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Marton says he didn't think about the meaning of the war until he was in the hospital--he almost lost a leg when he stepped on a Pungi stick, a piece of bamboo reed sharpened on both ends and immersed in excrement as poison. After endless "nights when you'd hear guys sobbing in their beds--and I did it too--who were letting themselves feel the things they were repressing in combat," he began to think Vietnam was a mistake...
...night: and they're not sure--this seems to trouble them most of all--what went wrong. They founded a newspaper three years ago, voted to own it themselves, made it a commercial success, and then let "antagonisms" (says one staff writer) and "friendships and enemyships" (says another) poison their collective spirit...
...only frightened South Vietnamese who was contemplating suicide. Some of her classmates said that their parents had asked them to bring home large quantities of sleeping pills. Others considered poison or an overdose of tranquilizers. Even many Catholics spoke of suicide. One, the wife of a civil servant and mother of nine children, fled Hanoi when the Communists took control of the North in 1954. She explained: "We cannot live with them. Since there is no longer any place left to run, the only option is death." Otherwise, she believed, the Communists would execute the children before her eyes...
Annual Beatings. An oddball stockholder bristling with poison-tipped questions has disturbed many an annual meeting in the past, but usually he or she has badgered management alone...
...Pretty Poison. A cult piece, which means that a lot of people liked it better than the New York Times did. No matter--it has Tuesday Weld and that's reason enough to slip over and see it after you've told fifty people at dinner you're going to Potemkin, "unlike the rest of the mealy-brained slobs at this University." Good luck...