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...unnoticed, which, while not a major tragedy, is still too bad, particularly around here. Raymond Sokolov's first novel is in large measure about Harvard and its mentality in the early days of the Kennedy meritocracy, as seen through various purported documents pertaining to the career of Alan Casper '63, linguistics genius and Peace Corps soldier of fortune. Casper is very clever and very witty and not very deep, and Sokolov presents his case accordingly; Native Intelligence, then, is of vast prurient interest to Harvard students and, like its hero, a little too smart for its own good...
Squeaky went with Manson and another girl to Haight-Ashbury, where Manson seemed to be a hero, especially to young women. The first girl was dropped and another, Mary, was picked up in Berkeley. Then the three drove in a 1948 Chevrolet to the little town of Casper, where they found other disaffected flower children and settled in a house in the woods. There Charlie ordered her to "take off your clothes. " Later, after some hesitation on her part, they had sex for the first time...
...vets often gather at the burned-out remains of an amusement park at Venice pier to stage mock battles, often using shields fashioned from turtle shells. In severe cases, a vet may brood for days and then begin to experience violent "flashbacks" to his war experiences. One vet in Casper, Wyo., who had accidentally napalmed a Vietnamese orphanage, still reconstructs in his head the writhing bodies of screaming children. In Flint, Mich., an Army vet was so devastated by his Viet Nam experience that he spent his days doing little more than cleaning his rifle and rocking on his front...
...Name players--Palmer, Player, Nicklaus, Casper, Trevino--had bypassed the Pleasant Valley Classic, either because they thought the course's super-narrow fairways were an unfair test or because they wanted to tune their games for the up-coming PGA Championship. Johnny Miller, former U.S. Open and British Open Champion Tony Jacklin, and tour veteran Grier Jones had withdrawn from the tournament for a variety of dissimilar reasons, while such stars as Bert Yancey, Frank Beard and Bob Goalby had failed to make the 36-hole cut of 148 (six over par on the 7305-yard, par 71 Pleasant Valley...
Nonetheless, the University of Chicago's constitutional expert, Philip Kurland, comes down against trying Nixon. "Under our system of criminal justice there is never absolute equality of treatment, and the trial of Nixon would be extremely divisive for the country." His Chicago colleague, Law Professor Gerhard Casper, thinks a Ford pardon would be an "act of grace." It remains to be seen whether that view will accurately distill into the mood of the nation in the months ahead...