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...Vietnamese electorate warmed to its role, the civilian candidates who had been crying foul seemed to cool off. The civilian with the best chance of making a strong showing against the Thieu-Ky ticket, former Premier Tran Van Huong, announced that "harass ment has diminished." Front-running Thieu had his own reply to charges of election rigging: "If I were to win the elections by foul means, it would be an insult to myself." President Johnson's 22 observers arrived to see for themselves, and were clearly impressed with the mechanical organization of the balloting. Some 100,000 people...
...died; last year the figure was 23, the year before 25. The U.S. Parachute Association argues that there is only one fatality for every 55.000 jumps, points to its long list of dos and don'ts for members. In the Ohio tragedy, there was an obvious FAA radar foul-up. Yet the chutists had broken every rule in their own book, rules that in any event are largely voluntary. Aside from the cloud regulation, no federal or state agency pays much attention. The theory apparently is that the only lives parachutists risk are their own. But that...
...lazing giant without achieving so much as a blink from those cold blue eyes. On the wildly illogical assumption that he does swallow the bait, the battle is generally lost then and there; the only soft part of a swordfish, naturally, is his mouth. More often he is foul-hooked-in the dorsal fin, back or cheek-as he rolls around, batting the bait. But a foul hookup does nothing to impair his fighting ability...
...Sunday in a Pittsburgh slum. Eddie, a young Negro, returns from a year spent kicking the heroin habit in a Southern institution. Filled with tentative hope, he quickly finds that home has the same old tensions and temptations, that he is in the same old "black bag." In a foul tavern he encounters an alcoholic teacher on the verge of a breakdown. Though Eddie at first pegs him as a sentimental phony, their encounter grows from hostility to some understanding, and each leaves with a little more dignity and strength than he had before. A wisp of a theme...
Alaska a novel. Beyond that, they prefer to pass all judgments on to the readers. Says the jacket blurb: "There will be some who say Why Are We in Vietnam? is the first classic Norman Mailer has written. Others are sure to suggest it is the most foul-mouthed book to come along since publishers were pups...