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...eyeball-to-eyeball commitments 24 hours before the vote," but that four Senators did not keep their pledges on the secret ballot. Suspicion centered mainly upon Washington's two Senators, Henry Jackson and Warren Magnuson, because Kennedy had opposed Seattle-based Boeing's supersonic transport; Connecticut's Abe Ribicoff. who has had past differences with the Kennedy brothers; and South Dakota's George McGovern, an announced presidential candidate, who is trying to appeal to the same kinds of voters that a Kennedy candidacy would probably attract...
...that they'll end up picking tomatoes for a hard-driving foreman, "being swept in among those countless lives lost hour by captive hour scratching at the miserable earth." Billy Tully and Ernie Munger are also far from the images of corrupt heavyweights fostered by Hollywood liberals like Abe Polonsky or Robert Rossen, who use boxing as an easy target-its rottenness symbolizing the festering passions of a nation. Tully and Munger are not fall guys for reformists, but men of substance, with more than a bit of sensitivity. They are even aware of their limits, perhaps too keenly: real...
INTER ICE AGE 4 by Kobo Abe. 228 pages. Knopf...
Creator of a haunting Kafkaesque nightmare, The Woman in the Dunes, and an existential detective story, The Ruined Map, Author Kobo Abe has the traditional Japanese knack of taking familiar literary inputs and converting them into exotically fascinating readouts. His latest effort is a fictional foray into political science fiction...
...Inter Ice Age 4, sophisticated computers concur in predicting that "the future would see a Communist society" throughout the world. At the same time, however, the polar icecaps have begun to thaw, threatening another age of glaciers. How then will an earthbound and capitalistic society survive? Abe sets up a group of underworldly scientists who aim, through biological mutation, to turn men into aquatic animals. These new creatures will live on underwater continents, safe from the looming ice age and the global Communist takeover. Ingenious, but even if it meant nothing less than the survival of capitalism, would you rather...