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...first lieutenant in the Army stationed in the Central Highlands. I used to write my wife that I was in a safe area in Viet Nam, just putting in my time What did she know about Mang Yang Pass, halfway between insanity and hell? A few weeks after I returned to the "real world," we went to a friend's wedding. A truck backfired. I reacted instinctively. My understanding wife couldn't quite comprehend what I was doing cringing in the gutter, rolled up next to a parked car on New York City's Third Avenue...
Abbott was staying at a Salvation Army halfway house in Lower Manhattan until his parole became official on Aug. 25. He was required to check in seven times a day, but otherwise was free to enjoy the city. He was doing just that on early Saturday morning, July 18, in the company of two attractive, well-educated young women he had met at a party. At 5:30 they stopped at the Bini-Bon Restaurant near the halfway house; it is a threadbare bohemian place, open 24 hours. Behind the counter was Richard Adan, 22, an aspiring actor and playwright...
...What happened?" asked Scott Meredith, who is both Mailer's and Abbott's literary agent. "Every conversation I had with Jack, we talked about the future. Everything was ahead of him." John Dockendorff, director of the halfway house, was "absolutely baffled how Jack got the knife and how he hid it." Abbott had been "cooperative" and had even appeared for one of the attendance checks after the murder, before vanishing into the streets...
...humiliating second half to endure: during the rest period the entire team will be spirited away. Good idea -but it reckons without simple psychological fact. In civilian life these chaps were professional athletes, for whom the only wins and losses that counted were on the playing fields. So halfway to freedom somebody says, "Wait a minute, we can beat these guys." Back up the ladder and into the stadium they go, in search of at least a moral victory and, as none of them would express it, an assertion of civilian values-their camp leaders are against cooperating...
...movies. But you cannot, under any circumstances, gain carnal knowledge of young girls. Dave Axelrod (Martin Hewitt) finds this out the hard way--for a few months everything is cool (steamy hot, really), as he and young Ms. Shields make love at every opportunity. But sin never goes unpunished; halfway through the film, our stud almost dies in a house fire, and as the final credits roll he is confined, for the second time, to an insane asylum...