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Strung up by his heels from a tree limb, the Viet Cong prisoner, his face twisted in pain, was being interrogated by Nung mercenaries working with a U.S. Special Forces unit in the jungle near Due Phong. The photograph caught an ugly tableau found in every war, and it was widely reprinted in the U.S. press, often with indignant captions. As so often happens with coverage of Allied harshness, neither the picture nor many of its captions told the whole story...
...rushed to get into the mod in the "Space Age Boutique." There, "his" and "her" cylindrical dressing booths hung from the ceiling; changing in them was like dressing inside a barrel, with head and legs exposed. To cheer the customers on, each booth was decorated inside with a leering photograph of the opposite...
...Hill and his family were held captive for 19 hours by three escaped convicts in their suburban home near Philadelphia. In 1955 Playwright Joseph Hayes dramatized a similar ordeal of the "Hilliard" family in The Desperate Hours. When the play opened in Philadelphia, LIFE'S editors decided to photograph the cast re-enacting some of the play's scenes in the Hills's old home, which they had since left to move to Connecticut. The Hills were not consulted...
...created a demanding course in math and physics that all freshmen must take. He flunks more frosh than any other Amherst prof, barks "You are an idiot" at boys who were high school valedictorians. An arbitrary egotist, he has inspired student dart boards on which his photograph is the bull's-eye. Arons' scathing answer to his student critics is that "they create certain myths to rationalize their own inadequacies." He seems proud of some mementos from his students in his cluttered office: a dead lizard, a hangman's noose...
...weeks and weeks, Mrs. Anne Potter Hamilton Hunt Spalding had been wondering what Son George's new girl was really like. All she knew for sure was that the young lady came from reputable stock, as attested by a photograph of her father on the hallway table inside the 39-room Beverly Hills mansion. The inscription...