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Against Intellectuals. The News was so hard on Harry Truman that he once complained that "it has treated me like a pickpocket." It has called Washington the Negro capital of the U.S. It is merciless toward the Supreme Court: "Court-nik," editorialized the News, has "surrendered to subversion." Chief Justice Earl Warren is a particular bête noire of News Editorial Columnist Lynn Landrum: "Earl Warren would not make a good, reliable justice of the peace." The News stands against intellectuals ("during the last 20 years they have been wrong by a wider margin than any other group that...
...first commune was formed in April 1958 by the merciless amalgamation of 10,000 families from 27 smaller collective farms in Honan province. Tough young cadres divided men and women into "production brigades." Members turned all their private property over to the state...
...visited five days a week at 4:30 p.m. E.S.T. on CBS. The network and the ad agency of Benton & Bowles, which hold joint fief over Monticello's doom-prone citizens, regard it with loyal affection: it is the mythical locale of TV's most merciless soap opera. The Edge of Night, the greatest hypnotic to appear since the video tube nudged the U.S. housewife away from radio's Stella Dallas...
...logistics that complicate Felt's problems are swollen by merciless statistics. (Korea is 5,500 miles and 45 supply-ship days from San Francisco; Bangkok, main staging point for any operation in Laos, is 9,000 miles and 60 supply-ship days.) To make sense of it all, Don Felt leans heavily on a staff of 240 officers. A carefully chosen political adviser is always at his elbow. But from the carrier ready rooms in the South China Sea to the humming headquarters above Pearl Harbor, there is no doubt about who is "Mr. Pacific." "Mean as Hell...
...bodies or souls," The Marines, in a series of vivid, violent images and startling closeups, follows the grim process of making men of them. Naked torsos are lined up in a sterile examination room like sheep. Barbers briskly shear them. Then come the relentless weeks of screamed orders and merciless reprimands ("Hey, stupid, you shave this morning?" "Get that crummy chin up!"), reaching a crescendo in the savagery of bayonet drill. "Downward slash!" barks the drillmaster. "You know what that means." At that point, the Paris audience invariably gasps...