The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 29 November 1966 — Page 4
4 The Daily Banner, Greeneastle, Indiana
Tuesday, November 29, 1966
National Window (By LYLE WILSON) , favorable trend rapidly exThe chilling word as we now i pands, the chilling word is hear it is that today’s 13-year- j wrong and that would be a olds can expect to be drafted in j blessing to all.
1971 for the war in Southeast Asia which might be won in five more years, maybe, or could
continue for 20.
will be 18 and draf' bait in five
years
Some of the cheerer-upper shine came off the seeietary’s optimism after the votes were
„ , . . counted about two weeks ago. Today s youngest teen-agers i , in u/io ^ «nJThe Pentagon was engaged on
Nov. 9 in a customary ploy. It was explaining McNamara’s
Twenty years! That would be } optimistic pre-election state1986. Male children still unborn ment pledging a slowdown in could be marked for that war the rate of troop development, and perhaps for death in the. About 200,000 men were Asian jungle. j shipped into South Viet Nam in This is in contrast to Defense j 1966. As of McNamara’s slowSecretary Robert S. McNama- j down statement, U.S. troop ra's campaign cheerer-upper' strength there was about 380,spoken just before this month’s i 000. The Pentagon explanacongressional election. McNa- j tion was that McNamara’s mara said he planned a reduced | slowdown did not rule out a Viet Nam build-up in 1967; thatj troop strength of as many as draft calls would be cut back i 500,000 for end of 1967-an induring the next four months if j crease of about 120,000. present trends continue. If : Memory threw a shadow of McNamara is right and a ! further doubt around optimism
based on the secretary’s statement. Memory recalled that Gen. William C. Westmoreland had told President Johnson in South Viet Nam some weeks ago that he needed more troops, and that LBJ said they would be sent. Good memory caused Charles Corddry, national defense expert of UPI, Washington, D.C., to paw through his files for an article by Seymour J. Dietchman, newly designated director of Pentagon guerrilla war research. Before taking that assignment, Dietchman wrote last May in the Washington Post that for the United States to win the war in South Viet Nam in as few as five years would require troop strength of “anything from a half-million to twomillion” U.S. men. Dietchman is a staff member of Institute for Defense Analysis (IDA). On that scale he estimated that Americans killed in action would equal the toll in Korea, which was 33.629 service dead. He wrote that war could last for 20 years with casualties still on the Korean scale if the war continued to be fought at
the levels prevailing when he wrote the article last spring. About 260,000 U.S. troops were in South Viet Nam last spring. Casualty figures had begun to rise, establishing records from week to week. In the third week of May 1966, there were 966 U.S. casualties of whom 146 were killed, 820 wounded. Of course, Dietchman was writing last spring about five years of war or 20 years, of | Korean-scale casualties and such. But since then he has become the Pentagon’s research director in Viet Nam war technique. Corddry asked Dietchman this week about the article of last May, and the author said he had no reason now to alter his conclusions. Richard M. Nixon said on Nov. 5, “I believe current Johnson policies resign us to a war that could last five years and produce more casualties than Korea.” Many persons read this statement as mere campaign oratory. So did many regard McNamara's optimistic Nov. 6, cheerer-upper. Guerrilla expert Dietchman is
not In politics. Ihere is a grim detachment about his chilling judgement. What optimism is warranted If the United States may be compelled for from to 6 to 20 years to pour more men, material and blood into Southeast Asia to win this nasty little war and to relieve an unborn generation of the threat of an early grave in an Asian jungle l
Intended as an Insult, but rather | How was It different then? | Dougall and director Stuart as a sort of compliment, be- | Why, in the only way it had to Rosenberg, whose precise tone
cause there is a joyous tradition be—and should have been: by for bright, diverting little films 1 the contemporary setting and
Television In Review By RICK DC BROW HOLLYWOOD UPI — What the world needs, in addition to a nickel cigar, is good B-movies that don’t tax the imagination or pretend to be much. NBCTV, with the supply of old comedy attractions miming short for television, has ordered some new two-hour films to fill in on its movie nights once in a while—and the season’s first one, shown Saturday, indicates B-pictures may be revived. That comment is by no means
of this level, and some of my best friends are B-movies. Hollywood, especially, has a timehonored tradition of such pictures. In fact, they once were the bread and butter of our town—cheaper casts, cheaper production, more profit on the dollar—until television claimed the bottom level for its own. Anybody can make an A-movie, but nobody can make B-movies
the way we can here.
style. If you can imagine the old Lloyd Nolan crime stories in a very swingerized modem version — including the hero— you have it in a nutshell. Gorgeous femme fatale who falls for the leading man. Loyal, wacky girl assistant who also goes for him and probably gets him
and pace kept the actors right
on target.
Franciosa, who is personally not my cup of tea, struck me as very enjoyable in the lead role, and i£ is always a pleasure to be won over by a performer. Jill St. John as the loving femme fatale was plenty of all right, and more and more seems like the new generation’s
“Fame is the Name of the Game” was the meaningless little murder - mystery
eventuallv. Address book found
on a dead body to set up the! Janis Pai ^ e - Jack K1 ugman was plot twists. Cops angry at the! a perfect caricature of a bi S* nosy hero. Well, you know the time hood ' And there were nice res t bits by Jay C. Flippen, Nanette
Fabray, Jack Weston. Lee Bow-
Anyway, the whole thing was man and Ena Hartman. But— that about one of those journalist i Miss Saint James. I ela-
brought new gloss and technicolor appeal to the B-picture level Saturday night, and the twohour production had no trouble
! borate:
fellows, Anthony Franciosa, who somehow never manages to be at a typewriter, but is solving crimes and making every-
whatever in holding my inter-1 body fall in love with him, which est, chiefly because of a new- ; was the only true thing about comer named Susan Saint 1 reporters in the two hours. On James. More about her in a his way to an assignment, he moment, but as for the film comes across the body of a
itself it used the sincerest form girl, decides to track down has the disarming vulnerability of flattery in recalling the plots what caused her death—and and high fashion gloss of an and twists and techniques in that s all there really was to; Audrey Hepburn, she also has a many of the fine. old. little! the story. The pleasing divers-; charmingly warm stray cat murder-mysteries, even the airy j ion. however, was in the work of! quality, a quiet but unmietaka-
producer-wnter Ronald Mac- i bly confident sex appeal.
If Holly Golightly had gone to college at Sarah Lawrence, she would have survived, if at all, in somewhat the form of Miss Saint Franciosa’s quietly kooky saint. For Miss Saint James is an original, a potential star of major standing. Although she
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