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...recent, have also been heavy with news. The two World Wars and the Korean conflict, for instance, all started during the warm months. Last summer it was the Middle East skyjackings. In 1969 there was a news eruption: the first moon landing, Chappaquiddick, the original Woodstock, the Sharon Tate murders, the death of Ho Chi Minh. The year before that, the Democrats, the police and the protesters had their uproar in Chicago, L.B.J. nominated his old friend Abe Fortas for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and the Russians marched on Prague...
...that only a genius or a black militant novelist can escape literary predestination. Madison Jones is neither, though he is a very good writer with all sorts of credentials from the Southern establishment, including a Sewanee Review fellowship in fiction and the unreserved recommendations of James Dickey ("profound"), Allen Tate ("the Thomas Hardy of the South") and Andrew Lytle ("as spare as Aeschylus; as rich as Euripides...
...killing of 16 by Charles Whitman, the University of Texas tower sniper; the gunning down of 13 people in Camden, N.J., by berserk Howard Unruh in 1949; the murder of eight student nurses in Chicago by Richard Speck five years ago. The Yuba City murders, like the 1969 Sharon Tate killings, had a special dimension of monstrosity. The murders were apparently executed systematically over a two-month period, so it was not simply a matter of a man gone suddenly berserk. Sheriff Whiteaker said of Corona: "We are sure that he committed the murders...
City voters still recognize that an urban crisis exists, but they seem to be thinking of it in other terms. Rizzo was the candidate of Mavor Tate's machine, and he called upon voters to reject Green and the "lef?ies" who surrounded him. Like Daley, Rizzo is neither young nor liberal. Voters supported both men because they played upon voters' fears and embodied their new ideas as to what should be done for the cities. It is understandable (though unfortunate) that voters should oppose liberals but it's frightening that they have chosen men like Rizzo and Daley...
...trial for the Tate-LaBianca killings convened in Los Angeles last June, Chief Defense Counsel Paul Fitzgerald admitted: "There is no way we are ever going to get a reasonable jury. So we decided to frustrate the prosecution attempts to select a good jury and try to keep every dingaling we could find, to get the worst possible jury...