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...planes, ADC still has 59 squadrons, 1,400 fighters. Among the weapons they carry are infra-red Falcon missiles, heat-seeking Sidewinders, Genie air-to-air rockets, capable of toting nuclear warheads for demolishing enemy bomber formations. The fighters are linked to radar sites by the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment System (SAGE), which guides them straight to their targets, does everything but fire their weapons. ADC also mans six Bomarc surface-to-air missile squadrons in the northeastern U.S.; two Bomarc squadrons in Canada and hundreds of Army Hawk and Nike-Hercules missile batteries in the U.S. are under control...
This is the Tom Wolfe who for the past year and a half has been writing breathless, semi-surrealistic articles for Esquire and the New York Herald Tribune's Sunday magazine, New York. A collection of these pieces comes out this week as a $5.50 book called The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby. On the dust jacket the publishers tout Wolfe as quite a conversation piece: people "have been talking happily about him, singing his praises, debating about their favorite pieces, planning branches of The New Tom Wolfe Fan Club." Well, people have been talking unhappily about...
Whimsicalities & Sound Effects. His youthful ambition was to use that aim to put a sharp-breaking curve over the plate. He was a pitcher for Washington and Lee University, played two seasons of semi-pro ball, and hoped to be a full-fledged professional. "I had a great screwball," he claims. "But one day they told me I would never make it, so I went to Yale and took a Ph.D. in something called American Studies...
...included in the book is Wolfe's most widely discussed article-a cruel, 11,000-word evisceration of The New Yorker. That piece set literary jowls aquiver from Morningside Heights to Greenwich Village, and threw New Yorker staffers into a spate of semi-public wig flippings that are still going on-notably in a bitter rebuttal that Writer Dwight Macdonald is preparing for the biweekly New York Review of Books...
...with established reputations have appeared in various stages of undrape in various men's magazines, most notably Playboy. Among them: Carroll Baker, Jane Fonda, Carol Lynley, Elsa Martinelli, Shirley MacLaine, Kim Novak, Hike Sommer, Susan Strasberg, Liz Taylor and Susannah York. Some were in coy poses, some in semi-erotic, some had a phony "naughty-naughty" look in their eyes. The current Playboy shucks all that in favor of an actress whose view of nudity is that if it's classic, it's beautiful, even in Kodachrome. She is Ursula Andress, the girl who said...