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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people just can't adapt, it's so entirely different. I've seen people who get an order and then just sit down and cry. They have what's called a Mental Hygiene Clinic. They have psychiatrists there who decide whether or not you're bad enough to get out of the army. Actually, first they try to decide where they can put you to get maximum use out of you and then when they find this

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A 20-Year-Old Medic Describes Army Life: You Can 'Escape' But You Can't Dissent | 5/23/1967 | See Source »

...smoking of grass because it's close to the border and so easy to get. The Airborne paratroopers, especially the ones who have been to Vietnam and are coming back for their medic training, are all potheads because in Vietnam the stuff grows wild and free and you can sit around your camp fire in the Mekong Delta and they say you can just reach out and put up a handful of hemp leaves and throw them on the fire. They also tell me there's a terrific black market on narcotics for the troops in Vietnam...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A 20-Year-Old Medic Describes Army Life: You Can 'Escape' But You Can't Dissent | 5/23/1967 | See Source »

...away with. In fact, it's damn easy. When I was a sergeant in Texas, I had a room to myself and we used to have pot parties in my room in the barracks right in the middle of the army base. We'd close the windows and sit around and blow a few joints. If anybody walked in, they probably wouldn't know what...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A 20-Year-Old Medic Describes Army Life: You Can 'Escape' But You Can't Dissent | 5/23/1967 | See Source »

...football games. Joanne "almost never" entertains. Muffin, their Yorkshire terrier, is paper-trained, so they don't have to walk her. "We enjoy spending our time here," says Johnny. "We have a comfortable home, and we like each other's company. I'm not going to sit around in a roomful of people pretending to have a good time and saying 'Oh, isn't this fun?' when it isn't. I think it's a waste of time doing something you don't really want to because people think you ought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Midnight Idol | 5/19/1967 | See Source »

...Patti, 12, to play the Midwest vaudeville circuit, finally rocketed to fame in 1937 with Bei Mir Bist du Schoen, went on to blend adhesive harmony and speedy tempo into such hits as Chattanooga Choo Choo, Rum and Coca Cola, Beer Barrel Polka and Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree, altogether selling 60 million copies of almost 900 recordings; of cancer; in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 19, 1967 | 5/19/1967 | See Source »

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