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...apologize for the hyper-moralistic tone of my last letter, but, as you may have guessed by now, the issues I talked about have assumed an importance they would never have in a peace-time situation. For someone directly threatened by his government with a term in the military as indentured killer-mercenary or with a probable jail sentence, these issues go far beyond professional ethics. For the sake of clarification and continuation of the "dialogue," I would like to take the offensive more coolly this time, as I have been doing concurrently with Prof. Vogel in California. But this...
Last week's maelstrom of looting and arson swirled past Oakland, Calif., leaving its hate-filled ghettos almost unscathed. But Oakland's police were deeply embroiled in a bitter private race feud of their own. Ranged against them was a strutting band of hyper-militants styling themselves the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. The Panthers, armed and angry, are defiantly demanding a facedown...
Alexander's humiliation derived from his bold backing of Lieut. Commander Marcus Aurelius Arnheiter, the hyper-zealous skipper of the radar picket destroyer U.S.S. Vance who was removed from his command off Viet Nam (TIME, Dec. 1). When Amheiter was dismissed without a public hearing, Alexander-who had recommended him for the assignment-at first remained silent in hopes of avoiding an embarrassing scandal. Later, his conviction that Arnheiter's relief would sap the authority of every commanding officer overrode his concern for protocol; he openly demanded reconsideration of the Arnheiter case by Navy Secretary Paul Ignatius...
...hometown of Hannibal, Mo., by rereading his work. On the boat she ate Mississippi catfish and sang along with Bing Crosby's old banjoist. In Hannibal, she was met by youngsters costumed as Tom Sawyer and Becky Thatcher, plus virtually the whole town. The welcome was so hyper-American hearty that a White House aide wished Pollster Lou Harris were along, particularly when little girls at one gathering warbled...
These three ladies and their assorted Steve Stunnings fill 499 and a half pages of super-sado-maso-chistic-hyper-orgiastic drama that is guaranteed to keep any dateless teeny-bopper or frustrated insomniac gasping into the night...