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Viet Nam, as the Indo-Chinese call their country, is shaped like the load which millions of her barefooted peasants carry over their shoulders: two bulging baskets at either end of a thin pole. One bulge is northern Viet Nam (Tonkin), and the other southern Viet Nam (Cochin China). In the slender central region (An-nam), the mountains ripple almost down to the coast. Ho Chi Minh's Communist forces terrorize the coastal plains. In the south, terrorists make life unpleasant in the crowded Saigon region, and the Communist Vietminh haunts the marshes between the numberless arms...
...mutters, "Where in hell are the goddam gooks?" meaning the South Korean policemen who should be here to handle the refugees. ("Gook" is the universal G.L word for any & all Koreans.) The thin file of soldiers and the still, dumb hundreds of refugees stand in the road facing each other. Then the moment is broken, the danger passes. A sergeant walks up to the old man with the stick, puts a hand on his shoulder and wheels him around, not roughly. The women break into a quick protesting chatter, and some of them move, as though blindly, down the road...
Later that day, lanky, bespectacled Baudouin (who despite his spindle-thin appearance has a golf handicap of 6) drove to Parliament. Created lieutenant general in the Belgian army by his father, he wore a bright new olive-drab uniform with the wide purple Grand cordon de I'ordre de Léopold across his chest. The thousands of cheering people and his heavy guard of honor plainly embarrassed him. Entering the Chamber of Representatives, he had difficulty managing his sword in its gold scabbard, and fumbled the salutes...
When Ben's B-24 crew arrived in Italy, he was 34, small, thin-fingered and a wearer of glasses. He knew himself to be only a fifth-rate gunner, and because he was a Jew, he felt that the rest of the boys had never accepted him. At 15, he had come from the Ukraine, where he had seen pogroms with his own eyes. Ben had become a gunner because he hated Hitler and understood the necessity for defeating him. He was nonetheless scared to death of combat-and honest enough to admit that, while it had been...
...Decisive Battle. Unconventional as its members are, Jehovah's Witnesses is one of the three major worldwide sects (with the Mormons and the Christian Scientists) that can be properly labeled "Made in the U.S.A." Its founder was a thin, smallish Pittsburgh Congregationalist named Charles Taze Russell, who began preaching the second coming of Christ in the 18703, and organized his followers into the Zion's Watch Tower Society. When Russell died, a pontifical, organ-voiced lawyer, Joseph Franklin Rutherford, took over, built the organization into more or less its present form (estimated membership: 300,000), and called...