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...Appalachia, attended a couple of parties, invited himself to a cartoonists' luncheon at the National Press Club. Up before 7 a.m. next day, he signed a rural water-and sewage-facilities bill, proclaimed White Cane Safety Day in aid of the blind, chatted by phone with an Army sergeant convalescing in San Francisco from wounds suffered in Viet Nam. He greeted "Miss Wool of 1965," signed a proclamation making Oct. 20 a National Day of Prayer, addressed an international water-desalination symposium, conferred with countless aides...
...what in Boston was the surest route to the top of his chosen career. He made himself endlessly useful to the Kennedy clan. If he lacked the depth or background for knighthood in the Irish Mafia, Teetotaler Morrissey had the unquestioning loyalty, energy and discretion to become a prized sergeant at arms...
...battlefields, the Viet Cong were still making war in their own macabre way. Two American prisoners of war, Captain Humbert R. Versace and Sergeant Kenneth M. Roraback, were executed by the Communists in reprisal for Saigon's shooting of three Danang agitators. The Reds' disregard of the Geneva Convention could only be termed murder-which is precisely what the U.S. branded it last week...
...Negro sergeant was sprawled in a ditch full of water. Over the steady drumfire of the rain came the cough, whoosh, crump of Viet Cong mortars. The sergeant counted on his fingers the seconds from the time of firing to the time of detonation, then lit a drooping wet cigarette and casually announced "Them's incoming sixties landin' over there 'bout a hundred yards. Nothin' to worry about." He took off his helmet wiped his face. "You know, we Airborne, we like to get things done real fast, get in there quick and out quick killin...
...Victor Charlie. One U.S. unit was ambushed at dawn scarcely 200 yards from its campsite chased the V.C. into a hole. The Airborne troops dropped in grenades which yielded four dead. Was that the name of the game? Hardly. For the most part, Ben Cat was like the sergeant "You go out on patrol maybe twenty times or more and nothin', just nothin'. Then, the twenty-first time, zap, zap, zap, you get hit-and Victor Charlie fades into the jungle before you can close with him." Frustrating as it was for the men slogging through...