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...conspiracy theory that Castro might have plotted Kennedy's death. The book's implication is that Nixon knew this secret and held it over Helms. Haldeman also suggests that Helms had something on Nixon. In the vaguest of hints, he implies that as Vice President under Dwight Eisenhower, Nixon may have been a chief instigator of the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion plans, later carried out by Kennedy. The invasion plans were, in fact, created by clandestine services officials in the CIA and, although Nixon as Vice President probably was aware of them, he certainly had not been...
...drops of water ... an unseasonable cloud crossing the sky. sufficed for the overthrow of a world." In 1944 the Allied invasion of Normandy was made possible by a narrow interval of reasonably good weather between the bad. It was so narrow, in fact, that Supreme Allied Commander Dwight Eisen hower later expressed gratitude to "the gods of war." Paganism dies hard...
...hero of Author Tom McHale's fifth novel is totally without redeeming social value. Dwight David Aldrich hails (of course) from Abilene, Kans.; not yet 30, he seems to have enraged everyone he has ever met. His ex-wife's prominent Boston lawyer father pays Aldrich $500 a month alimony to keep his distance-on a 500-acre retreat in Vermont. There, someone systematically blows up and burns down the "tumbledown Disney land" of a condominium that the remittance man has cynically thrown together on the site. An acquaintance Aldrich meets at a bar speaks for thousands when...
...Aldrich's thoroughgoing rascality has a point, McHale refuses to hone it. Despite Dwight David's all-American name, McHale has not turned out a parable about the national dream. Middle America comes east, all right, but the meeting produces much mutual loathing and no visible significance. Instead, McHale seems simply to have taken much joy in producing the worst imaginable main character and surrounding him with the worst imaginable supporting cast...
...Dwight's batty (and ultimately avenging) old aunt does several nice comic turns in the novel, once commiserating with her nephew on the curse of having been born an Aldrich: "That made you the inher itor of a long-established tradition of rascalry, thievery, sexual perversion, treason, sedition, blasphemy and apparently, in my case, gratuitous witchcraft." There are, preposterously, several Mohawk Indians involved in the plot, one of whom is named Sybaritic Hawk. Student demonstrations of the late '60s, ecological struggles, communes, civil rights trials, street life among urban porn establish ments, all have been dragged, entertainingly, into...