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...regulars who pick up the pieces after a disaster; witness the comeback of Richard Nixon, the G.O.P.'s man-in-the-middle after the party's monumental 1964 drubbing. Even if the McCarthyite irregulars were to succeed in wrecking the old party structure in order to build a new one, they might also succeed in guaranteeing an eight-year White House tenancy for Richard Nixon...
Tents Folded. The architect of the effort to build a new Afghanistan is King Mohammed Zahir Shah, 54, a European-educated Moslem monarch who for years spent much of his time hunting and golfing. But in 1955, 22 years after he came to power, Zahir Shah decreed the beginning of formal economic planning and began to move his 15 million subjects on the road to democracy. He ruled that the chadri, a tentlike garment that makes women look like ambulatory potato sacks, need no longer be compulsory garb. In 1964, he promulgated a new constitution that in the long...
...attorney's office. Reading like a scene from last year's off-Broadway prison expose, Fortune and Men's Eyes, it is a depressing catalogue of homosexual assaults in the city's prisons and the sheriff's vans. Virtually no young man of slight build who enters prison is safe from attack, the investigators found. Most are overwhelmed and raped by gangs of tougher convicts within a day or two of their arrival. Their bodies defiled, their manhood degraded and their will broken, the victims are sent back to society "ashamed, confused and filled with...
...that universities build enough oncampus housing for all their students and faculty...
Chosen Nation. What does it take to build an empire? Will to power? Greed? Not in De Riencourt's book. Historically, the true empire builder, he thinks, is motivated by "an idealistic longing," a faith in universal law, a passion for a "common culture." He is more in the spirit of a missionary than of Genghis Khan. De Riencourt quotes Senator Albert J. Beveridge of Indiana speaking half a century ago: "God has made us the master organizers of the world to establish system where chaos reigns. He has marked the American people as his chosen nation to finally...