Word: combats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem is basically social, not a matter of higher conviction rates. He likens Nixon to Al Capp's cartoon cop, Fearless Fosdick, accusing him of "playing loose with law and order." Humphrey, in fact, seems determined to personalize the campaign as much as possible by drawing Nixon into direct combat. Last week he charged Nixon with "demagoguery," declaring: "The country doesn't need a wiggler and wobbler...
...Combat is staffed by noted anti-subversives left over from the Golden Age. Its editor is Theodore Lit, who used to work with the late Fulton Lewis Jr. and was senior editor of the Conservative Book Club. Research is handled by Ruth Matthews, widow of J. B. Matthews, the ex-fellow traveler who kept the House Un-American Activities Committee liberally supplied with names. Chief consultant is Eugene Lyons, a recently retired Reader's Digest senior editor who has written extensively on the Communist menace...
Nearly 8,000 people have paid $24 for a year's subscription. In the first issue last week, a "Combat Exclusive" revealed that hippies had poured a "fortune in LSD into reservoirs" with the hope of turning on the Democratic Convention. But their plans fizzled out, said Combat, when the chlorinated water neutralized the LSD. An item more colorful than correct, since there are no reservoirs in Chicago, and the LSD would have had no effect anyway. Combat also found it significant that Eldridge Cleaver, a Black Panther who is the presidential candidate of the Peace and Freedom Party...
...Many Powers. Earlier anti-subversive publications had the advantage of exposing a single, centrally directed conspiracy out of Moscow. Among today's anarchic rebels, there are almost as many power centers as there are radicals. So Combat's attempts to link two or three people to oldtime Communism are not very imaginative. Columbia University's new acting president, Andrew Cordier, confided Combat, was "one of Otto Otepka's State Department security cases, also involved in the Bang-Jensen case." Even a reader with a long memory for such things is likely to be puzzled...
...Combat makes a stab or two at humor: But for the most part, Combat lacks the wit that is the distinguishing-and redeeming-feature of its parent publication, National Review. Combat makes its debut at a rather advantageous time, when right-wing and anti-Communist sentiment appears to be on the rise in the U.S. Even so, it seems a bit superfluous. Ideology of the right is amply available in the Review; news of the rampaging radicals is generously covered in the daily press. Combat will have to unearth a lot more interesting subversives to be worth $24 a year...