The Vietnamese War Seen From India Company
Robert Marks profiles Gordon Baxter and his day with India Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines, on February 13, 1966. The account, illustrated by 80 photos, portrays ambushes, sniper fire, village acquiescence to Viet Cong, and the Marines’ retreat, with 13 men dead. Baxter advocates containment and U S aid to Vietnam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gordon Baxter
India Company
1St Marines
W. D. Fillmore
Tim Lecky
Jim Schulster
Lima Company
Baxter
India
Vietnam
Tha Bihn
Marines of India Company
The Arrangement by Elia Kazan A Skid Road Memoir
A Man On The Skids recounts Eddie Anderson’s rise as a hotshot ad man and writer who enjoys wealth and mistresses before a crisis sparks a fall. He deserts his wife, quits his job, elopes with a mistress, and drags his family into a downward spiral ending with radical life changes.
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Eddie Anderson
Spring Fiction Drought Breaks With Major New Titles
AP Arts Editor previews spring reads from Wilder, Hersey, Roth, Vidal, Jones and others. Highlights include Wilder’s The Eighth Day, Hersey’s Under the Eye, Roth’s When She Was Good, Jones’s Go To The Window Maker, Vidal’s Washington DC, and Weidman’s Other People’s Money along with new works from Wallace and Ackroyd.
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Miles A. Smith
NEW York (Ap
Wilder, Chincloss
John Hersey
Philip Roth
Herbert Gold
James Jones
Gore Vidal
Jerome Weidman
Irving Wallace
Hersey
Roth
Random
Gold
Cleveland
Ao Holland
Aes
Lippincott
Jones
Delacorte
New York
Jamaica
Vidal
Washington, D. C
Little, Brown
Ira Levin
May
Weidman
Wallace
Simon & Schuster
Berio piece electrifies St Louis Symphony with dispersed ensembles
Music writer notes Luciano Berio Alleluja II performed by five groups under three conductors at a St Louis concert. Eleazar de Carvalho directs, with Edward Murphy and Berio conducting. groups placed across the hall to offer varied acoustical perspectives. Meanwhile several North Carolina music camps issue schedules for June and July as Mischa Elman and others are featured in university recitals.
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Z. Melnikov
Luciano Berio
School of Music
University of North Carolina
Greensboro
Box
East Carolina College
Greenville
Department OF Music
Hill Music Hall
Chapel Hill
Mischa Elman
de Bennot
Leopold Auer
St. Petersburg
Conservatory
Elman
Europe
America
Cross Section Of Bright Ideas Of Other Worlds
C S Lewis collection of nine essays and five unfinished novel chapters surveys fairy tale and science fiction. It defends fantasy as adult narration and analyzes space fiction tropes while praising fantasy’s satirical power and Lewis’s clear style.
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C. S. Lewis
Harcourt, Brace
Lewis
Bookman's Holiday and Drury's Capable of Honor review
Neal Austin analyzes Allen Drury's novels Advise and Consent A Shade of Difference and Capable of Honor. The critic argues Drury excels in detailed realism but overstates philosophy and oversimplifies characters undermining credibility.
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Allen Drury
Drury
Washington
Senate
United Nations
White House
San Fran
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High Point Enterprise
the Arts
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Hyman Kaplan
Captain Newman
CIA
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Caldwell
Lucifer
Archan
Gel Michael
Wilder
Harper
Auchincloss
Houghton Mifin
St. Andrews
Laurinburg
State Chamber of Commerce
North Carolina
Ewald V. Nolte
Salem College Fine Arts
Winston-Salem Singers Guild
Faure
Bach
Metropolitan Opera
Newport
R. I
John H. Chafee
Rhode Island
Newport Foundation
High Point Symphony
E. Barry Ruth
Northeast Junior High School
Arts Council
N. Main St
Leonard Goldberg
Colorado
Damber
College of Lima
K.P
Switzerland
Alighieri
Herbert
Rabbit
Lis
Native Indias
N.Y. Senates
Macbeth
Mr. Huntley
Beverage
Neal Austin
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