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...lips. Today it is seldom discussed. France and Britain seem uninterested, and in the U.S. there is equal indifference. One reason perhaps is the recent vogue for anti-Nazi popular culture. The thud of jackboots across the bestseller lists (Armageddon, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich), the screen (Judgment at Nuremberg, The Longest Day) and the stage (The Deputy, Incident at Vichy) tends to make many Americans think of Germany in terms of its bloody past...
...TIME, usually accurate, is mousetrapped by a lady. Mrs. Reich did not appear from hiding behind a bush to confront me in Okinawa [Feb. 12]. Actually, she was given the VIP treatment by airfield personnel and ushered to meet me. How come? She told them that she was my wife...
...husband is a marine, and he served his 15 months in Okinawa without his family (the tour of duty has since been shortened). I'm sure that I am just as devoted to him as Mrs. Norma Reich ap pears to be to her husband, but a combat-ready division in the Far East is no place for the wife and kiddies...
Okinawa is no tourist paradise, but womanly Norma Reich, 36, who arrived there Oct. 19 from Manhattan to see her husband, a major in the 3rd Marine Division, likes him so much that she wants to stay there. Try telling that to the Marines, who (unlike the Army and the Navy) regard Okinawa as a combat-ready assignment and limit dependents' visits to 60 days. So Norma took her 60, then flew to Japan and bounced back on a 60-day tourist visa that expires Feb. 12. The leathernecks are getting pretty chafed about it, but Norma is determined...
Brute" and "The Beast"), when he visited the island, stepping out from behind a bush and introducing the third Reich, her six-year-old son David. "You are a good man," said beauty to the beast. "I was wondering if you could help me stay here." Er, um, muttered the hapless brute. Give him Montezuma any time...