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Despite these consolations, the rare American who winds up in a foreign jail cannot expect to lean on the U.S. Constitution. Every tourist is subject to the laws of the land in which he travels. All his consul can do is see to it that he gets the same legal treatment as any citizen of that country. Among the legal pitfalls most likely to face U.S. tourists...
MAJOR LANE ROGERS, 36, a lean, dry-humored U.S. Marine Corps regular, has been in Viet Nam for 10½ months as adviser to a Vietnamese marine batallion. He has no command capacity whatever. All he can do os offer suggestions when and if they are solicited by his Vietnamese "counterpart." To perform effectively, the adviser must earn the trust and friendship of his Vietnamese opposite number- a process that often takes weeks, and sometimes is never achieved. Whenever an American adviser tries to force his views on a Vietnamese commander, he is in for trouble. Thus one overzealous adviser...
...west, became a bartender in his brother-in-law's New York restaurant, the Café Brittany, on Manhattan's West Side, and began learning the business from the bottom up. "Pigs' feet came first," he explains, "then on toward tête de veau." Today, lean and eager, and sporting a heavy gold ring, he is no man's receptionist. Indeed, Agence France-Presse's New York bureau phones him the French soccer results every Sunday afternoon...
...this enterprise was lavished on the kind of iconoclastic article that readers have come to expect from the Trib's lively Sunday magazine and one of its liveliest writers, Tom Wolfe, 34. Breaking all the rules of clean, lean journalism, Wolfe writes in a buoyant, overstuffed, baroque style filled with grunts and guffaws; participles and expletives that fly in all directions; metaphors that are launched, mixed and sometimes hopelessly scrambled...
...even think of improving lean Anouilh's Becket, whose Broadway production starred Laurence Olivier and Anthony Quinn, strikes theatrical circles as outrageous hubris, but it failed to faze Anhalt. "The main problem was to stop it from being a play," he explains, "to stop it from being theatrical, and to make it real. Becket on the stage was a series of stylized tapestries. Anouilh had to refer to things that happened offstage, the excommunication scene, or the scene in which Becket is accused by the King's prosecutor, for instance. I had to make the two men into...