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...Calley songs, the flimsy Calley magazines. But the response of most liberal media has been at least as wrongheaded: journals such as Time (always the most reliable index of what mistakes the country's liberal center is making) have from the start portrayed Calley as a half-mad, sub-normal robot, a kill-crazed misfit who 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...
John Sack's book focuses on Calley the individual, and it helps to dispell some of the more comforting liberal myths about the man. If we can believe that Calley is sub-normal, retarded, and robotic, we can comfort ourselves that his decisions were aberrations and that we could never be led to be like him. Sack interviewed Calley on and off for more than a hundred days, and he has constructed this book out of fragments of Calley's own sentences. Sack says in his introduction that "I liked being with Lieutenant Calley. To me he seemed sensible, intelligent...
...Yardlings will play an eight game schedule starting with M.I.T.'s sub-varsity team on October 15. Following the Engineers. Harvard will continue on the road playing Dartmouth and Exeter, before returning home to meet Andover, Princeton and Brown. The season closes with the traditional Yale game at New Haven...
...before seen by man, and in the case of Scott and Irwin, catching up on some badly needed sleep. On the last day in orbit, activities perked up. The astronauts were awakened by the theme from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey and later launched a 78.5-lb. scientific sub-satellite into orbit around the moon. Almost immediately, earthbound controllers detected radio signals from the $1.7 million instrument package. The satellite's sensors will provide new information about the plasmas and magnetic field in the vicinity of the moon. Ground trackers, recording irregularities in the satellite's orbit...
...time to fight some more. After lofting his 6-iron shot onto the fringe of the 18th green, he putted to within 18 in. of the cup and holed out a birdie four to win with four consecutive sub-par rounds: 69, 70, 69 and 70. In the short span of one month, Lee Buck Trevino?Mexican-American, grade-school dropout, ex-Marine sergeant and all-round hustler?had become the first golfer in history to win the British, Canadian and U.S. Opens in the same year. "Now," he cried, "maybe they'll consider me a good international player...