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...rolls gently in the waters of the Tonkin Gulf, 5,000 yards offshore of the Demilitarized Zone. Overhead, a full moon slips in and out of wispy tangles of cloud. Crew members who are not needed to fire the guns or run the ship are down in the mess deck watching Jane Fonda in Barbarella...
...Debbie plunged $4,000 into a 1958 Triumph 3 she had picked up for $75. "It's got a new engine all done in chrome, new seats and interior, seats are diamond button tucked, the body Mercedes chocolate brown highlighted with walnut lines, multiplex stereo and tape deck inside, roll bar . . ." That is not so unusual as it might seem. Dick Steele, a Rambler dealer in the Valley, sold a man an Ambassador with reclining seats, telephone, removable hardtop-and an engine compartment that was completely carpeted in a lovely gold. Those months before the car was repossessed were...
What story there is chronicles the 23rd year in the life of Danny Deck, a sometime graduate student at Rice University in Houston and a writer. Danny is just discovering "the abruptness with which major changes can occur in life." Within a few months, he has seen his first novel bought by Random House and Hollywood, fallen in love with two women and completed a wary tour of self-exile in California...
...told him that he would carry Miami's Dade County, Wallace berated him for faulty research. As the returns rolled in, Wallace's elation mounted. "The people of Florida sent a message to the national political leaders," he crowed. "We beat the face cards of the Democratic deck. This has been the turning point in American politics. We have turned the Democratic Party around...
...AMERICAN judicial system has shown as much disregard as the draft board for Collins's rights. the trial and subsequent appeals have hardly been a model of jurisprudence. The selection of the jury gave the prosecution a stacked deck. Before the foreman of the jury was accepted, he asked, "I'm a spy, a secret agent for the Army. Would that prejudice the case?" In addition, several women on the jury were wives and mothers of policemen...