Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME, May 26) is already functioning in eight cities-Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York, San Francisco and Washington-and in some of them has found work for more than a third of its applicants. Still, even the Urban League could do nothing for one Negro soldier who had lost an arm in the war and found that prospective employers considered him not a war hero but merely a one-armed man. He decided to stay in the service...
...simple country maid who hears what she believes to be divine voices. Are they heavenly or hallucinatory? She secures access to France's Dauphin (Edward Zang) and convinces him of her inspired mission to raise his nation from the mire of defeat and British occupation. She dons a soldier's garb, leads the army to lift the siege at Orléans, and then crowns the Dauphin King in Rheims Cathedral...
Michael K. Ferber is a young foot soldier in the fight against the war in Vietnam. When the Justice Department last Friday indicted the generals--including Dr. Benjamin Spock and William Sloan Coffin Jr.--for conspiracy against the draft laws, it picked Ferber out of the ranks to join them. Despite the prospect of a five-year prison sentence for his October anti-draft sermon in Boston's Arlington Street Church, Ferber last night committed what the Attorney General might consider a similar "offense" in speaking at Harvard's anti-war, anti-draft Teach...
...name. But he often seemed more like a thoughtless than a thoughtful candidate. At the military hospital at Danang, he marched under the glare of television lights into a ward for seriously wounded U.S. servicemen. He glad-handed one Marine and asked: "Where are you from?" but the soldier could not answer because he had a tracheotomy tube protruding from his throat. "Where were you injured?" the Governor asked another patient, whose bleeding neck had stained the bedsheets. A doctor explained that the man had been shot down that day in a helicopter on a rescue mission. "Good...
...others," he declared, as his audience listened in silence. "Some have to lose our lives young and some when we are older." At the Lai Khe mess hall later on, he insisted upon examining the garbage cans "because I wanted to see how much food they were eating." The soldier whom he watched eat the most got a typical Romney reward: one of his medallions...