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TIME OUT OF HAND: REVOLUTION AND REACTION IN SOUTHEAST ASIA, by Robert Shaplen. Using flashbacks into history and probes into the future, The New Yorker's veteran correspondent in Asia views present dangers there with well-measured judgment...
...measure the direct influence of a White House aide on a particular issue, Dent's impact has obviously been growing heavier. He is now Nixon's chief political-liaison man, replacing John Sears. Once an associate in Nixon's law firm, Sears is a New Yorker who has some rapport with the party's liberal wing. In the White House, however, Sears found that he had only limited access to Nixon and that two far more powerful aides, H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, undercut his position. Dent has no such problems. He gets on well...
...long run, the political and economic development of the area's other nations, with their 250 million people, may prove more important to the stability of all Asia-and the world-than the bloody ground where the fighting now rages. Asserting this point, Robert Shaplen, The New Yorker's veteran correspondent in Asia, ventures beyond Viet Nam to invoke the longer perspectives of history and examine the problems and prospects of surrounding lands...
...talent is even more notable than his name. With only a few New Yorker stories and poems as warmups, L. (Larry) Woiwode (pronounced Why-v/ood-ee) has staged the best three-way confrontation between a young man, life and the Michigan woods since Hemingway's Nick Adams stories. If a better first novel than this one appears in 1969, it will be a remarkable year...
Died. Raoul H. Fleischmann, 83, publisher and co-founder with Harold Ross of The New Yorker magazine; of a stroke; in Manhattan. A scion of the yeast family, Fleischmann seemed an unlikely partner for the mercurial Ross.Yet he was witty and urbane, and when Ross broached his plan for The New Yorker, Fleischmann joined him. The idea was for a magazine written by friends for friends and, in its first years, that was about the size of it. As the losses piled up, Fleischmann poured his entire fortune into the venture, at one point gave up virtually all hope...