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...scenario reads like an excerpt from the "Profiles of Courage" that John F. Kennedy '40 once collected, complete with the David-and-Goliath theme that sentimentalist historians adore. But Archibald Cox '34, Williston Professor of Law, the special prosecutor who defied the most powerful man in the Western world, and hero to millions of Watergate-watchers, was an unlikely candidate for gallantry...
...Excerpt from his interview in "Fathers and Sons," a chapter in "Working...
...excerpt from her interview in "Footwork," a chapter in "Working...
Increased Alarm. Now even more than before his exile, Solzhenitsyn is determined that The Gulag Archipelago, his monumental study of Soviet repression, should reach the Soviet people. Just before his deportation, he taped an excerpt from an unpublished part of Gulag for a BBC broadcast to the U.S.S.R. Last week he met with his Paris publisher to arrange for publication of the whole seven-part work, of which only two sections have appeared in the West. At the same time, the Kremlin was showing increasing alarm at the spread of Gulag in the Soviet Union via Western shortwave radio broadcasts...
...unsung (Air Force Major Thomas T. Hart, one of the 1,300 Americans still missing in Viet Nam), and some neglected (Marina Oswald is the major biographical subject). An interview section presents a conversation with The Exorcist Author William Peter Blatty. "Out of the Pages" features an eerily prophetic excerpt from Alexander Solzhenitsyn's novel The First Circle describing the arrest of a man in Moscow. Black-and-white or monochrome pictures illustrate nearly every story; some items run at around 60 words, and the upper limit for most stories (except biographical pieces) will be 1,500 words...