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Stokes began to match Taft detail for detail. He promised to combat the crime rate (up 14% last year) by increasing the police patrol-car force one-third, expand the airport with already available fill, eliminate a particular traffic bottleneck on Baltic Road ("the Baltic Blockade"), which, conjectured Stokes, costs...
It takes about 20 pages to realize that Report from Iron Mountain is a skillful hoax. Who wrote it? Likely candidates were canvassed. Richard Goodwin and Economist Kenneth E. Boulding both denied authorship. An even likelier candidate, John Kenneth Galbraith, hedged. Meanwhile, he wrote a tongue-in-cheek review of...
Daily, Bill Buckley stands at some conservative Armageddon, but not as the leader of an army or even a division. Barry Goldwater's sobersided conservatives don't understand him; Robert Welch's conspiratorial John Birchers don't trust him. He may not be able to help...
Skillful Riflery. Marine snipers are organized in 37-man platoons, one of which is attached to each of the corps's seven regiments in Viet Nam. Once in the field, the platoons break down into pairs: one man spots with binoculars, the other handles the rifle. Their favorite stakeouts...
The payoff comes in brief and skillful bursts of riflery. Last week a Marine sergeant spotted a V.C. officer addressing a group of his men some 1,600 yards, or almost a mile, away. Since his sight was not calibrated for that distance, the Marine estimated the necessary high trajectory...