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...Rousselot, a member of the John Birch Society, is talking of running for the Senate in the 1962 G.O.P. primary against Incumbent Thomas Kuchel. Arkansas Congressman Dale Alford has already begun to use far-right material in a buildup against Senator J. William Fulbright. Says Indiana's Clarence Manion onetime dean of Notre Dame Law School and a veteran anti-Communist lecturer and writer, who claims to have 350 Conservative Clubs in operation: "I've never seen anything like this. As one who has faced a great many empty seats in recent years...
...crime of the book takes place in the glacier-gouged peninsula, at a tiny resort village called Thunder Bay. One midnight beautiful Laura Manion-who is described as vaguely resembling Marilyn Monroe-comes staggering up to the trailer she shares with her Army husband and mumbles through bruised lips that she has been raped and beaten by Saloon Keeper Barney Quill. Her husband, Lieut. Frederic Manion, stuffs a Luger in his pocket, marches into the saloon and coolly shoots Quill dead...
...characters come most alive in the courtroom, in the thrust and parry of cross-examination and in the springing of tactical ambushes and legal traps by opposing counsel. It is quite ordinary writing but good entertainment, and few readers will turn aside until the fate of Lieut. Frederic Manion is finally decided...
...Manion, who claimed he has held the same views since 1933, then said that international government would be a "menace to the sovereignty and constitutional integrity of this country...
Attacking Manion's conception of a future world government, Thomas said, regarding the possible subjugation of the richer America to the demands of the poorer peripheral countries, that in the U.S. "the poor have robbed the rich very unsuccessfully." Thomas said that new issues and problems have come up since 1933, which required a more liberal interpretation of the constitution...