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...toughest jobs in South Viet Nam. The capital's population has swollen past 2,000,000, straining every public facility from electricity to garbage disposal to the breaking point. The city is racked by refugees, traffic jams, thousands of U.S. and Vietnamese troops-and is prey to the random terrorism of the Viet Cong. Yet for all his tasks and troubles, the mayor, Colonel Van Van Cua, a doctor and brother-in-law of National Police Chief General Loan, has less of a staff than many a minor province chief...
...Institute has revised its system of selecting student participants for Cavanaugh's conferences. Students were selected entirely at random to meet with the Institute's first two honorary associates, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara and House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford (R-Mich...
...minute documentary that offers Western moviegoers a rare glimpse of North Viet Nam. Directed and narrated by James Cameron, a left-wing British journalist who last year published a blandly tendentious report about his brief visit to Hanoi and environs, Eyewitness is a loose collection of such random unrevelatory footage as Cameron's cameramen were permitted to expose...
MASADA by Yigael Yadin. 272 pages. Random House. $12.95. A reverent and absorbing account of the archaeological dig at the rock of Masada on the Dead Sea, where, almost 2,000 years ago, 960 Jews died when the Romans breeched the walls of their aerie. Yadin has himself seen battle; he was Israel's Chief of Staff (1948-52) before turning archaeologist. Totally engrossing...
That any judge would feel himself or any random assembly of writers equipped to define "offensive material" or "redeeming social value" seems fantastically presumptuous. Any form of literary criticism is by definition subjective, and a judge's particular taste is, at best; a shaky basis for a legal decision...