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...Grant Holloway is a Chicago free-lance magazine writer with "ears like wire recorders." Halfway through Let No Man Write My Epitaph, he slips out of his Lake Shore apartment to sniff at the "great beast of a city" that crouches like a "blue-black panther" in the slum area beyond Chicago's North Clark Street. His socialite wife, Wanda, watches him go: "She smiled, knowing him so well. Prowling. For the story . . . She liked him that way. He should do a novel...
...brings the heat." Most everybody is on the weed. Nick watches his own mother get hooked and degenerate into a slavering junkie who pads down with anybody who will give her the money for her morning fix. Inevitably, Nick starts to torch up himself. His salvation is Magazine Writer Holloway, who is doing a series of taped interviews on the dope trade...
Frequently, too, Admiral Holloway takes off from his helicopter landing platform on Taconic to inspect his onshore and offshore commands, to consult with his field commanders-the Sixth Fleet's Amphibious Force Commander Rear Admiral Howard ("Red") Yeager, the Marines' Brigadier General Sidney Wade, the Army Airborne's Brigadier David W. Gray. Holloway must also make the rounds of U.S. and Lebanese officials-the State Department's visiting Trouble-shooter Robert Murphy, U.S. Ambassador McClintock, Lebanon's President Chamoun, Army Chief Shehab-to keep in close touch and in close tune with the intricate local...
Basis of Order. There was indeed much to be damned uncomfortable about as Holloway and his men, and behind them the nation, moved into the third week of the nlp-and-tuck Middle East crisis, and it was still too soon to guess whether Holloway was headed for success or failure. "The irony of it," as a Pentagon officer put it, "is that he can fail greatly but only succeed quietly." But already Admiral Holloway and his men, by their show of great power and great restraint, have laid out some fundamental guidelines for their countrymen and their allies...
...must remain the basis of social order so long as evil exists to be repressed." The admiral and his men might even rerun it into a new definition of the t)ld Navy quip that had loomed so large in the long and notable service of Admiral James Lemuel Holloway. That new definition, which was also a new challenge: Do you fight the cold war the -hard way, i.e., by letting things slide into a shooting war, or the Holloway, i.e., by deploying adequate power to stop...