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...kind of honor that many graduates of West Point [Dec. 27] often display is one of the most reprehensible aspects of that institution's mores. In Viet Nam, I have seen an otherwise extremely competent squadron commander (West Point graduate) allow an extremely incompetent troop commander (West Point graduate) to continue his command so that he could accumulate his six months of combat command duty. This while his incompetence was killing young American soldiers...
Most Appealing. Museum Director Michael Collins, the Apollo 11 astronaut who circled the moon in the command module Columbia while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin explored the lunar surface for the first time, figures that the Spirit is the most popular airplane in NASM. It was a big drawing card in the Smithsonian's old building as well, and Lindbergh himself viewed it there a number of times. Once, in 1959, Lindbergh asked museum officials if he might see the plane alone and startled them when he also requested a ladder. Without a word, he climbed the ladder...
...call "the American barroom confessional play," in which the characters gorge beer and disgorge bathos. By play's end, nothing much has changed. Mansfield is still a place where worms do not turn, and Bobby is still a man who, despite his raging claim to independence, could scarcely command respect on two legs, let alone on four wheels. Supported by an admirable cast, John Cullum commands full respect and a role worthy of his talents...
...Marisa, who as the goddaughter of Napoleon's first wife Josephine de Beauharnais might be expected to live a somewhat sheltered life, is violated twelve times on three continents by five men. On top of that, she gives a command performance for Napoleon, suffers a miscarriage, undergoes captivity in a Turkish harem and is sold as a slave in Louisiana. Why is the heroine subjected to all these horrors? Cynics might imagine that Marisa's martyrdom is merely intended to offer the bored middle-class female a succession of vicarious masochistic thrills, but Author Rogers seems to think...
Hipness notwithstanding, he liked to talk about the time some Germans pinned him and his squad in a village in France, and how he kept his cool while the men under his command lost it, and how he killed those Germans in the face of horrible odds. He would not have fought for America right or wrong, but he revelled in the one time in his life when America was clearly right and there was a definite enemy, a dominator of foreign soil, a threat to himself and his buddies...