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...Throwing. Geyelin takes the position that Johnson, for all the seasoning he had had since 1932 in Washington, came to the presidency poorly prepared in the area of foreign policy. Shortly before, on an official jaunt through Southeast Asia, L.B.J. had shocked some Asians by letting out a rebel yell inside the Taj Mahal, and proclaiming that Viet Nam's Ngo Dinh Diem was "the Winston Churchill of Asia." On that same trip, Johnson grasped the importance of U.S. support for Southeast Asia. While others in Washington were dallying, Johnson wrote a prophetic memo to President Kennedy, declaring that...
...Yell. The Americans were told they would be taken to another camp and eventually be sent to Cambodia for repatriation and release. Fearing that they were destined for North Viet Nam when they were moved out, they waited for a chance to escape. It came one suppertime as their three guards, carbines carelessly stacked against a tree, were digging into their rice bowls. Dodson yelled and leaped for the guns, came up with one while the startled Reds vanished into the bush. "I think the yell scared the V.C. more than the weapon," recalls an admiring Eckes...
...youths arrested for October's Weeks Bridge mugging draw four-to-six-year prison terms. Ralph Cahaly is robbed at gunpoint. Four men yell "You fugitive from a barber shop!" and beat up a Winthrop House sophomore. Twenty-five undergraduates march in Boston's St. Patrick's Day parade and only one is punched in the mouth...
...According to a current joke, a G.I. in a Saigon hospital is explaining how he had been wounded. "Well," he says, "I was told that the way to tell a Viet Cong from a friendly Vietnamese is to yell 'To hell with Ho Chi Minh!' If he shoots, he's a Viet Cong. So I saw this fellow on the road and yelled, To hell with Ho Chi Minh!' and he yelled back, 'To hell with Lyndon Johnson!' We were shaking hands when a truck...
...Regarding your remark [Jan. 7] about our high-quality but as yet little-noticed basketball team: the school is not quite as tiny as TIME seems to think; last year we had more than 1,000 male students. In any case, we have a new yell for the team-"Bring on the Blue Devils...