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...symposium on the 18 per cent unemployment rate, Bok modifies his previous position. "If you went to Whittier College in Whittier, Calif., you might have to worry about a job," Bok says, "but here at Harvard you have nothing to worry about." Accepting the Harvard Republican Club's Charles Manson Award for Mass Murder, former President Richard M. Nixon announces his simultaneous retirement from politics and organized crime. Nixon stops by the Coop to autograph copies of his memoirs, Requiem for a Dike Bomber...
...Celtic romance, charmingly repeats the story of a knight torn between his love for a princess and his loyalty to his wife. A story called Poor Koko tells of a sort of casual Marxist burglar who amiably loots the guesthouse where a pedantic writer is staying, then, like a Manson of letters, coolly destroys the writer's notes and manuscript for a book about Thomas Love Peacock, a 19th century writer of burlesque romances (who is, incidentally, one of Fowles' favorite writers). The Enigma, a marvelous piece of illusion, describes a London police sergeant's search for a paradigm...
...Manson was finally caught because one of his accomplices, Susan Atkins, boasted about the killings. Bugliosi then had to fill the gap between allegations and evidence. Detectives on the Tate case sloughed off his repeated requests to search for the bloody clothing that the killers had discarded. Using leads from a newspaper story, a TV crew found the evidence on the first...
Additional facts led further into fantasy. What jury would believe, for example, that the runtish Manson, who had spent half his life in reformatories and prisons, had gamed iron control over a youthful "family" of some 60 members? Would any sane person credit Bugliosi's explanation of Manson's motive for the killings: to incite "helter skelter" - an Armageddon between blacks and whites that would eventually make Manson the leader of the world...
...jury was finally convinced of all this (the inept defense masterminded by Manson helped), and Bugliosi won death sentences for Manson and three women followers. A male accomplice was convicted later. During and after the trial, the ranks of the family grew...