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Former Captain Fred Brown of Tacoma, Wash., knew Calley for six months while he was on duty in Viet Nam and liked the lieutenant. "He was sort of an all-American boy, a real nice guy. The only hang-up he had was the same one everybody there had, to stay out of the line of fire until you could get home." Says William Thomas, who was dean of boys when Rusty was attending Edison High School: "He was just an average American...
...when they saw jelly beans inside. Of 1,000,000 of the Palm-N'-Turn containers tested in Ontario, Canada, only 21 caps were pried free, and 18 of the 21 had been improperly locked by parents. In the Fort Lewis and McChord Air Force Base areas of Tacoma, Wash., a 16-month test of Palm-N'-Turn caps reduced cases of child poisoning from drugs...
...Goldie Hawn, 22, a former chorus girl from Tacoma Park, Md., is the resident dumdum who takes all the verbal pratfalls. In the thick of quick exchanges, she will giggle, shake her haystack pile of blonde hair and say in a little meowing voice: "I forgot the question." At first, her fluffs were a case of misreading the cue cards. Now they are part of the act, as when she bites her lip and chirps: "I don't like Viet Cong because in the movie he nearly wrecked the Empire State Building...
...thus is appealing to the increasingly youthful, well-educated and independent U.S. electorate. To new voters, says Evans, "the traditional clatter of politics makes very little sense. They would rather have solutions." Perhaps the paramount issue, to Evans, is the racial upheaval. As he told Negro leaders in Tacoma last year: "We cannot afford to put the lid on the cauldron of seething problems and call that law and order. We must instead find solutions, and call that social justice...
...other reservists are working too hard at their new military jobs to have time for much complaining. "Nobody goes around here wondering what he is doing and why," notes Master Sergeant Eugene Bostock, a member of the 941st Air Force Reserve Group at McChord Air Force Base south of Tacoma, Wash. "It's a good group," says Bostock, a grey-haired veteran of World War II and Korea. "But I'm not naive enough to believe that McChord would fall apart if we weren't here...