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...Soon afterward, during a three-day rest and recreation at the seaside town of Vung Tau, Calley saw six "mama-sans," Vietnamese women, machine-gunned on their way to market by South Vietnamese police simply because they were on the streets a half-hour before curfew lifted. "It was the first time," Calley said, "that it dawned on me that we weren't playing games, that we weren't supposed to be a bunch of Boy Scouts out there...
...paid $1,000 a month by Crum for favors. Once, when Crum was feeling threatened by the success of a competitor's slot-machine business, he asked Cole to initiate an investigation into the activities of his rival. The competitor was duly raided and forced to close. Afterward, Crum boasted that he had "paid for" the raid...
Mike Alewitz, a member of the SMC steering committee, emphasized that the demonstrations would be legal and peaceful. Asked if SMC would try to prevent any violence which might arise from the gathering, Alewitz answered, "Our demonstration will be legal and peaceful. If other people go out afterward and do different things, we won't try to stop them...
...theater owners were meddling with the eating and drinking habits of thousands of New York theatergoers inside the city and out. Restaurant proprietors were the most severely affected, and many of them announced split-schedule dinners, with cocktails and the main course before the show, dessert and coffee afterward. In practice, the simpler pattern of a couple of martinis and some hors d'oeuvres first and dinner after is frequently followed. That has changed not only the audiences' dining habits, but the audiences-probably for the better. "It reminds me of London," says Carol Channing, star of Four...
...process, he became one of the first American examples of the artist as celebrity, wielding what Harold Rosenberg felicitously called "the shady lyricism of the Sunday supplement." He was blessed (and afterward dogged) by the circumstance of being everyone's idea of the hipster from the Bronx-a mean blade, good with a saxophone or a motorcycle, the flamboyant, randy and infinitely dexterous picaro of Tenth Street. But by the end of the '60s, his virtues had to an extent rebounded on his reputation. His astounding skill as a traditional, realistic draftsman looked vaguely suspect to some critics...