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month's Playboy Panel on Religion and the New Morality, we 
iscovered soon after undertaking the project, ате very much in demand. Quite 

apart from their ccclesiastical functions, most of them arc bound ta itineraries for 

lectures and other public appearances that might well make the average show- 
business personality uavel-weary. But once we had scarched the nine out and 
pinned them down for several hours of frank discussion on matters sexual, ethical 
and theological, they became so absorbed in the creation of a polished and mean- 
gful discussion that their initial remarks were amplified and reworked several 
times in conferences, correspondence and long«listance phone calls. Bishop James 

A. Pike, for example, put the final touches on his contribution to the Panel 

while he and a vLavnoy editor were fogbound at the Green Ва 

port. And Rabbi Richard L Rubenstein stopped by our offic 8 

day just before proceeding up Lake Michigan to Winnetka for his wedding. 

A further serious and timely note, at the onsct of another “long hot summer 
in race relations, is struck by columnist. professor and author Max Lerner, in 
Climate of Violence, a study of the phenomena—from mass murders to race riots 
—that constitute a frightening underside of the American way of life. This 
trenchant and provocative article will become part of a major new Lerner study 
called Far Out America, which will also include essays on “the drug culture, the 
student rebellion, the new left, the erotic revolution and the new morality.” 

Nat Hentoll's The Cold Society, which appeared in these pages last September, 
was judged the best rraynoy article of 1966 and continues to evoke remarkable 
reader response. We mention it here because this month’s lead short story, ac 
ling to its author, Frank Robinson. was directly motivated by Nat's article. The 
Wreck of the Ship John B. is a psychologically probing sci-fi thriller in which 
disaster takes the form of man-to-man indifference and callous cruelty—the dual 
themes of Hentoffs searching psychosocial analysis, The Power, a Robinson 
sciencefiaion novel of the Fifties, has been bought by MGM and is now in 
production, with George Hamilton cast in the lead. 

rLaysoy regular Herbert Gold—author of this month's wry and witty story 
set in the world of yo ncisco hippies, Peacock Dreams—is now in Tunis 
as a delegate to the Formentor Conference, ou а jury charged with awarding 
the prestigious International Publisher's Prize. Herb’s Latest novel, Fathers, much 
of which originally appeared in rrAYsov, was published by Random House in 
са by The New York Times as “the best and most 
deeply felt [book] that this talented, sensitive and dispassionate author has yet 
produced.” Another Gold novel, The Great American Jackpot, is in the works, 
d, “unless Governor Ronnie Popular changes the school to a typing pool,” Herb 
plans to keep in touch with the younger generation by teaching at the University 
of California at Berkeley next winte 

James Cross, the pseudonymous author of Pin Money, a fable about the 
survival-of-the-fittest psychology that sometimes characterizes the scramble up the 
Madison Avenue success ladder, teaches sociology under his other identity. He 
writes fiction, Cross told us, "on weekends, on vacations, whenever I can grab 
myself some time.” June's fourth story—/t's Not Far, but I Don't Know the Way, 
by literary critic and columnist Hoke Norris—uses the fictional form to talk about 
love, cuckoldry and death, in eloquently realistic terms. 

As Horse Sense, Ernest Havemann’s pacan to horse racing, was being set in 
type, the prolific journatist-author called us to say that he had added а 67th t 
Él Comandante, in Pucro Rico, to his "collection." “The best I could do in a 
race pool was five winners.” the philosophical bettor said. "And under the 
rules of the pool, my net winnings were exactly zero. But—perhaps inspired by 
Joseph Wechsberg’s January гилүвоу article, The Lore and Lure of Roulette 
I won my money back at the wheel, which had never before attracted me.” 
mong, June's other articles are two that appeal—in entirely different w: 
to the upward striver in all of us. Business Is Business, by J. Paul Getty, our Con- 
tributing Editor, Business and Finance, is a study of the factors common to success 
in all money-making enterprises, no ma te their products. And 
in comedic contrast —Dan. Greenburg h; borated with James Ransom for 4 
Snob's Guide to Status Magazines, an upward-mobile sequel to Greenburg’s 
Snobs’ Guide to Status Cars, in July 1964, 

Also on hand for this summer cum laude 007's Oriental. Eyefuls—the 
text of which was written by rrAvnov prizewinning author Roald Dahl, who did 
the farout Far East script for the latest Bond film, You Only Live Twice— 
features the picture's puichritudinous stars and extras in six pages of appealing 
déshabillé. "Ehe Nudies,” Chapter XVI of Arthur Knight and Hollis Alper 
The History of Sex in Cinema, surveys the screen’s sexploitational skin trade— 
from the burlesque one-reelers of the Thirties to the gaudy, epidermal epics of 
our own day. Finally, for the ornithologist that lurks in all of us, a Mod-cap 
bird-watching expedition—Silverstein in London—in which Shel's wacky drawings 
and caustic quips provide an apt capper for this 14th PLAYBOY swing into summer. 


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vol. 14, no. 6—june, 1967 


CONTENTS FOR THE MEN'S ENTERTAINMENT MAGAZINE 


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PLAYBOY AFTER HOURS. crum, - s 21 
THE PLAYBOY ADVISOR н 
PLAYBOY'S INTERNATIONAL DATEBOOK-—travel. ___. 49 
THE PLAYBOY FORUM = = Ат. 
PLAYBOY PANEL: RELIGION AND THE NEW MORALITY —diseussion 55 


THE WRECK OF THE SHIP JOHN B.—fiction. — 
007'5 ORIENTAL EYEFULS—pictorial essay 


-FRANK ROBINSON 80 


ROALD DAHL 86 
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5 NOT FAR, BUT | DON'T KNOW THE WAY—fiction..............HOKE NORRIS 93 


THE EYES HAVE IT—accouterments lu . 94 


BUSINESS 15 BUSINESS —ariicle. 


CLIMATE OF VIOLENCE— oj MAX LERNER 99 


HORSE ЅЕМЅЕ—анісје ERNEST HAVEMANN 100 


PIN MONEY —fiction...... ое casera JAMES CROSS 103. 


PAL JOEY —playbey's playmate of the month.. 2 106 


PLAYBOY'S PARTY JOKES humor. ыл... 114 
A SNOB'S GUIDE TO MAG AZINES—humor..DAN GREENBURG and JAMES RANSOM 116 
PLAYBOY'S GIFTS FOR DADS AND GRADS—gifts 
THE HISTORY OF SEX IN CINEMA — article ARTHUR KNIGHT ond HOLIS ALPERT 124 


Serine, TET 


PEACOCK DREAMS-—ficion. — HERBERT GOLD 137 
HOW THE SULTAN MADE PEACE IN HIS HAREM—ribald classic... 139 


SPIT ROASTING —food c. THOMAS MARIO 141 


SILVERSTEIN IN LONDON —humor ___ — SHEL SILVERSTEIN 142 


HUGH M. HEFNER editor and publisher 
A. с. SPECTORSKY associate publisher and editorial director 
ARTHUR PAUL art director 


JACK J. KESSIE managing editor VINCENT T. TA Jii. picture editor 


SHELDON WAX assistant managing editor; MURRAY FISHER, NAT LEHRMAN senior 
editors; ROME MACAULEY fiction editor; JAMES GOODE, ARTHUR KEETCHMER, MICHAEL 
LAURENCE associate editors; ROBERT L. GREEN fashion director; DAVID TAYLOR fashion 
editor; THOMAS MARIO food & drink сапог: PATRICK CHASE travel editor; J. PAUL 
Gerry contributing editor, business & finance; KIN w, ruxpy contributing editor; 
ARLENE BOURAS сору chief; DAVID BUTLER, HENRY. FENWICK, JOHN GABREE, LAWRENCE 
ж, DAVID STEVENS, ROGER WIDENER, ROBERT ANTON WILSON 


LINDERMAN, CARL SNY 
assistant editors; REV CHAMUFRLALS associate picture editor; MARILYN GRAROWSKI 
assistant picture edilor: MARIO CASILLI, LARRY CORDON, J- HARRY O'ROURKE, POMPEO. 
TOSAR, ALEXAS UREA, JERRY YULSMAN staf) photographers, STAN МАШХОМЗКІ con 
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VOST, ED WEISS, JOSEPH PACZEK assistant art directors; WALTER KRADENYCH, LEN 
WILLIS art assistants; MICHELLE ALTMAN assistant cartoon editor; JONN MASTRO 
production manager; ALLEN VARGO assistant production manager; PAT PAPAS rights 
and permissions * HOWARD W. LEDERER advertising director; JULES KASE associate 


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YOUNG IDEAS 
As a member of Paul Goodman's New 

Aristocrals, with six or seven more years 
to go, I especially appreciated his article 
(PLaynoy, March). I and many fellow 
students are weary of the same tired 
picces about today’s decadent youth— 
written by yesterday's decadent youth. 
Goodman (probably a youth himself, dis 
guised as an older man for your Playbill 
picture) is a relreshing change 

Steve Tiger 

Ohio Northern University 

Ada, Ohio 


Congratulations to both erAvuov and 
Paul Goodman for The New Aristocrats 
As an old man of 10, 1 take these young 
people seriously and Fm thankful that 
they are not only tomorrow's leaders but 
today’s as well. 


Keith Manifold 
Beloit, Wisconsin 


Paul Goodman's article was more than 
faintly reminiscent of the Time “m 
ihe year” cover story on the 25-and- 
unders. These articles are only the most 
recent veritable flood of verbiage 
about our new "hip" generation of stu- 
dents, turned on by LSD and the Peace 
Corps, brutally frank and idealistic and, 
most important, totally turned off by the 
dominant cultural mores of America 

Although I am a sophomore in college 
and presumably am more intimate with 
this "new breed’ of student than are 
various armchair pontificators, 1 сапог 
pretend to speak for the mainstream of 
college students. But 1 have never vum 
into anyone who fits the stereotype of the 
ew generation." On the whole, college 
students still hold the traditional values 
and scek the oals they always 
sought, I am nor alone in this viewpoint, 
cither. As the Yale student whose picture 
represented the “new generation с 
cover of Time told the Yale Daily News: 
"Nothing in t 
except that 1 like Snoopy." 

Harvey Prussin 
Yale College 
New Haven, Connecticut 


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Paul Goodman's appraisal of The New 
Aristocrats is essential reading for any- 
one who desires a beter understanding 


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of today’s collegians. Goodman's descrip- 
tion of “the radical students” reveals the 
convictions of many moderate students as 
well. The majority of my friends who are 
not active in school organizations other 
than sports are all 100 aware of the flaws 
in our educational system and of the im- 
moral double talk of most administrators. 
The mosi lucid observation Goodman 
makes is that this is not “a ‘generational 
revolt’ that will be absorbed as [students] 
grow older and wiser.” The future will 
be influenced by today's young people as 
it has never been influenced before. 
John S. Thin 

yerson Polytechnical Institute 
"Toronto, Ontario 


Student conservatives sometimes main 
tain that the leftist activists on cam- 
pus are their intellectual inferiors, One is 
tempted to consider this wishful thinking 
—until he comes across a gorgeous piece 
of nitwittery like The New Aristocrats 
Funny as Goodman's picaresque aristo 
rats emerge (taking moonlight classes in 
Psychedelic Experience 
Training), Goodman's 


Sensitivity 


and 


playing the solemn ass about their vir 
tues adds an even more ludicrous touch 
William Anderson 
Rockford, Illinois 


1 would like to invite Paul Goodman 
to visit some college campuses besides 
Berkeley. "There are others and they 
definitely contain other types of stu- 
dents, Goodman's opinions about odd- 
balls are probably close to correct, but I 
wonder what makes him think they are 
the ones who will soon rule our country. 
Fortunately, there are enough people in 
my generation who are still in the same 
old rut that has made America great. 

R. A. Swed 
West Texas Stare University 
Canyon, Texas 


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other valuable service by pointing out to 
the public the tremendous rewards that 
are available to those who reach for the 
brass ring—and aim for the executive 
heights. Never before in our 40-year his: 
tory of executive recruiting have we noted 


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a greater demand for such men—and that 
demand extends through every category 
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cerned, however, that the general public 
be fully aware of the qualifications 
that are being demanded for the high- 
powered jobs Packard discussed. When we 
looking for men to fill $50.000and 
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start the search knowing that probably 
only five or six men in the country will 
qualify for an interview. Often the 
number is smaller than that 

Lon D. Barton. President 

Cadillac Associates 

Chicago. Illinois 


Vance Packard шим once more 
be commended for his insight into 
business. Our marketing class was fasci- 
nated by Packard's income comparisons— 
and stimulated by the potential earning 
power of topnotch managers. Heres 
hoping our future is as bright as Packard 
indicates. 


©. Roger Jenkins, Jı. 
University of Georgia. 


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EXPENSIVE PLACE 

I certainly enjoyed Len Deighton's 4» 
Expensive Place to Die (mivnov, Decem. 
ber 1966 through March 1967), 1 hope 
someday soon it will go into film—and 
that I can take part 


old S; 
Honolulu, Ha 

Odd Job” Sakala's Bessemer bowler 
should slice him а vole in any spy thriller. 


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PRODUCTIVE WELLES 
This may sound strange and outra- 
geous, but Т truly read your inter 
before I open your centerlold. т1.лувоу is 
a great advocate—in probing. prying 
and airing the opinions of a great band 
ol mavericks, from Castro to. Welles 
(March). So thank you, and please con- 
tinue the interviews. 
Eli Wallach 
New York, New York 


Would that there were more people 
like Orson Welles! But perhaps it is bet- 
ter that there are not. With a quantity 
increase, the value of such a person 
might diminish. This 1 would regret, 
because Kenneth Tynan’s interview re- 
aled a very fascinating man, who still 
has much promise to fulfill. Thank you 
for giving us such excellent interviews 
‘They are worth the price of your entire 


Halton Mann 
New York, New York 


thanks for the interview with 
Orson Welles. Orson has been a friend of 
mine since the first time he set foot in 
Hollywood. His first dinner in Holly. 
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has continued through the years. We re- 
ligiously meet cach summer for a week 
at Pamplona for the corridas. The only 
criticism that I have of the interview is 
that it failed—in my opinion—to really 
get under the skin of Orson as а man. It. 
dealt almost exclusively with him as a 
creative artist. Orson is certainly a gen- 
jus—but he is much more than that. Not 
since the glorious days with Wilson 
Mizner have I known such a wonderful 
dinner companion, With Orson there is 
never a dull moment—or a quiet one. 

Darryl F. Zanuck, President 

20th Century-Fox Film Corporation 

New York, New York 


ROOMS AT THE TOP 

Jules Feiffer's Rooms (paynoy, March) 
ranks as truly great satire. Let's sce more 
in future issues, 


William A. Craft 
Darien, Connecticut 


Will do. 


SHOW-ME BUNNIES 

1 have just read the March issue of 
PLAYBOY and must commend you for a 
job well done on The Bunnies of 
Missouri. It was pure joy to read 
about Bunny hobbies, Bunny personali- 
ties, Bunny educations, Bunny sports and 
Bunny measurements Your article 
showed the world that these young ladies 
are human and humorous. I need not 
comment on the photos; They testify 
elegantly for thes 


selves. 
Ralph Taylor 
New York, New York 


The Bunnies of the Show-Me State 
show me that statistics can mislead. The 
average measurement of the Kansas City 
Bunny was 35-23-35. However, the four 
individual measurements given in the 
article average out to a pulchritudinous 
384-22-36. Mathematically speaking, 
the standard deviation of the sample error 
indicates that the sclection was biased, 
or that the profile of the K. C. cottontails 
does not fit a “normal” curve 
that figures don't lie. After у 
souris finest, I would agr 
City Bunnies are hardly " They 
are far out in front. As a figure lover, I 
cam only say keep up the good work: 
Your bias is in the most favorable 
direction. 


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WINNING WITNESS 

Harry Petrakis gets as much. feeling 
into bis stories of commonplace humani- 
ly as anyone writing today—and with 
fewer tricks. The Witness (March) is an 
excellent example, and рілувоу is to be 
congratulated for offering its readers such 
fictional fare. 1 hope your continuing 
publication of stories by Petrakis will en- 
courage readers to move on to his books 
—particularly his current novel, 4 Dream 


of Kings, and his collection of short 
stories, Pericles on 31st Street, both of 
which were nominated for a National 
Book Award in fiction, and fully deserved 
to be. 

It will be interesting to watch Pe- 
trakis' reputation grow in the years ahead, 
amid the more frantic experimentalists, 
absurdists and flash-fire sensationalists. 
He is a good man and a good and true 
writer who works knowledgeably and 
responsibly at his craft 

Edward Lueders 
Professor of English 
The University of Utah 
Salt Lake City, Utah 


My usual approach to rtavsoy is to 
look at the 
toons, and finally settle down to serious 
reading, letting the ads fill the gaps. But 
after reading Harry Petrakis’ The Wit- 
ness, I'm going to look for future stories 
by Mr. Petrakis before examining the 
pictures. Does this mean I'm “over the 
hill"? 1 hope not. 

Dr. Charles Kresnotf 

University of Illinois at 

the Medical Center 
Chicago, Illinois 


ictures first, then the car- 


MENUMANSHIP 

Thomas Mario's March article on The 
Language of Gallic Gourmandise de- 
serves very loud applause. Even after 
living in France for three years, I found 
it most difficult to wander through a 
French menu until I had mastered the 
nguage. 


Peter N. More 
Bloomington, Indiana 


RIBALD RAVE 

T have been reading your Ribald Clas 
sics for several years, and though I 
usually enjoy them, 1 found the one in 
your March issue, The Lady's Tale, retold 
by Roderick Cameron, far and away the 
best you have ever published. It had a 
very dever plot and a style of writing 
that I really enjoyed. It was outstand- 
ingly different. 


Charles Mann 
New York, New York 


EYEFUL 
We girls in glasses all thank you for 
your March Playmate, bespectacled and 
spectacular Fran Gerard. If only I can 
find a pink ribbon like Fran's before my 
husband gets home from work. 
Frances Kolotyluk 
Vancouver, British Columbia 


I'm not a subscriber to your magazine, 
but after hearing so many raves about 
your literary excellence in all the media 
and "in" groups, I purchased your 
March issue. 1 had heard about Play 
mates with abdominal staples and 1 was 
dy to snicker, when I discovered that 
an Gerad, an abundantly endowed 


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be interred forever. You have struck a те- 
sounding blow for a large segment of the 
female population. Thank you. 

John Wilson 

New Orleans, Louisiana 


ran Gerard is 20/20—one of the best 
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rge. 
Fred L. Malone, O. D. 
Vicksburg, Mississippi 


DOWN DRAF 
One more congratulatory note on the 
best piece of journalism to appear in 
your magazine in a long time: Repr 
sentative Thomas Curtis’ exposé of the 
Selective Service System (Conscription 
and Commitment, February. It has 
long been obvious that the draft is at 
best mismanaged, at worst wholly un 
песе but special credit should go to 
Representative Curtis for suggesting the 
first practical military procurement pol- 
icy that would fill the military needs of a 
reat Society while retaining the indi- 
vidual freedoms oudined by the found- 
ing fathers years before the advent of 
Selective Service. An outstanding article. 
Pfc. Paul Wisovaty, О. 5. Army 
Fort Cordon, Georgia 


T have spent almost two years working 
for significant changes in today's unfair 
draft laws. 1 admire both Representative 
Curtis and Mr. Bruce Chapman, from 
whose book Curtis quoted, for their at- 
tempts to come to grips with the problem 
However, I think they may be ignoring 
certain other problems (and facing sure 
Congressional rejection) in proposing an 
Army recruited by pay. 

An all-volunteer Army would almost 
certainly become an Army of Negro en 
listed men commanded by white officers. 


A much greater percentage of Negroes 
reenlist (for societal as well as financi 

reasons) at current military pay scales. 
The Negro overbalance would vastly in 
crease at higher pay rates and—whether 
we like it or not—the eventual Negro 
majority might drive most of the poten- 
tial white soldiers out. And until educa- 
tional opportunities for Negroes are 
made truly equal, the officer group would 


ALK SOFTLY... continue to be mostly whit 


Consider a situation that might occur 


ND WEAR A GENTLEMAN'S COLOGNE if we had mercenary troops: The Presi- 


dent dispatches а small, all-volunteer 


Army to a fledgling brush war (as Vie 
nam was in 1963). Who could complain? 
“Those sent would be just paid employees 
doing their job—not civilians conscript- 
ed to commit their lives to a cause they 


AZ PIL 1 


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Is it the kicky X-6 Hustler, the bike 
that set a world land speed record 
for 250cc machines at Bonneville. 

Isitthe Suzuki Dual-Stroke engine; 
the spirited master-stroke that 
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urging. (Hup, two. Not Hup, two, 
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Is it Suzuki's noticeably mellower 
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might not believe in. This important 
civilian. relationship to the military— 
which provides a check on our foreign 


commitments now—would disappear 
with a mercenary Army 
Terrence Cullinan 


Stanford Research Institute 


Menlo Park, California 


Thank you for publishing Representa- 
tive Curtis’ article. Everything that he 
s about the draft we, from our work, 


can verify many times over. 

Robert Bird 
American Friends Service Com 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 


Congressman Curtis, in his thought- 
provoking article Conscription and Com- 
mitment, overlooks a prime source of 
underutilized manpower: women. The 
experts on the draft ignore the [act that 
far fewer men would be needed if the 
military services would accept women un- 
der the same standards as men and step 
up recruiting programs. Women who 
now want то volunteer for service have 
to be high school graduates (men do not) 
and must make a much higher score on 
the educational test than men who are 
drafted—or who volunteer. 

A Defense Department study of wom- 
en in the military services shows that their 
upkeep is less than for men, that they per 
form as well or better in hundreds of 
classifications and that they are not the 
source of nd personal 
problems" that many profess to fear, Far 
more than the present 10 women 
(one percent of the military services) 
could be eflectively utilized, even though 
women cannot serve in combat and even 
though a certain number of male State- 
side positions must. be retained for ro- 
tation of combat troops. 

Maurine B. Neuberger, Chairman 
Citizens’ Advisory Council on 

the Status of Women 
Washington, D. C. 


administrative 


PLAYBOY appreciates these thoughts 
[from ex-Senator Neuberger. Defense 
considerations aside, were sure the 


enlistment raie would rise. dramatically 
if military service were more truly соса. 


PURLOINED P 
Rec 
so unusual th. 


5 
ady we encountered a situation 
we thought it might in- 
I refer to is Team 
Three, Long Range Reconnais- 
sance Patrol, 101st Division. As 
the name implies, our job is to precede 
our line troops into areas suspected of 
being occupied by enemy units. 10 deter- 
mine their size and location. Since pris- 
oners of war are one of the better 
sources of intelligence, we often find it 
our task to capture them. 

In the central highlands of Vietnam 
we were successful in capturing a lone 
Viet Gong soldier. To our astonishment, 
we found, while searching the man's 


terest you. The "we 


Number 


Airborne 


equipment, a hard-worn but carefully 
folded centerfold of Lisa Baker, your 
November Playmate, which you can sec 
us holding in the accompanying photo 
Tt does not surprise us that our enemy 
counterpart would want to cherish such 
an item as much as it puzzles us how he 
obtained it, PLaynoy 
month in the mail and we all read it and 
enjoy it. We have made attempts to start 
a collection of Playmates to decorate our 
team tent—but find it crippled by miss 
ing numbers. They seem to disappear en 
route from the States. What baffles us is 
how "Charlie" obtains what we have so 
much difficulty getting for ourselves. 


comes to us cvery 


Considering the similar incident de- 
scribed in your March Dear Playboy col- 
umn, we wonder if Charlie could be one 
of your favored. subscribers 

Team Number Three 

Long Range Reconnaissance Pavol 

APO San Francisco. California 

Our Circulation Department reports 

no subscribers in North Vietnam, chaps. 
Charlie must have liberated Lisa's like- 
ness behind the lines. 


RED-CHIP INVESTMENTS 

The very evening I finished reading 
Marvin  Kiunan's marvelously funny 
piece on “investing” їп czarist bonds 
(The First National Fiduciary Imperialist 
Trust. Syndicate Cartel Pool Combine, 
riAYmoy, March), I was amazed to s 


in Forbes, a magazine edited primarily 
for stockmarket investors, that perhaps 
Kitman knew what he was talking about. 
In the March 1, 1967, issue. overseas in- 
vestiment commentator George ]. Henry 
wrote that the ba л, one of 
the former Baltic states, jumped. sharply 
оп news of Premier Kosygin's recent vi 
to London. Henry noted that there are 
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bonds outstanding in the U.S. . . . 
quoted at about 314 percent of face 
value.” and went on to suggest that ulti- 
mately “the Soviet Union might make 
some settlement.” Perhaps Kitman's witty 
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ways he didn’t anticipate. 

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T you haven't been paying too much 

attention to the movie fan magazines, 
you may be unaware that they specialize 
in the sensational cover headline that 
more often than not heralds some innoc 
uous piece of fan-mag fluff on the inside. 
^ random sampling of some recent 
screen books yielded up the following 
gems in the headline writers art. “How 
BOBBY KENNEDY'S WIFE REALLY GETS 
ALONG матн JACKIE!” (The gist of the 
piece js that she gets along just fine.) 
“WHAT LYNDA HIDES FROM LUCI ABOUT 
HER LOVE FoR HAMILTON 


GEORGE 


(Well, it seems that Lynda worries that 
George will be drafted, go to Vietnam. 


and become a casualty—and she can't 
bring herself to tell her sister about it.) 
“BARBARA EDEN? MY HUSBAND'S OTHER 
WOMAN GAME ALONG ON OUR HONEY- 
Mooxt” (While she and husband Michael 
Ansara were off on their honcymoon, he 
spent a few moments thinking about that 
other woman—his mother.) Lately, we've 
begun to feel altruistic concern for our 
fellow toilers in the publishing vineyard, 
fearing that the Photoplay and Modern 
Screen regulars, inured to the disappoint- 
ments that await within, may turn their 
reading attentions elsewhere. Happily, 


we think we've come up with a solution 
to what is obviously a mounting problem 
‘The idea is to carry the disparity between 
the cover headline and the story to its 
illogical extreme and make a grand 
guesswhat-the-pieceis-really-about game 
out of the whole business. Human curi- 
osity being what it is, we believe we're 
offering, gratis, a circulation builder that 
can’t miss, And now lets run some ex- 
amples on the projector and see how they 
focus: 

TONY GUKTIS: “I KICKED KIM. NOVAK OUT 
or му nro!" (Tony finds neighbor Kim 
tromping all over his begonias; asks her 
to leave his garden.) 

SAL MINEO AND HAYLEY MILLS: “w 
WENT 100 Far!” (Hayley and Sal, out on 
a date, overshoot their turnoff on the 
sadena freeway.) 

SIDNEY POITIER: “I STARTED А RACE 
rior!” (Poitier due to indecision, is very 


slow placing his bet at the Santa Anita 
pari-mutuel window, infuriating bettors 
waiting in line behind him.) 

ANN-MARGRET: “MY MOTHER RUINED MY 
илге!” (In which she reveals how her 
mother inadvertently used the copy of 
Life Ann-Margret was reading to line her 
rbage pail.) 

LIZ TAYLOR: "I DESPISE RICHARD!" (Now 
a student of English history and a Shake- 
spearean actress, Liz has become incensed 
over the actions of crookback Richard 
и.) 

DEBBIE REYNOLDS: "AM 1 AN UNNATURAL 
normek?" (How Debbie bonlefed a 
kinen she found on her doorstep.) 

ROGK HUDSON: "I BROKE ALL TEN COM- 
MANDMENTS!” (When Rock was a child, 
he appeared as Moses in а Sunday-school 
play and dropped the Tables on the 
stage) 

SANDRA DEE; "FROM CALLGIRL TO MOVIE 
star!” (Sandra reveals how а producer 
discovered her working as a switchboard 
operator.) 

TROY DONAHUE: "I HAD 
Liver” (Troy tells of the 
worked as a crop duster.) 

ЈАСК LEMMON: “I'VE GOT A PRISON 
RECORD!" (Lemmon, an audiophile, is 
proudest of his LP featuring the 14 
worth chorus.) 

Got the picture, fan magazine editors? 
Then get out there and really widen that 
credibility gap. 


TO KILL TO 
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Even the most evangelistic user of 
LSD acknowledges that the next trip 
may be a bad one. Even worse than a 
bad trip, however, is a bad trip in a 
strange city without the companionship 
of an understanding "guide." For the use 
of those who may have occasion to take 
a wip while they're on а wip, the Psy- 
chedelic Information Center in Cam- 
bridge, Massachuseus, has compiled 
Psychedelic Phone Directory containing 
the alphabetized names of people who 
“have had experience with LSD. and 
have volunteered to be listed.” Their ad- 
dresses and phone numbers (including 
that of Dr. Timothy Leary in Millbrook, 


New York) range from Amsterdam to 
Hollywood. So if yourself 
freaking out in a strange motel in—God 
forbid—Rocking Chair, Wyoming. and 
you're drowning in purple Jello up to 
the light fixture. don't panic—the PPD 
is there in your knapsack. with the name 
and number of your friendly neighbor- 
hood acidhead. all handily lettered in 
large print so you can read it even 
with psychedelically dilated pupils. 


you find 


extra 


Unsetiling sign spotted in a Pennsyl- 
Vania cemetery: PERSONS ARE PROHIBITED 
FROM FLOWERS FROM ANY BUT 
THEIR OWN GRAVES. 


PICKING 


In response to the “death-of God” 
movement, many whimsical folk are sport- 
ing buttons that say сор 15 An IN 
ARGENTINA. App: 
actually alive in England. We quote ver- 
batim from the San Francisco Chronicle: 
"Britain's highest court the House of 
Lords, yesterday overthrew the ancient 
doctrine that it may never change one of 
its own decisions. The unexpected action 
was announced by the Lord.” From a 
burning bush, we assume. 


ently, however, He is 


In an appropriate programing move— 
as listed in the Rochester, New York, 
Times-Union—To Tell the Truth and 
I've Got a Secret were both pre-emptel by 
a news special entitled In the Pay of the 
CIA: An American Dilemma. 


France's official executioner—who has 
chopped off more than 400 heads with 
the guillotine since he took over the posi 
tion in 1939—is paid $360 a month, plus 
a bonus for each beheading. The bonus, 
we don't doubt, comes under the head 
ing of severance 


Incidental Intelligence Department: 
In case you were wondering, Rhode Is- 
land state recreational inspector Roger 
W. Wheeler has ruled that a surfer 


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constitutes а navigational craft and, as 
such, comes under the jurisdiction of the 
State Department of Natural Resources. 
If he falls off his surfboard, however, he 
becomes a swimmer and is subject to reg- 
ulation by the State Division of Parks 
and Recreation, 


“Pick Up the Inquirer and Perk Up 
Your Day" was the motto on the enve- 
lope that brought us this cnlightened 
headline from that Philadelphia news 
Paper: “MARRIAGE STARTS WITH A BANG.” 


According to an unintentionally 1c- 
vealing poll conducted by the school’s 
student publication, two percent of 
Princeton's students did mot consider 
themselves or their contemporaries 
pathetic; one percent felt that apathy 
was, indeed, the campus mode of life— 
and 97 percent didn’t bother to reply. 

We can't help admiring the candor of 
the gentleman who placed the following 
notice in the Cushing, Oklahoma, Daily 
c “I will not be responsible for 
debs made by anyone other than myself.” 

Who Said Chivalry Was Dead De 
partment: A mattress ad in С 
Glendale News-Press advises readers to 
“PREPARE FOR THOSE SWEATY SUMMER 
KNIGHTS." 


ifornia's 


Reassuring evidence that old-fashioned 
romance is not dead came to us in the 
form of this marriage proposal in the 
classified column of the U 
Massachusetts’ Collegian: “Wanted, one 
wife for forestry major. Must be able to 


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versity of 


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Indispulable L 
Washington, D. 
лон was a 


¢ Department: When 
Police Chief John 
ked to explain a rash 
nd robberies in the nation's 
1, The Washington Post quoted his 
astute reply: “The biggest factor is the 
inclination of certain individuals of 
acquiring funds by illegal means.” 


"rcs MEET ах sURREY" blared the 
headline in England's Advertiser's Week 
ly, but Britons didn't blink an eye. As 
the story went on to report, a very pleis- 
ant meeting, indeed, had been held by 
the Financial Advertisin 


‘Travel tip for hydrophobes: A Beirut 
hotel proudly notes in its brochure that 
all of its rooms "efface the sea.” 

Bad news for female patients from a 
recent issue of the Maryland State Medi- 
cal Journal: “Urologists, gynecologists 
and other practitioners are being con 
sulted more frequently today by patients 
h problems of sexual adjustment. Are 


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limited effectiveness. Nevertheless, we 
must use what we 


Disquicting cybernetic note: A $140,000 
computer in England, upon bcing assem- 
bled and switched on for the first time, 
punched out a card reading, “Thank you 
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Sentenced 10 a jail term for slugging 
his girlfriend, a McKeesport, Pennsylva- 
nia, man received permission from the 
judge to wed her on the spot. before his 
removal to the calaboose. “After the cere- 
mony,” reported The Pittsburgh Press 
“the couple spent a half hour in an ante- 
room on the third flóor of the court- 
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BOOKS 


There is an indubitable fascination— 
and yet something terribly tiresome— 
about William Manchester's The Death of 
а President (Harper & Row). Partly it is 
the fault of the press agentry, which asks 
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enterprise: two years of indefatigable re- 


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Creculwe bruising preliminary bouts—Manchester 
sued, Manchester condensed, Manches 
ter rebuked, rebutted and reviled—that 
the main event was bound to be some 
thing of an anticlimax. But headlines 
and hassles aside, the book must be 
judged on its own lick of merits. Its 
tone i onc of dizzying ommiscience, as 
if Manchester were writing Victorian 
fiction rather than contemporary history. 
He tells us, for example, that on the eve 
of the assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald 
went mad be 
amorous overtures. That is not history; it 
is psychespeculation. Again. he states 
that the two Secret Service men riding 
with the President in Dallas 7 


se his wife scorned his 


were in a 


Russian IE position to take evasive action after the 
leather first shot, but for five terrible seconds, 
po they were immobilized." A damning 


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book is full of smug judgments of 
people's behavior: Kennedy's bereaved 
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Indian lime.) 

Perhaps the tropics have something to do with it? 
Maybe the hot Caribbean sun and the caressing sea 
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They arecertainly the most devilish limes ever squeezed 
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uivialization. The tragedy is too often 
diminished to a kind of morbid gossip: 
the memory of that awful time is blurred. 
The point was better made by Jackie. 
nt them to see the horror of it,” she 
said in Dallas, explaining why she rs- 
fused to change her blood-soaked clothes 
And when she debarked in Washington, 
ng the bloody suit, 80,000,000 
ers did see the horror of it and 
ally, that her husband had been 
murdered. That is precisely what this 
book allows us to forget, With all of his 
honest and emotionally involved labors, 
Manchester has somehow managed to 
smother the horror of the event. 


A Bell for Adano, John Hersey's first 
novel, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1945. 
Perhaps misled by that award, Hersey 
has written a number of other novels. 
They have not won the Pulitzer Prize, 
but he keeps on trying. This year he has 
produced a book called Under the Eye of 
the Storm (Knopf). It is all about these two 
unhappy couples, the Medlars and the 
mdens, who go out sailing together. 
Medlar is a specialist in the liver and an 
old-fashioned humanist, whereas Ham- 
den thinks that computers are the an- 
swer to everything. It doesn’t scem likely 
that they would be friends, much less 
sailing companions, in real life, but Her 
sey thinks they would be; so there they 
are with their wives on this boat called 
ony—which, you see, is ironic. 
t Hamden is playing 
around with his wife and considers hav- 
ing a go at Mrs. H. just to even the 
score; but, instead, he decides to worry а 
lot and make himself unhappy, the way 
a humanist would. He gets ured of that 
after a while, though, and it looks like 
the whole unpleasant mess may get a 
litle discussion, when all of a sudden 
this storm comes shricking in. The storm 
s called Esm d she is so loud that 
no one can say much of anything for 
page after page alter page. Once Fsmé 
is gone, Dr. Medlar decides that his wife 
may love him after all, so there's really 
no need for a frank discussion. Hersey 
thereupon brings his book to a close. 
Which is all right with us. 


Ernest Hemingway was not a college 
dropout; he never dropped in. After high 
school in Oak Park, Ilinois, he got a job 
as a cub reporter on The Kansas Сиу 
Star. Then he moved on to the Toronto 
Star, basing himself in Paris with all of 
Europe for his beat. When he started 
writing fiction, he swore off journalism, 
yet he returned to it throughout his ca- 
reer, producing superb reports on the 
obscure and important events of his time, 
the Spanish Ci War and bullfighting. 
the Second World War and fish 
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an absorbing chronicle. His hard trade- 
marked prose brings to life landscapes 
and seasons with a sure and loving touch, 
whether he is writing of Paris or Afric 
or Spain, or of a place in Wyoming called 
the Clarks Fork Valley, where he liked 
to hunt and fish; “Then there was the 
winter; the trees bare now, the snow 
blowing so you could not see, the saddle 
wet, then frozen as you came downhill, 
br ig a trail through the snow, trying 
to keep your legs moving, and the sharp, 
warming taste of whiskey when you hit 
the ranch and changed your clothes in 
front of the big open fireplace. ИЗ а 
good country." There is also some mar- 
velous dry humor, particularly when 
Papa tells about. rcading his own obit 
uaries after the plane crash in Africa 
the сапу 1950s, and in a dialog about 
his craft with an aspiring young writer. 
He is known as "Mice" (short for 
"Maestro," because the boy plays th 

violin), and Hemingw: 
self as "Y. C." (Your Correspondent) in 
the conversation that includes exchanges 
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William Burroughs writes like a man 
who has no native language. In fact, in 
his fourth novel, The Ticket That Exploded 
(Grove), he trics to go beyond 
itself; it's a novel that attack 
an art that aspires to silence. Burroughs 
vision of modern life is a galactic 
nd of metal excrement and neon 
lens and plastic scrap heaps, its 
habitants clothed in cellophane 
lopes, imbibing ammonia Cokes, indulg- 
ing in electronic sex spasms. But to this 
familiar Burroughing into the modern 
soul, he now adds a new dimension of 
honor. Men have become addicted to 
language itself, and their thoughts are 
programed by media junkies. Electronic 
controls are fed onio their mind screens 
on punched tapes, and prerecorded in 
structions are then played back through 
their consciousness tracks. Having made 


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this diagnosis, Dr. Burroughs writes his 
nearly illegible prescription: Cut the 
word and image lines, break the associa 
tion controls, program yourself out by 
splicing the tapes, by jamming the con 
trol_messages—in short, by achieving а 
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all his avantgarde technique, he adopts 
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Yet his Swiftian vision of a processed, 
prepackaged life, of a kind of electro- 
chemical totalitarianism, often evokes the 

black laughter of hilarious horror. 


As you thumb through the rewarding 
contents of Prize Stories 1967: The O. Henry 
Awards (Doubleday), be sure to pause at 
Dressed in Shade, the tale of a man who 
consummated an affair with Mademoi- 
selle Death. Our recommendation may 
be slightly partisan, since the author is 
none other than PLavnoy Fiction Editor 
Robie Macauley; but we're confident 
you'll think kindly of us—and of writer 
editor Macauley—for leuing you in on 
an inuiguing fictional experience. 


Like the man who is the Jast in town 
to hear about his wife, Fred W. Friendly 
recently discovered that television “has 
now been captured by the mercantile 
structure.” For 16 years, working with 
Edward R. Murrow for much of the 
time, he oversaw some of TV's best pro. 
s—from the McCarthy and Oppen- 
heimer shows of the See It Now series to 
“Harvest of Shame” on CBS Reports, 
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own departure from it in Due to Circum- 
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ing because it reveals so much about net 
work mentaliti nd so much about the 
TV system's eroding cllect on such men 
as Friendly. We see the journalistic inde- 
pendence under which ТУ news depart 
ments operated in the early 1950s, but 
we also sce the creeping strains as exec 
utives began to worry that forthright 
shows might alfect the cashbox. As CBS 
strove to clear $50,000,000 a year, alter 
taxes, boss man Bill Paley was nagging 
Murrow don't want this constant 
stomach-ache every time you do 
troversial subject.” Similarly, number 
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says of those CBS Reports that came to 
be known in the trade as tightrope acts 
Friendly checked out as president of 
CBS News last year, when the network 
turned down coverage of former Amb: 

sador Kennan’s Vietnam testimony be- 
fore the Fulbright committee and instead 
showed reruns of 1 Love Lucy. But he 
takes strongmen Paley and Stanton ОЁ 
the hook by portraying them as cap- 
tives of their own organization: “they 
seemed incapable of stopping the in- 
exorable flight from quality." Friendly 
maintains that the networks should never 
have been allowed to peddle their stocks 
on Wall Street. But in a final chapter, 
he proposes to leave them in unrestrained 
posession of what they have made olf 
with by financing an educational TV 
network through economies gained by 
a system of. domestic satellites. Friendly 
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‘The flash of lightning that opens Gore 
Vidal's latest novel, Washington, D. C. (Lit- 
ile, Brown), serves the double purpose of 
revealing a couple making love in a bath- 
id announcing that the author is 
striking in the same place twice—as why 
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politicians, and from beginning to end 
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a bit. His people fit their roles a little 
too well; they plot a little too much. 
Nobody does anything resembling law- 
making in this capital of law. At least 
one back-room grind would have given 
the book more balance—and us a greater 
reliance on 's otherwise capital 
Capitol portrait. 


MOVIES 


A Countess from Hong Kong, as nearly all 
the world knows, is based on a notion 
Charles Chaplin began to 
ing a trip to Shanghai in 1931. From 
that tiny souvenir, , the master spirit 
of screen comedy has produced a 
worn shipboard romance of no di 
tion whatever. Between stock shots of 
the cerulean-blue sca, we fully expected 
Madeleine Carroll and Lee Bowman to 
show up on the promenade deck, she a 
lovely stowaway who has to get to 
America, he the son of the richest oilman 
anywhere. Instead, Sophia Loren and 
Marlon Brando play the couple sharing 
the stateroom and the man's pajamas— 
otherwise the plot remains true to peri- 
od. Though Chaplin himself appears 
briefly and impishly as a seasick steward, 
his performance as author-director ma- 
roons the principals with vintage smart 
talk, delivered while they are skittering 
off to the bathroom, answering incon- 
venient taps at the cabin door or deci 

ing who will sleep on the sofa, Isolated 
bits of business show Chaplinesque flair, 
once when the screen develops a subtle, 
rhythmic pitch and roll that make even 
greensickly gags acceptable, again when 
Sydney Chaplin (playing Brando's friend) 
brings off some deft mechanical foolery 
about sneaking Scotch from a drunk at 
the bar. As for Sophia and Marlon, de- 
spite their widely publicized joy at being 
ties chosen to adorn the first 
m in nearly a decade, both 
look resigned to a tiresome cruise that 
sounded much better in the brochure. 


It is good to see Howth Head and the 
sights of Dublin and the tower at 
Sandymount where Buck Mulligan and 
Stephen Dedalus stayed. It is grand to 
hear the fine Dublinese brogue of 
whores, likely lads, pub crawlers and 
Leopold and Molly Bloom. Such sights 
and sounds give fiber to the Ulysses of 
Joyce, an unassailable 20th Cen- 
ic so richly endowed with four- 
rds that die-hard film censors 
will want to throw themselves upon their 
scissors (the distributors of the movie 
assured us that not a syllable will be cx- 
ciscd for any of its showings). More than 
30 years have passed since U.S. District 
Judge John M. Woolsey lightly lifted the 
ban on Joyce's novel and youchsafed an 


opinion that the book would make a dan- 
dy movie. Director Joseph Strick (The 
Savage Eye, The Balcony) finally bought 
the rights, co-authored the scenario, co- 
produced and directed the film—in a 
formidable labor of love. If only love 
were enough. Bur the nigh-impossible 
task of tuning a monument into a 

sfying movie requires a leap of the 
imagination that Strick seldom dares 
attempt. He lifts selections from the 
famous prose in cupped hands, trying to 
match them to some pictures on the 
screen without spilling a precious pearl 
erything he does is literal, intelliger 
plain-spoken, and so somehow the mov 
matters even though it falls short. Bloom 
(in the doughty person of Ircland’s Milo 
O'Shea) mentally ejaculates behind а 
stone wall while ogling a lass on the 
beach with her skirts up to herc. The 
youthful Dedalus (Maurice Rocves) bla 
phemes freely. while Molly (Barbara 
Jeflord) reduces her final 47-page mono: 
log to a pretty graphic slice of life. In 
such long streamrofconsciousness pas- 
sages, the voice-over technique weds word 
to image and illustrates ideas adequately. 
But just adequately, Real problems occur 
the huown" sequence, where 
Strick’s flatfooted attempts at fantasy— 
Bloom asa sort of Jewish Walter Mitty— 
merely remind us that the film cries out 
for a director who can take flight aesthet- 
ically, some Hibernian Fellini ready to 
risk his neck performing backflips on a 
slack wire. The film is likely to be just 
the ticket for slow readers who find a 
great sensual-spiritual odyssey easier to 
digest in capsule form. Purists will dis- 
cover less cause for re-Joycing about this 
particular day in Dublin and might pre- 
fer to curl up with a great book. 


Producer Ross Hunter generally dress 
es up his films (Magnificent Obsession, 
Madame X) for the suburban shopper 
who likes to see a pretty girl in a pretty 
pickle wearing lots of pretty frocks. 
Thoroughly Modem Millie fits Julie An- 
drews into some flapperish fantasies by 
designer J but this overstuffed 
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better reasons than that. The image that 
lingers is Beatrice Lillie as a white-slave 
trader operating the Priscilla Hotel for 
gle Young Ladies. Pushing a creaky 
wicker laundry cart through the corri- 
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guests she has plied with chloroform, 
poisoned apples or spiked party punch 
and packs the poor things off to the Fate 
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gencrously displayed by Julie, free of the 
presweetened roles that have shot her to 
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tale set in the Roaring Twenties. Direc- 
tor George Roy Hill flips title cards 
across the screen while Millie shameless- 
ly vamps her boss (John Gavin), pitches 
woo with another blade (James Fox) on 
a ledge 20 stories above the street, 
rescues an heiress (Mary Tyler Moore) 
from an opium den and learns about 
life from a hoydenish games mistress 
(Carol Channing) for Long Island's horsy 
set. With a crew so fast on its feet tha 
spoofing the conventions of musical 
comedy in a Fu Manchu format looks 
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proved the show through judicious prun- 
ing. Still heavy-handed, he allows too 
damned much of everything, from an 
irrelevant Jewish wedding scene to an 
explosion in a Chinese fireworks factory; 
but the blithe spirits of Bea and Julie 
keep Millie explosively sparkling. 


‘Transferred from stage to screen, Le- 
Roi Jones’ Dutchman is nearly an hour of 
headlong cinematic wham. Filmed in 
England, of all places, Jones’ microcosm 
of the black-white bauleground is still a 
New York subway car, careening at night 
through the dark bowels of the city with 
a quiet, vulnerable young Negro aboard. 
Something slumps into the seat beside 
him—a faintly sleazy blonde, flaunting a 
miniskirt that's draped like a dishrag, 
and sunglasses the size of dinner plates. 
she begins, which somehow 
leads right into, "You think I want 
you to take me somewhere and screw 
me.” What she really wants makes less 
sense than that, for the psychotic ofay 
who endlessly munches apples is not just 
an Eve hustling forbidden fruit. She em- 
bodies all, but all, of the blind, seduc- 
tive, irrational white world that brings 
up a black man's blood. She goads hirn, 
gropes him, teases him, reviles him, until 
his own deep hatred comes gushing 
back at her, ten generations’ worth. Hav- 
ing reduced her victim to mad animal 
rage, the blonde deals him a deatliblow. 
Though such Jonesian truth may be 
hard to take, the statement is powerfully 
made and powerfully played by Al Free- 
man, Jr., and Shirley Knight. Dutchman 
succeeds so well on film that director 
Anthony Harvey's camera seems to dis- 
appear in the action, leaving the viewer 
there in its stead. 


Hombre, following Hud and Harper, 
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wheeled out the old Stagecoach. New- 
man plays a white hombre raised by 
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ware of palefaced perfidy. But after he 
gets a haircut, he settles down in the 
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rowdy-lady roles Claire Trevor used to 
get, while Fredric March blanches on cue 
s the Indian agent in a hurry to leave 
the territory with his sultry young wife 
ага Rush) and a mysterious satchel 

t sags under the weight of those em- 
bezzled Government funds—remember? 
miliarity breeds 
when the 


content, however, 
ion moves so swiftly that all 


e passengers begin to spill the venom 
in their sacs. With one bloody crisis after 
another, from treachery on the trail to а 


duel of nerves at an abandoned mine 
site, it may sound churlish to complain 
that director Martin (Hud) Ritt seems 
oddly willing to break the rhythm of a 
trim frontier thriller with Messages. 
Every crisp comeback springs from a set 
of racial and social attitudes clearly 
dated 1967, until one wonders whether 
these scrappy pioneers have really been 
sent out just to slip in word for civil 
rights. 


In Persona, the frosty white glare of 
Ingmar Bergman's genius sputters away, 
all but snulled out by the high wind of 
language. To convey some rather com- 
monplace ideas about loneliness, desp 
ack of communication, the wı 
director overworks words and uses 
tures mostly as marginal notes. Hav 
ed his last serious question about God 
in Winter Light and having bleakly 
spelled out alternatives in The Silence, 
he can’t seem to find a subject equal to 
his malaise. So we are left with quasi- 
intellectual doodling in monolog form. 
The speaker is a nurse (Bibi Andersson), 
cooped up in a lonely cottage beside the 
Baltic with a famous young actress (Liv 
n) who cannot, or will not, utter 


gs down 
occasionally has о be 
deduced from Bibi’s blather, since talk 
appears to be the recommended therapy. 
Deserabbled, several thousand words 
reveal that all the world's a stage and 
that all the roles assigned the wretched 
players—wife, mother, artist, lover— 
are equally meaningless. Bergman's cam 
era raises some smoke with split-screen 
segments and  superimpositions and 

ian-Ieaning “dream” sequences—but 
two dull characters don't become а whit 
interesting with their identities 
merged. The liveliest scene in the film is 
B.bi’s explicit account of a litle im 
promptu. beach orgy she once enjoyed. 
Pointless, like life itself. But relatively 
easy to attend. 


more 


Despite a doggedly unoriginal tide. 
Divorce American Style cuis. through the 
gloss of formula sex comedy with more 
impudence than Hollywood usually mus 
ters. A godawful opening gag is sepi- 
rated from a love-in-bloom ending by a 
symphony of marital dissonance in 
which many dry sativical notes resound. 
The upper-crass California community 
selected for study consists of $49,000 


broken homes, occupied by highly flex- 
ible family units thriving on alimony— 
the tie that binds. Debbie Reynolds di- 
vorces Dick Van Dyke for no particular 
reason except that they have been mar- 
ried a Jong, Jong time. While Van John- 
son courts Debbie and the kids, Dick, 
reduced to $87.30 a week, bunks with a 
svelte divorcée (Jean Simmons). Jean's ex 
(Jason Robards) wants to marry her ой 
because he is both alimony-poor and 
allianced to an impatient miss whose 
motherhood appears imminent. Robards 
customarily attacks a farcical role 
though he had set his heart on pli 
Strindberg; but here the hard-milled hu- 
mor of scenarist Norman Lear gives him 
something to chew on, and he chews 
with gusto. Most memorable scene is а 
gay melee about Sunday visiting rights, 
when three civilized men and a woman 
representing any number of past and 
present marriages—uy to divide their 
uncounted progeny among several cars 
according to name, rank and terms of 
custody. АП in all, a wideawake sleeper. 


Lenny Bruce, filmed at San Francisco's 
Basin Street West in 1965, is 
item: опе of Bruce's rare performances 


collector's 


anywhere in the months before he died 
bankrupt last year, and the only complete 
night-dub performance he ever spat and 
polished for the startled eye of a camera 
His abrasive, hilarious, nonstop flow of 
social comment rings in tragic overtones 
now, for many of the battles Bruce died 
fighting have been won, even in films 
(see Dutchman and Ulysses reviews in 
this issue). Court transcript at hand, feint- 
ing and jabbing behind what looks like 
a 40-wai spotlight, Lenny blasts off 
with a brilliant. turn based on his New 
York arrest and conviction on obscenity 
charges, playing every role in that “com. 
edy of errors" from judge and jury to 
witnesses for the oflense. Not all of his 
are relevant, but he proves himself 
irist whose nearly Joycean ratatat 
tat of language can triple-tongue pissshit- 
tits into a darion ay. In cont 

essential defense is both 
stabbingly precise. “There 
ence,” snaps Lenny, “between a big piece 
of art with a little shit in the middle, and 
a big piece of shit with a little art in the 
middle.” As a footnote to history, or as 
a posthumorous sting from the hooded 
cobra of the club-ircuit downs, Lenny 
Bruce on film is blue, crude, pertinent, 
personal, outrageous and the most poign 
ant short comedy of the Sixties. 


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Neither rain nor hail nor sleet nor the 
swiftly spinning shade of William Shake 
speare will audiences from the 
Burton-Zeffirelli production of The Taming 
of the Shrew. Why resist? The movie is a 
news event—another colorful episode 
in the lives of Elizabeth Taylor. and 
Richard Burton, whose supposed follies 


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happen to fit into a comedy from the 

first folio. Burton's Petruchio is a ringer 

for He VIH, played with broad 

and boozy license. Elizabeth's Kate is a 

bosom heaving with feminist wiles rather 

“ ik d than congenital bad temper. She clearly 
А cool guy like me needs more adores the brute and lets him tame her 


just to prolong the fun. Director Franco 


than just the underarm bit. Zeffirelli, loyal to the trampoline school 


of classic comedy, strives mightily to dem- 


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It’s cool—all over. dE rein Sic andi n 

roll in the woolshed, some 

th a trap door, acrobatics on 

ng trapeze and a rooftop chase. 

For better or worse, this gaudy Shrew is 

as hard to ignore as a collection of crown 

jewels. The royal rowdies of filmdom may 

not have quite everything, but there is 
glitter in everything they've got. 


2 


THEATER 


Robert Anderson is a gentleman play- 


talc wright, but good manners don't mean 
ET . = beans at the box office. Not since Tea 
0 and Sympathy has he had a Broadway hit. 
D This time he decided to confound the 
pigeonholers and write offbeat, and а 
little offcolor—dirty enough to wow the 
suburbanites, but not too crude for the 
prudes, The result, four oncact sex 
comedies, collected as You Know 1 Can't 
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him. His producer is dubious, calls in a 
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play him. The actor, in Martin Balsam's 
superbly comic performance, turns out to 
be superpliant. In the second play, Bal- 
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overthe-pill wife (Eileen Heckart). He 
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double. she flirts with him, he spies, 
probably for the first time in his life. the 
joys of infidelity. The moment is mag- 
nificent, and so is Balsam. All the actors 
are funny, and the direction by Akin 
Schneider is pleasantly understaged, But 
it is Balsam who finds acres of comedy 
between the lines. An earnest Eve 
with a doughy face and a look of abject 
humility, he is the great Americ 
schnook. When he is on stage, he makes 
the evening scem consequential. At the 
Ambassador, 215 West 49th Street, 


RECORDINGS 


Carmen McRae 
ter. Her latest LP, In Person / San Francisco 
(M. am), is a beauty. Backed by 


trie—pianist Norman. Simmons, 
Victor Sproles (who is only sensation 
and drummer Stewart Martin—Miss Mc 
Rae waxes eloquently lyrical on the likes 
of What Kind of Fool Am Р, A Foggy 
Day, This Is All 1 Ask and It Never 
Entered My Mind. 


Herbie Mann / Impressions of the Middle East 
(Atlantic) the eminent jazz flutist 
plunked down in one of his favorite 
milieus. The groups behind him vary 
in size (there's a string orchestra on Eli 
Eli) and Herbie has written some original 
for the ос n u e in contr 
plete harmony with the waditional melo- 
dics оп hand, The туйиш are hypnotic, 
the melodi ncs fascinating, the session 
a complete success. 


The new-rock record bin resembles 
а horn of plenty this month. In Neon 
(Columbia), the Cyrkle pursues its combi- 
of smooth early Sixties vocal styl- 
ngs and au courant instrumentation. All 
the cuts are exciting. but Weight of Your 
Words and 1 Wish You Could Be Here 
stand out. The Hit Sound of the Everly 
Brothers (Warner Bros.) features the Nash- 
ville duo in their best offering in several 
years. Let's Go Get Stoned, The House 
of the Rising Sun and Trains and Boats 
and Planes pace a set that should surprise 
even their most devored fans. Peter and 
Gordon, meanwhile, have emerged from 
their long apprenticeship to the Everlys 
and the Beatles. In Knight in Rusty Armour 
(Capitol), their seventh LP, they trip 
through a solid collection led oll by their 
big-hit title tune and including evocative 
dings of Phil Ochs’ The Flower Lady 
and Jackie De Shannon's A Boy with 
Nothing. Combining diverse influences— 
blues. jug bands, the Lovin’ Spoonful 
and traditional folk—to come up with 
a style of their own are The Rainy Daze, 
who debut with That Acapulco Gold (Un: 
versal City). The group performs exce! 
lently on such ditties as For What It’s 
Worth and In My Mind Lives a Forest, 
Finally. the Byrds have their most 


natio 


те 


winning outing yet in Younger than Yester- 
day (Columbia). Although heavily folk- 
rock oriented, the aggregation engages in 
some of the most controlled and success- 
ful experiments with electronic sounds. 
All the songs are worth a listen, but it 
should be noted that the Byrds’ recent 
hit, 5o You Want to Be a Rock-n’-Roll 
Star, is present and accounted for, 


e of scenery is almost always 
benelicial. Encounter: The Swingle Singers 
Perform with the Modern Jazz Quartet (Phil- 
ips) melds two of musicdom's most enter- 
€ groups and the 
more than equal to the pares. 
Four of the numbers are from the pen 
of the MJQ’s John Lewis and represent 
the Swingles first venture into the con- 


5 Milt Jack: 00 is rem 
A delight from beginning to end. 
The Zimbo Trio, whom we've 
tioned before in glowing terms, is back 
with The Brazilian Sound / Restrained Excite. 
ment (Pacific Jazz). The trio proffers high- 
powered bossa nova, adding a decidedly 
jazz feeling to such familiar sonnets from 
the Portuguese as Favela, Tristeza and 
Agua de Beber 


men 


Sammy Davis, Jr. /That's All! (Reprise) 
leaves almost nothing for Samele to do 
lor an encore. ? album recorded 
at The S: Las Vegas, it has 
his bounti- 
ful bag for the audience—vocals, humor, 
mimicry; Davis delivers all. Among the 
many highlights: an nmensely imagi 
tive medley that ranges from Dang Me 
to The Lady Is a Tramp, and an imi 
tion of W. C. Fields singing One for Му 
Baby that is ийсапи 


Nothing in the past had prepared us for 
the brilliant sound that pours forth from 
the Melodiya / Angel recording of Suav 
sky's L'Hi du Soldat—Suire coupled with 
Prokofiev's Quintet, Op. 39, for Oboe, Clari- 
met, Violin, Viola & Bass. Recorded in the 
U.S, S.R., it is a revelation in terms of 
Russian audio engincering. The worl 
performed by a chamber ensemble under 
nnady Rozhdestvensky аге absorbing 
in their own right: as captured on this 
LP, they're dazzling 


Take your choice—Aznavour in Eng- 
lish or in French. His Kind of Love Songs 
(Reprise) is two sides of the former, with 
charmer Charles dishing up his own spe- 
Gal brand of Gallic Weltschmerz, and 
what little his lyrics lose in their transl. 
tion to the English is more than made up 
in his delightful pronunciation of the 
words. The Very Best of Aznavour (Monu- 
ment) is all French—a rerecording of 
ballads he etched carly in his carcer 
—and frankly fabulous. Included is 


Aznavours moving rendition of thc 
French lyrics he set to the oldie Jezebel. 
France's most famous yé-yé girl, Francoise 
Hardy, can be heard to advantage on 
Je Vous Aime (1 Corners of the World) 
Mile. Hardy does wonders with a minus- 
cule voice that is perfectly at home with 
ballad or big beat. You really don’t have 
to know the language to dig the dozen 
lilts on the LP. La Hardy is formidable. 
Except for Pyramid (circa 1938), there's 
bly nothing on Duke Ellington's Great- 
(Reprise) that you haven't heard 
mes before; but it’s a tribute to 
man and the orchestra that one's 
terest never flags at amy point im the 
auditing. Don't Get Around Much Any 
more, Creole Love Call, Things Ain't 
What They Used to Be, Echoes of Hai 
Tem and solos by the Messrs. Hodges, V 
liams nce—all sound mint fresh. 


5 years old? Would 
composes all her ow 

ages, plays guitar and sings in 
reminds listeners of 
ackie De Shannon? 
ll idea of the tal- 
ent evidenced in the first album by Janis 
lan (Verve Folkways). The seve 
notable entries (Society's Child. Go ‘Way 
Little Girl, Pro-Girl, Janey's Blues and 
New Christ Cardiac Hero). Miss lan 
displays a highly developed poetic and 
melodic sense. Older, but no less accom. 
plished, is Sandy Posey, whose single re- 
lease of Single Gir! (MGM) was a big hit. 
Others done in the potent Posey manner 
include the pensive Гис Been Loving 
You Too Long and the swinging 4 Place 
in the Sun. 


you beli 


Collins and 


Jud: 
"Then you have some s 


The Jazz Moss by Joe Masters (Colum 
under 
Chure 
musi 


а) 
nes the appropriateness of the 
new 


г recent pronouncement t) 

modes should be “held in honor, 
encouraged and used as the occasion de 
Masters’ work is obviously 
of love—and love, as the man s 
is what it's all about. The instrume 
ists, and the choral group under the di 
rection of Allan Davies, are inspired. 
One small jarring note: Buried in tiny 
type amidst the liner copy is the credit, 
"The Mass is BMI.” 


Froncis Albert Sinatra and Antonio Carlos 
Jobim (Reprise) adds the bossa nova to 
the Jong list of musical items the Chair 
man of the Board has under lock and key 
Composer-guitarist-vocalist Jobim joins 
Sinatra on four of the album's tunes 
(Frank does seven Jobim-penned tone 
poems in all—hlling out the LP with 
beautilully Brazilianized versions of 
Baubles, Bangles and Beads, I Goncen- 
trate on You and Ghange Partners). The 
mood is whisper-soft, but you can hear the 
loud ringa-ding of success throughout. 


Barracuda: wild to чё 


Barracuda's winning ways spell doom 
tor an entire cily. Dullsville. 

Pity. Life in Dullsville was so un- 
complicated. ("Sure I'd like a sports 
car. But | can't afford one") 

Then Barracuda had to bollix things 
up. With three wild ones guaranteed 
to cure the drearies. 

A fastback. A convertible. And а 
$2449 hardtop — America's lowest 
priced sports car. (Repeat: sports car, 
not sporty car. Barracuda delivers.) 

Proof? Find a quick stretch of road 


Downshift. Flick the wheel. With tor- 
sion-bar suspension, you don't corner, 
you carve. Clean. Confident. 

Scan the instruments. They're 
gauges, not warning lights. Readable 
at a glance. 

Now—track toward the sun. If you 
chose the optional 273 or 383 V-8 
with Formula S Package, you've made 
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Chase the horizon. A smile round 
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THE PLAYBOY ADVISOR 


Bam stationed with the Navy in the 
Philippines and have set up housckeep- 
ing with a girl here (a very common 
practice and one in which I see no harm 
at all). 1 have written to my girllriend 
back home in East Peoria, Illinois, sug- 
gesting that we do the same when 1 get 
back. She is completely against the idea, 
even though she has no objections to 
sleeping with me before marriage, Should 
1 make an issue of her refusal?—D. C., 
FPO San Francisco, California. 

Your girl has enough common sense to 
know that what may be "common prac- 
tice” in the Philippines is а common 
taboo in rural America (where you ap- 
parently intend to play house). We sug- 
gest that, to avoid embarrassment for all, 
you do as the natives (American natives, 
that is) do: maintain separate residences, 
pull down the shades and realize that 
discretion is the better part of amour. 


ast week I attended а jazz concert fea- 
turing a well-known quintet. While the 
audience applauded each member of the 
group after his solo, they did not do so 
for the leader when he soloed, 15 it cor- 
rect jazz etiquette to reserve applause 
for the group leader until the end of the 
piece?—J. J. D., San Diego, California. 
No. Applause for a solo is given when- 
ever the audience thinks the performer 
deserves it, regardless of who has the spot 
light. In this case, either the listeners 
weren't grooving—or the leader wasn't 


О). vacation in Munich this year, I 
picked up a strangelooking bottle of liq- 
uor, the contents of which tasted a little 
like mint-flavored after-shave lotion. The 
label reads, "A. Riemerschmid, Munich, 
56 Volo. Escorial Grün." Can you 
identify this type of liquor and tell me 
how it should be served?—S. R., Dear- 
born, Michigan 

Escorial is a German version of Char- 
treuse (an herb liqueur produced by the 
Carthusian monks). Available in yellow 
at 86 proof and green (Grün) at 112 
proof, it should be served straight in 
liqueur glasses as an after-dinner drink. 


WB, problem is that I can't seem to fall 
in love. I am а 19-year-old male college 
sophomore. I find great girls to go t0 bed 
with; but, although I feel friendly and 
kindly disposed toward them afterward, 
I have none of the deeper and more last 


ing feelings that are supposed to be part 
of be 


ag in love. I can enjoy a sex session 
very much and yet not care whether I 
make it with that girl again or with a 


different chick. The Playboy Philosophy 
contends that sex without love is inferior 
to sex with love. Why don't you give 
some instructions on how to achieve the 
lauer?—J. K., Fairfield, lov 


The Chinese have a parable about 


“the man who wanted to help the corn 
grow." He went out into the field and 
pulled the stalks, killing them. The mor 
al is: Growth is a natural process; don't 


try to rush it. Although sex with lave is 


certainly superior to sex without love, 
sincerity is also superior to insincerity; 


o-do-it. instruc 


and the idea that how 


tions on falling in love are possible 
might empl you to pretend or force а 
love that isn’t real. Being honest and 
relaxed about your feelings with yourself 
and your sexual partners is more likely 
to provide a propitious climate for a 
deeper relationship, when appropriate, 
to develop. Let it happen by itself, in its 


own good time, 


Ё am thinking of buying a transistor 
stereo amplifier with about 60 watts per 
channel and I want to double it as a gui- 
tar amplifier for a band and possibly even 
run an electric bass through it. I have 12 
inch hifi speakers, but I would like to 
know if the high power of an electric gui- 
tar will damage the components in a 
high-fidelity amplifier of the type I de- 
scribed. Whats your opinion?—J. W., 
Westminster, Maryland: 

A 60-watt-per-channel transistor stereo 
amplifier will sland the load, but chances 
ате your speakers won'l. Not only do you 
run ihe risk of blowing the sound cones, 
but the sensitivity of regular hi-fi speakers 
will magnify out of proportion some of 
the weirder noises from your guitar. And 
when you rehook your speakers to your 
you may find you've lost some 
of the fidelity, thus leaving them unfit for 
either your hi-fi or your band. Don't risk 
blowing your speakers; pick up a set of 
extra-heary-duty speakers that arc. spe- 
cifically designed [or use with electrically 
amplified instruments. 


В have a mediumsized stock of pure- 
cashmere sweaters, and although they 
are supposedly of good quality (usually 
around 545), they continue to “pill 
in other words, the fuzz gathers into little 
balls, Is there anything that can be done? 
—5. T., Albany, California. 

Almost all. sweaters—pure cashmere 
and otherwise—will pill to some degree 
To keep your collection in top-drawer 
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Tro summers ago I spent my vacation 
in California and, shortly before I was to 
return to the East, I had a blind date 
with a girl. She had just broken up with 
somebody, and I also needed someone to 
whom [ could turn. Under these circum- 
stances, we became involved with each 
other. We got along marvelously, with 
mo hesitation or shyness whatsoever. 
Neither of us had ever had such an еп. 
joyabl ad harmonious relationship. We 
had three wonderful days together. We 
haven't seen cach other since, although 
we have corresponded and talked oft 
over the phone. We are both history m: 
jors and share a lot of interests. She is 
coming East shortly and is aware of the 
intensity of my feelings. But evidently 
the two years that have passed have di- 
minished her feeling of the sublimity of 


our experience together. She dismays me 
by saying that we have to wait and sce if 


"we've got what it takes." I don't want to 
give up or imperil what we have had to- 
ether, and I'm not sure how I should go 
about re-establishing the bond. I am 22 
and not particularly aggresive, especial- 
ly with people I think highly of. How 
cm I catch her—T. P. Blacksburg, 
Virginia. 

“Three marvelous days” are not а safe 
foundation for predicting an idyllic re- 
union two years later, The girl, showing 


commendable insight, evidenily can dis 
cern in your communications that you 
expect the new meeting to be exactly like 
the California interlude, and she's sen- 
sitive enough to brace you for a letdown. 
But don't take the gas pipe yet; the fact 
that she's crossing the continent and 
wants Lo sec you again is solid evidence 
that she hasn't cooled entirely. She is 
merely hip to the fact that you both have 
a lot to learn about each other. Look 
forward to the learning as an adventure; 
don’t hill it by preprograming the re- 
union as a тетип of the California caper. 


Wits your opinion of pipe smok 
ing by females-—Miss R. C., Durand, 
Michigan 

Depends. We don't dig dista] pipe 
smoking in public when a comely puffer 
uses it as a ploy to attract attention. But 
in private or in the company of friends, 
we've no objection to the practice; Dun- 
hill and other top-notch pipe makers 
now market a variety of petite pipes de- 
signed especially for the fair sex. 


Ши: a year ago, 1 was involved with 
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id has told me that he will marry 
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C. Y., San Jose, California, 

Regardless of your pleading, your 
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learned this before marriage. 


Because of the coil and the pill, the 
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F. T., Bronx, New York. 

Poorly. Mankind has tried various 
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the act of birth was first associaled with 
sexual intercourse. Coitus interruptus 
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spilling of his sed, formerly mistaken 
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W have been going steady with the same 
guy for over two years. He claims I'm 
the most beautiful girl in the world and 
that he loves me very much. He is 24 
and I am 20. A few months ago we start- 
ed having trouble controlling our cmo- 
tions and had intercourse several times. 

frerward I felt very cheap and low. Е 
the last month I have refused to h 
tions unul we are marricd, which 
"t be for at least three years, for eco 
nomic reasons. I've been brought up to 
believe that intercourse is sacred and 
only for married people. but I've also 
heard that it isn't wrong before mar- 
riage. Should I allow it, or am 1 right in 
ss M. M., Philadelphia, 


cai 


Nobody can answer your question but 
yourself. The “rightness” or "wrongness" 
of sex before marriage (as with any per- 
sonal moral decision) depends not on 
abstract judgments but on the attitudes 
of the people involved, as well as on the 
circumstances of their relationship. Per 
haps we can help analyze yours: 

Favoring the resumption of sexual re- 
lations with your fiancé is the realization 
that, if you abstain from intercourse for 
three years, you'll risk ciealing serious 
strains and conflicts in your relationship. 
These might drive the two of you apart, 
or they might impel you to an earlier 
marriage than economic circumstances 
warrant (which could be disastrous). 

On the other hand, because you were 
“brought up to believe that intercourse 
i5... only for married people,” you feel 
“cheap” when your actions are opposed to 
your religious and moral training. This is 
because you are emotionally committed 
to that training; and no matter what you 
may come to think about premarital sex, 
it is wrong—for you—as long as you feel 
it is wrong. Your negative emotional re- 
action to intercourse could create strains 
as great as those of abstention and could 
hinder sexual adjustment both before and 
(should the relationship survive) after 
marriag. 

In making your decision, whatever it 
may be, you cannot ignore your deeply 
inhibiting. attitudes. You must either 
change them (perhaps with professional 
help) or learn to accommodate them. 
Neither course is an easy one, and both 
will require the understanding and co- 
operation of your fiance. 


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an interchange of ideas between reader and editor 
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INVISIBLE FILTH 

Lots of letters on censorship have 
appeared in The Playboy Forum and 
many have been sidesplitting; but this 
anonymous letter—published in our lo- 
cal paper, The Hamilton Spectator— 
will surely rate number one on the 
absurdity parade: 


[Recently] my daughter, her two 
children and I watched "The Sce- 
Through Man," an episode of The 
Avengers series 

In some scenes, the invisible man 
was depicted by an empty set of 
clothes walking around. 

Yet in other scenes, there were 
no clothes at all—it was obvious the 
man must be naked. J have never 
been so disgusted, and promptly 
ched the television off. 

When the Board of Broadcast 
Governors sanctions filth of this 
kind for the viewing of teenagers, 
many of whom I am sure were 
watching this spy thriller, some- 
thing must be wrong in Ottawa. It 
is your duty to urge action to pre- 
vent such trash as this from dirtying 
the morals of our children. 


Joe Karmar 
Hamilton, Ontario 


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TOPLESS VIRTUE 

Toples gogo girls were recently in- 
troduced into two Roanoke, Virginia, 
night spots, with the result that several 
profesional moralists began shouting 
that the decline and fall of the republic 
was upon us. Thereupon. а citizen wrote 
to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, point- 
ing out that the state seal has been, since 
time immemorial, a topless girl (Virtus, 
or Virtue) standing over a fallen man 
(Tyranny), with the slogan stc sEMPER 
TYRANNIS. The result? Another group of 
moralists is now crusading to have the 
state seal changed. 

If Virtus must. be confined within a 
bra, who is next? The Venus de Milo? 
k Johnson 
Washington, D. C. 


OBSCENE ANIMALS 

Under section 2292 of the Mississippi 
obscenity laws, it is ordained that "a pei 
son shall not keep a stallion or jack 
nearer than 100 yards to a church," under 
penalty of a $25 fine. 

