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...took out all the frustrations of a life of failure and rejection on the people of one South Vietnamese hamlet. News accounts have played up Calley's lack of command ability, his feelings of inferiority, the supposed unfitness of his whole platoon. The campaign to make Calley into stupid sub-human reached its absurd climax three weeks ago in an essay by William Styron in the New York Times Book Review in which Styron compares Calley to Eichmann, and with this smug analogy, casts the full blame on him for what happened...
...seeming contentment of its inhabitants, repelled by their voluntary submission to the maneuverings. however well-intentioned, of its Planners and Managers. In the end, his skepticism overcome, he decides to join the community and with "euphoric abandon" wires his college head: "My dear President Mittelbach, you may take your stupid university...
...loud and noisy half-hour telling about a kid who took a header into a giant top hat and ended up in a land called Lidsville, inhabited by, of all things, hats. Head bad guy is an inept wizard named Whoo-Doo, who calls his minions "stupid" and classifies them as "little creeps." Jackson 5, still another cartoon offering, features make-believe adventures of a real-life singing group. Not coincidentally, the series is produced in association with Motown Record Corp., which records the real Jackson...
...Latin Americans are unlikely to go along. Said a Peruvian Foreign Ministry official of the U.S. proposal: "What they really want is to split the 200-mile area: twelve miles for us and 188 miles for them! Should we be weak and stupid enough to give in, there would follow an ocean grab by the big powers...
...director of the Field papers: "Sooner or later, there has to be one afternoon paper." Neither side, however, will let the other have an afternoon monopoly or be the first to fold. Publisher Marshall Field V, at 30 the prime mover of Field Enterprises, admits that "the losses are stupid." He accuses the Tribune Co. of "playing brinkmanship"-stubbornly taking deficits on Today in hopes of forcing the Daily News under. One block away in the Tribune Tower, H.F. Grumhaus, 68, the crusty, reticent chairman of the Tribune Co., will say only, "We are very pleased with the progress...