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Industry learned not to stray too far out of line after President Kennedy in 1962 forced Big Steel to roll back what he considered an exorbitant price boost. While not as dramatic, President Johnson's anti-inflation jawboning sessions often ended with glazed-eyed leaders of business and labor agreeing to hold the line...
...Your article on the plight of the wild horse in America [July 12] was an excellent commentary on a disgusting situation. Perhaps we could convert our abundant supply of stray dogs into dog food, thereby sparing the wild horses and alleviating a growing menace to our cities. Of course, the glamour of a dog roundup could hardly match riding the range in a flat-bed truck...
...warning to other villagers. More ominous is the growing confrontation along the porous 1,300-mile border, where many of the Pakistani army's 70,000 troops are trying to seal off raids by rebels based in India. With Indian jawans facing them on the other side, a stray shot could start a new Indo-Pakistani war?and one on a much more devastating scale than their 17-day clash over Kashmir...
...identified only as wearing a purple shirt, a second seen wearing a white shirt and a third recognized to be Anthony ("The Gawk") Augello-accompanied him to the rally. The man in the purple shirt has so far occasioned the most suspicion, because he happened to stray from Colombo's side at the precise moment that the Mafia chieftain was shot, raising the possibility that his part in the plot may have been to leave Colombo vulnerable to Johnson's attack...
...played for maximum impact, culminating in Daniel's imagined re-creation of the execution: "My father snapped back and forth, cracking like a whip. A hideous smell compounded of burning flesh, excrement and urine filled the death chamber." Occasionally Doctorow overdoes his aggressiveness. There are too many stray references to "volts" and "currents," too many gory inserts about earlier methods of execution. Both detract from the starkness of the tragedy. But these are quibbles. Doctorow has produced a relatively rare commodity: a serious novel on a distasteful subject that succeeds out of energy, conviction and an old-fashioned respect...