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...Enough. Undoubtedly, leaders like Daylie and Burrell will be able to count increasingly on the support of middle-class blacks in the South Shore area. Normally oblivious to the gangs as long as they were confined to the worst ghetto areas, middle-class South Shore parents recently were shocked when their children came home to tell them of a massive recruiting drive by the Black P. Stone Nation...
...harsh ks and ts. Americans actually had to stay there. On Attu, they fought the second bloodiest battle of the Pacific war (549 American, 2,350 Japanese dead), and the only one on U.S. soil. Nor did peace close the bases. Because Alaska lay close to Russia, the Arctic shore soon sprouted heavily instrumented DEW line stations...
...trombonist with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra when he bought his 200 acres in 1952. At first he wintered in Dallas, spent summers building the ranch. But as he built, he found he could not keep from inventing things: an underwater device that guides his boat safely to shore, or a collapsible bow, for hunting on horseback...
...evening belonged to Bob Hope, his one-liners and his entertainers, a wholesome mélange drawn from the golden age of radio and present pop. Jack Benny played his violin, Red Skelton clowned, Dinah Shore, Dorothy Lamour, Miss Black America and Glen Campbell sang. The crowd was far larger this time, perhaps 350,000, and dissenters were in an uglier mood, hurling bottles and rocks at police and the fringe of the crowd. Fred Waring led everyone into a finale of the Battle Hymn of the Republic as the sky erupted in fireworks over the Potomac. Two Americans...
...them. Travel Light, Bech's highly praised first novel, seems to carry strains of Kerouac's On the Road and Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March. Brother Pig, a novella, hints ever so slightly of Mailer's stylishly oblique and politically muddled Barbary Shore ("Puzzling Porky" is Updike's title for the TIME review). When the Saints, a collection of essays and sketches of the kind that often get published from the sheer momentum of a downsliding career, contains such elegies of West Side New York as "Sunsets over New Jersey" and such Commen...