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...LONGEST CAVE by ROGER W. BRUCKER...
...come a Yellow Springs, Ohio, advertising man named Roger Brucker, and Richard Watson, a philosophy professor at Washington University in St. Louis, to explain the damp fascinations of caving ("spelunking" seems to be a word not much used by cavers). Their book is a splendid armchair challenge, properly made, properly obsessive. For non-cavers who read it, the sensation of being trapped in Mother Earth's vermiform appendix is persuasively real, and the impulse to run gasping into the open air is strong...
...MEREDITH BRUCKER...
...Brucker conceded that "no one wants to risk hurting the common cause by prying too much or spilling secrets," but he did object to the fact that the Administration seems to regard any attempt to get information about its actions as "an irresponsible act that risks spilling the military beans, an all but traitorous tipping-off of the enemy to our defense secrets." Said Brucker: "That is managed news with a vengeance. It is more in the tradition of Dr. Goebbels than our own." In fact, it reminded him of a World War II parody of Kipling...
...nature of things that government and the press should often be at odds," said Brucker, particularly when the government is engaged in a Cold War with a clever, secretive enemy. "Even so, we hold in our hands the weapon with which to conquer managed news. It is the same weapon that has always won against earlier attempts to conceal and manipulate. What is that weapon? It is the newspaper reporter...