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...Robert Hughes' Essay on the Rolling Stones [luly 17] was an incredible piece of pseudointellectual, nonsensical verbiage. I stood in line for 17 hours and fought brutal crowds for three more not to see a "butterfly for sexual lepidopterists," but simply to hear what has consistently been for the past eight years the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world...
Certainly much of that logic is not only cold but brutal. True, Nixon is a long way from redeeming his promise that the war "will not be an issue in the campaign." But it is also true that he has been able to mine your ports and bomb your bridges with astonishing political impunity. You may have noted that Mike Mansfield, the dovish majority leader of the Senate, last week promised to suspend action on antiwar bills so as not to interfere with Nixon's plans. If he is reelected, Nixon may be under even less effective pressure...
...missile crisis, however, have the Russians been handed such a stunning diplomatic slap over so important a suzerainty. Since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, there have been few events in the Middle East that so upset the sullen status quo and opened the way for either resumption of a brutal war or renewed peace negotiations...
...Brutal Annexation. These unprecedented protests spring from the deep-seated patriotism of the 3,000,000 Lithuanians, most of whom are Roman Catholics. Their anti-Russian feelings are longstanding; the country suffered 120 years of oppression under the czars, and after 22 years of independence was brutally annexed by the U.S.S.R. in 1940. Emboldened by the example of Russia's own dissidents, Lithuanians have become increasingly vocal in their protests against Soviet religious and ethnic repression. No fewer than 17,000 Lithuanians signed an open letter that was sent to the United Nations this year deploring the deportation...
...Sandberg, 19, a dropout from the City University of New York, agrees: "As a technician, you can still get rich." Katharine Gibbs, which graduates 2,000 secretaries a year from five East Coast sites, requires relentless drill in typing, shorthand and other office skills ("It's the most brutal school in the world," says one recent graduate), but it places almost all of its graduates in jobs...