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...Laugh-In, opened with a documentary by Fred Wiseman, the most accomplished director of the cinéma vérité genre (Titicut Follies, Hospital). This time, in Basic Training, he focused on the rigors and the ridiculousness of boot camp in the summer of 1970 at Fort Knox, but he neglected to report the substantial reforms that have swept over the Army since. The result is an engrossing film but failed journalism. This week the PBS Special is a revival of the 1965 off-Broadway work Hogan's Goat, which gave the world Faye Dunaway. Faye...
Neglected Ailment. The Wolf-Nalbandian tests do not distinguish between those who merely carry the sickle-cell trait and those actually affected by the disease. But they do provide a fast, inexpensive method of finding individuals who should get further attention. In an experimental program at Fort Knox, Ky., doctors tested 7,000 black soldiers, 94 of whom were found to carry hemoglobin S. Two of these soldiers actually had sickle-cell anemia...
Constellation of Currencies. Washington cut the dollar's tie to gold by serving notice that it will no longer cash in foreign-held dollars for gold bullion held at Fort Knox. Ever since 1944, when the present monetary system was devised at Bretton Woods, N.H., the dollar has had a special and internationally unique relationship to gold. Technically, gold is the asset by which nations pay their debts to one another. But practically, under the rules of the 118-nation International Monetary Fund, which evolved from the Bretton Woods conference, dollars are actually the medium of exchange through which...
Foreigners held three times as many dollars as the U.S. was capable of redeeming in gold, and they were demanding more and more gold because they were losing confidence in the U.S.'s will or ability to whip its economy into order. To prevent a run on Fort Knox, the President thus declared that the nation would no longer exchange dollars for gold...
...trust of Chicago's black radicals. Black Panther Leader Fred Hampton had been a student the semester before he was killed in a police shootout. This year, Hurst called attention to the high mortality among black youths in Chicago by awarding a posthumous degree to Reginald Knox, one of his students who was killed, apparently by members of a gang he refused to join. Says Hurst: "In the past, the idea was for a black person to go to a collegiate institution and try to become white in as many ways as possible, then hope to be accepted...