‘The mind of the puritan is a strange 
and fascinating thing. In Mississippi, a 


stallion 100 yards from a church is pure 
as the driven snow, but after moving 
an inch closer, the same animal becomes 
obscene. 
George Webber 
Miami, Florida 


CENSORSHIP BY SIZE 

Readers of the. Minneapolis Morning 
Tribune had the absurdity of censorship 
brought home to them by means of a 
brilliant journalistic trick. A pornog- 
raphy Jaw has been proposed in Min- 
nésota that would prohibit the display 
of the female breast "with less than 
fully opaque covering of any portion 
thereof below the top of the nippl 
a column discussing pornography 
porter Robert W. Smith induded a 
photograph of a pair of mammae, com 
pletely nude, nipples prominently dis- 
played. Some readers were merely curious 
as 10 whose breasts they were: some were 
indignant at such “obscenity”: and no 
doubt some had their prurient interest 
aroused. The following week, the column. 
carried the complete picture. As it turned 
ош, the pruriently arousing "breasts 
were the welldeveloped chest of former 
actor and championship swimmer 
Johnny Weissmuller. Commented Smith: 


If male chests and female breasts 
e indistinguishable and if the 
naked female breast, by the anti- 
pornographs’ definition, inevitably is 
pruriently stimulating and harmful 
to public morals, some tightening up, 
some refining of our decency statutes 
is called for 
Suppose we define 


s "harmful 
е mamma as such bu 
all human mammae above a certain 


not the fer 


«пса! size . . . 

Then anyone, woman or min— 
such as Johnny Weissmuller, per 
haps—possessing mammae measuring 
over а certain cubic centimeterage 
would be required to cover up 
public. Probably, to be consistent and 
fair, we would have to allow any- 
one with less-than-critical mammae— 
including women—to go topless . . . 


Mrs. A. G 
Minneapolis, Minnesota 


POSTAL PUZZLEMENT 

The Dayton Daily News has been 
running a series on those intrepid postal 
Inspectors who so gallantly defend us 
nst moral decay by devoting thei 


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lives to reading dirty letters. At one 
point, the newspaper asked U.S. Attor- 
ney Roger Makley to cxplain what a 
citizen might safely mail (and receive) 
without fear of prosecution. Makley re- 
fused, saying, “If I set down my guide- 
lines for publication, people would sort 
of get the idea of what they can get away 
wi 


Isn't this a 198fish approach to law? 


The government in Orwell's fantasy 
deliberately lured the citizens into 
“thoughtcrime” in order to have an 


excuse to punish them. This part of 
the book—implying that totalitarianism 
grows directly out of sadistic and evil 


ays seemed to me the 
art of Orwell's satire, but now 
It is evidently 
law 


ming to wonde 
lys belief that 

should be a series of puzzles, 
that the maximum number of fish 
fall into its net. I always thought Jaw 
was a device set up to protect the ci 
zens, not a maze in which to trap them 
Roger Pelleg 
Dayton, Ohio 


the 


BEAUTY OF CERTAINTY 

Lord Coke once said that “the beauty 
of the law is the known certainty there- 
oL" Considering what the Supreme 
Court. has done to our laws in the 
of censorship, we may say that their 
beauty is like unto a maiden with a glass 
eye, a wooden leg, three arms, an ill- 
fitting wig and the gait of the Franken 
мей monster, The ugliness of these 
laws, in short, is the known uncertainty 
thereof 


Peter Brooke 
Chicago. Illinois 


HEALTHY SEX 

Anne Barrett obviously forgot her psy- 
chiatric training when she blamed 
PLAYEOY for sex crimes (The Playboy Fo- 
rum, February) She should know that 
most. mental and cmotional disturbances 
stem from infancy or carly childhood 
and grow with the child, My mother 
taught me ye: t sex is good, 
healthy and bi 

When I read rravsoy, I want to curl 
up in a nice warm bed with my husband, 
not run out and stab a few good-looking 
bachelors. 


B. Polson, R. N. 
Seattle, Washington 


SEX EDUCATION AND MENTAL HEALTH 

Someday I will have to sit down with 
my daughter and two sons to stammer 
and sweat out the age-old “birds and 
bees” story. When Im done, I want my 
children to understand that to practice 
sex for its own sake does not afford the 
full joy of an act of love. 


І am appalled to read, in almost 
every major magazine, recommendations 
that ts teach sex to si r-old. 


children. Still morc ridiculous was you 


Forum 


gument in the Februar that 
children who are raised in ignorance of 
sex often become mental cases or sex 
criminals, Did it ever occur to you that 
the older generation, including, virtually 
all of our world leaders, had precisely 
the kind of childhood in which sex edu- 
cation was conspicuously absent? Would 
you say that most of them are mental 
cases? 


R. L. Wergin, Sr. 
Brick Town, New Jersey 

In paraphrasing our February “F 
rum” answer, you have both oversim- 
plified and distorted it, Our statement 
was that a liberal diffusion of sex infor- 
mation would tend to reduce the number 
of sexually aggressive and violent crimi- 
nals, because they “typically come from 
strict religious-moral family backgrounds 
in which sex is hidden and forbidden.” 
Mental illness, of course, vesulis from a 
combination of factors, of which sexual 
miseducation is only one. 

Many psychiatrists estimate that 90 per- 
cent of the population is at least mildly 
neurotic, and this is partly because 
children who have “the kind of child- 
hood in which sex education was con- 
spicuously absent” rarely escape without 
some damage. Too many parents are 
hesitant, nervous or evasive in talking 
about sex, or disapprove of sexual curi- 
osity. They tend to make the child think 
sex is mysterious, perhaps dangerous or 
evil, hence to be associated with fear, 
guilt and punishment. in the absence of 
full and accurate information, the child, 
hungry for answers, will frame his own 
theories about sex. These will most likely 
be erroneous, and may have implications 
that frighten him—for example, that in- 
tercourse hurts women, that the vagina 
can constrict and lock the penis within 
it, thal masturbation. stunts growth, and 
the like. 

Your own anticipated stammering and 
sweating might be expected for a dis- 
cussion of death or bankruptey, but 
hardly for a simple description of love 
and reproduction. This is a classic exam- 
ple of a mildly neurotic reaction to sex. 

What is saddest about your nervous 
anticipation of a "birds and bees” session 
is that it would not be necessary if you 
had talked about the subject naturally 
and honestly all along. As A. 5. Neill, 
headmaster of Summerhill school, ex- 
plains in “Summerhill”: 


Sex instruction should по! be 
necessary for a self-regulated child, 
for the term instruction implies pre- 
vious neglect of the subject. Ij the 
child’s natural curiosity has been 
satisfied all the way by open and 
unemotional answers to all his ques- 
tions, sex will not stand ош as 
something that has to be specially 
taught. . . . The term sex instruc- 
tion springs from the fact that sex 
activity is inhibited and made а 
mystery . .. 


AN AID TO SEX EDUCATION 
You will be flattered to know that 
are receiving respectul attention from 
Canadian educators and clergymen. A 
cording to a story in the Toronto Globe 
and Mail, Laynoy came up for discus- 
sion at a teachers’ convention when an 
unidentified vice-principal said he had 
confiscated the magazine from one of 
his students, He planned to return it, but 
wondered what he should say to the 
hoy. 
‘The first thing Id do would be to 


in our society is one of the greatest 
concerns in education. today, 
The Reverend Morton Рац 
Chatham d with Mr. Lewis, sayi! 
least neurotic ways for boys 
sex roles is through 


thei 


iam K. Gross 
Toronto, Ontario 


PLAYBOY AND THE METHODISTS 

А recent isue of Pace-Make 
page newsletter of the Board of 
Social Concerns of the North-East Ohi 
Confer of the Methodist Church, 
mirely of quot 
xnov. The opening paragraph м 
thar the quotations were printed * 
special service to Methodist ра 
sons in college . . . so you can know 
what your sons are reading.” 

There followed remarks by Lenny 
Bruce (on humane treatment for drug 
addicts, and on religious leaders who 
own more than one suit being “hustle 
Jong as there is someone in the world 
with no suit at all); by Rolf He 

gainst the bombing of civili. 
war; by Dr. Ha 
for revolution in the churches); by Se 
tor Edward Long (opposing the practices 
of bugging and cavesdropping by Gov- 
ernment agencies); by Surrey Mars 
Miss January (on her adr 
bert Schweit 
ley (on the unity of the spec 
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religions). 

Although I have always considered 
rLAYBOY to be very moral (in the true 
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belore realized how close your material 
is to the most orthodox interpretations of 
the Sermon on the Mount. 

Bob Fisher 
Dayton, Ohio 


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"There's no happier hour than five of a summery Friday afternoon. No happier 
words than, "Have a nice weekend." This recipe guide was created to help 
you have even nicer weekends, a more pleasurable summer. 


The tinkle of ice in a tall glass is as much a part of summer as the patio party, 
the picnic or trip to the beach. And the easy-to-make recipes in this barguide 
show you how to enjoy the greatest of all tall drinks as well as most of your 
year-round favorites, Created by expert barmen in famous hotels and restau- 
rants, these drinks are so simple to mix that you'll be an expert yourself on the 
first try. These recipes use all the popular basic liquors: Scotch, Bourbon, gin, 
vodka, rum and Southern Comfort. Work-saving tips are included to make 
warm-weather mixing easier and more fun. 


the basic secret of the pros: 


This one secret of the pros . . . the art of "switching" basic liquors . . . shows 
you how to improve the taste of many drinks. A perfect example is the use of 
Southern Comfort to achieve a smoother, tastier base for your Juleps, Collinses, 
Tonics and other tall drinks. The difference, of course, is in the unique flavor 
of Southern Comfort itself. It adds a deliciousness no other basic liquor can. 
It improves your Manhattans, Old-Fashioneds and Sours the same way. Try 
it yourself. Make one with the regular recipe; then make one with Southern 
Comfort (both recipes for all these drinks are in this guide). Then compare 
them. The improvement will surprise you! 


Tested Tips for Hot Weather Drink Mixing 


Summertime entertaining can be a bother or a breeze . . . depending on how 
you prepare for it. Here’s how the “pros” do it. 


Mix in advance! When you're expecting a crowd, pre-mix by 
the pitcherful. You can mix ingredients for drinks like Collinses, 
Sours, Daiquiris, Manhattans ahead of time. Keep the mix 
cool, Just don't add ice (or soda) until ready to serve, 


Sugar's no problem! Here's the easiest way to 
make sugar dissolve in alcohol—especially when 
serving outdoors. Prepare “simple syrup” in 
advance. Cook 2 cups of granulated sugar with 
1 cup water in double boiler, until dissolved; store 
in a cool place, 1 tspn. syrup equals 1 tspn. sugar. 


LEARN HOW TO IMPROVE MOST DRINKS 


Maka this simpla taste tast! The taste of any mixed drink you make is controlled 
by the flavor of the liquor you use as a base. Once you understand this, you'll 
make better drinks from now on. Prove it to yourself with this simple test. 
Fill three short glasses with cracked ice. Pour a jigger of Scotch or Bourbon 
into one, a jigger of gin into another, a jigger of Southern Comfort into the 
third. Swirl glasses to chill. Then... 


FIRST —sip the whiskey, then the gin. Now do the same with Southern Comfort, 
Sip it, and you've found a completely different liquor — one that actually 
tastes good with nothing added. No wonder so many experts use it instead 
of the conventional liquor called for in many drink recipes. They've found 
that this "switch" improves the taste of most drinks tremendously. In tall 
summer drinks or cocktails, Southern Comfort's unique, delicious flavor 
makes the difference between a good drink and a great one. 

WHAT IS SOUTHERN COMFORT? 

It's a special kind of basic liquor. In the days of old New Orleans one talented 
gentleman was a true perfectionist. Disturbed by the taste of even the finest 
whiskies of his day, he carefully combined rare and delicious ingredients to 
create an unusually smooth, superb liquor. Thus Southern Comfort was 
born! The formula for this 100-proof liquor remains a family secret to this 
day; its delicious taste is still unmatched by any other liquor on the market. 
Try a bottle—taste for yourself how it improves your favorite mixed drink 
-..how good it tastes straight, on the rocks, or in a highball. 


Southern Comfort* is also available in Canada 


Make your own "ісе box.” Fill quart-size 
plastic detergent bottles almost full with 
water; close tightly, and store in refriger- 
ator freezer compartment overnight. Place 
in portable cooler to keep drink mixes and 
foods chilled without ice, 


Time, or teste? When the recipe 
! calls for fruit juice, you can save 
time and trouble with the frozen 
of concentrated product. But 
fresh juice always tastes better 
and adds a tangy fragrance, too. 


Best way to prasarve ice — when 
"traveling" ice cubes to a picnic 
or the beach, do this to retard 
melting: wrap small piece of 
"dry" ice inside a hand towel, 
place on top of cubes inside chest. 


ay. Comfort Collins 


The Collins es mixed the improved way 

at Hotel Fonteinebleau, Miami Beach 

Discover how this simple switch in basic liquor 

will improve your Collinses tremendously. 

. Jigger (1% oz.) Southern Comfort • juice М lime • 7-UP 
Blend Southern Comfort and lime juice in tall 
glass. Add ice cubes, fill with 7-UP, and stir. 


Play it cool with great summer drinks like these! 


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RUM'N COLA 

Juice, rind % lime © 1 jigger light rum © cola 
Squeeze lime over ice cubes in tall glass. Add 
rind, rum, Fill with cola and stir. 

Instead of rum, see what a comfort S.C. is to cota. 


TOM COLLINS 

1 tspn. sugar * % jigger (М oz.) lemon juice 

1 jigger (1% oz.) gin • sparkling water 

Use tall glass; dissolve sugar in juice; add ice 
cubes, gin. Fill with sparkling water. Stir. 
John Collins: Use Bourbon or rye instead of gin. 


PLANTER'S PUNCH 
Juice of 14 lemon © juice of 5 orange 
4 dashes Curacao • 1 jigger (1% oz) Jamaica rum 


Shake; pour into tall glass filled with cracked 
ice. Stir. Decorate with fruit; add straws. 


LEMON COOLER 

Served at El Mirador Hotel, Palm Springs 

1 jigger (1% oz) Southern Comfort 

Schweppe's Bitter Lemon 

Pour Southern Comfort over ice cubes in a 

tall glass. Fill with Bitter Lemon; stir. 

GIN RICKEY 

Juice, rind % lime © 1 jigger gin © sparkling water 

Squeeze lime over ice cubes in 8-02. glass. 

Add rind, gin; fill with sparkling water. Stir. 

Make brandy, rum, Scotch, Bourbon rickeys the same way. 

Or, to really “rev up” the rickey use Southern Comfort. 

WHISKEY SOUR 

% jigger lemon juice • 1 tspn. sugar 

1 jigger (1% oz.) Bourbon or rye 

Shake with cracked ice; strain, Serve with 

orange slice on rim of glass, and cherry. 
*Southern Comfort® 


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Here's how they meke the sour smoother at Anthony's Pier 4, Boston: 


High point in cool refreshment 

et The Broadmoor, Coloredo Springs 
Simple tonic drinks reach the peak of perfec- 
tion, when mixed the Southem Comfort way. 
1 jigger (1% oz.) Southern Comfort 

Juice, rind % lime (optional) * Quinine water (tonic) 
Squeeze lime over ice cubes in a tall glass. 
Add rind and liquor. Fill with tonic and stir. 


Take time out with these simple, long-time fevorites ! 


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GIMLET 

4 parts gin or vodka 

1 part Rose's sweetened lime juice 

Shake with cracked ice; strain into glass. 


BLOOOY MARY 

2 jiggers tomato juice • dash Worcestershire sauce 
1 jigger (1% oz) vodka © % jigger lemon juice 
Salt and pepper to taste. Shake with cracked 
ice and strain into 6-oz. glass. 


MARGARITA 

1 jigger (1% oz.) white Cuervo tequila 

% oz. Triple Sec • 1 02 lime or lemon juice 
Moisten cocktail glass rim with fruit rind; spin 
rim in salt. Shake ingredients with cracked 
ice. Strain into glass; sip over salted edge. 


BCREWORIVER 

1 jigger (1% oz.) vodka * orange juice 

Put two ice cubes into a 6-oz. glass. Add 
vodka; fill with orange juice and stir. 

A new twist: Use Southern Comfort instead of vodka. 


BIN'N TONIC 

Juice, rind % lime • 1 jigger (1% oz.) gin 
Quinine water (tonic) 

Squeeze lime over ice cubes in tall glass. 
Add rind, gin; fill with tonic. Stir. 

Vodka ‘n tonic: Use vodka instead of gin. 


MANHATTAN 

% oz. Italian (sweet) vermouth 

1 jigger (1% oz.) Bourbon or rye 

Dash Angostura bitters (optional) 

Stir with cracked ice, strain; add cherry. 
Rob Roy (Scotch Manhattan): 2 oz. Scotch, 1 oz. vermouth, 
bitters; mix as above. Serve with twist of lemon peel. 


*Southern Comfort? 


Comfort 
Manhattan 


Sun-lover's choice et Sheraton's 
Royal Hawaiian Hotel, Honolulu 


Just pool Southern Comfort's talent with your | 
own . . . and watch your friends dive in, 


Juice % lime • 1% oz. Southern Comfort © pineapple juice 


Pack tall glass with crushed ice; add lime juice 
and S.C. Fill with pineapple juice and stir. 


Easily mixed cocktails leave time to mix with guests! 


p DRY MARTINI 
1 part French (dry) vermouth © 4 parts gin or vodka 
Stir with cracked ice; strain into chilled 
cocktail glass, Add green olive, pearl onion 
or twist of lemon peel. 


DAIGUIRI 

Juice % lime ог % lemon • 1 tspn. sugar 

1 jigger (1% oz.) light rum 

Shake with cracked ice until shaker frosts; 
strain into cocktail glass. 

Give your Daiquiri 2 new accent; use Southern Comfort instead 
of rum with only Y, tspn. sugar. 

SCARLETT D'HARA 

As served at Antoine's, New Orleans 

1 jigger (1% oz.) Southern Comfort 

1 jigger Ocean Spray cranberry juice cocktail 

Juice ' fresh lime 

Shake well with cracked ice; strain into a 
chilled cocktail glass. 


ALEXANDER 


X oz. fresh cream • % oz. creme de cacao 
1% oz. Southern Comfort or gin or brandy 


Shake with cracked ice; strain into glass. 


GRASSHDPPER 

% от. fresh cream * 1 oz. white creme de cacao 

1 oz. green creme de menthe 

Shake with cracked ice or mix in electric 
blender. Strain into cocktail glass. 


OLD-FASHIONED 
Dash Angostura bitters © 1 tspn. sugar 
M oz. water © 1 jigger (1% oz.) Bourbon or rye 


Stir bitters, sugar, water in glass; add ice 
cubes, liquor. Top with orange slice, cherry. 


*Southern Comfort® 
The Hotels Ambessador, Chicago, make an even better Old-Fashioned: 


Comfort 
Old-Fashioned 


Symbol of gracious hospitality 

at the Brown Hotel, Louisville 

Welcome your guests with this great drink . . . 
as served in the city where juleps were born. 
4 sprigs mint ® dash water ® 2 oz. Southern Comfort 
Use tall glass; crush mint in water. Pack with 
cracked ice; pour in S.C. and stir until frosted. 
Bourbon julep: Add 1 tspn. sugar to mint; Bourbon replaces S.C. 


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COFFEE 
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Enjoy a perfect coffee liqueur—with 
true coffee flavor. It's ideal as an 
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with other liqueurs and desserts. Its 
secret formula uses imported coffee 
of finest quality. 


BLACK RUBBIAN 
у jigger (% oz) Coffee Southern • 1 jigg 
Pour over ice cubes in an Old-Fashioned glass and stir. 
WHITE RUSSIAN 


1 oz. Coffee Southern * 1 oz. vodka * 1 oz. fresh cream 
Pour ingredients over ice cubes in an Old-Fashioned glass. Stir gently. 


COFFEE AND CDINTREAU 
1 part Coffee Southern © 1 part Cointreau 


Pour liqueurs over ice in a short glass; stir gently until chilled. 


JAVA BUNDAE 


1 scoop ice cream (chocolate, vanilla or coffee) * % jigger (34 oz.) Coffee Southern 
Pour Coffee Southern over ice cream in dessert glass or dish. It's delicious! 


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Save on these handsome blue and gold basic glasses. 
Price includes shipping costs. 


(See picture on following page) A. LONG DRINK GLASS YOUR PRICE: 
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вә THE PLAYBOY PANEL: 
RELIGION AND THE NEW MORALITY 


leading liberals of the clergy debate the church’s role in today’s sexual revolution 


PANELISTS 


DR. JAMES LUTHER ADAMS, 65, Professor of 
Christian Ethics at the Harvard Divinity 
School, is the most pro t Unitarian 
theologian in the world. Chairman of the 
Advisory Committee. of Social 
Responsibility of the Unitarian Univer- 
salist Association, he is the author of The 
Changing Reputation of Human Nature, 
Taking Time Seriously and Paul Tillich's 
Philosophy of Culiure, Science, and Re- 
ligion. He п officer of the American 
Civil Li ns for 
Democratic Acti Northern 
Student Мохе official 
2 Vatican. 


Council. 
DR. HARVEY COX, 38, is Associate Professor 
of Church and Society at the Harvard 
y School A native of Chester 
wsylvania, he received his 
15 from the University of 
а in 1951, his B.D. from 
Yale Divinity School in 1955 and his 
Ph.D. in history and philosophy of reli 
gion from Harvard in 1963. Dr. Co: 
ordained by the Baptist 1956, 
is the author of the theologi. seller 
he Secular City and has contributed 
icles 10 such magazines as Common- 
weal, Harper's, Redbook and Saturday 
Review, In April 1961, for Christianity 
and Crisis, he wrote a celebrated critique 
of PLAYBOY that led to subsequent appear- 
ances om various public platforms and 
levision panels on which he debated 
The Playboy Philosophy with Editor- 
Publisher Hugh M. Hefner, and to an 
article for rLayboy (January 1967) on 
the Revolt in the Church. 
DR. ROBERT WOOD LYNN, 


Pennsyly 


was 


dean of The 


Auburn Program at Union Theological 
Seminary in New York, received his 
A.B. magna cum laude from Prince- 


ton in 1948, his B.D. from Yale Di: 
School in 1952 and his Doctor of 
Theology from Union Theological Sem- 
п 1962. After serving in the 
Amy from 1943 to 1945, he was or- 
dained in the Presbyterian Church in 
became ant profesor at 
Union in 1 ted full 
professor in 1965, The author of Protes- 
tant Strategies in Education, he is also 
a member of the editorial board of Chris- 
lianity and Crisis and a contributor to 
Spiritual Through Personal 
Groups and The Search for Identity. 


and was арр 


теша 


DR. MARTIN E. MARTY, 30, n ord. ed 
minister in the Lutheran Church (Mis 
souri Synod), served in the parish minis- 
uv for a decade before joining the 
faculty of the University of Chicago 
Divinity School, where he is Associate 
Professor of Modern Church Histor 


tury and co-editor of an annual an- 
thology titled New Theology. he is the 
most prolific and widely quoted of con- 
temporary church histor mong his 
m: works are A Short History of 
Christianity. The New Shape of Ameri- 
can Religion, The Hidden Discipline 
and Varieties of Unbelief. 

THE REVEREND HOWARD MOODY, 46, United 
Church of Christ, received. his B.D. 
from Yale Divinity School. After serv- 
ing in the U.S. Marines from 1941 to 
1945 (and receiving the Air Medal in 
the Solomon Islands campaign). he as- 
sumed the pulpit of the Judson Memorial 
Church in Greenwich Village. Under his 
leadership, this progressive church has 
been the subject of numerous magazine 
ides and several television programs. 
One of Moody's church-sponsored proj- 
ects, The Judson Poets’ Theater, received. 
five Obies (annual awards for off-B 
way plays) during the 1963-1 
tason. The Reverend Moody 
the struggle for more humane 


ence on Narcotics Addiction. He has 
so been on the faculty of the New 
School for Social Research and is the au- 
thor of The Fourth Man, an 
h between m 
nd his scientifi 
elect. 

DR. ALLEN J. MOORE, 39, is Dean of Stu- 
dents and Associate Professor of Chris- 
Education at the School of Theology 
Claremont, Califor He received 
B.D. in 1953 from Perkins School of 
Theology at Southern Methodist Univer- 
sity. was ordained into the Methodist 
ministry in 1953 and received his Ph.D. 
in 1963 from Boston University. For five 
years before assuming his present posi- 
tion, Dr. Moore was National Director 
of The Methodist Young Adult Work 
and Young Adult Research Project. He 
has also been active in studying the 
chu strategy for dealing with the 
problems of sex and marriage in a chang- 
ing society, and is now deeply involved 


Moony: dre we able to say with assur- 
ance that all extramarital sex is destruc- 
tive? Most men engaged in counseling 
know there are situations in which extra- 
marital affairs have saved marriages. 


ROGERS: We should not concern ourselves 
too much with censorship for adults. 
Our emphasis should be on educating 
rather than coercing the public. The only 
effective censorship is self-censorship. 


RUBEN 


an: Although there is more sex- 
ual activity on campus than when I was 
in college, today's relationships are usu- 
ally much more responsible than the more 
lurid journalistic accounts would suggest. 


cox: It is wrong to insist that always, 
and with every unmarried couple, inter- 
course is wrong. There are instances 
in which it would be not only per- 
missible but advisable before marriage. 


55 


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a premature commilment. 


much of a problem as no commitment. 


MARTY: 
Cox wrote criticizing 
personali 
how incongruous it w 


vm 


we’ 


stance. 
conte 


Decisions ought to be 
ually, situationally, т 


AbaMs: Physical intimacy can be e 


56 


Lynn: Many people feel it’s necessary, 
once they've experienced the full sexual 
relationship with each other, to make 
This is as 


When I read that article Harvey 
Lavnoy for de- 
ing women, it occurred to me 
The church has 
been depersonalizing women for centuries, 


moore: T approve of abortion. If two 
people are not willing and ready emotion- 
ally, psychologically or economically to 
enter into parenthood, they should have 
the right to terminate a pregnancy. 


PIKE: P can’t buy the codifiers who say 
e got a set of rules telling us what 
is right and wrong under every circum- 
made 
sponsibly. 


hila- 
rating, but il can be deceptive when it 
gives an illusion of intimacy that doesn't 
really exist. Physical intimacy shouldn't 
be confused with depth of relationship. 


in research. on the problems of ethics in 
an urban culture. 

THE RIGHT REVEREND JAMES A. PIKE, 54, for- 
merly Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of 
California, is now on the staff of the 
Center for the Study of Democratic 1 
stitutions Santa Barbara, 
Bishop Pike received his doctors degree 
in law from Yale, served in Naval Intelli- 
gence during World War Two and, be- 
fore his ordination into the priesthood i 
1946, was an attorney for the Securities 
and Exchange Commission in Washing- 
ton, D.C., and was admitted to practice 
before the U. S. Supreme Court. He later 
taught at Columbia Law School. The au- 
thor of such lay texts as Doing the Truth, 
A Time for Christian Candor, What [s 
This Treasur and 
You and the Ne 
widely publicized rrAvmov article (in 
April 1967) calling for taxation of church 
property and income. Possessed of a 
colorful personality and a penchant for 
controversy, Bishop Pike was one of the 
first major clerical crusaders for racial 
justice, and is one of the most out- 
spoken and radical advocates of updating 
Christian doctrine and discarding “the 
church's unnecessary supernaturalism"— 
ncluding the concept of the Holy Trin- 
ity. Recent accusations of heresy against 
him before the Episcopal House of Bis 
ops—resulting in his censure for “irre 
sponsibility” and vulgarization of the 
faith—caused him to invoke the church's 
judicial machinery. He put his miter on 
the line: “Exonerate my cause or unfrock 
me. 
FATHER HERBERT ROGERS, S. J., 55, attended 
high school in his native New York City 
and seminary in Maryland. Since entering 
the Catholic Suciety of Jesus in 1930, F: 
ther Rogers has taught English literature, 
drama and philosophy at St. Peter's Col- 
lege in Jersey City and also theology at 
New York's Fordham University, where 
he is presently a member of the faculty. 
He has lectured and written on the 
theater, cinema, ecumenism, alcoholism, 
and the peace movement, and is on the 
Executive Committee of Clergy Con- 
cerned About Vietnam, 

RABBI RICHARD L RUBENSTEIN, 43, is the 
Director of the B'nai B'rith Hillel Foun- 
dation and the Charles E. Merrill. Lec 
turer in the Hun ies at the University 
of Pittsburgh. His primary vocation, how- 
ever, is that of а creative—and contro: 
versial—theologian. He is best known as 
one of the proponents of the “death-of- 
God" theology, about which he has writ- 
n eloquent opinion piece that will 
ar in next month's rravsoy. He 
received his A.B. at the University of 
Cincinnati ordained a rabbi at the 
Jewish Theological Seminary in New 
York and received his Master of The- 
ology degree and Ph.D. from Harvard in 
1960. He is one of the few rabbis to have 
a graduate degree in Protestant theology. 
Author of After Auschwitz—Radical 


Teenagers and S 


Theology and Contemporary Judaism 
Rabbi Rubenstein is a contributor to 
leading Jewish and Christian periodicals 
and a frequent lecturer on campuses in 
the United States, Canada and Europ 


PLAYBOY; “The Christian church is being 
dragged, kicking and screaming. into the 
20th Century," Bishop Pike has writte. 
of the belated but decpening commi 
ment of America’s clerical establishinen 
led by its ident voung libe 
the ideals of human rights 
reform. In the realm of hum: 
however, tradit 
for the most part staunchly 
the changes їп action 
wrought by what has been called the 
Sexual Revolution, Christianity's intcr- 
cine battle over the updating of sex 
ual morality was touched off in early 
1963, when Bishop John A. T. Robinson 
of Woolwich, England, widely 
read theological treatise entitled Honest 
to God. In à chapter on “The New Mo- 
rality," Bishop Robinson opined that the 
supernatural underpinnings of traditional 
morality were being rejected by modern 
society, that the church's legalistic ap- 
proach to morality is no longer valid and 
that beth legalism and supernaturalism 
iously distort the teachings of Jesus. 
othing can of itself be labeled as 
wrong. “One cannot. for i 
stance, start from the position that di 
vorce and sex relations before marriage 
re wrong or sinful in themselves, The 
only intrinsic € 

The tradition 
raged—and scandalized. The relativi 
new morality ched by Robinsc 
they insisted, aply the old immor: 
ity condoned. Taking up Robinson's cr 
zealous young reformists replied that 
they were simply revolting against the 
immorality of the old morality. And so 
the battle was joined, with philosophical 
positions ranging all the way from Ne 
man Vincent Peale’s insistence that sexual 
permissiveness threatens to precipitate 
the downfall of Western civilization to 
Dr. Alex Comfort's description of sex 
as "the healthiest and most. important 
human sport" While the sexual con 
servatives trumpeted the destructive con 
sequences of sex indulgence. the 
liberals contended that sex can be à 
positive and rewarding force within or 


п sexuality, 
nal churchmen have 


resisted 


wrote 


' he wrote. 


outside marriage, and is destructive only 
£ used coercively or il distorted by such 


lingering influences as 18th and 19th 
Century. puritanism, 

The ошау about the Sexual Revolu 
tion. pro and con, soon escalated from 
obscure theological journals to the popu 
lar press, and readers of tlie Sunday sup- 
plements began to be told that “carnal 
anarchy is rampant on college 
puses,” that "the copulation explosion 
has reached seismic proportions." Most 


dispassionate and “qualified observers, 
however, feel that the Sexual Revolution 
represents more of a change in attitudes 
an in actions. Many liberal churchmen 
feel that it is precisely this change in 


moral value than any real or im- 
gi overt sexual practices, 
that threatens traditional churchmen, 


se it signifies their loss of power 
г the minds and emotions of men. 
The Sexual Revolution, like any other 
revolution, Dominican theologian Ber- 
nard Suran has written, involves a trans- 
fer of power. The power to influence 
sexual behavior and attitudes, he feels, 
has been transferred from the church to 
such secular agencies as science, psychiatry 
and the mass media. "From the Fifth 
through the 18th Centuric: atys Broth- 
er Suran, “the church's basic right to 
govern moral matters remained unchal- 
lenged. .. . It has taken secular society a 
good many years to realize that its sexual 
etiquette has been created by a religious 
establishment to which it has denied al- 
legiance. Only recently has secular man 
awakened to the incongruity of his look- 
ing to the religious establishment for his 
moral imperatives. 

Challenges to traditional Christian at- 
titudes toward sex are coming from 
within the church as well as from out- 
le Theologiam Joseph Fletcher 
wrote, in the Roman Catholic journal 
Commonweal, "The fact is that all along 
churchmen have relied on prudential 
arguments against sexual freedom—the 
triple terrors of conception, infection and 
detection—not upon Christian sanctions. 
Bur modern medicine and urban ano- 
nymity have made sex relatively safe. The 


danger-argument is almost old hat. It is 
true. of course, that coital adventures 


may bring on delayed emotional reac 
tions, but the sa true of petting. 
And in any case, these feelings are large 
ly guilt feelings which changing cultural 
norms are making archaic or even ante- 
diluvian. The guilt is going. If Chris- 
tians honestly and seriously believe that 
there are matters of principle at stake, as 
distinct. from situational factors, they 
had better make them clear.” Thus, a 
radical re-evaluation of se: 
being forced upon 
hope of assessing its significance and 
scope, тілувоу has assembled nine of 
the nation’s leading liberal clergymen 
and theologians. Gentlemen, let's start 
with fundamentals. Do you believe that 
there is such a thing as a new sexual 
morality? 
cox: Well, І think “the new moi 
about the phoniest phrase going. About 
every 20 ycars there is a flap about some 
new" morality. There was one in the 
Gay Nineties,” another around 192 
the flapper cra—and another just after 
World War Two. The new morality is 
about as new as the so-called “new theol- 
Morality is always new, always 
nging, because there are always new 


lity” is 


situations emerging to which existing 
moral principles have to be applied, and 
this requires new thinking. The trouble 
is, as Bishop Robinson pointed out, that 
for some people, new morality means no 
morality. But that’s wrong. Morality is a 
living, changing organism: it has to be. 
We have to be constantly rethinking our 
moral principles, because there are always 
unanticipated and unprecedented. situa- 
tions—in the ficld of sex, for example, 
the fact that we now have an overpopu- 
lation problem, rather than the prob- 
lem that the Israelites faced in the deserts, 
the problem of needing every person 
they could get. This influences the way 
we understand our sex life. No, I don’t 
think there is really any “new morality” 
as such. 

MARTY: Regardless of semantics, Harvey, 
we are undergoing profound and epochal 
changes. We arc being forced to look at 
every aspect of environment in new ways, 
and a radical reappraisal of human rela- 
tionships is inevitable. So far, no newly 
darified formulation of morality has 
come during this change. We don't know 
enough about how the Christian message 
relates to these “new people” to give 


them clear guidance. This doesn’t shock 


or surprise or shatter me. The Christian 
church has often had to bide time or 
tread water. Take the example of modern 
contraception. Here, as in so many other 
instances, there was no detailed, ready-to- 
go Christian ethic tucked away in our 
files, waiting to be put to use. Don't con- 
traceptive devices and methods put sexual 
relationships into a different contest th: 
when intercourse always involved a ¢ 
risk of conception—when the thre 
having unwanted children was very real? 
The morning after the pill was invented, 
the churches couldn't come up with a 
completely meaningful new ethic. When 
the world is too crowded instead of too 
sparsely populated. as you suggested, we 
have a new situation. The incrcase of mo- 
bility, the increase of leisure—these will 
force still more new definition 

far “the new morality 
portage, mere provocation, mere “play- 
ing it by cat.” At least I have not yet seen 
any careful, systematic treatment. That 
will come later, 

ADAMS: A significant number of college 
students are already developing what I 
would call a new ethos. They want to find 
a heterosexual relationship that involves 
a maximum knowledge both of the other 
person and of themselves. in the conte 
of authentic fellowship. They are m: 
a serious effort to deepen the chai 
the boy-girl relationship and to broaden 
their range of perception and sensitivity. 
Some of these students stress only an 
intensity of interpersonal involvement, 
with little attention to consequence or 
durability. Others broaden the definition 
of involvement. They want to connect 
sex and love with concern for civil rights 
and other social-institutional issues. This 


second group doesn't confine itself to 
concern for merely interpersonal rela- 
tionships; it is concerned with cultural 
criticism and with the institutional obli- 
group repre- 
п our youth culture, 
al to a 
political orientation. But 1 don’t know 
whether the seriousness of their political 
ntation is matched by an equivalent 
seriousness in regard to sex. It may be 
that something of a new ethos of fidelity 
and durability is latent here. We may 
have to wait a decade before we can know 
what this adds up to. It will be illuminat- 
ing to observe not only what kind of 
poetry and novels come from these 
movements but what kind of marriage 
relationships. Certainly, there is a good 
deal of freewheeling premarital sexual 
intercourse, promiscuous and otherwise, 
among some of these young people, and 
also a marked quantity of thou 
conformism. Here is a curious paradox of 
the youth culture; much talk about free 
dom and an equal amount of debili 
conformism. A friend in the Harvard 
Health Department tells me that he finds 
it necessary again and again to say to the 
undergraduate who hesitates to "go 
along,” "You know, you don't have to 
conform to these misdemeanors.” He adds 
that sometimes the student then looks as 
if he were being relieved of a burden 

MOODY: Right, Absolutely. I’m afraid the 
Sexual Revolution—and there is one 
g us into a reverse 
nism that may be more dangerous 
and damaging than the old Victorianism. 
PLAYBOY: In wha 
MOODY: Well, look her 
feel guilty because she went to bed with a 
guy. Now she's often guilty if she doesn't. 
‘This comes [rom a new impersonalizatio 
and compartmentalization of sex, a sepa- 


sents a new trend 
the trend away from an apol 


A girl used to 


ration of the body from the spirit. It’s 
just as unhealthy as Victorianism, and the 
danger inherent in our emancipation 


from sexual suppression is that we are 
falling into a new kind of slavery in 
which we arc no more free to make 
choices about sex than we used to be. Ifa 
girl feels guilty because she doesn't go to 
bed with a guy, God knows, that’s no im- 
provement; it's not getting her anywhe 
She's just as 
the analyst's couch. 

PLAYBOY: Couldn't it be said that sexual 
conformism and guilt can be destructive, 
no matter what value system they opei 
from? 

MOODY: Sure, but it also means we 
houldn't be so smug about fabricating a 
"new morality.” If it's misinterpreted, it 
can cause as much havoc as the old rigid 
system of absolutes. 
PIKE: Well, Canon Doug! 


pt as before to wind up on 


Rhymes, in 


his book No New Morality, claims that 
tion of basic 
is concerned 


the new morality is a restora 
ethical attitudes, in that 
with persons as persons and not as things. 
ROGERS: Like Adams and Marty, I think 


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PLAYBOY 


something new 
to be emerging. E notice it [rom talking to 
students a lot, They are more conscious 
of the fact that love and loye alone 
should justify a sexual relationship. They 
have rejected the old justifications for 
sex, such as legal ties and procreation, 
For those who think in terms of morality, 
love is the most logical justification for 
sex. In the absence of social pressures and. 
the th of disease and all that kind of 
thing, there is а great insistence on the 
autonomy of the person. I think to this 
t there is a new sex morality emerg- 
The emphasis is upon personal frec- 
dom. Freedom is the great key word, I 
think, that young people are insisting 
upon. It ties in with our great technologi- 
Man is aware for the first 
me that he is capable of being free to an 
unprecedented degree, so he wants to 
make everything as free as possible. Wh 
is not so clearly appreciated is that, with 
the growth of freedom, there must be a 
corresponding insistence upon responsi- 
bility. For almost the first time, young 
people are really free, and therefore thi 
have to be more fully responsible for the 
consequences of their acts, for the effects 
of their actions upon the well-being of 
both themselves and others. They don't 
have the old outside helps. They don't 
have the help of a society that condemns 
practices readily and is capable of enforc- 
ig its moral evaluations. Each person is 
very much on his own. 
MOORE: | agree, Father, but the new sex- 
wal morality is more than just an individ- 
ual and personal thing. The church is in 
a theological revolution in which there is 
more change taking place in our ethical, 
moral and theological understanding 
than probably at any time since the 
Reformation. This revolution is resulting 
ly new moral theology. We 
ced to rethink what we say 
d what we believe in the light of a 
great social and technical revolution that 
is taking place in the larger society. The 
basis for morality is shifting from pre- 
scriptions for behavior to methods for 
moral decisions. or how to i 
tio! aswers, Theology 
ethics in the final reality must be rele- 
ıt; they must be in touch with what is 
ng to people. 
rely, and this is as true 
of the Catholic Church as it is of the 
Protestant. Let me indicate some of the 
n Catholic thinking. The first 
that comes to mind y new ap- 
proach to reproduction and sex. Prior to 
Casti Connubi, an encyclical of Pius XI. 
there was almost no mention of the legiti- 
macy of spacing births. One was told to 
trust in God's providence; the assumption 
seemed to be that there was a conflict be- 
tween God's providence and man’s sense 
of providence. Then, in the Forties, came 
a greater awareness of the actual limita- 
tions upon our freedom of choice; we 


aw 


learned а scientific basis for not judging 
others quite so readily. With the Fifties, 
we acquired а much greater awareness of 
the centrality of love—of the complete 
wholesomeness of the sexual act itself. I 
should venture the opinion that with the 
growth of the Sixties, there will be even 
greater acknowledgment of our igno- 
rance concerning sex. Not an ignorance 
so great as to rule ош making practical 
judgments for here and now, but an igno- 
rance that will make us more cautious in 
not being too arbitrary and too detailed 
ns for the years 


MOODY: Some people say that human 
beings have always acted the same; it’s 
just that they are more honest and open 
now. But 1 do a lot of work on college 
campuses and 1 have often discussed these 
questions with college students, trying to 
find out from them what they're fecling 
and what they're doing. I think there is 
а new sexual me emerging. And I 
think die most important single factor 
about this younger gei 
to sexual conduct is that they don't feel 
guilt about going 10 bed with somebody 
—even though they may feel guilty 
4 to bed with somebody. This is 
mportant factor. You may be able 
to conjure up guilt in young people to- 
day by setting up all sorts of rules and 
regulations for them and telling them. 
they're disobeying God or dishonoring 
their fathers and mothers. You may suc 
ceed in making them feel guilty, but this 
guilt will be of your own making. Most 
young people will not, by the nature of 
their own feclinz about how they те 
to someone sexually, [eel guilty about 
But it’s too cart 
decide whether Em joyful about this lack 
of guilt or whether I deplore 
LYNN: All chis talk about a new morality is 
one of the fetishes of our time. The news- 
papers have to have something fresh and 
novel for every issue, and so we tend to 
exaggerate discontinuities and to mini- 
mize the continuities of life that are un- 
derneath the surface. For a long time, 
change has been taking place in our sex- 
ual attitudes in this country, but talk 
of a swilt and abrupt disintegration of 
standards is nonsense, 

MOORE: Actually. as our moderator 
gested, the moral revolution 
а revolution of auitudes 
actions. I'm not convinced that there is 
t increase in sexual immorality 
y. even by Christian standards. We 
shouldn't mistake more openness, more 
freedom of discussion, greater. tolerance, 
for a change in practice. One of the 
more interesting. studies that have been 
made in this area was reported by Dr. 
Mervin B. Freedman at Stanford Uni- 
versity. He examined the sexual attitudes 
of college coeds and conduded that 
sexual practices among college girls have 
not changed very much since 1930. What 
has changed is their attitudes. It seems 


at this point in time to 


sug- 


that college students today are mor 
that they be given the rig 
to make their own decisions about scx, 
rather than having these decisions pre 
determined for th And 1 must 
I'm pretty much. y 
have a good deal of contact with young 
jules in all walks of life, and 1 don't find 
many of them jumping into bed wi 
someone—anyone—every chance they get. 
They're really quite mature. They have 
some understanding of their feclings and 
they're able to talk about and express 
these feelings. And they're much more 
tolerant. But I don’t believe they're an 
immoral generation, as some politicians 
and theologians would have us think. Iu 
fact, the mew generation isn’t as pre- 
Occupied with sex as we are. They have 
tually settled the issue. 

KE | don't know the percentage of 
young people who now engage in either 
pre- or extramarital sex as compared with 
carlier and more conservative times, but E 
know that a profound change of attitude 
has occurred. "There's а lot of difference 
between saying, “This is a sinful thin; 
n going to do it anyway.” and sw 
ng to do this, and it isn't 
y there is а growing 
attitude that sexual relationships outside 
marriage are not in all circumstances 
necessarily wrong. 

ADAMS: It’s too early to say whether a new 
morality of sexual behavior is actually in 
the making. Like Dr. Moore, I encounte 
among college youth a measurable pro- 
portion who are not taking a philander 
ing attitude in sex matters, even though 
they don’t accept the old conve 
These are the people who are truly 
ch of a new morality; 
eve they will adopt a laissez: 
tude in sex matter ny more than 
economic philosophy. There ave others, 
of course, who are exploring not а new 
morality but an old and familiar im- 
morality. What will the responsibilities 
ооа do to them? Who knows? 
They might even turn. up with a rigid 
new puritanism. That also would be no 
novelty. After all, the Restoration period 
was followed by a period of revulsion. A 
period of relaxation often gives rise to 
a period of neurotic reaffirmation or 
reformulation of norms. Something like 
this can happen in the life of the indi- 
vidual. The profligate youth later revolts 
against his younger sel and adopts a 
id norm or joins a 
church. There 
wants so much 
MARTY: You may be right—but to return 
to Dr. Moore’s point about the nature of 
the new morality. I think the revolution 
in sex mores involves more action than 
thought—or at least more action than or- 
ganized and systematic thought. People 
have been improvising beliefs and behav- 
ior because they've had to. A 16-year 
old, at the peak of his sexual concern 
isn't really interested in the comment I 


m. 


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made a moment ago about how we're 
undergoing epochal cultural changes and 
how in a hundred ycars we might know 
what to tell him. He won't wait: He'll 
act now. My personal observation is that. 
he has often tended to act with more san- 
ity than we him cedit for. He is 
throw! nd absurd situ. 
ations; he finds himself caught between 
an ethic propounded—but seldom lived 
up to—by adults from an inherited tradi- 
tion on one hand and what seems to him 
to be empirical and logical and meaning- 
Tul on the other. I am more often than 
not impressed by the way young people 
retain their integrity, enter into pro- 
found relationships and eventually marry 
and establish good homes. 

RUBENSTEIN: I agree. Although there is 
more sexual activity on campus than 
when I was in college, today's relation- 
ships are usually much more responsible 
than most of the morc lurid journalistic 
accounts would suggest. As Dr. Adams 
has pointed out, these relationships also 
contain more affection and more genuine 
interchange between the persons i 
volved than some of the more sensational 
accounts have suggested. Many people 
who have come out of fairly rigidly en- 
closed primary religious or ethnic groups 
have found themselves in the anonymity 
of a big city or a university campus. They 
tend to experience a new and unfamiliar 
freedom. As a result, they begin to ques- 
ion old norms and to assert some of their 
new freedom. The old idea that reli 
can supply a meaningful set of guidelines 
derived from divine sanction no longer 
carries much conviction with the average 
college student. I am in considerable sym- 
thy with the death-of God theologians; 
1 feel that their significant insights point 
out that the thread has been broken be 
tween heaven and earth, and between 
God and man. I agree with Father Roge 
that people are experiencing a new sense 
of personal freedom. We now ask, "Is this 
right for me?" We no longer ask, "How 
do 1 comply with a set of inherited com- 
mandments from my religious tradition?" 
We enjoy a degree of freedom toi that 
people have never experienced before. 
ROGERS: If you're going to judge the sin 
fulness of any sexual act today, E think 
you have to take careful account of the 
mentality and the attitudes of the person 
involved. For the most part, I do not 
think an attitude of mere condemnation 
very helpful in evaluating such a situa- 
tion. I feel it is more important to uphold 
the sacredness of sacramental marriage 


and yet to adopt a certain sensitivity in 
ict sex as it 


treating cach situation of 
presents itself. There is certainly а very 
significant difference between a relation- 
ship built upon love—in terms of respect, 
concern, tenderness—and one built upon 
lust or mere convenience. In other words, 
although I fec] that as a Catholic 1 must 
maintain that marriage is the proper situ- 
ation for a complete sexual relationship, 


I must also be prepared to respect the 
feelings and. persuasions of those who do 
not find themselves quite up to this 
standard, and be prepared to evoke the 
best response that they are capable of. 
The function of the priest is more often 
exercised in staying with a difficult situa 
tion t is in a blanket condemnation, 
or in washing one’s hands of what one 
may consider to be an unclean situation 
PIKE: I can't buy the codifiers who say 
we've got a set of rules telling us when 
and when not to do something—who say 
how far to go in petting and what is right 
and wrong under every circumstance. 
That isn't the way decisions ought to be 
made. They ought to be made сошех 
tually, situationally, responsibly. If a 
person decides not to indulge in premari- 
па given situation, it ought to be 
use sex is so good a thing, not be 
cause sex is so bad a thing. Mind you, we 
aren't simply saying sex should be avoid- 
ed just because it's good. We're saying sex 
is such a good and important part of life 


that it shouldn't be treated casually. 
PLAYBOY: Would you consider all pre- 
marital sex casual? 


сох. What Bishop Pike is saying, I think, 
is that sex should be handled responsibly 
And that responsibility lies with the 
people involved. I think it’s wrong to 
insit that in every instance and with 
every unmarried couple, intercourse is 
wrong. There are many times, however, 
when I would advise against it. It may u 
duly commit people to cach other before 
they've really found out if they have 
enough common interests on a wide 
range of things. For many people it be 
comes a kind of excuse for not develop- 
ing a commonality in other things: you 
can always go to bed. But, of course, there 
are instances in which it would be not 
only permissible but advisable for people 
to have intercourse before they're mar. 
ried. This might be the case, for example, 
during engagement periods that for one 
reason or another have to be unduly pro 
longed, I'm against any absolute pro. 
scription or prescription of sex before 
marriage. | think it varies from case to 
case, 

PLAYBOY: If scx prevents а couple from 
developing other mutual interests, isn’t 
possible that the failure is in the people 
nvolved rather than in sexual activity 
well? Isn't it possible for a liaison that 
begins on а primarily sexual basis to de 
velop into a far broader and more mean. 
ingful relationship’ 
Cox: Of course, when it involves people 
who are emotionally prepared for a full 
and mature manwoman relationship. 
But an awful lot of kids aren't ready for 
that kind of thing, and geuing involved 
in a sex relationship when they're not 
prepared to handle the emotional conse. 
quences can be pretty devastating. 
PLAYBOY: If two people aren't emotional. 
ly involved with each other to any degree, 
do you feel that devastating emotional 


consequences are likely? Wouldn't it be 
primarily sexual 
long as both parties 
all it is, that’s all they want 
nd they both enjoy it? 
A sexual relationship without 
volvement and without emo- 
tional consequences! "That is quite a feat. 
of specialization and spatia m 
reminded of Immanuel Капез word 
about two individuals who enter into a 
mutual agreement to use each other's geni- 
tals. In modern parlance, such people 
ıppose the 
volvement ré- 


relationship. 


know that's 
out of it, 


nsiency and cisualnes d 
emotional involvement develops. In any 
event, ation of another person, 
lack of respect for the othe: 
sel—a violation of human dignity—wi 
ve emotional and other consequences, 

n prostitution, Mature human 
gs prefer to relate the various aspects 
ving to the total personality, to cu 
turally enriching values and to religiou 
t, whether this aspect be 
ing, drinking, gregariousness, economic 
success or sex. Your question—inquiring 
about sex for the sake of sex—reminds me 
of the old notion that there is an Eco- 
nomic Man, the man for whom busi 


n 


ness is business and nothin ‚ for 
whom everything must be subordinated 
10 the corporation—the organization 
man. The violation of human dignity 
and valu jew is widely 
recognized tod structive. So 


relationship 
nt and com- 
timacy is a 
ed. This kind of 
intimacy requires emotional, indeed, full 
personal involvement. xual relation- 
ship. without. emotional. involvement. is 
something less than human. It can hap- 
pen between animals but not. between 
fully human beings. 
MOORE: Yes, people, u 
not capable of а pure 1 relation- 
ship. This may be due to conditioning, to. 
the psychological perceptions that they 
bring to their relationships, or to social 
influences. But in se, there is more 
to the than 
ph; And I 
think it's thi id of transcendent m 
ing to the sexual relationship th 
Biblical and theological tradition has 
ed to deal with in its emphasis on com- 


ke animals, are 


be more satisfying when the m 
woman have a conti a 
and meanings. It's not the body alone 
that “turns one on." It’s all that the body 
represents. Imagery, especially for the 
woman, seems to require something more 
than bodily union. In fact, I don't be- 
lieve there is such a thing as casual sex 
without gros depersonalization, 

MARTY: Well, I can't say dogmatically 
that a person cannot divorce personality 


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from sexuality, thereby making it purely 
mechanical. But it seems to me that the 
context in which this could occur would 
be either very artificial or pathological or 
—as in the сизе of prostitution—destruc- 
tive of the dignity of the other person. 
In ordinary circumstances, I think that 
ау persons would find their 
ntegral part of their whole 
personality, that such a divorce of emo- 
tion and sensation would be unrealistic 
and difficult to sustain, Most. obviously, 
there is the risk that either or both of the 
tners would find themselves 
tionally, caring for the othe 
more ways than merely sexually. If only 
one partner accomplishes this, much un- 
happiness and hurt inevitably result. If 
both do, something good can indeed 
come of it, for human relationsh ps have 
many different kinds of bases. But I'm not 
sure that compatible plumbing is the best 
basis on which to build a relationship. 
RUBENSTEIN: I don't believe that a purely 
sexual relationship c ist longer th. 
the first few encounters. A purely sexual 
relationship, with nothing else involved, 
would merely be mutual masturbation, 
Dh Ш have expectations that go 


k we 


beyond mutual masturbation, even in the 
most casual sex. I cam ne а situa- 
tion where two people who are total 
strangers meet and drawn to each 
other, having no further investment in 


each other than the sexual encounter, 
d then go their separate ways. The 
étrangers 
s can hap- 
cursion boat or in a foreign 
But such encounters are isolated 
from the lives most of us actually lead. 
People who have never met each other be- 
fore and will never sec cach other again 
can have casual sex and go on to some- 
thing eke. However, most of us are likely 
to have sexual encounters within our nor 
social circles, We are too involved 
with the people with whom we normally 
establish sexual contact. The likelihood 
of simply never secing them or wanting 
never to see them again is so slight that 
ly casual sex is not a realistic poss 
bility. Furthermore, if casual sex is good, 
the people involved will want to repeat 
it. Casual sex doesn't remain casual very 
long with people who have any с 
for affection. 
Pike: The point is, we just can. 
it like a still picture, Human re 
ships grow and change, and we 
t them like we view a movie. We simply 
cannot assume that one partner will not 
become more involved th the other 
and that somebody may nor get hurt. A 
second question that must be answered. 
How much inner meaning must the rela- 
tionship have for us in order to make the 
outward expression of sex appropriate? 
MOORE: Well, 1 try to avoid giving cate- 
gorical answers to questions about pre- 
marital sex, I don't think we can discuss it 
simply in terms of what is right or what is 


‘These are the kinds of questions 
college students like to ask, but if you 
г ет one way, they'll say, “AL 
we'd expect of a clergym 

if vou answer them another way, 
they'll say, “Well, then, you're giving u 
the OK to do anything we want to." The 
first question for a theologian is, "What is 
the ultimate purpose of human sex 
ty?” And the second question is, “What is 
the meaning of this experience?” 
MARTY: Well, this whole question of pre- 
marital sex covers more territory than 
most people realize. I don't think you can 
define handholding or dancing or neck- 
ing by the unmarried as something other 
than premarital sex. I disagree 
people who set aside copulation in an 
absolute way and say, “Here is the line.” 
Ive read many interv 

in which a sort of magic line is draw 
you stay on one side of it, with technical 
Virginity, you're a stint. If you happen to 
ross it, you go to hell. Such Ii 


and 


is a violation of the del 
ity in our tradition. Truc, sexual 

course is, on the scale, the 
deepest, highest па, most en- 
gaging and We 
conceive that yelationship as one through 


which two people share a secret of per 
sonality and become “one flesh”—as in 
But two people certainly ex- 
a great deal of that secret of per- 
sonality through sexual expressions just a 
little bit short of the “line.” We all know 
very well that many, many young people 
in our churches take a wide range of these 
sexual expressions almost for granted. 
PIKE: Obviously, sexual intercourse, 
the foreplay that le«ds up to it, is good in 
very natural way of expressing 
ion and some de- 
inst ac- 
there have 
urs of “ton: 


tual premarital intercourse, 
always been the three old te 
ception, infection and detection,” But 
people are learning more and more how 
to handle these dangers, so that they are 
no longer absolute barriers. These three 
considerations haye become a matter of 


ethical responsibility within а rela- 
tionship. Two people may enter into 
premarital sexual relationship with a 


view that "we have a suong affection for 
but we're commiuing 
ourselves.” But onc person can get much 
more deeply involved than the other, and 
someone can get seriously hurt. АП of this 
has to be responsibly looked at, both in 
idvance and during a relationship. But as 
for an absolute, uncond, junction 
against premarital intercourse, I do not 
think so; I would say no. 


MOODY: I suppose I. 100, w 


nal 


would have to 
ible without 
a person, in a theological sense, “falling 
[Он potes ore ASE aie chit 
The Christian community holds in itself 
all kinds of people of different back- 
grounds, different values and different 
mores, The Christian faith is large 


enough to accommodate all these dil- 
ferent values, and I think it is wrong 
for us to judge whether or not some par- 
ular instance of personal conduct or 
social behavior is by its very nature apt to 
place a person “outside the pale.” In my 
us persuasio 
їс set down in 
premarital sex. ‘The indiv 
is left to his own judgment i 
of the situation. And for the Christi: 
this judgment must be based as much a 
possible on consideration of the ultimate 
welfare and happiness of both people. 
MOORE: There are many levels of human 
sexuality, and although premarital inter- 
course may nor be the most appropriate, 
it offers the possibi 
ful. It might be entirely possible for two 
people who are very much in love, very 
much committed to cach other, vi 
much concerned with the relationship, 
nd who are struggling to find a deeper 
way of communicating with cach other, 
who out of this level of comm 
are nying to find some r 
hope for the future, to have sc: 
course premaritally. But, as a socia 
theologian, I think there are three th 
that must be involved in any sex 
be it outside or within marriage. The first 
is that the people involved should have 
some shared history that is 
Sex is meaningless unless two people 
have some significant shared experiences 
other than sex, The second thing is that 
these two people should have а commit- 
ment to cach other—a commitment the 
are willing to make public. By commit- 
ent 1 mean а promise to share lile to- 
gether. 1 don't necessarily mean “till 
death do us part," but there should be a 
willingness to make their commitment 
public: they needn't announce it in the 
local newspaper, but they shouldn't have 
to hide or lie about the nature of their 
relationship, either. Finally, 1 think that 
the two people should have some hope 
Tor the future. They should sce that this 
act is not an end in itself; it is not just 
seli-gratification, not just mutual mastur- 
bation, but points to something beyond 
them in both space 
that the state of marriage alone does not 
ensure “right,” appropriate, meaningful 
sexual intercourse—although this, for me, 
is where it most appropriately belongs. 
RUBENSTEIN: I would rathc 
the problem primarily on. psychological 
rather than on purely religious terms. 
The real problem of premarital sex 
whether the people who engage in 
emotionally able to handle it. Speaking 
from my experience as a college chaplain 
I must agree with Harvey Cox th: 
of the people who indulge in premarital 
sex aren't emotionally capable of han- 
dling what they get themselves into. 1 
think there is much sexual immaturity 
in our society. 
PLAYBOY: Some psychologists have sug- 
gested that this may be at least partly 


there are no be- 
bsolutes about 
lual's conduct 
the context 
n. 


most 


because many young people make the 
mistake of equating sex. with love. 

LYNN: Yes. It's very easy for people to de- 
ceive themselves about what constitutes a 


serious relationship. In this area, we have 
то be fairly realistic about ourselves 
our enormous capacity for self-deception 
In our society, many people feel that it's 
necessary, once they've experienced the 
full sexual relationship with each other. 
10 make а commitment, so they're driven 
into making a premature commitment 
This is as much of a problem as thc 
absence of a commitment. 

ADAMS: 1 agree. A premature commit 
ment issuing from premarital intercourse 
сап be motivated by a sense of responsi 
bility —by a strong subjective sense of con- 
science— but the objective consequence of 
the commitment may in the end be de 
structive. It is often easy 10 overlook the 


fact that one is responsible for conse 
quences as well as for authentic motives. 
A widely held view in our youth culture 
today places much more emphasis upon 
inner authenticity, the euphoria of spon 
taneity, immediate response. than upon. 
continuity and durability. In this sort of 
ethos, a consideration of future implica 
tions tends to be neglected. Physical inti- 
macy can be exhilarating, but it can also 
be deceptive when it gives an illusion 
of personal intimacy that doesn’t really 
exist, Physical intimacy shouldnt be 
identified with depth of personal relation- 
ship. It's possible for the person who 
indulges in premarital or extramarital in- 
tercourse to be misled by this deception. 
My main point is that opposite values al 
ways have to be taken into account, 
irue when we consider both conscience 
and consequence, freedom and order, 
spontaneity and reflection. But these con- 
siderations don't provide a pat answer to 
your question about premarital imer- 
Course. I don't have a slot machine into 
which I can insert a coin and get an an 
swer in an automatic fashion. For one 
thing, it’s difficult to define intercourse; 
as Reverend Marty points out, it's not 
confined to coitus, after all. In view of the 
fact, however, that narcissism and exploi- 
tation can all too readily find rationali 
tion 


the name of spontaneity, T prefer 
to appeal to what I believe is an authen- 
tic conception of love, an abiding affec- 
tion that carries with it responsibility and 
respect for the other person in the con- 
text of а community. But one should 
not understand responsibility merely in 
terms of a compact; responsibility means 
response to broadly human needs. This is 
what is meant in part by Gibson Winter's 
tem “a covenant of intimacy.” Out of 
this complex of values emerge guidelines, 
not neatly formulated rules, One thing 
is clear: Sexual experience cannot be 
properly separated from the rest of ex- 
perience. One may not relegate sexual 
intercourse to the status of “an aside" or 
of something segregatable. Sexual be- 
havior is an integral part of human 


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behavior. [t must be viewed as an ex 
pression of the total personality and not 
as something comparable to the simple 
act of drinking a cup of water 


PLAYBOY: In this connection. Hefner has 
written that “Sex at its best, an. ex- 
pression of love and adoration. But t 


is not t0 say that sex is, or should be, 
limited to love alone. Love and sex are 
certainly not synonymous, and while they 
тау often be closely interrelated, the one 


is not necessarily dependent upon the 
other. Sex can be one of the most. pro- 


found and rewarding elements in the ad- 
venture of living; if we recognize it as not 
necessarily limited to procreation, then 
we should also acknowledge openly chat 
it is not necessarily limited to love, either 
cxists—with and without love—and. 
in both forms it docs far more good tha 

This is not an endorscment of 
gument favoring 
ather romantic fel- 


harm. . 
promiscuity or 
loveless sex— be 
low, ourself, we 
emotion. But w 
out love exists: that it is not, in itself, 
evil; and that it may sometimes serve a 
definitely worthwhile end.” How do you 
gentlemen feel about that? 

ADAMS: Mr. Heiner seems 10 be sy 
that when fully human and responsible 
participation in intercourse is not post 
ble, then dehumanization is better th 
at all. 

Is sex. without love necessarily 


intercourse should in- 
volve the total personality. If it does not 
do so, it brings about a disjunction be- 
tween spirit and nature, and 1 don't see 
how you can say a disjunction between 
spirit and nature is better than nothing 
at all. 

LYNN: I think Mr. Hefner tends to be an 
absolutist when he implies that sex with- 
ош love is beter th t all, A 
great many people, I am sure, would pre- 
fer no s all to sex without love. 

RUBENSTEIN: Well, 1 would h Mr. 
Hefner that sex without love is better for 
п adult than no sex at all, but 1 would 
go on to say that if it continu 
indefinitely to. be sex without love, Td 
have to wonder whats wrong with the 
person and why he or she remains 
ble of having a really deep and lastin 
relationship. Married, fulfilling, emo- 
tionally gratifying sex is the best kind 
of sex. Sex without love is at best a poor 
substitute for sex with love, and must 
always be seen as such. 

MOODY: I wouldn't want to make such a 
categorical statement as Hefner's. I mc; 
that's getting down to the level of hiring 
a prostitute or getting a shack-up job. If 
you really need nothing but sexual re- 
lease, and 0 all there is to it, then 
that’s sad. I don't want to be dogmatic, 
but 1 don't want to reach that place 
where I say that sex without love—that is, 
sex without caring—is better than по sex 


no sex 


at all, I'd hate to baye to-get to that 
point. E 

COX: Maybe our disagreement here stems 
from the fact that we're using the slip- 
pery word "love" in very different ways. 
If Hefner means romantic Iove, the kind 
of love we often think of when we talk 
about mixing sex with love, then I would 
say that Hefner's wanting to mix sex and 
love is a kind of romantic prejudice on 
albeit a nice prejudice. But the 
at most of the sex of history and 
of the modern world has very little to do 
ith romantic love. And I would 
with him that there is clearly a diffe 
between sex and love, and that sc: 


with- 
out love exists. However, if by "love" we 


mean caving or being concerned for the 
other person's welfare or health or wor 
then I think we must be against sex with- 
out love just as we're against any other 
activity that isn’t concerned for the wel- 
c of the other person, In fact, using my 
definition of the word “love,” 
love is pretty much the same 


às irrespon. 
sible sex, and I hope Hefner is against 


that, 

LYNN: To say that sex without love is not 
necessarily evil and that it may sometimes 
serve a definitely worthwhile end is 
ather like saying the same thing about a 
just war.” Sure, there may be cases where 
that holds true, but I'm very suspicious 
about the odds. I think those cases are 


rare. 
MARTY: Well, I don't know, Bob. As a 
mauer of fact, 1 wouldn't generalize 
bout it. 1 know sexually repressed 


people who hold themselves in, who are 
motional ba who are crabby 
judgme who are good for 
nothing in the world and who probably 
would be better off if they could have a 
means of expressing their sexuality. 
PLAYBOY: You mean they'd be better off 
if they did have sex without love rather 
than no sex at all? 
MARTY: Well, lets take a hypothetical 
case. Think of a man, say, 40 years old. 
Maybe his wife is dead, or he's divorced, 
ybe he never married. In any casc, 
there's nobody in his life right now. He 
ks at a lonely desk, seldom sees 


people, and he goes home and eats a TV 
dinner. He's holed up in his apartment: 
this is his whole world. He's never bee 


involved in a good social or ethical cause, 
never done anything for anybody el 
And then he climbs into bed with som 
body. What happens? И we hear about i 
for the first time in his life we start caring 
about him. Suddenly he has joined socic- 
ty; he did something wrong. He might 
have hated. people right alon 
have been a slum landlord, but we never 
bothered about him. We weren't con- 
cemed about his spiritual wellare when 
he was just a slum landlord victimizing 
his tenants, and we didn't care whether or 
not he had a potential to care for other 
people. But now he climbs into bed with 
somebody and we say he's using her, Шат 


he's going to destroy his and her pot 
tial to be human. All of a sudden we're 
concerned with his morality and his 
potential for antisocial behavior. 

But now just suppose this guy tangles 
with somebody who really uncorks him, 
who gets him over some of this emotional 
isolation—gets him чо join the human 
race. You know, he may actually become 
a better human being for it. We сап hy- 
pothesize cases like this because we've all 
observed them—instances in which such 
a person joins the human race because he 
did something that we would have ordi 
ily considered. it and immoral. 
This plot has often been played out; I 
know Christian ministers who have really 
hoped that a certain older unmarried 
woman in their congregation would get 
seduced, that some man would give her a 
thrill and start caring about her, because 
perhaps then she would stop being so 
judgmental toward others, and that she 
might thereby start being somebody. 
Now, a preacher can't proclaim that se- 
cret hope from the pulpit, but he can, as a 
human, support her in her need and in 
her interpretation of the event when and 
if it happens. So I certainly agree that 
there can be circumstances in which 
somebody who lias been good for nothing 
cam start being good lor something 
through experiences and relationships 
that are, by my own view, less than the 
norm for Christians, but which by any 
human view are much higher than the 
norm for selfish humanity. I hope that 
makes some sense. 

PIKE: It certainly does make sense. Гус 
known a number of cases in my pastoral 
nce very much like the one vou 


- So have 1. One of my concerns 
s an educator is to teach people the 
process by which they can make good 
decisions, rather than predetermining 
the decision in advance. Em a situation- 
ist. I mean by this that the answers are 
induced out of the situation in which a 
person finds himself, The problem is that 
there has to be a basis for making moral 
decisions in a given situation, and this is 
what some of us are searching for today. 
Is possible for sexual intercourse be 
tween two responsible single people who 
are very much committed to each other 
to be a more meaningful expression of 
sex than that which sometimes exists 
within marriage. We forget, I think, that 
many wives prostitute themselves in or. 
der to get what they want from their 
husbands. They use sex as à weapon lo 
manipulate the husband. And husbands 
can depersonalize their wives in attempts 
to prove their malenes. 
PLAYBOY: Dr. Moore, you scem to feel 
that situation ethics is the answer to the 
need for a viable sex ethic for single 
people. Hefner has often pointed out 
that the Christian church has uwadi al- 
ly offered no kind of sex cthic for single 
people except "Don't" Yet we live in a 


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society where many people find it impos- 
sible or impractical, for educational or 
financial reasons, to get married until 


their late 905, although the sex drive 
reaches its peak in the late teens. Gentle- 
men, сап tbe church expect youn; 


people to abstain completely from sexual 
activity for the 10 or 15 years of their 
lives when the sex drive is strongest, and 
then suddenly enter into a sexually 
mature and welladjusted. marr 
LYNN: Your analysis of the situation is 
quite acceptable, and youre talking 
bout an area where the church h 
been guilty of selective inattention. We 
not only haven't developed a sex ct 
that makes sense for the single person; 
we haven't even thought much about it. 
Eyen the most supposedly enlightened 
theologians scarcely deal 
lem at all. Mostly, the 
tions of premari 
students, but they 


deal with ques- 
sex for collegi 
оге the problem of 


what happens to the single woman who 
doesn't marry until she's 30 or 35, or 
maybe never i haz 


What about 
ause we l 


ve 


a a Hule bit leery about the 
church's being able to promulgate any 
kind of ethic that would prescribe Dbe- 
havior patterns for all people. I tend to. 
agree with Dr. Moore that most ethical 
decision making is done—and should be 
done—by hun gs within a con- 
text of some kind of world view and in 
the particular n in which they 
find themselves. No Imit that the 
church. has not done its homework in re- 
gard to any kind of word for the youth 
of today. 1 think that’s sad. The church 
always talks as though there's no such 
thing. for example, as premarital sex. In 
this area, i! seems to me that the church 
is terribly irrelevant today. Young people 
are mying to decide in what context 
they're going то have premarital sex, and 
I feel that the durch has some responsi 
bility to help them with their decision 
making, and not forever to look the other 
way, pretending that there's no reason. 
for them to think deeper and to ask 
questions. I used 10 think you could give 
general lectures on sex 10 tell people 
how to behave. 1 really don't believe that 
nymore. АП we can do is teach them to 
think ло think about themselves and 
the world and their relationship to it; 
in other words, to develop attitudinal 
postures out of which come the decisions 
they must make; to thin 
are and to know the world of other hu- 
m: , and out of that context of 
ring and concern for another person. 
to make decisions about their sexual life 
and all other areas of their life. 

PIKE: Many churchmen, through their 
writings and sermons, are recognizing 
this problem, and as a result there has 
recently been а very rapid shift to situa 
tion ethics in contrast to the old cod. 
This shift, I think, will continue to 


about who they 


be 


ease and. will eventually result in most 
of the various church d 
making official declarations supporting a. 
situational approach to sexual morality 
much like the recent committee report 
on sex morals received by the British 
Council of Churches as having “much to 
contribute of value to the contemporary 
discussion of moral questions." 

LYNN: I think the only beginning of an 
nswer the church has to this dilemma is 
the current cmphasis—which is so ap 
arent in this panel discussion—on ind 
vidual responsil: nd а refusal to 
exploit the other person. But actually, T 
don’t th 
swer. The church has to give some gu 
ance as to what responsibility me 
I said earlier, I'm quite wary of the 
human capacity Jor self-deception and 
ationalization in 
fe, includ 


sex. 


ty, of care 
nd concern for the other person, takes 
us very Гат. It's become largely a slogan 
Beyond praising “concern,” 
“openness,” “responsibility 
what more does the church. 
Very liule 

PLAYBOY: Docs the church need to say 
nything beyond that? 

LYNN: Yes, but thats a problem we're 
just barely beginning to think about. 
We're in the same place on this issue 
we were on the question of economic 
ethics in the early part of the 19th Cen- 
tury, before we began to think about the 
problems of industrialization. I you go 
back and read the thought of the Ameri- 
Protestants of the carly 1800s, you'll 
find they were as ill equipped. 10 de: 
with questions of economic ethics as we 
е ill equipped. today to deal with the 
problems of sexual morals in а world 
where human situations are vastly differ- 
ent from anything we've ever know 
before. 
ADAMS: There are within Chr 
of course, cerain cultures in which pre- 
marital sexual intercourse on the part of 
people who subsequently become mar- 
ried is rather generally recognized. In 
Holland, for example. not merely in the 
anonymous culture of u sm but even 
1 ihe rural districts, it is fairly common 
for people to be married after the brid 
tobe is already three or four 
pre; And there seems to be litle 
sense of guilt or community reproach 
attached to it. | understand that some. 
thing similar can be said about Sweden, 
We must recognize that befor 
the advent of urbanism and mobile 
culture, some church people in estab- 
lished traditions—that is, church people 
with national culture of continuity 
ready made an adjustment. So 
when we speak about what the church 
is going to do in the future about es- 
tablishing a viable sex ethic for single 
people, we can say only that certain 
segments of Christendom have already 


а dichi 


endom, 


months 


gnant. 


even 


made chai that direction. The task 
of the church in a changing society is al- 
ways the task of reformulating stand- 
ds, by taking into account aspects of 
the situation that previously were ig 
nored or that previously were interpret 
ed in a different way. So the future of 
¢ church here with regard to sex be- 
havior is not in principle different from 
its future with regard to other fu 
ns. The problem of 
rd itself requires re- 
flection and responsibility, taking into 
account the whole complex of values 
ihat make human life meaningful. But 
let me point out that theze's a difference 
between trying to find a decent standard 
for today and simply sayi ~ "Well, the 
world is changing. Look :t what huma 
behavior actually js. We might as well 
adjust ourselves to it. This is the way 
people are, so we might as well accept 
it.” In other words, what. people do can- 
not be a basis for 
PLAYBOY: Do you th 
on which m: 


ndard. 
s the bi 
ny churchmen have beco 
more tolerant of premarital se 
everybody's doing i 
ADAMS: Yes, perhaps some of them. But 
1 agree with Margaret Mead in her com- 
ment on the Kinsey Report. She said, 
“Let no one suppose that these data that 
describe what people are doing can be 
taken as die basis of what is right” 
What is right may, of course, be 
diflerent from what they're doing. If the 
church of the future is worth its salt, 
it must rethink these things, and if the 
sex ethic is changed, it must be changed 
toward the end of finding a standard 
that has a theological base. That is, we 
must arrive at а new understanding 
reinterpretation—of sexual relationships 
between people under God. 

