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...Their Knees. Even so, more than a third of the American perimeter caved in, yielding yard by yard to Viet Cong pressure. Young troopers took reckless chances to fetch more bullets and grenades. Using his master sergeant as a sort of artillery spotter, Specialist Four Samuel Townsend, 21, a draftee and former high-school athlete from Detroit, pitched grenades with deadly accuracy at an enemy now less than 30 yds. away. In some spots the fighting was even closer. Private First Class Edward Edwards, 20, clubbed down one surprised Viet Cong with his rifle butt. SP4 Richard Hazel, 21, sprinting...
...film's most serious failure lies with the director, who also played the star. The reckless, feckless knight who personifies the pragmatic common man, a cross between barfly and gadfly, is one of Shakespeare's most captivating creatures. Falstaff's dark side is delineated believably and well by Welles, who frosts the screen with the chill of death when he stands shunned by his former companion, Prince Hal, become King Henry V. But the tragic moment of repudiation lacks substance and significance because the Prince and Falstaff have never been Shakespeare's "sworn brothers...
...Bravo!" cried a reckless woman after the first movement. To this, others in the audience responded in divided fashion: half boos, half hisses. A few avant-gardists countered with applause. More boos. "Bravo!" insisted the woman...
...rare mood of harmony on the Berkeley campus, students massed near loudspeakers, sent up cheers as they heard their professors denounce the regents' dismissal of the university president. Assembled as the Academic Senate, 1,000 faculty members approved a resolution terming the action "reckless and precipitate" and amounting to "destructive political intervention" that "threatens the survival of the university as an institution of distinction." Professors applauded after Berkeley Chancellor Roger Heyns declared that "Clark Kerr was one of the reasons I came to this university," and insisted that his firing had "the appearance of a political reprisal," which...
...fires and theater openings, dropping into police stations and art galleries, presiding at Waldorf banquets with bigwigs and at street-corner chaf-ferings with slum constituents. He has, in fact, an excess of both zeal and guts that has made him assault the city's gargantuan problems with reckless disregard for his own standing. In his many tilts with the city's plodding, 300,000-man bureaucracy and other reform-resistant interests, he has shattered many a lance. Yet his supply of new ones seems endless...