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...Nameless Mission. West Pointer Merrill got command of an esoteric collection of U.S. infantrymen. They formed the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), whose parenthetical appendage proved symbolic. Culled from jungle-trained troops throughout the Pacific Theater, including a full battalion of Guadalcanal veterans (already thoroughly infected with malaria), the 3,000 men volunteered for a nameless "dangerous and hazardous mission...
...hero is a Swiss League of Nations observer bent on having one long extra-marital fling. The nameless heroine is a petite Japanese Mademoiselle Butterfly, who he hopes will prove a piece-de-non- resistance. But a series of Japanese throw themselves in his way, not to save her virtue, but his dignity, and above all Japan's face. There is a hotel proprietress who uncomprehendingly scalds him in the bath ("Honorable tepid bath . . . could not have been more than 113°''). There is a geisha who saves the hotel's honor by sacrificing her own ("I whispered only these words...
...piece band blared a fanfare, and a dozen spotlights lanced through the darkened arena to center on a wiry, suddenly pale young man who stood awkwardly rubbing the sweat from his palms. Joe Moore, who runs a farm near Liberty, about halfway between the communities of Accident and Nameless in Tennessee's Cumberland foothills, had just been named 1955's Star Farmer of America...
AFRICA was in the midst of a cruel process called Population Registration. In informal courts a group of nameless bureaucrats pressed a nationwide inquisition that would, when completed, give every one of South Africa's 12.6 million people a racial label: black, white or Colored...
Your Aug. 1 issue quotes a nameless Swiss girl who allegedly said that the U.S. Secret Service agents assigned to the protection of the President at Geneva were "like gangsters" . . . that "Swiss civilians who happened to have their hands in their pockets when the President passed were startled to have husky U.S. Secret Service men grab them and pull their hands clear." This statement is absolutely untrue. I was in Geneva, and there were no such incidents. Agents of this service had no need to approach any spectator, and did not touch anyone...