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...were victims of what the Army called "friendly fire." Back in La Porte, Iowa, Peg and Gene Mullen, Michael's parents, found the term painfully offensive. Moreover, the Army had listed their son as a "nonbattle" casualty, a category that, the Mullens were to learn, was used rather loosely to keep down the weekly figure of war dead...
...stepson of the late John O'Hara, Bryan spent weeks interviewing the Mullens. He conducted his own investigation to corroborate the official version of how Michael was killed. Muffling his own indignation, he tells how the bureaucracy added insult to loss. An anguished war-protest letter from Peg Mullen to Richard Nixon brought back a note from a White House clerk assuring her the President was "truly sorry" that her son had died. Attached to the note were copies of Nixon's "Vietnamization" speeches. Another letter from the Adjutant General's office informed the Mullens that...
...most women. A trendy suit from a top designer can cost less than $200; T shirts, from $10 to $20; an eye-catching swimsuit goes for $25 to $60. Women can pay far more, of course. But the quality and durable panache of today's off-the-peg clothes make them a sound investment at almost any price...
...introduced Japanese-made ultrasuede, the most sought-after covering since the fig leaf. While he dresses some of the world's most fashionable women,* Halston's soft, tactile approach to sportswear has also won him immense success as a ready-to-wear magnate; his off-the-peg clothes sell for between $25 and $1,000. A three-time winner of the Coty Award (fashion's Oscar), Halston believes "a designer should analyze the needs of the public and draw for all shapes and sizes. Our age group is anywhere from 18 to 80. It includes a businesswoman...
...more sympathy for the "dazzlingly brilliant" members of group number one who have opted for law or medical school instead of trying to make it in scholarship or art. It's what he calls the "who little me? syndrome," where students think that by taking their aspirations down a peg, they are not being "arrogant or hubristic." He blames the trend in part on the "anti-elitist, egalitarian wave of the 60's as it survives into the 70's." Such students elect these careers, Riesman says, "as if to say, "I can't salve myself that I have...