MARTY: I agree that this has been an 
overlooked question, in that our sex ethic 


ber 


bate all your life. thus attainin 
of “spirituality,” or, two, how to 
prepare yoursell for monogamous mar 
riage, which is the only other ideal. 1 
don't think it would be truthlul to claim 
that the church has done anything ¢ 
cept devote itself to these alternati 
recent decades, the church h 
stretched wil 
don't think anything really new 
emerged yet. I couldn't honestly 
the church has developed 2 
And п 
of unr 


n those boi 


has 


new ethic. 
ally a kind 
alistic thing going on: The church 
firming one set of values while it's 
allowing or winking at another. I think 
any pastoral counselor knows that what 
he's talking about from the pulpit or in 
his classes isn’t really being grasped or 
lived up to by the people who hear him, 
I can't say where this is going to go. By 
this I don't mean that Christians should 
merely take a poll and then adjust or try 
to be relevant to its findings. No, if 


something runs counter to the central 
impetus of Christian cthics, believers 
must condemn it, even if this greatly om- 
barrasses and inconveniences them, set 
ting the ıt from others in the world. 
"The Christian may live under norms and 
mandates he would not impose on the 
world at large. because these norms were 
designed to equip him for the disciple- 
ship of Jesus Christ. They were not de- 
signed to license him to be a snoop or 
a legislative busybody or a thrillsecking 
gossip. As things are now, I see morc 
erosion in popular Christianity; but 
looking ahead, 1 don’t think the church 
will ever endorse every kind of extr 
marital relationship. I do, however, pic 
ture the church trying to find meaning 
in forms of sexual expression that it has 
not yet recognized and not yet related 
to the Christian hic. 
RUBENSTEIN: To the best of my knowl- 
edge, Judaism has not had this difficulty 
with premarital sex. We have a principle 
that says that if an unbetrothed mi 
unberrothed кота 
ac is not. considered. an 
degrad The carly Jews made a 
distinction between the act of an unbe- 
trothed man or woman and the act ol a 
married man or woman. But, more im 
portant, it’s beside the point for me to 
say that a particular relationship is desir- 
able or undesirable. People are going to 
enter into a relationship when they feel 
its appropriate to their needs, no matter 
what clergymen say. Very often, all we 
can do is try to pick up the pieces and 
help people mend things. I would be most 
reluctant to pass judgment on sexual 
atters. In а sense, it would be passin 
judgment on somebody else's freedon 


PLAYEOY: Until now, we've been talking 
about premarital sex. Would you also 
hesitate to pass judgment on extra 

sex? 


RUBENSTEIN: I'm completely in 
with the Biblical strictures а, 
tery 
ADAMS: Any conclusions about sex out- 
side of ze depend on what you 
mean by marriage. For the Christian 
marriage is more than a civil act; it's a 
religious covenant. The idea of a cove- 
nant presupposes that the individual 
becomes a person by entering into mean- 
ingful and g relations with other 
persons, by making a commitment. The 
texture of his commitments constitutes 
the character of his personhood. This is 
lso true of a community. One could say 
that the kind of commitment made by 
person or a society gives thar person or 
society its style. Marriage for the Chris- 
tian is a commitment not only between 
husband and wife but also between them 
nd the religious community, and all are 
bound together in fidelity, sexual and 
otherwise. But one should not make this 
fidelity sound like a business contract, 
signed and sealed and duly notarized 
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formulated rules. Fundamentally, mar- 
age is a covenant of intimacy, rooted 
affection. And affection rules out 
casualness; it rules out not only coercion 
but also manipulation and exploitation. 
But the covenant is not absolute, The 
responsible person, in the modern view, 
may in good conscience believe that a 
particular covenant should come to an 


end. The maintenance of a covenant 
can have very destructive consequences. 
Divore may be a means of mitigating 
this destructiveness. But extramarital 

tercourse is something else. It may be 


nothing more than plain adultery. Gen- 
erally, it is not the proper remedy for 
maladjustment in riage. Yet there 
may be rare, special circumstances under 
which extramarital sexual intercourse 
may be condoned. 

PLAYBOY: What sort of circumstances? 
сох: Jesus made it uncomfortably cl. 
that in this area the church has no busi 
ness condoning or condemning. He also 
sisted it is the attitude that counts as 
much as the act. Certainly where it cn- 
tails deceit and the deception of the 
spouse, its always damaging. On the 
other hand, I envision extreme in- 
stances in which it might be the lesser 
evil. Take the famous instance in Tea 
and Sympathy, where the wife of a 
teacher in а boy's school helps a boy 
who fears he has homosexual tendencies 
achieve a kind of confidence in his ow 
manhood by having an affair with him. 
I wouldn't want to put my unequivocal 
stamp of approval on her action, how- 
ever, because we can't know what other 
factors might be involved in such a 


r 


situation; but it does raise the point of 
the lesser evil. Also, those. 
people who are sep their 


spouses for years by war, prison or sick- 
ness, What we have to learn today is not 
to inflict on others our own particular 
understanding of the marital bond or the 
sexual act. Adultery really means violat- 
ng the marriage vow, but that vow is 
understood differently by different cou- 
ples, so a wide pluralism is really neces 
sary, and we should not condemn. other 
people for not living up to our standards. 
ROGERS: Well, I can't see where adultery 
ld ever be permissible for a fully 
responsible Christian, It violates the es- 
мар commitment of two people in 
marriage. But again, when you're deal- 
ing with a concrete situation, you have 
ıo juxtapose it with relevant alternatives. 
Sometimes it is a better thing just to let 
affair work itself out than forthrightly 
to condemn it. A considerable change is 
taking place in pastoral counseling. For 
one thing, there is a renewed awareness 
of personal evaluation and personal re- 
sponsibility. In this setting, the priest 
frequently functions as advisor, but the 


wa 


at least for the Christian, violates the es- 
sential commitment of two people in 
marriage. But only a minority of people 
in our society arc committed Christians. 
How do you feel about mutually agrec- 
ble marital inhidelity for those who 
aren't? 
ROGERS: Well, I suppose such situations 
do exist, but I really can't personally un- 
derstand how they cin, how a couple 
can really continue to love and respect 
ch other under such circumstances. I 
would think the emotional strain would 
be terrific. But maybe the facts are 
against me; I just don't know that much 
about what people actually do i 
private lives. 1 don't feel qualified to 
pronounce judgment upon the situation 
of those who do not accept Christi 
principles. Since people do vary in thei 
capacity for emotional adjustments and 
accommodations, 1 should think we must 
await further evidence before coming to 
any hard-and-fast. conclusions. 
LYNN: I agree, Father. But 1 would be 
very suspicious of the likelihood of love 
between such people remaining unim 
paired. Isn't it naive to think that pasion 
and temporary involvement can be so 
easily managed? 
PIKE: My experience 
cates that more often than not damage 
docs occur to the primary relationship. I 
have run into only about two couples 
who, rightly or wrongly, have a mutual 
agreement along this line, where there 
pparently isn't any flak or tear-up about 
it. In most cases, it involves the necessity 
of deceit on the part of the party who 
goes outside the camp. And deceit, more 
often than not, is unsuccessful, and this 
brings hurt to the other person, Even if 
the deceit is succesful, Гуе seen many 
instances where it has з some of the 
savor out of the primary relationship. 
RUBENSTEIN: I'm not prepared to say that 
mutually agreeable marital infidelity is 
wrong or immoral. But it would scem to 
me that marriage means the sharing of 
the total personal and psychological re- 
sources of two people, and I can't con- 
ceive of a couple who are really enjoy 
their ma wanting to do that. On 
‚ I know that it exists in 
these mar- 
dequate, but it's 
in judgment as to 


thar E personally don't see how 
1 coukl possibly live that way. 

MOORE: With few exceptions, extramari- 
tal sexual relations, even when mutually 
agreeable, lead to serious problems for a 
marriage. I can remember working in 
a marriage-counseling center where we 
had seven very sophisticated couples 
plaving the trading game. "They were 
coming one by one for help without onc 
another's knowing it. It was becoming a 
problem for them. One of the things that 
often makes such à marriage deteriorate, 
even in the most sophisticated society, i; 


that you begin unconsciously comparing 
one sexual partner with another, and 
the one you're accustomed. to, the one 
you're living with all the time, cannot 
stand this comparison. And most айа: 
are not this open. Most involve deccit 
and secrecy, which places terrific strai 
on both the primary and the outside re 
lationship. The sin here is not the sex act 
but the disruption of fidelity and trust 
PLAYBOY: What about a situation 
which one of the spouses is institution 
ized or incapacitated? Would you con 
sider extramarital sex permissible under 
such circumstanc 
ROGERS: | would certainly be inclined to 
be extremely sympathetic in а case like 
that, but positively approving such a 
thing as a kind of moral commitment 
would, I think, be wrong. 
LYNN: This would be one of the most 
painful and poignant human situations I 
could imagine: a man with his wile per- 
manently, say, in a mental institution, or 
icc versa. It is at this point that ту 
sense of marriage as a covenant is tested. 
I worry about the pressure that human 
beings are under when the possibility of 
sexual relationship is not permitted. 
cox: І think this is the type of situa- 
tion in which extramarital sex would be 
acceptable. I would say that in every pos- 
sible instance, however, some kind of 
nderstanding with the spouse is esse 
tial I think that doing things that the 
spouse doesn't know about, or lyin 
the spouse, sows seeds of pers 
destruction. 
MARTY: It wouldn't take a good pastor 
ten seconds to understand such а sit 
tion, and he would try to handle it com- 
passionately. But I can't envision а pastor 
recommending adultery as a solutio 
because 1 have grear difficulty imagining 
that the crippled mate could ever really. 
in his or her heart, want it. For this rea- 
son, I suppose 1 would pull rank in such 
a circumstance and urge that the spouse 
may be called to an extraordinary kind 
of sacrifice or suffering. If a man gets po- 
lio and is paralyzed, he will look upon 
his wife with more dependence than 
ever. E cannot imagine that he would 
feel that the necessary relationship on 
which his very life depends would not 
be threatened by her having sexual rela 
tions with someone else. Here, let me 
accent something that plays a big part in 
the Lutheran tradition: While man 
is not a sacrament—though I regard it 
Virtually sacramentally—it is based on 
the concept of the vow or the pledge. 
This implies more than mere legalisms 
couched in terms of civil marriage and 
its requirements. We accent very strong- 
ly the way human relationships are 
based on language. word, pledge. Thus, 
when I commit myself, as with an oath, 
it almost seems as though the whole 
structure of the universe depends upon 
my following through. God speaks to a 
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they, before Him. speak 10 cach other. 
promising to be together in sickness and 
jı health, for better ог for worse. Life is 
If they violate pledges, the agreed- 
upon base of human relationships is 
violated. We make a good deal of this 


approach. 
ADAMS: I don't see how the Chris 
community itself. could actually sanction. 


tramarital relationships. The unusual 


Iship case—an invalid or a sepa 


h; 
tion by war, etc—calls for a thin line of 


distinction. I would insist, along with Dr. 
Marty, however, that entering the mar- 
icd relationship entails "for richer, for 
poorer, for better, for worse." On the 
other hand, no Christian point of view is 
authentic that is based on a set of invio- 
lable rules. There are situations in which 
human values can be actually preserved 
by violation of neatly formulated 
principles, 

MOODY. Although premarital sex is а 
shadowy region in Biblical ethics, this is 
not so true when we come to the ques- 
tion of adultery, But I have а feeling 
that we are in for some overhauling and 
шоп of this whole area of our 
mostly because it been 
m. It has been phony in so 
many ways—in terms of what we talk 
about as noms and what is actually 
ping on. The church needs to provide 
new guidelines for cxtramarii 
well as for premarital sex. Tu 
church is afraid to do this; but event 
ly it must. The trouble is that the 
time you talk abour extramarital relation- 
ships, people always block their minds. 
They say there are absolutely no justi- 
fiable reasons. I have discussed this with 
а number of my colleagues. How do we 
proceed in our counseling when these 
questions are raised? What do we have 
to sty to a man or a woman in a situ- 
ation where sex with the marriage part- 
mer is impossible? Can it be that once 
all we have to say i “Total ab- 
ESS your lot. Live with i”? Well, 
it seems to me that we had better take 
good look at that, out of respect for thi 
T ies of this life. It's am g the kind 
of realism we can condone when we look 
at the ethics of foreign policy. We can't 
condone equivalent realism, however. in 
personal ethics. We insist we are being 
merely realistic when we say that killing 
is ordinarily wrong. but in self-defense 
or is justified. When it comes 
to realism about a human being, with 
all eeds, though, we become 
highly ide: nd moralistic. Are we 
able to say with dogmatic assurance that 
4 destruc 
to the marriage relationship? As 
d indi most men 
there are 


counsel 


situations 
have saved marriages т 
destroyed them. 

моове: In my own 


than 


ather 


соц 
some 


such 


One example was a wife who was living 
with, but estranged from, her spouse, 
who became involved outside marriage, 
id in the experience found a new ui 


derstanding and confirmation of herself. 
She 


nd her 
health 


learned from the affair, 
al relationship found new 


because of the experience. The problem 
is that we look upon sex as the great sin 
thar must end everything n can 


wreck bis car, or he can lose his job or 
injure his child physically, and his wife 
is able to bridge these cxperiences. But 
let him ger involved with the flesh and 
this becomes the great unforgivable sin. 
There are many kinds of estran 
and wrongdoings within marriage: sex 
does not necessarily have ло be the expe 
rience that will end all other experiences. 
I think the objection to sex outside of 
marriage is that within the Christian tr: 
dition of marital union, sex is more than 
just the physical act; it is symbolic of 
the commitment and merger of two per- 
sonalities who are attempting to share 
a whole life together. The problem in 
our world today is that it is becomir 
increasingly difficult for two people to 
share a whole life together. There are so 
many forces pressing upon cach individ- 
wal that contribute 10 estrangement. 
Some experts are pessimistic enough. to 
say that in another 20 yeus, marriage 
will no longer be for life, but on five-year 
contracts. Fm inclined to think that 
when extramarital sexual relations occur. 
it is only symbolic of a breakdown tha 
has occurred in the union between two 
personalities; and to attack this break- 
down just as being a sexual sin misses 


ments 


the point altogether. 
ADAMS: Extr; ital intercourse by m 
rid persons is viewed bnormal 


ot only because it's a violation of a 
norm but because it often indicates some 
sort of person. maladjustment. In 
most cases, cxtramarital intercourse is a 
symptom rather than a cause of mari 
unhappiness. And so the mx 
mental problem is not that of extr 
I intercourse, but rather the problem of 
maladjustment. 

MOORE: Yes. We ought to recognize the 
fact that sexual expression is a n 
bigger question than the sexual act 
self. To reduce sex just to interce 
abstracting it from the whole person and 
his total sexuality. But on the other 
hand, I would go so far as to say 0 
marriage itself may not be the only 
determining factor in the 
wrongness of sexual expression. 
we get into this trap, we tend to mak 
the institution of marriage more impor- 
tant than the welfare of man. There are 
many people who are married and who 
have very invalid. sexual expressions 
within that marriage. 
сох: 1 agree. The sexual expression of 
love is a broader expression than just 
Sex intercourse, It involves the whole 
range of sexual contacts, and it would be 


rse ds 


not only unwise but impossible to re 
strict all sexual expression to marriage. | 
would think that the sexual expression of 
relationships between men and women 
would at leat be a part of the wide 
range of relationships, in and outside of 


me 
LYNN: Well, I think that a sexual rela. 
tionship is at the very base of the n 
riage covenant and, therefore, is to be 
taken most seriously. This doesn’t mean 
that a husband or a wife cannot ap- 
predate another person as à sexual 
sod for beauty, wherever 


in a 
n the 
sexual E I would argue for a 
firm commitment to the sexual bond. 
MARTY: So much normal human relation- 
ship is sustained through noninvolved 
nd legitimate kinds of flirtation—and 
ion has a sexual base—that. if. you 


aid all sexual expression had 10 be 
limited you would rule 
out much tionship. I agree 


that sexual intercourse, which we con- 
ceive to be the full and ultimate expres- 
n of sexual involvement, ordir 
should be limited to marriage. But it is 
somewhat more complex than merely 
enforcing a code based on such a view- 


point. I can picture what might be 
called the “tewand-sympathy” context. 
which Harvey mentioned a while ago. in 


which I could conceive, from the pasto- 
ral point of view, the legitimacy of 
somethi c adultery in 


xtreme 


ll boils down to the fact that 
al norms to 


MOODY: It 
we can't set up absolute ethi 


е behavior before we actually 
nto the situation in which those 
e called for. Wi 
as Dr. Moore pointed. ош a 
moment ago, that sexual lov 
marriage can be just as dam 
degrading to the human personality 
love expressed outside of mar 
The most valid guidelines con. 
cerning the sexual expression of love— 
nd aus has nothing to do with rul 
ed to human 


detern 
ente 
answers 

recognize 


should also 


tlie concern itas it, and some tenderness 
g for that worth, 


and feel seems to 
me, the basic guidelines for all treat- 
ment of human beings in a personal 
relationship. 

ROGERS: And this means that, regardless 
of the context in which people express 
themselves sexually, the Christian must 
never lose sight of the more serious im 
plications and the essentially sacred 
nature of the sexual union. 

PLAYBOY: Must sex always be so solemn 
nd sacred in order to be moral and 
responsible, Father? How do you feel 
about sex for pleasure? 

ROGERS: t suggesting that people 


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should douse themselves in holy water 
before going to bed. Of course, sexual 
pleasure is good and legitimate. Of 
course, sex should be fun. We are get- 
away from our traditional overcon. 
h the procreative purpose of sex 
a very important point 
but the inner, immediate 
meaning of marriage is being sought in 
love—a common shared life—and this 
includes the fun and pleasure in sex. 

COX: OI course, sex should be fun. Man 
is, among other things, homo ludeni— 
ature; this is one of the 
things man can do that machines cannot. 
nes may take over a lot of other 
s. but they do not play. Man does, 
and I think his sexuality is one area in 
which man expresses this playfulness. It 
is good that some correaives have been 
introduced, some criticisms of the stand: 
rd Christian understandings of sex. The 
criticisms that have emphasized. playful. 
ness and the erotic element are useful 
and welcome. And they act as а correc. 
tive to what I think is oversolem- 
nizing of the theological understanding 
of sex. Bur Î would like to say immediate- 
ly that when sex is viewed only as play. 
then the other person becomes merely 
the plaything, and sex is restricted to the 
Icisure side of life. Men who view sex 
only as a source of pleasure fail to see the 
we on, as a co-worker, 
as one with whom the male struggles 
in the social, professional апа political 
arena. She is seen almost entirely as 
object of diversionary interest. Sca 
fun, but when it becomes nothing but 
fun, then prety soon it is not even fun 
anymore. Some eminent psychiatrists 
have lately been reporting a neuro: 
that is beginning to emerge in America 
today. Young people come to psychia- 
tists not with complaints of guilt feel- 
ings arising out of a repressive Victorian 
background but from the fact that they 
have all the freedom they want now, but 
they aren't having fun. It’s not pleasura- 
ble for them. They report that fun in sex 
just doesn’t seem to be there, and they 
ask, "What's wrong?” It's a reverse guilt 
syndrome. We feel bad because we're 
not having the fun we're supposed to be 
having. I don't believe we can pull off a 
total identification of sex with play. It's 
fun, but it’s more th that. 

RUBENSTEIN: I think that sex can be play 
only when everything else is going right. 
To see sex only as play is to forget what 
sex is. It is a way of relating to another 
human being at a particular moment in 
the timetable of life as we go from birth 
to death. The insights of both literature 
and religion speak of the relation be- 
tween love and death. When we are 
involved in sex, we are involved in that 
activity out of which the human origins 
arise. We are also reminded of where 
we are poing. There is a certain tragic 
sensc connected with the sexual act. 
What is involved is not purely person 


and voluntarv. When we engage in sexual 
intercourse, we are serving forces be- 
yond our own mature. Even what we 
desire is beyond our own nature. In sex 
we give our bodies to cach other. I be- 
lieve our bodies are all we have, When I 
give my body, I give my total self. I can 
have good sex only when I am at home 
n my body. But to accept my body is to 
accept my mortality. Paradoxically, 
accept sex is to accept death. To accept 
sex is to accept the fact that our bodies 
are limited in time and ultimately brings 
with it the price we pay for entering 
time—namely, death. This solemn ele- 
ment in sex has been underesti еа in 
our country, which tends always to ur 
derplay the elements that ar a 
the human condition. 1 am reminded of 
Albert C Summer in Algiers. 
In it he talks with reverent joy about the 
way his compatriots used to enjoy their 
bodies. They used to swim naked on the 
beaches of Algiers. At the same time, 
there was a sadness to all this, because 
the very same bodies, which they knew 
to be all they had, would within a very 
short period decay and die. I do believe 
in celebrating the joys of the body. But 
I also believe the body is all that I have. 
Therefore, the joys I celebrate have a 
terminus to them, so sex has a significance 
that is more than just play. 
MARTY: Well, I don't think that every 
ume I eat a lobster Е have to moralize 
about the vitamins and minerals to be 
drawn from it. If someone taps me on 
the shoulder and wants to theologize 
upon the experience, I will politely in- 
vite him to do so with somebody clse. 
Pleasure is a legitimate element in hu- 
manity. But what is a person for in the 
world? Is he just for ing lobster or 
having sex? If he is, then he is in trouble 
before we ever get near the question of 
legitimacy in something pleasurable. But 
if he has a warm, responsible, healthy: 
relationship to others and to the world, 
then pleasure will fit in as а part of his 
sustenance. 
MOORE 1 hope that within Protes- 
tantism we can get over the attitude that 
sex has to be some sort of superspiritual 
ience. I am afraid that so many 
ns have so mystified sex that 
they can't enjoy it. I'm sure many people 
1 physical 
ngs because they're trying to make 
sex into some sort of spiritualized prayer 
experience. This is probably because 
they feel so guilty about sexual inter 
course and physical pleasure that the 
only way they can do it is to turn it into 
an otherthan-body experience. I wish 
we could get away from this. [ wish we 
could accept the idea that man is made 
to enjoy the pleasures of life, that sex is 
one of these pleasures and that to be 
ишу sexual is to be earthy and physi 
and to let the body be one of the cha 
nels out of which we can express our 
deeper existence. Sex, for me, is one of 


aren't willing to become rea 


the ways husbands and wives can cele 
brate the joys of life together. 
MOODY: There is an undeniable animal- 
bout man, and we shouldn't try to 
pretend it isn't so. If that animality, 
that physi ical urge and its con. 
ıt of the pleasure of 
should not be denied. 
ROGERS: I agree that there is a very real 
sense in which sex should be play. Play 
is highly contemplative. By this 1 mean 
that it is not out to win or to achieve 
something outside of the scope of its im 
mediate concert 
and it is fitting that it expresses itself in 
play. But 1 suspect that is not exactly 
the sense in which the question is being 
asked. If by sex-as-play you mean а sort 
of deliberate rejection of the complex 
structure of sexual expression, if you 
mean pleasure utterly detached from re- 
sponsibility, then such play may well 
appear self-defeating. The very concen- 
ion upon sexual pleasure as an end 
If tends to put it beyond the 
pacity of the average man's habitual 
achievement. 
PLAYBOY: Why? 
ROGERS: Because 


a 


he makes personal 


pleasure the ultimate achievement, the 
sole standard for judging his sexual 
accomplishment. failure to achieve this 


standard may produce greater guilt than 
the old puritanism. And here let me say 
that if one thinks of sexual puritanism as 
the separation of the biological from the 
emotional, then one must speak of two 
opposing sorts of puritanism: One sort 
would have sex only for the purpose of 
duty, and fails for this reason to see sex 
as good in itself. The other sort of 
puritanism would limit the sexual to 


the merely pleasurable—excluding its 
1 re 


emotional involvement and its soc 
sponsibility. Both forms of purit 
oversimplify the complex phenome 
of sexuality and rob it of its specific 
true inner meaning. Furthermore—and 
this is very 
me that it often 
results in one person's using another pe 
son. A person is always a person and cin 
never be exploited as 
a thing—an object. A person—for th 
must always be an e 


he or she were 


PLAYBOY: That is а view with which vir- 
Пу everyone, from the most conserva 
ve to the most liberal, including 
Hefner, agrees in principle. What Hefner 
objects to is the idea that all sexu 
tions unblesed by deep spiritual love 
revocable vows are by definition 

inhuman, Some church- 


or outside marriage—is immoral because 
s not only “unnatural” but is exploi 
tative, because it is sex purely for pleasure 
ather than procreation. How do you 
lemen feel about the morality of non- 
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leads to orgasm without intercourse? 
ADANS: I would assume that such 
ior could contribute to the mainte 
nance of, and even the deepening of, 
love between two people. 

y action that expresses affection 
between consenting adults in private is 
something that lies outside the range of 
my moral condemnation. 

RUBENSTEIN: The trouble with noncoital 
sex is that when practiced exclusively to 
the neglect of coital sex, it represents an 
immature relationship, In noncoital sex, 
one often expresses some neurotic fear of 
the full genital relationship. І believe in 
a kind of incarnational theory of sex. 
The mind and the body must be at one 
with each other must will thei 
total function, which means genital sex. 
On the other hand, 1 don уйщ 
immoral about noncoital sex. I simply 
feel that when practiced exclusively, it i 
immature and incomplete. It represents 
a kind of fixation at nile level of 
sexual development. 
MARTY: I see no problem a 
this in the category of p 
hands is not coital sex, yet Î could pic 
ture the right man with the right woman 
getting a bigger—and healthier—ch 
out of that than the wrong man w 
wrong woman could get out of “non 


be- 


intercourse, All these things, including 
all forms of fondling cach other's bod 


if mutally recable, would belong 
av. And if such activity reinforces 
onship, 1 have difficulty 
seeing why the state should have laws 
about it. In fact, such laws seem absurd. 
So. as a pastor, if it is mutually suppor- 
tive, I would have difficulty sceing any- 
thing even to discuss. 
ROGERS: Well, it scems to me that there 
should always be a reference, wherever 
possible, to procreation. I don't think 
procreation is central, but I think com 
pletely noncoital sex is too much of a 
deviation from it. I'm not now speaking, 
of foreplay. I'm talking about deliber: 
ly produci тош. inter- 
course. I think this is immoral for the 
tholic. 
PIKE: Well, I see no moral dillerence 
between petting to climax and actual 
nercourse. E don't see any signific 
distinction between intercourse and non- 
coital stimulation to orgasm. If onc is 
going to be this involved—leaving out 
whether or not one should be this i 
it might as well be 
s possible to both people. There is no 
point to “technical virginity.” 
MOODY: We have this great hang-up on 
and we call a girl a 
ached that stage. It 
is possible for noncoital intercourse to be 
immoral, but it is also possible for it to be 
morally responsible, Again, it would de- 
pend upon the situation and the circum- 
stances that exist between two people. 
RUBENSTEIN: Well, you know, many 
couples have resorted to noncoital sex 


volved. 


need 
of 


because of fear of pregnancy. But, 
less to say, we now have better form 
conuacept 


PLAYBOY: Since we're on the subject, 
what are your views on the morality of 
birth control? 

RUBENSTEIN: I understand what the 


Catholic Church means by its prohibi- 
tion; the sex act cannot be taken out of 
context of the fact that this is the way 
children come into the world. From this 
point of view, I would say that the de- 
sire for a child is unconsciously involved 
in all good sex. However, given the ter- 
rors of overpopulation and the hideous 
problems that will arise unless this prob- 
lem is solved, we cannot afford the lux- 
ury of unplanned parenthood, For this 
I'm unequivocally in favor of 


birth-control measures. I have по moral 
judgment against childless marriages, 
because 1 realize that th be cr 


cumstances in which the birth of a child 
might introduce a severe problem. Nev- 
ertheless, if a healthy young married 
couple didn't want a child, I would won- 
der if they were well. But 1 would cer- 
tainly not think they were bad or evil. 
Marty: I'm almost tempted to ask: Is 
there any moral problem about birth 
control? In the Lutheran Church, as in 
almost all Protestant churches, we react- 
egatively at first to the development 
nodern contraception. The literature 
on the subject just a generation ago was 
generally negative; now it’s almost t 
ally positive about family planning. 
come about. chiefly because 
of the rereading of the Bible, which is 
where Lutherans always have to start to 
measure their norms for reclarifi 
and revision. Concerning birth con 
they can find no clear prohibitive te 
if they could, they would probably go 
against the whole world, no matter what 
the cultum uation was. Biblical pas 
sages such as the one about Onan are 
seen as no problem; they were misap- 
plied in the first place. The words “Be 
fruitful and multiply” are seen more as a 
blessing than as a Natural 
law isn't a big thing with us. In our re- 
ppraisal of the human situation. today 
п a crowded world, we tend to stress 
doctrines and u p» about steward 
ship. responsibility, pla 
shared love, all of that. 
counselor would insist that mariage 
involve childre possible. But 
no stigma is attached to childless cou- 
ples. In fact, there is strong pastoral 
support for them. 

сох: Not only do I feel that birth con- 
. 1 think it is of question- 
able morality not to use birth control 
, when population growth is such a 
problem. Christians have а posi- 
е responsibility to restrict the size of 
their families. 

PIKE: I believe in family planning, in 
responsible decision making about hav- 
ing children, A child should be wanted. 


‚ provision, 
А Luth 


wheneve 


In some circumstances, it is a positive 
effort toward. responsibility to use the 
best birth-control methods available. The 
church has no infallibility as to what, i 
а given decade, is the best me 
the circumstances to prevent birth and 
still maintain the sex relationship, which 
has another, independent primary 
is a unitive function. 
xankly, I feel that we still 
need to do a great deal of research into 
the whole matter of birth control, For 
ample, ste ion is one of the more 
perlect ways of preventing conception, 
but some récent studies indicate that 
sterilization of the male contributes to a 
great feeling of inadequacy and impo- 
tence. The birth-control pill is limited 
in that there is presently some question 
about how long it can be safely used. 
ADAMS: An elaborate rescarch on 
matters is under way at the. Center for 
Population Studies at Harvard, Two 
members of the Department of Ethics at 
Harvard Divinity School are associated 
with this Center and the project. Th 
are finding that the issue of developing 
efücient and safe birth-control tech- 
niques, important though it is, will not 
by itself bring about the necessary re 
duction in the birth rates unless the mo 
tivation to limit and control births is 
present. The existence of such motiva- 
tion is often assumed, but this assump- 
tion is not warranted. Certain coeds 
in our own culture, for example, de- 
spite their knowledge of birth-control 
techniques, play a kind of “R 1 
roulette,” declining to use contraceptives 
and taking their chances as to whether 
or not they will become pregnant. 

In other cultures, as in our own, one 
finds special religious objections to birth 
control. In India, surviving sons are 
needed for social security and for the 
burial of the father, a. religious obser 
ance viewed as absolutely essential. 
Among Islamic peasant women, con- 
wolling or limiting family size is held to 
be in God's hands, and God might take 
the children of those who presume to 
stop having children. Islamic peasant 
women do visit birth-control clinics, but 
primarily to seek asistan ing 
the births of their children for the sake of 
health. Such a temporary health meas 
ure is sanctioned by the Koran. Respon- 
sible parenthood is today a moral issue 
even when birth-control techniques as 
such are viewed as morally acceptable 
But for some cultui 

anning per se is am alien concept 
c the whole world popula 
explosion is moving toward S.R.O., 
1 believe in some kind of family plan- 
ning, in not bringing into the world chil- 
dren who are unwanted, The children 
that do come, God knows, need lots ol 
love and care and tenderness, which 
parents sometimes cannot give to a great 
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in supporting and helping kids grow up, 
and practice birth control accordingly. 
AYNN: I agree. Properly understood, it is 
а way of spacing your children, to pre- 
serve the sanity of the father and mother 
and the economic health and well-being 
of the family. That's great, but when 
h control is used by people who kid 
themselves that they're merely postpon- 
ing children until some unspecified fu- 
ture date, only to get caught up in the 
consumer syndrome and finally wake up 
in their middle years with a sense of 
wistful emptiness, then this is a very sad 
and unfortunate misuse of birth control. 
ROGERS: With respect to the various 
birth-control techniques, the evidence is 
that there is considerable hesitation, 
even in the highest Catholic circles, as to 
what exactly the force of law is, and 
even the nature of the law. Under these 
circumstances, I think 1 would have to 
take a very tolerant view. Thus, if for 
physical reasons a child would be ex- 
tremely hazardous to the life of the 
mother, and if the rhythm method is not 
safe, under those circumstances I feel 
that the pill, or something like it, should 
be allowed or tolerated. 

PLAYBOY: But what if, as Rabbi Ruben- 
stein suggested, a couple simply doesn't 
want children? 

ROGERS: This is what I call the contra- 
ceptive mentality, and it should be con- 
demned. It is an attempt to completely 
dissociate sex from procreation. It is the 
mentality that refuses to see parenthood 
as the natural result and complement of 
a sexual relationship. Notice I speak of a 
sexual relationship—not cach and every 
sexual activity. Certainly rhythm is 
morally acceptable, and there is consid- 
crable probability that the pill will be 
acceptable. The actual decision. should 
be left up to the individual couple, after 
appropriate consultation with doctor, 
psychiatrist and spiritual advisor. 
ADAMS: But I question the necessity for 
the risk, the uncertainty, the worry in- 
volved the rhythm method. With re- 
spect to the theological defense of the 
rhythm method, I agree with the Roman 
Catholic mother in England who gained 
wide approbation a few years ago when 
she said, “You may be fooling yourself 
by using rhythm. But certainly you are 
not fooling God. He knows what you're 
up to.” In short, contraception is inevita 
bly “artificial,” but like a pulley or a 
wheel or any other product of intelli- 
i strument of human free 
neans that it can be abused. 
On the other hand, it can contribute to 
responsible parenthood. 

MOORE The rhythm method—for my 
money, at least—is the most imperfect 
method. I'm perfectly happy for Catho- 
lics to use it, but I hope they will soon 
change their minds and be willing to ac 
cept mechanical means of birth control. 
You see, for me at least, sex is a natural 
expression of a healthy marital relation- 


ship between man and woman, and this 
xpression, this means of commu 
tion, this act is essential to that rela- 
tionship and should not be ticd to 
conception. If I had to rate this, 1 would 
say that sex is first for the purpose of com- 
munication and second for the purpose 
of creating new.life. The very fact that I 
set up this hierarchy of values means 
that birth control is very essential to my 
understanding of sex. Also, I believe 
that every man should have the power 
to determine the outcome of his acts, 
and thus should have the power, as far. 
as is possible, to determine the outcome 
of every sexual expression. 

PIKE: 1 agree completely. As to methods, 
| would make distinctions between arti- 
ficial contraception, steri n and 
rhythm only in terms of the effectiveness 
and the appropriateness in the given con- 
text. Obviously, [or a young person to be 
sterilized—there would be no later op- 


«s 


portunity to have a family and raise 
children—I would, generally speaking, 


say that this is wrong. Now, if we know 
that because of blood factors or other 
physical reasons, a penon 
should never have a child, then, yes, 
sterilization might be the answer. How- 
ever. my moral objection to rhythm— 
sometimes called “Vatican roulette" —i 
that in most cases it isn't as dependable 
as other available methods and therefore 
is a violation of responsibility. 
RUBENSTEIN: As far as I'm concerned, 
any birth-control measure is all right if 
it's effective, aesthetically appropriate 
and doesn’t interfere with the full enjoy- 
ment of the sexual act. 

PLAYBOY: How would you feel about a 
couple who practiced birth control from 
the very beginning of their marri 
because they didn't ever want to have 
any children 
ADAMS: The human being should be a 
free creature; and a married couple 
should be free to choose not to have 
children. They thus choose, however, to 
forgo a fulfillment that belongs to the 
human being. It’s conceivable that a 
couple might agree that they aren't 
sufficiently mature emotionally to under- 
take the responsibility of rearing chi 
dren: or the deliberate childlessness of a 
married couple mi 
related to a 
ing the deci 
course, a couple runs the risk of bitterly 
lamenting the fact later on, as Bob Lynn 
suggested a few moments ago. But th 
possibility holds true for all roads, taken 
or not take 
cox: 1 think they can make that free 
choice if they want to. But I wouldn't 
advise it. I think children arc something. 
that round out and strengthen а mar- 
riage, make it a more meaningful thing. 
However. maybe they want to adopt 
children rather than procreate them. 
There are so many children without 
families in our world and so many 


people who want children and who do 
ot have them that I could envisioi 
family, for example, using birth control 
all of the time and not having any of 
their own children, but adopting 
children as a way of having them. 
PLAYBOY: How do you feel about abor- 
tion as a method of birth control, gentle- 
men? Do you think it would be justified 
10 save the physical or mental health of 
the mother or if there were a danger of 
a malformed infant, or if the prospective 
parents happened not to want a baby 
for personal and emotional reasons? 
ADAMS: It is gratifying that therapcutic 
abortion—for the saving of the life of a 
pregn: 
states. Often therapeutic abortion favors 
not only the health of the mother but also 
the good of the husband and the children 
in the family. I cannot for one moment 
accept the spurious “religious” notion 
that the Christian should adopt a spe- 
cial kind of vocation for the care of a 
malformed infant when the malforma- 
ion was recognized even before the 
birth. Certainly, we need a liberalization 
of the law with regard to abortion, 
Five progressive states allow therapeutic 
abortion for the prevention of serious 
jury, emotional as well as physical. But 
I am amazed at the slowness with which 
the public faces the situation. It is said 
that 2500 illegal abortions are per 
formed daily in America. As many as 
5000 women a year die because of im- 
proper abortion and improper care. Ap- 
parently this number is a conservative 
stimate. And contrary to popular be- 
icf, most abortions are not for unwed 
mothers. Nine out of ten are procured 
by married women over 30 who have 
three or four children. Well-organized 
abortion rings operate in the large cities, 
making enormous profits because of the 
kwardnes of our legislation. This 
tuation deserves a high place on the 
agenda of public issues Both the 
Planned Parenthood Conference and the 
American Law Institute have called for 
model abortion codes to stimulate rc- 
sponsible discussion. Some cxperts argue 
for "abortion on demand" and for more 
extensive, informed use of contracep 
tives. But I doubt that abortion will or 
should be exempt from all s of reg 
ulation. On the other hand, 1 п see 
no ethical or religious justification for 
the attempt of the Roman Catholic hier 
archy to prevent the liberalization of 
rounding abortion. This liberali 
aims to relax some of the rest 
tions, and it does not coerce anyone to 
practice abortion. Those who do not wish 
il themselves of the relief provided 
by proposed legislation are free to mai 
tain their own standards. [t would seem to 
me appropriate for the Roman Catholic 
Church to attempt to persuade their 
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rch to impose these standards by 
upon other citizens. Almost every- 
one on this panel has expressed. himself 
avor of freedom and against coercion 
religion. I have expressed the same 
sentiment, and now I say I reject the 
Catholic Church's attempt to coerce the 
rest of us by maintaining the old laws. 

ROGERS: Moral principles are one t 
ivil law is quite another. Law is not 
imply concerned with enlorcing morali- 
ty. When we think in terms of law, there 
are other considerations besides the mo- 
rality of abortion that must be reckoned 
with. Whether we should have definite 
laws against all forms of abortion is 
mater that calls for further study and 
considerable discussion between all those 
who have an interest in the matter. There 
may be reason to believe that abortion 
laws should be liberalized to prevent 
greater evils. From the moral standpoint, 
however, I could not support such legis- 
lation, because abortion seems to me to 
be direct killing of human life, and for 
this reason it is immoral. I am very re- 
luctant to admit compromise in thi а 
of direct taking of human life, because 
the implications are too vast and terrify- 
ng—induding the destruction of the 
human race by nuclear armament. The 
emphasis must be upon the value of hu- 
man life—any human life—that of the 
baby, that of the Viet Gong, that of the 
criminal 1 am prepared to admit the 
possibility of exceptions to this general 
principle of the sanctity of life—but I 
would mitigate this gencral principle 
under powerful persuasion. Ob- 
viously, however, I am not speaking of 
a situation in which there is some patho- 
logic condition of the womb where an 
operation is necessary that would involve 
the death of the child. This is not a case 
of direct killing. There is a difference in 
attitude between a direct and an indirect 
Killing. And attitudes are all-important. 
MOODY: Well, F: 
preciate the argument. your Church uses 
to develop a theological position on the 
question of control of birth, and I would 
not for a moment denigrate it. Giv 
your theological and biological presup- 
bout when life begins, then 
your conclusions are absolutely correct. I 
do not happen to share those presump- 
tions, however. In fact, 1 don't. know 
where 1 draw the time line on abortion, 
but I feel that even up to the birth of. 
the child, especially in cases where the 
mother's health or life is in danger, abor- 
tion may be both moral and 
Like you, I don't share theologi: 
suppositions that deny the life of the 
mother for the sake of the unborn child. 
PIKE: Again, there are no absolutes. As 
far as the sanctity of human lile is con- 
cemed, we are killing people right now 
in Vietnam. We kill people as an act of 
seli-defense either as a nation or as an 
individual. My objection to capital pun- 
ishment, for example, is not that the 


only 


people are killed but that, as sound sta- 
tistics show, capital punishment doesn't 
deter crime. If capital punishment were 
shown to deter crime noticeably, then I 
think that would outweigh the other fa 
tors. My approach is the same in regard 
to abortion. If all the factors are weighed, 
and the lesser of the two evils is abortion, 
then it should be carried out. Certainly 
our laws should be liberalized to permit 
abortion in cases such as rape and incest 
and the verified danger of the birth of a 
child who will be permanently incapable 
of living life adequately, physically or 
mentally. The law should also tal 
account seriously debilitating mental 
physical effects on the mother. The fact 
is that we have no verification, medically 
or theologically, that the fetus in the 
very carly months is a human being. In 
fact, Thomas Aquinas and others in the 
Roman Catholic Church said that until 
there is а quickening—for him, alter 40 
days for males and 80 days for females 
—there is no life. To those for whom 
Aquinas is the normative theologian, 
abortion, therefore. is not really killing a 
person. So for them, talk about murder- 
ing the child, as some put it, doesn't 
ally count until a later. period—alter 
fe abortion is no longer possible—when 
life really seems to begin. These are tech- 
nical questions, but even if abortion is 
the taking of the life of the child, this is 
a question of weighing that consideration 
against the other factors. But we have 
not yet achieved reform allowing for the 
grounds outlined. So I haven't even 
forced myself to think of the question of 
whether abortion would be a legitimate 
method of regular birth control. We are 
so far from getting our laws amended to 
take into account these urgent and ob- 
vious reasons for abortion that 1 simply 
have to “pass” on this broader question. 
MOORE: Well, I approve of abortion. If 
two people are not willing and ready 
emotionally, psychologically or econon 

cally to enter into parenthood, they 
should have the right to terminate a 
pregnancy. I don't think we're de: 
with real life, anyw 
born and his personal 
shape; so the old argument agair 
tion, I think, is completely out of date. 

RUBENSTEIN: І can't accept abortion as 
easily as you do, Dr. Moore. Normally I 
am utterly opposed to it. Our Jewish tra- 
dition has a horror of it. At the same 
time, there may be medical reasons why 
a woman cannot give birth. But there 
would have to be pretty good evidence 
that the child would be born malformed 
before I could approve abortion on those 
grounds. In the case of the Thalidomide 
drug that resulted in so many mal- 
formed births, for example, my feeling is 
that those births should have been 
aborted. But just not wanting а baby— 
which you give as an acceptable cause 
—would for me be the worst possible 
reason for an abortion, and one that I 


would find the greatest difficulty in 
accepting. 
сох I'm a little old-fashioned about 


too. I think it's too often used 
society to avoid social stigma 


among the married. You know, the 
middle-class girl who gets pregnant and 


instead of having the baby and putting 
it out for adoption, or raising it, has 
а quiet abortion somewhere because she 
doesn't want to bring any social disre 
pure on her family. The lower-class girl 
in our society who gets pregnant, espe- 
cially the Negro girl, tends to go ahead 
and have the baby. And then we pub- 
licize the statistics about the high illegit- 
imacy rate among Negroes, whi 
have been no records of how m: 
urban white girls have bad abortions. 
1 am in favor of legalizing abortion. 
mainly because so many people, black 
and white, are killed and maimed by 
illegal ones. Still, though 1 would de- 
fend a wom: right to have an 
I am personally strongly against 
1g so. 1 approve in those cases 
bortion safeguards the physical 
health of the mother; I think it would 
be perfectly acceptable—but not when 
s just a matter of getting rid of the. 
child. 1 would rather sec a wider accep- 
tance of birth control, which vastly 
vrelerable to abortion. For one thing. 
when a woman becomes pregnant, a 
kind of psychosomatic process be 
n her body, and if it's interrupted, 
can inflict a kind of damage that we don't 
yet know much about. There's а close 
connection beiwcen the mental and 
al state of people in various as- 
and I chink we have to 
be careful not to intrude until we know 
a little more about what we're doing. 
MARTY: If I were a pastor in а Thalido- 
mide case, and the prospective par 
came to see me in a crucial stage of 
carly pregnancy and said it was quite 
likely that they were going to give birth 
to an abnormal baby. I would no doubt 
be middleman for them, working with a 
medical doctor where it is legal—or 
smuggling them to where it is permissi- 
ble, or working for liberalization of 
Jaws where it isn't —to take care of the 
matter, І would assess human values 
and probably vote more for an actual 
mother than for a potential monster. 
MOODY: I think our present abortion laws 
are the most barbaric on the books in this 
country. Once again, it's a matter of the 
American people, particularly religious 
people—and I'm not now talking about 
Catholics, but about Protestants, whom 
I know best in terms of how they treat 
this whole question and the kind of hy- 
pocrisy that 
willing to op 
We don't realize how many people in 
this country are getting abortions every 
year, how many of our daughters and 

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fiction By FRANK ROBINSON 


THE WRECK OF THE SHIP JOHN B. 


nothing was wrong with the craft except that it might never reach its 
destination, so he had to begin taking chances—and he had to act fast 


1 TED THE CORPSE the 1355th time period out. It was floating alone in the indifferent 
blackness of space ten billion miles from nowhere, the small jets attached to its space suit 
empty of fuel and the oxygen tank a depleted, echoing canister of aluminum. There 
was nothing else within immediate range, which meant that the body had drifted in 
the silent dark for thousands of time periods, the air in its suit gradually seeping out 
through a hundred microscopic pinholes and the cold seeping in, turning the man 
inside into a Irozen, desiccated mummy. 

It was sheer accident that 1 had picked it up at all. I had given up running the 

radar on automatic sweep hundreds of time periods before; but this particular period, 
for reasons I couldn't put a finger on, I had gotten tired of staring through my com- 
partment ports, dreaming of home or trying to figure out what seemed so strange 
about the ship lately, and decided to run the gear through a routine check. It picked 
up the suit on the fourth sweep, right after I had fired it up. The sweep line in the 
viewing globe staggered to à halt, hunted for a moment, then narrowed to a bright 
thread of scarlet. The panic button flashed red and a split second later the “All Sta- 
tions” alarm echoed throughout the Cassiopeia like the brassy trumpet call of doom— 
which, I suppose, it really was. 
t the globe for a full minut 
g what the hell it could be, before I began working the mag- 
nifier to bring the hologram closer, When I could make out what it w the sweat 
popped out between my shoulder blades and a chill grew in my stomach. 1 waited until 
the control console indicated all stations were manned—some 2.3 minutes behind opti- 
mum schedule, though 1 had really ceased to worry about opi 
—then hollered into the squawk box for Col 
out and get it 

Once the body v 


I must haye stared 


ly scratching my tattooed cap- 


tain's bars and wonder 


inside the air lock, other crew members acted as honorary pall- 
bearers and bore it quietly into the commur tment and laid it gently on 
the deck, using light magnetic clamps to secure it to the metal flooring. It was quite an 
occasion and I guess we were all aware of it, or so 1 thought at the time—the first martyr 
to be recovered from space. A few minutes later, the rest of the crew had kicked silently 
into the compartment to cling to the brake rings and cold light tubes until the 
cabin looked like a human aviary with ten nude and featherless birds clustered 

1 must have been at least 500 time periods since we had all been in one com- 
partment together and probably only slightly less than that since I had spoken to 
another member of the crew. During the long voyage, the humanity in you slowly evapo- 
rates, like a puddle of water in a hot sun, and you grow apart, It was probably different 
on military ships, but the Cassiopeia was a Ireighter and 1 was an elected captain and 
we weren't really a crew, we were future colonists—which meant young, brainy and 
noncooperative. The ship was completely automatic, of course, which made us strictly a 


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group of passengers, like those in a crowded transit shuttle back on Earth. We had make-work, but eventually we 
grew bored and sick and tired of one another and then silent and hostile. The Colonization Board had expected 
that and made sure we had shadow screens and no weapons of any kind. For our p: we wore Privacy like an 
invisible suit of armor, and the day inevitably came when we didn't speak to one another at all. 

Nobody said a word now, all stared expressionless at the thing on the deck. They were waiting for the cap- 
tain to speak—and I didn't know what to say. 1 didn't look like а captain—I was short and skinny and cursed 
with a baby face and pale hair the color of ashes—and right then I didn't feel like a captain, either, I coughed, the 
noise sounding gross and vulgar in the humid cabin, and wondered how to begin, then realized I couldn't see the 
death mask behind the cracked faceplate of the space suit. The warm moisture in the cabin had condensed into 
an army of fine white crystals intent on burying the thing where it lay. 

I kicked over to the suit, grabbed a floor ring to brake myself and hunkered down by the frosted metal. I 
brushed from the plate, 
wiped my hands on my naked thighs and 
rocked back and forth on my heels, mo- 
mentarily absorbed by the fragile face 
behind the plate. Then it was time to say 
something and I was suddenly acutely 
conscious of the soft whine of the central 
computer, the murmur of the ventilation 
machinery that never quite removed all 
the moisture and human stink from the 
air, and the shallow breathing of the 
naked crew in the cramped cabin. I could 
feel the temperature start to creep up 
even as I knelt there, and then the smell 


y the crysi 


got to me and I almost gagged. We had 
no ships laundry, no separate living 
quarters and no showers—cargo was (00 


aluable, so space and weight were at 


a premium—which meant that living on 
board the Cassiopeia was like living in 
a crowded locker room jus 
ning game, when you can taste the sweat 
in the steamy air. 

I frowned, glanced up at Potter, the 
pimply-faced kid who was our life-systems 
man, and clicked my thumbnail against 
the faceplate with a great show of de- 
liberation. “Not . . . pretty,” I croaked 
My voice sounded oddly loud and 
choked with rust. 

Potter licked his lips, picked nervous- 
ly at his scraggly beard, looked like he 
was going to say something, then merely 
nodded. Hulsman, our man in micro 
rcuitry, the boyish blond type that fat 
old ladies love to mother, opened his 


ter the win 


ашар mouth, noticed that nobody else was 


К. closed it again and in- 
splinters. boils, blisters, 
tall, thin and profes- 


about to spe: 
stead made fluttering motions with his hands. Reynolds, a pudgy medical tech, expert a 
hives and shipboard circumcisions, fingered his nose and looked wi Ball, the astronom 
sionally British, the man I had always thought should have been captain, was suddenly preoccupied with his 
loincloth. Skinny little Ji our physicist, whom we had earlier dubbed Keeper of the Pile, hid behind his 
thick glasses and bushy red beard and tried to appear inscrutable, while Adams. Kentworthy and Herschel merely 
stared at the thing on the deck with varying degrees of distaste and—to my surprise—disinterest 

I made the mental note crew all present and accounted for and swore that this time period I would actually 
enter it in the log, then turned. my attention back to the suit. The shrunken face and the dried eyeballs and the 
marble mouth. I shivered. If the suits radio had been working, you could probably have heard him scream for 
hours. Then something caught my eye and I leaned closer, my own breath fogging the faceplate. The radio switch 
was oll. But that isn't done, 1 thought. Nobody leaves a ship with his radio off. 


I nodded to Coleman, now out of his suit, and asked: "Know age?" 
He hooked a foot under a brake ring and squatted down, his badge of office, the screwdriver, tucked into his 
ged man with curly black body hair and 


greasy loincloth, ringing slightly against the deck. He was а tiny, bandy-leg 
heavy eyebrows and a broad nose that made his face look faintly anthiopoidal. He wiped at the suit and grunted, 
“Old model, maybe two-three hundred years. Dark Ages stuff.” 

Which didn't tell me much, so I said, "Let's open him up.” 

We fumbled with the frozen fastenings, then dumped the body out of the suit like dice out of a cup; frost im- 
lvered it with a thin rime. Potter and I inspected the body carefully while Coleman went over the 
othing," I finally muttered, baffled more by thoughts of what 1 


mediately s 
suit. The corpse felt light and dry-—papier-maché 
ought to be looking for than by what I had found. 
human watermark barely discernible on the dried and frozen flesh. “Doesn't look unhappy, looks more . . . an- 
noyed? Alive when he put the suit on, 
alive when he left the ship alone." 

Alone? 

1 dove back to the viewing globe just 
as the alarm bell thundered throughout 


“No wounds, he didn’t bleed." I studied the faint expression, a 


the ship once again. 

J wrapped my legs around the control 
console, signaled the crew to remain in 
the cabin and let my fingers dance over 
the banked control boards. The ranges 
dwindled and the stus in the viewing 
globe exploded outward, touched the 
globe's surface and vanished in briet 
sparkles of light. A moment later, the 
globe held another hologram of a suit 
cartwheeling through space. 

Same model, I thought. Another man 
from the same ship, another drifter d 
ing his solitary waltz. 1 ran my hands 
swiftly over the console again and the 
ranges grew, the stars shrinking in toward 
the center. The sweep line sprouted 
dozen thin, red branches and a thick 
папка dozen diilting men and the 


1с 


ship they came from, 

"Want me to get them all?" Coleman 
asked, looking apprehensive. “There's 
ume...fuel mass.” He pointed to the 
corpse on the deck, “One isn't enough 

I shook my head. "I want their 
ship," I said quietly. 

1 heard movement among the crew 
members behind me and Jimenez drifted 
around the console and grabbed a brake 
ring. He had that thin Latin skin and I 
could see the little veins pulsing at his 
temples. “Why?” It came out as a 
furious, muffled croak. “No business of ours—can't do anything anyway. Ship's dead, crew's dead, can't bring them 
back to life, Not our business!" He w: why little man and, with his dirty glasses and the cords standing out 
in his neck, he looked 30 years older than he really was; I had to remind myself that he and I both had an Earth 


year to go before we reached our majority. 

1 glanced at the others. They were looking at the viewing globe as if it held something that smelled bad. I was 
pushing it, I thought. But then, the derelict had been—what? Gutted by a meteorite, boarded by—something? 

1 shook my head and made slight corrections for the viewing globe. "Whatever happened to them could 
happen to us," 1 said logically. "Maybe we can find out what it was." 
mencz hunched over the globe, the exploding stars disappearing into the reddish thatch that covered his thin 
chest. I was physically closer to him right then than I had been to anybody in hundreds of time periods, and the 
proximity made me nervous. His voice was carefully slow, the voice you use with an adolescent when you're 


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underlining a warning. “It's not our busi- 
ness, Martin! And if there's danger, we 
have no weapons to protect ourselves or 
our ship. And since that crew is dead and 
floating Outside, there's obviously danger 
—and nothing we can use against 
“What's it?" I asked casually. 
He got red in the face, glared at me 
for a moment longer, then shrugged his. 
piperack shoulders and said, “Have it 
your way." He let go of the brake ring 
and drifted a few feet over to the side of 
the cabin with the others. I concentrated 
on watching the suits float past in the 
silence of space, the dose-ups spinning 
through the globe. One, two, three . . . 
A dozen men, lifeless and frozen, drift- 
ing in the spotted silence, forming a 
funnel-shaped path back to the ship for 
which they had once crewed. Then the 
suits were gone and there was only a 
glittering beach of stars with a small red 
smear in the center that grew steadily 
larger. When it came within the smalle: 
hologram range, I spun the controls and. 
leaped to full view. I motioned to 
Coleman, who slanted over to the con- 


sole and inspected the image in the 
globe as if it were a tissue slice under a 
microscope. 


reighter class, Model A-18 
hundred years old—closer to two- 
Tell by the flare to the tubes." 
"You're too sure," I sa 
"Made models when I was a kid," he 
inted. "Won a lot of prizes." 

I stared at the ship in the globe. It 
was old, all right—the ancient dumbbell 
shape, with small circular ports and awk- 
ward radar antennae projecting out be- 
yond the hull. And then I saw it—an 
xit hatch gaping open as if some ccles- 
tial dentist had asked it to say “Ah.” I 
got the same feeling I used to get on 
Earth looking at the people on the 
moving sidewalks from 200 stories up: a 
lurching sensation in my stomach and a 
loose feeling around my anus. 

We drifted into a tight orbit around 
the derelict and waited, I started to 
sweat—a thin film of slime thar oozed 
out all over my body—and I knew that E 
stank; algacbased meals have something 
in them thats worse than garlic. We 
ng the freighter in the view- 
ing to get some due, but 


Е 


sell silhouetted 
one hatch open to 
There was no sign of any physical 
ty and no sudden burst of chatter 
from our radio receiver, which was run- 
ning up and down the frequency spec 
trum like a squirrel on a tree, hoping to 
lock onto a signal. There was no sign of 
life on the infrared detectors and only re- 
sidual pile activity showed on the Geigers. 
{ ng to board her?" Coleman 
asked hesitantly. I could sense the atten- 
tion of the crew suddenly switch from 
the viewing globe to me. 
"How many longwoyage ships fail 


ainst the stars, 


ion?" I mused. 
“Thirty percent? Forty?” 

Reluctantly. “About that.” 

“Anybody know why?" T asked quiet- 
ly. “No. Anybody ever found a freighter 
that didn't make it? No again—in the 
deeps of space, there isn't even any sense 
looking. But somebody just found one. 
We did. And somebody can now hold an 
autopsy. Us.’ 

Coleman’s face was all lines and an- 
gles, his brows two greasy black thumb- 
prints over his small brown eyes. "Look 
—we're freighter class, long-voyage 
freighter class. The only weapons on 
board are knives less than three inches in 
length.” 

“You think aliens are a possibility?” 
None had ever been found. 

“Not likely.” 

"Then what's bothering youi 

"I—don't know." His usual growl 
faded to a mumble and he wouldn't meet 
my eyes; I was forcing him into a corner 
and I knew he hated me for I don't 
think we ought to bother. It doesn’t 
really concern. us. 

I stared at him for а moment and his 
face grew red. "Then I glanced back at 
the viewing globe, at the lonely ship 
framed against the glitter of the galaxy. 
and made up my mind. I turned to the 
crew and said curtly, "Any volunteers 
for a boarding party?" 

Nobody looked at me and nobody 
raised a hand. I let the silence grow 
and finally Jimenez said in his hoarse 
croak, “This isn’t a military cruiser and 
you're not a real captain, Martin. You're 
elected—and we сап elect another 
if we want." 

I shrugged to myself, I had half ex- 
pected it and it really didn’t matter. If. 
they wanted а new captain, that was 
jake with me. And then I thought about 
it a moment longer, about maybe fime 
nez running the ship, and decided— 
much to my surprise—that it wasn't jake 
at all. Not really. 
ne," I lied. "I didn't ask for the job. 
Anybody who wants the responsibility 
and the work that goes with it” 
wasn't much, but you'd have to be 
captain to know that—'"can have it. Any- 
body want to nominate himself? Huls- 


man?” He looked alarmed and shook his 
head. “Ball?” He declined, too, which 
surprised me—I figured if anybody 


would have grabbed it, Ball would have. 
Jimenez?” Не hesitated. "Come on, 
Jimenez," I said, “the involvement will 
be good for you. 

It worked, of course. He shook 
head and rasped, "No thanks." 

“Anybody else?" There were no tak- 
тз. “Thank you all for the honor, gentle- 
men. Jimenez, Coleman, suit up." I 
turned to the others, “Ball is acting cap- 
tain. If we fail to return within three 
time periods, resume voyage. Do not try 
rescue.” 

1 unwrapped my kgs from the con- 


his 


sole, motioned Ball over to it, then float 
ed to the spacesuit locker. We suited up 
in silence and all the while I felt vaguely 
unhappy. Nobody had wanted to get in- 
volved with my excursion over to the 
derelict, but nobody had really put up 
a fight aga 
reason, that bothered me. 


It was while drifting across to the dere- 
1 that I had my first really bad time 
of it. In space, you tend to react one of 
two ways. For some, the environment 
has no meaning—Outside is a room of 
black velvet with small lights for stars 
embedded in the black, and you, your 
shipmates and your ship comprise the 
immediate horizons. The psychological 
Gestalt is not one of vastness but one of 
an odd miniaturization. For others, par- 
ticularly if they lose their referent points, 
reality floods their sensory apparatus and 
they panic. It was something that hadn't 
been foreseen by the early astronauts, 
who could position themselves in space 
by the huge bulk of the Earth nearby 
and their own space capsules. In deep 
space, a man can't conceive of the vast 
nesses, the immense stretches in any 
rection, the [ecling of no horizon, no end 
to the uncharted silent reaches, 

It hit me when I was halfway across. I 
had twisted slightly to get at my laser 
flashlight and for a split second I lost 
sight of the Cassiopeia, the derelict, and 
Coleman and Jimenez. I could suddenly 
feel the immensities, the intense quiet, 
the frozen loneliness, the indifference. It 
was like being cast adrift on a huge 
ocean at night, an ocean in which there 
was no spark of life in the black waters 
below and no familiar beating of wings 
in the dark skies above and the nearest 
land was so far away you could not ev 
ne the distance. 

My muscles spasmed and my sud- 
denly clenched hand automatically 
turned on the laser flash. My eyes fol- 
lowed the beam outward until it was lost 
in space—a beam of light that penciled 
out and vanished in the immi s, but 
which in my mind's eye kept running 
on and on and on. And then the sense 
of my own insignificance crushed me and 
there was only blackness and I closed my 
cyes and knew 1 was falling but there was 
no floor that I would ever hit. 

It sounded at first like a baby crying 
nd then I realized it was myself. 1 
jerked my eyes open wide, started. to 
cartwheel, then caught a glimpse of 
Coleman and Jimenez on my left, silent- 
ly watching. "Their size immediately told 
me their distance from myself and sud- 
denly the whole scene collapsed and 
inverted itself, like a curious optical 
illusion, The vastness was actually a 
room with dimension, the Cassiopeia and 
the derelict marking the positions of the 

(continued on page 92) 


“Marvin, stop teasing your sister!" 


PHOTOGRAPHY BY MAYNARO FRANK WOLFE 


MIE HAMA, os on Amc-island pecrl-diving girl named 
Kissy Suzuki, wins international exposure—and the 
brawny hand of James Bond himself—in the film ver- 


sion of You Only Live Twice. Nat that Band is going 
зой: The movie's rewrite of 007 history calls for Sean 
Connery to marry Kissy—in a traditional Shinto cere- 
mony (belew)—aut of affection not for her but for Her 
Majesty's Secret Service. In 67 domestic films since 
signing with Tokyo's Toho Studios, Mie has earned the 
sobriquet “the Brigitte Bordot of Japon" and a repu- 
tation as the most photographed girl in the Orient. 


OO7S ORIENTAL EYEFULS 


pictorial essay BY ROALD DAHL in his latest cinematic sortie, “you only live twice,” 


irrepressible, indestructible and irresistible james bond cements east-west ties in the way he knows s 


“A MAN CALLED BROCCOLI Wants you on the telephone 
I had never in my life heard of anyone with a 
that. “It’s Archie Lockley,” I said. "Lockley. Try to say it 
She still had occasional trouble with names 
“This one is Broccoli,” she said. “Head of the Mafia. You'd 
beter watch out.” 
I took the phone. A quiet voice said, “Would you be 
interested in writing the next James Bond film?” 


"Could you come and see us today? We're in a bit of a 
hurry.” 

The famous co-producers (I confess I'd never heard of them) 
of the most famous and successful series of films in the history 
of motion pictures, Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, were 
sitting an enormous room where the telephones never 
oped r nging. Neither of them looked undernourished. 

п can come up with anything you like so far as the story 
they told me, "but there are two things you mustn't 
The first is the character of Bond. That's 
fixed. The second is the girl formula. That is also fixed.” 
What's the girl formula?" I asked 

“There's nothing to it. You use three different girls and 
Bond has them all.” 

"Separately or en masse?" 

One of them took a deep breath and let it out slowly. 
“How many Bond films have you seen?" he asked. 

“Just one. The one with the crazy motorcar.” 

“You'd beuer see the others right away. We'll send them 
out to your house with a projector and someone to work 
This was the first small hint I was to get of the swift, 
efficient, expansive way in which the Bond producers operated. 
Nobody else does things quite like them. 

"So you put in three girls. No more and no less. Girl 
number one is pro-Bond. She stays around roughly through 


n. 
mess about with 


the first wel of the picture, Then she is bumped off by the 
cnemy, preferably in Bond's arms.” 
asked. 

“Wherever you like, so long as it’s in good taste. Girl 
number two is anti-Bond. She works for the enemy and stays 
around throughout the middle third of the picture. She must 
capture Bond, and Bond must save himself by bowling her 
over with sheer sexual ma his girl should also be 
bumped off, preferably in an origi 

“There aren't many of those left 

"Well find on wered. "Girl number three is 
violently pro-Bond. She occupies the final third of the pic 
ture, and she must on no account be killed. Nor must she 
permit Bond to take any lecherous liberties with her until the 
very end of the story. We keep that for the fade-out.” 

AIL this may sound a bit childish, but the fact remains that 
the Browoli/Saluman formula was a very sound one. The 
three girls, properly spaced out through the story, gave a 
nice sexy balance to this curious charade, a sort of beginning, 
middle and end, with a welcome change of girl in each 
section. 

Girl number one (in the first third) was played by Akiko 
Wakabayashi. Everyone liked Akiko. She was gay and gentle 
and virtuous; and we were all sorry when she had to be 
murdered and sent home. We had her killed in bed, with 
Bond alongside her, while they were sleeping it off. The 
manner of the killing was interesting and complex—a sly 
silent Japanese method that involves a long length of couon 
thread and a tiny little bottle, 

Girl number two, the anti-Bond bitch. 
Karen Dor, a well-built actress from German 
her that Bond demonstrates his incredible sexu: 
Her henchmen have captured him, and she has him BOT: 
self, trussed up like a turkey, (text concluded on page 90) 


was played by 
it is with 


Jan Fleming's 11th novel was one of the gilt-edged Bonds linking PLAYBOY with the great modern spymaster. The evocative illustration below, 
by Daniel Schwartz, opened our three-part prepublication serialization of You Only Live Twice in 1964. For the movie version, British writer 


Roald Dah! not only married off Bond but also subjected Fleming's entire story to a major overhaul, with an added emph. 


is on molls and 


mayhem, outlined in his accompenying text. Twice is this year’s second 007 film (see February's The Girls of “Casino Royale”) to be 
featured in PLAYBOY, where the first publication of three Fleming novels, one short story and two novelettes helped detonate the Bond boom 


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HISAKO KATAKURA (for left and foreground in surf), fashion 
model and campetition svimmer, plunged into films via a port in a 
Ginza scene with Bond that sets the locole far You Only Live Twice. 
YUKA MINAMI (left ond wading with Hisoko) went to Tokya fram 
the southern Japanese island af Kyushu to star in a TV series, ta 
study dramatics and to pursue her amateur interest in classical mu- 
sic. She appeors in the same street scene with Hisako and Connery. 
KIYOMI KOBAYASHI debuted for ғілувот readers in our June 
1966 feature Three Summer Vacations, which showed her rub-a-dub- 
dubbing with friends in a Japanese communal bath. On this page 
she displays the ather assets that won her a smoll but conspicuous 
role in You Only Live Twice: As a geisha-courtesan in the 


credit sequence, she is awakened, bothed and dressed for her d 


tied hand and foot, with no gun in reach, no 
weapon—no inanimate weapon, anyway—noth 
ing but his own magnificent body. The girl 
advances upon him with an instrument known 
as а dermatome. This works rather like a super 
safety razor and is employed by plastic surgeons 
for shaving off very thin layers of skin. By in 
telligent use of this instrument, the villainess 
feels fairly confident that she can make Bond talk. 
But as she gets close to him—and this is what 1 
like so much about old Bond—as she bends over 
him, the instrument poised for slicing, he gives 
her а look of such piercing salacity that the poor 
girl begins to twitch and dribble with desire— 
and off we go again. 

Don't knock this. It's good stuff. It is the 
Mitty dream of every heterosexual male that he 
should be able to melt a woman in this manner. 
In fact, Bond himself, in all his escapades, is 
the biggest Mitty dream there's ever been. He 
is also the best, and the reason he's so good, so 
much better than all the other comicstrip men 
of action we see around us is that he's thor 
oughly believable. Make no mistake about it, 
the things you see him doing on the screen are 
actually carried out in real life before the 
cameras. They're not faked, 

Girl number three is played by a 
stemmed Japanese peony called Mie 
She had а rough time shooting the end se- 
quence in the terrible heat off the volcano coast 
ОЁ southern Japan, and once she passed out 
cold and had to be rushed home by speedboat 
and helicopter. But she came back for more, 

nd under the sizzling sun, pouring with sweat, 
she and Bond went into the final clinch and the 
director said, “Print it A 

When Hama and Wakabayashi first arrived 
in England and appeared on the set, a great 
number of experienced rapscallions in the unit 
licked their lips and began to make lascivious 
plans. But all were thwarted. The girls were 
constantly surrounded by stich a retinue of pro- 
tectors and interpreters that nobody. not even 
the sliest seducer in the place, got a look in. 
Once, in a Japanese hotel in Kagoshima, 1 went 
into Mie Ната suite at her own request in 
order to help her with some new lines of dialog. 
1 hadn't been in there 40 seconds when a side 
door opened and a sort of female Cerberus 
entered and positioned herself between me 
cil ake аме i tems c cis апп) ЄЙ 


YUMI FUJIWARA, a former N.Y. Copa girl, unveils the figure 
(left) that earns a double take from Connery when their paths 
cross at a sumo wrestling areno early in You Only Live Twice. 
JUNKO MAKIMURA, taking a fatomi break (below), is ane 
of several girls, including Yumi, who relay walkie-talkie reports 
of Bond's progress through Tokyo to Japanese secret-service 
headquarters. Though Twice is her first major film, Junko is 


well known to her countrymen: She's a first-rate jazz vocalist. 
AKIKO WAKABAYASHI (cbove and right) plays Aki, sexy 
secretary of Tiger Tanaka, head of the Japanese spy corps. 
While the traditional Japanese beauty is paised and cool, 
Akiko smolders. Her mouth is fuller, her skin a shade darker 
and her 35-23-35% measurements are distributed over a taller 


feame than most of her compatriots. Despite her departure 
from the Oriental narm, she has appeared in dozens of Japa- 
nese movies ond three European films. Akiko comes to ап un- 
hoppy end in Twice—felled by a bod guy while in bed with Bond 
—but her part in ће apus marks an auspicious new beginning. 


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THE SHIP JOHN B. 


walls of black velvet studded with the 
tiny lights that looked like stars. 

I caught my breath, swallowed, 
pushed the panic from my mind and set 
my suit rockets so 1 slowly circled the 
derelict. At the far end I spotted the 
name, almost pitted into illegibility: The 
John B.—I couldn't tell what the last 
name was. Then the hatch was yawning 
open below me and Jimenez and Cole- 
man had already disappeared inside. I 
dung to the lip for a moment before 
ducking through and stared back at the 
black depths behind me, at the sandy 
sifting of stars and the Cassiopeia riding 
lliouette half а mile away. The words 
ne automatically: ghostly galleons. 
Nor did the feeling vanish once inside. 
"The shadow screens, shutting out sight 
and sound, were on, apparently still 
operated by the residual activity of the 
pile, cutting the ship into cubicles and 
compartments and а main corridor. The 
cold light tubes were also on, bathi 
the empty corridor in brilliance afte 
how many time periods? I knew without 
looking further that the ship м 
deserted and I could imagine echoing 
footsteps and pale ghosts. 


Oh pilot, "tis a fearful night! There's 
danger on the. deep. 


Jimenez and Coleman drifted up to me, 
looking like oddly articulated fish in 
their suits. “We wont split up until we 
can turn off the shadow screens,” 1 said, 
irying very much to sound like a ship's 
captain. "Crew's quarters first, then com- 
inications, then the pile room." Even 
to myself, E sounded officious. 

Jimenez’ irritating 
squeak in my headphones. “What are we 
looking for?” 


voice was an 


you'll know when 
ed. And then it oc 
curred to me that he wasn't being sarcas- 
tic after all. 

