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ABOUT the time I arrived, Erwin called in an additional force of approximately 30 helmeted Austin police with clubs, 25 state troopers, and a hook-and-ladder fire truck that could reach the tree people. Feeling secure with his 100 cops, Erwin decided it was time to start. He sent the cops in with orders to "arrest everybody you need to; once the trees are cut down, there won't be anything to protest." (This is an interesting statement all by itself- there are all sorts of things you can do with it: "Go ahead and kill all the Vietnamese...
...cops mounted ladders, climbed up on the fire truck, and rode up in the scoop of the bulldozer to get the tree people. So nobody could complain about particular cops, they all removed their badges and any other source of identification. The most amazing part of the morning was that nobody got killed. Although nobody fought the cops in the trees, everybody held on. But if you're perched on a limb some 50 feet up, it's hard to keep from falling when a cop inches around the tree trunk and suddenly grabs one of your feet, out from...
...after Wednesday's early-morning touchdown, Conrad will swing open Intrepid's small hatch. Backing out on his hands and knees, he will tug a small ring to open an equipment bay on the LM and expose a 12-lb. color-TV camera aimed at the spacecraft ladder. While a TV audience of millions watches. Conrad will descend to become the third mortal to step onto another world...
...Collier's wasn't, particularly. The company desperately needs attractive, stylish, very aggressive kids, but luckily there is a never-ending stream of them climbing the ladder of success who need money and are willing to do almost anything...
...these quarrels with Climbing Willie's Ladder are fairly minor and best ignored. Alan Lebowitz has had the chutzpah to write a nice book about a not-so-nice world. And these days that takes not only chutzpah but some extraordinary compassion as well...