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...HOLOCAUST, by Nora Levin; and WHILE SIX MILLION DIED, by Arthur D. Morse. The familiar chronicling of Nazi terror against European Jewry takes a grim turn closer to home with documentation showing that Allied governments, including the U.S., refused to take action to prevent the genocide...
...Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that he and his colleagues had "concluded unanimously that the concept was erroneous." There was no indication that the generals had changed their minds this year, and until recently it looked as if Johnson agreed with them. On Feb. 1, he depicted a grim situation if the U.S. stopped bombing: "The enemy force in the South would be larger. It would be better equipped. The war would be harder. The losses would be greater...
...taxes and devaluation, Qrit-ons can expect their cost of living in 1968 to increase at least 5% and possibly more. But Jenkins also announced that he intends to hold Britain's wage increases to a maximum of 3½% for another 18 months. That grim arithmetic means that Britons will not get enough extra money to meet the rising costs. As a result, for the first time in 17 years, the British will experience a downturn in their standard of living...
...This grim Beverly Hills hyperbole is the characteristic verbal coin of a man who is the quintessence of movie-industry cynicism and success. Bill Dozier, 60, started in Hollywood in 1935 as an agent for Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis, and has since been a top production executive at several movie studios and the executive producer of several TV programs, including You Are There, Studio One and Batman. Such is his reputation for plain talk that one-fifth of the registrants in his Monday-night course are not U.C.L.A. undergraduates but Hollywood directors, producers and pressagents...
...marshals grim details to demonstrate that no man would take to the road for any reason but dire necessity. In the heyday of rail travel, there were homicidal "cinder dicks" like trigger-twitchy Jeff Carr, who operated out of Cheyenne, Wyo., and got his kicks by galloping along a slow-moving freight taking pot shots at hoboes with his six-gun. Those who survived ran into a different danger in trackside camps. Homosexuality was rampant, and Allsop insists that The Big Rock Candy Mountain, the hobo's anthem, is really "a homosexual tramp serenade," one of "the 'ghost...