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...proof, she offers the story of Meyer Benjamin Meyer and his only crony, Mendel Berg. Middle-aged and resolutely unglamorous, they cower behind their jobs as history professors, publishing judgments on the past, but utterly unable to embrace the present. They wander aimlessly through the narrow corridors of New York universities and the narrow-minded cocktail parties of the city...
...surprise, Mendel escapes by courting a deeply disturbed woman. When he marries her and takes on fresh responsibilities, he finds himself free. Given the same sort of opportunity, Meyer remains trapped. He falls in love with Lena, a middle-aged sculptor, but when the time comes to declare himself, he retreats into his customary caution-waiting, watching, chary before choice. Then at last Lena does him a favor-she dies. At her funeral, Meyer surveys her friends. "Terrible people," he tells himself later. "Terrible. I should never have gotten involved." He never will again...
...after another, a dozen of his fellow Democrats rose on the House floor last week to laud the Speaker's virtues. "A kind man, a Christian, a gentleman," intoned Oklahoma's Carl Albert. "No human being has ever been more human," chimed in South Carolina's Mendel Rivers. "When the history of this era is written," apostrophized Louisiana's Hale Boggs, "no name will loom larger...
...regret that he is sanctioning the bombing of targets "in or near residential sections of Hanoi, even if many civilians die." Democratic Senators Wayne Morse of Oregon and Vance Hartke of Indiana called on Johnson to stop the bombing unilaterally. On the other hand, South Carolina's Congressman Mendel Rivers, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, urged the U.S. to "flatten Hanoi if necessary" and "to hell with world opinion." Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Richard Russell declared that Hanoi's "intransigence" left the U.S. with "no choice but to inflict greater punishment on the Communists...
...there is a volunteer army clique in the House and it has nowhere to go but to Mendel Rivers. The group is led by Rep. Thomas B. Curtis (R-Mo.) and includes, among others, Rep. Robert B. Kastenmeier (D-Wisc.) and Rep. Ronald Rumsfeld (R-Ill.). At the hearings they will cite a report prepared by an economist at the University of Washington as proof that a volunteer army is feasible, and charge that the Pentagon is suppressing a Defense Department report saying the same thing. They will tell Rivers that if he does not at least raise soldiers...