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...firsthand exposure to Viet Cong terrorism, many I.V.S.ers retain their distaste for the war. "We're nothing more than sugar-coating for the genocide that's going on here," argues David Gitelson, 25, a U.C.L.A. graduate and ex-G.I. now stationed in the Delta. A lanky loner who lopes around in sandals and faded Levi's, Gitelson carries his worldly possessions with him in a wheat sack, is known to the Vietnamese as "my ngheo"-the poor American. U.S. officials consider him the most effective American of all the thousands involved in Delta pacification. Says...
...loner, Mac developed a talent for unsparing self-analysis. For a while he dreamed of a political career. "I thought I would like to spend my life trying to bring about the things that Woodrow Wilson stood for," he says, "but my Scotch daddy set me straight. He said, 'You're too shy. Your brother Bill could do it, but you couldn't.' I thought about that for a while and decided he was right...
...18th District; to fill it, a special election was set for April 11. Powell was assured of the Democratic nomination for the seat he has already won twelve times-even though, as seemed likely, the House might continue to deny it to him. Then James Meredith, 33, the moody loner of the civil rights movement who is now a Columbia law student, announced that he would accept Manhattan Republican Chairman Vincent Albano's invitation to oppose Powell...
Born into a dull, grey Victorian world, Chichester became a loner in a home dominated by a clergyman father who "squashed any enthusiasm," and in private schools where the punishment for a misdemeanor was a whipping. So in later life-after careers as a sheep-shearer, gold prospector and land speculator in New Zealand and a mapmaker in England-Chichester was struck with sea fever. Though he thought "the whole prospect of the Atlantic so appalling that I can't face it," he nonetheless thrilled to "the moan of the wind in the rigging," loved drawing "deep, mad breaths...
...Robinson. That left the Yanks with an excess of outfielders and no third baseman. So off to the St. Louis Cardinals, in exchange for much-traveled Third Baseman Charley Smith, went Roger Maris-the man who broke Ruth's mark by clouting 61 homers in 1961. A natural loner who was more annoyed than pleased by fame and had been hampered by injuries for the past two seasons, Maris was scarcely surprised. "I can't complain," he shrugged-but neither could the Yankees. Maris's salary was $75,000 a year, and Smith...