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...chief administrator, had a peculiar way of parceling out the jobs. Acting on a tip, Ashley found that Judge Campbell had appointed his wife as his executive secretary at $400 a month, and his niece as secretary to the county clerk at $300 a month. Sheriff Charley Mclntosh had taken on his wife as an assistant at $227 a month, and the county clerk had engaged his wife as county planner for $800 a month...
...Calley jurors?all up-from-the-ranks officers, all combat veterans, all but one of whom fought in Viet Nam ?defended their unanimous verdict. Said Major Charles Mclntosh: "It had to be done. Somebody had to do it. We were the six." Said Major Walter Kinard: "We looked for anything that would prove Lieut. Calley innocent. We gave Lieut. Calley every benefit of doubt." Somberly Major Harvey Brown confessed: "I wanted to believe it didn't happen, that it was a hoax. I'll have to live with this verdict the rest of my life...
...THORN TREES, by John Mclntosh. Set in a fictional counterpart of Bechuanaland, the novel tells with special horror how the white man's civilization can fail in the face of its creator's degeneracy and corruption...
...THORN TREES, by John Mclntosh. Set in a fictional counterpart of Bechuanaland, the novel tells with special horror how white civilization can fail in the face of the white man's degeneracy and corruption...
...away from it. Feebly, Ferris' daughter tries to escape, but, though beautiful, she is dim-witted and can't pass the exams that might get her a city job. The place is too much for her; the jackals and the thorn trees have won, she wails. Novelist Mclntosh provides a merciful if not happy ending for the girl, but it is one that is not so credible as his palpably evoked desert of failure that withers her life...