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...after a firefight with the Viet Cong. When morticians in the Elizabethton, Tenn., funeral home opened the casket last week, even Mrs. Blanche Guinn, 54, thought she recognized her 23-year-old son, despite the bandages that partially covered his face. She hung funeral wreaths, framed the telegram notifying her of his death along with a $25 money order he had mailed on the day of the battle, and slipped a watch intended for Christmas around the dead soldier's wrist. Only after the burial did Johnny Guinn come home-alive...
...Texas, Smith, also 23, went home to Brownsville, Calif., on a 30-day leave in November 1965. At leave's end he phoned Fort Hood for further instructions, was told to report to Oakland Army Terminal Dec. 28 for shipment to Thailand. Then, days later, he received a telegram telling him to disregard the reporting date and await new orders "to follow." Obeying orders to the letter, Smith settled back to wait, meanwhile picking up a $130-a-week logging job. His wife Glenda Fay continued to receive her monthly $95.20 allotment check...
Fortunately, Hatcher was one step ahead of the machine. He fired off a telegram to Attorney General Ramsey Clark urging that the Justice Department intervene; then, a week before the election, he charged in Federal Court that Krupa and others were violating the Voting Rights Act of 1965. His charges drew nationwide attention and brought demands for federal action from both of Indiana's Democratic Senators, Vance Hartke and Birch Bayh...
...Paul Newman) draws a two-year sentence. For a drifter who finds even open society confining, prison ought to prove unbearable, but Luke plays it cool. Eventually, he wins over his most hostile fellow inmates by refusing to knuckle under to the sadistic guards. One day he receives a telegram that his mother has died. She is his last tenuous touch with the outside world, and under the strain, he finally cracks. Sitting on his bunk, Luke, an avowed village atheist, brokenly sings a parody of an oldtimey hymn: "I don't care if it rains or freezes/long...
Washington Subconscious. Abruptly, in 1946, Washington began heeding Kennan's alarums. For months, he recalls, "I had done little else but pluck people's sleeves," warning them of Russia's intentions, but it was "like talking to a stone." Then, in an 8,000-word telegram to Washington-"neatly divided, like an 18th century Protestant sermon, into five separate parts"-Kennan reiterated all that he had said before, and everybody began listening. Precisely why is unclear. The subconscious motivations of official Washington, he believes, are as intricate "as those of the most complicated of Sigmund Freud...