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TRIUMPH OR TRAGEDY: REFLECTIONS ON VIETNAM, by Richard N. Goodwin. One of the young brain-stormers for President Kennedy and, until recently, for President Johnson, Goodwin examines U.S. policy in Viet Nam in a way that is often critical but concludes that the U.S. must commit whatever force is needed to clear the guerrillas from the countryside...
Bullet for an Answer. The legislators who wrote New York's stop-and-frisk law in 1964 held that big-city police clearly need authority to stop and question anyone whom they "reasonably suspect" of committing or being about to commit a felony or serious misdemeanor. They justified the frisk on grounds of elemental safety. As the New York Court of Appeals put it in a key 1964 case (People v. Rivera): "The answer to the question propounded by the policeman may be a bullet...
...September. They have not won a big-league pennant since 1896; they are the team that Mighty Casey struck out for; and they peddled Babe Ruth away for $2,900. Still, all those past transgressions will be forgiven this year, unless the Orioles find some curious new way to commit suicide. Last week, slightly past the halfway point of the 1966 season, they were leading the American League by a full seven games...
...whether serving as president of his country's National Research Council (1935-39), or sitting as a member of the Atomic Energy Commission (1946). But Canadians know him best as the World War II commander of Canadian troops in Europe, who bitterly disputed Allied plans to commit his men piecemeal, arguing that his divisions should form a single force "pointed at the heart of Berlin." McNaughton lost the fight, but won the hearts of Canadian patriots...
Nearly forgotten nowadays is the fact that Malraux's passion for art once led him to commit an act of downright thievery that got him arrested. The incident, a cause célèbre in 1923, has popped up again with the publication in France of the memoirs of his ex-wife Clara, and a biography by Walter Langlois subtitled Indochina Adventure...