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...strong, silent stereotype of the Western gunfighter has been shot full of holes by a hard-eyed generation of frontier historians. To hear the debunkers tell it, the fastest guns in the West were for the most part dirty, drunken, vicious, stupid, syphilitic delinquents who seldom drew anything more dangerous than a one-eyed jack, and hardly had the cojones to face a tranquilized prairie dog in a fair fight...
...wicked institutions have transformed the noble savage into a civilized monster." The only way to reconcile these two sets of dogma is to assume that Gardner, despite the more-democratic-than-thou air he assumed toward radicals, believes that the mass of mankind is bumbling and even a bit vicious, and that society will collapse unless its machinery is run by highminded and extraordinarily competent men like...
...Your article on the crisis over ROTC [March 7] put the matter squarely in focus. The military has become the scapegoat for many of our social ills. And the converse is true: our present military system has been virtually absolved in areas where it has perpetrated the most vicious harm-notably, conscription...
SOME 70 miles south of the site of the vicious four-hour battle between Soviet and Chinese border guards lies the enormous Chinese prison camp called Hsing Kai Hu, a complex of nine state farms and dozens of villages, all manned by penal' labor. A former prisoner there recalls the climate as terrible: temperatures hovering around 40° below zero in winter and soaring to a humid 95° in summer. During the warm seasons, mosquitoes from the myriad swamps of the area forced prisoners to wear long-sleeved jackets and full-length trousers despite the heat...
...typical freshman gains fifteen pounds in her first year of dorm life. Girls coming home after dates roam the kitchens looking for snacks. People eat ravenously at dinner as they discuss how fat they are getting and how bad the food is. By over-eating people repeat the vicious circle operating in all parts of dorm life: poor conditions cause strains which are temporarily relieved by aggravating the conditions...