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Taste for Danger. Some German papers criticized Meeker as a soldier of fortune, but most West Germans hailed him as a hero, a latter-day Scarlet Pimpernel. In fact, Meeker says he was paid $3,900 for each mission, and money was not the question. His friends and former colleagues believe him. A handsome, mustachioed graduate of Columbia University who speaks six languages, he is described by a U.S. Army official as "one of those kinds of guys"-a Terry-and-the-Pirates type of airman with a taste for danger. Flying assault and rescue missions in Viet...
Among sci-fi's most tired conventions is the one in which some latter-day cataclysm releases from an aeons-long sleep a monstrous prehistoric creature who rampages around for eight or nine reels until the combined brains of the military-scientific-industrial complex figure out a novel ploy to dispatch the thing...
Vain Lothario. Yet Jack preferred the format that had brought him recognition and riches. By the '50s, his TV program style-lifted bodily from the old radio days-had grown as rigid and formal as a state ceremony. Yet his fans never grew weary of the latter-day Scrooge...
Reading Lamont's essays grates against all the modern sensibilities. Samples from one year, 1973, range from an interview with Chile's president Salvador Allende to a humanist pamphlet titled "How to Be Happy--Though Married." Who is this latter-day Ben Franklin, anyway? Why is he trying to take a stance on every conceivable aspect of life in this world? How can anyone be "conversant," "critical," and "definitive" in more than the appointed intellectual niche? Corliss Lamont, yea even a Corliss Widener, who does he think...
Your article [Sept. 16] implies an acceptance of present church racial discrimination by members who, in fact, believe in full equality for all. They are working within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through example, education and patience to change the present practice...