We hit the crew's quarters. first—the 
one long compartment with individual 
ports, elasto-hammocks 
viewing screens hooked up to the central 
computer, the standard source of infor- 
mation and entertainment, the electronic 
tit on which we all suckle as soon as we're 
on board. There were switches for the 
id-out screens, plus additional switches 
so you could partition off your section 
with a shadow screen for Privacy. And 
that struck me as odd—all the screens 
were on, which was highly unlikely, 
though I 1 noted their increasing use 
aboard the Cassiopeia. 

I ignored my own dictum about stay- 
ing in sight and pushed through into one 
of the screened-off compartments. It was 
empty, of course, but there were telltale 
signs of human occupancy, like a fading 
whilf of perfume in the air. The archa 


you see 


(continued [rom page 84) 


ologist entering the burial tomb, 1 
thought. And from an ax handle and a 
shard of pottery, I'll resurrect the man 
who lived here. But there was damn lit- 
ue in this tomb. A chessboard had been 
set up—it forbidden to bring any- 
thing personal aboa Coleman had 
smuggled one aboard the Cassiopeia and 
I had no doubt but what it was a stand 
ard bit of contraband—and dates of 
games played and who had won and 
who had lost marked with a soft pen on 
the bulkhead. I knelt down and looked 
at the dates. At first a game had been 
played every time period, then it was 
every other, then every tenth time peri- 


d, bu 


od, and finally—the 1267th time period 
out—two members of the crew had 
played their last game. The pieces were 


still on the board and by the looks of it, 
the game had only just begun. Then 
there had been an interruption and the 
players had left and the game had never 
been resumed. 

I shoved through to the next screened 
compartment and just then Coleman lo- 
cated the central switch and all the 
shadow screens dissolved and we were 
in onc large compartment. At the far end 
ile room and at the near one, 
the control console and communications. 
ters were in between, spiral- 
atic helix around what had 
corridor. I started to drift 
over to join Coleman, then suddenly 
hung back. A thin magnetic food tray 
was on the deck by one of the е 
haminocks. I bent and ran a metal finger 
across the residue on the tray. The meal 
had been h 
effectively freeze-dried. Somebody had 
obviously set the tray down, magnetic 
fork carefully placed back in the inden- 
tation provided, and walked away. The 
tray hadn't been dumped in panic, the 
food particles in the standard gummy 
sauce that adhered to the metal tray 
hadn't been scattered—what looked like 
artificial rice, steak and peas were still 
within their shallow compartments. 

‘There was a sound in my headphones 
and I looked up to хее Jimenez waving 
at me from the power pile. I floated 
over. The dials and rhcostats indicated 
that the pile was at neutral—a high 
enough level of activity to supply power 
for the cold light tubes and the shadow 
screens and perhaps a few other facilities, 
but hardly enough to provide any thrust. 

Jimenez had the engineers log open 
and I glanced down to where his finger 
was pointing. Shut pile down, time 
period 1436. Signed, Dickinson, Physicist. 
So it had happened 169 time periods 
after the last chess game had been started, 
1 thought. If 1 guessed correctly, that was 
the time period the ship had been 


deserted. From then on, the John B. ha 
drifted. 

"Coleman . . 

He floated over, the beard behind his 
faceplate making him look like a monkey 
in a glass cage. 

“Granted the pattern in which we 
found them, do you have any idea with 
in how much time of each other the crew 
members would had to have left the 
ship?" 

His voice sounded metallic and puz 
дей. “Not the faintest, not over a drift 
pattern of two hundred years. The com 
puter could figure it." He paused. "Prob. 
ably within a few time periods of each 
other, maybe a few hours.” 

“Could they have all left together?” 

"No, we would have found them all 
clumped together then. No, 1 think they 
left within hours of each other." 

I shivered. So one by one they had 
suited up and walked out, 1 thought. 
Walked out to a certain death, indiller 
ent to the ship, indifferent to their mis 
ion, indifferent to life inel. And mo 
indication as to why. No struggle, no 
hurriedly scrawled notes, no indication 
of force 

We ended our search at the far 
the compartment, by the control console 
and the central computer. I had a sud 
den hunch and sat down at the console 
"There was enough pile activity to ener 
gize the computer. I tapped out a re 
quest for a Biblical passage as a test. 
"There was a soft whine and clicking and 
then the passage appeared on the read. 
out screen, the lines moving slowly up 
from the bouom to the top. 


nd of 


Lord, make me to know mine 
end, and the measure of my days, 
what it is; that I may know how 
frail 1 am. 


1 hesitated а moment, guessed at a 
date, ran my fingers over the keys and 
requested a list of readouts for the 
437th time period. Soft clicking. Biolo 
gist Scheer had requested information on 
chess, mathematician Bailey 
quested current light fiction 
hea had wanted a history of the Renais 
ѕапсе. I jumped to the 989th time peri 
od. No requests, I tried a few periods 
later. Still попе. There were no further 
requests for another 3] time period 
then psychologist Hendrix had suddenly 
wanted to read cverything about the 
problems of citics in the late 20th, carly 
21st Centuries. There were no req 
after that until the 1436th 
when physicist Dickinson 
technical information on the pile. 
there on, the request files were com: 
pletely blank. 

1 suddenly felt a hammering through 
the metal soles of iny boots and looked 
up from the read-out screen to sce Cole- 
man tearing at a bulkhead safe with a 
spanner wrench, The safe abruptly gave 

(continued on page 208) 


IT'S NOT FAR, 
BUT I DON'T 
KNOW THE WAY 


fiction By HOKE NORRIS 


it was a. strange encounter 
in the deserted graveyard, 
and the man waiting there 
asked him a question 

only the dead could answer 


KENNETH STUART arrived at the cemetery on a mellow Noven 
ber afternoon that would soon darken. He left the taxi and 
walked through an open double gate of black iron suspended 
upon columns of granite. Beyond the gate he came upon a 
granite chapel of unsteepled, dollhouse Gothic, as available as 
any telephone booth to anybody with the price. He looked here 
and there across the landscape. The cemetery rose before him 
in a series of hills. Stone and iron defined its purpose. The oaks 
were almost bare, but the firs and the magnolias were green. 
Kenneth was bareheaded, and he held his face up to the sky. 
Beneath his left arm he carried a long white box, ued with a 
gold string. He kept his hands in the pockets of his topcoat. 
Behind the chapel he found the caretaker's cottage. lt was 
Queen Anne and cozy and should have been painted white. It 
was painted instead the sort of depot gray, thick and impregna- 
ble, that is preferred by institutions with thrifty trustees. It 
stood beneath a vast water oak, and about its porch were 
planted spirea and quince, now bare, dark and dry. Kenneth 
knocked on the gray door. As he waited, he held before him. 
and regarded, bemused and stilled, the white box and its gold 
string. It bore the name of a florist, and in gold script the 
legend "Flowers With Character— (continued on page 191) 


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These big-time operators 
might avoid glaring errors 

by showing up well shaded. 
Sawbones are wearing, 
clockwise from ten: 

Ujiji glasses with 

tortoise-shell frames, $35, 

Fuz glasses with wood frames, 
$35, both by Oliver Goldsmith: 
and Polaroid glasses, by Cool- 
Ray, Inc., $4.98. Stringing along 
with charming cellist, our 
fiddlers three play it cool 

in noteworthy sunglasses. 

Геј to right: Polarized 


hell frames, 
by North Eastern Optical, 
$9.95; and pilot-style 
glasses, by Renauld, $13.50. 


shades shape up—fanciful and functional sunglasses for most any occasion 


Wedding belles break up over 
old gang's singularly shaded 
eye-dos. Left to right: 

Ray-Ban glasses with Kali- 
chrome lenses that sharp- 

en contrast and details 

and minimize haze by fil- 
tering out blue light, by 
Bausch & Lomb, $21.95; Girl 
Watcher polarized glasses with 
wrap-around frames, by Sea 

& Ski, $2.98; and lightweight 
Slitely Square tortoise-shell 
glasses, by May Manufacturing 
Corporation, $15.95. Friendly 
fall guy creates a big splash 
while wearing a pair of Y- 

Not glasses that feature 
handmade plastic frames 
available in several colors, 
lenses [rom Crookes- 
Pilkington of England, by 
Oliver Goldsmith, $35. 


PHOTOGRAPHY BY LARRY GOR 


96 


PLAYBOY 


“Now let me 


explain my own little incentive plan, my dear.” 


ARTICLE BY J. PAUL GETTY 


BUSINESS IS BUSINESS 


THE FIELDS OF ENDEAVOR MAY 
VARY, BUT THE GROUND RULES FOR FISCAL 
SUCCESS REMAIN THE SAME 


THE UNITED sTaTEs entered World War Two, I tried to obtain а com- 
mission in the U.S. Navy. On February 20, 1942, I had an interview in Washington, 


D. 


with Colonel Frank Knox, who was then the Secretary of the Navy 


Colonel Knox, aware that I indirectly held a controlling interest in the Spartan Air- 
craft Corporation and the Spartan Aeronautical School, urged me to abandon my plans. 
Instead, he asked me to take over active personal management of these companies. 

“That would be the most useful thing you could do for the Navy and for your coun- 
try," he told me. "We need aircraft and airplane parts—and trained flyers—desperately. 
"To obtain them, we must have experienced. businessmen running our plants and fly- 
ing schools—men who can rapidly expand manufacturing and training facilitics and 
raise production to unprecedented levels.” 

Two days later, I was in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where Spartan Aircraft and the Spartan 
Aeronautical School were located. The former was a small company that had been estab- 
lished in 1998. The latter, a thriving training plant turning out air and ground crews 
for the U.S. and Allied air forces, was already well on its way to becoming the larg- 
est privately owned flying school in the country. It was being well managed by Captain 
Max Balfour, a veteran pilot and top-notch administrator. The factory, still geared for 
post-Depression civilian production, needed much attention. 

Now, my knowledge of airplane manufacture was nil. I knew little more about 
anes than that they had wings and engines—and that if they were properly built and 
piloted, they flew. My business career up to that time had been largely devoted to 
finding, producing, refining and marketing oil. Admittedly, I'd made some tangential 
assays into other fields, including real estate and even the hotel business—but I cer- 
ly had no experience even remotely related to the manufacture of airplanes. On 
February 21, 1942, while en route from Washington to Tulsa, I made the following 
notation in my diary: “I have an important job—getting the Spartan factory into 
mass production lor the Army and Navy." 

I faced this job with no small degree of trepidation. It was no normal peacetime 
venture. The factory would not be producing everyday items for civilian use. Its prod- 
ucts would be highly important—possibly even vital—to the nation's war effort. А. 
planes were not porch swings or doorknobs; they were fantastically complex machines 
whose components had to be manufactured with infinite precision. There could be 
no margin of error; any mistake or miscalculation would cost human lives. 

Could I handle the job? I'd asked myself this quesuon a thousand times in the 
two days that followed my interview with Secretary Knox. Upon my arrival in "Tulsa, 1 
made an intensive inspection of the Spartan plant, studied the company's books and 
records and conferred at length with the firm's executives and employees. Within 48 
hours, I had the answer to my question. My job was to "expand manufacturing and 
training facilities" at Spartan, to boost the production of airplanes and the number 
ained men to fly and service them. 1 [elt certain 1 could do it. 

It seemed logical to me that the basic principles involved in accomplishing these 
tasks would be the same as those involved in, say, the expansion of an oil company. 
Granted, there would be vast differences in the technical aspects. One docs not drill an 
engine-mount bracket to a one-thousandth-ol-an-inch tolerance in precisely the same way 


оп; but there can be no substitutions when, for 
ple, specifications for a w ce call for a certain gauge and type of aluminum 
also knew that time was very short and materials scarce—and Шаг labor would 
have to be recruited and trained. But I'd had experience with fairly analogous situations 
previously in my career, particularly in the great oil-boom periods in Oklahoma and 
California. 

In short, I reasoned that business is business—whatever type of business it may 
be. And, according to my definitions, "doing business" is nothing more nor less than 


stitute asbestos roofing for galv 


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PLAYBOY 


98 


performing a service that has a com 
mercial value. 

OF course, in the case of Spartan, the 
service that the company—and I—had 
10 perform was not commercial in the 
most widely accepted sense of the word. 
The primary aim was not to build the 
company or to make profits, but to do 
everything humanly possible to help win 
the War. Nonetheless, the service could 
be considered commercial in the sense 
that Spartan had to tum out top-quality 
products at maximum speed and at the 
lowest possible prices, in order to meet a 
huge and exigent demand. 

Once I viewed my new job in this 
light, the problems of getting Spartan's 
operations into high gear diminished to 
entirely manageable proportions. I real- 
ized that I need only apply the same 
principles that 1 had always used in busi- 
ness. I soon found that these were just 
as valid when applied to airplane manu- 
facture as they had been when I'd ap- 
plied them to my oil business. 

Before long, Army and Navy repre- 
sentatives were accepting my forecasts 
of time needed to get various item: 
production and my estimates of u 
output, considering them more reliable 
than predictions contained in surveys 
made by various “efficiency experts.” 

In one instance—in April 1942— 
Spartan received a subcontract to manu- 
facture wings for the Navy's Grumman 
fighter planes. The experts predicted 
that it would take the factory at least 15 
months to tool up, train labor and get 
ito full production on the wings. They 
backed their prediction with the custom- 
агу Everests of charts, tables and graphs. 
At this time, the War situation was any- 
thing but bright. The Philippines had 
fallen; the Nazis continued their ad. 
vance into Russia. The U.S. and its 
Allies were on the defensive everywhere, 
while the Axis powers were celebrating 
triumphs large and small on all fronts. 
Under these circumstances, 15 months 
seemed an unconscionably long time 
to get into production on wings for 
urgently needed fighter aircraft. 

1 wasn't overly impressed by the fore- 
casts of the factory experts. Ive often 
found that the trouble with many ex- 
peris is thar they're technicians, not busi- 
nesmen; they frequently seem to lack 
the builtin enterprise and competitive 
spirit that motivates businessmen to beat 
deadlines and achieve results quickly. I 
ilked the matter over with Spartan exec- 
utives, supervisory personnel and line 
workers. All of them recognized the 
challenge and the need for speed. We 
slashed the time-lag estimate down to six 
months. Needless to say, the experts 
howled their protests and disbelief. 

“Paul Getty has never run an aircraft 
plant before in his life!” they chorused, 
“He doesn’t know what he's doing!" 

Although Grumman and Navy rep- 

tives were somewhat skeptical 


about Spartan's ability to begin deliver 
six months, they agreed to go 
ig with my estimates and to cooper- 
| every way possible. My produc- 
tion chief and I prompily selected 50 of 
our best workers and shipped them off to 
the prime contractors plant in Califor- 
nia. There they were given intensive on- 
thejob training in the most efficient 
methods of producing wings for the 
firm's fighter planes. In the meantime, 
we began tooling up feverishly at Spar- 
tan. We had ten jigs ready by the time 
the men returned to Tulsa. Spartan was 
in production on the Grumman subcon- 
tract in slightly less than the six months 
Fd estimated. Whats more, Spartan 
workers reduced production time from a 
normal 400 hours per unit to an astound- 
ng 40 hours per unit. 
By the time I had been at Spartan two 
years, I had ample reason to feel proud 
of the company’s achievements and of its 
contribution to the war effort. Factory 
floor space had been increased from 
some 65,000 square feet to more than 
500.000. The plant, which had formerly 
employed only a handful of people, now. 
had over 5500 employces—loyal. hard- 
working men and women who certainly 
earned the efficiency awards the company 
received from the United States Govern- 
ment. By February 14, 1944, 1 could note 
in my diary that Spartan had produced: 
90 training planes on prime contract; 155 
sets of wings for Grumman fighters; 650 
Curtiss bomber cowlings; all the 
control surfaces for 1100 Douglas dive 
bombers; 5800 sets of elevators, ailerons 
and rudders for B-24 bombers; and a 
great quantity of other aircraft compo- 
nents and subassemblies. 

The point of all thi? Business is 
business. Business principles do not 
change: the fundamentals remain con- 
stant, no matter what the field or industry. 

When I began my career over 40 years 
ago, it was assumed that if an individual 
was a businessman, he could handle al- 
most any type of business. It was hardly 
considered unusual for a man to own a 
mill, a department store, a brace of office 
buildings and perhaps even a bank. 
and make a success of running them all. 
Jt was taken for granted that a man who 
possessed the necessary traits of leader- 
ship, imagination, ambition and enter- 
prise—who “had a good business head 
on his shoulders"—could operate almost 
any form of commercial endeavor. 1 am 
well aware that business is far more com- 
plex now than it was then. Nevertheless, 
I still think it can be done, and that there 
are still men who can do it. 

Don't misunderstand me. Іп по way 
am I trying to imply that I think that 
businessmen are born and not made. I'd 
be the last parson in the world to 
advance any such theory, for I have my 
own example and experience to indicate 
that the opposite is probably true. 1 most. 


ies within 


ale 


te 


not a born businessm 
Quite to the contrary. I showed no early 
urge or drive—or, for that matter, talent 
—to be a businessman. My own thirst 
for lemonade quickly doomed my juve- 
nile forays into lemonade-stand opera- 
tion. 1 had only indifferent success as a 
magazinesubscription salesman. I sup- 
pose the closest I came to having any 
childhood feel for business was the 
strong feeling of competitiveness I de- 
rived from being an avid collector and 
trader of marbles and automobile ata- 
logs, two items dearly prized by most 
boys in those days. 

As a young man, I wanted to join the 
United States diplomatic service and to 
be a writer. I most probably would have 
tried to ions even 
alter my first successes 
as a wildcatter in Oklahoma, had I not 
been an only child. 

My father, George F. Getty, devoted 
entire life to building his business. If 
Td had a brother or brothers who could 
have taken over from him, I doubde: 
would have become a diplomat or a writ- 
er. As it was, I had по brothers—but 1 
did have a sense of responsibility toward 
my father, his employees and the share- 
holders in his companies. Jt was a sense 
of duty to them that impelled me to 
bandon my ambitions and enter the 
family business. However, once 1 did de- 
cide to go into business, I determined to 
be a businessman of the kind that Wil 
liam Н. Whyte calls an entrepreneur— 
rather than the organization-man type he 
labels a collaborator, who is merely a 
cog that spins in the business machine 
only because the big gears are turning. 

My formal education had been mainly 
in the humanities. My practical training 
had been in the oil fields, where I'd 
worked as a roustabout and tool-dresser. 
Thus, I had much to learn about bus 
ness and. more often than not, the les- 
sons were anything but easy. But learn 1 
did—most truth 
I've already stared, that the principles of 
business apply with equal force and va- 
y to all forms of commercial enter- 
prise. And, in my opinion, one of the 
most important of these principles is im 
plied in the definition of business as “per: 
forming a service that has a commercial 
value.’ 


Css must supply а need. 
In so doing, it must give value for value 
received. The value received —or the 
price of the service rendered or product 
sold—must be fair, low enough to be 
within the buyer's ability to pay. yet high 
enough to give the business a reasonable. 
profit. 

In order to keep old customers, obtain 
new ones, mect competition and justify 
his profits, the businessman must con- 
stantly seek to raise quality, reduce costs 
(and prices), increase production and im 
prove all facets of his business. He must 

(concluded on page 122, 


there is a sickness abroad in the land that makes americans prone to assassinations, mass 


murders, race riots, armed extremism and teenage mayhem 


DOES VIOLENCE HAVE A CLIMATE? 1 am not tall 


less 
mi 
hae 


phy: 
d. 1 am asking about the 
nd frustration to mass death. 


Consider some of the acts of violence that have thrust 


this question at us in the past thiee or four years: the 
killing of an American President; the wave of terror on 
the streets and in the dark hallways of the big cities; the 
dashes, North as well as South; the teenage gang 
violence. 

Last summer, a mass killing took place that shook the 
mation to the core and made Americans ask what had 
gone wrong with their mode of life, to have made such 
an act possible. It was the case of Charles Whitman, the 
young University of Texas architectural student, who 
killed his wife and his mother, then climbed to a high 
tower on the Austin campus with a whole artillery of 
weapons and rounded out his killings to 15 while wound 
ing double that number. 

This killer from the high tower was, on the surface, 


CLIMATE OF 


ing only of the 
“long hot summers” of 1965 and 1966, when violence crackled 
in almost every major ghetto from Harlem to Watts: It is 
al than a social and moral climate I have in 
¢ that can be drawn from 


a brain tumor; 
deep-lying resentment of his father, who ha 
to his children and had beaten his wife over a period of 


OPINION BY MAX LERNER 


an all-American boy who had been an eagle scout, had 
married a girl who was the home-town beauty, and had friends 


d a good social life. But he sullered from headaches. from 
of his parents triggered a 
1 been а tyrant 


25 years. 


Whitman’s sickness, and that of our other young killers, 
goes very deep—deeper, probably, than we shall ever 
know. Deprivation amidst affluence, reaction against repres 
sion, the effort to assert masculinity in the face of deep 
sel-doubts, a cultural conditioning that teaches that there 
are no bounds except what the al sets апа no 
codes except what he recognizes. A failure of identification. 
whether with a father or anyone else, with the consequent 
suffused rebellion that issues in senseless violence and 
takes random people—or the society аз the target. 
Finally, the profusion of guns and easy access to them, 
with or without telescopic sights, by mail order or direct 
ncs asked or given. 
xe of frustration, of emotional depriv 
tion, of hate. The component (continued on page 118) 


\ VIOLENCE 


99 


from a longtime bangtail bettor come words of counsel—ternpered with caution 
—on the hows and whys of playing the ponies article By ERNEST HAVEMANN 


BE FOREWARNED. You are being exposed here to one of history's great buffs. 
I bet on my first horse when I was 12 years old. Ever since, I have collected race tracks the way some people 
collect. pà ngs or trout streams or fine restaurants. The last time I counted, 1 ha 
U. S. and 
could do for the honor of capitalistic horse players.) I have been 
—often when I should really have been doing something else. 
What is it about racing that can fire a man's blood into such a lifelong passion? 
I know artists who claim it is the beauty. Agreed. There is nothing morc lovely than a thoroughbred race 


HORSE SESE 


horse а f ton of muscle with ankles as slim as а woman's and a muzzle that can fit in a teacup. 

1 know horse-playing scientists who claim the thrill is like aiming a spaceship at the moon and watching 
it hit. Agreed. When you bet your money on a horse, you make a scientific prediction. When your prediction 
comes true, you have outsmarted the universe. (If your prediction fails, you know that you can try again in the 

xt race, a half hour later.) 

1 know horse-playing psychiatrists who say that racing is one of mankind's few remaining outlets for hostility — 
an unashamed outlet for all our competitive instincts and а rare chance to recapture all the primitive joys that 
our forefathers used to get out of clouting each other and their women over the head with a club. I agree with 
the psychi sts most of all. When I was in school, I was always the skinniest male in my class, а perennial 
reject from the teams. Since then, thanks to horse racing, 1 have been the hero of thousands of breath-taking con- 
tests of skill and br ve picked off passes and raced down the side lines. 1 have fallen exhausted against 


PLAYBOY 


102 36,000,000 i 


the tape, courageously hanging onto the 
baton. If you ever see me at the races, 
cheering at a stretch duel, don't think 
yelling merely for the horse or for 
the prospect of winning а bet. That's me 
out there running and me I'm rooting 
for. In what other sport can the un- 
athletic man gain such rugged triumphs? 

The unique charm of horse racing lies 
in the fact that it is the only spectator 
sport in which the spectator is also а par- 
ticipant. Professional football lacks this 
kind of involvement—who but a man 
who stands six feet, seven and weighs 
290 pounds can identify with the play- 
ers Who can think of himself as catcher 
for the Orioles? But if you buy a two- 
dollar betting ticket, you own part of the 
horse, even such a great horse as Kelso 
or Graustark or Buckpasser. You are the 
boss of the jockey, even such a great one 
as Willie Shoei er or Braulio Baeza. 
When they win, you share their glory 
and their profits. When they lose, you 
can fire them—by never betting on them 
again. 

Let me say at once that 1 do not rec- 
ommend that you go to the races for rea- 
sons of profit. As will become apparent, 
this is impossible. You will get as much. 
joy from the game as I do only if you 
watch the horses for the beauty and the 
excitement and bet them for the same 
foolish and indomitable reason that 
people climb mountains. Because they're 
there, 


You think you see a lot of high-priced 
athletic talent at Candlestick Park or the 
profootball games at Wrigley Field? 
Listen. On any good afternoon at the 
ack in New York or Los Angeles, you 
will see 80 or 90 horses worth as much 
per pound as caviar, gold or sometimes 

re days when you 
’t buy all the assembled four- 
legged talent for $5,000,000. You will 
see a dozen or more jockeys who earn no 
less than $200,000 a year, not counting 
their income from their oil wells and 
apartment. houses. 

Money is part of the lure, For the 
jockeys, horse racing is a game where, 
for riding a horse the distance of a few 
city blocks, you cam take home a check 
for $10,000 if you win, but for only $25 
if you lose, For the owners, it is а game 
where a man cin spend $80,000 for 
baby horse, risk another $15,000 train- 
g him—and get all the money back 
two minutes when he wins the Kentucky 
Derby or the Hollywood Gold Cup. For 
the spectators—some of them—it is a 
game played with $100 win tickets, 
bought by the stack. Just watching the 
lights flash on the tote board, recording 
how much money is bet every two mi 
utes, can make a man’s head swim. The 
spectators have risked over $5,000,000 
single day at Hollywood, Santa 
Anita and Churchill Downs—and over 
an afternoon at Aqueduct. 


I myself once owned a race horse who 
could hi ined $112,000 in a single 
race; she missed by the tantalizing mar- 
gin of one and three quarters lengths, 
less than 20 feet. 1 have bet big and won 
big: 1 once collected $61,008.80 (a figure 
1 will never forget) on a single bet at the 
Agua Caliente track in Mexico. But the 
money, though it puts the same kind of 
sparks in the air that prickle the skin 
when you visit the New York Stock Ex- 
change, is only incidental to the excite 
ment, You have to bet something, 10 
make the magic leap from spectator to 
rticipant. But I was just as happy at 
the races when I was young and broke 
and split a two-dollar ticket with three 
companions, each of us putting up 50 
cents, 

The money you win or lose at the races 
isn't real money, anyway. There is an old 
story about the horse player, back up 
North in the spring after watching the 
races in Florida all winter, who sat shiv- 
ering in a lightweight suit in the chilly 
nd windswept grandstand. A friend 
noticed that he had wallet full of 
money and suggested, "Why don't you 
spend some of it on a topcoat?” The 
horse player was shocked. "Spend this?” 
he aied. “This is betting money. 

We true racing buffs earmark some of 
our income for betting, just as for rent 
and taxes. 1 used to throw a half dollar 
into a cigar box every time 1 dei 
self a соски; n the winter, thus bi 
ing up a kitty for the day the track 
opened in the spring, 

Still, the money they pay off at the 
cashier's windows, if you are lucky 
enough to wi legal tender and 
ble if you care to spend it, I've 
4 many а fine dinner and many а bot- 
tle of champagne after the races—and it 
is amazing how much better food and 
drink taste when they come to you cour- 
tesy of the people who weren't as smart 
as you were thit afternoon. One charm 
of the race track, which appealed to me 
especially in my struggling days. is that 
it is the only place in town where you 
can have a marvelous ti even take a 
date if you like, and come away with 
more money than you had when you 
started. Where else in the sports or 
entertainment worlds can you find such 
a delightful possibility? 


Walk into the grandstand entrance 
with me. It won't cost much: the biggest 
tracks charge two dollars; and there are 
aller tracks, just as much fun, 
where the fellows in the parking lot will 
¢ you tickets that let you in for 50 
cents, a quarter or sometimes even free. 

‘The first thing you see is a man selling 
programs (25 cents). You need one; you 
can't tell the horses without one. The 
next thing you see is a man selling the 
Daily Racing Form or Morning Tele- 
graph (60 cents), the daily newspapers of 


racing, amazingly factfilled journals that 
tell you in a few cunningly condensed 
lines of type everything that is known to 
man about the breeding and past records 
of all the horses running this afternoon. 
You need the Form or Telegraph, too, to 
enjoy the races to the hilt—but more 
about this later. 

Did you bring binoculars? You should 
have. Most tracks are a mile in circum- 
ference and there are long stretches 
where the horses are too far away to be 
scen clearly with the naked eye. To know 
what is going on, at every stage o[ the 
Tace, you have to have help. I myself use 
a pair of ten-power glasses that are small 
enough to slip inside a jacket pocket; 
when I go on a trip, I pack them as auto- 
matically as my razor and toothbrush, 
But if you don't own binoculars, cheer 
up. There is a stand where you can rent 
a pair for the afternoon for a dollar—the 
westment a man can make at the 


k. 

Let's find a seat and get settled. If we 
we сап admire the fla- 
field lakes; if at Holly 
wood, the geese; if at Santa Anita, the 
flowers. If we're at a less pretentious 
track, there is beauty anyway. Did you 
ever see a fresher green than that infield; 
a richer tan than the newly harrowed 
dirt along the rail? 

Let your mind drift along with the 
conversations of the crowd. People at 
race tracks don't talk about grim subjects 
such as war, or economic problems, or 
crime statistics. They talk innocently and 
blissfully about horses, and every man 
among them is a self-appointed expert. 
The woman behind us knows she has the 
winner in the first race, because his 
father is the great sire Bold Ruler: 
her friend has tabbed a different horse, 
because his grandfather is the great 


Nashua. The fellows in front of us 
are talking about running times, in split 
seconds. The husband and wife to our 


left are comparing the selections in the 
morning newspaper with those in the 
afternoon paper and the Form. The talk 
is fascinating, even if you cannot under 
апа it, and every once in a while you 
hear a gem that needs no interpreter. My 
second favorite of all time is the priceless 
syntax of a discouraged horse player 
who sat behind me one day in New York 
and said, "I used to do better when 1 
didn't know from one horse to another." 
My prime favorite is a conversation be 
tween two inen who had become friends 
оп the short ride by tram from the far 
reaches of the parking lot. Said the first 
man as they paid their admission, "I 
think the races are pretty crooked.” 
the second man, “I don't think th 
half as crooked as I am." (About th 
question of crookedness, again, more 

later.) 
‘Take a look at the tote board—that 
long black panel with flashing lights that 
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PIN MONEY 


drinking too much? wife hate you? losing your job? 
if you are ready for drastic solutions, apply to doctor dee” 


fiction By JAMES CROSS 


“1 THINK HOWARD has got hold of a very bold concept here, J. L," Weatherby Fallstone III said 
enthusiastically. "Very strong." 

He paused, smiling at Howard Grafton across the long table. 

“Pioneering,” he went on, “ground-breaking. Completely new; I don't think we've ever done 
anything quite like it. I want to roll it around in my mouth for a while and get the taste of it.” 

He watched the imperceptible shadowing of J. L. Girton's face. Very neat, Fallstone, he thought. 
Like nothing we've done in the past, like nothing J. L. Girton has approved or devised, like none of 
the old stuff. Newer and better than J. L. Let’s see Grafton weasel out of that one. 

“I think Weatherby is giving me too much credit,” Grafton said carefully. “Actually, it's a 


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recombination of a few ideas J. 1. 
sketched out as early as 1958. If it seems 
fresh and new—why, that's a tribute to the 
vitality of the concepts it was taken from." 

Mousetrapped, Fallstone thought, that 
slick son of a bitch, 

“1 can scc that," he said, “the basic 
fundamentals don’t change. 

“I think you have a winner, Howard,” 
he went on generously. 

“Sound creative thinking, Howard,” 
J- L. said decisively. "How does it strike 
you, Eldon?” 

‘The white head of the vice-president 
in charge of client relations bobbed 
sharply and he blinked once or twice. 
Eldon Smith had not quite been asleep, 
but it would be hard to prove it to 
the men watching him, carefully and 
without charity. 

“Perhaps,” he said slowly, “perhaps 
we should sleep on it.” 

“I thought you had done that already, 
Eldon.” 

“Not at all, J. L. І find that closing 
my eyes helps me to visualize.” 

J. L looked at him coldly. Then he 
smiled around the table. 

“That about wraps it up. Thank you, 
gentlemen.” 

The executives of J. L. Girton and 
Associates began to file out quietly. 

“Oh, Howard,” J. L. said, “stay around. 
for a minute. You, too, Weatherby. 

“A good plan, Howard,” J. L- sai 
when the three men were alone. “I like 
to sce a man who can work creatively 
without geting himself out of touch 
with sound, tested concepts." 

Grafton's. round, white face 
looked as though sincerity and gratitude 
had been applicd to it like a face c 
he looked J. L. straight in the сус, 

“Thank you, J. L,” he said modestly. 
“I only hope I can pull it off.” 

‘Then he looked at stone out of the 
corner of his eye. This is a big one, he 
thought; I'll bet that skinny bastard's 
chewing nails. 

“Ivll be tough," J. L. said, “a real 
challenge. That's why 1 asked Weatherby 
to stay. He's going to beef up the old 
team, and between the two of you, I can 
look forward to a bangup job." 

"Grand, J. L.." Fallstone said enthusi- 
astically. "Between us, we'll turn these 
ideas into something solid." 

“Well. boys. get cracking on it. When 
you have a working plan of operation, let 
Frank Baker work out the housekeeping 
detail 

The two men paused in the doorway 
for а moment in an claborate charade of 
friendly courtesy. Then Fallstone, the 
larger man, put his hand on Grafton's 
shoulder in so affectionate a way that it 
was impossible to take offense, and 
started to propel him through the door. 

"Oh, by the way,” J. L. said. "I think 
you should know one thing—close the 


door a minute, Weatherby. Eldon Smith 
will be retiring at the end of the year. 
Past his prime, I'm afraid. АП right, 
that's all I wanted to say." 

Howard Grafton's office was closest 
and he got to it a few seconds before 
Weatherby Fallstone reached his identi- 
cal cube—identical in square fect, in 
furnishings, in windows But mine is 
closer to J. 1.75, Grafton thought for a 
moment before he realized that the 
choice of offices between the two men 
had been originally decided prosaically 
by the toss of a coin, with much good- 
natured joking and even, on the part of 
the winner, the offer to give first choice 


Grafton sat there quietly. A few feet 
down the hall, he knew, Fallstone was 
sitting in the same Mark IE, executive- 
model ivel chair, with (imitation) 
leather upholstering, and thinking just 
about the same thoughts. It was about as 
clear as anything ever was at J. L. Gir- 
ton and Associates. They were being 
told, as directly as they ever would, that 
sometime before the end of the year, 
when old Eldon Smith was retired, one 
of them would be the new vice-president 
in charge of client relations. And they 
were being told to get in there and com- 
pete, that J. L. had his eye on each of 
them. Short, chubby, genial Grafton 
versus tall, thii i listone. 

When Grafton got home that night, he 
told his wife about it. Lenore Grafton 
was small and curved and blonde. Some- 
day she would be too fat, but at the mo- 
ment, she had reached a ripe perfection. 
She was quite a lot smarter than her hus- 
band, but some of her intelligence was 
wasted on the constant need to keep him 
unaware of this fact. 

"I think we had better have J. L. and 
his wife out to dinner pretty soon,” she 
said. “With that frightful woman, he 
must be dying for a decent meal.” 

“And a pretty face to look at,” Grafton 
said with elaborate casualness. He was 
remembering the time he had stepped 
into the kitchen at the party and had 
seen J. L. and Lenore, still holding an 
ice tray in one hand, pressed back 
against the sink. They had been too busy 
to see him and he had drawn back and 
come in again 2 minute or so later with a 
good deal of preliminary noise. 

Lenore looked at him levelly for a mo- 
ment, as if she were receiving a message 
she was not sure she wanted to get 
Then she went to the desk at the far 
end of the room and picked up her 
Florentine leather engagement pad. 

“Any time after this week,” she said. 
“ТЇЇ call her then; we don't want to push 
too fast.” 

For J. L. Girton and Lenore, at least, 
the dinner party was a great success. She 
was discreet enough, but she talked with 
him as much as with all the other guests 


combined. She sat girlishly on the floor 
at the foot of J. L's chair, laughing 
at his jokes or reacting to his autobio- 
graphical anecdotes with an openeyed 
admiration and an interest that more 
than once caused her to lean forward so 
that he could get the maximum effect of 
her décolletage. Even when she was 
not with him, she was seated across the 
room from him at such an angle that 
her excellent legs in the short, swirling 
discothéque dress were never out of 
his sight. 

Grafton, as a result, had to focus the 
bulk of his duties as a host on Mrs. 
Girton, a scrawny, faded, complaining 
shrew. It says a lot for his charm and 
geniality that he was able to bring her 
through the evening without her really 
notiang her husband's behavior. 

Lenore did not like New York in the 
summer. The heat and crowds wilted 
her, she said. "There was nothing new at 
the theaters; the city was full of tourists; 
the stores were doing nothing but re- 
maindering their past mistakes. She liked 
to play golf or tennis, or lie in the sun at 
the beach and then cool off in the 
Sound, or even just stay in her air- 
ned house and read. 

Thus, Grafton was a little surprised 
when she started coming into New York. 
once or twice a week—for two months 
during onc of the hottest summers the city 
had сусг had. She came into town be- 
fore noon, as she told him, window- 
shopped a little, lunched and spent the 
afternoon at a museum or, occasionally, 
a movie. Sometimes she took a train 
back just before his; at other times, she 
stayed in and they had dinner together. 
He did not want to know too much 
about what she was doing in town, so he 
did not ask many questions. He did not 
want to think about it any more than he 
wanted to think about the fact that J. 
seemed to be having more luncheons 
with clients than ever before and appar. 
endy had decided to improve his golf 
game by taking off several afternoons a 
week. Only once did he move obliquely 
toward the subject, and that was after 
several drinks before dinner one Friday 
evening. 

“I'm a little worried about how I stand 
with J. L.” he said. “I don't seem to be 
seeing him as much as usual. He's 


І wouldn't worry too much about it, 
Howie. I think he appreciates you very 
much; and what's more, I think you're 
going to get the job." 

"That, however, was before the dinner 
party at the Fallstones’. Lenore was not 
at her best there. Her nose was red and 
swollen and runny with a summer cold, 
and her voice was hoarse. Grafton was 
alone with her a lot that evening; and 
even though they left early, he had plen- 
ty of time to watch Marcia Fallstone 

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Joey Gibson holds strong opinions about American men. 
Says our June Playmate, “Не is probably the world's most 
open and candid man when it comes to telling a woman 
how he feels about her. In fact, he is the only man who 
knows how best fo pay а woman a passionate compliment. 
It's said that he doesn't like his women lo possess anywhere 
near his own knowledge or intelligence. Norsense! The 
‘American man encourages his woman to be worldly and 


Opposite page: Prior to a midmorning tennis dale, Joey 
raids the refrigerator in her Santa Monica apartment for а 
favored source of energy—carro! juice. A devoted fan as 
well as player, she rarely misses any of the important match- 
es at the Los Angeles Tennis Club. “And if Chuck Pasarell— 
the national indoor champ—is playing in town,” our June 
Playmate adds, “I'm in the stands cheering for him.” What 
with health foods and exercise, Joey keeps in fine form. 
"Ii'snecessary,"shesays."On weekends! rarely stop eating.” 


ır You FOLLOWED Joey Gibson, our peppy June Play- 
mate, around her home town of Santa Monica one 
weekend morning, more than likely the trip would be 
a California kook's tour. First, a stop at her neighbor- 
hood grocery for a quart of carrot juice and a half 
pound of sunflower seeds. Then to a stationer’s for 
a notcbook—where Joey impulsively purchases a pink 
paper dress. Miss June, a 21-year-old blonde beauty. 


this gibson girl— 
a hypnotist’s assistant— 
makes a spellbinding 
june playmate 


next takes time out for book browsing, leafing in- 
tently through Euell Gibbons’ Stalking the Healthful 
Herbs. Walking briskly back to her pad, she practices 
what she preaches about the benefits of exercise. At 
her apartment, Joey quickly changes into her tennis 
togs; and as she awaits a midmorning date who'll escort 
her to the courts in Rustic Canyon, she downs the 
carrot juice, hardly touches her coffee. "If I want to 


exercise outdoors and it’s raining,” she says, 
“TIl put on a bikini and run around the 
block a couple of times." Finally, a sports 
car's klaxon calls to her—and another day 
in Joeys life has been suitably launched. 
“Iam,” says Joey Gibson, "my own woman. 
1 lead my life according to no social stand- 
ards other than my own." Joey's standards 
are predicated with one goal in mind: the 
pursuit of intelligent pleasure. And she finds 
it in her own eclectic bag—music, reading, 
exercise, relaxation. “It’s important to learn 
to relax," she says. "When I arrive home 
from work, ГЇЇ put on a James Brown 
record, start gyrating all over the apartment, 
and in 15 minutes I’m more relaxed than 
most people are four hours after they're 
home from work.” For the past year, our 
June Playmate has been secretary to Dr. 
Emmanuel Kruger of the Hypnosis Society 
of America. "When I was graduated from 
Santa Monica City College," she says, "even 
though I was a psychology major, I had no 
idea I'd be working in medical hypnosis.” 
Joey underwent hypnosis as both job pre- 
requisite and perquisite, is impressed with 
the short time span required for hypnotic 
cure to take effect—80 sessions clear up 
most difficulties. "In psychotherapy," she 
points out, "patients! problems are cured by 


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Joey romps on the beach at Santo Monica (above), where she comes prepared with food strictly for 
the birds. Right: Miss June straightens her pet canory's coge. Says Joey, “Leroy’s с moody bitd— 
he usually sings anly when ! play records. Right naw his favorite group is The Rolling Stones.” 


An artist when the muse strikes her, Joey begins work on a wire, clay and paste sculp- 
ture, "1 usually wind up with glazed Aztec figures,” she says. Turned art fancier, 
Modly attired Joey takes in a Picasso exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum. 


PLAYBOY'S PLAYMATE OF THE MONTH 


going after the causes—usually stemming from 
childhood incidents. In hypnosis, the doctor goes 
after the symptoms." 

Currently attending evening sessions at a near- 
by university, Joey says that the highlight of her 
criminology course came when the class was given 
a demonstration of how to cheat at cards. Says our 
Gibson girl, "Professional dealers are all magi- 
cians with cards. Their profession is lucrative but 
limited—they know if they're caught cheating, no 
gambling casino will rehire them." 

Joey's tastes in music also reflect her individ- 
ualistic life style: "I started listening to Ravi 
Shankar years ago,” she says, "and only recently, 
when the Beatles brought sitar music into their 
records, did I become a fan of theirs. A West 
Coast group I particularly like hasn’t made it 
nationally yet, but it will. They're the Hindustani 
Jazz Band—their music is really something else!” 
Joey is one young lady who, at the moment, is 
not overly concerned with the future. “Oh, I've 
thought about trying to be an actress," she says. 
“1 appeared in several plays while at college, and 
J liked it. But since I started working for Dr. Kru- 
gerand learning all about hypnosis—I haven't 
really thought about doing anything else. At any 
rate, why should I worry about what's going to 
happen a lot of tomorrows from now? I'm having 
too much fun with my todays." 


Just before finishing up at work, Miss June receives a sur- 


prise invitation to dinner. Afler rushing home, Joey com- 
pletes her quick change minutes before her escort arrives. 


PHOTOGRAPHY PETER GOWLAND 


PLAYBOY'S PARTY JOKES 


The young wife was in the bedroom toweling 
off from her moming shower when she heard 
the back door slam. "Thinking it was her hus- 
band, she called out, "I'm in here, darling. 
Ive been waiting for you." 

To which a deep voice answered, "I think 
you ought to know, madam, that I'm not your 
regular milkman!” 


Our Unabashed Dictionary defines snake 
dancer as a woman who can writhe to the 
occasion. ) 


буу 


Well launched on ап LSD trip, the two acid- 
heads were happily relating the details of their 
hallucinations to each other. Said the first, 
"Right now, I've a mind to buy all the jewels 
in the world. In fact, I'm going to buy up all 
the world’s gold, its oil, its yachts and, yes, 
all those lovely naked women who are now 
dancing in front of me." 

Raising an eyebrow querulously, his friend 
replied, “And where, may I ask, did you get 
the idea that I'd be willing to sell?” 


Our Unabashed Dictionary defines homosexu- 
al as a man's man. 


We've heard about a preacher who officiated 
at so many shotgun weddings that he decided 
to rename his church Winchester Cathedral. 


One late fall day, the Indian chief called to- 
gether his tribe and announced that he had 
news to give them—some good and some bad. 
He went on to say he would give them the bad 
news first, and stated that due to their own im- 
providence, they would have nothing to cat 
during the winter months except buffalo dung. 
He then said, “Now for the good news—we 
have an ample supply of buffalo dung.” 


After a Sunday-morning wedding, the newly- 
weds boarded a plane for Bermuda and sev- 
eral hours later arrived in the bridal suite of 
a magnificent hotel. Overwhelmed with the 
sheer splendor of the resort, the bride nervous- 
ly remarked, “I'm sorry to bother you, honey, 
but I don't have any idea of what to wear 
tonight.” 

“Darling,” said her smiling mate, "you're 
putting me on.” 


Our Unabashed Dictionary defines prostitu- 
tion as fee love. 


lt was eight A.M. at a Las Vegas gambling 
palace and two lone bettors were still standing 
by a dice table awaiting further competition 
when a lusciously endowed brunette, attired 
in a slack suit, happened by. "Although it's 
quite early in the day,” she announced, “I feel 
lucky this morning. I'd like to roll the dice 
once for twenty thousand dollars. Would the 
two of you care to take me up on the wager?” 

“Sure, lady,” answered one of the men, "we'll 
take your action." 

"I hope you gentlemen won't mind," she 
then said, "but the only way I can get lucky 
is to roll the dice without my panties on." So 
saying, the lissome lovely proceeded to remove 
her slacks and panties, With a shout of 
“Momma needs a new pair of pants!” she 
rolled the dice, gave a squeal of delight and 
yelled, “I win!" She then picked up her money, 
her slacks and her underwear and made a hasty 
exit from the room. 

"The two men exchanged double takes and 
one of them blurted out, "Hey, what did she 
roll, anyway?" 

“How the hell should I know?" snapped the 
other. "I thought you were watching the dice.” 


Our Unabashed Dictionary defines pessimist as 
one who has faith in future degenerations. 


Two sisters were arguing about the upcoming 
martiage of their widowed father—a vener- 
able gentleman in his 60s whose wife of 40 
years had died just a year ago. The bride-to-be 
"was аан younger than either of the 
two daughters. 

"I really can't understand these May- 
December marriages,” said the first of the 
sisters. "I can certainly see what December is 
going to find in May— youth, beauty, freshness, 
an upbeat attitude toward life—but what on 
earth is May ng to find in December?" 

“Christmas,” answered the second. 


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A new potency pill developed for men has 
only one drawback—if it’s swallowed too slow- 
ly, the user winds up with a stiff neck. 


The disgruntled miss was complaining bitterly 
to her roommate about last night's blind date. 

"Not only did the nogoodnik lie to me about 
the size of his yacht,” she said, "but he made 
me do the rowing.” 


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humor By DAN GREENBURG and JAMES RANSOM Лого to suit your psyche to your favorite periodical 


MosT MAGAZINE advertising departments 
distribute “profiles” of their subscribers 
for the guidance of space-age space buy- 
crs, For example, the National Review 
subscriber, it says in the April 6, 1965 
issue, is 40.3 years old, makes $13,129.77 
a year, is 72 percent married and has 
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the table—or missing from under the 
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(or how much you spill) and how much 
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likely to be doing with your money as 
well. And what you think, and what you 
do for recreation—what, 

Therefore: (1) Be certain the 
your ma ent with your 
nage of yourself; (2) Learn to discard 


yours that is faulty, the following should 
aid you in rebuilding your personality 
around the publication of your choice. 


HOW TO READ 
NATIONAL REVIEW 


Be prepared to interpret what Barry 


116 Goldwater really meant when he said 


whatever he said, and that Ronnie 
Reagan never made a bad movie. Vote 
for the man, not the party, but always 
vote for the same party. Have a laminated 
snapshot of Joe McCarthy in your wallet. 
Keep a vicious German shepherd and a 
Springfield rifle and a U.S. Marine Corps 
ceremonial sword and a Sam Browne 
belt and a депіпрег and say you're ready 
in case the Gommie bastards or the Social- 
ists or the Democrats or the Rockefeller 
Republicans or the beatnik tennisshoe 
wearers or the fluoridation people ever 
get out of hand. OK comment: "Would 
you want your sister to marry one?” OK 
bumper strip: REGISTER COMMUNISTS— 
FIREARMS. Alternate OK bumper 
UNLEASH THE POLICE. 


HOW TO READ 
NEW REPUBLIC 


Rent an overheated 14-room apartment 
on Manhattan's Upper West Side within 
walking distance of Lincoln Center (but 
never walk there, because it’s too risky) 
fill it with overstuffed furniture of 
ate period and say you've 
furnished in Art Nouveau. Own a Volks- 
wagen, but be defensive about it. Live 
with a woman of 40 who is intense, petite, 
has black hair pulled back in a severe bun 

nd wears embroidered peasant blouses 
with burlap skirts and always goes bare- 


foot. Display volumes of Martin Buber, 
Rachel Canon and Hermann Hese 
prominently on the bookshelves and hang 
a huge Marboro reproduction of Picasso's 
Guernica in the living room. Have a 
fancy winerack filled with very ordinary 
wines, which you call "robust" Serve 
everything in oversized coffee mugs—in- 
cluding food. Have cats. OK commen 
"He had the makings of a great domestic 
President, but he's in over his head on 
foreign affairs." 


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Speak glibly of J. Paul Getty's cco- 
nomic theories and the psychosocial ram. 
ifications of Hefner's Philosophy. Build 
expensive stereo speakers into the head 
board of your king-size revolving bed. 
And into the cockpit of your Aston Mar- 
tin. And into the bookcase in your office. 
And into the commode in your bathroom. 
Keep a stack of at least three hours of 
mood music on your record changer at 
all times. Before you take a girl to your 
apartment, arrange 10 have a friend call 
you three or four times after she's ar- 
rived, and never even acknowledge th 
telephone is ringing. Recommend the 
Or the coil. Or something obscure, 
like gargling with vinegar and crushed 
peppercorns. If you're married, try to 
make it seem as though you're just living 


together. If you're living together, call 
her by a different name every night in 
order not to bore the neighbors. Send a 
blank check (or key-card number) to 
Playboy Products and tell them you want 
one of everythi: ‘They'll do the rest. 
OK comment; “It’s no good getting an 
unlisted number—if a woman wants to 
call you, she'll call you. I've had to hire 
an answering service, myself." OK bum- 
per strip: THY HUMAN BODY IS CLEAN! IT'S 
crean! Alternate OK bumper strip: 
THERE IS SEX AFTER DEATH! 


HOW TO READ FORTUNE 


Be an overt Republican with latent 
guilt feelings that express th 
an 1 cont 
Be on the way to 
wd get transferred to a differ- 


the Urban Leagu 
the top 


n the stock market 
ng you're “estab- 
Read aloud the 
story g newspaper about 
the сопу labor leader. Turn 
up the car radio when the Dow-Jones 
averages come on. Wear a Harvard 
Business School class ring and declare 
frequently that “Wendell Willkie is the 
most misunderstood man of our gen- 
cration.” Suive to hide the fact that 
* making only $25,000 a year. Give 
Christmas subscriptions to National Geo- 
graphic to the children of your close 


Peace Corps. OK comment: “I 
haven't laughed so hard since Roosevelt 
died!" Alternate OK comment: "I'm for 
free competition as much as anybody, 
but why cut each other's throats?” 


HOW TO READ ESQUIRE 


Be born in Kentucky but live in New 
York and have a slight British accent. 
Let it be known that you play squash 
every Tuesday and Thursday before 
lunch at the club. Be gray at the temples 
(a little Clairol and a soft brush should do 
the trick) and comb your hair over the 
tops of your ears. Wait a long time for 
Norman Mailer's long-awaited new novel. 
Have exophthalmos and spend several 
years ogling girls—then stop ogling girls 
and collect essays and stories by people 
who wrote poetry in college. Keep a run- 
ning total of the number of Nobel Prize 
winners who have appeared in Esquire 
as against the number of Nobel Prize 
winners who have appeared in The New 
Yorker and rıAYnoy. Say that when you 
go to Europe, you stay in Rome just long 
enough to sce your tailor. Own 14 pairs 
of shoes and 12 sweaters all autographed 
by Arnold Palmer. Spend about an hour 
selecting the right dothes for walking 
your large cocoa-brown poodle. Look very 
trim and wear a corset (but not a bra). 


Have an affair with a well-groomed 
older woman who knows porcelain. Like 
kids, but don't have any. Hate dass 
ices, and have some. OK com- 
"d like you to try an ami 
little red wine I picked up in Tangier. 
OK bumper strip: TROUBLE PARKING? 
—SUPFORT PLANNED PARENTHOOD. 


g 


HOW TO READ 
READER'S DIGEST 


shoes. Have your plot paid for and men- 
tion it often. Gently ply young people 
with statistics on smoking and heart 
disease. Practice the Power of Positive 
"Thinking. Look for the silver lining. Buy 
a set of encyclopedias, a volume a week, 
at the A & P. Save trading stamps and 
give them to your married sister. Fail to 
understand how young people can do 
such plumb foolish things. Observe that 
welfare checks are handed out by the 
Government as a reward for indolence 
and depravity. Chuckle with amusement 
at the innocendy sexual content of a 
small girl's conversation. Send antin 
cassars to the laundry. Send letters of 
praise to Paul and Fred Harvey. Send a 
dollar to provide food and medical care 
for an cntire Vietnamese village for onc 
month. OK sport: bowling. OK com- 
ments: (1) "There's a little bad in the best 
of us, and a 


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PLAYBOY 


118 


CLIMATE OF VIOLENCE 


elements of the climate are not always 
the same in each c ual and 
mass violence. Thus, the great act of 
у violence of our time, the killing 
of President Kennedy, needs understand- 
separating out the elements of the 
ted individual mind and the social 
mate of hate. 


Writing of death, an early English 
poet, Thomas Traherne, spoke of the 
immortal wheat, which never should be 


Such was Joh . 
down in his prime before his greatness 
could be harvested. We have been ге 
enacing, im our collecive mind and 
conscience, the dark tragedy of that No- 
vember day three and a half years ago. 
Yet despite the deeply felt horror at 
President Kennedy's murder, and the 
tributes to him by historians, public fig- 
the climate of 
h nourished if it did not pro- 
act, has not wholly been 


duce 
dissipated. 

I am not one of those who say that it 
“the system” that is guilty of 
nd never the particular 
doubts about the War- 
ren Commission Report tum on the 
question of whether Oswald alone was the. 
killer or whether (as Edward Jay Epstei 
ested) there were two men firing 
их. Yer it was clearly not а far 
y. 1 could wish, however, 
t the complex problem of the "right- 
wing climate,” in Dallas and in Texas 
generally at the time of the assassination, 
had been handled in a less gingerly man 
ner in the Report. Logically, indeed, 
there was no connection, since Oswald 
saw himself as a member of the radical 
left and not of the radical right. But 
what counts psychologically is the fact 
that it had Little to do with left or right 
in Texas, but with their common climate 
of authoritarianism and hate. 

There is an extreme view that holds 
the whole of America responsible for 
Kennedy's death, recognizing only gr. 
dations of sickness in the nation, One 
finds it in Hans Habe's book The 
Wounded Land, which was an almost 
catatonic response to the Kennedy kill- 
ing, leaving the author incapable of 
distinguishing between the psychotic el 
ments of hate and the ferment and tur 
bulence of a nation bursting at the sca 
with change. Yet the Warren Report 
might have braved the risk of dissenting 
footnotes from Southern members of the 
nd might have explored 
the link between the specific act of vio 
lence and the pervasive climate of hate 
Dallas immediately before the assas 
iom: the black-bordered advertise- 
ts against Kenned Dallas 
papers the privately printed. handbills 
m ng that the President of the 
United States was WANTED FOR TREASON, 
the mushrooming of superpatriot organi- 


the 


Commission, 


n 
me 


pune 


(continued from page 99) 


zations—some national, some specifically 
Southern, some very local, but all of them 
sharing an inexpungeable belief that 
New Frontier liberalism was only an 
American outpost of the Russian and 
Chinese Communist conspiracy and that 
Kennedy was a conscious tool or an u 
conscious dupe in its hands. Actually, all 
of this is there in the Report, including 
the shabby schemings and. maneuverings 
of Dallas extremist groups to use the 
Kennedy visit as a take-off for launching 
this or that fanatic cause with a burst of 
national publicity. It is there, even if its 
implications are officially and formally 
disowned. 

One often finds Texas—and Califor- 
too—singled ош from the rest of the 
nation as special case studies ol right- 
wing extremism. I don't mean to fall into 
ig either of them as a kind 
Actually, one. finds 
California producing a» striking examples 
of left-wing extremism as of rightwing. 
One may also add thar the bloodiest 
ethnic riots in recent American history 
took place in Los Angeles. The fact is 
that both Texas and California have a 
particular climate of emotional intensity, 
which is the result partly of their frontier 
tradition, partly of the way they have 
telescoped in a brief period a series of 
stages of development that took other 
regions longer to traverse. Thus, their 
extremism is not due, as some have 
thought, to their being backward and 
stagnant states, but rather to the speed 
with which they have grown in popula- 
tion and wealth. What has happened 
has been that a new  urban-corpo 


icdividualist 
as not been time enough. 
for the kind of t 
later social structure that the Eastern and 
even the Midwestern states made; and 
not time enough, therefore, for habits 
and attitudes of democratic moderation 
to be formed. Elements of the same 
telescoping of stages will be found i 
some of the recently formed Southern 
hdustrial centers as well. 

1 am not suggesting that Texas, Са 
fornia and the South are the sole centers 
of American violence today. Every nation 
has had a tradition of violence, and 
America is no exception; has any 
section or das or ethnic group been 
exempted from the pervasiveness of vio- 
lence. America was born out of a revo- 
lution and grew by pushing ever farther 
along frontier. Alexis de 
Tocqueville, in his classic Democracy in 
America, noted the remarkable respect 
for law among the Americans he saw on 
his visit in 1831, the role of religion in 
setting norms of conduct and the rise of 
something very like a civic religion—a 
feeling of participation in the society and 


nor 


lawless 


its problems and decisions—that helped 
curb the violent growing pains of a 
sodety. 

on the California frontier in the 
gold-rush days and on the cattle Iron 
at the turn of the century, the bre: 
down of the old codes and inhibitions 
brought a new violence that threatened 
to escalate beyond control The re- 
sponse, in the name of law and order, 
was a summary vigilantist violence as 
awless in essence as the violence it was 
woked to repress. The tenacity with 
which Texas and the other Southwestern 
states still cling to the idea of complete 
freedom of buying and possessing guns 
is part of that vigilantist traditioi 
During the Civil War. which was in 
itself the ultimate violence of fratricidal 
bloodshed, there was an additional mar- 
ginal violence in the draft riots. In th 
days of early corporate and 
growth, there was class violence 
сепагу strikebreakers hired 
by the employers’ associations 
new militant trade unions us 


All through American history there 

been violence among farmer groups, 
from Shays’ Rebellion in the late 18th 
ntury to the ues against mortgage 
foreclosures during the Great Depres- 
All through American history, also, 
there has been race violence, from the 
slave rebellions before the Civil War to 
the great race riots of the 20th Century— 
in East St. Louis (1917), Chicago (1919), 
Detroit (1943), Cicero, Ilinois (1951), 
the 1964 riots in Philadelphia, New 
York, Jersey City, Rochester, С 
the deadly Los Angeles riots of August 
1965. 

Against this historical record in Amer 
ica one must place, for the larger pei 
spective, the even more blood-drenched 
record of dynastic struggles, civil. wars, 
class conflicts and ethnic murderousness 
in world history, from the early dynasties 
of China and India through the whole 
bloody history of the Middle Fast, of 
tribal Africa and of Europe from the early 
Greeks to the . and the poli 
and civil violence of the Latin 
republics. Within this frame, the con 
temporary violence in the United St 
becomes not a unique thing but part of 
the inherent pattern of men’s struggle 
and conflict in seeking to build a con 
munity out of the varied. expe 
diverse human beings. 

The great symbolic death happening 
of the Kennedy n shook up 
the nation and into 


assassinat 
startled it 


the roots, as well as the bitter fruits, of 
lence. Although it was a single event, 
it was the central tragedy in the whole 
pattern of violence. For all its blackness. 
it was the crevice of light that 
nated the meaning of the whole structure 
of violence, especially the violence of 

(continued on page 162) 


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PLAYBOY 


122 


accept the facts that he will always be 
faced with problems and that these exist 
only to be solved in the most efficient 
manner possible. Once he accepts these 
concepts, he must train himself to be an 
imaginative innovator, able to meet any 
situation by applying his cumulative 
knowledge and experience to whatever 
new obstacles confront him. 

Actually, there are very few unique 
business problems or situations. Anyone 
in business for any length of time soon 
realizes that there are, within the realm of 
his own experience, precedents to almost 
any problem that may arise. A drilling 
rig and an airframe may not seem to 
have much іп common; but the construc 
tion of one is analogous to the con- 
struction of the other, if only because 
both must be built from raw materials to 
perform certain tasks. Lessons learned in 
eliminating delays and bottlenecks in the 
construction of one can, il applied imagi- 
natively, go a long way toward show- 
ing how similar problems may be solved 
the construction of the other. Even 
my experience in hotel operation and 
construction proved invaluable when it 
became necessary to build housing accom- 
modations—and eventually a miniature 
city—for Getty Oil Company employees 
in our Middle Eastern oil fields. 

I could cite countless other examples 
to show how previous business knowl- 
edge and experience may be applied im- 
aginatively to new and different business 
situations. However, 1 believe it is more 
important to emphasize that experience 
alone is hardly enough to make am 
individual a successful all-around business- 
man. Mere experience—without the im- 
agination to use it constructively and 
creatively and without business ability— 
is likely to be more handicap than ad- 
vantage. There are many men for whom 
experience serves as a mental strait 
jacket. They ble to apply imagi- 
natively what they already know; they 
only repeat what they fist learned. The 
experience of five, ten or twenty years 
actually stultifies such men. Instead of 
adapting what they know to new situa 
tions, they try to make all new situations 
conform to patterns with which they 
are familiar, 

As for “business ability,” this is some- 
thing of an imponderable, comprised of 
many ingredients, Among these are large 
measures of common ambition, 
versatility, a highly developed spirit of 
competitiveness, a genuine interest in 
business, a healthy appetite for the give 
and take of the market. place, resource- 
fulness—and an ingrained understanding 
of the concept that business is perform- 
ng a service that has a commercial value. 
I have said that I was not a born busi 
nessman. But, as I have also said, when 


sense, 


(continued from page 98) 


1 did go into business, was with thc 
determination to be an entrepreneur. To 
my way of thinking, being in business 
was worth while and challenging only if 
one viewed it as a form of creative work. 
My career has seasoned me as a busi- 
nessman—and has taught me not only 
that business is business but that there 
are commercial possibilities in almost 
everything. To me, an empty lot is not 
just an empty lot; it is a potential site for 
a house, a store or a filling station. If 1 
went to a remote Greek island inhabited 
by poor fishermen and farmers, I would 
automatically start looking for natural 
resources that could be developed or for 
industries that could be established on 
the island. True, the profit motive would 
be present—but profits could only come 
after the life of the islanders had been 
bettered by putting their human energy 
to more productive use. 

The farsighted businessman. realizes. 
that he can render the greatest commer- 
Gial service by taking advantage of every 
opportunity. And there are opportunities 
everywhere for creating new businesses, 
even entire new industries—and for 
building and expanding old ones, They 
exist in profusion on remote Greek is- 
lands, in developed countries and 
derdeveloped oncs—and in our 
back yard 

It is often charged that the mode: 


own 


1 
day business executive is too much of a 
specialist and not enough of a business- 
man. Fm forced to agree that there is 


more than a grain of truth to this. Over- 
specialization has narrowed the outlooks 
of some of our most promisi 

On the other hand, it must also be 
ted that the presentday business 
executive is a better businessman than 
the old-timer—in the same way that 
the modern physician is a better doctor 
than was the g. p. of a few decades ago. 

Both the doctor and the executive of 
today are specialists. Both have had 
tensive training in their specialties—and 
both have more and better tools with 
k. The modern heart spe- 
cialis has the electrocardiograph and 
other scienti s to aid hi 
diagnosis. ‘The g.p. had to rely on his 
stethoscope, the patient's symptoms, diag- 
nostic questioning—and his own expe- 
rience and intuition. The oil prospector 
of 1967 is aided by seismographic tests, 
vast quantities of geologists’ data and 
other technical devices and information. 
The oil prospector of 1917, by contrast, 
had to feel and guess his way to oil. 

"To such extents as these, doctors and 
business executives are today more 
efficient and less liable to make errors— 
in their own specialized fields. But T 
wonder if the average heart specialist 
can deliver a baby, set a broken arm or 


men. 


which to we 


remove an appendix as well as the old- 
time g. p. 1 certainly know innumerable 
executives who are specialized in highly 
restricted fields, but who are completely 
lost when asked to take over a depart 
ment other than their own. 

While the modern technician-executive 
may know far more about one particular 
aspect of business than does the all- 
1 businessman, the latter's grasp of 
the whole and all its parts is much 
greater. And, consequently, it is the all- 
around businessman—the entrepreneur 
—who has the best chance of reaching 
the top. As one extremely successful 
businessman remarked to me recently: “I 
own several businesses and I run them 
all profitably. If 1 get stuck and need a 
specialist, 1 can always put one on the 
payroll, but I can't hire anyone to do my 
job. The men who could handle it are in 
business for themselves, making their 
own fortunes." 

In my opinion, modern business has 
great need for more entrepreneurs. I be- 
lieve there is more opportunity for a 
young man to become a successful ei 
preneur today than ever before—if only 
because specimens of the breed are fewer 
and farther between. 

How to do it? First of all, an individu- 
al must. possess business ability, imagi 
tion and enterprise. He must be of the 
type who would rather run the show 
than be a supporting player. He should 
conceive of business as a form of creative 
effort—and understand that business 
principles are the same whether one 
manufacturing safety pins or skyscrapei 

His education should be as broad a 
possible. Whether obtained a univer- 
sity or in the college of hard knocks—and 
preferably in a combination of the two— 
it should give him a multidimensional 
background and outlook. A highly spe- 
alized education is fine—for the spe- 
alist. But the wider the scope of the 
entrepreneur's education, the more сара 
ble he is of grasping the problems he will 
have to face. 

"Then, no matter what field he enters 
initially, he must learn as much as he 
can about all aspects of it. In short, he 
must be a sort of g.p. of business 
versed in everything from accounting to 
warehousing—to the extent that he can 
direct every facet of the business. 

Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, 
the would-be entrepreneur must have 
clearly in mind that business is business. 
he entrepreneur who knows one busi 
ness thoroughly can operate anotlier—or 
a dozen others—as handily as the first. 

There's a great challenge and a great 
satisfaction in being an entrepreneur й 
the business world. It's fun—and 
highly profitable. It's also the shortest, 
fastest—and. surest—road to success. 


re- 


"s 


“Don’t let us interrupt you—we're just here to see 
that you don't exceed your limit.” 


123 


since 1959, when Russ Meyers mini- 
budgeted The Immoral Mr. Teas made 
its unblushing bow on American screens 
—and walked off with better than a 
$1,000,000 gross—the “nudies” have had 
an impact far in excess of their numbers, 
their cost or their quality. Not only was 
тапу a failing art house saved from ex 
tinction by switching from foreign films 
to domestic flesh, but Hollywood itself, 
despite the strictures of its own Produc- 
tion Code, soon began cautiously to in 
sert scminude scenes into its glossy “A 
features. Meyer, a veteran glamor and 
figure photographer, has stated that he 
“showered the screen with nudity" in M» 
Teas. Within three years, his shower had 
turned into a flood; by 1963, thanks 
joindy to the unanticipated success of his 
picture and to the even less anticipated 
leniency of the local censors, Meyer was 
able to count 150 imitations of his girl- 
studded gold mine—seven of which were 
his own. Singlehanded, he had touched 
olf a whole “nude wave" of moviemakin; 

Nudity, of course, has never been 
totally absent from American films. Even 
after the formation of the Hays Office, in 
1922, it continued to flourish: The Hay 
sian restrictions applied only to the 
member companies of the Motion Pic 
ture Producers Association, and there 
were always plenty of fly-by-nights to sup 
ply the exploitation market with suitably 
lurid material. State and local censors 
conuibuted their mite toward control 
ling the situation by snipping away at 
offending sequences or by banning en 


tire pictures outright; but those who de- 
manded stronger sexual titill: 


on in 
their movies soon discovered that they 
could leap across state lines to communi 
ties where censorship was either more 
permissive or nonexistent. It is a fact, 
and one that today's proponents of a 
more stringent censorship might well 
ponder, that during the middle and late 
Thirties, when America’s censors were 
most potent, the sexploitation movies 
could anticipate at least 2000 bookings 
across the country, while today's nudies 
rarely average over 400. Obviously, the 
relaxation ol censor controls has not in 


creased the average American's appetite 
either for greater sensationalism or for 
more nudity. 

For the most part, then as now, the 
films played in shabby, third-rate houses 
on run-down streets leading off the main 
drag. Often they supplemented, or 
supplanted, the local burlesque shows; 
and one bought tickets with the same 
furtive prurience. Some of the films from 
the late Twenties are quite remarkable 
even for that era of precensorial permis- 
siveness. In a series of short one-reelers 
shot for — (ext continued on page 128) 


а survey of the cinematic skin trade —from 
burlecue peep shows ond nudist "docu- 
mentaries" to the epidermol epics of 
jayne mansfield and mamie van doren 


“THE IMMORAL MR. TEAS”: The prototype production for a nude wave of flesh flicks, this Russ Meyer film-flam cashed in 
on the increasingly permissive climate of the time by offering unclothed sequences that were more silly than sensual. Far from 
immoral, Mr. Teas is an ineffectual Hollywood messenger suffering from hallucinations: Constant contact with pulchritudinous. 
females on his rounds has left him certain he's seeing them disturbingly denuded When a toothsome dental assistant’s uniform 
vanishes, Teas is teased by the nearness of the nude nurse—and shaken by an imagined aniler-sized extraction. At an L-A. diner, 
he envisions his deep-cleavaged waitress going topless—and bottomless as well. Driven to distraction, he finally takes 
his problem to a female headshrinker; when her duds disappear, too, Teas decides his affliction is appealingly incurable. 


“MAIN STREET" FILMS: During the Thirties, as new movie houses in fashionable neighborhoods began to book the better 
films, once-popular downtown theaters were forced to subsist on tempting but tepid sexpotboilers. Typically touted with lurid 
posters, early sexplottation films such as “The Road to Ruin” (above left) promised prurient divertisements seldom seen with 
in. Despite such titillating titles as "Smashing the Vice Trust" (below left) and “Secrets of a Model" (below right), the “Main 
Street” films were moralistic screen sermons in which wayward women paid for their sins—all suggestively depicted—in the 
last reel. А case т point: “Child Bride” (botiom left), in which a seminude schoolmarm is brutally beaten by night riders 


BURLESQUE FILMS: The first major post-War nudies were unabashed 
burlecue shows. Some proffered baggy-pants comics (above right), but 
the fans came to glom the girls. Most were able-bodied unknowns 
(above), but many were eminent. ecdystasts such as Ann Corio (be 
low left) in the Forties and Candy Barr (below center) in the Fifties. 
Lili У. Сугу celluloid stripping (right) netted her a Hollywood career. 


JUNGLE FILMS: Because censors seldom objected to the bared bosoms of 
dusky “native” girls, pseudo-documentaries shot during the Thirties and For- 
ties were often doctored with sexed-up sequences such as the faked footage 
(above) spliced into the 1938 film “Bowanga Bowanga.” Even more prepos- 
terous was "Forbidden Adventure,” a trumped-up jungle jaunt in which two 
white hunters safari inio darkest Africa accompanied by dark-skinned barers. 


the burlesque trade, or 10 be used as а 
midnighrshow flip in small-town ex 
ploitation houses, groups of girls cavort 
against desert or beach backgrounds 
totally in the raw, their pubic ha 
abundantly displayed, Far from erotic— 
for allection between the sexes rarely 


extended beyond a simple handshake 
—some of these peep shows had rudi- 
ry plots. others merely nude or 
seminude dance routines. (In the early 
Thirties. a number of these were re-edited, 
a sound trac Ided, and then re-released 
to continue on their profitable way for 
the next decade.) Others presented nudity 
in the context of a very well-developed 
story line. Hollywood Script Girl, for 
example, a one-reeler produced in 1928, 
pretended to chronicle the rise to stardom 
of a bespectacled minion in a movie 
studio thar seems to be producing the 
lastact curtain for a Ziegleld show. Just 
what her script duties would be under 
the circumstances is difficult to imagine, 
particularly since the sequence being shot 
presents nothing more involved than an. 
uray of unclad chorines posing artisti- 
«ally against a Folliestype staircase, Dur- 
ing a break, however, some of the girls 
think it might be fun to transform their 
ugly duckl With a suitable show of 
reluctance, the heroine permits herself to 
be stripped down to her sep-ins. Then, 
after her figure is appraised and approved, 
she is bustled off to make-up. where the 
final touches are applied—including the 
belated removal of her spectacles. “Wh 
you're really beautiful!” the girls excl: 
in subtitle, and when the recalcitrant 
star of the show throws a temper 
trum, they introduce their new "find 
to the director. As the film ends, our 
heroine—the new star—stands posed at 
the top of the stairs in the brielest of G 
strings, while below her the other girls 
wink and simper like mad at the success 
of their little prank 

Naive as this film and its contempo- 
ics may have been in subject matter, 
the 1 
mounted, and on a technical par with 
any modestly budgeted studio produc 
tion of the period. Unlike most of the 
early nudies, which went out of their 
way to avoid sets and give the impres- 
sion ol having been shot largely in motel 
bedrooms. most of these were produced 
with full Hollywood crews and on proper 
Hollywood stages. When sound came in, 
the practice continued. Whereas the first 
wave of nudies dispensed with dialog 
in favor of the cheaper voice-over nar 
ration, the exploitation pictures of the 
Thirties and Forties were fully sounded, 
shot on standard 35mm film and em 
ployed professional actors (frequently an 
admixture of tired has-beens and cager, 
g hopefuls). By the е 
features had replaced the 
shorts, and men like Louis Sonney. 
Duane (text continued on page 136) 


men 


were professionally made 


NUDIST FILMS: Until the Sixties, another quick-buck gimmick used by sexploitation moviemakers was the “educational” 
junket to a nudist camp. The success of the 1933 skin film “Elysia” (above left) spawned a spate of imitators. In the 1959 French 
flick “Isle of Levant" (above right), a dedicated sun-camp follower proved all-together delectable. Recent nudist films, how- 
ever, have abandoned authenticity to display the bodies beautiful of Durley queens and figure models on outdoor sets, as in 
such films as “Daughter of the Sun” (below left). A 1958 Supreme Court decision—holding that nudity per se is not ob- 
scene—permitted the producers of such nudist nudies as “The Raw Ones" to film uncensored scenes such as the one below right. 


