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What's most insidious about the enterprise is that the physical authenticity, and the elegiac tone of the music and photography (sepia-tinged by the talented Gordon Wills), persuades people that this is a sincere attempt to recapture history. The case is actually simpler. Once more Hollywood entertainers are projecting their own barren sensibilities on the past...
...however, are caught in the same cost-price squeeze that forced Pavilion to close. Pavilion's dedication to excellence, for example, dictated a kitchen staff of 30 to 40 and about that number working the floor: an average of one employee per four meals. Many newer restaurants, stressing simpler menus and service, have cut that ratio: at Jimmy's, the employee-meal ratio works...
This election is, nevertheless, critical, but for much simpler and more basic reasons. We all know what they are, but they bear repeating. The people of Indochina are being systematically exterminated by the present campaign of American terror, waged to prove a point that is already lost--that the United States can crush popular revolutionary insurrection in the Third World. We have not crushed the Vietnamese and we will not. George McGovern, at the very least, understands that basic political reality. And that is reason enough, in 1972, to elect him President of the United States...
...three major sources: he conducted exhaustive interviews with people who had known Hitler; he used "The Hitler sourcebook" (1,100 pages of biographical data compiled by three analytically trained assistants); and he carefully studied Mein Kampf. His conclusion: Hitler was "probably a neurotic psychopath bordering on schizophrenia," or, in simpler terms, the Fuhrer was not insane but was emotionally sick and lacked normal inhibitions against antisocial behavior. A desperately unhappy man, he was beset by fears, doubts, loneliness and guilt, and spent his whole life in an unsuccessful attempt to compensate for feelings of helplessness and inferiority...
...vast majority of vasectomy patients elect the operation because it is simpler and cheaper than the traditional methods of female sterilization and because they agree with Jim Bouton, the ballplayer-turned-broadcaster, that "birth control is as much a man's responsibility as a woman...