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AMERICA HURRAH. Jean-Claude van Itallie melds pop art and the theater of cruelty as he leads his audience through a modern Inferno of cocktail parties, urban herds, politics, psychoanalytic jargon and motels...
...greatest Communist folk hero to emerge from the Viet Nam war is a skinny teen-ager named Nguyen Van Be, who left his home in the Mekong Delta to join the Viet Cong. Van Be's death is recorded in poem, song and story throughout North Viet Nam and among the Viet Cong. Prompted by Hanoi's radio and newspapers, North Vietnamese schoolchildren compare his deeds to "a thousand thunderbolts." His picture, taken when he was a guerrilla, has become a pinup among the Viet Cong, who name squads after him and hold periods of silent meditation...
Just what were the deeds that have made Nguyen Van Be such a hero? As the Communists tell it, he was crossing a canal in the upper delta one day last May in a sampan, together with eleven Viet Cong companions and a heavy load of ammunition, when the sampan was attacked by a squadron of U.S. and South Vietnamese amphibious armored carriers. Nguyen Van Be fought off the attackers for 30 minutes with his rifle and was taken prisoner, "covered with mud and blood," only when his ammunition was gone and his companions were all dead. Pretending cooperation with...
Captain Wayne Andersen lost a tight duel with Army's Van Evans in the 60--their third head-to-head contest of the year. The little sophomore Cadet nosed Andersen out again in a photo-timer finish and tied Aggery Awori's meet record, set in 1963. Andersen's 6.2 time equalled his personal mark...
Wayne Anderson, who has won the Heps dash for the last two years, is the underdog this time to Army sophomore Van Evans. The tiny Cadet has whipped Harvard's captain twice this season. But Andersen is a clutch performer and he could do it. Anyway, second is safe...