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CHICKENHAWK by Robert Mason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Levitation | 8/29/1983 | See Source »

...prison. In another time there was a drug rehabilitation center here. Neither is in operation any more, and the red brick buildings now resemble what one imagines would be left after the bomb. Creepers embellish low walls fashioned from mortar and smooth river rocks by some forgotten mason-an ax murderer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: Last Stop for the Poor | 8/29/1983 | See Source »

This memoir by former Army Pilot Robert Mason recalls the violent, deafening, treetop world of 1,000 Viet Nam helicopter missions. Chickenhawk begins with a Florida farm boy's daydream of levitating above the fields and ends with the veteran suspended in horror and disillusionment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Levitation | 8/29/1983 | See Source »

Helicopter tactics were still in the experimental stage when Warrant Officer Mason arrived at An Khe in 1965. Nobody knew much of anything except that Viet Nam was, as Mason writes, "a good place to buy stereo equipment." For months the Army suffered high chopper losses because pilots flew at low levels over Viet Cong-held villages and paddy-fields without varying their approaches and takeoffs. Men died because promised chest-armor plates for their cockpits failed to arrive. To exist, Mason learned to adapt to "the details of the job at hand, no matter how bizarre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Levitation | 8/29/1983 | See Source »

...realities of the human spirit and human society as it exists." One practice that caters to such beliefs: proceedings in some civil cases are extensively thrashed out in chambers to avoid surprises, making court appearances anticlimactic. Says an American attorney working in Japan: "They won't tolerate Perry Mason-type behavior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Land Without Lawyers | 8/1/1983 | See Source »

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