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DIED. Bernard Hollowood, 70, editor of the British humor magazine Punch from 1957 to 1968, who expanded its format to include political and social commentary; of a brain hemorrhage; in Guildford, England. Hollowood, whose editorials criticized U.S. involvement in Viet Nam and urged Britain's entry into the European Community, once said: "Nobody on earth can read exclusively funny articles without getting weary...
DIED. John S. McCain Jr., 70, salty, hard-driving four-star admiral and World War II hero who was commander in chief of U.S. forces in the Pacific during the Viet Nam War; of a heart attack; aboard a military plane while returning from a trip to Europe. The son of a four-star admiral, McCain served as a submarine commander during World War II and was appointed commander of naval services in Europe in 1967. McCain, who retired in 1972, maintained that the U.S. was engaged in a "wet war" for naval superiority with the Soviet Union, whose growing...
Cutter (John Heard) is crazy angry and has every, right to be. He lost an eye, an arm and a leg in Viet Nam, and there are hints that a family fortune was somehow dissipated before that. He drinks, makes terrible scenes in public, and in private treats his wife Mo (Lisa Eichhorn) shamefully. Bone (Jeff Bridges) is pathologically amiable, a gentle gigolo who would rather be out on his sailboat or, better still, indulging a dream of rescuing his buddy's lady from her slummy, captive misery. In short, Cutter and Bone are the oddest couple this side...
Suddenly they were back in the news, if briefly: young people marching with placards and upraised fists to protest U.S. military intervention in El Salvador. Naturally the demonstrations stirred memories of the Viet Nam War. But they were also a striking reminder of something else: how little American youth has made its presence felt in recent years...
...imagined themselves lost on the wrong side of that much repeated cliche, the "generation gap." From hairstyles to civil rights, the young made their presence felt in almost every aspect of national life. And as the decade ended they provided the great body of the visible opposition to the Viet Nam War. Their activity peaked in the angry campus protests that followed the killing of four students during antiwar demonstrations at Kent State University in 1970. Soon after that, to the shock of many of their elders who expected them to persist and grow as a permanent political force...