The American Legion Magazine [Volume 81, No. 4 (October 1966)]

The Problem of the Law-Breaking Diplomats: They Park in Front of Fire Hydrants, Steal Military Secrets and Sometimes Smuggle Dope in, but the Worst that Can Happen to a Foreign Diplomat Is that He Be Sent Home. Hence, Modern Indignation at an Ancient Custom by Thomas A. Hoge -- The Helicopter . . . Plane of a Thousand Uses: Twenty Years After the Chopper First Came into Civilian Use, It's Finally Starting to Flex Its Muscles and Show Its Possibilities for the Future by John L. Kent -- Should Capital Punishment Be Abolished for Federal Crimes?: Two Sides of a National Question Pro: Rep. Robert W. Kastenmeier (D-Wis.) Con: Rep. John Dowdy (D-Tex.) -- From Rags to Riches -The Story of Professional Football: Just Look What Happened to the Struggling Youngster of the Barnstorming Days of Jim Thorpe and Red Grange by John Devaney -- Plantations of the Old South: A Travel Article for Today's Motorists on Louisiana's Pre-Civil War Plantation Country. Twenty-Seventh in the Series "Seeing Historic America" by Alden Stevens -- Prophets Can Be Right and Prophets Can Be Wrong: Some Interesting Attempts of Distinguished Men in Former Years to Try to Tell What's Coming, With a Batting Average of Neither 1.000 nor .0000 by Ralph L. Woods -- Letters to the Editor -- Editor's Corner -- Dateline Washington -- Life in the Outdoors -- Veterans Newsletter -- News of the American Legion -- Personal -- Books -- Legion Shopper -- Parting Shots