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...From the New York Press Photographers Association, two awards to Eddie Adams for pictures in TIME: first prize in the portrait and personality category (for Alone, a picture of George Wallace at the 1972 Democratic Convention), and first prize in color news photography (Viet Vet...
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...rewards of such expeditions range from delivery of little nibbling creatures who sometimes get stuck in the process of being born, to the periodic relief administered to Tricki Woo, a pampered little Pekingese constantly overfed by her mistress. To be fair, though, as Herriot invariably is, the struggling assistant vet is every bit as susceptible to .the sherry and smoked oysters supplied him by Tricki's dowager owner as the dog is to her indulgences...
...where I used to play on the mountain and the place where I used to bring the cattle and buffalo in the evening to shit them up had become so many bomb craters. And I couldn't anymore because they had been sown with antipersonnel bombs some hadn't vet exploited. Sometimes an animal would kick one and it would blow up... But my father felt for his animals. He slept in the village and tried to plow early in the morning. He was afraid we would all die of starvation in the coming year at he didn't farm...
...Viet Nam veterans faced the additional frustration of returning with neither honor nor glory to the nation they were supposedly "defending." The experience is especially bitter for those thousands who came back maimed or crippled. In one scene of Hogarthian savagery not long ago, television audiences watched a legless vet in a bar near Washington's Walter Reed Hospital blearily drinking beer from his prosthetic calf...