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...Mayor Daley's Democratic fiefdom. A World War II tank commander, whose facial injuries left him with a masklike expression, Ogilvie earned fame as a Mafia-busting U.S. special investigator, a fact that helped him win against the hard law-and-order line of Democratic Incumbent Governor Samuel Shapiro...
Richard Ogilvie, as expected, took the governorship from incumbent Democrat Sam Shapiro...
Less than Swiftian (though not without an occasional flicker of appeal) are Shapiro's modest proposals, which include raising the minimum age for drivers' licenses to at least 30, denying foreign travel to children unless granted as a privilege from their school, putting dissidents on reservations, and destroying all concepts of adolescence. He cannot be serious; yet one pokes vainly through Shapiro's overcooked simplifications for a scrap of wit or irony. Finding none, the reader concludes that To Abolish Children is little more than a late-middle-age temper tantrum...
Sloganeering. At 54, Shapiro feels that he has been back-stabbed by "the heirs to the kingdom of Wall Street-the latest generation of betrayers and destroyers . . . that practices infantilism on a scale which has never been seen...
Edsel Margin III, one of the three commissioners, is, like Karl Shapiro, apocalyptic and apoplectic, but he has a well-defined target: Benjamin Spock -not the war hater, but the baby lover. Margin creatively misinterprets Dr. Spock's book Baby and Child Care as a blueprint for totally permissive child-rearing, a Communist Manifesto of the U.S. infantocracy, the cause of all the troubles from Yalta to the Yippies...