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an era when the word op-
pression has become so po-
litically loaded, his is a sin-
gular story of maddening
cruelty.
He says he saw his captors
use rifle butts to selectively
break prisoners’ bones. He
says he saw men strung up
to the ceiling by ropes for
days on end. Prisoners he
knew had their hands tied
for months at a time. Others
suffering wounds and frac-
tures were dragged through
jeering crowds. (U.S. offi-
cials estimate at least lit
POWs have been killed 01
allowed to die.)
But as other POWs have
said, too, violence was not
the worst cruelty.
“Isolation was the real tor
ture. I'd rather have a beat
ing every day than to be left
alone. I remember they used
to put me on a stool by
myself. If I got up, somebody
would hit me. If I fell asleej
somebody would hit me. But
nobody would talk to me
After a day, my legs would
swell up. After a couple of
days, I got dizzy. After about
four days, I would just pass
out.”
Next to isolation, ignor-
ance was the supreme tor-
ture. Not knowing what was
going on. Not knowing any-
thing but what the Com-
munist allowed. “The day
we stopped bombing the
north,” Frishman says, "I
remember wondering what
the hell happened—did we
lose the war or what?”
And so there he was, for
22 months, reading only
“special articles” from
the New York Times, or
speeches by Benjamin Spock
or quotes from Sen. George
McGovern. One day, he re-
members, “somebody finally
told me about what ‘super
hawk' Mendel Rivers was
doing—trying to win the war.
Hell, I never felt so good in
my life. It was almost worth
another chapter of Benjamin
Spock.
And so here he is today,
crippled inside and out. The
hero of a no-longer heroic
military service. The victim
of a moralistic hiccup in his-
tory. The sufferer for a na-
tion which does not honor his
suffering. And he is bewil-
dered because of it.
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This year's Mr. America
measures 49-30-34 and for it
he gets —well. not much. An
exhibition has been sched-
uled at a weightlifting con-
test in Baltimore. There is
an unexciting contract with
Strength & Health magazine
for a few $100 articles. But
other than this, says 32-year-
old Chris Dickerson, “about
the only thing I get is the
title.”
The title at least is impres-
sive: Mr. America of 1970.
master of muscles. And Chris
Dickerson is impressive, too
Stripped to his loincloth he
looks like an artist's rendi-
tion of why everybody should
exercise more. He has rip-
ples in places where other
people don’t have places.
When he bends his arm. his
bicep goes 18 inches, the size
of an ordinary calf. He looks
like he wears an invisible
girdle. The only weak points
on his body are his ears.
ground.”
He leans in close Earn-
estly.
“Even my arm. They
didn't fix it up for any
human reason. They fixed it
to keep me alive, because as
a POW I was valuable to
them. They could use me for
propaganda or for bargain-
ing. I wasn’t a human being
to them, only a commodity.”
Coming from anyone else,
this line of conversation
might be dull to the point of
meaningless. It does, after
all, merely repeat old com-
plaints about communism,
complaints which seem to
have gone out of fashion to-
day. Yet Frishman gives the
argument new color and,
perhaps, new believability.
As he says, “I've heard
both sides of the story now,
from the anti-Communists
and the pro-Communists.”
He has decided in favor of
the antis.
In light of his experience,
his decision is not really sur-
prising. He has seen brutal-
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None of it came easy, of
course Quaker-born Dicker-
son grew up believing force-
ful bodies were bad for chil-
dren and other living things.
He didn’t start the weight-
lifting ritual until a rela-
tively advanced age of 26.
Then; Boom.                says Dickerson, “and he's
"The first thing you do is  trying to work some things
bulk up — put on a lot of  up. Every now and then he
weight And by weight  I  calls. But we're still waiting
mean protein weight. When  for action.”
I'm training. I eat nothing It hasn’t always been this
but meat, cheese fish Liver way for a Mr. America titlist,
is excellent. To top it off I Some muscle specimenshave
usuallyhave a couple of spe- gone on to bigger things,
cia drinksa day. I grind up Steve Reeves, for one. Who
proteinpills and mix it with could make women weak
milk I hen I put in some with a flex or a smile, made
honey and add an egg or something of a name for
two. It sounds awful, but it s himself starring in Hercules
not 1 eally so bad.           movies. Nobody remembers
Thus fattened, the idea is how many films he made—
to harden with daily agony the guess is too many Since
in the gym Barbells. situps, he never learned how to act
dynamic tension "You do he played Hercules as a
curls for biceps, reverse mythological Mighty Mouse
curls for triceps, standing Still, he earned more than
presses for the shoulders.’ memories from his muscles
Two-threehours a day. Six Sometimes, in moments of
. F , T , fancy, Chris Dickerson hopes
In the end, the combination Thor’s lightning strikes him
of dull food, odorous gym- as it did Reeves. He is an
nasiums and clean living actor, too. What’s more he’s
(“Titleholders never drink an operatic tenor Finally
or smoke—because one beer he’s Negro, the first black
shows on the gut”) usually Mr America And he’d like
gets a man nothing. Even to think the unusual con-
if he wins a title like Mr. glomeration will add up to
America, nothing.             something for him.
