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...luckiest one is U.S. Special Forces Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler. At 25, he has come away from Viet Nam not only with his skin but with a clutch of ballads that have made him famous and rich. His recording of The Ballad of the Green Berets, only three months old, has sold more than 2,000,000 copies, and a subsequently released twelve-tune album has already leaped to the top of the bestselling LP lists. For this, Sergeant Sadler has earned $250,000 so far this year, and the demand for personal appearances is so great that the Army...
...boys in the barracks and the girls in the bordellos below the border in Nuevo Laredo. "The Army doesn't like me to talk about that," he says, "but what the hell, I'm no angel. I'm a soldier, just a plain old dumb sergeant...
Schmidt's letter finally got into the hands of the first sergeant. After that Schmidt really did have something to bitch about. He was assigned to extra duty peeling potatoes and scrubbing the grease trap in the mess hall. When he warned his company commander that unless the persecution stopped he would inform the press, he was charged with "wrongful communication of a threat" and "extortion." Despite the chaplain's testimony that he was only guilty of immaturity, singular lack of judgment and stubbornness, a general court-martial sentenced him to 18 months in the stockade...
...ravaged body (symbolized by a stuffed squirrel climbing out of her breast) lying on a sewing-machine table. Like a pathetic machine, she Yo-Yos pelvically if a spectator peddles the foot treadle. Adding a sardonic note is a call-to-arms portrait of General MacArthur and a sergeant's jacket, bedecked with a good-conduct medal...
Died. Hugh Baillie, 75, longtime (1935-55) president of United Press, a hotly competitive wire-service man who started as a police reporter and sportswriter, later ran his 197 worldwide bureaus with a drill sergeant's bark; of heart disease; in La Jolla, Calif. Baillie put snap in U.P.'s once-stodgy reporting, telling war correspondents to "get the smell of warm blood into your copy," while scoring himself such notable beats as an exclusive interview with Hitler in 1935 and an unprecedented reply from Stalin in 1946 to cabled questions on cold war aims...