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Newspaper eras, like political eras, depend on the men who make them. And Harry Romanoff, 73, who retired in June as an editor of Chicago's American after more than 40 years, was quite a man. His reporters tell, for instance, the time in 1966 when Richard Speck was accused of murdering eight nurses (missing only Corazon Amurao, a Filipina), Romy assumed an accent and began phoning around town as the Philippine consul. For a follow-up story, Romy decided to dig up details of the accused man's marriage and troubled early life. He got the phone...
...constant fact of the human condition and it is not a sickness, not a sin, not a crime." Vidal insists that "I am not an evangelist of anything in sexual matters except a decent withdrawal of the state from the bedroom." He calls Buckley one of those "morbid, twisted men" who are always "sniggering and giggling and speculating on the sexual lives of others...
VETERANS Viet Nam veterans are showing markedly less interest in continuing their education than did their World War II and Korean War predecessors. Of the 6.3 million eligible for schooling under the present G.I. Bill, which covers men who served after Jan. 31, 1955, only 1.3 million, or about 20%, are now taking advantage of the benefits. This compares with 50% participation for World War II veterans and 42% after Korea. The apparent apathy of today's G.I.s toward education is stirring concern in Congress and the White House...
Senator Ralph Yarborough has called the situation "a tragedy," and charged that the Veterans Administration is not doing enough to encourage the men to return to school. President Nixon was so upset that he appointed a President's Committee on the Viet Nam Veteran. At their first meeting last month in the White House, members of the committee (which includes the Secretaries of Defense, Labor, Health, Education and Welfare) were particularly concerned about one segment of the 2.7 million veterans who have been discharged in the Viet Nam era. Among the 500,000 vets who are high school dropouts...
...compare it with the two previous programs. But the question remains whether the Bill is as well attuned as it might be to the educational needs of contemporary American society. Beyond more attractive financial aid to veterans, a more realistic G.I. Bill would spur interest in higher education while men are still in the service, and emphasize skill training to meet the economy's present needs...