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...Doc Spock seems to imply that it is necessary for us all to be neurotic. He considers the Supreme Court's guidelines on obscenity- works appealing to prurience and utterly lacking in social significance- too limited to curb pornography and media violence effectively...
Intimations of Mortality The kids played ruff almost every where they went. Peter unrestrainedly spieled about the girl whose abortion he had arranged ? and made necessary ? the drugs he took, the lousy pic- tures he made. He claimed that when he first viewed Tammy and the Doc- tor, he vomited. The bombing of The Victors and Lilith did not sweeten a pesonality that seemed to have sand under its skin. Reality was to be fled; Peter became the acidhead of the house. "In those days, it wasn't an il legal drug," he says. "It was pure...
...According to Herbert Itkin, an FBI informant, Voloshen worked both for and against the Haitian government of François ("Papa Doc") Duvalier. In 1963, Voloshen offered to persuade Congressmen to speak against continuance of U.S. aid to Haiti, for a fee of $5,000 per legislator. A year later, for a retainer from the Haitian government, Voloshen said he would invoke his influence to speed $4,500,000 in U.S. funds to build a Haitian airport. Itkin reported the scheme to U.S. officials, and the funds were immediately frozen, depriving Voloshen...
...with the vengeance and self-righteousness of a whore gone straight. He had himself been a famous poacher until he was injured in a fall while trapping beaver illegally; the injury has forced him into honest work and accepting wages from a society that he sees as basically corrupt. Doc Mechling, a wealthy physician from the nearby town of Sixes, refuses to help trap the poacher because he believes that one man's guilt is inconsequential compared with the monstrous shame of modern times, with its "computers ticking, tapes and circuits and warheads, detonators, deaths, millions of deaths." Jack...
...second row are the flight surgeon (whose shorthand designation is "Surgeon," never "Doc"), and the spacecraft communicator, or "Capcom." White dots sliding across the surgeon's console screen indicate heart and respiration rate's of the astronauts. Capcom, always an astronaut himself, handles all communication with the crew, giving the men who are deep in space a direct link with one of their own. Only in emergencies does anyone else take the microphone. There were none with Apollo...