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...discovering what they really are." The result, according to University of California Sociologist Edgar Z. Friedenberg, is "the vanishing adolescent"-made to mature earlier, yet in many ways still engagingly immature. And since "part of the American dream is to live long and die young," many adults ambivalently relish and resent the teen-ager's freedom and spontaneity. "Our whole culture believes less in authority," snaps a Detroit priest. "Yet the teen-ager is the only one criticized for not recognizing...
They do not relish the prospect of serving under another South African, Lieut. Colonel Jeremiah Puren, an unpopular officer who has been in charge of the little mercenary air force, and who in six short months has insinuated himself into increasing overall control of the mercenaries. In any case, as mercenary boss, Puren will have to combat not only antipathy among his own men but an increasingly wellarmed, well-trained rebellion. Fully 18 planeloads of arms and ammunition from Algeria, Egypt and Ghana have already passed through the Sudan to the Simbas...
...traced in old film clips from the prewar Philippines (young Ike appears as a fresh-faced staff officer running messages for "imperious" Mac) through the Pacific and Korean wars. MacArthur's military accomplishments are somewhat grudgingly acknowledged, but to prove his thesis what Truman seizes on with evident relish are such anecdotes as that of the general who had thought MacArthur's father was the most egotistical and self-centered man on earth-until he met MacArthur himself...
Bellotti played his part with identical relish and appeared to make a correspondingly favorable impression wherever he went, although a few people snickered when he was referred to as "Governor...
When Pierre Salinger speaks, his lips move with the relish of a winetaster and his jowls quiver like jelly in a railroad dining car. He does not use a text, but he ad-libs exceedingly well, having had substantial practice with White House reporters. He spreads his fingers apart, then waves both hands in the air, looking for all the world like a Dutch windmill that has learned how to smoke a cigar...