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Healthy Sign? What can the union do for the Soldaten? "We demand better pay," snaps Union Leader Willi Zimmermann, 48. He explains that a German sergeant with five years' service draws only $150 a month (v. $270 for his U.S. counterpart), and is seeking $40 a month more. Zimmermann also demands "easier" promotion, more recreational facilities, increased health coverage, and a pension plan equivalent to that of civil servants. Fair enough within the framework of current union de mands, but Zimmermann goes further. "It is ridiculous," he says, "for a highly trained soldier to perform menial tasks like guard...
...Heavy casualties had been airlifted into Soctrang from a withering battle several miles away, and Martha, who was at the base to do a show, immediately donated a pint of blood, then spent the next 18 hours making herself genuinely useful as a nurse. "She was terrific," said a sergeant, and last week General William Westmoreland, U.S. commander in Viet Nam, honored her with a rare Certificate of Achievement for patriotic civilian service for her "unselfish, humanitarian actions...
...disgruntled general or the indiscreet diplomat. Last week, in a case that has still undetermined links in Britain, the FBI arrested a characteristically obscure technician on charges of conspiring with the Russians. Held on $50,000 bail was a crew-cut Air Force communications operator and repairman, Staff Sergeant Herbert Boecken-haupt, 23, who had worked for some 17 months in the Air Force's Pentagon communications center, and was distinguished only by his unhappy childhood in Nazi Germany...
Upon his return to the U.S., he continued painting while teaching history and art, including three years at the exclusive boys' school, Groton. In World War II, the Army Air Corps put Sergeant Rickey to teaching the use and maintenance of remote-controlled gun turrets in B-29 bombers. Surrounded by servos and selsyns, he made his first moving sculpture. Unlike Alexander Calder's mobiles, which evoke stems and leaves, Rickey's relate to wheels and other mechanical forms. The influence of the constructivists* on him has been strong...
...large, they have succeeded. Although the text by New York Times Columnist C. L. Sulzberger is sometimes stiff and distant, the book contains engrossing eyewitness accounts from such diverse types as a Japanese kamikaze pilot, a Berlin housewife, an Englishman at Dunkirk and a U.S. Marine sergeant on Guam. By far the best value is found in the 720 pictures (92 in color), which capture the events from the Treaty of Versailles to the rise of Hitler to the Japanese surrender on the deck of the Missouri...