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...Mint, the brutalities of noncoms, the indifference of officers, the rude comradeship and intellectual sterility of barracks life are set down with hard fidelity. But Lawrence, a romantic misfit, was overcome with tiresome self-pity. He tried to understand what barracks and discipline do to men's lives, but Lawrence's writing was best suited to description, and it became cluttered when he tried to think. Set down as it is in short jerky chapters, The Mint has no final impact. Above all, it comes too late. A generation of men who know KP chores, the squeeze...
When Democratic Senator J. William Fulbright casually told a reporter last January that the Senate Banking and Currency Committee might look into the booming stock market, he got a rude jolt. As the news hit the wires, stock prices were falling. Hurriedly, the Senator, scared by the political effect of a market break, called in the press. What he had in mind, said Fulbright, was no punitive probe like the 1932-34 Pecora investigation (when a circus pressagent popped a midget on J. P. Morgan's knee). Instead, Fulbright was planning "a friendly study...
...date, there has been no indication of a [U.S.] policy even predicated on "two Chinas," let alone a policy reflecting the much advertised program of massive retaliation. The unfavorable reaction you noted in Asia to the President's mention of a "ceasefire" [Jan. 31] was really a rude awakening, not a sense of betrayal. Policy thus far has existed largely in the minds of all the people affected, in whatever form they wished...
...Rude Awakening. In Mobile, Ala., Laborer Alexander Robinson, opening his eyes in the hospital after surgery for restoration of sight, spotted his wife, remarked amiably: "You sure have got fat in the last four years...
Nixon's friends gave a different version of what happened. After the broadcast, they said, Nixon told the audience that in 200 public appearances no one before Heavey had been rude enough to heckle while Nixon was on the air. The Secret Service men, charged by law with protecting the Vice President, had not stepped in until Heckler Heavey had picked up a used flashbulb and made a threatening gesture with it. At that point, Nixon's witnesses say, a posse of Secret Service men escorted Heavey outside, where he tripped on some television wires and fell...