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...movie M-A-S-H makes chillingly clear, war, the killing art, and medicine, the healing art, are fundamentally incompatible. Whether to patch the wounded soldier so that he may live to kill again or be killed presents an ethical dilemma to some doctors. Because of this dilemma, Dr. Howard Levy, inducted into the U.S. Army Medical Corps, chose to serve three years in prison at hard labor rather than teach dermatology to a group of Green Berets (TIME, June...
Some, mostly the defiant young, blow their noses on it, sleep in it, set it afire, or wear it to patch the seat of their trousers. In response, others wave it with defensive pride, crack skulls in its name, and fly it from their garbage trucks, police cars and skyscraper scaffolds. In pride or put-on, Pop or protest, Old Glory's heraldry blazons battered campers and Indianapolis 500 racers, silver pins and trash bins, glittering cowboy vests and ample bikinied chests. The flag has become the emblem of America's disunity, and, in a land where once only wars...
...many advertising directors are beginning to shy away from the national colors. Says Charles Overholser of Young & Rubicam: "Overuse could easily offend consumers." The aesthetics of the flag as high fashion are also somewhat in dispute. "I just dig the colors," says a Berkeley coed with a flag knee patch. "And I love stars. The flag's groovy from an aesthetic viewpoint." Marget Larsen, a San Francisco graphic designer, does not agree: "The idea of stars and stripes is awfully self-conscious and precise. It's a little too busy, with too many stars crammed in the corner...
...increasingly un-amused by unorthodox use of the flag. In recent months the number of arrests for flag abuse has risen geometrically. In Massachusetts, under an 1889 law recently dusted off, two youths have been sentenced to a year each in prison for wearing the flag as a patch on their trousers. At Denver's El Rey shop, customers are returning their flag vests because they cause so much trouble with the police...
...piece of film making, The Strawberry Statement is an interesting study in Hollywood exploitation, a classic "rip-off," as kids these days refer to robbery. The film makers ignored the issue of campus politics (the one real revolutionary is portrayed as a speed freak who wears an eye patch and talks like a paranoid Long John Silver), and produced something that might be called Andy Hardy Gets Busted. A few more films like Getting Straight (TIME, May 18) and The Strawberry Statement, and students may begin occupying what is left of MGM's offices instead of the campus administration...