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...With Administration backing, the New York agency of SSC&B is preparing a worldwide advertising effort to pressure North Viet Nam to allow impartial inspection of its prisoner-of-war camps. It would be one of the final ironies of Viet Nam if its great issues were settled on Madison Avenue...
...demonstration was held anyway earlier this spring and, though police soon broke it up, Israelis were jolted by the sight of Jew fighting Jew. Since the first protest, the Panthers ("Madison Avenue couldn't have picked a better name," says Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek) claim that they have signed up 9,000 members...
Scholars have lambasted court rulings that go back as far as the seminal Marbury v. Madison decision (1803), which asserted the court's power to overturn congressional legislation. They gasp at the Dred Scott case (1857), which denied that a Negro could be a U.S. citizen. They are still apoplectic over Koreinatsu v. U.S. (1944), complaining of its shabby justification for interning 70,000 Japanese-American citizens. Just as they winced throughout the Warren years, they are beginning to look askance at the Burger era. Says University of Chicago Law Professor Philip Kurland: "We have no evidence yet that...
...ABSENCE by Madison Jones. 280 pages. Crown...
...Southern novel, like the Chekhovian play, has become almost ritualistic. Through nobody's fault, the tradition now comprises a pattern of characters, symbols and plots so fixed and familiar that only a genius or a black militant novelist can escape literary predestination. Madison Jones is neither, though he is a very good writer with all sorts of credentials from the Southern establishment, including a Sewanee Review fellowship in fiction and the unreserved recommendations of James Dickey ("profound"), Allen Tate ("the Thomas Hardy of the South") and Andrew Lytle ("as spare as Aeschylus; as rich as Euripides...