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...Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" reverberated through Burr B yesterday as Nat Sci 5 students bade bon-voyage to George Wald, professor of Biology...
Crazy like a Fox. By last June, having technically served his two-year hitch, Smith pulled on his Army duds and hopped a bus for Oakland, where he demanded his discharge. "I saw this sergeant, and he didn't know what to do with me, so he took me to see this lieutenant," deadpans Smith. "The officer kind of went crazy. 'Don't you know there's a war on?' he asked me. 'Don't you watch television?' Sure, I said...
...allotments. A runner at Sixth Army headquarters, Smith has recently been given a battery of physical and mental tests. Though the Army is mum about the results, one officer cracked that Smith was "crazy like a fox." Smith sums it all up with innocent aplomb. "I talked to the sergeant major once, and he said, 'Well, it wasn't an authorized absence.' But it wasn't unauthorized either...
...prisoners were Sergeant Daniel Lee Pitzer of Spring Lake, N.C., Sergeant James E. Jackson Jr. of Talcott, W. Va. and Sergeant Edward R. Johnson of Seaside, Calif. Only Pitzer and Jackson were present at the ceremony, sitting behind a long table next to Hieu; the Viet Cong kept Johnson in the next room, explaining that he was too sick with dysentery to appear. The three had been prisoners in the Mekong Delta, and it had taken them, said Hayden, a month to reach Pnompenh from there, "under strafing, bombing and reconnaissance." All three remained in Viet Cong hands after...
...shirt, said woodenly: "The National Liberation Front made the decision to release me in response to the colored Negro American struggle for peace in the U.S." Pitzer said that "I have not been physically tortured or beaten. I wish to thank the Front for their lenient policy." Though neither sergeant hinted at a condemnation or repudiation of the U.S. war effort in Viet Nam, the circumstances inevitably raised echoes of Korea and brainwashing. In Saigon, the U.S. promptly released a report of a Viet Cong defector who said that he had tutored the sergeants in captivity on U.S. responsibility...