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...shocking are the commission's facts that, to the average reader, the only satisfactory solution might seem to require: 1) the razing of all large cities, which spawn one-sixth of the nation's murders, one-third of all its robberies; 2) the strict segregation of all youngsters from 15 to 16 years of age, easily the most lawless group in the country; 3) the destruction of all automobiles, for they are stolen at the rate of half a million a year, and are a vital tool in just about every caper from bank robbery to smuggling...
...imply that a Playboy reader must be of slight intelligence, a TIME reader, not only intelligent but so sex-informed that he is no longer curious-although your ingenuous habit of juxtaposing a couple's marriage date and the birth date of their first child seems to indicate that you have at least a passing interest...
...powerful friend and attentive reader, then-Attorney General Richmond Flowers, was out of office. (Flowers was interviewing a job applicant last year when his executive assistant recalled seeing the name in the Courier; he dug out the story--a series of chats with friends of Ku Klux Klan Wizard Robert Shelton--showed it to Flowers, and the interview ended abruptly.) A number of federal and state judges and other officials continue to subscribe (Alabama has two subscriptions--one for the state archives, the other for the anti-poverty office), but few are as avid followers of it as was Flowers...
...process begins with Glimp's comments as a "reader" of several folders. (Each gets two or three formal readings in which the applicants are ranked on the 1 to 6 scale in several categories and the contents are summarized.) "He knows how to say things," a colleague remarked. "Most people will tell you someone is 'well-rounnded.' I remember Freddie once writing that a fellow he liked who was strong in only one or two areas was 'spear-headed.' It turned a possible criticism nicely into praise...
...possibly 1) a ghost, 2) a nymphomaniac, 3) an actress, or 4) twins. Peter Israel's The Hen's House is filled with shifting symbolic identities, and Alain Robbe-Grillet's La Maison de Rendez-vous is peopled with so many polyperses that the reader has to beat them off with a stick...