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...sight in Brazil or Argentina, and Peru's ruling junta suggests that it may take 30 years to accomplish the reforms it has in mind. Though Venezuela, Colombia and Costa Rica remain healthy, functioning democracies, Uruguay, the erstwhile "Switzerland of Latin America," is beset by a vicious brand of urban terrorism and worsening economic problems. In neighboring Chile, the Congress is preparing to vote into power the first freely elected Marxist government in world history (see cover story...
NOAM CHOMSKY would like to talk about the current state of affairs in Southeast Asia. He'd like to remind the American public that there is still a vicious little war tucked away in that far-off corner of the world, a fact which most of us apparently have forgotten. There must be a streak of naivete in that man, for him not to realize that discussion of Vietnam has fallen a trifle out of vogue in familiar circles, that students and citizens and Congressmen have basically dropped the subject to move on to more novel and important concerns...
...MOST vicious attacks against Ball Four were leveled by the team owners. Bowie Kuhn, the baseball commissioner hired by the owners, dressed Bouton down in public. Auggie Busch, part-time beer baron and part-time baseball impresario, called the book a "disgrace." The reasons for the attack are unimportant. What matters is that one book could cause so many supposedly even-tempered men to exhibit a moral outrage unequalled since Carrie Nation smashed her first saloon...
...worst of the pests is the female pasture mosquito (Aëdes nigromaculus). Though it does not transmit diseases to man, the creature is a vicious stinger and travels in swarms as dense as 2,000,000 per acre in Southern California. In parts of the San Joaquin Valley, the pests are so thick at dawn and dusk-their feeding times-that people hardly dare step outdoors. Because of the insects, schools at times have been closed, farm workers have refused to tend crops, and dairy cows, stung on their udders, have produced no milk...
...deeply hurt. The mass media have been under vicious attack recently, but even President Nixon and his golfing partner, Spiro Agnew, have not been so rash as to take issue with coverage on the sports page. "You gave too much attention to the front line last year, ignoring almost completely the halfbacks and fullbacks. I was very happy that in our most important game, the game against Hartwick, John Gordon, a halfback, scored the winning goal," Thomas said...