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NUDIE-CUTIES: In the wake of the 
money-making “The Immoral Mr. Teas” 
came a stampede of cinematic copycats 
eager to cash in on its simple-minded 
formula—ployfully coupling nude girls 
with an ineffectual hero who keeps his 
hands, if not his eyes, shyly to himself. 
In “Paradisio,” a 3-D sextravaganza star- 
ring British comic Arthur Howard, female 
apparel magically disappeared whenever 
the fumbling funnyman donned a pair 
eyeglasses. When Howard 
focused his tricky cheaters on a night- 
club lensmaid (top left), both star and 
egoer saw the girl lose her clothes 
but not her cool. While digging the 
beauties of nature, Howard ogles a 
blonde Bo-Peep—and finds his specs have 
stripped both shepherdess and sheep. In 
Not Tonight, Henry,” burlesque comic 
Hank Henry played а henpecked hus. 
band who dreamed he was several of 
history's all-conquering heroes. As Na 
polcon (below left), he cagerly sampled 
the charms of a comely Josephine who 
proved to be his Waterloo. In another 
episode, as John Smith, his head was 
saved by Pocahontas—but he promptly 
lost it over some sweet Sioux (below). 
Like the silent-screen nudie shorts of the 
Twenties, the nudie-culies of the early 
Sixties offered a broad burlesque of sex 
purveying asexual nudity and depicting 
the male as a bumbling buffoon rather 
than a lover. Vacuous variations on the 
theme appeared in such productions as 
(opposite, clockwis lower left) 
“Once Upon a Kn 
Si (iss Me Quick,’ 
and Russ Meyer's "Eve and the Handy 
man,” in which the hapless hero stares 
at the wares of а ring-a-ding door-to-door 
salesgirl played by Meyer's real-life 


MS 


THE ROUGHIES: By 1962, sagging box-office sales һай inspired 
nudic-culic producers to lace the old formula with carnal carryings- 
on, thus creating a bold new breed of films—‘roughies.” Clockwise 
from left: Russ Meyer's “Lorna,” among the first of these erotic opuses, 
starred stripper Lorna Maitland. Germany's “The Festival Girls” con 
tained stag-party footage shot Stateside. “Saberleros” and “Orgy of 
the Golden Nudes" portrayed outdoor seduction and indoor inversion. 
THE “MONDO: 
begot such violent, voyeuristic sequels as “Sexy Proibitissimo" (below), 


Italy's sensational documentary “Mondo Cane" 


“Mondo Freudo” and “Mondo Bizarro" (opposite, below and bottom). 


KINKIES AND GHOULIES: As nudie themes escalated 
into deviation and sadomasochism, bookings immediately 
increased. The 1960 fetish film “Satan in High Heels” 
(above right), starring a leatherlaced Meg Myles, was 
among the first of this far-out genre—“‘kinkies.” Others 
—such as “Suburbia Confidential” (above far right) and 
“Love Is a Four Letter Word” (right)—accented such 
aberrations as transvestism and sadism. These, in turn, 
unleashed a new degeneration of sick flicks—‘ghoulies” 
exemplified by “The Blood Feast" (bottom right) 


NAME NUDIES: In an effort to revive the waning nudie biz, producer Tommy Noonan pumped an unprecedented $80,000. 
into his highly publicized “Promises, Promises!"—the majority of it going to cantilevered sex star Jayne Mansfield (above and 
below). Abetted by a celebrated pictorial preview in the [unc 1963 viavboy, the film ended up a major moncy-maker. How- 
ever, Noonan's second big-name nudie, “Three Nuts in Search of a Bolt.’ was a financial flop—despite the uninhibited 
presence of Mamie Van Doren (right}—because bigger sex queens were beginning to appear nude in major studio productions. 


PLAYBOY 


136 


Esper, Al Dezel, Howard Underwood, 
Willis Kent, J. D. Kendis and Samuel 
ummins (who brought Ecstasy to 
America) began amassing small fortunes 
by catering to the exploitation market. 
Known among themselves as the Forty 
Thieves, they carried cutthroat competi- 
tion to new extremes. One of them went 
so far as to send ed FBI “most 
waNTED" photos of a rival distributor to 
theater managers whom both of them 
served. When the distributor appeared 
in person, instead of booking his pictures, 
one manager called the police. 

Throughout the Thirties, in ad n 
to the established theaters, the producers 
of exploitation pictures also sold their 
wares to "states-rights" utors and 
itinerant showmen, who would buy for 
an entire territory, then hawk them 
as best they could. Occasionally, they 
would rent the film to a theater owner; 
more often, however, they would make a 
"four walls” deal, renting a theater or a 
tent outright for a night or two and reap- 
ing their harvest before either the police 
or the public caught up with them. It 
was rarely possible to please both. Such 
pictures were known to thc trade as 
“Main Street" films—not because they 
played the gaudy flagship houses. They 
In thousands of American com- 
, the newer theaters had gone up 
shionable areas, often leaving 

altogether. "The thea 
ed behind, dust-laden, 
dim-bulbed and decrepit, provided homes 
for the sexploitation market. 

Not that the films themselves were 
particularly shocking, at least by today’s 
standards. Although owing no allegiance 
to the industry's self-imposed Production 
Code of 1934, and hence theorctically 
free to emphasize sex and nudity in the 
own movies, the producers of the exploi- 
tation films of the Thirtics and carly 
Forties were nevertheless relatively cir- 
cumspect. They were, after all, well aware 
of the force of local censors and watch- 
and-ward socicties—plus the need to get 
their pictures accepted by theater owners 
in the first place. The Road to Ruin, one 
of the best-known exploitation pictures of 
the carly Thirties, had as its key scene a 
strippoker sequence in which the girls 
finally get down to bras and panties. In 
Child Bride, a heavily moralistic con- 
demnation of child marriages in the Ken- 
tucky hills, the auractive young teacher 
who speaks out against this practice is 
abducted by a band of vigilantes, 
stripped to the waist, bound to a tree 
and flogged. (As an added fillip, the 
child herself, а half-developed adoles- 
cent, is seen im extenso bathing in the 
nude in the ole swimmin' hole while her 
16-year-old swain looks on. It's all very 
folksy.) In these, as well as in such sex- 
potboilers as Forbidden Desires, Hopped 
Up and literally dozens of other movies 
hich teenage girls, eager for cx 
ment, find more than they bargained for 


in the back rooms of a roadhouse (the 
standard symbol for sin in the Thirties), 
nudity or near nudity was clearly the 
motivating factor in their production. 
But it was introduced сіре as а story 
clement or with sceming inadvertence. 
The women, for example, even when at- 
tired, invariably were braless and wore 
loosefiting dresses that afforded fre- 
quent peeks of what lay beneath. High 
School Girl and Birth of a Baby insinuat- 
ed sex moral 
enlightenment. The Virgin Goddess and 
Goona-Goona employed the ethnological 
approach 10 anatomical exposure—abet- 
ted by the fact that censors rarely ob- 
jected to the display of female breasts, 
led the breasts were black. Elysia 
(1933) was perhaps the first of a still 
unabated series of nudistcamp features. 
And following the success of Ecstasy 
many shoddy French and Italian pic 
tures were imported, dubbed into Eng- 
lish and sexy scencs inserted for the 


exploitation market. Generally, these 
were pseudo documentaries of life in 
e, nonwhite cultures, re-edited 


joked up with a hastily invented 
story line. Each of these approaches— 
moral, ethnological, pseudo-documentary 
or nudist-camp—had the same all.impor- 
tant virtue: It permitted a “legitimate” 
rationale for the existence of nudity in 
3 context that was essentially nonerotic. 
After World War Two, a new variant 
appeared in the form of burlesque movies 
—nudity in a setting that was a bit more 
forthright in intent but still far from 
erotic in its effect. Burlesque, of course, 
had been dead in New York since May of 
1937, when Mayor Fiorello La Guardia 
denied the Minskys a license to reopen 
their Oriental Theater or even to use 
their family name on any place of public 
entertainment. Rising prices and the 
siphoning off of top burlesque talent— 
baggy-pants comics and strippers alike— 
by Broadway shows and the movies soon 
reduced the old burlesque wheels to a 
dispiriting few weeks’ spin through an 
quated fleabags centered mainly in the 
Midwest. But there was still a tawdry 
magic to names like Georgia Sothern, 
nn Corio and Margie Hart, not to men- 
tion such curvaceous newcomers to the 
ecdysiasts' art as Lili St. Cyr, Blaze Starr, 
Evelyn “Treasure Chest" West, “the ever- 
popular” Tempest Storm and the tooth- 
some Candy Barr (although Miss Barr, 
as will be noted later, was to gain even 
greater fame for her unorthodox appear- 
ance in films of a more exotic nature). 
All of them were names that could draw 
an audience, even though their audiences 
now saw them in crudely photographed 
black-and-white flickers instead of, as 
with the blue spotlight playing 
ely on the quivering, living fesh 
The burlesque films—there were only 
about two dozen of them—were gencral- 
ly produced on the West Coast, where 
both "talent" and capital were available. 


Done on the cheap (from $10,000 to 
520,000 budgets), they followed the bur- 
дис format of the Thirties, with the 
accent falling on the рееіе and the 
nude production numbers. The singers 
and the comics, holdovers from an car- 
lier, happier burlesque era, had degener. 
ated into little more than obvious stage 
aits before the next stripper emerged. 


through technical ineptitude, songs and 
comedy routines were frequently visibly 
out of sync with the lip movements, yet 
no one bothered either to reshoot or 
to rerecord these sequences.) Since the 
name of the star was what sold the show, 
the actual titles of these films were little 
more than formalities. Nor did the same 
title necessarily guarantee the same film. 
Generally, the pictures were shot in two 
versions—a "hot" version, in which the 
girls stripped down to an abbreviated G 
string (these had their major distribut 
in the South), and a "cokl" version, 
which got the girls down to panties and 
net bras or pasties—as far as they could 
fely go, in other words, to get the pic- 
tures distributed in New York and other 
major metropolitan centers. Without ex- 
ception, these were movies made for the 
fast buck—and not even the staunchest 
enthusiast for burlesque as it was could 
be deceived into thinking that his favor- 
ite form of entertainment had been re- 
ived and immortalized on cellu 
Of far greater importance historically 
was the 1954 production of a nudist film, 
Garden of Eden. Professionally made 
(the cameraman was Boris Kaufman, who 
had shot On the Waterfront for Elia Ka- 
zan only the year before), it was actually 
filmed in a Florida nudist colony—thus 
differing from a number of its precur- 
sors, which customarily rigged up the 
semblance of a nudist camp solely for 
picture purposes. Essentially a documen- 
tary, although 
exploitation purposes, film was 
promptly labeled “indecent” by the New 
York State censors and barred from the 
screens of that state. As described by 


took some liberties for 
the 


one of the judges who found against it, 


“The motion picture depicts in color the 
life in a nudist camp with views of nude 
men, women and children, singly and in 
pairs, walking, talking, swimming and 
playing together. . . . In addition, the 
picture contains specific protracted 
scenes of women in unwholesome sex 
ually alluring postures which are com- 
pletely unnecessary to—and in fact a 
radical departure from—the activities of 
the nudist camp depicted. For example, 
there is a dream sequence where the 
principal actress, a comely young lady. 
completely disrobes in full view of the 
audience in a manner not unl 

professional ecdysiasts.” 
Unlike most producers for the exploi 
tion market, who would rather switch 
(continued on page 177) 


Sot 


A E E the display of Tapered Surf Boy Sport Shirts, 
with rawhide tie fronts and side zippers in blue ("will evoke compli- 
, he overheard a conversation between a Polk Street slicker and a 
Haight Street hippie. It was a fine sunny morning in the cool, blue and 
white and gray city, San Francisco. He noticed two, not one, but two preg- 
nant women picking out tight-crotch clothes with their husbands, Опе of 
the pregnant women also had a child in a carriage alongside her confused 
husband, 

‘The Polk Street slicker, in new white bell-bottoms, with striped turtle- 
neck dickey and virile olive Dutch Boy cap, was saying: “Did you hear 
what the Russian a aut got asked by the first man he met on the 
moon?" 

"The Haight Street hippie in psychedelic-ecstatic paisley silk shirt, wide- 
wale corduroy pants with wide belt, trim seat, tapered, and top pockets, 
and boy-scout mountain boots, replied with interest: “There are men on 
the moon? Have they got a place to go? The fuzz don't give ‘em a hard 
time?” 

“You're up tight, listen,” said the Polk Streeter. “And answer my 
question.” 

“What the Russian tripper got asked by the first stud on the moon?” 

“Cool.” 

I don't know, man.” 

"This moon stud come up to him and ask him in perfeck English: 
Is it true Woody Allen don't write his own material? 

With a laughter that sounded like subdued grumbling, the two pals 
pushed past Al Dooley into the sanctuary of Carnaby, the citadel of far 

the delight of the welldressed San Francisco stud, Ye Sworde and 

aal Whippe, purveyor of clothes in the ferocious, clawing, happy world 
of men’s fashion on Polk Street. One of the pregnant ladies was chatting 
with the other pregnant lady. They were not discussing morning sickness. 
They were discussing their husbands’ vinyl jackets. Vinyl is out. Further 
than madras. Paisley n. 

AI drifted out of earshot. 

“Hey, how are you, buddy," said a slender young man in tangerine 
velour pullover. 

" said Al, wondering where they had met. 
' sharp,” said the plush-velour boy encouragingly. 
said AL 

“But not sharp enough, thinks I. Thinks I: You need you a fire- 
patterned paisley sport shirt to jazz up whatever downtown outfits you got 
hanging in your closets next to the old Murphy bed.” 

How does he know I have an old Murphy bed? Al asked himself. How 
does he know I call the fall-in, fall-out, fall-down old bed a Murphy and 
not a California bed? 

"How do you know?" said Al. 

"I can tell, judge of hun nature and nurture," the menswear psy- 
chologist admitted briskly. "First place, up front, and for openers, you 
got that studenty look about you, old-timy studenty. You got that apart- 
ment off-campus look. You got that look doesn't live in the motelly, 
swimming-pooly-type digs. You got that turn on, tune in and drop out 
charisma to you, kid. Second place, and what's most important: So what 
if I'm wrong? So what if I am wrong, buddy? The ice is broken and I can 
talk clothes and you can answer back and in the end I get my commission, 
which is what made America great, aside from coonskin caps and mocca- 
sins and dressing right for the times. Now the times is differento, made 
for trips festivals, psychedelicecstatic shirts, up-tighty expressions of ye 
olde Zeitie geistie. Which is why I am here to aid and counsel you, Fred.” 

1” 


Whoops, Al. My name is Buck Burford. My father came out here 
like an Okie, he was an Okie, all his belongings окей on Ford flivver, my 
mother had the pellagra, if only John Steinbeck could see me now.” 
"Lookin' sharp," said AL 
"As white men should, 100," said Buck. He was wearing a button that 
said: KILL A COMMIE FOR CHRIST. “This is a great country, where in one 
generation a man can go from being a long-jawed (continued on page 170) 


he had wandered by mischance 
into the world’s most 
switched-on haberdashery— 
ye sworde and casual whippe 


PEACOCK 
DREAMS 


fiction By HERBERT GOLD 


xo0o8avid 


“So you'r 


e not Amelia Earhart. We'd still like 


to take you back with us.” 


138 


NEED I BEGIN my story by explaining to 
you who Achmet Hodja was? His fame, 
whether as wise man or as simpleton, ha: 
spread throughout the lands inhabited 
by the faithful, all the way from Bokhara 
to Fès, from Sarajevo to Timbuktu. Re- 
cently, I have been told that some of the 
less ignorant among the infidels have al- 
ready published learned dissertations on 
his divinely inspired blend of sense and 
folly, in the distant and benighted 
universities of Uppsala, Chicago and 
Johannesburg, Let it therefore suffice that 
1 remind you that Allah, in His infinite 
wisdom, had also scen fit to endow Adh- 


met Hodja with physical gifts of such 
magnificent proportions and remarkable 
endurance as to be able to satisfy the 
lusts of the most wanton of women. 
gly an after- 
thought to compensate for the disabili- 

otherwise hunchbacked 
prematurely bald, hool 
gattoothed and 


But these gifts were seem 


ties of a ma 
crooklegged, 
nosed, clubfooted, 
pock-marked. 

Be that all as it may, the rumor of this 
unfortunate monster's rare gilts began 10 
spread as soon as he was old enou 
be discussed, along with the other men 
of his native village of Bok Kóy, mean- 
ing the Hamlet of Turds, among the 999 
mothers, sistersinlaw, mothers-in-law, 
wives, daughters and sisters of this 
otherwise guished. community, lt 
thus came to pass, in time, that every 


list 


one of these 999 women of Bok Köy had 
been tempted in turn, out of wanton 
idleness, to taste in secret of the forbid- 
den fruits with which Allah had seen fit 
to endow Achmet Hodja. 

But not one of these 999 wanton 
women of Bok Köy had ever fallen in 
love with Achmet Hodja, cach one of 
them in turn using his services as if he 
were but a kind of public convenience 
placed discreetly at their disposal. Not 
even Achmet Hodjas own wife, a hag 
who in any other village of Turkey 
would have had to remain content. with 
her broomstick, ever expressed any ten- 
dernes toward her mate, Still, а boy had 
born of this strange. . Allah 
» a child that, remarkable as this 
y seem daily in strength and 
beauty, the pride of the whole village of 
Bok Köy. In due time, it then became 
known on the riverbank that the growing 
boy had inherited his father’s rare gilts, 
in spite of his not really needing such 
compensation for any lack of natural wit 
or beauty. But Achmet Hodja knew the 
999 shrews of his native village too well 


nd was determined that his son de- 
served more worthy mates. He therefore 
devised, with his friend Murad 
lou, a physician and the son of a physi- 
cian from nearby Eliziz, a strange plan 
to ensure Allal-ud-din a great future: 

Their plan was as follows: First, the 
physician would inflict, on the boys 
extraordinary gilts, some quite harmless 
scars that might nevertheless give the 
impression that he had been made fit for 
a job as eunuch in а great harem. 
Then the physician would accompany 
him to Siamboul and, before presentit 
him to the chief eunuch for appointment 
in the imperial harem, would also ad 
minister to him a potion that would 
make him able to pass the strict civ 
service tests. 

The plan worked perfectly, and the 
boy was accepted in due course as an 
apprentice eunuch in the sultan's harem 
There, because of his rare beauty and 
cham, he was soon entrusted with the 
task of holding the towel or bathrobe 
when the sultana took her daily bath. 

In those days. the ladies of the sultan's 
harem were particularly idle and restless 
Many of them had been recruited from 
among the infidels, so that their upbring 
ing had not prepared them for a lile 
of dignified retirement, Moreover, af 
fairs of state and other preoccupations 
kept the sulin from devoting to his 


) wives and concubines the only kind 
of attention that might have justified, in 
their eyes, their rigorous seclusion from 
the world. Reduced to their own devices, 
ul all d 
consulted dubious fortunctellers, wrore 


ladies rhus played cards 


poems, sometimes even studied theology. 
Several of them, especially the poeteses, 
nized socicties of mutual admi- 
ration where they discussed the utter 
uselessness of men and had even discov 
ered means of happily dispensing with 
the favors. rare as these were, of their 
lord and master. Others corresponded 
regularly with bishops and rabbis and 
other dignitaries of the communities of 
the infidels and had already caused 
many of the imperial harem’s Moslem 
inmates to abandon the nue faith in 
favor of every kind of strange and fool 
ish belief. The sulana, a wuly great 
lady, had developed a passion for con- 
temporary French poetry. She wore at 
all times an emerald monocle, specially 
cut for her by a Frenchman who was 
then jeweler 10 the Imperial Muscovite 
Court, and she corresponded regularly 


had o 


how the sultan 
made peace 
in his harem 


Ribald Classic 
from a traditional Turkish tale 


139 


PLAYBOY 


with a chlorotic Parisian poetess who 
sent her autographed copies of privately 
printed limited editions of her works, 
together with autographed photographs 
that revealed “the Sappho of Argenteuil" 
wearing a cavalry officers helmet, 
breastplate, breeches and spurs, for all 
the world like one of the corseted mili- 
tary attachés of the infidels attending 
full dress a diplomatic reception of the 
Sublime Porte. 

One day. 


this great but perverse 
sultana was taking her bath, stripped of 
all her finery except her emerald mono- 
cle, she suddenly perceived, through this 
flawless green stone, an unusual stirri 
ike that of a captive bird, beneath the 
towel that her boy eunuch was hol 
spread out against his body and ready 
for the moment when she would rise 
from the perfumed waters and need to 
wrap the cloth round her exquisite and 
glistening form. A Circassian princess, 
she was the daughter of a Mameluke 
from Egypt who had deemed her worthy 
of only the greatest of all living sov- 
creigns; but this did not make her ap- 
pear any less desirable to the common 
run of men. When she stepped out of her 
bath, the proud and beautiful sultana 
simulated a moment of clumsiness, in the 
course of which she was able to verily, 
with her erring and ed hand, the 
exact shape, size, qu. nd nature of 
the mysterious birdlike thing that she 
had seen stirring beneath the ourspread 
towel. That evening, she summoned 
young Allah-ud-din to her private apart- 
ment, ostensibly to fan her throughout 
the hot August night. True, no breeze 
reached the imperial harem from the 
shores of the Bosporus, and even the 
fountains in the marble courtyards of 
the palace appeared to wilt from hear. 
The sulcina and her boy eunuch thus 
spent the whole night together in rare 
transports of love, after which she ceased 
to spond any longer with the 
» poetess and even donated her 
aphed volumes of verse and. pho- 
y of a nearby French 
ation of the daugh- 
nfidel merchants 


autogr 
tographs to the lib 
convent, for the edu 
ters of the wealthic: 
of Pera. 

But the ladies of a great harem are 
not much diflerent from the possiping 
shrews of a village such as Bok Koy, 
and it soon became known among them 
that the sulana had made the greatest 
discovery of her life, something indeed 
worthy of the attention of the 998 other 
wives and concubines of the sultan, too. 
For a while, Allah-ud-din was kept very 
busy, but he was always able. thanks to 
the unusual powers of endurance with 
which / h had endowed him, to give 
satisfaction to all and sundry. The sultan 
began to receive reports, from the unsus- 
pecting chief eunuch, of a most satis! 
tory lull in the harem’s intrigues and of 
an unusual improvement in the morale 


мо of the strictly secluded ladies. They no 


longer accused one another of cheating in 
their card games, nor did they listlessly 
consult so many dubious but expensive 
fortunctellers, In their poetic socicties of 
nutual admiration, organized on the 
same principles as the courts of love of 
the troubadours who had once accompa- 
nied the crusader armies of the infidel in 
their invasions, the imperial ladies no 
longer interrupted their debates то fight 
and tear one another's hair or scratch 
one another's faces, nor did any of them 
correspond any longer, on theological 
matters, with the sly and intriguing grcat 
doctors of the infidel. 

This lull in the usual goings on of a 
great harem could scarcely, in view of 
the very nature of women, be expected 
to last long. In time, several ladies fell in 
love with Allah-ud-din, cach one of them. 
wanting him as her own exclusive prop- 
erty. The imperial harem then became, 
in short shrift, such 
chief eunuch prompted to. conduct 
n inquiry into the сие of so much 
turmoil, after which he submitted а 
shocked but tactful report on his мса 
findings to the sultan in person. He did 
this orally and in secret concave with 
the ruler of all the faithful, lest the 
nature of the scandal he had discovered 
reach the ears of any court official of 
doubtful discretion who might report it 
all, for a consideration, to the special 
Constantinople correspondents of La Vie 
Parisienne, The Sporting Times and the 
Wiener Journal. Among other findings, 
the chief cunuch’s report included 
alarming statistics on the number of 
heirs whom the sultan, who had not vis- 
ited his harem once in five [ull years, 
had good reason to expect within the 
next few months, 
he sultan was a sovereign of rare 
wisdom, busy with important affairs of 


state and too devoted to the privacy of 
isures, when he pursued other 
ighis, to want his neglected harem to 


remain, at all times, a seething source of 
worry and vulgar scandal. He was grate- 
ful to the young eunuch lor having 


solved, at least in the carly stages of his 
career in the imperial harem and within 
the limitations imposed on him by the 
lack of discretion of the ladies concerned. 
rather than by any failings of his own 
remarkable potency, at least some of the 
problems of this vast and unruly hen- 
тоом. The suhan therefore sent for 
Allah-ud-din, Charmed by the boys ap- 
pearance and rare modesty, instead of 
ordering that he be impaled forthwith, 
the sultan asked him to explain how and 
why he had thus been appointed under 
apparently false pretenses to his job in 
the imperial household. 

Allah-ud-din, like most. country boys 
from the distant villages of Anatolia, was 
courageous, truthful and respectful and 
remained so in the presence of his 
sovereign. Though dazzled by the mag- 
nificence of the imperial divan, he did 


not hesitate to tell the great sultan, in a 
clear voice and in modest terms, of his 
own father's misfortunes and of how 
Achmet Hodja had decided that his 
more fortunate son deserved а better 
fate. The sultan was delighted with the 
boy's truthfulness and di, and 


nity 


moved by the account of Achmet Hod- 


s fate, He therefore appointed Allah- 
ud-din, on the spot. captain of the palace 
guards, and then added: “Boy, send im- 
mediately for your father. I have impor- 
it affairs of state to discuss with this 
Achmet Hodja. Why have I been de- 
prived, all these years, of the services of 
so wise and resourceful а man from 
among my countless loyal subjects? Why 
do I always seem to be surrounded only 
with ambitious fools?” 

Several days later, Achmet Hodja ar- 
rived at the imperial palace in Stamboul. 
As soon as he was announced, he was 
admitted into the august presence of the 
ruler of all the faithful, who gave orders 
that they be left alon the Baghdad 
Kiosk, from the w 
view over the Bosporus is truly like a 
glimpse of paradise. The sult 
ured himself t this monst 
man, in his torn and filthy garb of a 
poor Anatolian villager, had been truly 
endowed by Allah with such rare con. 
cealed gifts of the body as well as of 
the mind. The sultan then appointed 
Achmet Hodja hereditary eunuch of the 
bathrobe, in Allah-ud-din's stead, in the 
imperial harem, and then added, with a 
delighted chuckle; “Achmet Hodja, h 
you still a father as fortunately deformed 
as yourself, to inherit in the third genera- 
uon this great honor, should your apt 
tudes ever fail to the point of suggesting 
that you may have reached the age of 
nè 
that day on, there was no more 
trouble of any sort in the imperial ha 
rem, The sultan's 999 wives and concu- 
bines took it in turns to be the joy of 
Achmet Hodja's days and nights, but not 
one of them ever fell in love with him. 
They began ло bear him peacefully 
number of beautiful and wise 
s and princeses, all remarkably 
ysical and intellectual 
е, one foolish grand vizier, a 
n slave who had reached 
high ofüce through his gilt for intrigue 
amd gossip. was impaled one day for re- 
marking to a Russian diplomat, in the 
presence of a loyal eavesdropper, that all 
these princes and princesses looked sus 
jously like the captain of the palace 
guards. As for C: in Allah-ud-din, he 
soon became the sultan's confidant. rap- 
idly learning to unbuiden his lord and 
master of many wearisome affairs of 
state. He always slept, they say, fully 
armed on a Bokhara rug spread out at 
the foot of the sultan’s bed, the constant 
companion of the days and nights of the 
ruler of all the faithful. 

—Edouard Roditi У] 


one good turn deserves another when it's mouth-watering fare weather 
food By THOMAS MARIO 


TODAY'S DO-IT-HIMSELF GOURMET who finds his taste buds set atingle by even the prospect 
of a spit-roasting feast is in good company. For over seven centuries, professional roasters have 
been saying that ovens are perfectly fine for bread or brioche, for gratins and cassoulets, but 
not for roasts. Ever since the French Guild of Goose Roasters was founded in 1248, rótis- 
seurs have used anything from larks to whole lamb to demonstrate that meat, to be perfectly 
roasted, must meet with a direct flame; that to be beautifully browned, it must turn crisp 
in the free dry air (not the wet atmosphere that builds up in an oven); and that to conserve 
its naturally luscious flavor, it must be basted continuously with its own crackling fat and 
juices. In fact, the Confrérie de la Chaine des Rótisseurs, a distinguished organization of 
7000 professional and amateur chefs with chapters all over the world, dedicates itself at in- 
numerable Homeric feasts to spreading the philosophy of the turnspit. 

That Americans have even more links in their chaines is proved not only by the num- 
ber of indoor rotisseries but also by the outdoor charcoal grills that hold plump fowl, 
miles of spareribs and countless standing ribs. Standing ribs, of course, don’t just stand 
there, with their juices all flowing in one direction—downward. As the rib roast turns one 
cheek and then the other to the glowing coals, the inner succulence moves in all directions on 
the slow Ferris wheel. The beef acquires a fire-kissed savor to which the usual oven roast 
can never be privy. 

The master of the turning spit knows that after he's built his fire and impaled his meat, 
his chicf job will be to do nothing. He can leave his captain's chair and his Pimm's Cup for 
a minute to brush the spitted meat with itsown fat or with a basting sauce. But even these 
minor duties aren't always necessary. If he's prepared a rice pilaf or a hot potato salad, it 
can be placed on а warm section of the grill for gentle reheating. If he wants to grill some 
beefsteak tomatoes or corn on the cob, or heat a loaf of French bread with chive butter, 
the roastmeister simply relaxes and waits until he's brought the (continued on page 167) 


our switched-on beard catches the mod 
N show in a return visit to swingsville-on-thames 


CONDON 


TEN YEARS AGO, Shel Silverstein, our bawdy bard of the satiric sketchbook, 
portrayed for rravsov a London that was venerated and venerable. Eng- 
land's capital has since become the West's prime example of urbane renew- 

; titled nobility is bypassed in favor of a closely knit coterie of 
miniskirted man photographers, dress 
designers and disco-technicians. Shel's second sortie into Londontown finds 
him caught up in the storied city's new-found spirit. In a word: Modness. 


"Of course you can't find 'Swing- 
ing London'! There are only a 
handful of people in London who 
have enough money to sving. The 
rest of us are busy doing articles 
and picture stories and television 
shows on 'Swinging London,' so 
that you desperate Americans vill 
come swarming over here looking 
for the action, and spend enough 
money to beef up our economy so we 
can afford to swing a bit!" 


"Well, Mr. Silverstein, you passed the physical, but did poorly on the 
mental exam, only average in the personality tests, language proficiency, 
art and literature, but you'll be pleased to learn that your over-all 
grade was a passing one, So we will consider tailoring you a suit!" 


In Trefolger Square, Shel draws c 
bead on Londcn's birds—the feathered 
variety. Afterward, in Carnaby Street 
shop, he displays wildly wide lapels os 
solesgirl surveys Silverstein à la Mod. 


mT jen 


"Sure, driving on the 
left side of the street 
confuses me. And driving 
on the left side, while 
looking at the girls in 
their miniskirts. is 
even more difficult. 

But driving on the left 
side, looking at the 
girls, while trying to 
figure out how much one 
of them would cost on 
the dollar-pound ex- 
change rate, is just 
too damn much!!" 


"She had her hair fixed like a 15-year-old, 
just the vay all the London girls have. She 
was wearing the miniskirt of a 15-year-old, 
just like they all vear. And she talked 
and acted like a 15-year-old, just like 
every woman does these days. So how the 
hell was I supposed to know she was 
actually a 15-year-old?!!" 


"Actually, all this 
publicity about the 
Sexual promiscuity of 
London girls is highly 
exaggerated, and 
you'll find after 
you've been here a 
while, Mr... . Mr.... 
what did you say your 
name was again...?" 


Twiggy, London supermodel ond on 
internctionol celebrity ot 17, over- 
sees lunch dote Shel sketching owoy 
ct Alvoro’s, mecca for rich young Brit- 
ons. Loter, he digs the threads worn 
by busbied Buckinghom Faloce guord. 


"No cameras or drawing pads 
allowed in the crown jewel VATU, VERN? 


chamber? Well, what the hell don сары 
do you think I'm gonna do--steal GERD semin 
'em? I happen to be a well-paid boxes where 
cartoonist--with an international gome = ACU NE 
reputation--and besides, how could But it ees Et 
anybody steal the crown jewels-- nono элни; 
from an electrified glass case, посао н БЕР 
with three guards, in а stone S VEE OOS ыы 
tower vith a barred window?! It's чыш W шш 
impossible! Unless, of course, CHORE] cis 
you could find a way to lower Dp 
yourself to the window from the 
parapet above, which would require 
18 feet of rope, a grappling hook, 
and a blowtorch for the bars. But 
then you'd be faced vith the prob- 
lem of the electrified case, for 
which you'd need a jumper wire and 
a pair of alligator clips--to dis- 
connect the alarm without inter- 
rupting the circuit. But even then 
you'd need somebody on the 
to take care of the guards, 
how would you like to meet me at 
the pub down the street a little 
later for a friendly drink... ?" 


"I remembered the 
odds, I remembered the 
amounts of the natural 

bets, I remembered to 
clear the layouts and 
pay the outside bets 
first, I remembered 
the pay-offs, I re- 
membered to offer the 
bank, and I forgot to 
take my рі11...." 


Visiting the London Playboy Club's gaming 
rooms, Silverstein concentrotes his betting on 
roulette, his otfention on the Croupier Bunny. 


"It's great to have 
another American to 
Share London with! We 
can explore Westminster 
together, we can feed 
the pigeons in Trafalgar 
Square together, you 
can introduce me to the 
Beatles, and after that 
I can manage on my 
own..." 


"That's old Betsy, and you've been introduced to Spot and Judy, 
so I guess you've met the entire family.... Oh, and, of 


course, 


American mannequin Peggy Moffitt 
leads Shel on a shopping sofori in 
Knightsbridge area. Silverstein then 
repairs to a nearby pub, where he 
downs a pint with playwright Herb. 
Gardner and film maker Jerry Farrell. 


I also have a wife and three children...." 


first arrived 
in London, you 
said my mini- 
Skirts were 
Sophisticated 
and smart--now 
all you say is 


"Through liberal 
legislation our 
antiquated sex 
laws are being 
modernized. 
Homosexuality, 
for example, was 
once a major 
offense, then it 
became a minor 
infraction; a 
few months ago, 
it was made 
legal and I, for 
one, shan't be 
satisfied until 
it becomes 
mandatory !" 


"You say I never 
take you anywhere 
but to bed.... OK, 

here we are--Big 

Ben--landmark of 
London, symbol of 

the city's enduring 
strength and dignity 
--for over а cen- 
tury, steadfastly 
ringing the hour, 
ticking the minutes 
--reminding us that 
time is passing, life 
is expiring, youth 
is vanishing--tick- 
tock, tick-tock-- 

'live, live,' it 

Seems to say--bong- 
bong--'live, live'! 
Let's go home and 
go to bed!" 


Neither rain nor fog can stay the hand of ?LAYBOY’s penman: 
Silverstein, with brolly unfurled, camps ovt on Westminster 
Bridge for а moist morning of drawing historic Big Ben. 


PLAYBOY 


148 


PLAYBOY PANEL 


sisters are involved in this practice. We 
don't realize the kind of criminality a 
person is forced into by the abortion 
laws that are now on the books. I think 
this is terrible. I really believe we need. 
to do something decisive about this 
situation. 

RUBENSTEIN: I feel very strongly on the 
whole subject of sexual freedom—not 
just on abortion—that these are essei 
tially privare. matters and that the state 
has no tight to interfere. 

PLAYBOY: Do you fecl the same way about 
homosexuality? 

RUBENSTEIN: Lip to a point. I would say 
that homosexuality is basically a psy- 
chological sickness; the homosexual is 
fixated at a rather low level of sexual ex- 
pression. He is deeply involved in what 
the psychoanalysts call “castration ans 
iety." 1 wouldn't consider homosexuality 
either fulfilling or an adult kind of sex- 
relationship. On the other hand, I 
don't regard homosexuality as immoral 
aud 1 don't think there should be апу 
laws on the books prohibiting it. It 
ual choice. 
However, it is one thing to say that this 
ter of individual choice and quite 
dow homosexuality with 
the respectability of mature sexuality, 
which it definitely is not. Only in a com- 
plete heterosexual relationship do people 
have a fully mature sexual relationship. 
LYNN: I'm afraid I can't quite go along 
with your pat psychological analy 
Rabbi, Frankly, I don't think we really 
know whether homosexuality is a psy- 
chological condition or just another kind 
of normality, and any dogmatism here is 
decidedly premature, We should listen 
far more seriously to homosexuals than 
have before. When I say "we," I 
1 those of us who are heterosexuals 
and are happy in that relationship. 
ROGERS: We have often been less than 
kind, and at best often merely conde- 
scending, in our treatment of the homo- 
sexual, This is a severe problem, and 
we don't help matters by using terms 
such as “unnatural.” We must remember 
that such words are understood by 
people in terms of their own experience, 
and they intensify guilt needlessly and 
thereby augment rather than clarify or 
alleviate this psychologic disturbance. 
PLAYBOY: Do you consider homosexuality 
шога], Father? 

ROGERS: I guess I would have to say that 
acted-out homosexuality is in itself im- 
but this is not answering the 
question concretely, because we must 
1 with people in terms of their knowl- 
edge, in terms of their value judgments 
and in terms of their degree of freedom. 
Bear in mind that J distinguish between 
the terms “immoral” and “sinful.” "Im- 
mo: is in the abstract, and when we 
say “sinful” we are talking about real 
people. So I don't know how I could 


we 


(continued from page 78) 


speak always 
sexuality аў 
i nt. 
ht! Tt may not be a question of 
judging а person in terms of sin; we must 
take into account compulsions and 
other psychological factors. The ques- 
tion may be what is wrong with the per- 
son, not what is wrong with the conduct. 
I mean, lev’s see why he's this way. May- 
be he doesn't have any choice. Homo- 
sexuality may be a choice for some 
people, but 1 have real doubts about 
whether it's a sound choice. I think in 
almost all homosexuality represents 
unfortunate factors in the development 
of the individual, and we should not be 
judgmental abour him. Rather, we should 
try to help him free himself from wi 
ever blocks he has about relations with 
the opposite sex, But in any case, freely 
consenting adult homosexuality should 
not be it criminal offense. Even if it is to 
be conceived of as a sin, it should not be 
a crime, Nor all sins are cimes—nor 
should they be when they don't айса 
outside. persons. 

ADAMS: Bishop Pike brings up the ques- 
m of the relation between law and 
morality. The Wollenden Committee in 
England has recommended that homo- 
sexual practices between consenting 
adults in private should not be consid- 
ered criminal offenses. The assumption 
is that there must be a re 
morality that is not the law’ 
But society is entitled to protect people 
1 this area, A completely permissive at- 
titude on the part of society would be 
unjustifiable, Although I realize we have 
been speaking here about sexual rela- 
tions between consenting adults, we rec- 
ognize that we cannot approve of the 
homose: who in the seduction of 
youth brings out latent elements of 
homosexuality that might not otherwise 
be activated. 


and necessarily of homo- 
“sinful.” This is all- 


COX. I agree with Rabbi Rubenstein 
that homosexuality is a psychological 
Condition, but so is heterosexuality. 


Many factors—physical, env 
and psychogenetic—influence 
sexuality. So it's more than just a mat- 
ter of taste, although that's part of it, 
But if a person is homose: society 
should permit him to exercise it, with no 
restrictions whatever, as long as it is 
done between consenting adults, in pri- 
ie. But this doesn't mean that I think 
homosexuality is as desirable а way of 
life as heterosexuality. 1 would want to 
try to convince homosexuals that they're 
missing something, that theirs is a 
tial and fragmentary expression of sexu 
ality, which I think grows out of a kind 
of fear of encountering a truly different 
kind of person. The heterosexual en- 
counter is an encounter with a person 
irreducibly different from yourself. It 
includes a kind of terror, but also a kind 


of maturation that is introduced by this 
confrontation with the wholly other. T 
think that in part there is a timidity in 
homosexual behavior that is afraid to 
take that step. But that мер is essential 
to the development of real personhood. 


MARTWY: Although I agree with Harvey 
that the tendencies toward both hetero 
sexuality and homosexuality are psv- 


chologically based, I'd like to point out 
that we can choose to express the tend- 
псу ог not. We сап йозе to be celi- 
bate or not. I may choose to restrict my 
scxual expressions or to bc a libertine. In 
my view, then. although homosexuality 
has a psychological base, the moral 


questions concern the voluntary acts of 
the homosexual. 
ADAMS: As I said а moment ago in men 


tioning the Wolfenden Report, this is a 
question that relates to the bearing of 
Там upon morality. Society has the right 
to protect itself against destructive, anti- 
social behavior, but is it appropriate for 
the community to assume that all 
pects of morality are subject to investi- 
gation and rule, subject to cordon at 
the hands of the law? The recent Su 
preme Court decision with regard to the 
birth-control law in Connecticut held 
that the use of contraceptives by married 
couples is in the realm of privacy. 
Shouldn't this principle be extended, in 
restricted ways, to the homosexual be- 
havior of consenting adults? 

сох: I would be in favor of a sodety in 
which there were no legal restrictions 
whatever on the private behavior of con- 
senting adults. 

I don't think we should discrim- 
nst the homosexual: we should 
treat him the way we treat the hetero- 
sexual. In both cases, the seduction 
of the young, violence and public inde 
cency should be forbidden. Of course. 
there's a pracical consideration, too. 
These antihomosexual laws encourage 
much worse evil: blackmail and police 
entrapment. As I remember, that was 
one of the major considerations in the 
Wolfenden Report. 

MOORE: It’s very interesting how in some 
cities where the police work to en- 
wap homosexuals, they often catch the 
man with overtly feminine characu 
ties rather than the hard-core homosex- 
ual prostitute, who has learned how to 
avoid the police. Thus, the innocent by- 
stander with homosexual tendencies or 
who occasionally slips into homosexual 


s- 


We are going to have to realize that 
ny different ways to 
sexuality. Some people choo: 
‚ to remain celibate, but we don't 
call them queer. АП of us are the prod 
ucts of our psycholog kerounds. 
I'm ready to say that homosexuality is a 
style of sexual expression, and like other 
styles of sexual expression, it has its 
imperfections. My quarrel with the homo- 
sexual community and its outspoken 


"Me? Smoke a filter ? 
Im the guy who walked 


a mile fora Camel.” 


“Td walk a mile 
and a half 

for the flavor 

this filter's got.” 


Regular or — 
Filter жы 
Camels real taste satisfies longer 


PLAYBOY 


150 core pornogr 


advocates is not in the realm of civil 
liberties; it is w irresponsible behav- 
ior. I would be opposed to promiscuity 
among homosexuals, just as I'm opposed 
to promiscuity among heterosexuals. But 
I'm ready to adopt liberal new laws in 
regard 10 homosexuality. and to get rid 
of this police brutality against homosex- 
uals that exists im most of our states 
today, 

RUBENSTEIN: One of the reasons why a 
homosexual finds such tremendous. hos 
tility directed against him is that practi- 
cally every human being alive has some 
latent homosexual. feelings. Most people 
do not want to recognize it in them- 
selves. Instead, they turn against the ho- 
mosexual with a great deal of anger that 
is really a defense against their own 
temptations. Just as all of us have see 
ondary sexual characteristics, all of us to 
some extent are latently homosexual. 
The minute a person realizes this about 
himself, he is much less likely to be hos- 
tile to the homosexual, who has mot 
mastered his. problem, 

MOODY: Right! Onc reason for our un- 
easiness with homosexuality is that it 
touches many people too closely. When T 
was in the Marine Corps, for example, 
the guys who were really hardest on 
homosexuals, who beat them physically, 
were the guys whose own sexuality was 
п question. A strong heterosexual will 
have no fear of the homosexual; it is the 
ambivalent man who seems afraid. 
MOORE: 1 think this Sexual Revolution 
will be a very he'pful thing for the ho- 
mosexual, My only fear about the Sexual 
Revolution is that it won't go far enough. 
There are forces in our society already 
that are trying to develop anti-obscenity 
aws, so-called morality laws, to stop the 
tide of sc 
can go 


ual revolution. I hope that we 
enough to get over this pre- 
h sex and begin to deal 
with persons as human beings. 

PLAYBOY: You mentioned а 
laws, Dr. Moore. Do you bel 
kind of censorship? 


occu 


obscenity 
ve in any 


MOORE: Well, there is always the prob- 
especially the im- 
ad 


lem of hel 
mature, evaluate literature, films 
magazines; but I don't favor legal ce 
sorship. I fear it. We're in an ag 
which we are to have to find some 
Hernative to the censorship laws of the 
past, Ideally, 
we can handle the problem of the im- 
mature by rating films and books, grad 
yg those things u for family, for 
children, for adults. I think the movie 
dustry, for example, is beginning to do 
this in a very responsible way. There is 
no reason why sex cannot. be dealt with 
з literature and the performing arts as 
one of the aspects of human life. To cen- 
sor material just on the basis of sexual 
als the immaturity of our 
. But we should recognize the dif- 
ference between erotic realism and hard- 
phy. We can deal with the 


g peopl 


а sexually mature society, 


question of pornography only when we 
are able io help society openly discuss 
what is good sex, and to begin to bui 
into society the process of evaluation. 
The whole problem with censorship is 
that concentrates оп sex and doesn't 
say anything about sadism and violence, 
It doesn't say anything about themes of 
war and m m—which, by the way, 
is increas a subtle to disguise 
sick sex in books and films. 

сох: І don’t think any useful purpose is 
served by prepubliciion censorship of 
anything—films, books or anything else. 
Alter publication, children should be 
protected from pornography by parents, 
churches and schools, but not by some 
kind of censorship chat enforces some- 
body's tastes on the rest of us, 
RUBENSTEIN: 1 don't like censorship, and 
I don’t like the kind of people who are 
usually censors. But 1 don't believe that 
some activities—for example, the literal 
depiction of sexual intercourse—should 
be shown on the асси, 

PLAYBOY: Why not? 

RUBENSTEIN: Well, it tends to make the 
act of being a spectator more important 
than the act of participating in the rel 
tionship. Although it's impossible to make 
any general statements about human sex- 
ty that apply to eve seems 
obvious to me that voyeurism can become 
a masturbatory substitute for real sex, 
and as such, undesirable. It can become a 
substitute for the reality of a real woman. 
When a man is afraid of a real, sexually 
active woman, he turns to pictures. We 
know that voyeurism is basically an a 
fiction of people who are afraid of sex, 
‘They want to be reassured that the real 
thing isn’t dangerous. As long as people 
stay at the voyeur's level, they aren't go- 
ing to get to the next level—which is 
simply being involved in healthy sex. 
Now, I don't see anything immoral per 
se in watching the sex act on the screen. E 
object because it's a substitute and an 
unnecessary detour, Voyeurism ultimate- 
ly represents the desire 10 watch one's 
parents in the sexual act, and this is 
апше. 

PLAYBOY: Aren't you speaking of com- 
pulsive voyeurism, which precludes one's. 
own ache participation? But what 
about people who сап borh wath and 
participate, amd enjoy both 
Dr. Albert Ellis, the well- 


activities? 


nown psychol- 
1 of the Institute for Ra 


because it becomes compul- 
sive or exclusive o There is 
never anything inherently wrong with an 
acı per se. Not only is viewing pornogra- 
phy perfectly normal under most circum- 
ncs, sine practically all healthy 
human beings enjoy doing so at times, bi 
in many cases it is distinctly helpful to 
husbands and wives in their regular mar 
ital relations. In my marriage manual, 
The Art and Science of Love, Y stated 


obsessive. 


this [act emphatically, and since the 
book was published I have received 
great many letters from married couples 
who tell me that they got a much gr 
atisfaction from sex after viewing a stag 
film." 

RUBENSTEIN: I doubt that. A person who 
has watched a Шис film might be stim 
ated, but not by his real sexual. partner. 
In good sex, there is no need for ex 
tra stimulation. I don't think normal, 
healthy people need stag films as 
crutch. E don't have any moral objections 
to it, but T certainly think it would be 
out of place in a public theater, and I 
think most people rightly find it offen- 
sive. I recently visited Denmark, where I 
attended a public movie in which some- 
thing very close to the act of sexual 
intercourse. was depicted on the scree 
Denmark is much more liberal in these 
matters than we are, and yet I noticed 
the acute embarrassment of the audience. 
PLAYBOY: Are you sure you weren't pro- 
jecting your own embarrassment to the 
rest of the audience? 

RUBENSTEIN: Absolutely not. The embar- 
rassment vocal. It was very distur 
ng for all of us. Sex simply is not a spec 
jor sport. I think thar people for whom 
sex is a spectator sport are people who 
aren't getting their kicks out of the real 
thing. They're afraid of the real thing. 
They are content to identify with some- 
one else, Nevertheless, if 1 had to choose 
between showing the act of love or the 
act of killing, I think 1 would show the 
act of love. One of the horrible things 
about the motion-picture medium in our 
country is that we don't sec that there is 
а pornography of violence as well as a 
pornography of sex, If I had to choose 
between the two. I would prefer sexual 
pornography. But I would rather h 
neither. I see nothing objectionable in 
the literary prese n of the sexual 
act however. I am opposed to literar 
censorship. It be an inconsistency 
on my part, but instinct tells me that the 
realistic representation of the actual sex- 
ual act on the screen is somewhat differ- 
ent in quality from the depiction of а 
sexual scene in literature. 

LYNN: I suppose some form of censorship 
is inevitable hy society, but I refuse 
thereby to give a blank check to self- 
appointed. censors—of films or books. 
MOODY: As I see it, there should be no 
censorship except the censorship that 
every 1 imposes upon himself 
and that parents impose upon their chil- 
dren. indude 
sexual subjects that I think children 
not prepared for; but when we begin to 
apply censorship to these things, we're in 
danger. That's why Tm always so careful 
about not wanting somebody else to tell 
me what my child may read. 1 want to 
decide myself what my child may read. 
ADAMS: I agrec. I would like to keep the 
Government out of censorship as much as 
possible, because in matters of censorship. 


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the Government is usually the tool 
of pressure groups. Often the pressure 
group is a church that is not willing to 
y upon its power of persuasion with its 
members and wishes to impose its 
dards by coercion upon the rest of 
the community. АП of us can recall 
aces of this. The process of matura- 
tion requires that people shall be permit- 
ted to read or see what they wish. I don't 
want the Government to tell me what I 
or my children may see. I am entitled to 
this sort of decision for myself. I 
grant that the community has the re- 
sponsibility to maintain some standards 
with respect to public decency. But th 
is a difficult, delicate issue for wi 
we need to clarify the criteria. I think 
we should recognize that pornographic 
books and pictures are sold to youth in 
the back alleys, at exorbitant, exploita- 
tive prices. This is a racket, a very lu- 
amive racket, and it preys upon the 
young. This evil of exploitation depends 
largely upon the clandestine character of 
the market, and perhaps it could be mii 
gated by requiring that sales be made in 
public places. In any event, not all of the 
problems in the area of censorship would 
he solved by leaving matters to the indi- 
vidual and to voluntary associations. 
PIKE: My attitude toward censorship is 
very much like the early American Colo- 
nial flag with the snake and the words 
DON'T TREAD ON ME. My general feeling 
is that people should do as they want: in 
other words, “Get off my back!” E realize 
that there is a good deal of hard-core 
pornography in circulation—for exam- 
ple, a “novel” that is just a series of 
crotic episodes with sequences connecting 
them like little bits of Scotch tape, hav- 
ning, simply meant to 
be sheer ritillation. I сап see how that 
could be barred. particularly since the 
censor really has no way of 
young readers from adult r y 
‘for adults only" doesn't do much good: 
il it's around. it’s available. I suspect that 
there are some things that should be 
barred; but on the whole, I would rather 
take the risks of obscenity—since I'm 
not so sure how damaging it is to people 
than the risk of suppression of ideas 
and expr Tm sure that some of 
this horror. stuff that is tolerated, show- 
g hated and murder and war—as 
when we report with glee not that we 
have gained so much ground in Vietnam 
but that we've killed a thousand Viet 
Cong and lost only ten of oum— 
could also be damaging to young people. 
And E can't understand why a four-letter 
Anglo rd is supposed to be 
more sinful or wrong than a Latin deriv- 
ative, let us say, of 11 letters meaning 
the same thing. This is purely semantics: 
it isn’t a moral question. The church 
should spend less time encouraging cen- 
sorship and morc time cultivating a taste 
for a "whole" view of life and for those 
If hard-core 


sion 


axon wi 


pornography must be censored, however, 
І know the state has to do Much as 
I'm biased against censorship, I have то 
recognize that. 

LYNN: The trouble with that is that 
people who exercise censorship are oft 
nothing more than self-interest groups 
who want to protec their own immedi 
ate interests and not the rights of others. 
Since 1 don't want the state to handle 
censorship, this leaves me in a very real 
quan I don't see anyone around 
who is wise enough to be a public ccn-or. 
MOODY: Neither do 1. Look where "clean- 
literature" citizens groups have led 
Have you ever known such groups to 
operate with any kind of literary discrimi- 
nation? They will forbid Black Boy or 
Catcher in the Rye or some other great 
classics and say, 
one man’s meat is another man’s poison. 
That's why censorship never quite works. 
Let's consider the mores of a community 
—for example, Greenwich Vil 
tolerance level is a lot hi 
most places. Probably things cau be 
scen and donc there that in another 
neighborhood would be absolutely pro- 
hibited. The mores of communities diffe: 
Thats why the Supreme Court of this 
land has had such a terribly difficult time 
y really is. And T 


they haven't been able to decide. "There's 
good reason for this indecision, I don't 
want the state to censor my reading ma- 


children. That's the par 
LYNN: The only way censorship works is 
through a family's or a society's health 
and vitality, which develops a sense of 
understanding and а kind of maturity 
Bishop Pike suggests, that can take any 
But I don't think it would be pru- 
that no one has the right of 
censorship. because this would take away 
from a society the right to preserve and 
defend the integrity of the social order. 
To absolutely rule out censorship would 
be as dogmatic as it would be to insist 
that there must be a severe censorship. 
ADAMS: Well, in Chicago many year 
T was involved in a great controversy over 
a movie cilled The Fight for Lil 
ture produced by the Feder. 
ment in order to expose slum conditions 
in Chicago. I was banned by the mayor. 
But we couldn't even find out why, We 
though: 


did see one possible 
"There was one place in the movie where 
a class was receiving some kind of in- 
struction at a hospital, and we wondered 
if the police censor thought that 
instruction in birth control. At 
we finally called. on Mayor Kelly alter 
auending a private showing of the pic 
under the auspices of the Civil Lib- 
erties Union. The mayor said, "You're 
ting your breath. Don't talk to me 
and talk to the cardinal. Ш 
says this movie should. be 


reason. 


wi 
bout it. 
the cardi 


shown in Chicago, it will be shown in 
Chicago.” So we said, “But Mr. Mayor, 
we didn’t elect the cardinal to tell us 
what movies could be show So he 
said, "Don't talk to me about who you 
«lected. The cardinal told me that 
should not be shown, and it's not going 
to be shown. But if you persuade the 
cardinal, then it's OK with me” So in 
my experience, the official authorities 
who exercise the power of censors 
have shown themselves to be erratic, ig- 
norant and incompetent. What's needed 
is a review board consisting of respon- 
sible, sensitive citizens who enjoy the con- 
fidence of people of taste and judgment. 
PLAYBOY: That view seems inconsistent 
with the First Amendment to the Con- 
stitution, which says. "Congress shall 
make no law . . . abridging the freedom 
of speech, or of the press.” 

ROGERS: lı seems to me that any attempt 
at legal censorship—however intelligent. 
tasteful and well intentioned—is incffec- 
tive. Also, in practice, it can militate 
inst freedom of opinion. It is 
eflective tly because it is dificult t 
define or identify sheer obscei 
which has mo redeemi 
ficance or any literary 
pully for that reason, 
we should not concern 
much with censorship of books [or 
adults. I think our emphasis should be 
upon educating rather than coercing th 
public. The only effective censorship, as 
Reverend Moody has pointed out, is real- 
ly self-censorship. The greater question i 

my mind concerns censorship of books, 
as the other panelists have pointed ou 
which readily fall into the hands of chil 
dren. But ag Fm not sure if there's 
пу effective way of censoring books in 
order to keep them even out of the 
ands of children. If there were, I would 
be willing to consider it—provided it 
were scientilicilly established that smut 
has а proportionately deleterious effect 
upon the young. 

That's one of the rationalizations 
sual censors have given to justify 
their crusades over the у 
protect our chilen!” Bur we should re- 
member that this ploy is fairly recent. A 
reading of the history of censorship sug 
gests that just a few decades ago 
thought of the kids: the ery was, 


ourselves too 


as almost universally accepted unti 
very recently. The assumption was u 
women were psychologically and mentally 
Пе, and an exposure 10 any kind of 
erotica would not only contaminate them. 
morally but it could cause them to h 
a nervous breakdown or something of 
that sort. 

PLAYBOY: But most observers agree that 
the double standard hasn't completely 
ared, Do you gentlemen think 
herent psychose: differences 
men.and women, as some have 


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suggested, give any validity to the double 
standard? 

LYNN: Perhaps that was the case in pre- 
vious times, but I don't think it's as true 
now as it once was. Women have been 
liberated by birth-control devices, so 
that they are freer 10 reject the double 
standard. But you know, we don't 
yet really understand the psychoses 
differences between men and women. 
I'm not willing, like some social sci 
tists, to that they are absolutely 
alike. А woman is so much more in- 
volved emotionally in sex, she’s so much 
more closely identified with the th 
process. She's the one who bears the 
child, and in this sense her awareness, 
her sobriety, her involvement is 
deeper than that of the man. We've 
looked at these differences almost entirely 
from the point of view of the man, and 
this discussion of sex we're having today 
is suffused th the male's sense of his 
freedom—with no understanding of the 
woman's sense of responsibility, or her 
own deep emotional involvement in sex. 
MOODY: It's strange. I've remarked to a 
lot of women about what a terrible thing 
the double standard is and how much 
sham and hypocrisy there is about it, 
only to have them tell me, "Leave it 
1 like the double standard; I want 
You understand, these remarks don't. 
come from strong, aggre: women 
who are fighting for their place in the 
sun with men. Т] sort of woman 
abhors the double standard as much as T 
There does seem to be a certain po- 
lygamous bent in men as opposed to a 
monogamous bent in women, but I don't 
think we can draw any sweeping conch 
sions from that about inherent. psycho- 
sexual differences between men and 
women. Women, obviously, engage in 
premarital relations today as much a 
men do, and they aren't being seduced 


say 


ive 


do. 


or coerced or hoodwinked into i 
They're engaging freely in it. There are 
certain builtin strictures, like fear of 


pregnancy, loss of reputation, that used 
to have a restraining effect on women, 
but I don't think they have much effect 
anymore. 

Happily, we're getting away from 
the situation in which а young man feels 
free to be promiscuous but still cherishes 
the notion that the girl he ma 
matically has to be i 
good, In matters of both freedom and 
responsibility, there secms to be less and. 
less differenti m between men d 
women, boys and girls. It’s about time, 
I'd say. 

ROGERS: Although Т certainly don't be- 
lieve in judging women very differently 
from men in matters of sexual activity. 1 
think it only fair to mention that the 
double standard does have a kind of 
basis in ity—culturally conditioned 
reality, perhaps, but reality nonethe- 
Jess. As Dr. Lynn pointed out, a woman's 


s auto- 


vir or she's no 


attitude toward sex is, by necessity, more 
serious. She cannot be—or at least isn't 
—as casual about it as a man, because it 
involves more of her emotionally and to 
some degree physiologically. Rightly or 
wrongly, there are greater risks for he 
The risks are considerably less than they 
were 50 years ago, but they still obtain. 
In Kiss Me Kate, there's a song called 7 
Hate Men, and one of the lines is. “I's he 
who'll have the fun and thee the baby.” 
Perhaps I should best put it this way: 
Woman's attitude toward sex is still 
sufficiently different from man's to be 
aken into account, but not so great as 10 
wan 
MOORE. But, Father, that basis for the 
double standard has been rendered 
somewhat obsolete by birth control. The 
woman is no longer the one who "gets 
caught." We're living in a heterosexual 
world in which the woman has achieved. 
her freedom and must learn to take re- 
sponsibility for her sexuality, along with 
the man. 

PIKE: Yes. In the past, women were 
more psychologically oriented toward 
marriage than men, but I see a change in 
this, In my counseling experience, I've 
seen more and more women who consider 
marriage and children not as big a 
thing, relatively speaking. as it seems to 
have been in the past. I'm not saying 
that this is either good or bad, but I do 
think that the abiding re nship in the 
family and the home is the desideratum; 
it is good when women emphasize this. 
ADAMS: Claims regarding the unique 
psychological nature of woman, I think, 
represent for the most part unexamined 
folklore, for they tend to overlook cul- 
tural influences. In our culture today, 
the roles of the male and the female are 
in a state of flux. This situation is partly 
the consequence of a spurious theory of 
quality in dignity must, 
be insisted upon; but the 
pile and female 


thus, 


the erotic 
ened. Intimacy 
fulfilling intimacy, requires еге! 
and firmness of identity. 

PLAYBOY: Hefner has written in 


between the 


The 


Playboy Philosophy that this “breakdown 
that. distinguish 
America— 


in the cultui 
the sex 


1 раце 
ies—especially here 
has caused us to dri 
society, in which it becomes increasingly 
dificult for either sex to find true satis- 
faction or fulfillment i interpersonal 
relationships with the other.” He feels 
that this is one of the two primary causes 
—the other being the increasing auto- 
mation and anonymity of our civi 
—of the erosion of individual identity. 
Do you agree? 

ADAMS: Well, the sartorial and tonsorial 
embellishments of a good many men and 
wornen—not only of the beatniks—cer- 
ainly aid and abet frustration and 


confusion. Ten years ago, the clothes and 
hairdos of many young people today 
would have been taken as signs of homo- 
sexuality, These practices bespeak a loss 
of clarity with regard to the polarity of 
the sexes, Achieve: 
thereby becomes difficult. This weake 
of sexual identity—or different 
also creates confusion about respective re 
sponsibilities within the family. If the 
father and the mother don't exhibit 
some clarity about their respective roles, 
then relations between the parents be- 
come ambiguous and frustrating, and the 
child of either sex encounters difficulty 
achieving personal and sexual identity. 
cox: Well, that doesn't really worry me, 
because I think all this stuff about wom- 
an’s psychosexual "nature" is nonsense. 
As Dr. Adams pointed out, it’s almost 
entirely cultural conditioning. But the 
biggest adjustment we men have to 
make now is to recognize that women 
are just as free as we are. Men like to 
have women in a dependent role, 
needing security, because that's part of 
the art of seduc . In the t. if the 
woman needed permanence, the man 
could use chat need, if he wanted to, in 
the seduction process, Now this is no 
longer the case, and many men don't like 
it, because one of their weapons is lost. 
Women are as free to be predatory as men 
are: and we have to adjust to that. 

MOORE: Yes. One of the things we're 
discovering is that the woman is not sex- 
ually passive. As she becomes free and 
loses the inhibitions that were character- 
ic of an e: age, she emerges a very 
sexual individual who has needs and de- 
sires entirely her own. This is still hard. 
for some men to take. But we must now 
recognize that woman's sexual needs 
must be taken seriously. In the past, we 
have talked almost entirely about the 
sexual needs of men. Thi ident y crisis 
you gentlemen were discu: a mo- 
ment ago is much more characteristic of 
the wor y caught up in 
the feminine mystique and who is quite 
to what it means to be a fe- 
porary world. She has 
achieved the frcedoms she worked for, 
but she still isn't quite sure how to cx- 
press herself. So we have the stereotyped 
definitions of femaleness, which are 
largely physiological definitions in terms 
ink the reason 


of breasts and hips. I th 
conscious today is that 
her 


men are so bre: 
the 
breasts are the one symbol she ca 
play to prove her femininity. 
women walk around as if they were 
wearing their bodies outside their 
dothes. So to deal with the topless craze 
g a moral problem is to miss the 
and psychological significance 
of toplessness, It is only a symbol of the 
problem of sexual identity in our time. 
"The woman who is out to display her sex 
but who has no intentions of following 


woman is breast-conscious; 


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156 


through is a person who, in my estima- 
ion, is being irresponsible. I'm not say 
ing that the E оГ a woman should 
ever be TR ed: it has always been a 


common man. But the 


exaggeration of the body, a phenomenon 


tic of our society. emits 
al signals that the owner of the body 
ly has no intention of acting upon 
hk this is one reason so many people 
confused and disturbed, They see 
these signals, yet they know there is an 
opposing set of standards behind the sig- 
als that negates them. 

сох: Well, I think much of our so-called 
sexual liberation has been man-centered 
rather than woman-centered. Woman 
has not been taken into consideration. As 
Reverend Moore suggested, women have 
a serious problem in working out their 
identities, I they aren't simply going to 
be a second kind of man, what are they 
going to be? 1 don't think we men can 
force our ideas of womanhood on them. 
This is oi of the most serious weak- 
nesses in much of the so-called sexual- 
freedom talk today. 
RUBENSTEIN: You 


пог disadvantage 


one sex without some unconscious re- 
taliation. Women have much to protest 
against, especially the cult of youth that 
our culture suffers from. Personally, 1 
don't honestly tl woman gets to be 
interesting until s 
old. There is a profound difference be- 
twcen women and girls. A woman is usu- 
ally far more compassionate, fa 

g. far more responsive and far more 
ly adequate than a girl. One of the 
things 1 find wrong with PLAYBOY'S em- 
phasis is that it exhibits young women as 
Playmates when they're hardly capable 
of full sexual response. when they have 
ardly begun to experience the ironies of 
life, when they cannot be mature and 
compassionate partners. It is part of our 
American immaturity that we look to 
loleseence as the great time of life. 
Why doesn't rrAvmov have a 45- or 50- 
earold Playm: 
PLAYBOY: Why should we? 

RUBENSTEIN: Well, it would seem to me 
that she would be far more interesting as 
a woman, and far more interesting in 
bed, if I might say so. The fact that she 
might not be visually att е doesn't 
mean a thi 


"Mom, would you set up a Tuesday appointment 
for Mrs. Gartmill?” 


PLAYBOY: In a 
great deal. 
RUBENSTEIN: But I object to the fact 
that we don't look beneath the surface at 
what things really mean. 

PLAYBOY: How do you look beneath the 
surface of a photo? 

сох: Well, I agree with A Simone 
Signoret or a Lauren Bacall is much 
more attractive 10 me than an 18у 
old girl barely bordering on full wom 
hood. 

RUBENSTEIN: And I agree with Harvey's 
marvelous insight into the whole playboy 
ttitude toward women, insofar as it 
doesn't give women their due. 

PLAYBOY: Hefner has written repeat- 
edly that women are the equals of men in 
their rights, their dignity, their integrity 


photogr: 


and their value as human beings. 
RUBENSTEIN: Well, I'm not talking about 
what Mr. Hefner says. Fm talking 


about the whole impresion 1 get from 
PLAYBOY'S presentation of women. The 
girls ın PLAYBOY are presented primarily 
as sexual beings. If a woman is just 
something you go to bed with, rather 
than a partner in a very important and 
decisive relationship, then woman is an 
object rather than a person. I like Martin 
Bubers conception of the 1/Thou rela- 
tionship, which is a spontaneous relation- 
ship between free persons who give of 
themselves. There is no constraint. There 
no sense of one as an object. There is 
no sense of being manipulated. Both are 


fully real persons in the 1/Thou rela- 
tionship. 

PLAYBOY: TI is exactly 

man-woman relationship 


said he feels is the most rewarding. 
MARTY: Well, when I first saw that arti- 
cle Harvey wrote criticizing PLAvnov for 
depersonalizing women, however much 1 
reed. with the positive side of the arti 
dle, it occurred to me how n 
is for a churchman to make such an ac 
cusation. Fhe Christian church has in 
practice been guilty of depersonalizing 
women for centuries. 


ncongruous 


PLAYBOY: Hefner made that point 
during his Trialogue discussion with 
three clergymen published in The 


Playboy Philosophy- He said. hough 
sometimes accused of having a de- 
ized view of women, our concept 
ally ollers the female a far more 
lentity than she has had histori 
n the Western world. It is our 

gious tradition that has tended to look 
upon woman as a depersonalized object, 
by continually associating 
tagonism toward sex. Some- 
times the emphasis has been placed upon 
the temptation to sin in womankind, and 
mes the emphasis has been placed 
upon feminine purity and chastity; but 
whether they were considered creatures 
of the Devil, or placed upon a pedestal, 
their status in our antisexual society has 


of 


always been t 
а human being.” 
LYNN: Touché! He's right. Women have 
historically had second-rank status in 
every area of life, including that of the 
church. And it’s still true today. In the 
church we are very slow to make deci- 
sions in response to our presumed ideals 
We make them finally and. perhaps only 
becuse of the pressure of necessity. 
and I think this pressure of necessity is 
going to drive us toward the further rec 
ognition of women. 
PIKE: 1 think women have a far better 
break in professions and in other realms 
of public and secular life than they have 
jı the church. Before the durd can 
hope to give leadership in terms of equal 
status for women, it's going to have to 
atch ыр with secular society. Martin 
Luther King said, “The church 
often than not a taillight rather than a 
headlight.” And this is a perfect example 
of it 
LYNN: The dificulty of the church today 
is that it's ideologically pretentious. It 
pretends to live up to its idealism, but 
that’s actually a mask to disguise the 
slatus quo. 
MARTY: Any attempt to make the Chi 
tian faith sound as if it's always h 
positive and almost ribald attitude to 
ward sex and human pleasure, as some 
recent thinkers have tried to do, doesn't 
do justice 10 the facts of Christian his 
tory. In actual practice, churchmen have 
uaditionally been antisex and anti 
pleasure in almost every context; and 
they have cam 
themselves. Churchman have always as 
serted the theological principle that be 
fore God women are equal to men. But 
1 don't think you can condude from 
any of the church's practices that it has 
through most of ity 20 centuries really 
regarded the woman as a parallel crown 
of ueation. She is described in almost 
all cases as inferior. 
MOODY: It isn’t just the church, Most 
men in our society have had this atütude 
toward women. But the church in the 
past has been guilty of fostering this atti- 
tude. Lets face it The Reformation was 
a masculine thing. How many feminine 
theologians have we had in the Chris 
tian church? Hardly any, What feminine 
viewpoints ever get incorporated into 
our way of thinking? Virtually none 
That's why I agree with what Hefner 
has said about the church's negative atti- 
tude toward women. | mean, there was 
a whole mystique about feminine суй 
that developed in earlier centuries. The 
church supported that school of thought 
theologically. In fact. from around. 1500 
until Puritan New England, over a mil- 
lion women were put to death as sorcer 
esses and witches. This will give you some 
idea about the hatred of women in the 
church. 1 think the church is in large 
part responsible for our traditional dis- 
torted view of women as cither vessels of 


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sin or holy paragons of virtue. There's no 


question that rejection of femininity has 
been a great loss to the whole Christian. 
church and to our whole culture. The 
fact that women haven't had their way 
for all these centuries has been a tremen- 
dous lo to us—and still is We're 
going to suffer a great deal if we don't 
learn to take the feminine element of hu- 
man life into account and give credit to 
it and allow it to operate in our lives— 
without denigrating it, without interpret- 
i as а sign of weakness or forcing 
our boys into homosexuality becau 
they've дог feminine traits. We Ame 
cans have been atrocious in our denial of 
the feminine aspects of life, and our 
whole culture has suffered a great loss as 
a result. 
RUBENSTEIN: Well, these attitudes have 
been with us a long time, In traditional 
Jewish communities, they considered it a 
greater sin for a marricd woman to have 
extramarital sex than for a married man 
to do so. I don't think it was because 
women were considered property. The 
reason for it—and this is something that 


both Judaism and Christianity share—is 
was essentially a patriarchal re- 
h a very strong masculine ori- 
entation. A religion with masculine 
orientation tends to disadvantage women 
and to regard men as having superior 
privileges. 

marty: When I hear Christians cr 
izing modern urbanites for making а 
thing” out of a woman, I'm reminded 
that the cultural context їп which 
the Bible was recorded, and in which 
the church was formed, gave the double 
standard some of its base, almost acciden- 
tally, and certainly in violation of the 
Bible's central affirmations about woman- 
hood. Early Christian spokesmen, in- 
fluenced by their cultural environment, 
often pictured woman as a mere recepta- 
cde for the male. She was never seen for 
her sexual status, her sexual rights, her 
sexual desire. Modernity did both wom- 
an and the church a favor, which the 
church has not acknowledged, by put- 
ting into practice tlie democracy that is. 
inherent in Christian doctrine. One can 
say that Christianity bore the seeds of 


"I have an idea for a sure-fire fifteen minutes." 


liberating practice, but if liberation came 
only with modernity, I chink we church- 
men had better send some cards of 
thanks to the moderns, 

PIKE: It's about time we admitted that 
the church's sex norms have been, even 
within marriage. totally wrong in most of 
its history. Take Saint Augustine, who 
said that intercourse always involves sin 
because it involves bestial movements. 
Saint Jerome bighcartedly granted а lim 
ited value to the sexual act: he said that 
from it can be produced more virg 
Churchmen have simply had a bad au 
tude all along, unul modern times, when 
we have at last begun to recognize that 
there is only one claim on life, and that 
is: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God 


i 
with thy whole soul, whole mind, whole 
strength, which means total responsibil- 
ity for making decisions under God with 
the whole of one's being. This means 
that the decision in a given situation 
about the sexual act between two persons 
is a contextual decision, with responsi- 
bility for weighing all the factors. 
ADAMS: I agree that Christian tradition 
on the whole has a poor record with 
respect to its attitude toward sex, an atti- 
tude of devaluation, an attitude of pru 
an attitude of secrecy in talking 
But two things should be taken 
into account here. First, the extreme as- 
ceticism that appears in the Christian 
tradition is theologically unsound insofar 
as it makes sexual intercourse as such 
sinful. It belittles an authentic aspect of 


human existence. At one period in the 
Middle Ag 


s, for example, complete ab- 
stinence from intercourse was admon- 
ished for no fewer than five days of the 
week: on Thursday in memory of the 
arrest of Jesus, on Friday in comme 
ration of his death, on Saturday in hor 

or of the Blessed Virgin, on Sunday in 
honor of the Resurrection and on Mor 
day in honor of the faithful departed. 
‘The present demand that priests should 
be permitted to marry presupposes a 
more sound Biblical view of sex than thi 
extremely ascetic view. On the other 
land, the ascetic vi in pa 
treme reaction against a merely sen 
conception of sex. Here I would point to 
an analogy. One cannot understand the 
nt monastic "cult of filth"—the un- 
willingness of certain ancient monks to 
take a bath—if one does not recognize 
the lascivious connotations of the Roman 
bath. So also the devaluation of sexual 
behavior historically was in part a reac 
tion against sexual practice that was 
merely the indulgence of Just. Yet the 
correction of lust is not properly effected 
by simply adopting extreme asceticism. 

