Word: journalists
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Died. Walter Millis, 69, military journalist and historian; husband of Fashion Columnist Eugenia Sheppard; ot cancer; in Manhattan. During 30 years on the now defunct New York Herald Tribune, Millis established a reputation as one of the country's most lucid military commentators. His books ranged from The Martial Spirit (1931), which examined the origins of the Spanish-American War, to This Is Pearl! (1947), a study of U.S. unpreparedness against the Japanese attack. Recently, though, his articles turned more to politics than the conduct of arms, criticizing U.S. involvement in Viet Nam and voicing opposition to nuclear weapons...
Speaking as an informed outsider, British Journalist Kenneth Allsop suggests that Americans have never quite made up their minds on the answer. Their ambiguous feelings about hoboes, he says, are nurtured by deeper ambiguous feelings about themselves. "The shock trooper of the American expansion, the man with bedroll on back who freelanced beyond the community redoubts," was "a wild and recalcitrant wayfarer, bothersome to the settled citizen." But he was also "a unique and indigenous American product," and the settled citizen secretly envied him. Something inside every proper American, says Allsop, reponds to the haunting echo of a train whistle...
...GHOST IN THE MACHINE, by Arthur Koestler. The novelist, journalist and philosopher constructs a brilliant brief against the scientific establishment, asserting that man is more than the sum of natural forces...
Suitable Heroism. The diary business out of the way, Michéle concentrated on the mystique of Che's death. She came across a young Bolivian journalist named Jorge Torrico, who offered her information if she would help him get to France, where, he said, he wanted to study. Michéle agreed. With Torrico's help, she re-created the events leading up to Che's execution in La Higuera. Those who supervised the murder, she asserts, were two CIA operatives named Ramos and Gonzales...
...Sanh also most likely claimed the life of the 12th journalist to die in Viet Nam: Photographer Bob Ellison, 23, whose work has appeared in many U.S. publications, including TIME'S cover on the Negro G.I. Ellison was listed as one of the 49 men aboard a C-123 transport shot down by ground fire as it circled for a landing...