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...just ten years ago that Elvis Presley signed his contract with RCA Victor, made a few records like Hound Dog and Heartbreak Hotel, and overnight became the rage and outrage of the U.S. A year later, everything from lipsticks to T shirts bore the Presley imprimatur. He made his first movie, and his take from all and sundry was estimated at $1,800,000. Then came two years in the Army to put a damper on Elvis. As an ex-G.I., he was given an ecstatic welcome home by his fans. Since then, practically no one knows anyone...
Many Iranians trembled at the near miss. Said one official: "If the Shah should die tomorrow, this country would become overnight more chaotic than South Viet Nam." The Teheran Journal mourned: "After the Shah there is no one." Young Crown Prince Reza is only four years old, and could not hold effective power even through a regency...
...SHADOW RAN FAST, by Bill Sands. Sentenced to "one year to life" on three counts of armed robbery, rebellious Convict Sands was rehabilitated almost overnight by Clinton T. Duffy, the crusading warden of San Quentin. He now crisscrosses the U.S. trying to convince other convicts to go "square...
...VIET NAM, LAOS AND CAMBODIA, the former states of Indo-China, would be locked in a vicious cycle of nationalistic enmity even if Communist aggression disappeared overnight. Vietnamese armies have harried Laos for centuries, earning the Laotians' hate and dread. North and South Vietnamese alike look down on Cambodia, which they helped France rule. Cambodia's dyspeptic Prince Sihanouk snubs Laos, hates neighboring Thailand (a Thai premier once called him publicly "a pig"), and gibes disdainfully that "all Vietnamese are married to women with black teeth...
...funnies for offering a distorted, often brutalized view of life. In Love & Death, a brilliant indictment of the medium, Folklorist Gershon Legman writes: "Children are not allowed to fantasy themselves as actually revolting against authority-as actually killing their fathers. A literature frankly offering such fantasies would be outlawed overnight. But in the identifications available in the comic strips-in the character of the Katzenjammer Kids, in the kewpie-doll character of Blondie-both father and husband can be thoroughly beaten up, harassed, humiliated and degraded daily. Lulled by these halfway aggressions-that is to say, halfway to murder...