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...Trauma. Desperate, he sat down on Jan. 22 and composed a cautiously worded letter to the President of the United States. He laid out the facts of his case, explaining that he had had to work to make expenses and was unable to finish college in the standard, approved four years. He concluded the letter to L.B.J. by summing up the plight of the Class...
...this letter and the probably dozens of similar letters written by others will not aid me-or them -in receiving the necessary deferment. However, I might hope (that is, if you even get to read this letter) that I have in some way helped to present to you the trauma with which myself and so many other male college students are confronted. Agreed there are the groups which are professional objectors -but the majority of college men like myself have devoted over 80% of their lives toward achieving an education-only to have that education cut short by an induction...
...have come and gone since a 1932 coup gently displaced the King as absolute ruler, Kings and soldiers have combined, in a typical Thai equilibrium of accommodation, to provide a smooth chain linkage of government. The Thai sense of nationhood is partly the result of never having felt the trauma of colonial conquest. Even more, it resides in the charisma of the throne, reinforced by the nation's pervasive Buddhism. In Buddhist theology, the King is one of the highest of reincarnations, rich in his person in past accumulated virtue. Even in remote parts where spirit-worshiping peasants...
...Eddie Albert as an expectant father who berates himself just before the bandit attack with: "What kind of man was I, to get my wife pregnant at a time like this?" As the wife, Betty Field runs the risk of menopausal pregnancy, while the other girls crank up enough trauma for several melodramas. Mission Leader Margaret Leighton is a sexually repressed religious nut with lesbian leanings toward Teacher Sue Lyon. Anne Bancroft (in a role vacated by Patricia Neal when she suffered a stroke) plays a tough mission doctor who drinks, smokes, tells truths that hurt, and ultimately saves everyone...
While South Viet Nam struggled through the sixth week of its deepest political trauma since the assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem 2½ years ago, Washington could only watch, agonize and pray. In all the crises that have faced the U.S. since its postwar emergence as the free world's greatest power, there had never been a more sobering reminder of the limitations of American might within the self-imposed limitations of American foreign policy. As the principal guarantor of South Viet Nam's independence, the U.S. could do little but wait patiently in the wings while...