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...years ago, parents would not have concerned themselves with what the kids asked. Many looked on the military school as a kind of private reformatory for unruly youngsters, as such celebrated former students as Truman Capote and J.D. Salinger have bitterly testified. "If I catch you messing around with girls in any way," a mother tells her son in John O'Hara's A Rage to Live, "I'm going to send you to a military school in Virginia . . . They beat the boys and feed them slop, and keep them busy from six in the morning...
...able to determine what had gone wrong. For more than a year, 35 researchers, including Ellsberg, Rand Corporation experts, civilians and uniformed Pentagon personnel, worked out of an office adjoining McNamara's. With his backing, they were able to obtain Pentagon documents dating back to arguments within the Truman Administration on whether the U.S. should help the French in their vain effort to put down Communist-led Viet Minh uprisings in Viet Nam. The work was carried up to mid-1968, when it was delivered to McNamara's successor, Clark Clifford, who says he never took the time to read...
...continued his organizing efforts into the sixties: in 1948, he sponsored a movement for mass refusals of induction into the Army by blacks - a move that was averted when President Truman signed an Executive Order banning segregation in the Armed Forces. He served as director of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. He is currently President Emeritus of the Brotherhood and a vice-president...
...Harry Truman doesn't have one, and won't be getting one. Nathan Pusey will probably have to wait until next year, and Lyndon Johnson will probably have to wait a long, long time...
...Have you ever had a momentary temptation to murder anybody?" asked TV Inquisitor David Frost. Novelist Truman Capote, the author of In Cold Blood, boggled for a second or so, but then allowed that, yes, he had given serious thought to homicide "on at least four or five occasions." Prime object of his lethal impulse was British Critic Kenneth Tynan, whom Capote thought "despicable in every conceivable way," a judgment no doubt derived from a verbal bout over the merits of In Cold Blood. Pressed farther by the fascinated Frost, Capote explained, "Most people commit suicide because they...