Word: killers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...understanding of how one can be victimized by a lack of power, says Shanker, stems from his days as a Yiddish-speaking boy in a non-Jewish neighborhood of Queens, where other kids called him a "Christ-killer." Once they even tied a rope around his neck and tried to hang him. At the University of Illinois, he bicycled six miles daily to the campus because, he claims, closer quarters were all "listed for WASPS, right there in the official university housing bureau." Looking back, it seems almost inevitable that he became a political activist. As chairman of the Socialist...
Protecting the channel is a dirty job. It flows through the nauseous swamp called the Rung Sat (Killer Jungle), now more than 50% devastated by defoliating agents, but still dense enough to serve as a haven for an estimated 800 V.C. troops. Because the narrow Long Tau could easily be blocked, the Viet Cong have been trying hard since the beginning of the American buildup in 1965 to do precisely that. "If a ship the size of the Kalydon could be sunk in the middle of the river at that point," said a U.S. naval officer...
...hyper-moralistic tone of my last letter, but, as you may have guessed by now, the issues I talked about have assumed an importance they would never have in a peace-time situation. For someone directly threatened by his government with a term in the military as indentured killer-mercenary or with a probable jail sentence, these issues go far beyond professional ethics. For the sake of clarification and continuation of the "dialogue," I would like to take the offensive more coolly this time, as I have been doing concurrently with Prof. Vogel in California. But this...
Jane's was more perceptibly disturbed over the decline of the Royal Navy. Its major force is now down to four aircraft carriers, 21 postwar-built conventional submarines, three nuclear-powered hunter-killer subs, and four nuclear-powered missile submarines. "The Royal Navy," says Jane's, "has taken a cruel knock. It is hardly adequate for peacetime defense, and insufficient for war." Perhaps the cruelest knock of all was Jane's judgment that by the 1970s, if present plans are carried through, the French navy will be stronger than Britain's by a margin...
...incorporated themselves as Glasshouse Productions, will sponsor a play by a young British writer named John Hopkins at London's Royal Court Theater. The plot is a parable of human guilt: a policeman kicks a child-murderer to death in his cell, thus becoming as bad as the killer himself. Pleasence's own acting ambitions are more conventional. "I'd really like to do a season of repertory with Shaw," he muses. "We'd do a Shakespeare, a new play, a revival of The Caretaker." And, he adds, with that alley-cat smile: "If we couldn...