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...Americans killed in the Viet Nam war, only two have been civilians. One was Barbara Robbins, a secretary who died in the terrorist bombing of the U.S. embassy in Saigon last month. The other was Joseph W. Grainger, 39, an employee of the Agency for International Development...
...Grainger was captured by a Viet Cong patrol last August. He was shot and killed in January. Only last week, after a laborious compilation of the evidence, were U.S. officials able to recount the last, desperate days of a lone American in an unforgiving land...
...Grainger was a scholarly, quiet young man who had devoted his adult years to a search for some fulfilling engagement with life. He grew up in Meriden, Conn., joined the Army Air Forces after high school, later studied anthropology and sociology at Yale. He became a troop-ferrying pilot during the Korean War, then tried civilian life again. In 1958 he became a civilian historian for the Air Force, by 1964 had spent two years in South Viet Nam in that capacity...
Roadblocks. Though he had a wife and four children, Grainger was determined to do something more directly toward helping win the war: he got a job with AID and took an assignment in Phu Yen province, a hilly coastal area between Saigon and the North Viet Nam border. He was the only American in a region bristling with Viet Cong. In a short time, Grainger had begun to succeed in helping develop agricultural facilities, urban electrification, schools and health centers. "By the end of the summer," he wrote his mother and sister last May, "I hope to have 24-hour...
PASTORALES (Columbia). Rustic airs of high spirits and low specific gravity that display the virtuosity of the Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet. Mostly 20th century works, the eight pieces include a folksy fresh Walking Tune by Percy Grainger, a catchy early song by Stravinsky, and some skimmering sketches by Darius Milhaud...