“I’ve got an agent now.” Already he has been on the
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NEW YORK (AP) — Caroline Bob Frishman’s right arm is
Kennedy who used to totter neither dead nor alive now.
around the White House in her He calls it "this thing.” The
mother’s high heels when she muscles still work, he can
was a little girl has her own bend it fairly well and it still
grown up shoes and ideas now performs a few minor physi-
as she prepares to enter her cal functions. But mostly the
teens                            arm just hangs off his shoul-
She doesn’t like the midi, has der, good only to fill a sleeve,
stopped her piano lessons, says Three years ago, the arm
she doesn’t want to be a debu- was normal. Bob Frishman
tante or go to dancing school, used it.to guide a jet fighter
and thinks boys are, in a word, in bombing raids over North
• ugh ••                         Vietnam. Then, in October of
“I don’t think of myself as fa- 1967,hissplane was hit with
mous," she said recently while arm aast shattered' by h a
lunching with a girl friend at a piece or shrapnel and he
mid-Manhattan restaurant, bailed out into a Communist
"I m not really bothered by too prisoner of war camp
many repoens Ltt He remembers the bone of
PhHa seems theyre only   his arm sticking out like a
aroundwhen,, mswithmymoth-   piece of white SOap. There is
er I just don t think of what it 11   no question he would have
be like when I m older.          died except for enemy sur-
_           . ,      , geons. But their operation
She was nonchalant and com- was crude. For expedience
Petely at ease —and very pret- sake, the elbow was just cut
ty- as she spoke, staring at the completely away,
reporterswith.a direct, steady Now the arm is misshapen
gaze i m wide, cornflower blue and its future doubtful. When
eeS. y ... Frishman moves it, the dis-
Caroline Kennedy will be 13 connected bones prod ugly
years old on Nov. 27 and Ameri- against the skin. When he
cans will have to update their lets it hang, the flesh looks
image of the solemn child who like a pink balloon.
Johnny Carson show. And  know, like were pansies or  held her mother s hand and    And to think, says Frish-
doubtless he could do that  something.                     watched the cortege go by on   man, "it used to be my
TVcommercial every bit as     "I think this is unfortunate  that November day when her  drinking arm.”
well as the 1967 Mr. America because it’s not true. Well,   assassinated father President     Slight, tight grin
does it now                   we have some weird kinds John F. Kennedy was buried in     ‘-Good tLing Im ambidex
Says Dickerson: “Im in body building. like any 1963.                          trous ” nine ambidex-
ready if anybody calls.” other group has But largely, Those adults who know Caro- Navv IRLE;,
The chances of anyone the muscle people are pretty line say she has grown into a ’ • D Erishman s
calling are somewhat slim,  ordinary fellows. I mean  charming young lady extreme-   humor is forced. He is no
Not that Dickerson couldn't  look at it this way Some  ly bright and sensitive           longer a mirthful man.
pass muster in the entertain- people like flashy cars. some Her schoilmates «v eh. u Twenty-two months in that
ment world, perhaps, but  like flashy hairdos: we like  notsersomngtes.saysheis   North Vietnamese POW
like all Mr. Muscles he suf- healthy bodies. Everybody’s           A j t nice, and compound drained his cheer,
fers an unfortunate image  got their own thing, and ours   somsone, "no doesn t ask for   And though he is one of nine
malady. The public concep-  is no funnier than anybody  specan tavors.                  U.S. prisoners whom the
tion of body building is that  else's.”                                                    North Vietnamese have
all participants are a bunch c                               Caroline smiles often as she   freed (he was released "for
of suspicious, narcissistic  , Convinced of this, quiet  speaks in a low, strong voice,   humanitarian reasons” in
dum-dums.                    bachelor Dickerson will con-  As she sits at the restaurant   August, 1969), he seems to
But it’s not so, says Mr    tinuehisbody beautiful . He  counter, sipping a soft drink   have found little joy this side
America:                       hasjparbells in his Manhat-  (she had eaten only half of her    of the bars. He is still 50
"It’s funny in America   full vingeroom. His closet is  cheeseburger), she exchanges   pounds below his preprison
but while we honor and ad-  multicolored (one 3is" ered,   quick glances with her girl-    weight, his old uniform fits
mire and whistle at the well-  bikini trunks. And sinc his   friend and they laugh 811(1 tease    himilikeratbagand he is 3
developed female body, we  personal appearance sched-  each other.                     newiy serious man
do just the opposite at the  ule is hardly demanding, he    1118 an impromptu interview   e , remember when I was
ma e. I don’t know why, has plenty of time to train but Caroline answers questions hrst assigned to Vietnam, I
really. I suppose the easv            ’                       thoughtfully                       didn 1 hate anybody, I just
answer is jealousy. Most For what? For the Mr “Greece is very beautiful”   wentover to.do a job. But 22
men just don’t like to see Universe title nerhans And she 5 t Very D unu,. months up there in prison)
other men with muscles. It’s   maybe‘even f0I stage ‘and  shesad,"  can tsay which    changed me. 1 realize now
the ego thing. Over the  screen-after all piEkernn  Place 1 like better, Hyannis or   what the Communists are.
years, a lot of jokes have  grins, does Hercules always  Greece. They re very different.   They’re out to bury us in the
sprung up because of it. You  have to be white?
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