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Though he was the son of a successful Los Angeles realtor, David Gitelson, 26, lived in Viet Nam like the lowliest peasant. His home was a palm-frond shack in Ba The, a tiny Mekong Delta village 25 miles from the nearest U.S. settlement. Carrying all his worldly possessions in a wheat sack, Gitelson traveled the back canals of the Delta in sandals and faded Levi's, entertaining peasants with his concertina and instructing them in the modern farming methods he had picked up as an honor student at the University of California at Davis. The peasants called...
...were in fact salutations from the Viet Cong, whose mortarmen thus welcomed the U.S. Vice President to Viet Nam and attempted to turn last week's inaugural reception for President Nguyen Van Thieu and Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky into a wake. Fired from the roof of a shack in downtown Sai gon, the shells hit in the palace garden, precisely where Humphrey, Thieu, Ky, Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker and General William C. Westmoreland would have been standing had rain not forced the party indoors...
...smell of kerosene permeates the tiny, corrugated-iron shack at the end of a dirt road in Kent. A kettle steams on the little black stove. Amid such bleak surroundings, a scrawny, brown-eyed girl of 20 named Bridget Poole and a bedridden old woman smile and laugh together. "People think it's strange," says Elizabeth ("Queen") Allen, 83. "Such a young girl living with an old lady like me. But it seems perfect ly natural to us two. I think that's be cause love is there...
...swamp, he sends them out with numerous blackmail messages threatening to expose the gangland's deepest secrets, his wife's extramarital capers, his partners' tampered tax returns. By hook and crook, he manages to mulct $3,000,000 in hush money. In a shabby shack, the kids rejoice around the suitcase full of loot; but while they grow frenetic, Quinn turns splenetic. Money, he decides in a jolting flash of insight, isn't everything, and in the end he sets the cash on fire. The kids-like the viewer -wind up with nothing...
...Letter Writer Helena Franklin's objections to your pictures of starved cattle and people in India [March 24]: I think this is dandy logic. On the strength of it we could all forevermore be spared having to look at pictures of that old shack the Taj Mahal. After all, it gives such a distorted idea of everyday life in India. Or have I missed somebody's meaning...