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...dramatize his peace platform, but in fact only highly educated Vietnamese were likely to have made the connection: the dove as an emblem of peace is a notion largely unfamiliar to the Vietnamese. Dzu took it from a Christmas card mailed to him from the U.S. by a fellow Rotarian...
...Rotarian's Return. No sooner had Ling and several associates installed themselves in a suite at the downtown Pfister Hotel than Ling began his performance. Instead of the Big Man from Big D, Jim Ling played the visiting Rotarian. In a telegram to Allis-Chalmers' board, he offered to pay roughly $45 a share for 51% of the company's common stock-then trading at about $35 -if the board would give its O.K. Such politeness hardly suggested a Texas raider, and Ling himself soon ventured out to win the heart and mind of Milwaukee. He phoned...
Whoever thought the head man of so secretive an outfit would stand up and accept an award for running an airline under "extremely sensitive political conditions"? Yet there was George Doole Jr., Air America's managing director, smiling like a Rotarian and receiving a citation for the line's achievements from Washington's Aero Club at a luncheon in the capital last week. After the luncheon, Doole, a former Pan American Airways pilot, shrugged off newsmen's questions about his company's activities. "One wouldn't know," he said, if any particular contract...
...they're hep enough to hate the big cement housing projects that 'tolerant' progressives build so proudly." Compassionate and sincere, Humphrey may be; hep, he is not. Where Mailer calls for an artist-politician, sensitive to the people's "existential" needs, Humphrey's words suggest the enthusiasm of a Rotarian recently converted to the mystique of social engineering: "We must utilize our educational system to feed more brainpower into the machinery of American foreign policy...
Branch of Fisticuffs. Technically, this is a work of belles-lettres, in which Algren appears in the ambiguous role of the anti-intellectual intellectual. The spectacle of a literary man proving that he is hairier than a Rotarian is sadly familiar in the history of American letters, most notably in the person of Ernest Hemingway, who was prone to discuss literature as if it were a branch of fisticuffs. Algren goes the old master one worse by writing about books and boxing as if both were rackets...