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Black-white relations in a slit trench or a combat-bound Huey are years ahead of Denver and Darien, decades ahead of Birmingham and Biloxi. "The only color out here is olive drab," says a white sergeant. Despite the foxhole comradeship of most G.I.s in Viet Nam, the war is not all interracial amity: vicious racist graffiti from both sides mar the walls of latrines in Saigon; whites and Negroes slug it out on occasion along the nighttown streets of Tu Do and in "Soulsville," the Negro's self-imposed ghetto of joy along Saigon's waterfront. Sometimes...
There is a whiff of the diabolical about him. He has razor-slit eyes, a maniacal cackle, and the toothy grin of a cougar at feeding time. Above all, in the role of the flip, fearless roue, he exudes a musky eau de Coburn that women find exhilarating. "Funky, groovy," is the way Camilla Sparv, his co-star in Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round, describes his appeal; "mysterious" is the verdict of Julie Andrews, who appeared with him in The Americanization of Emily...
...conservative couturier. But on the principle that when skirts keep going up, something must come down, designer after designer rediscovered shorts, called forthrightly "les Bermudas." For daytime, Esterel showed shorts worn with knee socks; for evening, Madame Grès let them peek through a floor-length skirt slit to the hip like a half-peeled banana. Crahay at Lanvin blossomed forth with frilly organdy bloomers under flaring, tentlike little-girl dresses, and Castillo even tried an evening tunic with sheer pantaloons. Carrying exposure further, Paco Rabanne whipped up see-through dresses made of ostrich feathers and transparent plastic disks...
...Tanya Lopert, girl starlet and daughter of a United Artists vice president, had to be content with something less spectacular but considerably more ladylike. With Daddy in tow, Tanya made her big entrance at a party at the Palazzo Ca' Rezzonico, dressed in a spangled magenta mini-gown slit to the thigh...
...with the Butcher. The other world was evoked first by Claude Brown, 28, a forceful, outspoken Negro who at age five saw his father slit a man's throat, later spent time in reform school after peddling heroin in his Harlem neighborhood. Now a Rutgers University law student, Brown is the author of the bestselling Manchild in the Promised Land, an account of a Harlem peopled by pimps, prostitutes and dope pushers. In such an environment, he told the Senators, men are emasculated not only by unemployment but also by the related fact that "Mamma is having sexual relationships...