Word: heroism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jungle to Z.I. Behind the heroism of Medical Corpsman Reid and his buddies stretches an elaborate, efficient and increasingly swift chain of medical services-all the way from Dr. Shucart and his fellow surgeons in the jungle to "Z.I." (zone of the interior, meaning the U.S.). And the statistics of survival testify to the operation's success. In World War I, the fatality rate was 5.5% of the wounded; in World War II, 3.3%; in Korea, 2.7%. In Viet Nam, estimates Commander Almon C. Wilson, head of the 3rd Medical Battalion at Danang, it is below...
Thunderball spreads a treasury of wish-fulfilling fantasy over a nickel's worth of plot. The fantasy is the familiar amalgam of wholesale sex, comic-strip heroism, bogus glamour and James Bond (Sean Connery). The plot concerns Bond's new nemesis, Largo. As No. 2 man of Spectre, Largo masterminds a daring bombnap. He hijacks a Vulcan bomber aloft on a NATO training flight, sinks its atomic payload in the Atlantic near Nassau. Then, for an asking price of ?100 million, he promises not to obliterate Miami or a city of equal size...
...reserve unit. The next day the Communists overran the front lines. Johnson's battalion fought like veterans-and held. Later, near Tabu-dong, Johnson himself led a counterattack to regain a key sector, earning the nation's second highest award, the Distinguished Service Cross, for "extraordinary heroism in action." As Lieut. Colonel George Allen of Fairfax, Va., then one of his platoon leaders, recalls the battle: "The world was coming apart. Our company commander had been killed. There was heavy firing 100 yards away. Colonel Johnson said we could handle it. He parceled out firepower and called...
...minor characters (a captain in the Venetian police) Nick Smith steals a scene with his impersonation of a Brooklyn cop. One shortcoming does stand out amidst the otherwise excellent caricatures: occasionally the young soldier Leone understates the egocentric bravado which should undercut any respect we might have for his heroism...
Died. Dowager Queen Elisabeth of Belgium, 89, Bavarian-born widow of King Albert, mother of ex-King Leopold III and grandmother of reigning King Baudouin, long revered for the heroism and charity she displayed in both World Wars and esteemed as one of Europe's leading art patrons, but whose unfortunate espousal of left-wing causes in the last ten years brought embarrassment to the government and ultimately exasperated a long-tolerant public, earning her the derisive label "Red Queen"; of a heart attack; in Stuyvenberg Palace, near Brussels...