Word: vandenberg
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...VANDENBERG by Oliver Lange. 333 pages. Stein...
...Vandenberg is neither a Senator nor an Air Force base; he is a beat-up, bad-tempered, 50-year-old New Mexico artist who is suspected of political deviation by the Soviet occupation forces. He is arrested and sent to a maximum-security rehabilitation camp...
...prison routine is not brutal, merely demeaning. Its intent is simply to ensure that the ablest Americans will be cooperative members of a smoothly functioning society. Vandenberg, who was a truculent dropout from the old society, likes the new one even less. There are moments when the interrogation scenes are better than pop and appear to be building toward a chilling foreview of post-modern society. So much that Vandenberg's therapist-interrogator says is plainly reasonable; the Soviets, by his plausible account, really are providing the greatest good for the greatest number. Very briefly, the reader is reminded...
...member of the family had succeeded in tracing the disease as far back as Ken Swier's great-great-grandfather, Gerrit John Vandenberg, some of whose children came to the U.S. from Holland. Of Vandenberg's eight children, four inherited his ailment, including one daughter who passed it on to seven of her nine children. Last month the N.G.F. staged a reunion in South Dakota for 95 of Vandenberg's descendants, who came from five states and Argentina. On hand were Drs. William Nyhan and Roger Rosenberg of the University of California School of Medicine...
Last Generation. The reunion enabled the doctors to trace 600 people of Vandenberg ancestry and compile the most complete genetic record in med ical history. But tragedy dominated the gathering. In a daylong series of examinations, the doctors found possible early signs of the disease in twelve family members under the age of twelve, and definite symptoms in eight adults, including Joyce Eggen, 21. the pretty mother of a 14-month...