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...failed, but that he came within sighting distance of making it. A penny-ante player in a potluck game, he filled a couple of inside straights early, and these may have brought him more bad luck than good; when the law of averages straightened out, he fell easy prey to frustration, confusion and bitterness. He didn't have the equipment, and that only whetted his ambition further. What he did have was a fast spiel, a talent for flattering the real movers and shakers with grandiose ideas, and an astonishing gift for getting people to part with their money...
...Hinckle puts it, "a ridiculous place to publish a magazine." So it moved to one of those topless streets in San Francisco's New Left Bohemia. The staffers fill the magazine with clever if sophomoric humor. Public figures distasteful to Ramparts are pictured as various beasts of prey. The latest, Columnist Max Lerner, is shown as a "Common Boar" who would rather be "fed than...
...toughest jobs in South Viet Nam. The capital's population has swollen past 2,000,000, straining every public facility from electricity to garbage disposal to the breaking point. The city is racked by refugees, traffic jams, thousands of U.S. and Vietnamese troops-and is prey to the random terrorism of the Viet Cong. Yet for all his tasks and troubles, the mayor, Colonel Van Van Cua, a doctor and brother-in-law of National Police Chief General Loan, has less of a staff than many a minor province chief...
...TIME too is guilty of the iniquitous deed. What a disappointment. Fallen prey to a deluding presentation of Notre Dame's true strength and greatness. A 795-line story with but 13 lines devoted to the fine work of the unsung heroes, Coach John Ray and his defensive unit. LAWRENCE D. SHUBNELL Notre Dame '63 Beltsville...
Perhaps the most important factor in this year's elections is general rather than specific. The voters are prey to a variety of frustrations-about the state of the economy, the progress of civil rights, the course of the war in Viet Nam. While each of these issues can cut either way, depending on the particular contest, overall they may spell trouble for the party in power. On the Viet Nam issue, in fact, the voter who feels that the war effort has not been vigorous enough, as well as one who feels that the U.S. should stop bombing...