Oklahoma tomorrow. The next night. Lowenstein will be at the Nebraska teach-in Lowenstein spoke last Thursday night during a "Peace Marathon" at Mt. Holyoke College...
...than we could have explained exactly why we slavishly read the Times and Post each day, pay for our summers through the Newspaper Fund, intern at Newsday or the Post, speak derisively of Reston and Broder and Evans and Novak, absolutely exult in drinking with King or Lucas or Halberstam, the moment did seem just the kind of thing for which we were perpetually waiting...
...generation can finish it with appropriate gestures and flourishes. ("What brought you here?" Claude Rains, the good guy-bad guy Vichy captain asks Bogart. "My health. I came for the waters." "What waters? We're in the desert." Bogie shrugs. "I was misinformed.") As Journalist David Halberstam, 36, puts it: "We admired people who fought the good fight against odds-and kept at it." We did not care so much what the good fight was, so long as it was waged with effortless style and nonchalance. While we could be embarrassingly sentimental, we were, paradoxically, distressed at open emotion...