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...neck. The defendant, burly Staff Sergeant David Mitchell, 30, the first of the 17 soldiers so far charged in connection with the deaths of the My Lai villagers, stared in uncomprehending disbelief. Last week, just six hours and three witnesses into the proceedings, the lanky prosecutor, Captain Michael Swan, rose to say: "Your Honor, the prosecution rests its case...
...appeared to be a premature rest. Though known to have subpoenaed 14 witnesses, seven of whom were on hand, Swan called only three former platoon mates of Mitchell's to the stand. The other witnesses, including two helicopter pilots and an agent who investigated My Lai for the Army, waited in vain to testify. Surrounded by reporters afterward, the 28-year-old prosecutor was peppered with questions. Did he think he had proved his case against Mitchell? "I sure do." Why had he rested his case so suddenly? "I felt it was advantageous to do so." Had he checked...
...White's other books, the line between human and animal is very faint. Louis befriends a small boy, Sam, who takes the swan to his school in Montana to learn how to read and write. ("If I can teach a bird to write," says Mrs. Hammerbotham, first grade teacher, "it'll be big news all over the Sweet Grass country. I'll get my picture in Life magazine. I'll be famous...
...writing on a small slate he carries around his neck does Louis no good-when he returns home none of the other swans can read. He falls in love with Serena, a lovely young swan, who ignores...
...father sacrifices his honor, stealing a trumpet from a music store in Billings, Montana. Before winning Serena, Louis resolves to repay his father's debt by working as a trumpeter. One of his jobs is as a trumpeter playing "Row, Row Your Boat" while swimming in front of the swan boats in the Public Garden in Boston ("Boston, which . . . is famous for its baked beans, its codfish, its tea parties, its Cabots, its Lowells, its Saltonstalls, and its Swan Boats.") He earns fame in Boston, and gets a ten-week engagement at a night club in Philadelphia. By this time...