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THERE IS desperation in this compact novel, and madness too. Tom McGuane is 38 years old now--Panama lunges and spouts like Hero's engine and reads as if the author does not intend to see 40. Chester (Chet) Hunnicut Pomeroy is the scion of an old Key West shipbuilding family, but Chet has rejected all that for fleeting fame in the three-chord world of rock and roll. Or something larger than that: A Mick Jagger-like figure with an equal part of Maharaji Ji and Keith Richard's bad teeth thrown in, he somehow got elevated into...
...wonders whether to be more surprised at the blatant hypocrisy of Strom Thurmond in going after the black vote in South Carolina [Oct. 16] now that they have some power, or the naivete of the black voters who intend to support a man who, for most of his public career, considered them a political pariah. If the blacks in South Carolina truly seek justice, let them begin by distinguishing, on election day, between true concern and absolute cynicism...
...intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results. The savants will write excellent volumes. There will be laureates. But wars will continue just the same until the force of circumstances renders them impossible...
Vote white," implored Philadelphia mayor Frank Rizzo at a recent ward meeting. There was no reaction from his white working-class audience, which took the remark as a matter of course. But next day, despite Rizzo's insistence that he did not intend to be taken seriously, black leaders seized on it as further evidence that the combative former cop is a racist at heart...
REGULATORY REFORM. Carter will probably propose a "regulatory calendar" that would require all federal agencies to list the regulations that they intend to impose on business during the year, the effective dates and a cost-benefit analysis of each. The idea is to avoid a pile-up of regulations that would subject business to inflationary cost increases...