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...there they were, in 365 wicker baskets, and the port veterinarian decreed that if they were to stay in France, they would have to be treated like good French turtles. "They need crawling room, good food and daily sprinkling," he said. The baskets were therefore opened, and the turtles, gray-green creatures ranging from three to eleven inches in length, were given the run-or crawl-of two vast warehouses. The veterinarian looked in on them twice a day, the longshoremen cooled them with sprinklers, and the Dunkirk Chamber of Commerce sent them several thousand heads of lettuce. "If they...
does not presume to anoint itself as a censor behind which the American Government may do what it pleases without disclosure and public discussion." New York Times Columnist Tom Wicker pointed out that the original Justice Department inquiry was hardly vigorous. Therefore, both Justice and the Senate "need to know that an independent press is holding their feet to the fire." The Milwaukee Journal, the Chicago Sun-Times and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch all argued along a similar vein: that bringing out the full truth must take priority over assuring successful criminal prosecutions...
...first attempt at a novel, Wicker tells about a liberal Senator from the South. The poor chap is driven into trying for the presidential nomination by his enigmatic wife ("eyes of the smoky lambent blue that drifts mistily on soft Southern mountains"). Inevitably, the events are recollected by a veteran Washington correspondent, one Richmond P. Morgan ("The Professional," in Wicker's chest-thumping epithet), who got his start covering the Senator's first campaign. Inevitably too, Morgan is now the lover of the Senator's smoky, lambent wife, as well as bureau chief for an unnamed...
...Democratic or Republican parties, names no President since Lincoln, no state, and no other city besides Washington. It exists in a world without war, with no Indo china, no other foreign place except the Riviera, no trace of foreign policy, and no civil rights or any other domestic problem. Wicker's Senator Hunt Anderson is said to have made his crusading reputation on the issue of East Coast migrant farm labor, but no word appears about labor unions, strikes, boy cotts or worker leadership...
...Wicker's recent columns, with Watergate to swing on, have been so much better than his novel that it is hard to believe both emerged from the same typewriter...