Word: hitches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...nations are parties to the Geneva Protocol-including Communist China, the Soviet Union, the other Warsaw Pact countries and every member of NATO except the U.S. To President Nixon's credit, he sent the Geneva Protocol back to Capitol Hill last year for ratification. There was just one hitch. With Nixon's message went a statement from Secretary of State William Rogers: "It is the understanding of the protocol that it does not prohibit the use in war of riot-control agents and chemical herbicides...
...lunch at Nedick's by Ralph Nader, who wanted me to find out how much General Motors really makes. At 25 I was being mentioned in the press as the next Secretary of Defense-even the White House did not seem beyond my grasp. There was just one hitch. Myrna wanted me to show Jerry Rubin how to lead a revolution on $5 a day or less...
...time, landed him a role as a tribal elder in a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation series, Cariboo Country. His first film was a Walt Disney western entitled Smith!, with Glenn Ford. He delivered the eloquent speech, given in 1877 by the venerable Nez Perce chief, Joseph, with only one hitch: Dan George speaks Squamish, not Nez Perce. They made do with Squamish...
...hitch is that the South Vietnamese still have a lot to learn about using TV to turn on the people. News shows, put together by an overworked, underpaid ($17 a month) staff of six, are reasonably open for a country at war. Though no Vietnamese Fulbrights are ever seen on What the People Want to Know, Saigon's version of Meet the Press, the My Lai incident, to cite one example, was amply reported. Still, most of the fare is heavy and hard-sell. THVN does not run commercials, but slogans such as COMMUNISTS ARE BLOODTHIRSTY PEOPLE...