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Since Hair chooses to stand on an attitude of dissent, mainly about Viet Nam, some of the show's thunder has been stolen by the prospective initiation of peace talks. It gives the show a split personality-musically fresh but intellectually trite and topically dated.
The letter is dated March 26, but was mailed Wednesday. An insert, pointing to the recent peace overtures in Vietnam, says, "The war remains morally and politically indefensible; the draft is still a terrible reality. We continue to believe that opposition to the draft is an honest and direct response...
Faint Praise. At an unscheduled press conference, Johnson made much of the fact that his decision had been endorsed by Robert McNamara. He pulled from his pocket a rumpled piece of paper bearing, he said, McNamara's handwritten "alternatives" and "recommendations" and dated Jan. 19-more than a week...
As recently as 1960, Ford was the sensation of West German autos; its various models offered roominess, style and economy. By 1965, Ford commanded an 18% share of the auto market in West Germany. But Ford officials vastly underestimated the extent and duration of the country's 1967 recession...
The Court. Perhaps the most important exchange involves F.D.R.'s effort to pack the Supreme Court. Both men overestimated the people's mandate, and both came off badly. The President, as Frankfurter's letters make clear, did not let his friend in on the scheme until it...