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...time, and them published, and then distributed, then to see it's out in the bookstores, in New York and here, and they're reviewing it. So many things could go wrong: there could be a strike, there could be a war. [He looked at his wife in mock surprise.] What? You're not worried about any of this...
...resisters have long ranged, in the President's words, from amnesty to revenge. Organizations like the V.F.W., the Marine Corps League and the Non-Commissioned Officers Association have insisted that any form of amnesty would dishonor the 2.5 million men who served in Viet Nam, and would mock the sacrifice of the 55,000 who died there. Advocates of forgiveness have argued that on 34 occasions in U.S. history the Government has granted amnesty to some of its citizens, and should do so again in the case of a war that was regarded by many Americans as immoral. While...
Abandoning his Deer Lake, Pa., training camp, the ex-champ drove to nearby Reading Hospital for some inoculations before his trip to Zaire this month to fight George Foreman. "I hate 'em; let's get 'em over with," protested Ali in mock terror as he awaited his bout with the needle. The challenger endured his prophylaxis against smallpox, yellow fever and polio, then grumbled, "My fights don't take this long...
...classic student dropout, he hangs listlessly around street corners, sometimes in a marijuana haze, or drifts from one low-level job to another. Sometimes he plays at war; in Los Angeles vets often gather at the burned-out remains of an amusement park at Venice pier to stage mock battles, often using shields fashioned from turtle shells. In severe cases, a vet may brood for days and then begin to experience violent "flashbacks" to his war experiences. One vet in Casper, Wyo., who had accidentally napalmed a Vietnamese orphanage, still reconstructs in his head the writhing bodies of screaming children...
...will be remembered that the original cartoon feature Fritz the Cat - largely the work of the animator Ralph Bakshi - so enraged Fritz's creator, the underground comic artist R. Crumb, that he disowned the whole movie. Crumb, a stringent satirist, had conjured up Fritz as a way to mock the poses of the pseudo hipster and to lay waste the giddy excess of the culture from which he sprang. Bakshi slicked Fritz up, cooled him out, and turned him into the perfect creature of everything Crumb had put down...