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...evaluation mission for the Peace Corps, two critics of underdeveloped U.S. statesmanship dumped some fuel on a fire they themselves ignited. Sashaying toward the Champagne Room of the Manila Hotel in the Philippines. Eugene Burdick, 43. and William J. Lederer, 50. authors of The Ugly American, were refused entry because they were wearing Bermuda shorts. Squawked Lederer: Bermuda shorts are the national costume of his homeland-Hawaii. Answered the assistant manager: "Hawaii is part of the United States, and I didn't think Bermuda shorts were the national costume there." Miffed, Lederer threatened to write a letter of protest...
...GARY R. BURDICK Oxford, Ohio...
...student funds are being spent on a big scale to bring advocates of all causes into college forums. With a sense of moral purpose, students have adopted countless ideological orphans. "In a week of passing through Sather Gate," says Berkeley's Political Science Professor Eugene (The Ugly American) Burdick, "I must pick up 100 pieces of literature urging me to do things like send textbooks to the Philippines or get a fallout-shelter booklet and send it back to Kennedy...
...Ugly American, which retired Navy Captain Lederer co-authored with Eugene Burdick, was a fictional morality tale about a good guy (ugly) working for his country amid a collection of bad guys (not ugly) whose laziness and incompetence, indifference and self-indulgence were rapidly turning an Asian nation over to the smart, dedicated Reds. Sheep, presented as fact, consists of five exposé-style chapters (on Laos, Thailand, Formosa, Korea, and the foreign student program), four chapters on who is to blame (bumbling bureaucrats and ignorant journalists), and four chapters on what's to be done about...
...Blue of Capricorn, Burdick...