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...life and death of three British paratroopers and their German prisoner is full of grime, gore, suspense and pretension. John (David Hemmings), Tom (Tom Bell) and Cliff (Tony Beckley) are holed up in a war-scarred country house in a European battle zone, waiting for their sergeant. They kid and bicker, establishing basic character traits (educated John, taciturn Tom, sadistic Cliff). They set out some booby traps, kill some Germans and capture one called Helmut (Alan Dobie). With Helmut in tow, they try to make their way back to their own lines, killing and being killed along...
Black Servant, Brynlimah, Black Prince, Black Gold, Co-Educator, Equipoise, Dark Star, Dark Secret, and-that tourist!-Epinard, Faireno, Kelso, Gallahadion, Jim Dandy, Gallant Fox, Top Flight, Whichone, And one we need not call by name, the get Of Fair Play from Mahubah; and Regret, Noor, Sergeant Byrne, Ponder, and Petrotude, Miss Merriment, My Lovely, Singing Wood (Bay colt, by Royal Minstrel out of Glade), Cochise, Count Fleet, King Saxon, Cavalcade, Three fillies, Sorrow and Song and Rust-remember?-And Scarlet Oak, Right Royal, and Red Ember, Nashua, Swaps, and Sting, and Twenty Grand, Wise Counsellor, Whirlaway, and Yellow Hand...
Hating Father did not mean loving Mother. In fact, the Pritchetts were that human catastrophe, a close but unloving family. What they had instead of love was intensity. Thus Grandfather Pritchett, a minister, "looked like a sergeant major who did not drink." He beat his carpets and his sons with "a genial sadistic touch." Pritchett concludes that his own father was partly playing the pass-on-the-pain game. (Authors who have suffered Pritchett's critical thrashings may believe the same...
...Sergeant First Class James L. Peters-with a hard-boiled twinge of nostalgia for the times when he bellowed at day dreaming rookies...
...avoid Viet Cong booby traps and needle-pointed poisoned bamboo punji stakes, infantrymen will be shown eight hours of video tapes on Viet Nam. In a lesson on military courtesv, recruits watch a televised salute and then salute the screen while they are checked by their own sergeant. Altogether, the Army has assembled more than 2,000 TV tapes on such wide-ranging subjects as how to bandage wounds, drive correctly and repair radios. Unlike old training films, which cost three times the $500 budgeted to crank out a minute of televised teaching, video tapes can easily be kept...