ROGERS: Well, it's true that we Catholics 
have allowed ourselves to get into a bind 
of overemphasizing chastity, olten to the 
neglect of the other virtues, such as hon- 
ему and social justice. So thoroughly 


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have we done this that for many Catho- 
lic, the word sin immediately suggests 
sex. I have for long felt that many Cath- 
olic moralists were wonderfully adept in 
explaining away the statements of Jesus 
concerning almsgiving. or nonresistance 
to evil; but what litle Jesus did have to 
say about chastity was always taken with 
the utmost gravity. I am far from sug- 
gesting that what Jesus said should not 
be taken seriously, but I simply note the 
ective retention of texts that deal with 
sex to the comfortable exclusion of other 
texts that figured in Christ's thinking 
upon human dignity. Another point that 
puzzled me is the fact that sins 
ity are always treated as, 
sins in sharp distinction to 
other sins, such as sins against justice or 
honesty or the due to man, 
which sins are per se, venial. 
There is certainly something here that is 
wildly disproportionate. We have always 
been very definite in condemning sexual 
sin, but wonderfully vague and accom 
modating when it came to racial justice 


v 


per se, mor 


“We know 


you've got it hidden here someplace, McBee! 


or war. This discrepancy bugs me. 

LYNN: This discrepancy is true of nearly 
all Christians, Father, not just of Catho- 
lic. One of my old teachers used to say 
that Ghristians always had their excep 
tions on morality. One Christian would 
be an absolutist in the area of war, anoth- 
er in the matter of divorce. I'd never 
thought about it until just now. but there 
is a consistent place where we have been 
bsolutists, and that's on the question of 
sex. And I think for the most part that is 
due to our traditional fear of the body 
It can only be explained by the false 
dualism between body and soul, which 
no longer makes any sense at all 
ever did. The attitude of tradi 
Christian thinking that the mind and 
the spitit of man is holy, but that the 
body is evil, has no basis in Christ 
. Its a perversion of later cen- 
turies. OF course, 1 suppose future centu- 
ries will look back upon us and sce our 
corruptions and distortions. I don't want 
to criticize the past, thou 
the medicvalists and the Puritans. I'm 


nd beat 


p 


not really interested in that. Puritans are 
used these days as a favorite whipping 
boy, but they were really far more lively 
than we give them credit for. 

ADAMS: Indeed they were. The term 
puritanism, from a historical point of 
view. egregiously distorted. 
Puritan ly was a social philoso- 
phy that broke through all sorts of inhi- 
bitions that were associated with earlier 
authoritai nd also with feudal- 
ism. Puritanism was the greatest revolu- 
tionary force for 200 years in the history 
of Western civilizai 
MARTY: All vital schools of thought in 
Christian ethics come into being at a 
time and in a social situation when these 
ethical systems are practical and make 
minent sense. And the Puritan sex 
ethic, the real Puritan sex ethic, not our 
caricature of it, made much sense at the 
time it was promulgated. But like ot 
ethical systems within the Christian tra 
dition, by the time it actually became 
codified and formally assimilated into 
church doctrine, it was out of date. 
LYNN: Thats a wonderful insight. But 
the problem is how to keep reforming 
and reformulating that ethic so it never 
becomes frozen into the rigidities of a 
code. 

PIKE: No religious morals are necessari 
fixed and permanent when viewed in 
terms of historical development. At one 
ne it was sinful to lend money at inter- 
est, but when I was the bishop of a dio- 
cese, we lent money to churches. The 
only sin in this transaction was when they 
didn't pay it back. There was also a time 
when slavery was accepted by the 
church; but there were rules within the 
game on how to be a good slave. 
master, and so on. In 1920, at the Lam: 
beth Conference—our modest Anglican 
version of the Vatican Council—it was 
held that any form of contraception was 
ful; in 1958, family plan 
dared a moral obligatio 


problem asked me, you do 
that as a church?" I replied, “That's the 
advantage of not being infallible.” 

MOORE: We're moving to an era of un- 
certainty in which all aspects of life will 
be much more open-ended. In such a 
situation, the church will have to give up 
its authoritarianism and its emphasis 
upon the "givings." Most of my genera 
tion are hung up on sex, bur 1 believe 
the issues are much larger than that one 
topic. "The real issue is the nature of our 
humanity in these times and how it can 
most appropriately be expressed. I be- 
icve that any new morality that emerges 
п our time will focus more upon the 
issues which will establish man аз 
person within a community of persons. 
COX: Morality must always be a living, 
organic thing. We must constantly be 
rethinking our morals, not on the basis of 


rigid law but on the basis of human 
needs. 

LYNN: And morality. as Bishop Pike 
points ош. is a constantly changing 
thing. The breakthrough will come not 
when Christians can conceive of mora 
ty just as an evocation of what ought to 
be but rather when they can look upon 
what they're actually doing and come to 
grips with it. When I was in the parish 
ministry, I did a study on the parishion- 
егэ perception of a minister. A minister 
has a fiveletter word written right across 
his chest: OUGHT. It's no wonder he can't 
help his flock. He can't help them under- 
stand what they're up against, becai 
they don't want him to look at what 
they're really doing, and he has no 
way of achieving an understanding of 
what he 1 do to help them. Many 
young ministers are inhibited because of 
this image with their parishioners. This 
accounts in part for the dropouts among 
young clergymen, When you can begin 
to look at what morality actually is, then 
you can begin to get change and correc 
tion and self-criticism. In this respect, 
what riaynoy has done has been very 
helpful, because it has forced us to look 
at our actual morality. None of us ever 
look at our own morality by ourselves. 
We have to be forced to do it. One of 
PLAYBOY's contributions has be to 
awaken us to the invasion of privacy in 
the mails, rLaysoy has called our atten- 
tion to the outlandish sexual laws that 
are still on the books, and it has prodded 
us to re-examine what it is that happens 
to the person who's considered a deviate 
by society. We just haven't looked at 
these things before. There've been few, 
if any, Christian leaders who've seriously 
attended to these problems. Certainly no 
other national publication has, T have my 
лувоу, but the import 
wp here is that b spotted 
several ar tion that 
we churchmen have persistently over. 
looked or ignored. And none of us would 
have looked at these things without the 
force of good criticism that arouses us 
and says: "Now look, here's what's really 
going on here.” I have no faith in the re- 
form of an institution from within th 
institution. The reform of an institution, 
even the church, comes about by the 
pressure of the people on the outside. 
PLAYBOY: You gentlemen seem to agree 
more often than you disagree about 
what's wrong with our sexual codes and 
what to do about it. As a Catholic, Fa- 
ther Rogers, are you in general accord 
with the other panelists? 

ROGERS: Well, ways difficult to dis- 
cern a consensus in the midst of a varie- 
ty of theological backgrounds, but 1 
think there is evidence of a v consid- 
erable agreement among all of us, de 
spite our differences. In general, we 


arrels with 


nt 


“Just think! In twenty minutes I'll be Mrs. 
What's-His-Name." 


agree upon the need to view human sex- 
uality in terms of personal fulfillment 
well as in view of our social responsibil- 
ities. There is quite general agreement 
also that sex is good in itself, which is 
not to say that it shouldn't be accompa- 
nied with restraint or with regard for 
other values. We scem in fair agreement 
that there is a significant change in aui- 
tude toward sex among young people 
nowadays, enough to warrant speaking 
of a “new morality" — not totally new. of 
course, but new in that it gives a more 
wholehearted endorsement to what we 
in Western culture had been saying 
somewhat halfheartedly for some time: 
namely, that sex should be related to 
the other phases of human conduct and 
especially that it should be considered in 
the context of love rather than of the ob- 
servance of some abstract law. There is 
some difference of opinion among us as 
to exactly when and how the expression 
of sexual love is appropriate or moral, 
but the central emphasis is clear enough: 
All of us are against sex without love, 
without some sort of bond or sense of 
responsibility, because we feel that sex is 


not a casual matter. It has been difficult. 
for us to fully evaluate this new mor 
iy, because it is clearly in а stage of 
great transition, But I should venture the 
it comes more and more 
ter upon love, and as the church 
comes more and more to sce the persist- 
ent relevance of love. a sexuality that is 
at once expressive of love and tender of 
its restraints will come to the fore. You 
people want restraints, but they want re 
stvaints within their capacities and which 
related to their other emotional 
Sexual ty must be 
x aspects of life. It 
not become a highly specialized, dep: 
nualized sector of human behavior. In 
short, the chastity we must preach must 


are 


needs. moral 


cor- 


ated to oth 


be a chastity at once expressive of and 
restraining of sexual love Love has 
about it a need of expansiveness, of gr 


freedom—and of great personal restraint. 
But the restraint must always be seen a: 
related to love and not as something 
of a taboo left over from an earlier era. 
PLAYBOY: Thank you, gentlemen. 


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162 mense strength of America, both mil 


CLIMATE OF VIOLENCE 


extremism. Groups of scholars, aiminolo- 
gists, public administrators and political 
observers began to pool their insights 
and experience in an organized effort at 
understanding and prevention 

"There was also. for a time, an effort to 
exploit politically the popular fears and 
passions aroused by the issue of violence 
on the streets. Bar ldwater. raised 
soon 


at San Francisco. and kept at it, spotily 
but persistently. all through the cam- 
ign. net widely, including 
in his i nt the whole violence pat- 
tem, Irom delinquency amd addiction 
to rape in dark doorways, and from 
peaceful civil rights demonstrations and 
sitdowns to the turbulent big-city racial 
rio. He might have made considerable 
political capital of this issue had he not 
squed potenti, by his stand. 
on other problems. He voiced the f 

of many more people than those who 
voted for him. and got a response from 
nes and from small-town amd sub- 
ban dwellers who shared а sense of the 
sinfulness of the big city. In another 
decion, with different 

become the basis of 
al coalition 

поту right. with its "tough" 
approach to violence, is an anomalous 
position. On the one hand it deplores all 
forms of lawbreaking, identifying itself 
with a rigorous support of the letter and 
spirit of the law. On the other hand, in 
the tradition of Goldwater's classic dic 
tum—"Exuemismn in deleusc of liberty is 
no vice'—it places itself on the side of a 
vigilantist course that is in some way 
the most dangerous violence potential of 
our time. Thus, the angry right, with its 
frust cult of 
dl imagined 


ars 


Tormidable 


It is hard to talk of the angry right 
without jumping ahead of our story and 
talking of racist violence. For the psy 
chic drive of the far-out right today lies 
in the specter of an invasion and an im- 
pending take-over of the nation both by 
the Communists with their fellow travel 
ers and by the Negroes with their North- 
crn white supporters. This carries with 

t paranoid fusion, overlaid 
iui delusion ое the belief 
that they аа in the name not only of a 
higher moral law but of a higher political 
patriotism as well. They are fearful men 
— fearful of the explosive social changes 
taking place in American civilization, 
fearful of new ideas and of the idea car- 
riers, fearful of new waves of voters 
(especially the Negroes) who will dis 
place their local hold on power, fearful 
of winds of change in the outside world. 
They are frustrated men who see the im- 
агу 


ndeur: 


(continued [rom page 118) 


and economic, and ask why it should not 
be used—by a preventive missile war if 
necesary—to destroy the missile power 
of the Communist enemy and wipe it off 
the face of the earth. 

They are men who yearn for a simpler 
society. like the smalliown agrarian 
American society of the past. They feel 
themselves (in Housman's line) stran- 
gers and afraid in a world they never 
le, a world of unsettling transforma- 
tions they cannot understand. Unlike the 
militant Negroes, whose demonstrations, 
and even riots, are part of a larger strat- 
egy of hope for a newer and more equita- 
ble society, the violence of the farout 
right is part of an unthinking and reac 
tionary strategy of despair. They hav 
come ina ly to feel that they dwell 
in an occupied country—a land once 
theirs that has been invaded by for- 
cigne niks, Reds—and that à may 
sive resistance movement, both to ferret 
out the subyersives and to confound the 
invaders, justifies any degree of violence 
and the use of any weapons. 

They fe us mélange of 
groups—the thoughtsuppression groups 


a cui 


such as the Birch Society, the religi 
hae groups such as the Christian 
Fronters and the Rockwell American 


Nazi Panty, the military action. groups 
such as the Minute Men of America. the 
hard-core white-supremacy groups such 
as the Ku Klux Klan, and many others. 
Unlike the farout groups on the left, 
such as the Russiaoriemed Communist 
Party and the China-oriented "Progres- 
sive Labor" Communists, they have no 
power centers outside the United States 
10 count on for abetting their planned 
violence. There was a time, under the 
shadow of fascism, when they did; but, 
happily, that time has passed. 

In clinical terms, one of the most 
interesting of the groups is the Minute 
Men movement, centered in the Mid- 
west and Southwest and based on the 
premise that American foreign policy 
will continually be betrayed by appcase- 
ment of world m; that the 
Communists will invade and occupy the 
ted States, aided by their subversive 

nd that only 
devoted resistance bands, with arms and 
with guerrilla training. will be able to 
the onslaught. It sounds 
there are other groups 
well—the Paul Revere Associated Yeo- 
men, the CounterInsurgency Council, 
and a mushrooming duster of other 
equally farout fringe outfits—that are 
convincing one another of this apocalyp- 
tic vision, and that are busily training. 
sceretly and in dead earnest, for the com- 
ing of The Day. In fact, one of the most 
striking attitudes in far-out circles. both 
on the rightand on the left, is the sense of 
expectation in waiting for the takeover: 


commu 


survive against 


farferched. bui 


The far-out left is convinced that. the 
right will make the first attempt at direct 
violence and that a revolution on the left 
will follow: the far out right is convinced 
that the Communists will make the take- 
over, but that later a well-prepared right 
will overcome them 

By any rational judgment, both 
suffering severely from paranoid delu 
sions. But they are not to be taken 1 
ly. The instruments of a sense of mi: 
on the part of any group of True Belicv- 
ers or of any individual like Oswald, 
evitably, are firearms. Since 1959, the 
U.S. Government has supplied a legiti 
mute and responsible organization, the 
National Rifle Association, with free 
guns and ammunition valued at well 
олег 312,000,000, and has sold an addi- 
tional quantity of larger guns at cut 
rates. A number of foreign governments 
have put their carlicrissuc rifles, guns 


and other weaponry—including 
zookas, mortars and hand grenades—on 


the market and these, too, are openly for 
sale in America, are distributed through 


mailorder houses and move unimpeded 
terstate commerce. Thus, there is а 
recklessness in the present sale and free 


distribution of firearms that the nation 
can badly afford 

Senator Thomas J. Dodd of Connecti 
cut has several times introduced legisla- 
tion intended to regulate the sale and 
shipment of guns in interstate commerce 
and to make records of the identity of 
those involved, After the multiple kill- 
ings from the high tower at the Universi- 
of Texas, Pre: nt Johnson added hi 
own persuasive urgency to the Dodd 
legislation. Inevitably, there has been a 
outery against these proposals. There 
three levels of approach to the issue. On 
one level there is the question of honest 
citizens who want weapons iu self-defense, 
and gun lovers who genuinely enjoy the 
discipline of marksmanship and want to 
practice it in groups. For either of these 
categories there is no real problem, since 
they need not fear the record of their 
purchases of guns and ammunition. 

On cond level, there are individual 
crackpors with a sense of mission, such 
as Lec Oswald, and the 
killers, such as Charles Wh 
well be argued that no 1 
ion will reduce the chances of multiple 
killing and of assassi tempts by 
such men, since any ented enough 
to work out a plan as coldly as Oswald 
and Whitman did will manage to get hold 
of a weapon somehow. Restrictive laws (it 
is argued) would therelore accomplish 
litle more than to punish the large п 
jority for the possible sins of a minute 
number of psychotics. This is the argu- 
ment that Governor Connolly of Texas 
has used against the There 
is some substance to this contention. Laws 
by their nature often inconvenience the 
well-intentioned many in order to get at 
а few malfeasors. It is always а qui 


twisted 


mass 


of balancing social gains against losses. 
Yet on looking back, there were only 
three ways by which the act of violence 
by Oswald could have been prevented: 
possibly by better psychiatric care given. 
him as a boy; by better security around 
the President; by a firearms law that 
would have made it at least harder to 
have acquired that mailorder gun with 
a telescopic sight. 

It is the third level of approach that 
counts most—that of private parami 
tary violence. 1 am not speaking now of 
dividual True Believers, but of groups 
that are convinced that only privately 
organized firepower can save the nation, 
n or whatever, from 
enemies with sinister plans or strength. 
It is argued that the Constitution guar- 
antees every American the right to bear 
arms, presumably on the ground of de- 
fending the na tyrants and 
tyranny, domestic and foreign, and on 
Jefferson's principle that the wee of liber- 
ty must periodically be watered by the 
blood of patriots, But Americans have 
come in time to ease up on the idea that 
every government is a tyranny to be 
overthrown. And, as tkal has 
pointed out in his richly documented 
book The Right to Bear Arms, the record 
shows how far the recent u s 
too freely bought, have departed from 
the original intention. Even bypassi 
the obvious fact that this constitutional 


right will still exist for every in 
under proper 
there is th ditional fact that the 
nature of warfare has been wholly trans- 
formed since the framers of the Constitu- 
tion guaranteed the individual right to 
bear arms. Given a hostile modern 
enemy armed with tanks, llame throwers, 
bombers and atomic weapons, the chance 
of overcoming it by rifles and machine 
guns seems a distant one. 

But the real danger of groups with 
easy access to guns is not their ineflec- 
tiveness against a forcign enemy but 
their effectiveness against one another. 
Senator Dodd, who was a prosecutor at 
the Nuremberg trials and has studied 
both the Nazis and the Communists to 
good effect, knows the lesson of the Wei- 
mar Republic, when pai ary armed 
groups of Communists, Socialists, mon- 
аганы» and marched, drilled and 
practiced their shooting skills against one 
another until they created an intolerable 
climate of tension and a vacuum of 
social order: It was into this vacuum that 
the Nazis moved. In America, too, the 
ger of the proliferating groups that 
believe they have the mission of saving 
their country by direct action is that 
they will engage in private violence 
against groups they hate, and thus 
destroy not only the public order 
but a goodly part of the heritage of 
decency as well. 


Not surprisingly, some of the groups 
on the farout right have tried to 
infiltrate the police. This is true particu- 
larly of the John Birch Society and the 
Ku Klux Klan, The Klan boasts openly 
that local Southern sheriffs and deputies 
have joined them—which raises the 
question of how you can police lawless 
groups when you are yourself part of 
them. There have also been incidents 
involving Bircher recruitment of police 
in Los Angeles; Ana, California; 
in Philadelphia; al New York City. 
There will be others. 

The lot of the American policeman is. 
not a happy one у because he has 
to meet the moun tide of crime and 
violence but also feels ag- 
grieved at overlenient judges, pampering 
parents, “bleeding-heart liberals,” slushy 
sociologists and timid public officials—all 
of whom he sees involved in a conspiracy 
to bypass effective law enforcement. Of- 
ten himself a small property owner who 
is worried about the falling value of 
his house as Negroes move into white 
neighborhoods, and probably a father 
worried about the busing of Negro 
children to his neighborhood school or 
of his own children to a predominantly 
Negro school, the policeman has been 
one of the early forces behind the “w 
backlash.” He bears the brunt of ci 
cism and abuse for “police brutality” 


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in coping with demonstrations, counter- 
demonstrations and the grilling of sus- 
pects in criminal cases. In actual riots, he 
gets much more than aiticîsm hurled at 
him. The policeman of today is likely to 
be bristling with defensiveness, and it is 
natural for him to be tempted by a 
movement that builds and butters him 
up, and tells him that he is sinned 
against, not a sinner. 

Natural, perhaps—but also dangerous. 
Since the police must deal with violence 
in all its forms, they cannot identify 
themselves with any 

tion on any side of the great struggles 
of our time. A police force with a sub- 
stantial Bircher contingent, for example, 
could not be trusted to be politically 
neutral in any civil liberties case involv- 
ing the expression of dissenting opinions, 
nor in a civil rights case or a racial clash. 
If the local police im America should 
become politicized and fanatic, their 
policemen's clubs would themselves be- 
tome bludgeons of lawless violence and 
would evoke in the end an ungovernable 
Violence from their civilian targets. 
Resentment breeds resentment, hatred 
evokes hatred, until we are caught in 
a spiraling interaction of passions and 
violence that may someday blow the 
American social fabric to kingdom come. 


"cause" organiza. 


We need to distinguish two kinds of 
violence—that of the rebels for а cause 
and that of the rebels without а cause 
In а sense, the crustacean True Believers 
of the farout right, of whom I have 
been speaking, belong to the first catego- 
ry. But the movement that has caught 
the attention and imagination of our 
decade—the civil rights movement—also 
inevitably involves a degree of cause vio- 
lence in the form of sitdowns, marches 
and demonstrations, and the angry 
passions they evoke on both sides. This, 
in turn, must be distinguished from the 
violence of racial riots, which is not in 
isell part of the civil rights cause, but 
which flows from the same bitterness 
about inequalitics of treatment and from 
the same smoldering sense of injustice. 

The е inst which the cause vio- 
lence protests are real evils, not fanta- 
sies. In the South. there has heen an 
exclusion of the Negro from the whole 
range of equal life chances, including 
schooling, housing, jobs, medical atten 
tion, police and court treatment, even 
church services. "This exclusion had 
hardened into legal molds that had to 
be broken. The civil rights demonstra- 
tions, not only in the South but through- 
out the nation, cannot be understood 
except against this background of the ac- 
cumulation of anti-Negro outrages in the 
South, and the lifeanddeath risks of 
fighting back against them in the context 
of the garrison state. With the help of 
the Supreme Court decisions, of national 
N 
and even militant young whites from 


o organizations and of sympathetic 


both North and South, the Southern Ne- 
groes have taken the risks. The cohesive- 
ness of the Southern Negro community, 
and especially the cement of religious 
belief, has held them together remark- 
ably in the struggle. This has been true 
even in the face of episodes like the will- 
ful bombing of a Negro church in Bir- 
mingham, whose victims were a huddle 
of little Negro girls in white Sunday 
dresses, or the shotgun shooting of local 
NAACP organizers, or the three young 
men—two Northern whites, one South 
ern Negro—who were beaten, shot and 
buried decp at a dam site in Mississippi. 

It is worth noting that both sides in 
the South have invoked the principle of 
a “higher law" that has justified the 
breaking of formal legality. The civil 
rights demonstrators, trying to show up 
the injustice of local ordinances and state 
prohibitions, have appealed to the higher 
law of human decency, religious belief 
and the American conscience. The men 
of Neshoba County, Mississippi—who- 
ever they were, Klinsmen or others—who 
Killed and buried the three young civil 
rights workers, also thought they were 
carrying out a higher law. Their extrem- 
ism was in pursuit of their conviction 
about Mississippi's frecdom to set its 
own rules in the treatment. of its Ne- 
groes, in the teeth of the U.S. Supreme 
Court's decisions against segregation and 
in the teeth of both legislative and Presi- 

i hington, They had 
been told—by their high state officials, by 
Klan leaders, by local rabble-rousers— 
that the Federal officials and the Federal 
court system had usurped the rights of 
the states, that troublemaking interlopers 
from the North—'Communists," “Jew 
"Niggerlovers"—had conspired to break 
up their way of life. They felt they were 
making a last stand against these conspir- 
ing forces. 
hey have to strike at what they 
can reach," wrote William Bradford 
Huie about the gasstation attendants, 
insurance salesmen, poor farmers, small 
tradesmen, store clerks, sheriffs and 
deputy sheriffs who make up the vigi- 
lante cadre in the small towns of the 
Deep South. They struck at James Mere- 
dith, at Medgar Evers, at the little girls 
in the Birmingham church, at the De- 
той housewife and the Boston minister 
who came to Selma, at the divinity stu- 
dent and the priest who came to Hayne- 
ville, Alabama, They reach for whatever 
symbolic target of their hatred they cin 
strike at, always confident that they 
possess the inward grace of a divine right 
to protect the true Southern and Ameri- 
can way. 

There have been some Negro voices 
in kind, 
with weapons and firepower. A Negro 
defense organization, the Deacons, 
been quietly formed in the Deep South, 
and their members are ready to shoot 
back when their lives are threatened. 


that have called for ап answer 


has 


This may deter some murders but 
despite some manic talk by a [ew Negro 
writers about killing the whites in a civil 
war, the Negroes know that in the nation 
as а whole, they are in a minority. Vio- 
Тепсе on their part would wigger a larger 
violence by those whites who hate them 
nd perhaps alienate many Americans 
or neutral. This 
applies also to the contention of some 
ionalist leaders that the cause 
lels the revolutionary 
There is every 
reason for the American Negro to take 
pride in the new independent black 
republics of Africa and to derive psychic 
strength from the triumphs of the Afri- 
п peoples in winning their freedom, 
much as American Jews get psychic 
strength from the emergence of Israel. 
But the situation neither of the Jews nor 
of the Negroes in America is that of a 
colonial majority, but rather of a minor- 
ity winning equal access to equal life 
chances in a democracy that at least in 
rhetoric and increasingly in fact is dedi- 
cuted to the idea of equality. 

In the Northern cities, the racial riots 
of the summers of 1965 and 1966 have 
shown how th the vencer of public 
order is when turbulent passions are 
engaged. There is a deeply cherished 
theory of the sociologists that the roots 
of these disturbances—as in the Harlem, 
Bedford-Stuyvesant, Philadelphia, Chi- 
capo, Newark, Rochester and Los An- 
geles riots—are to be found in the social 
environment of the Negro ghettos. There 
is enough truth in this view to make it an 
ily embraceable one, especially since 
so many of the violent racial episodes in 
Northern and Western cities during the 
1965 and 1966 summers were triggered 
by trivial incidents—a cop making an 
arrest, a fight between youth gangs a 
hydrant turned off on a hot day. For the 
grinding poverty in the Negro gh 
harsh fact, not to be ignored. Slum li 
„ official indifference, police hostility, 
overcrowding, unemployment, rent goug- 
ing, overcharging in the stores—these are 
all part of the squalor of life among what 
may be called the underclass. 

But while all this furnishes the tinder, 
it does not explain the heat of the Пате. 
The heat comes from anger, not neces- 
sarily at conditions in the ghetto but at 
the gap between the rhetoric of Ameri- 
can life and the reality of Negro life in 
America. Jt comes from resentment at 
ment that persists even when 
are improving; and it | 
h the life in the ghetto than 


to do less wi 
with what is happening outside, espe- 


cially in the highly publicized Souther 
struggles. The young Negroes, whether 
in Harlem or in Watts, were striking 
out symbolically at whatever they could 
reach—at cops, photographers, store win- 
dows, loot, whites in passing automo- 
biles. It was the violence of a man 
locked in ап airless, oppressive room, 


who feels he must break the windows in 
order to breathe. 

Despite the squalor of the Negro 
slums, it would be a mistake to see the 
current race violence in America as part 
of a downward arc of Negro living con- 
ditions. The violence was far less intense 
when these conditions were far worse; it 
has become sharper as these conditions 
have grown better, Actually, it is the vio 
lence of a people on the mend and on 
the move, bur rightly impatient at the 
slow rate of improvement, deeply resent- 
ful of lingering inequities and i 
bitter at outrages become intolerable, 
responding to them with a sharpened 
bitterness under leaders who are them- 
selves caught in a competi 
cies and. who find themselves talking of 
"black power” and brushing aside any 


ion of militan- 


cooperation with whites. De Tocque- 


ville, writing on the French Revolution, 
noted that the great explosion came not 
when the condition of the peasant was at 
its worst but when the reforms had 
begun and were on their way. He noted 
also the role of the intellectuals in ci 
ing the revolutionary image to which the 
people responded. Both these observa 


“My roommate's 


tions apply to the breakthrough of the 
American Negroes. Each gain has inten: 
sified the need for further gains, because 
what counts is not the objective situation 
so much as the distance still to be trav- 
ened between the n of the 
Negrocs and that of the whites. While liv- 
ing standards have risen for the Negroes, 
the expectation of what is possible has 
risen even faster, The gains in freedom 
have a way of feeding on themselves. 
Moreover, the image created by Negro 
nd white intellectuals, of the gap be 
tween what the Negro is and what he 
ought to want, has played a decisive role 
in making him want it. 

In the most general sense, all res 
ments of minority groups d 
pathos of their situation. The violence of 
the American Negro. especially in 
riots of the big cities, is what it 
cause the Negro feels himself, for all his 
gai a outsider in 
He knows that, from the loca 
and mayors to the President, 
ruled by whites, and that his black 
brothers arc in ver 
power. If he is lucky enough to be е 
ployed in the industrial society, he often 


condi 


nt 
ve from the 


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an society. 


few of the seats of 


wife is visiting him.” 


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166 


feels alienated from his job, especially 
since he has never had the discipline 
industrial technology that the white 
child has from childhood on. In many 
cases, he doesn't get the chance at devel- 
g the skills that the industrial soci 
requires. With automation, he will find 
himself in а world in which the unskilled 
and semiskilled workers will become a 
decreasing force, 

The Negro family unit, broken by the 
will of the slaveowners and slow to re- 
constitute itself in the intervening centu- 
ry, forces the Negro male child to grow 
up in a context where there is often no 
male model on which he can shape him- 
self. The religious cohesiveness and the 
jouthern 
Negro community have not found new 
roots in Northern urban soil. The Negro 
has become uprooted from family, rel 
gion and community, with a resulting 
high incidence of alcoholism, drug 
addiction and lawlessness. Unwilling to 
face the extent to which he has become 
separated from his own identity, the 
Negro strikes at the enemy without. 

There remains the violence of rebels 
without a cause. It includes the violence 
of teenage groups wielding machetes, 
switchblades and baseball bats în “rum- 
bles nd schooLhall vio- 
lence: reefersmoking and drug-addict 
violence. It includes auto thefts, hold- 
ups, robberies and rapes committed. not 
by professional criminals but by the 
unprofessional young. It includes “thrill 
lings” by the bored or desensitized, and. 
multiple killings like those in Chicago 


“What do you expect? They don't let us pray anymore." 


and 
hoolig: 
streets, 


Austin. It includes the everyday 
m of lower class youth on the 
on buses and subways, and the 


holiday hool of middle- and 
upper-class youth on the beaches, at 
suburban debutante parties, in summer- 


resort towns. It is a fact that the figures 
on the increases in major crimes are as 
steep in the suburbs as in the big cities. 
They are no respecters of class or locale. 
When I speak of the rebels without 
a cause, I am speaking of young people 
of every class who harbor a sullen and 
diffused resentment again 
against “outsiders, Ust society as a 
vague constrict Too often we 
speak of thi: as “senseless” 
when we mean that it doesn't make any 
But it makes scnsc—a di: 
torted kind of sense, but still sense—to 
the lower-class youngster whose hand 
wields the switchb! or to the middle. 
or upper-class youngster who, in a 
drunken state, wrecks a motel room or 
goes out and smashes up his car and his 
date. They, too, whether out of resent- 
ment or out of an intolerable sense of 
emptiness, are striking at whatever and 
whomever they can reach, not for some 
cause but because they have nothing 
that commits them to life. They do not 
rage with a fanatic passion of hatred, 
like a Black Muslim or an Alabama 
lyncher or a member of a gun squad of 
the far-out right. Yet their kind of vio- 
lence is that of a person on the w 
becoming desensitized. It is the violence 
arising from anomie—from an 
of values—and may therefore tu 
be the most dangerous violence of all. 


sense to us. 


America will survive its civil rights. 
struggles and riots. In fact, the nation 
will be enriched by the tumbling down 
of caste walls and by the new access to 
life experience on the part of groups 
hitherto cut off from the mainstream of 
the culture, America will even survive the 
political hate groups, not by trying to 
legislate hate out of existence—for that 
annot be done—but by the sustained 
educational and cultural explosions that 
will make these primitivist hatreds ob- 
solescent and even absurd. But the 
anomie of the uncommitted may prove 

1 the end the more fearful malady. 

It arises in part from some of the same 
breakdowns that I noted im speaking 
of the American Negro—the uprooting 
experience of our time, the failure of the 
adolescent to identify with an effective 
model, the breakdown of a cohesive 
ty. What is involved at base is 
a generational struggle that goes beyond 
those of past generations ànd that is д 
once the root and the fruit of the break- 


down of communication between the 
generations. The earlier generational 
struggles were those between the children 


nd their foreign-born parents, or be- 
tween parents still clinging to rural and 
small-town mores and adolescents eager 
for the experience of city life and rebel 
ling against tra religion and 
moral codes. In the present cra, the strug- 
gle still operates on the ground of cha 

ng moral codes and value system: 
something new has emerged—a 
culture" with a language of its own and 
a contempt not only for the values of the 
older generation but, in many cases, for 
values at all. The most fundamental 
thing that has ppened has been an 
erosion of trust: Many in the younger 
generation—often with justification 
e no trust in the olde n and 
its purposes and its institutions and 
they feel themselves in turn untrusted. 
What fidelity they have is for one anoth- 
cr, in the urban roving gangs and street- 
corner clusters or in the suburban fun 
groups that have made "having fun" the 
imperative of our timc. 

It is hard to grow up in America and 
to achieve a sense of selfhood within thi 
frame, Every adolescent must pass 
through two crucial periods: one when 
he identifies himself with a model—a 
father, an older brother, a tcacher; the 
second when he disassociates himself 
from his model, rebels against him, reas- 
seris his own selfhood, Both are nece 
sary. But if the first has been a failure, 
the second cannot take place in a 
healthy way. Instead, the identification 
is likely to be with a group or gang i 
a similar pli ight, and the rebellion be- 
comes a striking out against authority 
nd society as a whole, with 
quences we have already seen in the 
pervasive violence of our time. 


conse- 


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(continued from page 141) 
spit motor to a lazy halt before starting 
these chores, Ehe 10- or 15-minute inter- 
mission gives the setting roast time to 
firm up for easy carving 

The chicf atuaction of the alfresco 
turmspit is that all kinds of large roasts— 
Spencer roasts, boned hams, capons and 
geese—can be done to a turn literally 
and figuratively. The corpulent roast 
must have clearance between the spit 
rod and the grill, but this is the only limi 
tation. Every chap who has tried to grill 
lamb chops on his outdoor barbecue 
knows that he can grill them successfully 
only if he’s armed with a high-powered 
water pistol ready to battle the almost 
incessant flare-up from the dripping 
lamb fat, But a whole rack of lamb, the 
same meat uncut and in one piece, 
which makes a small but epicurean roast, 
faces no such hazard on the rotisserie. 
Like every roast over charcoal, it's pro. 
tected by a long, narrow drip pan placed 
slightly to the front of the. revolving 
meat, Into the drip pan flows the fat, as 
well as some of the meat’y juices. Later 
on, the fat is discarded and the juices 
that turn into brown drippings are the 
essence of delectable gravies. The whole 
rack may be marinated in a mint-garlic- 
lemon trio; and this, too, adds a haze of 


antment that eludes the ordinary 
charred chops. Small viands such as split 
s pork tenderloins or baby bluefish 
are fenced in а spit basket, which is 
nothing more than a wire broiler fas- 
tened to the spit to turn as а unit. The 
basket eliminates not only the endless 
flipllopping but also the possibility of 
instant charming. Certain tough cuts, 
such as short ribs of beet, whose normal 
destiny is the stew pot, become incredibly 
tender when taken for a ride on the 
turning spit 

Managing a rotisserie isn't tightrope 
king; but you've got to be someth 
balancing artist, just the same. The 
weight of a plump bird or joint on the 
spit should be evenly distributed, or the 
rod may get out of balance, moving in 
fits and starts, Ideally, you should stab 
the meat through its center of gravity 
Thus, if you're fencing with a la 
standing rib roast, slender at the top but 
built like Falstaff at the bottom, it's best 
to pierce the meat diagonally from the 
top end of one side to the heavy bottom 
at the opposite end. Some turnspits arc 


wi 
ol 


cquipped with a set of compensa 
neat gadget that can 
boosted, if necessary, 
during the roasting. There are some 
heavy-duty rotisseries with doughty spit 
rods and powerful motors, and if you 
own one of these, balancing is never a 
problem. Finally. there are spitless spits, 
flexible, sell-balancing metal cages de 
signed for large or small roasts. 
‘All roasts should be made as compact 


weights, a 


hooked up and 


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watches? A great deal. For this craze, like the craze for a 
other timed-to-the-second sport, this hobby, like any hobb: 
volving speed and calculation demands the special versatili 
of a chronograph, with its push-buttons and m rements to 
fifths of seconds. 

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as possible before they're mounted оп 
the spit. Akimbo chicken wings and flap 
ping drumsticks should be skewered аз 
dose to the body as you can get them. 
Boned roasts should be tied 
symmetrical shape by the butch 
season, pheasants or partridges, which 
may be dry. should wear a thin shield of 
salt pork tied snugly around the birds’ 
breasts 

Most bouled sauces foi 
be delightful if only they tasted at the 
end of the spit run as they did at the be 
ginning. When too much basting sauce 
has been brushed too soon on the flesh. 
the heat often reduces it to а caramel- 
ized, tasteless crust. A good rule is 10 
take any bouled thick basting liquid and 
thin it with equal parts of dry wine or 
stock. Don’t baste too often. When the 
t is finished. add а final dab before 
carving. or pass the sauce at the table. 

In the past, spits have been turned by 
many different forms of energy. They've 
been operated by slaves, scullery help, 
children and even dogs. In England, a 
special canine with а low body 
sturdy legs was bred to keep a treadmill 
going. There were more elaborate spits 
turned by windmills. At one time, roast- 
ing jacks suspended above the fireplace 


basting would 


were operated by elaborate clock mecha- 
nisms or by the weight of the mcat itself. 
Nowadays, plugin chefs will find a 
crowd of new stainlessstecl faces. There 
are gas or clectric rotisseries fired from 
the top. the bottom or the sides. There 
are charcoal rotisseries for indoor or out- 
door use, with vertical fireboxes in the 
rear so that the fat can never jump from 
the turnspit into the fire. The Farber- 
ware open hearth rotisserie turns above 
closed heating rods; is drip pan is far 
below the line of fire, so that un 
tional smoke signals never go up. Many 
wall ovens are fitted with rotisseries be- 
neath the broiler; its always a good idea 
to keep the door open, so that the turn- 
ing meat enjoys the pulse of fresh ai 

And now, to prove that turnabout is 
fare play, we offer the following: 


SAUCE 


ten- 


SHORT RIBS, ROBERT 
(Serves four) 


of bect 


Salt, pepper 
% cup bottled Robert s 
1 cup dry red wine 
Remove bones from short ribs, cutting. 
as close to meat as possible. Brush lightly 


Excuse me, haven't we met before?” 


with oil and sprinkle generously with 
salt and. pepper. Fasten on spit, kecping 
chunks slightly separated, if possible, for 
thorough browning. Roast over charcoal 
fire, using long, narrow drip pan set 
slighty toward front of short ribs. Dispos 
able aluminum pans (ihe kind used for 
frozen pastries) are good for this job. 
Add a little water to drip pan to prevent 
smoking. Combine Robert sauce and 
е, mixing well. As soon as meat turns 
light brown. brush with sauce mixture. 
Roast meat for about 1 hour or until 
thoroughly browned, brushing with sauce 
at 20-minute intervals. 


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D ROCK CORNISH GAME HENS 
(Serves four) 


4 Rock Coi h game hens, 1 Ib. each 

% cup salad oil 

2 teaspoons curry powder 

1 teaspoon tarragon vinegar 

1 teaspoon lemon juice 

1, teaspoon salt 

1% teaspoon white pepper 

Thaw hens in refrigerator. (Squab 
chickens or squabs, 1 Ib. each, may be 
substituted for Rock Cornish game hens.) 
Combine all other ingredients, mixing 
well. Pour over hens, and marinate at 
least 3 10 4 hours in refrigerator. Preheat 
electric rotisserie or prepare charcoal fire. 
Place hens on spit, using extra spit hold- 
ers, if necessary, to hold 4 birds in place, 
moving as a unit. End birds may be held. 
by spit holders and middle birds at- 
tached to them with skewers. Roast 45 
minutes to 1 hour, or until well bı 
id tender, brushi al times dur- 
ing roasting with ma 
pistachio rice pilaf and chutney. 


PISTAC 


> RICE Pr 
(Serves four) 


2 tablespoons butter 
14 cup finely п 


4 
Á 


1 
134 cups chicken broth or stock made 
with bou 


lon powder 
1 cup dry sherry 

1 cup converted rice 
14 teaspoon salt 


2 ozs. shelled salted pistachios 


Melt butter in heavy saucepan. Add 
celery, onion bay sauté 
until onion is ‚ not brown. Add 


chicken broth, sherry, rice and salt. Stir 
well Bring 10 a boil; reduce flame as 
low as possible; cover with tight lid and 
cook without stirring until rice is tender 
—I8 to 20 minutes. Do not stir while 
cooking. Remove bay leaf and add pis- 


hios, tossing lightly with I 


SPTI-ROASTED FILLET OF BEEF 
(Serves six Lo eight) 


Order a prime, well-aged beef fillet 
(tenderloin) weighing about 6 Ibs. before 
trimming. Do not follow the advice in 


some cookbooks that a lower grade of 
illet is as good as the prime. Have the 
butcher remove the fat and tie the meat 
for roasting, folding the thin end under 
to make a symmetrical roast, Some chefs 
like a larded fillet; that is, one through 
which the butcher has drawn Jong thin 
pieces of fat, using а larding needle; the 
meat is richer tasting, but the beef flavor 
is modified—a matter of personal taste. 


Let the fillet stand at room temperature 
Tor 


least an hour before roasting, I a 
arcoal fire is prepared, be sure it's 
very hot: or set the electric rotisserie at 
the highest temperature. Fasten meat on. 
turnspit, brush generously with melted 
buuer and sprinkle with salt and pep- 
рег. Roast 35 10 40 minutes, brushing: 
several times with melted butter. Re- 
move meat from spit and let it set for at 
least 20 minutes. Just before carving, 
place the whole fillet on the hor grill lor 
a few minutes on cach side. With roast- 
ed fillet, good accompaniments are foil- 
covered potatoes roasted right on the 
coals and broiled or sautéed mushrooms. 
Serve palé de foie gras as ppetizer 
and bring on the fillet to the sound of 
trumpets. 


ТЕМЕ WITH MUSTARD 
(Serves 12) 
3-lb. cooked, trimmed and skinned 
corned or smoked tongue 
2b. piece Taylor pork roll 
9b. piece Canadian bacon (cooked 
smoked boneless pork loin) 
Xj cup prepared mustard (Dijon or 
Dijon style) 
14 cup light аса 
м cup salad oil 
Narrow end of tongue should be 
folded under and skewered to make 
compact piece. If base of tongue (root 
end) is tough, cut it away before fasten 
ing, meat on spit. Remove outer casing of 
pork roll. Fasten tongue, pork roll and 
bacon on spit. Use three spit holders to 
keep meat in place. М only two are 
ilable, fasten center piece of meat to 
end pieces with a long skewer. Coml; 
mustard, cream and oil, mixing uni 


HOT CHAKCI 


m 


well blended. Brush meats with mustard 


es, basting every 


. Roast 45 m 


mixtu 


hot. Serve on toasted split long French 
Dread, toasted split soft buns or sour rye 
bread. Serve with warm or cold potato 
and leek salad. Keep the party foaming 
with ice-cold beer or ale. 


YOTATO AND 
(Serves 12) 
4 Ibs. medium-size potatoes 
8 large le 
1 cup salad oil 
14 cup dry white w 
% cup white wine vinegar 
1 teaspoon prepared mustard. 


SALAD 


D 


spoon dry mustard. 
ablespoons fresh chives, minced 
very fine 
4 small sour pickles, 
alt. pepper 
Boil potatoes in jackets until just ten- 
der. Drain. As soon as potatoes are cool 
enough to handle, peel them, then cut 
lengthwise into four strips each. Cut 
strips crosswise into 14-in-thick slices. 
Cut away green part of leeks; then cut 
them lengthwise in half, then crosswise 
into yin. slices. Wash well to remove 
sand and drain in large wire strainer. 
Sauté leeks in oil over low flame until 
just tender. Combine wine, wine vine- 
J mustard and dry mustard, 


inced very fine 


add lecks with their oil, wine mixture, 

chives and pickles. Toss gently; add salt 

to taste, Salad may be served 

"Hot" potato salad is always actu- 

eaved wam, and may be heated 

flameproot casserole over the 
n. 


ally 
gently in 
coals or in à moderate ov 


ROCK LOBSTER, ANCHOVY BUTT 
(Serves four) 


4 902. pkgs. frozen lobster tails 

Salad oil 

34 Ib. sweet butter 

2 teaspoons anchovy paste 

1 tablespoon lemon juice 

Cayenne pepper 

Keep lobster tails frozen until ready to 
use. They may be roasted in a spit 1 
ket or pierced individually by spit rod. To 
pierce lobster, use a skewer to make a 
hole in center of each tail. Force skewer 
through underbelly and out of hard shell 
оп opposite side. Arrange lobster tails on 
rod; end pieces should be held 
place with spit holders at ends of rod. 
Keep all lobster tails moving as a unit 
with the use of jumbo-size skewers hold 
ing them from one end of spit rod to the 
other. Brush lobster generously with oil 


Roast 15-20 minutes over very hot ch 
coal fire or in electric rotisseri 
highest temperature. While lobster is on 
turnspit, melt butter slowly over low 
flame. Skim olt foam from top and pour 
off butter to another container, omitting 
sediment at bottom of pan. Add anchovy 
paste, lemon juice and dash of cayenne. 
ut lobster ngthwise with 
heavy French knife, Serve anchovy but- 
ter at table ual sauceboats or 
dishes for dipping. Grilled tomatoe 
com on the cob, julienne potatoes or 
моба potatocs arc all natural mem 
bers of the camaraderie. 


AMINI-DASTED RACK OF LAMB 
(Serves four) 


2 single racks of lamb, 3 Ibs. each 

14 cup dried mint leaves 

1 cup salad oil 

V4 cup lemon juice 

2 large cloves garlic 

Salt, pepper 

Have butcher saw off ends of racks, 
so that there will be enough ck 
between spit and grill for Ia 
Have him remove backbon 

ing. mint leaves 

wem. Combine oil, lemon j 


between 


¢ of French knife. Pour over lamb. 
ate overnight. Remove Jamb from 
sien racks on spit. Spri 
kle generously with salt and. pepper. Re- 
move garlic from marinade. Roast lamb 
over strong fire 30 to 40 minutes, Meat 
should be slightly pink, not well done. 
Brush two or three times during roasting 
with marinade, Carve meat, and brush 
cut. pieces with marinade, Pistachio rice 
pilaf, grilled eggplant steaks and cold 
fresh asparagus grette enhance a 
iptuous lamb. roast. 

And thus we see how a fe 
turned to one’s advantage. 


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170 


PEACOCK DREAMS 


Okie, his cars full of Depression dust, to 
a granny cyclops sunglass-wearing fagola. 
In appearance. Actually, honey, I'm as 
straight as they come. With my oxymo- 
ronism corrected—and the bad bite, too. 
Had to remove a bicuspid, though. I've 
just adopted this dykey manner to keep 
the avenues of communication disparate.” 

“Wha?” 

‘Confused. I dropped out of Berkeley 
because it was too square. I'm selling, 
man, you buying?” 

"Buying what" asked AL 

“Well, for instance, this mojo vest 
soft cotton suede. I believe we have yo 
size in olive, blue, blood, black and 
brown. Thirteen dollars and it'll make a 
year new man of you. Or a pair of scc- 
through, mesh very 


ides boxer trunks, 


I think I'll just saw off an old pair of 
blue jeans.” 

"Listen, don't think our stylists aren't 
pired by the new casual manner— 
surf, Also the new Victorian manner— 
Teddy. And the new horny, careless, 
psychedcliceestatic: manner—op, right? 
We are inspired by manners, kiddo. So 
how about starting yourself off in the 
authentic Sworde and Casual Whippe 
style with a leuerman boating jac in 

imental, excuse it, naval red. With 
competition accent stripe. Afterswim jac 
optional." 


an 


said AL “I w: ast 


'owll find lots of friends here. Just 


(continued from page 13: 


) 


wait. All your friends will be here. If you 
don't have any friends, youll make 
friends here, This is the club, man, and 
none of your transvestite horrors, either. 
l's men, man to man to girl. Those 
who buy fag clothes now, buddy, are 
straight. Из life that’s gone kinky. Its 
the universe in which our leaders stand 
waist deep in garbage, shooting missiles 
at the moon, which seems a little odd to 
us. So how about a Dutch Boy cap 
Shoppers were browsing among the 
ins and racks ike Jews in a bakery on 
Sunday morning. ТЇ ted, they felt, 
they compared, they sucked in their bel- 
lies, They had good appetites. They 
looked as if they could gobble up these 
dothes. They were famished for dress. 
What used to be called "fag" was now 
named. “psychedelicecstatie Mod," which 
means turned on, it's happening. its 
whats happening, baby. In the words 
of a famous jaz critic, the 48-yearold 
schizophrenics were tying to decide 
whether to turn themselves into three 
lü-earokls or four 12-yearolds, The 
thin voie of Bobby Dylan filled the 
cracks between wide-wale corduroy and 
thickly packed velour. There was a 
speaker between the hiboy shirts and the 
loboy pants. There was a speaker be 
tween the free Moroccan espresso and 
the fat Max ties, The folk-rock swing of 
terrupted the trance- 
like turning of men before full-length 
mirrors, trying on their footwear, their 
neckwear, their wristwear, their dickeys 
and hickeys and whatchamacallits. 
"You like it 


the cash register 


there any truth to the 


stories I've heard about men in prison?” 


“Well...” 
You like i 
"I guess I like it.” 

“Wall. don't decide in a hurry. Have 
some coffee first. You want to make sure 
it's a perfect fit.” Tt was as if the custom- 
er should tuck a cup of Moroccan blend 
under his cowboy belt first. to try it on 
for size. And it was true that the friendly 
smell of Moroccan wafted by a little fan 
from the pinstriped blender did add 
something to the floating fecling of the 
clothes. A voice from the fitting roo 
floated out, over Bobby Dylan's blowin’ 
in the Moroccan coffee blend: 

"Well, you sce, sir, why I um here is, 
well, you see” 

"Out with it, man." 
Negro, sir, and I 
how the white folks dress.” 


nt to see 


“It is recommended,” replied а cool 
voice, “that you make your selections 
quickly, as many of the items are limited 


in quantity 
Im colored.” 

“AML mail orders, for example, will be 
shipped within forty-eight hours." 
black. 

“In order to expedite mai 
suggested that money orders or cas 
checks be mailed rather than personal 
checks. Or come in, soul brother, and 
pay cash, he 

Another new customer came out of 
the fitting room, gingerly walking in his 
pants as if he were carrying a prickly c 
cumber between his legs where it might 
hurt a little. The salesman smiled. sym- 
pathetically, crinkling up his сус» and 
then bent suddenly and straightened 
things out. "Excuse me, sin" he said, 
“but a gentleman wears his jewels on the 
left. 

“Ah, thar's better. 

“Well, if you're new to long pants 
. - - I didn't mean that 
my kidding gets out of hand.” His right 
hand, which had done the adjusting of 
the jewels, still held its pattern, as if it 
were calling for Ballantine's ale or per- 
haps still straightening some future or 
imaginary gentleman's jewels, 

An old friend was ng with the 
owner at the cash register, or perhaps it 
was a friend of the owner, or a trusted 
companion, or a bonded cashier. The old 
ad. "Look, I 
knew my marriage was in trouble when 
we moved from New York to San Fran- 
cisco and we had the same milkman . 

Dooley’s new salesman was smiling ex 
pectantly. This was his life, Al must 
have brought himself there for some rea- 
son. The reason would emerge in due 
course. Nothing in this life is done with. 
out good reason—even grokking the 
town. Grokking is a word that means 
“digging the scene.” It comes from a 
ncefiction book by Robert Heinlein, 
which, to Al, made sense. It described a 
real-life activity. Today he was grokking 


orders, it is 


sir. Sometimes 


a little. Grokking, he opened his mouth W 
to have a word with his salesman. He 

spokt 
Do you have any socks? Argyles? 
Jockeytype shorts or even Jockey 
Golf shirts with alligators оп 
| word the salesman 
seemed to die a little, Al bombed him 
with these sncaky attacks on attire. “Bow 
tics?" 


Windjammers— 
the saltiest 

boat shoes that 
ever came aboard. 


Oh, stop," weakly spoke the sales- 
man, whose name was P. J. 
Nylon dress shirts? Two-tone shoes? 
Leather cord ties with silver dollars 
imbedded in them, like the Las Vegas 
prospectors wear? 
He stepped over the body of P. J. who 
was lying there, perhaps still alive, Al 
stretched to step over him. The air 
stored up in P. J's bleeding madras 
lungs pushed its past his slim-jim 
tonsils with “For a 
long,” the 
g breath hissed, “try a boule of 
our Number One Suntan Lotion, Num- 
ber One Lotion. 


Don't go near the water 
without the real article — 
and these new shoes are 
it. Up top, they're sturdy 
canvas duck bound for ac- 
tion. Inside is the exclusive 
Posture Foundation wedge 
to keep your sea legs 
sturdy. Deckside is a new 
ribbed sole tested for grip- 
power under all conditions. 
And it's all wrapped up 
with a fit that feels like 30 
knots. 

If you want to be sea- 
worthy, it's worth seeing 
your B.F.Goodrich dealer. 
Shape up in a pair of new 
idjammers—and ship 
out in style today! 


1 the natural-wood— 
n which floated 
in seashell bottles. He 
из' worth of afterfaint 
P. J. sighed and 
Musk, elephant 
tusk, witch hazel, plus our secret ingre- 


ents.” Thus he correctly identified the У 
liquid that saved his life. He pulled him- BEGoodrich 
self to his feet. "What can I do you for?" f y 


he asked Al. 
“I'd like a pair of shoelaces,” said Al 
“1 just broke my shoclace out 


No—shoelacing. To keep my shoes 
tied. 

“I have just the things for you, thing,” 
said P. J. with a touch of n touched 


h a subtler 


stopped. 
wer, Shoelaces. 


gratitude, and so there th 
He took a box out of a d 

“Thank you so much,” said Al Dooley. 

“Twenty-five cenis the pair,” said P. J. 

Al inserted the laces, first removing 
the frayed ones. A Roger Miller record 
played. The scent of Moroccan coffee 
filled the air. A faint tang of velour and 
corduroy to sweeten it. A touch of 
stretch fabric. A soupçon of peacock 
dreams. 

He straightened up. He walked. 

Al now stepped out into the world to | “Uf Г don’t stop using this stuff, my carcer is finished.” 
settle the wars of Asia and Africa, to win : 
fame, riches, and the love of beautiful Watch your step, when you use any of these three 
women, and to answer, like everyone | "masculine scents from the Kings Men line-up: 


else, the great matter of inevitable time | KINGS MEN—when it takes more than good looks. 
and alteration, Like P. J., for openers he | THISTLE & PLAID—when you're on the prowl. 
would need to put on some raiment that | IMPERIAL GOLD—when caution’s to the wind. 


could enable him to master the sense 
of his own mortality. Soul needed its S N: 
disguises; soul moves in secret ways- 


[y] Fine grooming aids from $1.25 


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PLAYBOY FORUM 


be unfair not to recognize that fact. I 
thought William Hamilton's article 
(rLAYmov, August 1956) was the best 
brief account of the "deathof God" 
approach thus far printed. Dr. Harvey 
Cox’ Revolt in the Church (PLavuoy, 
January 1967) was also excellent. 
Undoubtedly, you are aware of Har- 
vey Сох" famous critique of PLAvBov 
some years ago. I wonder if his appear- 
your pages indicates that he has 
modified those opinions? 
James H. Син 
West Shore Unitari 
Cleveland, Ohi 
We think so. Cox! critique of PLavuoy 
was written in 1961. Since then, Cox 
acknowledges, the magazine has matured 
considerably, as has his esteem for it. See 
the "Playboy Panel: Religion and the 
New Morality,” elsewhere in this issue, 
for additional insight into Cox’ views 
on subjects discussed in “The Playboy 
Philosophy” and “Forum.” 


, Minister 
n Church 


CLERICS AND CONTROVERSY 
Because for many years the Episcopal 
Church has been smartly assailed for * 


(continued from page 52) 


nen in public," I feel it’s only fair 
that the Right Reverend James 
c, whose lener to The Playboy 
n February expressed. agreement 
with aspects of The Playboy Philosophy. 
does not speak for the entire church. 
He has been privately censured by the 
House of Bishops and has resigned 
his jurisdiction. 

Tt is of some concern to me that there 
are few men in the episcopacy who have 
the guts to speak out on controversial 


Forum 


ly criticized. It would be bet 
aitis to present some posi 
natives than merely to conde: 
ап 

Bishop Pike is "out of step" with the 
rest of the church; of this there is no 
question. But perhaps now that he is 
speaking as a private individual once 
again, he can be heard as only a private 


^s get- 
п controversy, perhaps 


ng so 
they should realize that the church has 


always been conservative, and for good 
on: The little systems of the present 
ive a tendency to be forgotten rather 


INSTITUTE 


DE. 
CC 
ÇTUDIES 


quickly as the years roll by. What seem 
to be important problems today will 
probably be forgotten in a year or so. 
"The church has a great deal more to do 
with life than to worry so constantly 
about the things of this present world. 
What is set down as dogma and fact has 
come out of 2000 years of experience, 
and we believe that what we do and 
say and teach not only has to do with 
this world but alo has implications in 
eternity. 


Robert. L. Leather, Vicar 
ed's Episcopal Church 
Camden, New Jersey 

The efjoris of Bishop Pike (who also 
participates in this issue's "Playboy 
Panel") to stir up the Episcopal Church 
may draw fire from his colleagues, but 
the House of Bishops’ decision to set up 
a council to “help rethink, restructure 
and renew the church" may well bear 
testimony to his influence. Such a move 
has long been advocated by Pil 

We don't agree that the church should 
be, or always has been, conservative. 
Historically, Christianity was а revolu- 
tionary underground movement from the 
lime of the crucifixion of Jesus to the 
conversion of Constantine in the Fourth 
Century. There seems to be little ques- 
tion that Christianity originated as an 
answer 10 pressing moral questions of 
those early times, and that to remain vi- 
tal today, й must deal relevantly with 
today’s questions, Theologian Rudolf 
Bultmann, in “Essays Philosophical and 
Theological,” declares that ihe notion of 
immutable heavenly laws is idolatrous. 
Father Joseph Fleicher, one of your 
Episcopal colleagues, says in his excel- 
lent book “Situation Ethics Therefore, 
in the relativities of this world where con- 
science labors lo do the right thing, we 
may always do what would be evil in 
some contexts if in this circumstance 
love gains in the balance.” And the Ro- 
man Catholic theologian Leslie Dewart 
writes, "Unless we make it be, the King- 
dom of God shall never come.” 

Perhaps the most stirring example of 
a Christian clergyman who concerned 
himself responsibly with “the things of 
this present world" is thal of the German 
theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer- He once 
wrote he question of the good is 
posed and is decided in the midst of our 
ng relationships with men, things, 
institutions and powers; in other words, 
in the midst of our historical existence." 
Bonhoeffer lived this belief and died for 
it. He entered into a plot to assassinate 
Hitler and was executed by the Na: 


PLAYBOY AND THE NAZIS 

Last year, after you printed. the mag- 
went Alex Haley inu w with 
George Lincoln Rockwell, Jewish 
groups expressed to me the conviction 
that Rockwell and his Nazis should not 
be publicized at all. I replied, at the 
time, that the interview was a public 


service, since it revealed just how dan- 
gerous the man is. Later, I was able to 
prove my point most dramatically 

You see, I am the lawyer who repre- 

ed the Jen erans and 
their court battle t0 obtain a perma- 
nt injunction against Rockwell and his 
Amcrican Nazi Parry, forbidding them. 
to march in Jewish neighborhoods in 
Chicago during the holy days. In draft- 
ing the complaint against Rockwell, I 
relied heavily on the Playboy Interview 
to disclose his character and that of his 
In this way, 1 was able to 
c judge see that Rockwell's pro- 
posed march wa ate attempt to 
incite riot by rubbing salt in the wounds 
of those who lost families and relatives 
in Hitler's crematories, 

То those who might regard this im 
junction as a violation of Rockwell's civil 
liberties, let Although thc 
Constitution provides по grounds for 
abridgement of free speech, it limits the 
ht to assemble by specifying that the 
sembly must be “peaceable.” Justice 
Hugo Black, certainly the most strict 
constitutionalist (and most devout liber- 
) in the Supreme Court tod 
icued that he understands this cru 
1 difference, Although he gene 
votes against the conviction of any 
whose crime consists of speech, Black 
has often upheld the convictions of. per- 
sons who assembled not “peaceably” but 
with 
public nuisance or d 

Without your interview's 
of Rockwell, I d not have won 
this case. The Jewish War Veterans of 
America—over 100,000 strong—are quite 
well aware of rLaysoy’s contribution to 
my сазе, and you cin be sure of their 
gratitude. 


E 
wo 
п 


me sa 


ment ol 
дит: 


the obvious 


exposure 
coi 


Luis Kumer 
Attorney at Law 
Chicago, Illinois 


FAIR PLAY FOR SPERM 

Congratulations to Helen McKenna 
and. her Fair Play for the Fetus Commit- 
tee (The Playboy Forum, March). Her 
brilliant reasoning has inspired me to 
carry her argument to its logical con- 


clusion. Consider the lot of the poor 
spermatozoa. As living things, can they 
be any less sacrosanct than a fetu: 


the use of moder 
niques, wi 
billions of spermatozoa to a cruel death 
cach year. Even when fertili 
occur, only one of these sperm cells 
penetrates the ovum: the rest die. 

Just as Miss McKenna boasts that she 
is here today because her moth 
jected abortion in 1927, I am alive be- 
use my parents rejected the use of a 
contraceptive in 1943. Join me in my 
crusade, Helen, and we'll fight those 
responsible creeps” all the way, protect- 


are sending hundreds of 


tion does 


e- 


ca 


ing every sperm and embryo. We'll save 
"em all and bequeath to our children a 
very moral and very overerowded planet. 
Loren Johnson 
Fair Play for Sperm Committee 
Washington, D.C. 


WOMEN AND ABORTION 
I am astonished that some of the 
Playboy Forum leners defending our anti- 
quated abortion laws are written by 
women. In my opinion, no woman in her 
right mind wants to give up the right to 
decide [or herself whether she will bear 
a child, and no woman with any guts 
will allow male-made laws against abor- 
tion to prevent her from geuing an ille- 
gal abortion when she wants oi 
Arlen Riley 
Chicago, Illinois 


ABORTION AND WAR 

Helen McKe 
for humanity if she would chann 
energy into savi 
are 20 to 30 years old and are be 
ghtered by the thousands in Vietna 


a could do a lot more 
her 


... and meanwhile, traffic on the Pakistani 
Expressway is moderate to heavy .. . 


Her sincerity seems to me as doubtful as 
that of established religious leaders who 
sai кот bombs and napalm but 
condemn à contraceptive as the work of 
the Devil. 


E PLURIBUS EUNUCH 

The letter in the March Playboy Fo- 
rum commenting on the case of the FBI 
clerk who was fired for having a girl in 
his apartment overnight raises some in- 
teresting questions. Does Mr. Hoover 
require his agents to wear some kind of 
chastity belt, with keys furnished only to 
wives? When a man is appointed an FBI 
it, he takes an oath to support the 
Constitution of the United States. Does 
he also have to take an oath that he will 
remain chaste and sexually pure while in 
the service of the FBI? Every FBI agent 
must be a Galahad. sans peur et sans 
reproche. Must he also be sans sexe? 
Where is there any necessary connection 
between one’s love life and being able to 


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PLAYBOY 


do а decent job in an investigating agen- 
cy, providing said love life is conducted 
discreetly, behind closed doors? 

Mr. Hoover has done a first-rate job in 
the area of law enforcement. He has be- 
come an institution in this country. But 
even institutions make mistakes. 

Cases such as this encourage hypocrisy 
among FBI agents. There is probably no 
agent on the staff of the FBI who, at 
some time in his life, has not been 
volved in extramarital or nonmarital se 
activity. If the facts were known, Mr. 
Hoover could, on the basis of this case, 
fire his entire stall. 

Morris Ploscowe 
Attorney at Law 


New York, New York 
THE GOLDFISH-BOWL SOCIETY 

Senator Edward Longs comments 
about our goldüsh-bowl society (Big 


Brother in America, тїлүвоу, January 
1967) are perhaps truer than anyone rea 
izes. I just read the following story in 
the Miami Herald: 


Looking-Glass War: There is now 
a two-way minor in the ceiling of the 
men’s room of the city-owned bus 
terminal in Coral Gables, the "City 
Beautiful.” Policemen upstairs keep 
а lookout for morals violators. In 
the past few weeks, 96 men have 
been arrested. 


FAIR PLAY FOR HOMOSEXUALS 
I am writing in reply to the Lesh 


who asked, apropos of the destructive 
results of legal and social pressures 


against homosexuals, "Is all this human 
dy and waste absolutely necessary to 
preserve . . . morality?" (The Playboy 

Forum, January). 
This question caused a I 
ncà 


thy discus- 


aspired Word of God, to be 
ally—not as a collection of myths and 
Mes. Altho gree with 
any part of The Playboy Philosophy that 
contradicts the words of the Bible, 
we do agree with some of Hefner's posi- 
tions, including his fight for postal pi 


vacy and for complete freedom of married 


lions are 


partners, so long as th 
mutually satisfying. 

Our answer to the question is that all 
this persecution of homosexuals and 
waste of their talents is not necessary to 
preserve our “morality.” When an adul- 
teress was taken to Jesus ked 
if she should be stoned, he replicd, “He 
that is without let him 
first cast a stone at her no one 
had so condemned her, Jesus said to her 
“Neither do I condemn thee: Go, and sin 
no more.” How, then, n employer 


ind he was а 


n among ye 


174 condemn his employee for homosexuality 


—unles, of course, that employer is 
without sin? In another passage we find 
Jesus saying, “Judge not, that ye be not 
judged.” 

1 would ask employers: How many of 
you have engaged ently en- 
gaging in extramarital or illicit sex? How 
many males have made or will make 
suggestive advances while on the job? 
Are these actions more "moral" than а 
discreet relationship between consenting 
homosexuals? The New ‘Testament 
places an equal prohibition on all forms 
Of sexual relations outside of marriage. 
1 see mo reason why the homosexual 
should be singled out and punished 
while other sinners are mot, That is not 
ality, that is prejudice. 

Ron Wikon 
Decatur, Illinois 


SUICIDE AND HOMOSEXUALITY 

I am grateful to you for opening The 
Playboy Forum to the same frank and 
fearless discussion of homosexuality that 
you have given to other forms of sexual 
behavior. The Lesbia 
your January issue about the countless 
tragedies caused. by society's pereeut 
of homosexuals was not exaggerating the 
рїаше at all. Thee are many, 
more “disguised” homosexuals tl 
one realizes; even Kinsey, in my opinion, 
underestimated our number. i 
ice, after teaching for cight years at 
n institution of higher learning, I just 
recently discovered that the president of 
the college—a man with a wife and 
three children is, like me, a hidden 
homosexual. (It was а shocking revela- 
tion for both of us.) 

The homosexual group in Ph 
is very clever and accurate in calling 
self the Janus Society, after the Roman 


who 


wrote 


For i 


0 


god with two faces. Most ol us hide 


behind a mask of heterosexuality and 
live in constant terror of discovery. It is 
my personal opinion that this fact is di 
rectly related to the abnormally high sui- 
cide rate among college students today. 
It is a terrible shock to a young mun 
when he realizes that—although living 
in an age of proclaimed “sexual revolu 
tion"—he himself must seek love and 
in the shadows amd alley 
ways of our world, with a threat of 
medieval retribution hanging over him. 
(Name and address 
withheld by request) 


SURVIVAL AND HOMOSEXUALITY 

I have known since my carly teens 
that I am homosexual. Now 1 am in my 
lute 20s and have to face the realization 
that I will always be this way. I have 
had s зуопе, even though 
many times I have had the desire to do 
so. I's a world wi a it 

І do not feel like a “pansy.” In fact, 1 
detest effeminate men. I do not act, look 


with 


neve 


h me alone 


or feel effeminate. I am not a kookie mu- 
sidan or artist. Nor do I have long hair. 
ridiculous clothing or a lisp. If you were 
to see me, you would see a strong young 
American Serviceman. 1 work with other 
men; we do men's work—and sometimes, 
here in Vietnam, that's one hell of a job. 
I take orders and give orders. Irs a 
rugged life, and T like it. 

I remember reading th: 
owed . . , with certa 
ble rights; that among these are life 
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. 
Somehow, those seem like empty prom- 
ises to me. After nearly 30 years on this 
earth, I am not able to grasp the reality 
оГ those great words, First, nature has 
played a dirty trick on me and, second, 
my fellow human beings attack me as 


though I had caused the accident mysell. 
But perhaps these are the same people 
who laugh 


unfortunate in a wheel- 
chair. Perhaps these are the same people 
who shout "Jump" to some poor guy 
perched on a window ledge. 

Perhaps it is common for people like 
me to feel sorry for themselves. I have 
thought of death a lot, because it is so 
prevalent here; but the encouraging revo- 
iudon in sexual morality going on back 
home—in which rLavnoy has taken such 
a significant part—gives me some hope 
for the future: hope, at least, of encoun- 
tering a new tolerance for those of us who 
do not fit into the conventional mold. 

(Name withheld by request) 
APO San Francisco, California 


HELP FOR MADALYN MURRAY 
This is a request for help. After the 
Playboy Interview with me in October 
1905, many persons sent contributions— 
in care of my lawyer, Walter Haffner—to 
support my “Tax the Church" suit. It is 
now necessary, for legal reasons, that I 
obtain a complete list of these connibu- 
tions. Would those persons who were so 
Kind as to help my cause then, perform 
another kindness now and send me pl 
copies of the canceled checks? 
Madalyn Murray O'H; 
Society of Separationists 
P.O. Box 2117 
Austin, Texas 


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SEX IN CINEMA 


bookings than fight, Walter Bibo, the 
<celsior Pictures, appealed the 
g that his film was 
ither indecent nor obscene, but highly 


educational. When, in 1957, the New 
York Court of Appeals finally ruled that 
‘Nudity t lewdness 


or dirtiness, is not obscenity in law or i 
common sense,” the gates were suddenly 
swung wide. Russ Meyer and his cohorts 
were standing just outside. 
Meyer, an Army Signal Corps camera- 
g World War Two, had arrived 
Hollywood during the Fifties hoping to 
break into the studios. Unable to pene 
trate the closed-shop setup there, he 
nste glamor-gi 
nd stills for television shows. But 
ied with 
ШОШ, since both his Army 
ng and some experience doing 
indust shorts. 


him, 


shown him how to turn them out fast 
тар. In 1958, a meeting with Pete 
wie, an Oakland impresario who 


had previously prod 
nudist pictures, made it possible for 
Meyer to combine his two skills. The 
two men pooled $1000 and, with the 
e of some Army buddies, Meyer 
shot The Immoral Mr. Teas in tour swift 
ays. Sound, processing and cditing 
brought the bill to $24,000 (and. inci- 
dentally, established a norm for subse- 
quent nudie budgets—between $15,000 
and $30,000—although it might be noted 
that some of the more parsimonious fas 
buck operators frequently managed to 
bring in a picture for as little as $7500). 

But Mr. Teas also did something 
more important: It established а new 
norm for nudity on the screen and indi- 
cated the way to make it acceptable to 
the censors. The formula was simplicity 
itself: plenty of skin but no sex. Mild, 
middle-aged Bill Teas is a “girl watch- 
cr." with many pleasant opportunities to 
exercise his hobby as he pedals his bi- 
cycle through the sunny streets of Los 
Angeles delivering dental supplies. One 
afternoon, however, he 
xtracted, and the anesthetic has a some- 
what disturbing afterelfec. Under its 
influence, every girl he looks 
pretty dental assistant, 
lunchroom waitress—becomes 
and utterly, undressed. Far from being 
overjoyed at the prospect (Mr. Teas i 
moral” only in the title), our hero 
goes off to a secluded spot for some soli. 
tary fishing, but soon suspects he is los 
ing his marbles when all the girls he ha 
met earlier in the picture invade his 
actuary and, stripped to the buff, frolic 
in the water about him. He takes his 
troubles to an analyst who, unfortunately 
for him (if not for the audience), turns 
out to be a spectacularly stacked female. 
When the inevitable occurs, Mr. Teas 
decides he might as well be philosophic 


and distributed 


a 


(continued from page 136) 


about his aflliction. As the film's narrator 
states at the conclusion, “Some men just 
enjoy being sick.” 

