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...what basic training is like in the new, all-volunteer U.S. Army, TIME Correspondent James Bell last week visited Fort Jackson in the piney woods of South Carolina. Bell brought plenty of credentials and plenty of perspective to the job. He had taken basic training during World War II and later reported on how the system of making soldiers out of civilians operated during the Korean War. Old Soldier Bell's report...
John and Maureen ("Mo") Dean took the President up on his invitation for the weekend. But instead of relaxing during long walks in the piney woods, Dean thought about the carefully planned Watergate cover-up that was coming apart. Even worse, he suspected that he was marked out as the "fall guy." Finally, he sat down in the rustic cottage and began to write. As he later told a friend: "The pen wouldn't write the 'fairy tale' they wanted. It kept spelling out the truth." In despair, he threw down his pen and declared...
When fiendishness failed, the town turned to noise. Last week's salvos drove all but a few of the birds from Radford-presumably to quieter roosts nearby. The citizens will next thin out the piney grove in hopes of discouraging the birds from returning...
...sweep. The chesty Belgian-Rhenish geldings, however, have fallen victim to the city's foul air-which a Ludwig Maximilian University study in Munich ranks second only to Tokyo's in pollutants. For their own sake, all 16 of the current crew have been banished to the piney slopes of lower Bavaria to haul timber...
Most of Patman's constituents seem less interested in his assaults on the Federal Reserve than in his success at bolstering the shaky economy of his piney-woods district by obtaining pork-barrel projects. A tireless worker, he goes to his office seven days a week, puts in ten hours each weekday. Despite his reputation for vituperative oratory, Patman in person seems more like a grandfatherly American archetype: Baptist, Mason, Elk, Shriner, Eagle and American Legionnaire (all of which he is). Briefly a widower, Patman two years ago married a Texarkana widow in her 70s, whom he had dated...