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He had his own ideas of how a meal should go. He preferred lunch to dinner, rarely invited more than ten, included few women (two at most). He abhorred water, put goldfish in the water pitchers to discourage would-be teetotalers. Once at table, his guests braced themselves for surprises...
The characteristic irascibility of the overworked corps shows itself most clearly in its view of the armed forces' public information setup. Though some think it the best possible under the circumstances, the Reporter's Denis Warner, 48, a veteran of every Far Eastern fracas since World War II...
Among the rest of the corps, claims Fried, "you don't see enough digging, or balance." Too many reporters, he insists, still look upon Buddhist "politicians" as religious figures and take them at their word. To Fried, the immolations and amputations "are show biz," and it is a reporter...
Newsmen & Buddhists. Fried is not alone in feeling that by and large the Saigon press corps has been taken in by the Buddhists. There are, to be sure, a few exceptions, notably The New Yorker's Robert Shaplen, 49, the Saigon correspondent most universally respected by both his colleagues...
Later, an icy wind swirled dust into a branding pen. Students rassled struggling calves to the ground, shoved a tube with a medical pellet down their throats, rammed a needle into their shoulders to vaccinate against blackleg and hemorrhagic septicemia, slashed their ears with the ranch identifying mark, burned a...