Since the courts had already ruled 
that nudity in itself is not obsceni 
the picture was devoid of any 
sexuality (except for blatant voyeu 
the film played with surprisingly 
difficulty. At its opening Engagement, 
Seattle. the local censors’ sole objection 
was to a sequence in which a girl, 
glimpsed in a pas insert. 
ing her tongue in her boyfriend's ear. 
Meyer and DeCenzie were only too hap. 
py to make this cut, and the picture was 
thereupon passed (if not wholeheartedly 
approved). Its reputation built slowly, 
since the two entrepreneurs found them- 
selves at first limited to the dingy grind 
houses that mormally ran exploitation 
features, and excluded altogether from 
cities like New York and Chicago that 
sull had strong censor boards. But grad- 
ally, as its fame spread. their film made 
its way into those marginal art (салс 
whose managers had already discovered 
that receipts increased substantially when- 
ever they ran an old Brigitte Bardot or 
Gina Lollobrigida sextravaganza 
of some of the heavier stuff. There 
to be sure, some risks involved. The show 
was labeled “indecent” in Pasadena, for 
example, and the print was confiscated 
from the projection booth of a Phil 

which it was playing 
y it reached the courts— 
п Fort Lauderdale, where it was 
"—the picture was passed 


were, 


except 
labeled “obscen 
and resumed its run. 

The Immoral Mr. Teas and its unprece- 


dented immunity from censorial crack- 
ted 
field of exploitation films 


/ unprecedented favor- 


critic Leslie Fiedler in Show magazine — 
quickly inspired a host of imitators. 
Bachelor Tom Peeping, for example, pre- 
sented the stratagems of a photographer 
for “Huge Hefners Playaround Maga- 
zine” who, assigned to break into an 
ll-girl nudist camp. eventually suc- 
ceeds by dressing up as a woman. In Kip- 
lings Women, an aging pukkasahib 
reminisces fondly of the vanous “rags, 


bones and hanks of hair" that had 
brightened his earlier years, Not To 
night, Henry lemurs a henpecked, 
middleaged husband (burlesque comic 


Hank Henry) who dreams he is a succes- 
sion of great lovers from the past, includ 
ing Napoleon, but is somehow thwarted 
in every encounter with the opposite sex. 
The dean of The House on Bare Moun- 
fain purports to be a Granny Good 
(played by the film's producer, Bob 
Cresse, in drag), who is so unobtrusive 
that the girls pay her no attention what- 
soever as they scurry about their dormi- 
tory with little or no clothes on. In 


Pardon My Brush, two house painters 
discover that thcir paintbrush таксу 
whatever. walls they touch with it trans 
parent. Curiously, the walls that need 
vays seem adjacent to the 
bedrooms of particularly luscious and 
arcissistic young women. In а number 
of others, such as Paradisio and Magic 
Spectacles, the gimmick is X-ray суе 
glasses that permit the wearer to sce 
through the clothes of the various young, 
ladies he encounters. But if the makers of 
these films provided an abundance ol 
female breasts 
nd shape, they were circumspection 
ilf when it came (o the display of 
pubic hair or genitalia. At least for the 
ume be the regions below the navel 
remained unexplored by their cameras. 
‘The voyeuristic nature of these 
nudies is perhaps the most striking thing 
about them. The hero docs not crave 
sex; he just wants to look—and the de- 
vices of the film makers are all bent to- 
ward making it possible for him (and the 
udicnce) to look at the girls as unobtru- 
»ely as possible. Frequently, the films 
go even further, removing all suggestion 
of sexuality from the leading male char 
acter. The hero of Russ Meyers Wild 
Gals of the Naked West (which had 
ir been titled, less explicitly, The 
Naked West and How It Was Lost) is 
bowlegged runt of a man who, even in 
ten-gallon hat. barely reaches to the 
chests of the bosomy cowgirls and saloon 
girls studding the film, and who carries а 
fourfeet-long silver-plated pistol to com- 
pensate for the virility he so obviously 
lacks. In Bachelor Tom Peeping, the 
photographer quite literally surrenders 
his masculinity when he dons female at- 
tire to gain entry into the nudist camp. 
In The Playgirls and the Bellboy. sta 
ing the statuesque June Wi the 
bellboy is a bumbling Jerry Lewis type 
who keeps rushing back and forth be 
tween his hotel and the theater next door 
where a sexy play is being rehearsed, 
His object is to pick up pointers that 
might impress June and her covey of 
lingerie models (who spend most of their 
ne languorously dressing and undress- 
g). Needless to say, it is to no avai 
The Playgirls and the Bellboy, inci 
dentally, typifies with special crudity 
a prevalent production technique for 
nudies of the early Sixties. Its producer, 
Harry Ross, had exhumed a dull. mildly 
risqué German sex comedy of the mid- 
Fifties, ed it to about an hour, 
dubbed it and added to it some 30 a 
utes of footage featuring Miss Wilkinson, 
her lovelies and the bellboy. Although 
the German film was in black and white, 


Ross shot his new material in color 
(Color is practically a sine qua non for 
nudies) All the action in the picture 


centering around the theater came 
from the German original: the color se- 
quences were confined to the girls’ hotel 
bedroom. Similar domestically created 


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178 


њен spiced up many a cheap French, 
lalian and Swedish film, as well as 
numerous imported documentary and 
nudist camp features. 

Humor—or at least an attempt at 
humor—was another lesson that "nude 
wave" producers learned from Mr. Teas. 
While Naked West was Meyers only 
tempt at outright satire (and, ironi- 
cally, his least successful venture com- 
mercially), virtually all the — nudies 
maintained a wisecracking voice-over nar- 
ation that either kidded or proffered а 
leering commentary upon whatever was 
happening on screen. A majestically pro- 
portioned girl is seen bouncing on a 
trampoline and the voice opines, ГИ bet 
she's better at indoor sports.” The cam- 
enters a nudist colony that seems to 
be populated solely by buxom beauties 

18 to 20, and the voice infor us 
^s "time for another walk down n 
mary lane.” Musical scores for these 
films invariably jew'sharp in 
the rickyticky orchestration: Its sharp, 
nasal twang synchronized with the bounc- 

wp breasts or dimpling buttocks of a 
saftig female manages at once not only 
to desexualize her but to turn her into a 
figure of fun. This seems to be the fu 
tion of the narration as well—to reassure 
not only the censors but also their m 


nelude 


cally all-male audiences that they arc 
not taking sex too seriously. Music and. 
narration together underscored the lack 
of any real sexuality in the first Amer 
a nudies, and by 1964 most of the 
producers were realistic enough to recog- 
nize that their limited market d be- 
come glutted. To retain their customers, 
they would have to supply hotter stuff. 
By a curious coincidence, while the 
“nude wave” was still on the rise in the 
United States, the traditionally austere 
Japanese were enjoying a similar phe- 
nomenon in their own country. They 
led their nudies “eroductions’—erouc 
productions—and with typical Oriental 
thoroughness, they carried their fleshly 


where these pictures began 
like Blood and Naked Flesh or The 
Gil with the Mole on Her Breast, they 
presented. quite explicitly action that 
most film makers up until that time 
would hardly dare hint ar. Donald 
Richie, an Am film historian. liv 
ing in Japan, describes one typical of 
"Disturbed young man," he 

1 next 


opens icchox on атт 
cucumbers; spies on lady next door hav- 
ng intercourse: goes over, men 


y of sausages and 


ces hei 


“Parlez-vous français?” 


she allows him in; he proves impotent 
i shoots her in head and kills her” 
Because these films show al inter- 
course—sometimes even with animals— 
few have found their way to these 
shores, 1 those few that have. such as 
Abnormal, The Adolescent. The Bite, 
The Love Robots and Village of Love, 
have all been sharply scisored by their 
American distributors prior t0 release. 
As if 1 compensate, additional nude 
sequences featuring Japanese models in 
baths and showes are photographed 
in Los Angeles and spliced into the 
original. 

Bur if these pictures represent but a 
tiny fraction of the nudie and sexploita- 
tion scene in the United States, they just 
bout dominate the film industry in 
Japan. In 1965, of the 503 features pro- 
duced, 233 fell into the croducion carc- 
gory—and their popularity is enormous. 
Booked into a wide circuit of theaters. 
throughout the country, they often re- 
coup their modest costs in a single week. 
Not only that where most Japanese 
houses close around ten. Pr, the thea 
ters running eropros regularly grind on 
through the night and often into the next 
morning to accommodate the crowds. 
was the case with the American nudies, 
new companies have come into the field 
specifically 10 make these films; and 
was the case with Hollywood's ma 
studios, which are now cautiously in- 


films, such respected Japanese firms as 
Toho and Daiei have found it expedient 
lo present unprecedentedly intimate 
bath and bedroom scenes in their pii 
tures just to in business. Significa 
ly, the theaters that run these eroductions 
e never raided, Specifically designated 
as such, they play to audiences that know 
precisely what to expect. And, what is 
more, they get it. 

Naoki Торама, a prominent Japanese 
cric, has suggested several reasons for 
the present. prominence of these “pink 
films”: the growing competition for a rel- 
atively limited market (500 Japanese pic- 
tures per year, plus another 250 imports, 
with only 6000 theaters available); the 
ever-increasing popularity of television 
(90 percent of nese homes now have 
‘TV sets); the sharp rise in participation 
sports; and the outlawing of prostitution. 
In the United States, wh television 
threatened the movie industry, the stu- 
dios responded. with wide screens and 
3-D. The Japanese, working on budgets 
barely ten percent of those of most Hol- 
Iywood films, were blocked from 
important technological changes. 


In- 
stead, impressed by the growing eroticism 


of their European imports, the 
mented with mored material— 
stories of fallen women, strange perver- 
sions, sadistic criminals and broad, sexy 
comedies. At its best, this led to such 
films as Onibaba and Woman of the 


peri- 


Dunes, which combined rare artistry with 
outspoken eroticism; but it also led to 
the eroductions—films made without art 
or emotion, films made as a substitute 
for sexual experience. 

But this explains only the reasons for 
their existence, not the reasons for their 
tremendous popularity. Drs. Phyllis and 
Eberhard Kronhausen. who were recent- 
ly in Japan, studied this phenomenon 
and offered two explanations: With the 
high quotient of aggressiveness (prima- 
rily against women) that these films con- 
tained, they filled a popul 
their heavy accenting of male impotence 


(at least once in almost every picture), 
they reflected a popular fear. But the 
films themselves are nor essentially sexy. 


Indeed, critic Donald Richie finds them 
essentially antisexual. “Thoroughly com- 
mercial in intent" he says, "they have 
cheapened the erotic (а prestig 
of the avantgarde in other countries) 
and confused the salacious the 
sensual" In this, too, they seem to 
parallel America’s nudics. 

By the end of 1963, the crest of Amer- 
ia's “nude had well 
passed. After all, the formula they fol 
lowed neither was terribly stimulating 
nor did it afford scope for many interest- 
ing variations. And while the girls they 
presented were often comely 
ably well endowed, the shoddy, slipshod 


ous sign 


with 


wave pretty 


nd invari- 


productions that surrounded them were 
distressingly devoid of glamor. To make 
matters worse, theaters began to double- 
feature the domestic product—Ruined 
Bruin, Adventures of Lucky Pierre, Surf- 
tide 77 and the like—with straight nudist- 
camp films, most of them from England. 
Curiously. during the Fifties, the English 
turned out a considerable number of 
these sunshine-and-health features—curi- 
ous since it is difficult to imagine as many 
bonafide nudists lurking in England's 
chilly grases as in such tr sun- 
worshipers’ paradises as the Cap d'Antibes 
and the Isle of Levant on the French 
Riviera. But perhaps it was the forbidden. 
fruit novelty of nudism alone that held 
such attraction for the English— just as it 
did for their American cousins. Certainly. 


joi 


there was a minimum of eness 
in the films themselves, all of which 
tended to follow the same humdrum 
formula: A shy (and generally bespec- 

led) secretary is induced to spend a 
weekend at a nudist colony, where, after 
she has shed her dothes, she finds to her 


surprise and delight that the 2 
executive she has secretly admired is 
also a member. And he, discovering that 
she has a figure, shares her surprise and 
delight in his own way. Unfortunately 
the girls’ figures in these British-made 
pictures were rarely memorable, and the 
camp activities depicted—volleyball, swim- 


loof young 


ming, diving and calisthenics—made 
nudism not only antiseptic but insulter- 
able. American nudie producers, con- 
cerned less with fact than with figures, 
eventually abandoned all pretense of doc- 
umentary authenticity, Instead, they 
introduced curvaceous models or bur- 
lesque queens. Blaze Starr Goes Nudist 
and Bell, Bare and Beautiful, featuring 
Virginia "4824-36" Bell, typified the 
new trend, while Orgy of the Golden 
Nudes merely used the nudist-camp set- 
ting as background for a horror story 
But nudie producers soon learned. th 
even though the Supreme Court has ruled 
that nudity is not obscene, total nudity 
severely limits the number of play dates 
a picture can have. Although many 
nudist and art magazines publish photo- 
graphs revealing the entire figure with- 
out being barred from the mails, theater 
managers fear to take this ultimate step 
lest they be closed down. Symptomati 
cally, when The Raw Ones was produced 
in 1966—the first nudist-camp picture to 
reveal male and female genitals—it man- 
aged to get only a single booking, in 
liberal-minded San Francisco. 

Like any major studio, the enterpris 
ing producers of the skin films sought to 
prolong their profitable trend. by adding 
novelties. Not surprisingly, 
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The Touchables and Paradisio—but con 
ering the inherent possibilities of pro- 
tuberances projecting from the screen 

toward each member of the 
e, this technical gimmick was 
ized with а consummate lack of imagi- 
nation in both of these pictures. The big- 
gest novelty of all, although ultimately 
no more successful in attracting the cus- 
tomers, was the inclusion of "name" per- 
formers. Whereas most of the girls who 
appeared in these films were (and arc) 
youthful unknowns, models, dancers and 
strippers from Hollywood, New York 
and Miami, who make themselves avail- 
able for about $100 a day, comedian 
Tommy Noonan introduced a calculated 
cscalation іп 1963. For his Promises, 
Promises!, which he both produced and 
starred in, he hired as his co-star the 
opulent and well-publicized Jayne Man 
field. The premise of this comedy, which 
has considerably more plot than any of 
its nudie predecessors, is the classic gam- 
bit of the woman who wants a baby but 
is married to a psy lly impotent 
male, played by Noonan, “And you know 
what they call me?” he wails. "Holly- 
wood's most prolific writer 


On n cruise, Noonan tries to 
regain his v ious pills 
and р commended by his doctor. 


He is made even more frantic by the 
presence on shipboard of musdeman 
Mickey Hargitay (in real life, Mansfield's 
then-husband), playing a movie star who, 
Noonan suspécts, has been making out 
with his wife. When she finally becomes 
pregnant, Noonan is convinced that Har- 
gitay is the father; the rest of the picture 
is devoted to straightening out that 
earthshaking problem, Actually, in the 
entire film, there is only one nude se 
—of Jayne taking a bubble bath, then 
drying herself off—but since this is re 
peated at various points where interest 
the story proper might otherwise bog 
nd since there is a good deal 
of double-entendre dialog throughout, 
Promises, Promises! made money despite 
its $80,000 budget (high for this type of 
picture). Noonan has admitted that he 
was helped considerably by PLAYBOY'S 
exposure of his bosomy star lying naked 
on a bed—an exposure that received 
even wider attention when PLAYBOY'S 
Editor-Publisher, Hugh M. Hefner, was 
hauled thicago court on ап 
obscenity charge for publishing the pic 
tures in the June 1963 issue of the maga 
ane. (The case against Mr. Hefner 
ended in a hung jury, with the 11 women 
and one Jone urban male voting 7 to 5 
for his acquittal. The charge was never 
reinstated, and Chicago's Censor Board 
deared the film itsell for showing only 
а few weeks later—containing nude 
scenes almost identical to those that ap- 
peared in PLAYBOY.) Curiously, Noonan 
did not use the sequence in the com- 


dow: 


180 pleted film, despite its notoriety. “There 


s a distinction,” he later explained, "be 
tween nudity in films and nudies. Mine 
was not a пиће" It was perhaps be- 
cause of this distinction that his second 
movie, Thee Nuts in Search of a Boll, 
starting Mamie Van Doren, lost money, 
even though it came in at approximately 
the same figure and his luscious leading 
lady was given approximately the same 
PLAYBOY exposure. In any case, apart 
from a handful of films featuring the 
likes of June Wilkinson and Candy Barr 
(My Tale Is Hol), nudie producers have 
preferred to stick with their unknowns, 
figuring that the added cost of a star is 
rarely compensated for in box-office pr 
ceeds. Further, the Screen. Actors Guild 
has always made it clear to its member- 
ship that it frowns upon u 
dothes off for movies—at least, 
for cheap exploitation pictur 
however, with Hollywood's 
biggest budgeted pictures emerging in- 
creasingly laced with nudity, this atti- 
tude seems to be relaxing; but those 


actresses willing to doff their dresses be- 
fore 


the camera have now discovered 
they far more profitably 
for the major studios than for the nudies. 

As а result, the nudies have moved in 
two directions since 1964. On the one 
hand, a number of nudie-house opera- 


п do 


switched away from the nudie formula 
films, with their pretense of a plot, and 
have substituted. programs of from one 
and a half to three hours of “strip” films, 
with no plots whatsoever. These reels, 
always in 16mm and approximately ten 


minutes in length, have been available 


es” for years, sold by di- 
rect mail through mouth- ads 
placed in the various nudist m: 
nd girlie publications. Mostly, 
dep 
ed sizes and ages (one to a reel, 
rule) wriggling provocatively out of their 
dothing. The aesthetic effect of three 
hours of this in a fleabag grind house is 
not unlike a bullfight in which every 
thing has been eliminated except the kill. 
Grouped together under such lating 
titles as The Ваше of the 48's and Gal- 
A-Rama, and set to whatever phono- 
graph records the management happens 
to have on hand, they keep faith with 
their customers at least to the extent of 
offering a maximum of nudity in a mini- 
mum of time. Probably to reassure the 
censors and the police that these exhibi- 
tions have redeeming social and cultural 
value. not infrequently a title appears on. 
the screen to the effect that “Through 
this medium we are attempting to fur- 
nish artistic, lifelike models to those art- 
ists or students who cannot afford to hire 
models or attend classes.” Ars gratia artis 

More recently, and again following 
the lead of the mail-order houses, the 


ateri 


they 
t nothing more than girls of assort- 


a 


films for this type of operation have 
become not only bolder but kinkier. In 
place of a single girl squirming out of 
her panties on a divan, now there are apt 
to be two or even three girls mauling, 
wrestling and divesting one another of 
their garments on a large and rumpled 
bed. In place of the old striptease, which 
prolonged the stripping and delayed the 
removal of the bra until the last possible 
moment, the new breed of strippers 
stars with a flimsy negligee, bra and 
panties (and frequently black-net stock- 
ings that are seldom removed), and gets 
down to fundamentals as quickly as pos 
sible. Once the hties have been 
slipped off, they are often retained as а 
соу cover-up for the pubic arca; but 
even this ulumate exposure is bei 1- 
mitted more often these days, as attested 


by titles like Wild and Woolly and Bea- 
wer 


Girls, with their notunwarranted 
ion that pubic hair will be on 


Other films depict sadistic refine 
ments In one, a blonde girl who is 
reading a book is quickly overpowered 


gbreasted brunette, manacled, 
tied to а chair, gagged, then stripped of 
her bra. The blonde is whipped with a 
nd thighs 
tossed on a 
and spanked. (АП of this, it should 
be noted, is performed in the most per 
functory, even torpid manner, with both 
girls self-consciously aware of the cam- 
a throughout. Descript like the 
subject matter, are apt to be somewhat 
more lurid than the films themselves.) In 
another, a young Negress is bound and 
humiliated; and in still another, two girls 
who have been "tortured" turn the tables 
on their captor, bind him, then flaunt 
their nude bodies and heat him with 
ropes. There are films in which women 
enjoy pain, others in which they enjoy 
inflicting it. The number of Lesbian films 
is also sharply on the rise—with titles 
like The Dominant Dyke and Her Lez 
Slave—in which leather-clad girls fondle 
and undress their passive partners. 
Even the nudist-camp films arc falling 
in with the new trend. No longer are 
genitals coyly concealed by the shrubbery, 
or activities confined to such healthy out- 
door sports as volleyball and swimming. 
Men, at Teast in the reels run at these. 
skin houses, have virtually disappeared 
from the picture; and in their place 
are girls—whole bevies of them—who 
promptly disrobe to indulge in such 
healthy indoor sports as craps, pool, 
ping-pong and push-ups. While one can 
legitimately doubt the authenticity of 
their nudist fervor, one cannot deny that 
the models used in these pictures are 
more attractive, bounuful and uninhibi 
ed than those who populate the features 
shot in actual nudist camps. Although 
such films are now gaining in national 


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cities from Los Angeles to Miami grind. 
ing away at the product. their biggest 
market remains the private collector with 
his own 8mm or 16mm projector. 

ОГ far greater significance has been 
the change in theatrical tends from 
the straight, voyeuristic nudie of the 
Immoral Mr. Teas and Bachelor 
Tom Peeping type to the current taste 
for sex-cum-violence melodramas. These 
"roughies" 10 appear as carly as 
g Friedman released his 
Scum of the Earth, followed within the 
year by Festival Girls, a German made 
shocker made even spicier by domestical- 
ly produced inserts. But it was Rus 


Meyer who actually called the turn whe 
in 1963, hoping to move beyond the 


limited nudic circ 


ts. he produced the 
tion- ked Lorna— Too Much for 
One Man,” according to its teaser cam- 
paign. "I realized the n 
Meyer said. recently. “Wom 
presented in eve 
There was nothing left to the imagina- 
tion. Now there was required, in addi- 
tion to the exposure of flesh. some sort of 
simple story. So from Lorna on, I have 
concentrated on action melodramas, vio- 
lence and sex, presenting lovemaking in 
the most reali manner and, when the 
situation required, photographing our 
actresses pretty much in the nude.” 

Lorna is in every sense a transition 


al 


film—not merely a roughening of the 
nudie concept but a the 
sensation-packed, sexually ting 
eroticism of the old exploitation pic 


tures with the hitherto nonerotic, an 
emotional approach of the nudics, in 
which nudity alone was the attraction. By 
its very appearance, Lorna indicated the 
new direction that the roughies were to 
take, Unlike most nudies that preceded 
it it was photographed in black and 
white instead of color—with consumma 

directorial skill, according to some critics 
and with a story Tine thar smacked 
strongly of ersatz Erskine Caldwell. Set 
in a Southern backwoods community, 
ts the tribulations of ро" 
buxom lass ad 
n 


white trashy Lorna, à 
dicted to solitary skinny-dips in syly 
streams. Lorna gives herself freely to her 


d boyfriend. is lectured repeatedly 
for her sinful ways by a Bible Belt 
whose interest in her transcends 


ıd is raped by a lout who has 
been maddened by her open blouses and 
. Ultimately. Lorna is killed 
t she intercepts a knife 
tossed. by the villain at her boyfriend. 
Featuring Lorna Maitland, a statu- 
esque, melon-breasted dancer from Las 
Vegas, Lorna was made for 537,000—and 
has to date grossed close to 5500,000. Like 
Mr. Teas, its success immediately inspired 
a host of imitators. no few of them by Mr. 
Meyer himself, In them. women were 


“A double martini and a bag of peanuts, please.” 


changed from passive. posturing, pi- 
quant creatures viewed at a distance by 
the assorted Peeping Toms of the skin 
films into the role of innocent victims of 
man's unrestrained lust. John Fowles’ 
The Collector, not altogether coinciden- 
tally, seems to have provided the arche 
typical plot for the films of this new 
genre: the girl kidnaped early in the 
picture, then held against her will as her 
abductors force themselves upon her. 
Among the first of these was The 
Defilers (which its writer-producer, Dave 
Fricdman, admits "came to hi 
ling Fowles novel). The film be 
with an irrelevant beach party sequence 
in which its two heroes, Carl 
(who refer то themselves 
throughout), pick up [our 6 
while they аге busy making out with two 
of them behind some rocks, the other 
two run off into the surf for some nude 
bathing. Carl. it soon develops, is а v 
cious type. One girl rejects him for 
biting too hard; another he beats into 
submission by tearing her clothes off and 
slapping her on her naked rear. 

The story proper gets under way 
when, under the influence of marijuana, 
Carl proposes that he and Jamic kidnap 
1 and hold her as a slave concubine 
Their victim is Jane Col. 
lins. an innocent from the Midwest who 
hopes to get into the movies—and who 
they have met because the nice old lady 
whose apariment she is staying hap- 


pens to be their "connection." They spy 


n her bubble bath, then Iure her 


t of 


on Jar 
10 the baseme 
house on the pr 
her to a party 
rl asks when she sees the small, dirty 
room they take her to, empty except for 

bed and a toilet. "You're iU" Carl 
ughs, ripping olf her dress. In the d 
that follow. Carl repeatedly rapes J. 
ay Jamie looks on, and feeds her 
saaps from his millionaire father's t 
But wh Пу wies to get into 
the act, Carl thwarts him. Jamie sudde 
ly recognizes Carl for what he isa sadi 


tic lunatic cand order him to release 
the girl. Carl refuses, and in the course 
of a vicious, go fight. he is killed— 


impaled through the forehead by a nail 
sticking out of the wall. Jamie rushes 
off to get help for the now-unconscious 
Jane. End of film. 

Strikingly similar is a French import, 
dubbed into English, called Sexus. Once 
vain, it opens with a completely irrele 
vint sequence as а voluptuous, sinewy 
Negress caresses a sleeping blonde while 
suipping down to a leopardskin bikini 
When the blonde rises from her couch, 
the Negress divests her of her filmy 
wh ghigown, kisses her tenderly, 
nd the two begin an erotic dance to 
gether. (So irrelevant was this sequence 
that it turned up tact, in another 
exploitation movie titled Night of Lust. 
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1 producers in France and added 
specifically for the American market) 
The plot itself follows very closely that 
of The Defilers, differing only in detail. 
The heroine, Virginia, is picked up on 
the streets of Paris by a gang and held 
for ransom in an old chátea le the 
gang, which includes an ге, re- 
vealingly dressed Lesbian, awaits further 
tructions, Virgil wakens in her 
room, removes her dress (which had 
been ripped up the back by the kid- 
napers) and. dons a loose denim jacket 
and briel skirt. While Frankie, one of the 
gangsters, amuses his mates by undres- 
ing the Lesbian with his switchblade 
knife, Virginia makes her escape from 
the chateau. But does she then run for 
help? She does not. Unaccountably, no 
sooner is she out of the house than she 
shucks all of her clothes and stretches 
out in the grass Гог some moon-bathing. 
Subsequently, there is an attempted 


rape, that is thwarted by the gang's 
member, 


handsomest Blackie, and a 
ripen ween Blackie and 
the girl that leads to a love scene remi- 
niscent of the opening of Hiroshima, Mon 
Amour—except that sighs and groa 
replace the stylish dialog of the earlier 
film. This sequence, incidentally, is inter- 
larded th another totally irrelevant 
but highly salable bit of eroticism. In a 
where the Lesbian has ропе 
Blackie’s defection to the 
tall, provocative honey- 
the middle of the room, 
ар ansfixed. With her is a dark, 
slender girl with a butch haircut, blue 
denims and a man’s shirt. Indeed, she 
might almost be taken for an cffeminatc. 
man, were it not for the fact that, in the 
course of the ensuing dance, she removes 
the shirt to reveal small but well-shaped 
breasts. During the dance, she uses a 
cato^-nine-tails on the. blonde, removing 
bits of her costume with every blow of 
the lash, until the girl is down to a black, 
abbreviated G string. They fondle and 
caress each other to the music, and the 
dance cli es as they kiss each other 
on the lips. Meanwhile, back at the 
chiteau, learning that the gang is alter 
him, Blackie drives Virginia to a clearing. 
where, as luck would have it, her father 
is waiting for her, then returns to the 
u to be cut down by the police 
who are waiting for him. Obviously, nei 
ther logic of motivation nor clarity of 
continuity is uppermost in the minds of 
the producers of these filmy. 

Bad Girls Go to Hell is the somewhat 
lurid but otherwise pointless title of a 
New York-based production that, while 
avoiding the kidnap theme, nevertheless 
reveals a strikingly similar attitude to- 
ward its heroine. Mary Kelton, a happy 
housewife who goes about her daily 
chores in a transparent negligee and bi- 
kini panties, is raped onc morning while 
scuing out the garbage. (The таре 


gang's leade 
blonde stands 


filmed quite explicitly, even to the detail 
of having her panties pulled down over 
her wriggling toes.) The rapist, a neigh- 
bor, threatens (however illogically) to tell 
Mary's husband what happened unless 
she comes to his apartment, Mary goes, he 
tries to rape her again, and she kills him. 
Now she decides to run away. “I know,’ 
she says. "Ell go to New York. Т can lose 
myself in the crowd there.” (A few previ- 
сиз establishing shots have revealed that 
she already is in New York, but such petty 
details are readily ignored.) Under an 
umed name, Ellen Green, the girl is 
soon befriended in the big 
and kindly man who has only on 
vice: When he gets drunk, hc bcats up 
on women unmerdfully. Ellen escapes 
his clutches and shacks up with a Les 
bian, but growing alarmed at the wom- 
апу advances, she moves to a rented 
room in a private home. No sooner is the 
wife of the family out of the house than 
the husband attempts to rape her. Final- 
ly. she answers an 

р 


ted for semiinvalid," and all seems 
well in her new surroundings until the 
son, a police detective, recognizes Ellen 
as the runaway murderess, Mary Kelton. 
At that point, Mary wakes up in her own 
little bed with her own little husband by 
her side. It was all a dream. But as she 
begins the day's chores in her transpar- 
ent negligee and briel bikini, she is 
ped all over again beside the garbage 


cans, Perhaps this "s for real, the 
film implies. 
From such pictures as these, in which 


the women are essentially men's victims, 
it was but a short step to the next wave 
of sexploiters, in which women ше 


portrayed as the aggressors—insatiable 
nymphomaniacs, perverse Lesbians, pro- 
fessional prostitutes. One of the first, one 


of the best and most typical of these 
films is The Dirty Girls, which seems to 
have been assembled from two Euro- 
pean movies—one French, one German 
and tied together by an English narra- 
tion. lis first episode introduces us to 
an attractive prostitute on the prowl in 
Paris. One of her customers is so shy that 
she has to seduce him after he loses his 
nerve: another beats her unmercifully 
the moment she ha 
bra and pan 
dressing her 
plete with cap, boots and riding crop. 
“Do you love mez” he whimpers as she 
whips away at him with the quiri. 

The second, and main, section of the 
film carries us to Munich, where we 
meet a cute, slender blonde prostitute 
named Monique, who has been highly 
recommended to Robert Marshall, 
American businessman waveling through 
Germany. Although, wandering into the 
wrong apartment, Robert begins an 
alfair with the wrong prostitute; he no 
wns of his crror than, with st 
g single mindedness, he departs. Mo- 


nique proves to be all that his friend had 
promised. First she captivates him with 
an uninhibited private performance of 
the twist; then she seduces him with 
abandoned sighs and groan: they 
embrace on her bed, the scene dissolves 
to a quiet shot of the city at night 
“Whatever ecstasy i 
evoke will be realized here tonight, 
narrator intones. Back in the room alter 
a discreet interval, Robert confirms this. 
“Paul was right,” he tells Monique. “You 
were great.” Earlier in the evening, the 
girl had told Robert of her new lover, 
Lawrence. When Robert leaves, she 
phones Lawrence, but there is no reply. 
In the next sequence, Monique is at a 
js straight out of a Fell 
» in formal dinner jack 
eis, the girls in brief bikinis, all jaded 


high-society sophisticates. A film star 
calls to. Monique across a swimming 
pool. Without hesitation, the girl takes 


off her shoes and wades across the pool 
toward him, The film star, still in his tux- 
edo, laughs and jumps in, too. As they 
meet, embrace and start undressing each 
other in the water, the watching guests 
become filled with erotic hungers of 
their own and the girls begin ойе 
themselves to the nearest males. Soon ot 
Monique 
h a bı 


e uS E 
lle of their clothes fl 
the water. The othe: 
red to make love inside, Later, wh 
1 her apartment for the elusive 
Monique kisses and 
then undresses 
She is still in the 
and sophisticated 
es her way to the 


resses 


her image in a mi 
and 
shower when a ch 
п enters and r 


won 
bat 
pleads like a 
Although 
about. ple 


“Bathe me, Lawrence,” Monique 
love-hungry 
Monique 


litle girl. 
knows everythi 
ng men, clearly “Lawr 


ce 
has the upper hand with her. The pic 
ture ends with 


tacked-on epilog in 
aving Munich, meets on 
oung, unsophisticated, 
nice" girl, and the two begin to discuss 
a. "Who is really the woman of ten 
d pleasures?" the narrator asks 
rhetorically. 

The Dirly Girls, despite its prosaic ti- 
ile, is not without its moments of poetry, 
nd the sequence at the swimming pool 
creates superbly the sense of a mounting 
erotic tension. No such virtues distract 
the New York-produced The Sex perls 
from its raunchy, single-minded cour 
At relates the story of Liz Adams, а dark- 
haired, curvy model who uses her body 
to make her way on the Broadway stage. 
Befriended L wealthy theater ow 
who takes her to his beach house on Fire 
Island for a weekend of fun and games, 
Liz permits her auentions to wander to 
his other guests. “If there was anything 
Liz liked better than making it with one 
guy, it was making it with two guys a 


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186 


the same time," the narrator informs us. 
Liz, we discover, is not merely promis- 
«uous but a nymphomaniac—and her 
insatiable appetite for men ultimately de- 
stroys her chances for a theatrical carcer, 
when her patron discovers her snuggling 
en déshabillé in the arms of another, But 
the authors of the film cannot agree on 


n ending. What is to be Asa 
compromise, two endings arc shown. In 
one, Liz becomes a kept woman in a lux- 


urious Manhattan apartment; in the oth- 
er, she is seen as a fivedollara-night 
whore operating out of a dingy rooming 
house. Along the way. the film is stud- 
ded with nude sequences—models in a 
photo studio, bare-bosomed sun-bathing 
aboard the producers yacht, a Gree 
wich Village party that degenerates into 
g with such run-of-the-mill 
moments as a bathtub scene and assort- 
ed sexy dinches on beach and bed. In all 
of them, however, it is made apparent 
that the woman is thc manipulator, man 
the creature to her whims and desires. 
Looseliving Liz and her problems 
were not only duplicated but intensified 
п a seres of pseudoscientific movies 
that made their appearance concurrent- 
ly. all of them exploiting in one way or 
another the popular notion that sexual 
mores are on the dedine and sexual 
aberrations decidedly on the incre 
"The approach is often anthropological, as 
in Sin in the Suburbs, a gamy teatise on 
an wife swapping that was the 


о! 


first in this genre; and in the some 20 
descendants of Italy's Mondo Сапе, 
which made its debut in the art houses, 
but soon—along with such forth 
imitations ay Mondo Freudo and Mondo 


Bizarvo—foumt its proper level in the 
sexploitation circuits. Whether pseudo- 
how- 


scientific or pseudo-documentary, 
ever, the attitude is ident 
disapproval in the commentary of what 
< shown gleefully, and often in imen- 
tionally shocking detail, on the screen. 
As Lee Frost (who also directed The 
Defilers) said of his Mondo Freudo, 
‘We showed genuine things that happen 
in the United States and in the world, 
g with sex and sex taboos. It 
is truthful and it is very 
(In point of fact, despite Frost's 
the entire film 
was reportedly fabricated in a studio.) 
Not too dissimilar is the advertising 
come-on for The Twisted Sex: “Taken 
from the actual files of a practicing psy- 
chiatrist. . . people whose thirst for sex 
brings them dose to madness." 
Authenticity, however dubious or dis- 
torted, is the rationale for another group 
of roughi nymphomania, 
{rigidity m and 
Tiomosexua curiously, there 
is little of physical s nen pil 
ism in Шеш. Typical of this genre, if 
only because its plot embraces most of 
these aberrations, is Tony Orlando's Lust 
and the Flesh, produced in 1965. A story 


claims of “authenticity, 


“I'm cramming for my art final!” 


of wife swapping and its unfortunate 
consequences, it introduces us to Mark 
id Myra, an unhappily married couple 
who H t arrived at a seaside resort. 
Myra, like all the characters in the film, 
muses a great deal in explanatory na 
tion, We learn that she is frigid, because 
early on her wedding night she lost her 


virginity to a rapist. “I do love you, 


xd in the inner mono- 
log. “I just can't give you the physical 
love you want.” This is fully confirmed 
in the bed scene that follows. They go 
to a night club and there they meet 
another couple, Helen and her husband, 
who ues most of the film. Helen, 
he tells us, is a nymphomaniac who picks 
up a new man every weekend, using 
lum as a “front. few moments later 
the husband also tells us that he has 
just fallen in love with Myra. 

Helen coyly suggests that Mark and 
Myra come home with them after the 
club, then lures Mark away when Myra 
t dawn, the two go for an 
n the surf—she in her 
1 girdle, he in his boxer shorts— 
and they make love as the waves lap 
around them. Later, as the husband and 
Муга go off together, the two make love 
It over again, this time naked and in 
bed. Now all four take a boat trip to a 
secluded island, where the newly formed 
couples go their separate ways. The hus 
band readily conquers Myra's [rigidity, 
nd Mark fall to in a sequence 
that is an unintended parody of lust— 
close-ups of Helen's mountainous breasts, 
her coarse tongue licking her lips in 
erotic anticipation, her tongue pulsating 
with saliva as she kisses Mark's car, 
Mark's flabby stomach and legs, and 
eagle incongruously tattooed on his left 
arm. Alter this episode, Helen easily œn- 
vines Mark that he and Myra should 
with them for the rest of their 


she tells her hush: 


A few days later, Helen stages an orgy 
(which has become the scéne obligatoire 
of sexploitation movies), complete with 
a strip dance, a pair of Lesbians fondling 
cach other, two homosexuals embracing 
n the bathtub, a muscle boy quietly lift. 
ing weights in one corner of the room 
and a nude gil who is ceremonially 
tarred, feathered and set to beating on a 


bongo drum. Finally, all the participants 
snake-dance out to the various bed- 
rooms, leaving Myra and the husband 
alone to make love again (graphically 


depicted in an enormous shadow play)— 
followed by a sequence in which the two 
shower together and scrub each other's 
backs. By now, the husband is certain 
that Myra is his, Helen, however, has 
other plans, She takes Myra tọ visit 
Corinna, one of the Lesbians who was 
at the orgy. Myra doesn't return. home 
that evening. As the narration informs 
us, “My with her throbbing heart, 
was led by the experienced Corinna 


мо a world of unnatural love.” Mark, 
troubled, walks along the dreary beach, 
where he suddenly meets Isa, a girl who 
had been seen earlier dancing at the 
might dub and at the orgy. Па invites 
him to her cottage, and he accepts. 

The husband, who has some inkl 
what is going on between My 
reproaches Helen for her part in it. 
te, Helen flounces out of the house 
and allows herself to be picked up by a 
bunch of teenage hoods, who make out 
with her on the back seat of their vir 
tage Buick. Also in spite, she later urges 
Mark to continue his affair with Ilsa 
for which her husband beats and s 
her. Hoping to convince Myra that her 
nd that she should. 
come away with him, the husband takes 
ber to Isa's cottage. There, in the attic, 
she finds Mark and Isa flagrante delicto. 
rocked, she runs away—not to the hus- 
band but to Corinna. Mark and Isa 
«Пу dress and join the husband in 
reh for Myra. The story catapults to 
its clim ild thunderstoi 
turned ashtray, a blazing curtain, then 
whole forest on fire. The narration tells 
us that Corinna's home is burning and 
that Myra is dead, while flames flicker 
against the faces of Mark, Ilsa and the 
husband. But Па and Mark have found 
true love; the husband has broken with 
the perfidious Helen, in the final 
shot he is left alone by the sea, remem- 
beri parted Myra. Unlike the 
s, where the narrator's voice 
nocks ar sex, in Lust and the 
Flesh—as in most of the pictures of this 
species—the narration y moralis- 
tic, even shocked by the sights we 
are seeing. Thus, besides saving money 
on synchronous sound, the narration be- 
comes in a very real sense a sop for the 
censors. Incidentally, the producers of 
Lust and the Flesh saved even more 
money by gathering up the outtakes and 
trims from their movie and stringing 
them together to make something called 
Banned, which did very well in the se 
ploitation market. 


hur 


x—a 


m, an over- 


nd 


heavy 


Concurrent with these, but carrying. 
their antifeminist theme a long step fur- 
ther, are the “kinkies,” a sick genre of 


fetishistic, sadomasochistic sex ploitation 
films in which the woman appears not 
merely as a perverse manipulator but 
a wanton, willful destroyer of men. Typi- 
cal of this genre is Sharon Winters, the 
heroine of Dave Friedman's A Smell of 
Honey, a Swallow of Brine, ^ girl who 
icks from turning men on, then 
n in with cries of “Rape!” 
n has one of her admirers sent to 
ther loses his job and still 
another, wild with frustration, attempts 


as 


gets her 


on; a 


to assault 1 is shot dead by 
her husband, But when a tough rock- 
n'roll singer laughs at her game and 


won 


beats her up, she turns prostitute. Far 
more sinister is the trio of handsome 
amazons who populare Russ Meyers 
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (originally 
titled The Leather Girls, and then, with 
complete accuracy, The Малі сэз). The 
film has barely gotten under way when. 
the psychopathic ringleader, at- 
d kills a young man just for the 
breaking his back with a com- 
bination of judo, akido and karate chops. 
“One of the most salable things,” Meyer 
stated at the time of its release, “is the 
fact that possibly for the first time on the 
screen, we will see a woman kill a man 
with her bare hands. The only way I can 
compete is to do things that the majors 
arc still not willing to do." In Pussycat, 
he succeeds nicely 

Dave Fricdman has contributed to this 
farout field an unholy trilogy of films— 
Blood Feast. Color Me Blood Red and 
Two Thousand Maniacs—in which nudi- 
ty is minimized, but violence runs riot: 
they're aptly called "ghoulies" in the 
trade. In Blood Feast, beautiful young 
virgins in flimsy white gowns arc ritual- 
istically carved up as human sacrifices by 

inister high priest, to be eaten by the 
members of а black-magic sect. So grue- 
some was the film that vomit bags were 
passed out at the theaters where it was 
shown—and not solely аз a box-office 
gimmick. Although such violence resulted 
in all three films’ being barred in Eng- 
land, there is an irony in the fact that, 
because of their minimal nudity, they 
played some 4000 engagements in the 
United States—ten times the bool 
that normally accrue 10 à movie ii 
the violent action is confined w a girl 


struggling out of her clothes. In the 
lingering puritanism of Am 
ences, sadism is still more acceptable 
than sex; when the weakening hold of the 
censors was finally broken in the mid- 
Sixties, the effect was nor to encourage a 
free and healthy approach to sex in 
cinema. Almost predictably, the sick- 
nesses engendered by decades of puri- 
ical repression boiled to the surface 
in the form of sadomasochistic screen 
entertainments, 

On the other hand, distasteful or not, 
the roughies, the kinkies and the ghoulies 
have already wrought a si ıt change 
in American film making. By accentuat- 
ing erotic realism both in their themes 
and in their weatment, they have moved 
notably closer to the Europeans, who 
accept sexuality as a motivating factor 
in human behavior. Unfortunately, be- 
cause of our inherent pui 
cause sex must be either apologized for 
or moralized about, our film makers are 
barred from probing and exploring its 
more natural aspects. Instead of the 
healthy humor of Divorce—Halian Style, 
we get the sanctimonious "tut, tuts" of 
the Lust and the Flesh narration, In- 
stead of the frank sexuality of The 
Lovers, we get the perverted, sadistic 
thrill-seekers of The Defilers and Faster, 
Pussycat! Kill! Kill! Instead of delicate 
dissections of a sick society, as in An- 
tonioni's La Nolte or in Fellini's La 
Dolce Vita, we get the “dir 
houlies" and the “Mondos' 
Sex 15 associated with sadomasochism, 
fetishism, flagellation, Lesbianism and 
orgiastic encounters of the most degrad- 
ing kind. Like a dog lapping its vomit, 


anism, bc- 


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our puritanism seems to feed upon the 
very thing it has rejected. 

It is this same puritanism 
counts for much of the difficulty 0 
nudies and their descendants today en- 
counter in the courts. Although the Su- 
preme Court ruled, as carly as 1957 
(Roth ws. U.S), that a work might be 
termed obscene only if it could be 
proved that it was “utterly without re- 
deeming social importance," and in 1964 
(Jacobellis us. Ohio) the test of "custom- 
ary limits of ador” was redefined to 
mean standards acceptable to the nation 
s whole; nevertheless, when films 
such as Sexus or Mondo Freudo are 
hauled into court by the police or by a. 
publicity-conscious district attorney, lo- 
cal juries rarely fail to convict. Invaria- 
bly, on an appeal. in which the merits of 
the case are re-examined by a judge 
purely in terms of law, the jury's deci- 
sion is promptly reversed; but, as m 
of the producers of these films are qu 
10 point out, they operate on such a nar- 
row margin of profit that the expenses of 
fighting through to a favorable decision 
are often. prohibitive. As a nudie pro- 
ducer once stated bitterly but factually, 
“In opposing censorship, you can't faîl 
if you have enough money to go to court.” 

It isn’t always quite that simple, how- 
ever. Robert Cresse, the youthful head 
of Olympic International, one of the 
largest producers and distributors of sex 
pk n movies in this country, recently 
spoke of a noratypieal situation that 
arose in Philadelphia involving one of his 
pictures, The House on Bare Mountain. 
“It's a silly little comedy.” Cresse said, 
“totally innocuous, A sexual act never 
s place in the film. You couldn't con- 
ceivably find anything obscene in it. But 
we were arrested three weeks before 
election, along with many of the book- 
dealers and newsstand dealers in Phila- 
delphia. Now, obviously, they can't v. 
the case. so they don’t want to go 


ийа. They have come to us repeatedly 


and said they'll drop the case if we will 
promise not to play the picture in Phila- 
delphia, Legally, they can't do that, but 
that's their stand at the moment. We just 


can't get into а courtroom in Philadel- 
phia. Its now been in the court for over 
two years, but we haven't been up for 
trial yet and they will not set a date. 


Nor did they 
mis 


- The case was ultimately dis- 
d, but with the proviso that the film 
would Ph 

Producers’ lives are further compli 
ed by the fact that standards of accepta- 
bility vary widely from community to 
v. What can be shown freely 
in one community may be banned in an- 
other, severcly cut in yet another. As 
Lee Frost, the director of The Defilers 
ained in 1966, "In New York City, 
we can say filthy words on the screen: 
we can't say them in L.A. In L 
show bare bosoms on the scre 


never be shown in 


commun 


can't show them in New York. So there 
is a jagged edge as to what we can and 
cannot do throughout the United States; 
and as a national distributor, we must 
constantly be aware of this,” New York- 
ers arc aware of it in а curious way. 
While the features are cut, the trailers 
are not; and following a picture that has 
discreetly avoided so much 
tion of erotic activity, 
to be treated to tantalizing coming at- 
tractions filled with nudity that will be 
denied them the following week. For ex- 
ample, in the trailer for One Naked 
Night, a Lesbian sequence is shown in 
considerable detail. Two girls kiss on the 
lips, then one kisses the naked breasts 
and stomach of the other. In the film. 
itself, however, the scene ends before 
even the first kiss—at least in New York. 
Actually. by 1967, even this has begun 
to change somewhat. Bec of the 
competition, a number of the New York 
theaters are now risking police action by 
showing nudity in their features as well 
as in their trailers; while in such Upstate 
New York communi as Buffalo and 
ps had come off com- 
pletely soon after the Supreme Court 
declared. New York's State Board of Gen- 
sors illegal. In Chicago, still wrestling 
with its municipal censor board, such 
fil s Rent A Girl and Body of a Fe- 
male are under permanent injunction 
against exhibition in that city (is of this 
writing), although both 1 ed 
New York 
terference. But staid Philadelphia, whose 
thrillsecking citizens formerly had to 
hop across the river to Camden for any- 
thing steamier than a Walt Disney movie, 
is now considered one of the most wide- 
open towns in the country as far as 
the sexploitation films ате concerned— 
unless there is an election in the offing. 
nother problem that faces the pro- 
ducers and exhibitors of sex films is that 
of advertising. All are agreed that a lurid 
title is the best possible come-on for their 
wares (and some have even admitted 
that the more lurid the title, the tamer 
the merchandise). Bur in some cities, 
such as Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Chi 
cago, Detroit and Cleveland, the news- 
papers have refused to accept ads that 
cither show or imply nudity. Theaters 
merely insert their telephone numbers and 
invite prospective patrons to phone in 
formation. Lobby displays, 
ales” per 
lso come under attack— 
s and church 
young will be 


apt 


5 


particularly 
groups who fear tha 


or the mud of a catch phrase. Thus, 
The Dirty Girls, originally blurbed as 
“The Movie That Goes Too Far, 
tually appeared on New York marquees 
with the slogan “You've Never 
thing Like It Before.” And nudi 
managers work overtime pai 


even- 


provised bras and panties on posters of 
naked girls, or gluing nickel-sized pasties 
over their nipples. The result, not sur- 
prisingly, i: the posters look more 
lurid and suggestive than ever before. In 
some areas, the gaudy lobby displays have 
ed altogether, replaced by ob- 
viously hand-lettered signs describing, in 
the piquant argot of old-time burlesques 
candy butchers, the forbid- 
s to be found on the inside. 
But the most pressing problem that 
faces the sexploitation people is where 
they can go from here. If Carroll T, 
Jane Fonda and Elizabeth Taylor can be 
seen in the buff in well-made, glamor- 
ously mounted productions, who will pay 
two dollars to look at some anonymous 
cuties prancing about in pictures that are 
wretchedly filmed and суеп more shod- 
dily written? Nor is the market for sad- 
ism and violence wholly cornered by the 
sexploiters, as the Bond and Flint pic 
tures remind us. Again, the major studios 
have the resources and facilities to hope- 
lessly outclass their pinchpenny rivals. 
None of the nudie producers—a remark- 
ably conservative and knowledgeable 
group—has the slightest intention of 
taking the ultimate step and showing 
intercourse on the screen. Not only would 
that eliminate their already circumscribed 
market by inviting instant police action 
but, as more than one producer has put 
it, thei tures would soon become as 
boring as a glut of straight stag reels. 
What seems to be happening now is a 
refinement of quality. Within the past 
few months, Galia arrived here from 
France—an unabashedly sexy film about 
a girl with no inhibitions about taking 
off her clothes or taking over 
woman's husband. Well directed, 
somely produced and with an arrestin 
performance by slender Mireille Darc, it 
went straight to the are houses. At about 
the same time, a tu 
co-production, 4, a Woman, ма 
and equally uninhibited Essy 
Persson, rived on these shores. 
This lumbering tale of a girl who much 
prefers sex to ma went primarily 
to the far more limited sexploitation 
market. Movies, like water, seek their 
own level. The line between the conv 


also a 


а, 


tional movie and the nudie, between the 
arthouse film and the exploitation pic- 
ture, is rapidly disa It is no 


longer so much a question of con 
but of. quality. 
makers of sex movies will probably have 
to get beuer, not bawdier. 


For sheer survi 


In their next installment of “The His- 
tory of Sex in Cinema,” authors Knight 
and Alpert report on a film phenomenon 
that has been more frequently whispered 
about than written about: stag films. 


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“I just hope He doesn’t find out about the oranges... P 


IT'S NOT FAR, 


Send Them By Wire.” Oh, Christ, Ken- 
neth whispered, and knocked again. He 
put the box behind him and stared at 
the gray door. In a moment he knocked 
again. 

At last the door opened slowly upor 
bright, ruddy, small, grinning ma 
thin gray hair. He was dressed i 
pant, a white shirt, an unbuttoned vest 
and muddy brogans, He spoke even 
before the door was fully open. 

I'm sorry to keep you waitin,” he 
1, “but my wife is sick and I was just 
givin her her medicine.” The door w 
fully open now, and the man stood there 
Dlinking in the light, gazing up at Кеп 
ieth's face, with a joyful glow shining in 
his own, "She's got a virus, don't seem to 
respond to the medicine, The doctor 
don't know what it is. All doctors know 
is give pills and send bills, She says it's 
livin in the cemetery all the time. It 
finally got to her. But I never minded. At 
least our neighbors are quiet. Can I help 
you 

“I wish to visit the grave of Laura 
Webster,” Kenneth said. He coughed 
nd repeated, “Laura Webster. Can you 
tell me the way? 

“Come on in,” the caretaker said, step- 
ping back with a small bow and an open- 
palmed flourish. “I'll look her up.” 

He led the way into the parlor and 
went to a filing cabinet in a corner. The 
room was as transplanted European as 
the chapel. One was remi 
houses and people 
zac. It was small and papered 
sign of faded roses; the air was dead, 
still and hot; and the furniture dark, 
large, bulky and unused. 

What that name again?” the 
keeper asked. Told the name once more, 
he repeated it in a whisper and began a 
slow study of cards in an open drawei 

Kenneth was unprepared for the 
sound that came now from another 
room. He started and looked about him 
in dismay. 

“George,” a 
"George! 

Her voice was almost a bellow. She 
didn’t sound sick. George shrugged. His 
wife bellowed, almost, again, and he 
smiled and shouted, flinging his head 
2 a neighing horse, “All right, just a 
minute, honey . . . I used to know 


woman had called. 


where everything was," he went on, 
turning one card, then the next. “But 
there’s so many now, and so many new 


areas. The city’s growing and the ceme- 
tery has to grow, too." He turned a card. 
“You don’t get one without the other. 
They added a whole acre just last year. 
Three acres added in five years.” He 
turned a card. "Need a computer. Punch 
button, out hops the card, But the trus- 
tees'd never stand for the expense. Hard 
enough to get em to keep the plumbin 


(continued from page 93) 


repaired.” He turned a card. 
ter the pipes froze and busted, 
the spring the people visitin thei 
had to carry water from the chapel for the 
flowers and shrubs. Trustees didn't have 
em fixed until July. By then the rains 
had come, and people didn't need to carry 
water. That's life. Life in the cemetery. 

He turned another card. 

"But ] must say, the tenants never 
complain about the plumbin or hold 
noisy parties on Saturday night.” 
George.” shouted his wife again. 
“George, I need you. I can't wait. 

“Just a minute, honey,” he shouted, 
and added in a whisper, with a grin of 
tiumph, "So that’s what she wants. 
Can't wait. Just can’t wait. Well, any- 
thing can wait. You live in a cemetery 
long enough, you learn that, if you don't. 
learn nothin else. They wait. They ain't 
goin nowhere. Neither is she. But she 
can’t wait. She's gettin childish. Just like 
a kid. Wants attention all the timc. I re- 
member when she was all laughin, and 
light as а feather, and pretty and frisky 
as a kitten. You ought to sce her now.” 

He spoke without sentiment, rather 
with sour regret, as if he had been 
robbed, His fingers were short and 
blunted, the fingernails thick and dark as 
the shell of a turtle. He moved the cards 
as if he had never before attempted such 
a task. Kenneth frowned and shifted 
upon his feet. “You know our layout?" 
asked the keeper. 

Kenneth shook his head. He watched 
the cards turn in the old man’s fingei 
with an insane sort of lethargy that was 
subaqueous, a tranced, unwilled drifting, 
He frowned and looked away. 

“Its so large, can't expect you to 
Know,” the caretaker said. "Sometimes 1 
ave to guide even the undertakers to 
the plots. They used to have horses. The 
horses knew the way.” 

Kenneth straightened, throwing his 
head back; his lips parted and his head 
turned, as if he were listening for a 
small, remote sound. He looked straight 
and hard at the old man. His face 
scemed exposed and nude, it was pale 
and drawn "What did you he 
whispered. “What did you say?” 

The keeper stared at him. “What's the 
matter, 
right” 

Kenneth did not explain. He stood 
ng. a little stooped and a little older 
n before. The keeper shrugged and 
turned back to the cards. "I remember 
the horses," he said. "My old father w 
here before me and raised me in thi 
very house. 1 saw the horses and the 
hearses. A matched pair of blacks, pull- 
ng a black hearse with big glass win- 
dows and black draperies and tassels. 
The horses could smell the new grave. 
They could smell that raw earth and go 


mani 


straight to it. Don’t see no Laura 
Webster here.” 

"Oh, my God,” Kenneth whispered, 
shaking his head. “I've given you her 
maiden name. I mean Laura Webster 
MacLeish. Mrs. Albert. MacLeish. 

Gcorge dropped the cards into the 
drawer and turned slowly, as if on 
pivot. His eyebrows ascended into hi 
forehend and then descended, and his 
pale-blue eyes narrowed. “Aha,” he said, 
“I sec." He turned back to the cabinet 
and opened another drawer. His hand 
fell into it. It seemed empty. 

“You a relative?" he asked, 
the drawer. "A friend?’ 

I was her lover. 

Kenneth's lips s 
speal 

“Friend of the family? You know the 
husband?—the widower?” 

Lover—widower—words with the tex 
ture of rotted velvet and the odor of 
sachet and closed parlors. "I was а 
friend,” Kenneth said at last. "An old 
friend. I was away when she died. I wish 
to pay my respects. My name is Kenneth 
Stuart. If there's any problem of iden- 
ation . . ." He reached to the inside 
of his coat. 

“Kenneth Stuart,” George said, mus- 
ing. “Kenneth Stuart. No. Never mind 
the callin card. You Took safe enough 

Out of the drawer, at last, he drew a 
white card and looked down upon it in 
profound study. Kenneth frowned and 
stepped forward. “Why'd you have it 
that drawer?” he asked. “Why was 
isolated?” 

“Oh, that. Well, I had to look it up 
for some people the other day. І just 
dropped it back in here and happened 
to remember where I put it, soon as you 
said the right name," The keeper was 
king hastily, and now hastily began 
^g directions, with movements of his 
nds and head. The driveways were 
named and the cemetery was laid out in 
a grid, like a city. It wasn't far. You 
couldn't miss it. But some of the dri 
ways curved about the hills, and east- 
west lines sometimes crossed, and so did 
north-south lines. Sometimes it was 
tricky, finding your 

“George, George,” the woman cried, 
pleading and despairing, as Kenneth 
closed the door behind him. 


aring into 


ed, but he did not 


The driveways were cobblestoned. If 
you listened, with half-closed eyes and a 
knowing car, you could hear the iron 
horseshoes and the ironbound wheels 
upon the stones, and the muted cries of 
the drivers, and smell the leather of the 
harness and the warm musk of the 
horses, and sce, blurred and misted and 
then suddenly clear, the black tassels 
swinging from the furled black draperies 
beyond the windows. The horses knew 
the way. He shook his head. He had 
never known the old funerals. 

A black car rose out of the rim of 


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behind him. Kenneth idly watched 
its idling approach and was reminded of 
is Mowing through the cornfield. It 
tremendous glistening car, a lim 
; driven by a chauffeur wearing a 
visored cap. It swayed upon the tums 
and the cobblestones, almost lugubrious, 
not quite: really with the dignity and the 
poise of a very rich, very large dowager 
walking her poodle. It sank out of sight 
i whale and then rose and 
approached once morc, growing. pur 
md bigeyed. Behind the driver Ken. 
saw a white oval beneath a black 
bowler har—tha, and nothing more 
The faces did not turn to look at the man 
beside the road. The men went past like 
German generals on parade, or on trial 
"The car ascended the next hill and sank 
again from sight beyond 
Kenneth walked on, looking at the 
names of streets, which appeared on 
small iron rectangles at the intersec- 
tions. "The names, he realized, repeated 
the names on the military tombstones: 
Heath to Jerni zan to Johnson, 
Johnson to Abernathy. His destination 
was Abernathy and Ayers: You couldn't 


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He himself now crested the next hill 
The black car stood a respectful distance 
down the hill from its master, who had 
‘lighted and seated himself upon a 
tomb. He rested there sidesaddle, so to 
speak, his left foot upon the ground, his 
right leg bent at the edge of the stone, 
his right foot dangling. His hands were 
at rest in his Jap, and his turned face, 
beneath the black bowler, gazed cast- 
ward, away from the approaching stran- 

ger. 

Kenneth followed Abernathy 10 Ayers 
and there found a great shaft of granite 
Cuervo Created bearing the single name MacLeish, He 
hesitated, and realized that he was hum- 
The M >. ming, and that throat and tongue were 
shaping unutered words. The horse 
knows the way To carry the sleigh. He 
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the he was seeking. He sıra 
Margarita... 
Kenneth realized. now, with shock and 
== THERE 18, NO SUBSTITUTE FOR ters dim and weathered. The man stared 
cax, without moving. 
TEQUILA Now what do I do? Kenneth asked 
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of the older ones marking the graves 
Kenneth read names and dates engraved 

d looked about him. The grave 

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as quietly and quickly as possible. Yet— 
yet what if he were 2 relative? How 
would Kenneth identify himself. if they 
should speak? The situation, Kenneth 
knew, might contain a trace of irony. of 
mor. The man sat as still as 
the stone that supported him. Kenneth 
turned his back and faced the grave he 
had come to decorate. How did one 
place a rose upon a grave? Was there 
some rite or ritual, in an ancient missal 
somewhere, intended for his use just 
now? For a moment he forced his atten- 
tion upon the mound of grass at his feet; 
he gazed at single blades, one after the 
other. They were all blunted by recent 
cutting, and faintly browned, In 
stant he was overwhelmed by cold and 
darkness. He gripped the white box and 


n in 


bowed his head. This was his terrible, 
awesome moment of realization. Yet 
there could be no realization at all. Not 


by the most fierce effort of will could he 
knowledge death. He felt a collapse, a 
total emptying. Here was nothing. She 
nothing. He was nothing. Yet they 

immortal. They had to be. He 
would go now. He stepped back, the 
white box in his fingers. He had forgot- 
ten it. He fumbled with the gold cord. 
The man spoke. 

Kenneth whirled about. 

The man was standing, his hands in 
the pockets of his topcoat. “I didn't know 
who you would be,” he said, “but I knew 
you'd come, someday, and I'd know you. 
You kept me waiting a long time, 
Kenneth Stuart.” 

He was а stout man, with the stout 
ness of Scotch whisky and good red 
He wore splendid shoes and cloth: 
His chin rested comfortably in a sec 
ond chin, above a white shirt and 2 tie of 
dark blue. His cheeks were rounded and 
ruddy, his hair black. His eyes, shad 
owed by the rolled hatbrim, were dark, 
narrow and cold with loathing. His voice 
had trembled, wrathful but controlled. 

To this man, and to this voice, Ken 
neth responded stupidly, out of chilled 
silence, “What did you say?” 

"E postponed things, waiting for you. 
‘Trips, business deals, parties, everything. 
First I had to find you. No. First you had 


we 


| the devil are you talking 
about?” 

“Now you've found me, and I'm going 
to kill you.” 

Kenneth looked down, reflexively, at 
the bulge of the right hand in the 
pocket. Did it bulge more than the lelt 
Perhaps it did. He looked about. Nobody 
was in sight. Even the chauffe 
vanished. He and this maj 
were alone in the cemetery, in the uni- 
verse. Kenneth turned back to him. “For 
God's sake,” he asked, "what're you 
chattering about?" 

You know what I'm chattering 
about,” the man said, his face growing 
more flushed, his voice rising. “You 


“Surely, 
than 


know Tm 
about 

Kenneth stepped back and realized 
with panic that he was about to put 
foot upon the grave. He leaped forward, 
holding the box before him. He lowered 
it, acknowledging what he would have 
denied. if he could. He had never known 
her husband; they had never discussed 


precisely what cliauering 


“When I kill you,” the man continued. 
“you'll fall across her grave Your 
blood'll spill into her dust. You'll enter 
her again. Your last act of coition. But 


she won't ‘know, and you won't know. 
strange sort 


и be a of fornication, 
won't it? The fornication of the dead 

Kenneth lowered his head and glared 
at the man's mockery and ra 
right, all right, you son of a bitch.” he 
"You paid the keeper to call w 
came. Did that service come with the 
price of the funeral?” 

The man did not answer. But Kenneth 
no longer cared. He was tired. The man 
should get it over with. whatever it was 
to be, The day had darkened and 
chilled. The sun shone weak and yellow 
beyond the limbs of the oaks. “All right, 
Kenneth said, “what do you want me to 
do? What are you about?” 

"Im going to be married," the man 
said, shouting again. the echoes slapping 
them like hands. “Does that shock you? 
Perhaps you think I'm being unfaithful. 


said. 


Mrs. Farnsworth, you can do better 
'cock-a-doodle-doo' 1’ 


Is that what you thought? But before I 
married again, I had to see you. Now 
open your box. Take out your rose. Place 


па you'll shoot me 
Vould it mater how 
when?” 

The man lowered the revolver to his 
side. Kenneth, not altogether in obedi- 
ence or fear, but with slow 
growing knowledge of fate 
untied the gold string. removed it and 
dropped it to the green gras. His fingers 
drew the rose from the white tissue pa- 
per. He dropped the paper and the bo: 
The rose trembled and swayed on its 
stem. Kenneth looked at the revolver 
n and then into the man’s eyes. 
Nothing moved or changed, He turned 
his back, stepped to the edge of the 
grave, bent over and laid the rose upon 
it. He straightened and waited, feeling 
himself diminish and bend. If this was to. 
be ir. th let it be, "There was a sort of. 
terror, but it was cold. remote and alb- 
stract. He found himself forgetting it, 
drifting away from it and remembering 
the woman Laura Webster. He could no 
longer remember her face. He bowed his 
head, This was the fearsome loss. He re- 
membered her thighs and her loins, He 
suddenly wanted her again, savagely. 
and he cried aloud. 

"Yes," the man said, "a reaction, I'd 
thought you were one of the cold ones. 
But nobody is really cold. The others 


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194 


behaved a little differently. One of them 
took a look at my gun and bolted." 
Kenneth whirled. The man backed 
away a step; the revolver was aimed 
again. "Watch it, Stuart. don't move,” he 
said. "I'm the one who's going to do the 
killing here." The flesh at his eyes was 
gathered inward, toward ike bridge of 
his nose, and the lids were low. but the 
eyes themselves glittered with a killer’ 
amusement. “He ran, stumbling and fall 
ing over graves and stones, and I stood 
here and laughed like hell. I let him go 
He wasn't worth killing. Another one— 
yes, Stuart, and stay where you are 
Another one fainted. He didn't even fall 
on her grave. He fell on the base of that 


tombstone there. the tombstone of her 


his forehead. I 


motherinlaw. He cut 
left him bleeding there. 

“I don't believe you. 
don't believe a goddamn word of it. 
The third one got down on his knees 
and begged for his life. 

“You're lying. | know you're lying, 
and you know I know. So shut up, shut 
up!” 

"Somehow mistresses are unfaithful to 
their lovers only if they take other lovers, 
but not if they sleep with their hus- 
bands. You'd never be jealous of a mere 
husband, now, would you? Bur another 
lover! Think about that, Stuart." 

Kenneth swallowed; his throat was so 
dry that it ached. He remembered her 
face now: fair, cool and dreaming, His 
fingers trembled and his eyelids were 
heavy. He felt stooped and old 

“Stop it,” he said. “Just stop it. You're 


Kenneth said. “I 


trying lo goad me into attacking you. 
You want to plead self-defense. Can't 
you do it clean and quick, without an 
alibi? If you weren't a coward, you 
could.” 

The man spoke now of another mat- 
ter, in a changed voice. He seemed un- 
easy and perhaps a little hopeful; a note 


of pleading сере imo his tone. The 
revolver dangled loosely in his stout 
fingers. “Maybe you cin explain this to 
me,” he said. "She was terribly quiet 
during the last days. Still and silent, on 
her back, like a corpse. But once, on the 
nexttodhedast day, she said very di 
tinctly and slowly, ‘It’s not far, but I 
don't know the way.’ She never moved 
or spoke again. Whatd she mean, 
Kenneth Stuar 

Kenneth shook his head. 

"She never had any religion, so far as 
I know. So it must have meant some- 
thing else. That's all I want of you. Per- 
haps not this at all." The man raised the 


revolver and let it fall “What'd she 
mean? What?” 
Kenneth remembered the soi well 


enough. Her voice was untrained, but 
true and rather sweet. In the snow one 
evening they had sung what words they 
could remember, and hummed the rest 
It was just an old chestnut, a sentimental 
song that celebrated a day that never 
was. It had no importance; yet now it 
did, "I don't know why she said that," he 
told the man. 

"You must know. 

: y thu? How would 1 


The man stirred and licked his lips. 


His eyes were troubled and his face had 
ry and dark in the darkening 
“Because,” he began, and swal- 
lowed and wet his lips with his tongue 
"Because if а man’s to be cuckolded, he 
wants it to be by a real man, a man wor- 
thy of his woman and his hatred. You're 
the only worthy one. The only one worth 
killing. in he barked once in laugh- 
ter. “You'll appreciate the irony, I'm sure. 
But never mind. You must have been the 
real one—her real one. The others were 
accidents, I'm sure, passers-by, pickups, 
nothings. So you must know why she 
what she did. ‘Its not far, but I 
don’t know the way.” 

Kenneth looked away. He felt a flush 
of pleasure. Had there been others? He 
did not know. But if there had been, it 
was a joy to be the real one, her real one. 
Perhaps he could be kind to this man, 
without harm, now that he had made his 
confession. “There was a song," Kenneth 
said, feeling shy and a little absurd. “We 
tried to remember the words. “Phe horse 
knows the way/To carry the sleigh, 
Through the white and drifted snow — 
that was about all we could manage. We 
sang it and hummed it. That was all. 

The man himself hummed a bar or 
two, but scowled and shook his head 
he said, di 
Te ca 


can't be thar simple," 
pointed and perhaps insulted. 
be. 


Kenneth turned. away again, in em 
barrassment, and disgust. 
1 things could agitate large 
large viciories could be won 
with what small arms. He remembered 
the caretaker's triumph over his wife. He 
vanquished her at last simply by ignor- 
ing her. Kenneth smiled. H 
had defeated this man, at 
song that children sing in a 
ys. He heard a movement and 
turned back. The man was striding away 
down the hill, with long. hurried steps. 
toward the car. His hands were empty. 
The chauffeur held the back door open. 
The man reached it, put one foot in, but 
withdrew it and whirled about 
Kenneth once more. His сошиена 
quite shadowed, but Kenneth 
thought he saw the lips twisted and the 


sympathy 


What 


he. 
fore holid: 


to face 


m 


was 


teeth bared. 
think I'm 
you?” he shouted, 
echoes slapping about them again. 
thought I was the husband all the time, 
didn’t you? Well, I may have been, or 1 
may not have been. You'll never know. 

He dived into the The door 
dosed. In a moment the car purred 
away, with its slow dowager swayings 
upon the cobblestones, Kenneth watched 
it sink once more beyond the rim of 


canh, 
Ba 


don't 
the 
‘You 


the husband, 
back, 


“You 


his hcad 


car. 


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work on J. L. She was tall and slim and 
very darkly elegant, and J. L. was a 
rabbit to her cobra. 

ас son of a bitch,” 
himself as they drove home. 

During the next weeks, J. L. con 
tinued his leisurely pace of work, but 
Lenore was no longer coming into town. 
One afternoon in the corridor, Grafion 
passed Falltone's open door and saw 
him chatting with F 
Well worth seeing, 

Marcia and I saw it last night. She's 
bored up in the country; but this way. 
when she comes in, we can have a night 
or two on the town each week. 
at son of a bitch," Grafton said 
knowing that it was 
talemate. When, a week or so later, 
. abruptly reverted to his normal 
lengthy office hours, Grafton was sure 
of it. 

It was still summer, but it was coming 
to an end, and sometimes the nights 
were chilly without the heat on. Grafion 
stared morosely into his fifth martini, not 
wanting to look at his wife in her 
backless red dress. 

m cold, How 
get me that stole- 
don't want to catch. а cold. 

“Don't want to catch a cold." 
icked her savagely, his voice thick 


he said to 


allstone said. 


Vill you 
І 


get pneumonia, for all I care. 

She looked at him coolly and specula 
tively for a moment, as if she were exam: 
a new form of life, but she said 
He could see the slight, almost 
imperceptible smile as she turned and 
left the room. And then Howard Grafton 
knew that the vice presidency was not 
just something he wanted very badly, 
but something he would have 10 have 
ng else left to 


because there was noth 


xt day after work, he stopped 
off at the Bilimore bar and began drink- 
ing seriously. He did not go home that 
night, but stayed in a hotel. He 
to work the next morning and his head 
throbbed all day. It was something to 
him, but not enough, to observe that 
Weatherby Fallstone had an equally bad 
hangover. 

That night at home, Grafton shut him 
self up in the library with a filth of 
Scotch and tried to think. He would go 
to Fallstone and put it to him suaight: 
They would toss a coin and the loser 
would resign from J. L. Girton and Asso 
cites. Like hell, he thought; no deal 
with that dishonest bastard! He would 
hive private detectives and get a dossier 
on Fallstone and give it to J. L. It took 
him 30 seconds to get rid of that idea— 
he didn't have the money; J. L. might 


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body had heard of either of them. He 
could not kill Fallstone himself, he didn't 
know how, and he was afraid. He didn't 
know how to hire someone to do it, and 
he was afraid of that, too. At the end of 
three quarters of the bottle, he knew 
that there was nothing he could do but 
sweat it out. 

He was sweating even more after the 
Friday-morning think meeting. Fallstone 
had been praised by J. L. no less than. 
three times, while one of Gralton's pet 
schemes had been dismissed as "not 
thought out yet.” He had also been re- 
buked by J. L. for talking too long, for 
Tupting Fallstone and finally for i 
When J. L.'s secretary buzzed 
him early in the afternoon, h 
nd there was a gi 
stomach, He chewed three ant 
ables quickly and went into J. L's 

office. 
"Oh, Howie,” J. L. said, "you know 
: А : 7 that gadget you have, the onc that 
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its long, long life. They call it the Antler Zenith) plus dU e NS 
ton thought as he drove tow: 
country place the next even 
was next to him, infinitely desirable in 
cut green satin that matched her 
; but the soda-water machine was on 
between them like a drawn 
d. She looked straight ahead. When 
he spoke, she answered him briefly and 
politely; but she never spoke first. 

