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...risky as any other airman's in Viet Nam. Over the past year, the wing has lost the equivalent of a squadron - 20 Phantoms. One crew out of seven can expect to be shot down during its tour of duty, for recon missions, unlike the swift, darting thrusts of fighter-bomber strikes, often require four to five minutes of straight and level cruising at low altitude...
Only two things really excited Weiss in his early years. One was reading Tom Swift at the age of seven ("It drove me crazy?I wanted to go to the moon myself; I was Tom"). The other was meeting a biology teacher who had "a whole garage full of tropical fish," and who "was the first person who got inside my brain and picked." Otherwise, Weiss was mainly untouched by social concerns or intellectual interests. Brian arrived at U.C.L.A. uncertain of what he wanted to be come. He majored in zoology, barely got passing grades for two years. "They were...
Moving to calm the capital's residents, Mayor Walter Washington insisted most of the city was safe. But Washington, himself a Negro, approved a 30% increase in police patrols. He also asked Congress to make threats against businessmen a felony in Washington, and got swift approval. Congress took another action last week that may have an even longer-range impact: it increased the starting salary for the District's 3,100-man police force (23% black) from $6,700 to $8,000 as of July 1. Though Washington already has more police per 1,000 people than...
...managerial prerogatives and higher pay from the patronat?the owners?whose power has remained fairly unchallenged under Gaullism. But there is also likely to be a backlash from the conservative elements in the population ?the petits bourgeois, the landlords, the little businessmen?against the radical forces that demand swift changes. In this confrontation, the radical students themselves are likely to be targets of a sharp reaction, perhaps even from the more moderate elements in the student body that would prefer to study rather than riot...
...stodgy academic community and the massed roadblocks of commercial hypocrisy. Buckthorne's mortal fatigue may be the result of amorous overindulgence. Then again it may just stem from the fact that he seems to have starred in so many recent comic novels. But Cassill's prose is swift, precise and clever, and on the strength of it Rodney may be worth one final evening's visit before he is turned out to pasture...