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Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government: It is a terrible tragedy for the country and for the world. He was a man cast in the heroic mold, who touched the nerve of comradeship and won the trust and respect of all who knew...
...document" of the "heroic struggle of the Vietnamese people against the American imperialists and their lackey Diem," the film illustrates much that U.S. newspapers have described: barbed wire-enclosed strategic hamlets, American tanks rolling down American-built strategic highways, American pilots bombing Vietnamese villages; American soldiers leading Vietnamese troops...
...lieutenant. He spent most of World War II serving under a Vichy colonial administration that did the bid ding of the Japanese invaders. But in March 1945, when Vichy surrendered the French colony to the Japanese outright, Minh joined a band of defiant, lower-echelon soldiers who organized heroic but futile resistance to the capitulation. Minh was taken prisoner by the Japanese, beaten and tortured by having most of his teeth yanked out. Minh is proud of his dental scars and today, when he neglects to wear his false-tooth plate, he smiles just the same, uninhibitedly showing...
...captured the morning headlines with his announcement. But the photographers were not disappointed. Hailsham-or Quintin McGarel Hogg, M.P., as he would like to be-captured all eyes with a robust twist at a Young Conservative dance; later he captured all lapels when his friend Randolph Churchill started distributing heroic Q (for Quintin) campaign buttons...
...music of his time. When the '20s died on Black Thursday of 1929 and the times went bad, Fitzgerald went sour with them. Although he wrote better, he was on the wrong note; having been monstrously overrewarded for his early tripe, he was cruelly undervalued when-after heroic effort-he made a fine novelist of himself...