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Predawn Derring-Do. Every so often the Marines came across pockets of American civilians, some of whom had been successfully hiding out for nine days. When they liberated the Thua Thien province headquarters, the Marines tore down the Viet Cong flag, one of dozens the Communists had planted throughout the city, and raised the Stars and Stripes. Their commander had told them to run up the South Vietnamese flag, but two Marines had died and two others had been wounded in taking the building; they were not about to be denied the satisfaction of raising their own flag (though...
Halliwell exhibits satiric and sympathetic attitudes toward his characters, and the actors took advantage of it. James Hoare (playing Dennis Charles Nipple) delivered a magnificent speech about the lay of his life-time. She was, according to him, a dark-skinned sensuous-lipped lady who tore his clothes off. Hoare gave absurdity its due: he relished his prose almost as much as he relished the illusive charmer. But when he stood before a tribunal consisting of his pals--they gave him the choice of pleading Guilty or Very Guilty--he dropped all rhetoric, became a madman in a circle...
Junior and senior high school students took copies of the paper and tore them up, shouting, "Those hippies are faggots!" and "All the way with...
Trial for Fascism. At the annual Frankfurt fall book fair, 200 chanting students gleefully tore up Springer books and magazines. Oblivious to similar acts in the Nazi era, left-wing Erlangen University students staged a burning of Springer publications. A group of liberal writers declared they will never again write for a Springer paper and urged their publishers to withhold advertising from Springer publications. When Springer went to give a speech at the Hamburg Overseas Club recently, he had to slip in a side door while five squads of riot police protected him from angry pickets, whose banners declared: "Never...
Within minutes a team of firemen was on the scene. After some confusion about the source of the smoke, the firemen climbed through the third story window of H-34 and tore down the fire door 'eading to H-33. Brandishing gas masks, fire axes, and two hoses, they soon had the blaze under control...