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West Point administrators concede that cadets are stretched thin. But, shrugs General Peter Boylan, commandant of cadets, "you can't become Spartan by living in Athens." West Point too often produces martinets, charge the academy's critics. However, acknowledges Joseph Ellis, a retired Army captain and former West Point instructor, "the Army can't very well have officers ordered to 'take that hill' respond, 'I gave this some thought while I was reading Melville last night, and I really...
Steps Going Down (Countryman Press; 307 pages; $14.95) omits Author Joseph Hansen's recurring sleuth, Insurance Investigator Dave Brandstetter, but unfolds in his usual seedy gay Southern California milieu. The central character, Darryl Cutler, is a rogue undone by his few fleeting moments of trust and devotion. A former male prostitute, he becomes infatuated with a blond boy as pretty and venal as he used to be. Cutler knows that he is being used. Even so, his sexual itch drives him to theft, fraud and murder. Each crime makes him more subject to blackmail. The tale moves toward its climax...
...portraits. Among them: Chester Carlson, the arthritic, scholarly patent attorney who, in a one-room laboratory behind a beauty parlor in Astoria, Queens, invented the process that made Xerox a name to copy. Linowitz tells how, as the firm's lawyer and later its chairman, he helped Carlson and Joseph Wilson, an impossibly energetic Rochester businessman, launch a product that ended up creating its own demand. The now ubiquitous machine, says Linowitz, "was a case where invention was the mother of necessity...
Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy set in motion a fascinating drama of incarnations--a tragedy of myth transmittal attempted as dynastic policy. Each of his sons, by turns, was to enact the dream. When Joseph Kennedy Jr. was killed, then Jack Kennedy became the incarnation. Then Bobby Kennedy. Ultimately, Ted Kennedy took up the burden, by then almost too heavy and bitter to bear...
...Miami's electorate, also turned out in large numbers against him. After a close race in which outrageous charges and name-calling were routine, two Cuban-born candidates, Raul Masvidal and Xavier Suarez, were left to battle it out in a runoff this week. --By Richard Stengel. Reported by Joseph N. Boyce/New York and Joseph J. Kane/Atlanta