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Ramparts is slick enough to lure the unwary and bedazzled reader into accepting flimflam as fact. After boasting that the January issue would "document" that a million Vietnamese children had been killed or wounded in the war, it produced a mere juggling of highly dubious statistics and a collection of very touching pictures, some of which could have been taken in any distressed country. To drive the point home, the magazine recruited Dr. Benjamin Spock to write an emotional preface to the article. The doctor did not go to Viet Nam. In writing the preface, all that he knew...
Sound like the Reader's Digest...
...description of the actual assassination, the "clinical, gruesome detail" of the President's injuries, as one reader described it, and of Jackie's attempts to cover the wounds...
...Walter," as he refers to himself throughout his immense narrative? The reader finds that he wore a top hat (which he did not always bother to remove), that he lived mostly in London but traveled widely, that he was married, that he occasionally appeared at dinner parties where titled people were present, that he was rich enough to spend 20 golden sovereigns (today's equivalent: about $350) for a woman's favor. He mentions friends only if they went to the same brothel, and his wife only as "that woman" - a hazard to be circumvented. Sympathy goes...
...right to another complaint against newspapers: they left him nothing new to say. Except for a few personal letters to members of his family and a number of commonplace recollections of prison life, he seems unable to dredge up anything about his case that will any longer interest the reader...