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...entirely the Government benefits (educational and medical) that he deserves. One sees the change in television shows, for example, or in movies. During the '70s, the Viet Nam veteran was often portrayed as a murderous psychotic (as in the 1978 movie Taxi Driver) or as a drug-wasted, haunted loser. In Coming Home, he became more sympathetic, though in one character he was a cripple, and in another, bitter and troubled and suicidal. The Deer Hunter ended with an elegiac singing of God Bless America in a blue-collar bar in Pennsylvania. In today's story lines, the Viet...
...returns to Indochina to rescue old buddies still held there by evil Vietnamese who look like the wily, despicable Japanese in World War II films. These changes reflect a very literal and significant transaction. They suggest that in the American imagination, the Viet Nam veteran, erstwhile psychotic, cripple and loser, has been given back his manhood...
Right hander Ed Whitson, signed as a tree agent after helping San Diego to the National League pennant last fall, was the loser. He allowed six hits but only three of the nine runs off him in 123 innings were earned...
...executive suite should swing wide open. Right? Well, no. Basics still matter. In Live for Success, Molloy reports that of 1,000 men and women interviewed, nearly all agreed that success depends more on energy than image. All the image consulting in the world cannot help the true corporate loser. Nor can it cure incompetence. Nonetheless, Molloy found that most people believe that speaking, moving and dressing correctly are critical to getting ahead. The office slob remains so at his or her peril...
...E.S.M. Government Securities of Fort Lauderdale liked to behave as if every year were a winner. They drove Mercedes and Jaguars and paid themselves salaries of up to $500,000. In fact, the nine-year-old company, a dealer in bonds, notes and bills, has been a money loser almost from the start. When it finally collapsed last week in the biggest failure of its kind since Drysdale Government Securities went under in 1982, dozens of cities, financial institutions and other creditors stood to be out as much as $300 million. Among the potential victims were Beaumont, Texas, which could...