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...Congress need to be more explicit? South Viet Nam is a "protocol state," and "all necessary steps" for its defense can plainly include air, naval and ground action against all hostile forces and bases which threaten its security, whether they be in Cambodia, in Laos or in North Viet Nam itself...
...Milton Travers is a pseudonymous magazine writer whose 18-year-old son Ricky became a speed freak and vanished into New York's East Village. In Each Other's Victims, Travers describes how he tracked Ricky down and tried to rescue him. He is brisk, professional and explicit-about his son's life as an addict, about his own confused, guilt-soaked reactions, about the grubby details of the drug culture, or at least that part of it involving amphetamines. Except for a spectacular denouement (Papa dropping Librium, son suffering amphetamine withdrawal, both jabbering Oedipal home truths...
...close friends and aides, though, the surprise was that Hickel had not written the letter sooner. He has long harbored reservations about Nixon's conduct of the war and about the Administration's failure to understand the student protest movement. Implied but not explicit in the letter was his frustration at being unable to communicate his feelings to the President; since taking office, he has seen Nixon privately only twice. Undoubtedly, Hickel's decision to write to the President was also influenced by empathy with his six sons, two of whom are in college...
...other automakers either have introduced or intend soon to bring out their own subcompacts. They have not been quite so explicit as G.M., but they also have strongly suggested that their little models will retain basically the same styles for several years. G.M. expects Vega sales in the first twelve months to approach 400,000 cars, but if they fall seriously short of that mark, the company could be stuck with a losing model for quite a while. Still, Vega ads promise: "If you like the 1971, you'll like the 1975," and, "Once it comes...
Jenny's vocabulary includes a sprinkling of four-letter words, but there is no explicit sex in the novel. In the age of Portnoy's Complaint and The Adventurers, Segal worried that the omission might even keep the book from being published. "I thought people would say, 'Why, Segal can't even write a sex scene.' But my commitment to my characters overrode my ego and my commercial sense. Two is love. Four-adding the writer and the reader-is an orgy...