Word: soldiering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...technique of being a soldier in Vietnam, one of the movies that's probably the neatest is the one on counter-insurgency. I saw it three times, twice, in basic and once in medic. This Communist dude with his little flying cap, he's the Communist guerrilla and he's in the jungle with his executive officer who looks an awful lot like Fidel Castro. They have this salute where they close their fist and shoot out their arm. It reminds you a little of Nazi Germany, just enough so you know the tie-in is there...
...question of withdrawing U.S. troops from Europe, McNamara originally hoped to bring home two full Army divisions, which, with supporting units, would have amounted to some 75,000 men. Wheeler opposed any pullback, and not only for the conventional soldier's reasoning, which flatly opposes reductions of strength on principle. Conceding that the forces could be quickly sent back, the general argued that the U.S. might find it "politically undesirable to do so because to take action at a time of tension or time of crisis might trigger the very event you are seeking to avoid or deter...
...phase where the dead did not rate stretchers, so we lifted him, still limp and warm, to the side of the road and left him with his serious waxen face where tanks would not bother him now nor anything else and went on into town." A wounded Loyalist soldier had a "face that looked like some hill that had been fought over in muddy weather and then baked in the sun." Hemingway reported so well and so movingly from Spain that two of his newspaper pieces later appeared virtually intact as short stories...
Admission to the baseball game against Holy Cross and a track meet against Army Saturday will be by coupon no. 39. Additional admissions can be purchased at Gate 2 of Soldier's Field for $1. ab r h Cobb 5 1 3 Smith 6 1 1 Hootstein 4 2 2 Emery 2 0 0 Lord 4 2 2 McCandlish 0 0 0 O'Donnell 4 3 3 Chiofaro 1 0 0 Karegaennes 3 2 2 Strandemo 2 1 1 Hall 6 2 3 Manchester 6 2 1 Lincoln 4 0 3 Melfia 2 0 1 Totals...
...Lentz, born in Alabama 79 years after the massacre, started writing The Falling Hills as an honors project for a B.A. degree at Kenyon College in Ohio. He mined the eyewitness reports of Fort Pillow survivors as preserved in the National Archives. Now a doddering 24, and an old soldier of the campus (he is taking his Ph.D. in English at Vanderbilt University, Nashville), Lentz has published a book with none of the sweet-magnolia swash and polished ballroom buckle of Gone With the Wind but much of the visceral realism that characterized MacKinlay Kantor's Andersonville...