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...WHAT END, by Ward S. Just. The violent confusion of Viet Nam is artfully conveyed in these impressions by a Washington Post reporter who was wounded while covering...
...United Community Corp., Newark's antipoverty organization, also patrolled the ghetto-and to better effect. The kids made an impressive contribution to cool; so did a courageous "Walk for Understanding" by 25,000 people, predominantly white suburbanites, who hiked through the city's smoldering Central Ward to show white concern with ghetto conditions. Nonetheless, some 270 fires were set (kerosene tins, shredded mattresses and broken Molotov-cocktail bottles were found in many gutted buildings), and as usual the hardest-hit were the Negro slum dwellers...
...becomes president of Manhattan's Rockefeller University on July 1, he will be taking over a 14-year-old school that has only 138 students. For Seitz, who has been head of the National Academy of Sciences since 1962, it will hardly be a professional step back ward. Rockefeller University not only ranks as one of the world's leading centers of scientific research, but is also a unique educational phenomenon-a graduate university that gives no grades, charges no tuition, confers nothing except doctoral degrees...
...WHAT END by Ward S. Just. 209 pages. Houghton Mifflin...
Most of the books fathered by the Viet Nam war and mothered by anxious publishers have been either captious collections of preconceptions or argumentative exercises in polemics. In Viet Nam, says Washington Post Reporter Ward Just, who covered the war there for 18 months, "it was no trick to find the facts to back up the impressions, or the preconceptions: facts were everywhere, and with suitable discrimination could be used to support almost any argument." To his credit, Just does not argue. To What End is an almost apolitical and unusually successful attempt to convey a sense of Viet...