Word: soldiering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SAME MUD, SAME BLOOD (NBC, 10-11 p.m.).* NBC News Correspondent Frank McGee's account of the role of the Negro soldier in Viet Nam, filmed during a month under combat conditions with the 101st U.S. Airborne Division. Repeat...
Bitter Dialogue. Solzhenitsyn's novel, set in the dark atmosphere of a terminal-cancer ward, explores the contrasting lives of the patients-a soldier who was imprisoned for many years in a labor camp, a field geologist who was stricken in young manhood, an aging bureaucrat who improved his lot in life by informing on friends and neighbors. The physical malignancies of the doomed are used by the author to symbolize life in post-Stalin Russia...
...invocation to that of the negotiators in Pans to still the guns, the President last week paid homage to four heroes of Viet Nam in a unique Pentagon ceremony, hanging the star-spangled blue silk ribbon and bronze star of the Medal of Honor around the necks of a soldier, a sailor, a Marine and an Air Force pilot. >Army Specialist Five Charles C. Hagemeister, 21, has the kind of bravery that often prompts Viet Cong snipers to single out the aid man as he moves to wounded comrades. Hagemeister raced through machine-gun fire when his platoon was ambushed...
...least important of IGS's divisions is the Library Research Bureau. Most of their work is done in the Business School Library, looking up statistics. From time to time an interesting assignments comes along, as when they were hired to find a certain passage from Goethe about a soldier. They found...
...taking his place as the boldest public wit since Wilde. Strachey never hesitated to flaunt his homosexual inclina tions. His finest moment may have come during his court hearing as a conscientious objector in 1916, when he was asked what he would do if he saw a German soldier raping his sister. Strachey paused two beats, then remarked: "I would try to interpose my own body...