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...rear of the hall were the Exhibits of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps. Most of the armed service exhibits spotlighted the M-16 rifle currently used in Vietnam. A Marine sergeant in dress blues defended the rifle, which has frequently been accused of jamming in combat. "It shoots real fine, even on full automatic," he said. An Air Force man in civilan clothes ponited out one of the finer points of the M-16--an attachment which fires grenades: "It's really two guns in one. Weighs a total of 9 pounds. You fire this...
...worked crossword puzzles during initial sessions. At the time, Police Chief Herman Short, a tough traditionalist, helped little with snide remarks about "slobbering sociologists." But as the meetings progressed, he apologized for the slur, and even uncooperative officers began venting their feelings. At one meeting a veteran police sergeant blurted, "I've hated niggers all my life, and every time I see a car with a Texas Southern University* sticker on it I'm going to harass the hell out of that driver." To his astonishment, he was met with applause and praise for frankness. Negroes...
Cambridge Police maintained their proper sense of perspective throughout the crisis. "I'd sure hate to think what would happen if the river rose eight feet," one sergeant said. "I'd sure hate to see Harvard float...
...York Times Correspondent Juan de Onis, who claimed there was no evidence linking the CIA to Che's death. It was a fact, reported De Onis, that Che talked freely to a CIA agent shortly before he died. But when Che was finally gunned down by a Bolivian sergeant, the CIA man had gone...
...land of the ranch and the Colt, he shot his way up to sheriff. He's a legionnaire, a regular army non-com who earns his stripes, one after the other. He makes me think of Bernadotte [the French marshal who became King Charles XIV of Sweden], a sergeant who's been crowned. An efficient man without any style. I rather like Johnson. He doesn't even take the trouble to pretend he's thinking. Roosevelt and Kennedy were masks over the real face of America. Johnson is the very portrait of America. He reveals...