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...retire from the Marine Corps, Glenn, 42, slipped, fell, and cracked his head against the bathtub in a Columbus apartment. He began to hear ringing in his ears. He had dizzy spells and nausea whenever he moved his head. Postponing his retirement, Glenn checked into a San Antonio military hospital...
...Bilbo, a Rankin or any number of rednecks. In fact, they are the considered opinion of the author of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, who thought that "all men are created equal," except for Negroes. In this painstaking book, Thomas Gossett, English professor at Trinity University in San Antonio, has traced racism to some surprising sources. Racism would not have endured so long, he suggests, if it had not had the wholehearted support of nearly all early American intellectuals. "The frontiersmen either looked forward with pleasure to the extinction of the Indians or at least were indifferent...
...Antonio started making Point of Order in 1960. The film was the brainchild of Daniel Talbot, owner of the New Yorker Theatre, but it was de Antonio who edited it and organized it into its present form. At first the two men, neither of whom had ever made a film before, hired an experienced German editor to do the cutting. "He was a real Stalinist type," de Antonio recalls. "He wanted to open the movie with the American flag waving in front of a Vermont church and end it with McCarthy's funeral. In between scenes he wanted film clips...
While making the movie, de Antonio watched the 188 hours of television kinescopes of the Army-McCarthy hearings many times. He has gotten to know McCarthy, and he both likes him and despises him. "McCarthy had an enormous amount of charm," de Antonio says, "but it was rough, belching charm, not Union Club charm...
...Antonio is now toying with the idea of an expanded version of Point of Order. "It would have to be at least twelve hours long," he says. "There's one thing the present version doesn't capture, the boredom of it all. And that was really the greatest thing about the hearings...