I have an ulcer, Grafton thought; 1 am 
beginning to drink too much; my wife 
hates me; and I am going to lose my job, 
because I am going to have to quit when 
they choose Fallstone. 1 can't stand 
much morc of this, PH have to do 
something. 

It did not help matters that they ar- 
rived simultaneously with the Fallstones. 
He clapped a hand sincerely wo Fall- 
stone's shoulder and it was then he saw 
the nervous tic. as Fallstone's left. check 
jumped as if it had its own life. Behind 
the two women, having uttered litile 
depositing kisses 
a fraction of an inch away from cach 
other's checks. Grafton embraced } 
Fallstone, careful not to crush her dress. 
When he laid his cheek against hers, he 
was surprised at the flush of heat. As the 
Fallstones went on ahead of him, he no- 
ticed how polite they were to cach other 
—almost as polite as Lenore and myself, 
he thought, with a surge of hope, 

It was only alter the cocktails and the 
buffet that Grafton, going up to the bar 


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for his second after-dinner highball, 
noticed the genial, twinkling little man 
in the outrageous tartan jacket and the 
striped shirt and the clashing tie. 

“Wonderful party,” the little man said. 
“] should get out more often. Have you 
known Mr. Girton long, Mr?" 

"Grafton. I'm in J. L.’s firm, Mr?" 

“Dee, Dr. Dee. Doctor of letters, that 
is, sacred and profane. 

The little man emitted a series of 
high-pitched whinnies. 

"Sacred and profane,” he repeated. “A 


litle joke of mine—because of my 
business." 
“What's that?" Grafton asked. Some- 


how, without his being aware of it, Dr. 
Dee had propelled him out a side door 
onto the large patio by the swimming 
pool. 

“A lile store for religious articles— 
books. pictures, icons, whatever you 
wani 

“Where does the ‘profane’ come in?” 

Dr. Dee lowered his voice. 

As you know, Mr. Grafton, there are 
many sorts of religions, and who are we 
to say which is the right onc? Jf a cus- 
tomer wants a mandrake root. or a little 
bag to wear around his neck, well, who 
m 1 to say him nay? He can get it in the 
back room. Or perhaps he may believe 
that I can help him get the girl he wants, 
with a love potion; or possibly he may 
desire me to destroy an enemy. 1 do not 
tell him it will work—it is against the 
law for me to say that—but if he wishes 
to believe it will work, then I will sell it 
to him in the back room." 

“Are they expensive?” 

“The religious books? No, they are 
very reasonably priced. 

“I mean the others." 

“They are quite expensive. But then, I 
do not ask for payment at the time of 
sale. Only later, when the customer is 


"Don't you have trouble collecting?” 
ton. If the cus 
tomer is satisfied, then he will believe in 
me. He would not want to make me wait 
for my money.” 

“Dr. Dee,” Grafton said, “as you 
know, I am in advertising. I'm interested 
in some of your ideas, campaignwise, 
that is. Perhaps we could get together 


“Very litle, Mr. G 


"My card, Mr. Grafton. 1 am open 
But not Monday after- 
noon ii . I fear. I have 
an appointment with my bootmak 

“A nuisance,” the litle man went on, 
"but I have a slight pedal malformation, 
and my shoes must be made to order. 
Believe me, Mr. Grafton, you have no 
idea what the man charges, One would 
do better going barefoot. 

Grafton glanced down at Dee's shoes. 
They were high, black and gleamingly 
polished, and small, almost tiny. There 
was something odd about their shape, 


and in a second, Grafton realized what 
was wrong with them: They were almost. 
as wide as they were long; yet despite 
this, one got an idea that distorted as 
they were, they were still somehow 
padded out. Poor devil, he thought; it 
must be hell walking on those things, 
and yet he keeps smiling. 

“Thank you, Dr. Dec," Grafton said, 
taking the card. “Perhaps I'll wy you 
later in the week. It’s been a pleasure 
mecting you.” 

“Servus, Mr. Grafton." 

Later, when they went home, Grafton 
was not very sober. Lenore had to drive. 
AJl the way home, Grafton let his head 
rest on the back of the seat. feeling a 
faint spinning and dizziness and an odd 
air of detachment. Despite the amount 
he had drunk, he slept very badly, too 
furzy to sort out dreams from thoughts. 
One moment, Dr. Dee was handing him 
a large golden key, while Lenore and 
J-L. Girton applauded; the next moment, 
he was awake and sweating and run 
ning over his anemic checking account, 
"To hell with it, he thought; nobody can 
do anything like that. But he said there 
was no charge unless it worked. Maybe 
Гуе heard of some screwy 
g to lose, I've tried every- 
thing else, If it failed, I wouldn't be out 
anything; and if it worked, it would be 
worth whatever he wanted to charge. 
Then he was asleep again, but in the 
split second in which he passed from 
wakefulness to sleep, he had made a 
decision. 

Grafton was tied up wi 
day Monday, but Tuesday morning he 
took the Lexington. Avenue subway up- 
town and walked over to Third. Dr. 
Dee's shop was in the middle of the 
block, flanked by two large antique 
stores. The display window was full of 
Bibles, religious paintings, icons and cru- 
cifixes. At one corner was the inscription, 
in gilt gothic, “Religious articles Dr. John 
Dee.” and below it, the street number. 

The store was well patronized, but 
a derk who looked like a spoiled 
priest came forward and greeted him 
unctuously. 

“Is Dr, Dee in? He asked me to call 

“Please follow me. Mr. Grafton.” 

Grafton looked at him suspiciously. 

“The name,” the clerk said, “oh, that 
was quite easy. Very few customers ask 
to see Dr. Dee personally, and he had 
told us yesterday that a Mr. Grafton 
might be dropping in.” 

Dr. Dee's office was on the second 
floor, facing the street. Grafton did not 
quite know what he had been expecting 

a stuffed crocodile on the wall, per- 
haps: skeletons dangling; a cone-shaped 
black hat with silver stars on it. But the 
office was actually similar to his own, 
though rather larger. 

Dr. Dee bounced from his chair, wi 


h 


his eyes twinkling, and shook Grafton's 
hand vigorously. 

"Dec-lighted," he said, giggling. “Dee- 
lighted, a little joke of mine, you 
get the play on words. But now, Mr. 
Grafton, to business, I know you are a 
busy man. Like an old friend of minc i 
New England. He used to have a sign 
over his desk, TIME Is MONEY: STATE 
YOUR BUSINESS. 1, alas, am far too discur- 
I fear. But sit down, Mr. Grafton, 
down.” 

Grafton lowered himself carefully into 
the Eames chair. 

“Dr. Dee," he said, slowly and care- 
fully, "suppose there were two men. 
each of them with a chance at a big job." 
What a shame" Dr. Dee sa 
“Heartbreak, jealousy, old friendships 
broken, insomnia, ulcers, bitter rivalry. 
What I would give to avoid such 
conflicts, Mr. Grafton, but I seem to see 
so many of them in my business.” 

"Could you fix it, do you have 
thing that would fis 
wouldn't get the job?" 

Dr. Dee reached into a drawer of his 
executive's desk and pulled ош a tiny bot- 
tle full of a clear liquid, Instead of a cork, 
it had a medicine dropper attached. 

Grafton stared at horror. 
that," he said quickly. 
“Ir doesn't have to be that. I just want to 
knock him out of the running. < 
thing that will make him look bad, say 
crazy things, make a fool of himself ar 
suff meetings. Cut his own throat— 
figuratively, I mean,” he added quickly 

You for someth that will 
guarantee that Weatherb: 
not get the vice presidency whe: 
Smith retires,” Dr. Dee said. “Do not be 
surprised, Mr. Grafton. I always think i 
better to lay our cards on the table 


ny- 
it so that one person 


wish 


"How do you know it's Fallstone?’ 
Grafton asked suspiciously. 

“My dear Mr. Grafton, 1 circulate, I 
attend parties. If I may quote Scripture. 
Dr. Dee twinkled genially, "I go to and 
fro in the earth and walk up and down 
in it’ And you would be surprised how 
many things come to my attention 

Somehow, to Grafton the whole thing 
was still odd and disturbing, but he 
asked the inevitable next question, be- 
cause there was really not much else for 
h to do now. 

Can you do it?” 

“Why, yes, Mr. Grafton. It will be 
quite саву; I have just the thing. 

Dr. Dee reached into the other side of 
his desk and brought out a small doll. 
He put it in Grafton’s hand. It was made 
of some remarkably fleshlike plastic, and 
for a grucsome moment, Grafton thought 
he felt it move. He turned it over and 
looked at its face, and then he felt really 
sick. It was a perfect replica of Weather- 
by Fallstone, complete to buttondown 


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white oxford, black suing tie and gray 
Hannely. 

"Do not be alarmed. Mr. Grafton. I 
rather thought that this was what you 
would be wanting, so I took the liberty 
king it up in advance, This modern. 
tic is fascinating stuff." 

“What do I do with it?” 

“Just take an ordinary pin, the kind 
you get in a new shirt, and apply it 
ав you think most effective. Stuck in the 
shoulder, it will produce sudden, agoniz- 
ing bursitis chat will guarantee a howl 
of pain. In the abdomen, a violent ulcer 
ick. Open the mouth. Mr. Grafton—it 
sce, the lower jaw moves. Then 
le the thre d he will vomit sud- 
denly in public—most disgusting. Scratch 
the tongue—cin you see the 
tongue?—and he will babble, 
ba-ba-ba-ba. Hc will not help him in mak- 
ing a presentation to a client, Or perhaps 
you would like to tickle ibs with 
the pin. He will go off into unconuol- 
lable giggling, I 1 with 


ise 
tic 


hysteric. That will surely not recom- 
mend him for promotion." 
“Is there any particular way to do it" 
“Lightly, lightly. Mr. Grafton. Softee, 
softee, catchee monkey. Cont ight 
stroking with the pinhead, 
п keep it up as long as you 


nuou 


and you c 


e it, or you will have 
And I remember how sensitive you 
point." 

“TL take it" Grafton 
only to leave. "How much 


satisfied.” 
"You guarantee that 
Fallstone out of the rui 


у 50. 
put the lile doll in the 
yelvet-lined wooden box (like a coffin, he 
thought) that Dr. Dee provided. Then he 
pur it into his attaché c 
"My account will be pa 
satisfaction, Mr. Graf 


able upon 


"She must be a brilliant conversationalist. 


"Don't worry,” Grafton 
the queasiness below hi 
“Don't worry, ГЇЇ pay 

Friday was the day of the weekly 
k meeting. That morning. Grafton 
decided to have a bad cold. He got Le 
nore, who was still barely speaking to 
him, to call the office. Then he lay back 
in his bed and waited for 11 o'dod: to 
0 Lenore came in quiet: 
with some breakfast. For the first time in 
ks her eyes were not veiled and hos- 
nd her face was not set. She put the 
on the bedside table, then she 
med over and kissed him. 

"Thanks, honey," he said. "Thanks for 
both." 

"prs all right, Howie, Don't worry 
about it anymore. Из not worth it. 
Maybe it never was.” 

"m not goi to won 
Either 1 get it or I don't. 
She kissed him again. 
“Im going shopping. Will you be all 

right?” 

"sure. I feel better. 1 may come down 
to the library and read.” 

When he heard her pull out of the 
driveway, he quickly called the office 
kl asked for Weatherby Fallstone 
herby,” he said, “I've got 


said, fecling 
wishbone, 


oS 


anymore. 


bad 


I'm sorry to h , old man. T: 
care of your health.” 

"Will you be at the think meeting 

"Of course. Have one or two cracker- 
jack ideas I want to пу out." 

1 expect TI be back Monday. Will 
you tike a few notes and give me a 
rundown?” 

"Glad to, old man.” 

He hung up, gobbled his breakfast 
and went down to the study. He sat 
there with the little doll in one hand and 
a pin in the other. A few ex 
on the desk. He called 

"Mr. Fallstone is in a meeting," the 
secretary told him. 

"Never mind. ГИ call back later.” 

He gave the think meeting 15 minutes 
to get under way. Then ke began. He 
started with just a bad headache—not : 

ing mi he thought, scratch 


He p 
ten minutes before he opened 
lower jaw and began playing 


the doll: 
with the tiny tongue. After that he tick- 


led its ribs for a while, and brought the 
performance to a crescendo by gently 
scratching its throat. He had a final ide 
of his own and put a folded handkei 
chief over the doll's eyes for five min- 
utes. He put the doll back in its box and 
the box in his attaché case. When Le- 
nore returned, he was reading The New 
York Times. 

On Monday, he went in е than 
the usual executive hour, but his secre- 
tary was there to give him the news. 

It was awful, Mr. Gralton. 


Mr. 


Fallstone had a fit at the think meeting. 
He put his head in his hands and groaned, 
then he started babbling and talking 
nonsense, Then he started. laughing and 
couldn't stop. And then"—she lowered 
her voice—"he was sick all over Mr. Gir- 
ton's desk. They started to take him out 
and he was yelling he was blind, and 
they took him to the hospital.” 

“Terrible. How is he: 

I heard he was OK, but they have 
him in some sort of а ward 

He was reading the Times slowly and 
with relish when the buzzer rang for 
im. He detoured for a moment en route 
to J. L.'s office and looked in on Fall- 
stone's. There was no sign of Ше. Only 
piled-up personal belongings—pills, an 
umbrella, a few textbooks—stacked on 
the desk where the office boy had put 
them, gave evidence that anyone had 
occupied the room. 

“I suppose you heard about it," J. L. 
said, waving him to a scat. 

"errible." 

“I can't understand. He seemed so 
rational and calm. Drink, I suppose, poor 
devil. Well, we can't sit around weepi 
Howard, I want you to start working 
very closely with Eldon, He'll be leaving 
in two months 1 there are a lot of 
loose strings you'll have to tic up." 

“I really appreciate this, J. L. You 
know you can count on mc." 

He paused for 2 moment and spoke 
soberly. 

It's a shame it had to happen this 
way.” 

“Nonsense, Howard. Not your fault: 
now go out and start pitching." 

The check he mailed to Dr. Dee that 
afternoon was more than his checking 
account held. To cover it, he had to cash 
a savings bond, quite a large one, and 
deposit the money. It was just about 
closing time and the windows were shut- 
ting down, but Grafton kept them open 
long enough to have his check certified. 
He had had checks bounce before, bur 
somehow he felt that this was not one he 
would want to have returned marked 
“Insufficient funds.” He sent it registered 
and special delivery. 


In the next weeks, he learned by bits 
па pieces that Fallstone had been re 
leased from the hospital that he had 
been given a generous severance check, 
that he was cruising the agencies with 
his scrapbook, that he had been s 
very drunk in a bar. After a while, it 
didn't bother Grafton anymore. He 
100 busy. 

He was alone in his office, wor 
late on a prospectus that old Eldon 
Smith had completely fonled up, whei 
the pain came, It was like a sword in his 
belly and he doubled up in agony, slid- 
ing from his chair to the floor. There was 
а moment's respite and it came again. Tt 
then Grafton remembered that all 


tives had bee l it was 
then he knew that Dr. Dee had talked to 
other people and not just to him. For 
an instant there was rclicf, i 
corner of his memory. а pictur 
of Dr. Dee talking with Fallstone. Then 
the pain came agai 

He was groaning, stretched out on the 
floor, when the night watchman came by 
an hour later; but he was dead by the 
time they got him to the hospital. 

“І can't understand it,” J. L. Girton 
said to Frank Baker. "He was perfect 
health. He had everything to live for. A 
terrible business. Well, Frank, it's up to 
you now.” 

“II do my best sir" Baker 
with the boyish modesty that was his 
particular stock in trade, 

“Mr, Girton,” he went on. 

Js 

‘J. L., I'd like to take an hour or so to 

tell Betty. It will mean a lot to her. Just 
apine. Vice-president.” 

ОГ course, my boy, on your way! And 

don't forget to remember me to your 


said 


pretty wife.” 
Before he went to the apartment, 
young Frank Baker stopped off at Dr. 


Dee's shop. 
“I have the payment here,” he said. 


“They just made me vice-presiden 
"Capital, my boy; I had a very strong 

feeling you would е good. I took a 

liking to you the first time we met.” 

‘Can you tell me—are you allowed to, 

that is—how you managed it?” 

"I did nothing much." 

"You jus made me vicepresident, 
that's all. And just by mental power— 
just by wishing it for me." 

Dr. Dee reached into the drawer and 
held up a litte doll. 

“You remember how these worl 
you? 

Yes, you told me. 

“Well, Grafton 
had one—of each 
ted each other.” 
‘Dr. Dee, you mean you told both of 
them they'd get the job and then let 
get that, well, kind ol 
unethical: 


don't 


nd Fallstone each 
other. They elimi- 


me 


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HORSE SENSE 


(continued from page 102) 


dominates thc scene in front of the 
stands, in [ull view of all spectators. One 
set of lights tells us that posttime for the 
first race is two P.t.: the time of day, at 
the moment, is 1:36. Under the heading 
PROBABLE Opps, the lights give us the 
"morning lin which we can now 
match against the names of the horses in 
the program. In the opinion of the track 
handicapper who makes the morning 
. Enchanter, number опе in the pro 
gram, will go off at odds of 3; Space 
Control, number two, at 10; Black Rod, 
number three, at 2. These are the odds 
10 1 that the horse is expected to pay to 
win. If you buy a two-dollar ticket (the 
lowest denomination), you get back the 
odds times 2, plus your original two dol 
lars. Thus, Enchanter. according to the 
board, should pay 58 to win—if he wins, 
Space Control should pay $22, Black 
Rod, $6. Sometimes the board shows 
hyphenated odds, such as 7-2 or 6-5. A 
horse that is 7-2 should pay 59; а 6-5 
shot, $4.40; a 3-3 shot, $3.20. 

There are other lights that show the 
exact amount that has been bet up to 
now on each horse, by program numbe 
to win, to place and to show; also, the 
total amount bet in the win, place and 
show pools. Win tickets pay off only on 
the first horse across the finish line; place 
tickets, on the first two: show tickets, on 
the first three. Naturally, you have twice 
as much chance to collect on a place bet 
as on a win bet, and three times as much 
chance to collect on a show bet. Natural- 
you will also collect less on a place 
ticket and still less оп a show ticket. 
There is no way of knowing the exact 
поши that a р 


t or a show ticket will 
pay, but you can make a rough guess 
А horse whose probablewin odds are 
shown as 5 will pay 512 to win and usu- 
ally around $6 to place and $4 to show. 
Any horse that is on the board at less 
than 5 is hardly worth playing to p 
or show. 

As we sit watching the board 24 mi 
utes before postime, the lights change 
slowly. There is not much action as yet 
at the betting windows; the hgures for 
total money bet in the win, place and 


g line, which was ju 
guess, now gives way to the actual odds 
dictated by the 
h choice. 
one, changes from З 10 
next 4 again, then 3 again, then 5-2. The 
bettors a »g up at the windows; the 
tickers being punched out as fast 
as the machines can print them; the 
money is pouring in and the odds are 
shifting. 

The tote board, itself a fascinating 
thing to watch, is part of a complicated 


mount of money bet 
nchanter, the number- 


4, then to 7-2, 


on 


electronic system whose wires suetch all 
over the track. When you buy a two 
dollar win ticket on the numberone 
horse, the man at the window pushes the 
button : on his machine; the machine 
prints your ticket and punches it out; the 
twodollar uansiction is flashed to a 
computer and eventually becomes part 
of the money shown on the tote board as 
bet on the number-one and in the total 
win pool. As the amounts change, the 
computer figures out the new probable 
odds, 

Though the clecironic apparatus is 
new. the method of betting at moder 
race tracks is old; it was invented in 
1869 by a Frenchman who called it the 
pari-mutuel system. АП the money bet to 


win goes into а pool from which 15 per- 
cent (in most states) is skimmed off the 
top: the state takes part of this money in 


taxes; the track management takes the 
rest to pay for the purses that keep the 
horses running, the expenses of operat- 
ing the wack and the profits. The 85 
percent of the pool that is left goes to the 
people who hold tickets on the winner. 
The total amount is divided by the total 
number of winning twoxdollar tickets 
sold: the result is the pay-olf price that is 
posted on the winner. In the place pool. 
the same system is followed, except tl 
the pool is split down the middle and 
divided between the two horses that have 
finished first and second. The show pool 
is divided three wavs. 

In addition to the 15 percent skimmed 
off the top, the track and the state also 
keep what is called the "breakage’—the 
‘odd pennies and nickels. (A winner that 
would otherwise pay 56.89 actually pays 
56.80.) This brings the total skim-of to 
ound 16 or 17 percent ttle more 

some states, a litde less in others. A 
horse that would pay $10 to win if there 
were no taxes and no commission to the 
track winds up paying 58.40. Thus, 
pari-mutuel betting, though the soul of 
modern racing, is also the reason you 
cannot win at the races; When I Кос 
less about racing, 1 used to wonder why 
so few people leaving the track seemed 
to be celebrating. The reason is the 16- 
to-l7-percent "take," as it is called. On 
that day when the crowd bet the record 
$6,000,000 at Aqueduct, they һай 
596,000 less in their pockets at the end 
t the start. Oby 
there were lots of losers, only a few 
т. 

So you can't expect lo win over а е: 
son or over the years, although you can 
have some glorious winning days. Figure 
it this way: If you go to the track and 
bet two dollars on each of € race: 
plus two dollars on the daily double, thi 
makes a total of $20, of which 16 per- 
cent comes to $3.20. Thats what ап 
average day of betting should cost you, if 
you have average Inck—and I know of 
no other place where $3.20 will buy 
you as much pleasure. If you want 10 


ol the day than sly, 


win 


multiply the thrills by betting more, of 
Course, you must. pay more for the priv- 
lege. The $5 bettor loses an average of 
S8 a day: the $10 benor, $16. 

The daily double, incidentally, is a 
combination bet on the first two races of 
the day; if you like the numbercight 
horse the first race and the number- 
thice in the second, you pay the man 
your two dollars and ask for the 8-3. 
Both of them must win, not ju: 
the ticker represents quite a р; 
won't cash many doubles; but when you 
do, the return сап be worth waiting for. 
(The record pay-off in the 0.5. wi 
510,772.10.) Some tracks also have a twin 
double, usually on the last four races of 
the day. You buy a ticket picking the 
ners of the sixth and seventh races; 
if you hit both of them, you trade in 
the ticket not for money but for another 
ticket trying to name the winners of the 
cighth and ninth races. In other words. 
you have to pick four winners in a row. 
105 not easy, but it can be done; in fact, 
somebody wins the twin double every 
day. The pay-olfs are beautiful. It was 
on the Caliente track's variation of the 
twin double that I won my $61,908; the 
record all-time pay-off on а twin stands 
at $124,972. 

But let's get back to the grandstand. 
Its getting doscr to that twor.M. post- 
time. The lights are Hashing. People 
leave their seats and return with their 
betting tickets. Ten minutes before post- 
nd the hor 


time, the bugle is blown a es 
come onto the track—a dozen marvel- 
ously conditioned four-footed athletes 


with glistening coats of black, chestnut, 
bay or gray. On their backs sit the jockeys, 
litle men but athletes, too, in silks and 
caps all colors of the rainbow. All this is 
seen against the green of the infield, the 
tan ob the dirt, the white poles of the 
rail. The parade to the post is the stuft 
that art is made of, a scene that, once 
you have drunk it in, never loses its 
power to intoxicate. 

ЈЕ the starting gate is in front of the 
stand—or if your binoculars are strong 
enough—you watch the horses going 
In racetrack parlance, they are being 
loaded into the gate, and loaded is the 
word for it. The gate has stalls barely 
big cnough to hold horse and rider; some 
horses hate it and almost have to be lilt- 
ed in bodily by the crew of starters; once 
in it, they paw the dirt, toss their hea 
rear and lunge. Then there comes the 
magic moment when they атс all in line 
and standing still; the chief starter 
presses a switch; the fronts of the stalls 
fly open. The loudspeaker bellows, 
“They're off!"—and off they are, plung 
g forward to top speed within a 
powerful strides. 

Watch the jockeys now. The path 
along the rail is the shortest route from 
rt to finish, but there is not enough 
room on the rail for everybody. Here is 
where the phrase “jockey for position” 


few 


comes from. Seated on one fast-moving 
1000-pound animal in the midst of 
many, the jockey has to look for open- 
ings, avoid bumps and blind switches, 
get whatever racing room and save 
whatever ground he сап. Some horses 
run best when they are in front; watch 
the jockeys on these horses fight for the 
lead. Other horses run best when they 
come from behind; watch their jockeys 
uy to “rate” them—put enough. pull on 
the reins to make the horse save his best 
сйогї for later, but not so much as to dis- 
courage him from running at all. 
From shortly after the start to about 
the halbmile pole—the red-and-white 
pole a half mile from the finish—the 
race is like a time bomb ticking away. 
Not much happens. The horses stay in 
about the same relative positions, one in 
front, some others close behind, others 
tailing. Then, between the half-mile 
pole and the three-eighths pole, watch the 
race explode. This is where the jockeys 
go to the whip and make their move. 
The frontrunners are getting tired. The 
horses that trailed are moving up. The 
feld bunches; sometimes swings 
around the last turn with a half dozen 


“Youve 


horses t, fanned across the track, 
and sull others close behind them, run- 
ning hard and hoping for a chance to get 
through. Down the straightaway of the 
stretch, in the last quarter mile to the 
finish line, some of them, having already 
given their all, shorten stride and drop 
back. Others come doggedly оп. Some: 
Limes there are two leaders racing head 
to head; one gets in front, but the other 
refuses 10 give up; the heads bob back 
d forth stride after stride. The crowd 
makes a sound that can be heard no- 
where else in the world, the sustained 
roar of thousands of mingled shouts and 
ers, like the climax of a symphony 
ned beyond endurance. "Then at 
st the field goes across the finish 
One horse, one jockey, one owner has 
won—and so, perhaps, have you and 1. 

Let's go down to the winner's circle at 
the finish line. Watch the winning horse 
when he comes up, alter coasting on 
sheer momentum for a quarter mile past 
the finish line while his jockey tries to 
pull him up. Look at the sweat on his 
flanks. Watch his ribs heave. He's beet 
in a contest, all right. Look at the jockey. 
He, too, i 


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race horse looks easy, but it takes enor- 
mous strength and perfect physical con- 
dition. The jockey, having guided the 
horse, rated him. urged him on, pumped 
his own arms and legs in perfect timing 
with the horse's suide, is just as tired as 
the horse. 

If winning jockey 
bear the same number as your mutuel 
ket, be of stout heart. We have ei 
more races in which to get even. 


nd horse do not 


Besides the racing, most tracks have 
excellent food. At the New England 
tracks, you can get clam chowder; in 
es. Everywhere. you 
can have frankfurters, which seem to 
taste even better at a race track than at a 
me. Drinks are no more expe: 
nywhere else and have a strangely 
benign effect. There is something about 
ace-track atmosphere that pulls the 
angs of alcohol without dulling the 
pleasure it affords. In all my thousands 
ol afternoons at race tracks, I doubt that 
І have seen as many as a half dozen 
people who were drunk. 
ant, you can go to the club. 
house restaurant and. at most iracks, 
watch the races from your table, Getting 
into the dubhouse will cost anywhere 
from an extra dollar to an extra three 
dollars; drinks and Junch will cost no 
more than at any other good restaur: 
(However, if you spend the entire after 
noon at the table and order drinks from 
time to time after lunch is over, the wai 
er will expect considerably more th 
I5-percent tip.) When I'm at the track 


Maryland, crab с 


“I might know you'd take the man's side . . .” 


alone. I like to go early, study the Morn- 
ing Telegraph over a couple of drinks, 
have a shrimp cocktail between the first 
and second races, soup between the sec- 
ond and third, and the entree for as long 
after the third race as I can make it last. 

Should you take a date? It depends 
on the girl. The races make for a long 
afternoon—around four hours or morc 
if you get there a half hour carly and 
stay to the end. If the girl is bored by 
racing and demands a lot of conversation, 
you can be in trouble. If she is crazy 
about the horses and feels the same way 
vou do about studying the program and 
the Form berween races, the date can be 
half the fun. After every race, at every 
ace track every afternoon, you can 
watch the couples who have just had the 
winner exchanging the most joyous em- 
braces you ever saw. Is there a better 
way of celebrating? 

1 once lost a girl at the track. We had 
two dollars left between us before the last 
e, plus bridge tolls home, The ques- 
tion was whether to bet it on the nose 
of the long shot 1 liked. and go for 
broke, or to bet it place and have a more 
asonable chance of coming out with 
dinner money. I left it up to her and she 
opted for place, The horse won and paid 
583 to win but only SI to place. We 
had dinner money, all right, but I never 
felt the same about her again. It was our 
last date. 

If you do take a girl along, should you 
furnish her with betting money? There 
are different schools of thought. She will 
have more fun. of course, if she bets; 


та 


and for some reason, women аге loath to 
risk their own funds. My feeling is that 
she won't put up her own money to 
buy her own tickets or share in part of 
your betting, she should be willing to 
settle for an agreement that your profits 
will go to buying the best dinner and 
champagne in town. But perhaps I'm 
prejudiced by the memory of another 
afternoon, when I gaye a date 520 in 
betting money and watched her ran it up 
to over $200, while I lost every race. She 
graciously gave me back my S20, but I 
still felt that something was wrong with 
the arrangement 


Which brings us 10 the biggest que: 
tion of all: How do you know which 
hore to ber on? 

Some people follow the newspaper 
selections. In most cities that have a race 
track, there is at least опе newspaper 
that has a pretty good handicapper on 
the sports staff. You can check up, before 
you ever go to the track, by comparing 
liis selections in today's paper with the 

tomorrow's paper. 
You may find that the handicapper has 
very few winners—as did the handicap 
per for the old Sr. Louis Star-Times 
when I worked there. (He was an of 
boy and the most consistent leser on 
horses I have ever known; his salary 
check never lasted from payday to pay- 
day.) On the other hand, the handicap- 
per may be a top man like Bob Hebert 
in the Los Angeles Times, who picks 
about as many winners as anybody 

The trouble with following even the 
һем of the newspaper handicappars 
that you abandon all hope of breaking 
even over the long run, No newspape 
handicapper ever shows a profit over a 
season. The reason is that so many 
people follow their selections that the 
horses always go olf at lower odds than 
they should, The better the handicapper. 
the bigger his following and the worse 
the odds on the horses he picks. 

Some people bet the favorites—a 
method that results in many winners, 
though always at low odds. At almost 
every meet at almost every track, the 
vorites win about one race in three. 
If favorites paid an average of 2 to 1, or 
six dollars, vou'd break even. But the 
average isn't this high—so, you 
abandon all hope of breaking eve! 
over the long pull 

Some pcople bet post posit 
one friend, for ¢ 
about number three. Cr 
for it In a 12horse race, the 
against guessing the right number 


ons; I have 


ample, who is crazy 
azy is the word 
odds 


average price on winners w 
the fact is that only a very small propo 


reason. 
The only way to give yourself a real 
chance of b а 


is to pick the horses yourself, by learning 
to read the Racing Form or the Morning 
Telegraph. This is also the way to have 
the most fun, for there is no greater thrill 
in racing than to study the past perform- 
ances, try to figure out which horses will 
set the pace and which will come from 
behind, decide which one should logical- 
ly be the winner—and then watch your 
prediction come true. If. you're going to 
spend any time at the races, you should 
send away to the Form or Telegraph for 
their pamphlets on how to read their 
past performances. (They ble, 
Tor ten cents in stamps for mailing, from 
Department PP. The Morning Tele- 
graph, 525 West 52nd St, New York, 
N.Y. 10019; and Daily Racing Form, 731 
Plymouth Court, Chicago, JIL. 60605.) 
Once you understand anything at all 
about the Form or the Telegraph, you 
in a position to do beter than the 
average person who merely follows the 
favorites or the newspaper selections. No 
matter what method you use for picking 
winners, you are bound to come up with 
a few. You can take the horse that shows 
the fastest recent time for the distance, 
or has run against the best class of oppo- 
sition, or has been most consistently in 
the money in his last three or four starts 
almost anything. As long as there is 
some logical reason to think the horse 
may win, you're going to pick winners, 
and often at good odds, To improve 


ava 


your percentage, you can read a good 
book on handicapping methods, such as 
Bob Hebem's Secrets of Handicapping. 

Becoming a really good handicapper, 
of course, takes experience. It took me, I 
would say, about 20 years. Even now, I 
don't play the horses in hope of profit, 
but 1 figure that I have cut down the 16— 
17-percent. “take” against me to about 1 
or 2 percent. I can bet $100,000 a year 
—a lot of action, a lot of fun—and lose 
only 51000-52000, which makes racing a 
good deal cheaper than owning 


go to more trouble th 
undertake. The people who try to make 
a living at the races work at it every day. 
often in strange and taxing ways. A 
number of handicappers have stationed 
paid assistants around the track with an 
mometers, to measure the speed of the 
wind, There was one fellow a number of 
years ago. when track surfaces varied 
more widely than they do today, who 
kept samples of dirt taken from every 
track in the country, so that he could 
shake diem up with water and feel with 
his own hands what was meant when the 
track was termed muddy on a rainy day. 
Even with this kind of gadgetry, the 
people who ny to make a living playing 
the horses all scem to wind up broke. 


I've known a few people—fortunatcly, 
only a few—who got badly hurt playing 


All of them were done in by 
greed, usually in combination with one 
of those two evils of racing known as (1) 
systems or (2) touts. 

Most people who get serious about 
licapping try sooner or later to work 
ystem"—some method of han- 
dling their bets to guarantee a profit. 
The first one I ever heard of was to start 
by betting two dollars on the favorite 
and doubling up it he lost, with four dol- 
lars on the next race, eight dollars on the 
next, and so on. Sooner or later, the 
theory goes, you're bound to hit a win- 
ner and get back everything vou lost, 
plus a profit. The trouble is that if ten 
favorites lose in a row, you're ош more 
than $2000 and € to bet $2048 on 
the next race. There are dozens of times 
а the favorites lose ten in a 
row, and sometimes they lose 20 in a 
row. The fellow who told me about this 
system tapped out within a week. I 
bought his car, cheap. 

All systems are variations on this one, 
ad all are bound to break you if you 
stick to them. Just as every conceivable 
mathematical system for beating roulette 
has been tried and proved a failure, so 
every system in racing. College pro- 
fessors have even tried working out r 

ones on computers. No go. 

The tout is something clsc a 

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other people he can make them rich on 
the races. At the smaller and lesswell- 
acks, the touts sometimes make 
pitch in person. I've been ap- 
proached by a half dozen of them at var- 
nes, on pretexts such as asking me 
ich or borrowing my program. 
Usually touts work in pairs; the one 
who makes the approach points to a 
prosperous-looking Fellow who seems to 
be coming from the $50 window with a 
thick wad of tickets. (Actually, they are 
old losing tickets that he has picked up 
from the floor.) Tour number two chases 
away tout number one, but decides to 
confide in you. He daims to be a trainer, 
or the brother of a jockey; and he's got a 
sure thing in the race. Sometimes he 
merely uies to persuade you to bet on 
the horse, hoping to get part of your 
winnings. if there are any. Sometimes he 
tries to talk you into letting him buy the 
tickets for you, in which case, he simply 
holds your money, or buys only a few 
tickets, and disappears if the horse wins 

Other touts advertise in newspapers 
that still permit this kind of shenanigans, 
or in the cheaper racing sheets; they 
promise to slip you a sure winner if you 
will bet $10 or $50 for them. Often they 
try to find a six-horse race and give cach 
of the horses to a sixth of their clients, 
thus guaranteeing that some of the suck- 
ers will have winnings to share, They 


depend on a fast turnover for their 
prolits, and apparently they get it. 
One reason touts keep prospering is 


the widespread belief that horse racing is 
crooked and that there are owners, train- 
ers and especially jockeys who know in 
advance who is going to win. This leg- 
end was once based partially on fact. In 
bygone days. when purses were smaller 
and racing was less well supervised, 
there were a good many people in racing 
who made a living pulling off betting 
coups. With the help of a dope needle, a 
trainer could run a horse “hot” or “cold” 
—cold, or unable to run a lick, until 
some day when the competition was 
poor and the odds were good, then hot 
shot of narcotic that made him 
his legs off. Or the jockey was or 
dered to keep giving the horse what is 
called an “ holding him back. 
atil the odds were right. 

Some races were won by ringers; 
there were paintbrush artists who spe- 
izd in turning а championship- 
grayed chestnut horse with two white 
feet in back into the dead likeness of a 
hopeless loser who was bay and had two 
white feet in front. There have been 
jockey rings that actually fixed races, 
with one boy riding his head off while 
the others held back. 

Some of the legends are fabulous, 
There was a horse called Hiram Jobn- 
so slow that he couldn't even win at 
the bush пас» in Montana, that was 
shipped into New Orleans for the Christ- 


204 mas Eve Handicap one year, went off 


at tremendous odds and won 
ting $100,000 for two myste: 
men who cashed their win tickets after 
the race, By the time track officials got 
suspicious and went back to the barns to 
look for Hiram Johnson, he had disap- 
peared, never to be seen again. Nobody 
Knows to this day what first-class horse it 
was that pretended to be Hiram John 
son, or who it was that engineered the 
deception. There was a celebrated ri 
expert named Paddy Barri 
make-up jobs on horses, who once won 
$250,000 with a fast three-year-old 
named Aknahton, which he ran one day 
in Maryland as a slow two-year-old 
named Shem. 

Alas for lovers of larceny, modern 
science has put an end to all this. It is 
impossible to run a ringer today. Every 
race horse has a distinguishing number 
idelibly tattooed inside his upper lip; 
nd in addition, photographic records 
are kept of his chestnuts—horny growths 
on the inside of the legs ncar the knees, 
which ar individual as fingerprints 
are for human beings. Chemical tests of 
the horses’ saliva and urine have ended 
red cases a 
recording each 
race in moving pictures that can be run 
over and over again and studied at l 
sure, has made it impossible to fix a race 
and almost impossible to give a horse an 
sy race, At any track that has good 
rds—the men who supervise racing 
е races are truly run. A jockey who 
even iries to nudge his horse into greater 
speed with an electric prod, formerly a 
popular tool, is likely to find himself 
ruled off at once—as was a jockey 
named Luis Flores who tried it at Mon- 
mouth Park in New Jersey last summer. 
(A steward figured that. somethi 
wrong and ordered Flores searched 
when he jumped off the howe. At that, 
no betting coup "volved. Jockey 
Flores was just giving а litle illegal help 
to a 3-2 favorite.) 

Even in the days when racing had its 
angles, the touts never had any inside 
information to sell. If an owner, trainer 
or jockey is trying to win a bet, the last 
thing in the world he wants is to have 
somebody else catch on and drive down 
the odds. Once in a while, an owner and 
a trainer know something about a horse 
even today—in perfectly legitimate fash- 
ion—that the public cannot know. They 
may have discovered that the horse ran 
his last two races, bad ones, on a pain 
fully infected foot, which has since been 
cured. They may know that he will ran 
better in his first attempt at a distance 
than he ever was able to run in shorter 
races. If they have this kind of informa- 
tion and want to bet the horse big, they 
would never think of telling their moth- 
ers, much less some seedy tout who 
pretends to be a jockey's brother. 

As а matter of fact, most owners and 
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trainers аге not big bettors and 
toriously bad judges of what their horses 


will do. You have to be an optimist to 
own or train horses, and you are alway 
indined to think too highly of the 
chances of any horse you run. I have 
had a horse in a race where I knew some 
of the other owners or trainers and heard 
a half dozen of them say they were sure 
of winning. I was sure of winning, too. 
None of us did, The moral is: Even if 
you happen to make the acquaintance ої 

n owner or a trainer, view his “inside 
information” as suspiciously as you 
would view the most transparently pho- 
ny tout. If he knows something, he won't 
tell you. If he doesn't really know any- 
thing, his opinion is worthless. The same 
goes for jockeys, who are among the 
world’s worst handicappers. There have 
been many cases where a famous jockey, 
given his choice of two horses to ride in 
a big and profitable race such as the 
Kentucky Derby, turned down the even- 
r пег and put himself on a horse 
that finished up the wa 

Let me tell you from personal experi- 
ence how smart owners and trainers are 
about their horses. A couple of years 
ago, I owned a horse named Dr. Du 
bious. (I named him, as you may have 
guessed if you are a collector of old 
vaudeville and TV skits, after a Smith 
d Dale act.) I ran him а few times in 
Ohio, and he couldn't work up a fast gal- 
lop. In the desperate hope that he might 
do better on the harder surfaces of the 
tracks in Florida, I shipped him to Tropi- 
cal Park, where he again was a dismal 
also-ran. The trainer and I decided we 
would feed him only one more week and 
give him only one more chance. In the 
meantime, 1 made arrangements with a 
woman writer I know who had just 
bought a farm in Maryland and wanted 
à horse or two to I said she could 
have Dr. Dubious if he ran badly 
next time as before, if she would pay the 
shipping fee from Florida. I was giving 
the horse away, mind you. ] had some 
friends who were spending the Christ- 
mas holidays in Florida, at the races. I 
warned them that, whatever else they 
did, they should never risk a cent on the 
slow-footed Dr. Dubious. 

The horse ran next on New Years 
Day. I was listening to the race results 
that evening on the radio, and what 
do you suppose I heard? The second 
vas won by none 
ying $164.40 
0 to place and $30.20 to 


to win, $ 
show. | t have nickel bet on 
him. You think you've felt bad on a New 


s Day? 

Dubious ran that one unexpected 
good race and then never ran another 
like it, though he did win quite a few 
races for y 
New England and West Virginia 
I don’t know, and neither does anybody 
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THE SHIP JOHN B. 


way and Coleman did a slow flip. grab- 
bing a brake ring to stop himself. He 
fumbled around in the safe, then drifted 
over to me with a half dozen log tapes. 
The inscription on one of the small cans 
read: Log of the John B. McClellan. 
name jogged my memory and I 
it in a footnote in a textbook, one of the 
a long listing of lost ships. 
leman to take them back 
ed to Jimenez: "We 


names in 

I told C 
with him, then tu 
s anything: 

He dutifully glanced around at the 
cabin behind him, but I got the feeling 
that he really wasn't seeing it. "You c 
think of anything, I sure as hell 

I started for the hatch, then drifted 
back to the central computer and took 
the big reel of tape with its listing of 
readout requests. Who knew . . . 

On the way out, what had been in the 
back of my mind finally hit me. [hadn't 
found anything wrong. No signs of being 
boarded, no signs of viol thing 
wrong with the ship itself. Which Jeli— 

at? The crew? 

1 didn't think of it anymore, 
se we had left the cave of the John 
В behind and I was in the emptiness of 
cally trying to locate 
and get a bearing before 
the illusion reversed itself and I was 
once more ficant speck sus- 
pended in а black void without end. 


m 


the Cassiop 


We committed the unknown crewman, 
to space once more with appropriate cere- 
mony, made the necessary course cor- 
rections and resumed the long voyage. 
The John B. dwindled in the distance 
behind us and then was nothing more 
than a memory and a hall dozen com- 
puter tapes. 

I spent the next three or four time pe- 
xiods listening to the contents of the John 
B.'s log. almost all of which consisted of 
routine, tech enuies. Those entries. 
that weren't—most of these were at the 
begi winners 
daily ches tou and wi 
be classified as mild gossip items about. 
members of the crew. Toward the cnd, 
there were stretches of 
where the captain had failed to file his 

y report. 

The last entry was for the 1 
period. Am going Outside. 

There was no explanation given, no 
reason, no mention of any threat. I could 
ne the c putting dow 
spcakalong. suiting up and walking out. 
But I had no clue as to why. 

1 stored the log tapes in the computer 
locker, made a mental note to give them 
a more thorough run-through in the near 
future and spent the next few time 
periods speculating about them while 
stretched out in my compartment, the 
s on, staring quietly out 


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the port at the sowing of stars in the 
unfathomable distance. The tapes gradu- 
ally slipped from my m ul T started. 
thinking about Earth and New Chicago 
and the green fields of the Midwest and 
the 500 time periods we had to go before 
we made planetfall, And then one peri- 
od 1 was lying there thinking of those 
500 segments of time and wondering 
what it would be like to run down a 
sidewalk again or dive into a pool of wa- 
ter, when E suddenly reflected that there 
was reality to my thinking. 
Pl; world, blue skies . . . 
But there was no conviction to my think- 
ing, no real belief that that kind of future 
was going to happen. 

I really came awake then, and it was 
like waking up in a house in the middle 
of the night, when you catch yourself 
listening, and you're swea 


ing and just lying the And 
then 1 had my finger on it and the 
thought «іы shift List enough to get 
away. 1 really didn't believe we were 
going to make planet I did 


that one 
ind. casual- 


believe, way down deep, was 


day we were going to suit up 


I sat up on the 
and cocked an car y shadow 
screen fade and just listened to the ship 
for a moment. The silence was smather- 
ing, and yet I could remember laughter 
and curses and nes in the corridor 
and times when you could see the whole 
undivided compartment for time period 
after time period. 

My mind started to race and 
over itself. The John В. hd 
hulled by a meteorite or boarded by 
forms. Mechanical failure? But 
ge freighters had tiple safe- 
was impossible lor something 


guards; 
to go wrong with the pile or the com- 
puter or the electrical setup. The life- 
systems setup—something could go wrong 
there, but chances were vanishingly 
slim. Which left . . . 
The crew, of course. 
But there had been no 
lence, no signs of mutin 
on board? But there had to be 
ing political or military setup. 
was none. Mass insanity? Hardly—not in 


igns of vio- 
saboteur 


n oppos- 


the accepted: sense, 

I thought about what the Cassiopeia 
been like right after. blast off 
e now, and shive 


ke watching a cock 


had 
down. The life had gradually see 


been 


run 
« out 
screens. 


of the crew while the shadow 
had grown like ivy, When was the 
пе Coleman had played a chess game: 
And when was the last time I had filed a 
log report? 

I had to do something about it, I 
thought. lying back down on the е 
hammock—the very next time period. 
And then I realized what I was doing 


and turned pale. Not the next time peri- 
od, row! I tumbled off the hammock and 
shoved over to Jimenez compartment 
and pushed though the shadow screen, 
not waiting to palm for permision 

He was sacked out on his hammock, 
his eyes closed, his heavy reddish body 
hair covering him like a soft auburn 
fuzz, When he had first come on board. 
he had alive, almost ob- 
noxiously eager—constanily checking the 
pile, filling his calculating slate with row 
after row of figures, delighted that the 
central. computer. contained enough 
formation on hi 
busy for three solid years. 

He suddenly sensed 1 was there 
opened his eyes to stare quietly at me, 
without expression. I said, “Hello, Specs.” 
Privacy, Martin 
I wanted to ask you what you thought 
about the John B." I said. 

He turned his back. his spine looking 
like a long. reddish caterpillar, “I don't 
think about it, Mare 

“Why now” 

“If you're playin 
Em not interested.” 


been ale: 


twenty questions, 


was quiet for а moment 
and 1 began to think he had actually 
drifted off 10 sle n he suddenly 
said, “I don't think about it because 
there's nothing we can do about it and 
its none of our business, 
“1 think" 1 started 
n't give a damn what you think! T 
cy—now pet the hell out, will 


What would you do," I said slowly. 
"if I told you that the pile was red- 
lining 

He sat up on one elbow and glared. 
“I call you a goddamned liar! Noth- 
ing's wrong with that pile—nothing ever 
has been and nothing ever will be! It 
doesirt need the attention of men, Mar- 
tint This ship doesn't need a physicist or 
а metalsmith or an asuonomer—or а 
captain ter. Something 
could e of us and it 


wouldn't mater а diamn—we're passer 


gen, Martin, pasengers!” He sagged 
back down and stared quietly at the 
sacened. overhead. His voice was barely 


ible. “Get out of here, will you 
1 backed out and drifted over to Huls 
ment. The shadow screens 
there, all of the ship's 
on, | noted—and I he 
before floating through. 
п was the youngest on be 


man’s comp: 


were on too. 


screens were 
tated а топи 
Ники 
ma 
the likable type 
smile that was catching. You wanted to 
rub your knuckles on the back of his 
head and send him to the outheld to 
shag flies. 

I pushed through and found him 
watching me. It was an older face now 
—much older—framed by long, 


“T knew it was too good to last!” 


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210 wasn't reacting at all. It was 


blond hair, and the brightblue cyes 
were a dull and dirty slate. 

“Hello, Martin." The voice was list- 
less. 

“I was thinkii 
said casually. 
you thought.” 

A tired look flooded his face, as if talk. 
ing and thinking were too much effort 
"] guess I haven't thought much about 
it, Martin. I guess I don't much care." 

‘Don't you think the same thing could 
happen to us?" 

A flicker of concern wandered uncer- 

tainly over his face and then fled. “That 
was a long time ago, wasn't it?" 
You're not curious? 
I guess I ought to be, but I'm not. 
He lay there quietly lor a moment, then 
suddenly closed his eyes and turned his 
back to me. "Look, Martin, would you— 
now—leave me alone? I guess I 
t help much. 

I stood there and looked at him, help- 
less. “That's OK, I understand, Hully.” 

I had started to drift out when he 
suddenly said in a low voice, "I gor this 
funny feeling, Martin, this feeling that 
І ought to be doing something—only 
somehow I can't get started. 1 ought to be 
able to do something on board, Martin.” 
‘Then he turned slightly and jammed his 
face into the hammock. “It scares me, 
he whimpered in a muflled voice. "It 
scares the hell out of me." 


g about the John B." I 
was wondering what 


you 


The first real crisis came 20 time peri- 
ods later, when life on board the Cassio- 
had unwound even further and we 
I nonthinking slow-motion ghosts. 
I was in the life-systems compartment, 
along with Hulsman, Ball and Coleman, 
lining up for the "evening meal," though 
most of the crew now preferred to draw 
their meals when nobody else was around. 
and they didn't run the risk of having to 
talk to anybody. I was at one of the food 


dispensers working the selectors above 
my tray when Potter pushed in to take a 
tray from the rack and shove over to the 


next food slot а few feet away. When he 
hoved away from the rack, his tray 
caught in the food slot and he slid on 
past it. 

It happened quickly enough. The thin. 
tray, worn sharp from hundreds of inser- 
i nto the metal mouth of the food 
dispenser, caught in the slot, and when 
Potter slid past it, the sharp edge of the 
tray slashed deep into his forearm. 

None of us said a word, we just stared. 
Potter had grabbed a brake ring and 
now floated in the middle of the com- 
partment, a big frightened kid staring 
wide-eyed at his left arm where the 
blood spurted, balled, then flattened 
slowly toward the deck 

It seemed like a full minute went by 
and still nobody moved. I stood glued by 
the side of the food dispenser, my mind 
split. One part of large pari 
imply 


watching Potter, watching him bleed, 
watching the blood pool on the deck, 


wondering curiously what Potter was 
going to do next. It was like watching a 
fascinating stereocast. The hologram 


that was Potter was going to die, right 
before my eyes, from a slashed main ar- 
tery. It was something I had never seen 
before. 

And then it made connection. Maybe 
none of us were vital to the ship. but 
Potter was the lifesystems man and he 
was vital to the crew. And Potter was 
going to die! 

I dropped my tray and dove over to 
him. He stood there in semishock, trem- 
bling and staring stupidly at his arm. I 
tore at my loincloth and bound the rag 
tightly around. his arm, then whirled to 
Hulsman, watching blank-faced. 

Get Reynolds, on the double 

He didn’t move; his eyes were glazed. 

І tightened the bandage, knotted it, 
п grabbed a handful of food off my 
tray that had sered to the deck nearby 
d threw it at Hulsman. The mess hit 
along the side of his neck and slid slowly 
off toward his shoulder. 

"Move, you sonofabitch, or Ill push 
you face first into the nearest dispenser 
and let you drown in that slop! Snap it?" 

“Privacy . . ." Hulsman started to 
chatter. 

"MOVE, DAMNIT!" 

He shot from his bench into the cold 
light corridor, frantically grabbing at 
brake rings to guide his progress. I could. 
hear him bawling for Reynolds even as 


he disappeared from view 

Pain and shock were now washing 
through Potter. He clutched his arm and 
started to nu 


an, then looked up at me, 
orstricken, "I could have 
died," he blubbered, “They would have 
let me di 


A dozen time periods after Potter had. 
slashed his arm, the rest of the crew had 
faded even further into long-voyage apa- 
thy. remote to one another, remote even 
to themselves. The ship was now a jun- 
gle of shadow screens preserving Priva- 
cy. Crew members went out of their w 
to avoid one another. and when they did 
meet, it was with hostile noncuriosity. 

I made friends with Potter because he 
saved my life. 

There had come a time period when, 
psychologically speaking, 1 caved in and 
started to avoid the others. I spent more 
and more of my time floating in my com- 
partment, staring out the port and think- 
ing of home or maybe of absolutely 
nothing at all. I had been the only one to 
worry about the ship and the crew—all 
right, now, to hell with them. And shortly 
after that, when Potter shoved through 
my shadow screen without palming for 
permission, I caught myself saying auto- 
matically, “Privacy, Porte 

“You've got trouble, Captain.” 

I came out of it like a man w 


ng up 


in the morning. "Whadd'ya mean?” 

“Ball's suiting up to go Outside. You've 
got maybe three minutes to catch him." 

I rolled off my hammock, shoved 
against a brake ring and shot up the cor- 
Чот, grabbing rings as I passed to give 
myself a Title additional thrust cach 
time, I dipped through one shadow- 
screened compartment, taking a chance 
of colliding with its occupant, then 
rounded a corner and bore down on the 
spacesuited figure quietly working the 
controls of the inner air lock. I sailed in 
between the figure and the lock, grab- 
bing a ring and braking to a halt with a 
speed that almost tore my arms out of 
their sockets. 

“Going someplace, Ball?" 

He stared at me, then reached up and 
unclamped his helmet and took it off. He 
shook his head, sending his black beard 
and long hair flying, and smiled wooden- 
ly. He looked like one of the prophets 
out of the Old Testament, wild eyes and 
all. 

“I'm going Outside, Captain,” he said 
gravely. 

"You never checked 

“Sorry about that, I really meant to. 

Do your duties take you Outs 
asked, stalling. 


The wooden smile again. “Clear view 
of the stars. Unimpeded view and all 
that. Natural observ 
for 


tions. It’s provided 
. ." His voice changed slightly, los- 
formal tone. He took a ragged 
ath. “Regs state that the captain is 
not to interfere with technic the 
normal pursuit of their duties. 

“Regs also state that no man leaves 
p without a tether line, unless it's 


the s 


s 
isfer. Where's your line, 


He stared stupidly down at hi 
ment belt. "Did I forget thag” 

“And what about your tanks? You've 
got one of those we used to go over to 
the John B. with. "There's no more than 
twenty minutes in it. if that. 

His eyes became shifty. "I hadi 
yet ] was going to change tan 

I forced a nervous smile. "Look, Ball, 
we need you. And you'll be needed at 
destination. planet," 

Ball licked h 


equip- 


ps. His face had a 
hunted look. “This ship doesn't need 
he mumbled. “Neither does апу 
‚ And planecfall's . . " His voice 
away. Не cocked his head to 


body 
trickled 
one s 


going to let me out, are yo 


I saw it coming that vital fraction of a 
second before it actually happened. A 
slight hardening around the eyes, then 
all expression abruptly vanished, like 
fingerprints on a freshly baked cake, 
and Ball hit me like a docking tug, howl- 
ing, “I’m going Outside, damnit, I'm 
going . . 

He was thin but with the deceptive 
hardness that thin mechanics sometimes 
have. He yanked me away from the 


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airlock hatch, then shoved me, hard 
down the corridor 

1 flew backward about 20 feet, the 
breath momentarily knocked out of me 
mbled upright and shor back 
brake ring. Ball whirled, his suit 
l handicap im the nearweightless 
ship. 

“Yon can't 
bloody strangers 

1 mied to brake and hit him all at the 
same time, but I overshot and Ball 
grabbed me around the waist as 1 shot 
by. I doubled up and tried 10 get ni 
knees betw xd his suit. but h 
metalclad right arm shot out and ci 
my head between his forearm 
and he squeezed, gripping his wrist with 
his other hand. I kicked out with my 


b me cooped up with 


^n me 


feet, found no purchase and failed wild- 
ly at the empty air. The pressure abrupt 
ly increased and T started to black out 


“Going Oulside, { 
side. 


oddamnil, going Oul- 


ab him, Martin, grab hi 
he pressure suddenly lec 
squirmed free. Т shook my head to c 
at bad һар 
to the colla 


d E 
ar 


«d to sec wi 
pened. Potter was cling 


it, then wh 


It’s space suit with one hand, I 


ging uselessly 


my fect into 
then shot up at 
Ш. The timing was just right. I hit Ball 
at chest level and wrapped my legs 
around him as he toppled backward. 
Then I clasped both hands together and 
clubbed, once. His eyes dulled and I 
could feel him go limp. 

T ler go, brushed the sweat off my face 


€ ring, crouch 


and caught my breath in rack 
ш caught up 
ıt double, suddenl 


ig sobs. 


everyth h me and 


I was 


going to lose my dinner all over the «o 
ridor, Poner caught my arm and I mur 
bled d forced myself 10 
swallow the bile. I felt dizzy and sick. 
amd to cover, I said, "What made you 
help, Potter? 
t was the logic of it.” he said with an 
intense seriousness. “If 1 didw't care 
what happened 10 Ball. then I couldn't 
very well be sore ys who hi 


Do you think the rest of ıl 
would have followed him ou 

1 nodded th—one by one, until 
this can of worms was empty—and we 
probably would have been among 
them,” | stared down the empty corridor 
anil shivered. There were people behind 
the shadow screens, but the Cassiopeia 
seemed deserted already. 

Ball started to moar 
and slapped him lightly in the 
velids fluttered а little and th 
staring up at me, blank-faced. 


crew 


nd I bent over 
acc. His 
he was 


"Get ош of the suit,” I growled. 
"Hang it up and go to your compart- 
ment. ГЇ be by later." 

We watched him drift off down the 
corridor and. Potter said, ^What are you 
going to do when he tries to leave 
again 
top him, what else?" 
nd the time after that?” 

I shrugged and started to float back to 
my comparunent, then suddenly turned. 
"Look, we've got the tapes of re 
requests from the John В. If you w: 
help, we can take turns running them 
through the computer and briefing the 
material requested. Maybe we can come 
up with something 

Potter gave me a strange look. "You're 
the captain, Martin—you want me to 
do something. you just tell me to do 
something.” 


We fed the punched request tapes 
from the John B. into the Cassiopcia's 
own memory tanks and took turns scan 
p the material requested. We were 
fly thorough—you couldn't read five 
ars of read-out requests in ten or 
twenty time periods—and the requests 
themselves were something of an enig 
а, the third derivative of the personal 
ties on board, likes, their dislike 
their passing s it significa 
for example, that mathematician Bailey 
had gradually changed from a diet of 
light fiction to heavy treatises on mathe- 
matics during a thousand time periods? 
There was no way of knowing. 

It was Pouer who suggested a solu 
tion. “Look, we're not being objective, 
we're 100 close to the trees to see the 
forest 

"How so? 

“I think we ought to be working by 
analogy. We're assuming that we're the 
only oues worried about the future of the 
Cassiopeia and what has gone wrong— 
nd we're right. But why? Why are you 
concerned, for example? Why did you 
stay on duty when the rest of the cre 
were crapping ош? And why am I 
concemed 

1 felt that he had overstated it; myself, 
I knew that 1 had gradually been giving 
up; but I thought about it a long mo- 
ment, then said, “A matter of respon 
bility—to the crew. Being designated 
captain, the mere act of designation, 
gave me a feeling of responsibility. The 
same, I guess, for you. Both of us have a 
responsibility to the crew as a whole; the 
others don't." 

He looked at me quizzically. "Wouldn't 

somebody on board the John B. have 
ı position?” 
“I sce your point. 
Obviously, the captain. And they had a 
psychologist board. I think that 
would have been about it.” 

"E think E ought to take the captai 
requests, and you, the psychologist’s 


slow] 


on 


n's 
he 


said thoughtfully. “ТП probably make 
for greater objectivity 

It was good logical reasoning and it's 
what I should've done, but I guess if a 
parent can learn from his child. a captai 
can learn from his arew—cven if it’s only 
a crew of one. 

Two time periods later, I had a fairly 
good picture of Peter Hendrix, the psy 
chologist on board the John B. A young 
man—maybe 25—and something of 
athlete, at least enough of onc to be v 
about his physique and worry about get 
ting out of shape (requested read-out on 
Корах Isometric Exercises the 29th 
time period out). Probably hadn't actual 
1у practiced in his profession (Five Years 
oj Case Histories: Horney), was a pipe 
collector (Vanderhof's Briars and. Meer- 
schaums) and something of a dog fancier 
(Reisman: Man's Animal Friend, Fifth 
Edition, Rev.). About the 800th time pe- 
riod out, the requests started to fade. It 
was obvious that Hendrix was reading 
less and less, that he had gotten to the 
point where he stayed within his com- 
partment, shadow screens on, floating in 
the dark and avoiding other crew mem 
bers. Then, suddenly, the 1020th time 
period, he had requested Vandercook's 
Problems of the Cities and Walter's Man 
by Himself. two studies of the megapolis 
of the 20th Century. There was a flurry 
after that of similar volumes and the 
these requests, too, began to taper. From 
the 1045th time period on, Hendrix had 
made no more requests. 

1 pondered the list for a moment, the 
shrugged and started checking to sec 


which ones were in the Cassiopeia's cen- 
tral computer. Both the Vandercook and 
the Walter were still available; some of 
the others had been deleted. I made my- 
self comfortable at the read-out console. 
set the controls for sLow SCAN and started. 
to read. 

I didn't get it all at once—parts of it 
didn't fall into place unul I thought 
about it for a while—but after about 
three hours, I began to sce the connec 
tions. A few time periods later, 1 was a 
sweaty mess, pretty sure of what the 
problem was but much less sure of a so 
lution, I was surprised that any of the 
longvoyage freighters had made it at 
all. t of the problem was built into 
the nature of the long voyage. part of it 
undoubtedly depended on the random 
selection of crew. All of it gave me the 
chills. I slept on it for a period. the 
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snap it!” 

“Wha... what . 

“What did you find out about the 
рай?" 

He swung his hairless legs over the 
of the hammock. yawned and 
ched his naked belly. “Is that what 
you woke me up for? Jesus Aitch Christ. 
Look, I didn’t find out a goddamned 
thing. He liked Italian cooking and he 
was fond of horses-—I guess they weren't 
extinct then, he owned one or some- 
thing.” And then he snapped wide 


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awake. "What's the story on Hendrix? 

I told him, talking for almost a full 
hour. When J had finished, hc looked 
yound-eyed and whistled. “So what hap- 
pens now, sir? As a theory. it sounds 
good to me, but what do we do about it? 
It's one thing to know, another to" 

“Im not sure what I'll do," 1 said 
slowly. “1 guess TI uy talking. ТЕ that 
doesn’t work, then ТЇЇ just have to think 
of something else. 


I tried Coleman first. We had been 
friends once and I thought my chances 
of reaching him were better than any of 
the others. 

I palmed permission to enter his com- 
partment, got no response and shoved 
through the scree! ау. Coleman's 
arms were folded behind his head, his 


sponse. J drifted closer and 
slapped him lightly in the face, His eyes 
slowly opened; there was no sign of 
anger. 

Privacy, Martin.” His cyclids started 
10 sag shut ара 

1 slapped him once more, a little 
harder. His eyes stayed open this time. I 
drifted over to the port and turned my 
back. I was sweating now, beginning to 
stink with nervousness 

“You know, Joe, I was thinking about 
the other time period. when Potter got 
his arm slashed. I started thinking to my- 
selí—what would happen if Potter had 
died and then the algae tanks went out? 
And that kind of shook me up for a mo- 
mei because it occurred to me U 
even if we're nor important to the ship, 
эс, we're important to one another. And 
1 hadn't really thought about that be- 
fore; 

I stole a quick glance at Colem: 

Nothing. 
"Sce, without Potter, Joc, we don't 
t, we don't breathe, If 1 hadn't gouen 
a tourniquet on him, he would've bled to 
death and all the rest of us would have 
d if anything happened to the tanks. 
Tt was lucky I realized that, wasn't it, 
Joe?" 

No response. 

"Drs pretty cold Outside, Joe, pretty 
dead. No life for millions and millions of 
miles. The only living things are right 
here inside the Cassiopeia. You and 1 
and Potter and Jimenez and the rest of 
them. Ten litle pulsing blobs of jelly 
inst all that nothingness out there. 
We need one another, Joc. we can't shut 
one another out anymore. If we do, then 
some time period somebody's going to 
walk Outside and the rest of us are going 
to pick up our marbles and follow. And 
none of us will have sense enough to 
realize it's suicide.” 

I was both sweating and cold by the 
time I had finished. So far as 1 could tell, 
Coleman didn’t even know I was there. 


Something snapped inside my head 
then and 1 started yelling and swearing 
at him and calling him every name 1 
could think of. After a few minutes of 
that, my stream of curses turned to a 
trickle and then 1 dried up completely. 
It was like railing at a corpse. 1 turned 
to leave and then I spotted Colem 
chess set against the bulkhead. the little 
Dresden china figurines standing guard 
over their tiny land of red and black 
squares. They were lovely picces, delicate, 
with soft, glowing colors. 

I picked up a queen, regal and aloof 
in her glazed, rose-colored dress and lit- 
tle slippers of spidery fired china. Then I 
took Coleman's big magnetic screwdriver 
from the bulkhead where it had stuck, 
hefted it by the blade and whacked the 
handle down on the queen in my other 
hand, Ir was like cracking ice. The figu- 
rine shattered and fine china dust pow- 
dered out through my fingers. 1 opencd 
my hand and the crushed. pink-and-blu 
queen started 10 disperse through space. 
“Tt was against regs to bring these on 
1d," I said icily. 1 picked up a bishop 
fine china miter and doak and a sec 
ond later he, too, was powder. I lifted up 
а rook next and glanced up at Colem: 
There was something in his c 
something that, on other oa 
would have sent shivers down my spine. 

"You shouldn't have violated reg: 
said. The rook was dust. I bent to pick 
up a knight. Whatever was in Coleman's 
eyes had to be coaxed out, even if it 
were murder. I casually smashed the 
knight. 

“You bastard!” 

And Coleman was on me. He stag 
gered me for a moment, but I had cx- 
pected it and managed to step partly 
ide. He grabbed my leg, then twisted 
and dove for my throat. I dodged and 
clutched an arm as he shot by and got 
his head with my other hand. The speed 
was already there and all it needed was 
for me to guide him a little. He slammed 

wo the glassteel port and there was a 
soft splurt and the cubicle was shot 
through with a fine spray of blood. I gri- 
maced—a shade too hard; Coleman had 
probably broken several teeth. I still had 
hold of his arm and suddenly whipped it 
back and wrapped my legs around him 
and squeezed. He bucked, arched for a 
second, then all his strength flowed out 
and he went limp. I hung on for а mo- 
ment, wary, then let him go except for a 
hand on his arm to steady him. 

He surprised me, then. He turned, 
buried his head in my shoulder and 
started to sob. 


We held the council of war in Potter's 
compartment, with all the shadow screens 
on and our voices low, though the 
chances of being interrupted were just 
about zero. 

“We can't go around to each member 


of the crew and try to convince him 
of anything by sweet reasonableness,” 
Potter said thoughtfully. 

“I wasn't going to,” I said. “The only 
thing I think will work is shock—we'll 
have to force them to become involved.” 

“I don't know . . .” Potter began 

“In worked on me," Coleman said, 
faintly unfriendly. “But I don't know i 
it will work on anybody else.” 

I idly scratched. the matted hair under 
my arm, squashing something that had 
so far evaded the ultraviolet tubes over 
head, then turned to Potter. “Any ideas? 

He shook his head. "Im mo psy- 
chologist." 
ake it" I said bluntly. "I'm no cap- 
tain, either. So what would you do if you 
were à psychologist?" 

Potter's smile was toothy. "You want 
me to think like a shrink—OK, I'd play 
on their strongest emotions, love and 
hae and fear, try to shake them up. 
But the catch is, we don't know what 
they love and hate and fear. If this had 
been a military ship—you know, ankles 
to elbows all thc time—there would 


have been constant involvement and 
we'd know one another a lot better.” He 
shrugged. “As it is—— 

“What about the personnel tapes in 
the computer" Coleman interrupted. 
"Wouldn't they help 

The personnel tapes were a thought. 
They contained our psychological pro- 
files, medical histories and short résumés 
about our home life—our guts and souls 
reduced 10 minor alignments of iron 
oxide on tissue-thin tape to aid the place 
ment service at destination planet. 

“Those tapes are under sealed cir 
cuits,” I said dubiously. “There's no way 
we can get a read-out on them." 

Coleman snorted, the sudden ceases 
in his monkey face cracking open his 
bcard so the hairs stuck out like the bris- 


tles on a brush. “Any idiot could break 
those scals." 

"Could you?" I asked. 

He shrugged. “I might blow the whole 
computer, but I doubt it." 

“And then we go to work on the crew, 
that it?” Potter asked. 

“That's right," I said. "Frighten them, 
irritate them, make them angry." 


“You cin adapt to irritation," Potter 
said. suddenly doubtful 

“It all depends,” I said thoughtfully 
“on the irritation." 

We started with Jimenez, because he 
had an easy weakness we could play on 
and because we needed his strength, if 
we could arouse it. He was now a quiet, 
almost completely passive Jimenez who 
had given up any pretense whatsoever 
at routine. He either slept or stared out 
the ports, padding to the food dispenser 
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else was around. He was a native of Ti- 
juana, Mexico, the festival center of the 
North American continent, and accord. 
ing to the personnel tapes, he hated the 
arca and not without reason—it was alive 
with raters and Jimenez had a phobia 
about snakes. 

It took skill to turn a twisted piece of 
cloth into what we wanted. Skill, some 
coloring and some hardened grease to 
make ridges and scales. Then*we waited 
until Jimenez was asleep. 1 was elected 
to creep cautiously through the shadow 
screen and drop the "snake" in the red- 
dish fuzz that covered Jimenez’ chest. 
Then I lightly dragged the tips of my 
fingers through his chest hair and made 
a rattling sound with my tongue against 
my teeth, and quickly ducked out of the 
compartment. 

There was a moment's tense wait and 
then Jimenez bolted through the screen, 
his red beard flying and his eyes wild. I 
pagine the scream he must have 
He saw me, hung in space for a 
moment while he figured it out, his eyes 
rolling, then grabbed a brake ring and 
plunged feet first at me. Coleman and 
Potter grabbed his arms and hauled him 
back. 

1 said, 
Jimenez. 

He spat in my face and turned his 
back—but I talked to him anyway. 

I think I could have figured out. Huls- 
man without reading through his profile. 
We had to splice some of the medical 


"Fd like to talk to you, 


cut back and forth with a “home 
tape of Hulsman's family: and when we 
were through, I was preuy disgusted 
with myself. I let a time period go by 
and then dropped by Hulsman's com- 
partment and told him the computer was 
ош of whack and there might be invol- 
untary screenings of some of the memory 
banks but there was no way of doing 
nything about it, 1 don't think he even 
heard me. I told him again and left and 
a few hours later we programed his com 
partment and opened the circuits and 
w 


ited. 
He was part way out five seconds after 
the circuits were opened, his face ashen 
and showing signs of extreme shock. 
"Then he hesitated aud slipped back in. I 
followed a few minutes later. He was 
string at the screen, fists balled, the 
muscles in his face little flat areas of con- 
crete. І waited a moment until I was 
sure he knew I was there, then loudly 
cleared my throat. 

four mother, Hulsman,” I said acid- 
id she ever work on stage?” 

He blacked an eye and almost broke 
my nose before Potter and Coleman 
could restrain him. 

We kept it up for a dozen time peri- 
ods. Various indignities broke Reynolds, 
who had a personal sense of clean! 


ness 


gig that bordered on the pathological. First T 


smashed the ultraviolet sanitary tubes in 
his compartment. He was only vaguely 
aware of it. a slight irritation that slowly 
started to feed on him. Then I made sure 
he kept finding little bits of dried food 
on his dispenser tray whenever he went 
to eat. And, of course, I laughed and 
joked about his tray whenever he was 
in earshot, and one period in the life- 
systems compartment I casually let slip 
that I was the one who kept fouling his 
food tray and what a great joke it was. 
He came within an ace of decapitating 
me by g the sharp-edged tray 


acaos the compartment at me. I ducked 
and it hit the bulkhead with enough 
force to bend the lip of the tray back 


about an inch. 

Ball's weakness was his physical vani- 
ty, He was а big man and his code, of 
course, included not hiting any man 
smaller than himsel£—to have done so 
would have been to lose face. He didn't 
know what to do when Coleman kept 
stumbling into bim and snarling that it 
was all Ball's fault. Coleman managed it 
cleverly cnough—a push off a brake ring 
with only a slight miscalculation and 
Ball would be on the receiving end of an 
unexpected jostle or jab. After a while, 
Ball became very apprehensive about it 
—a uansitshuule passenger not know- 
ing what the abusive drunk across the 
aisle is going to do next. With growing 
awareness came a conscious effort to 
ignore Coleman, except that Coleman 
wouldn't be ignored. He spared neither 
all's family nor his personal proclivities 
nor his courage—which he implied was 
obvious more bv its absence than its pres- 
ence. Ball's frustration was like an itch 
and one time period he finally scratched 
it and bloodied Coleman's nose, more to 
his amazement than Coleman's. He stood 
there, vaguely upset and angry, and I 
promptly said the appropriate thing about. 
their relative sizes and something to the 
effect that Ball should pick on a man his 
own size. 

I had forgotten how much doser I 
came to being a match for him than 
Coleman was. "You bloody bastard!" he 
screamed, and. almost four years of fear 
and frustration came pounding at me. 
This time it took four of us to calm him 
down—and he was really calm only after 
I hit him along the side of the head with 
a half dozen trays. Kenworthy, Adams 
and Herschel were next. 

But all the time I was breaking the 
crew, I knew it really wasn't going to 
work, I hadn't changed the basic situa- 
tion nor the basic surroundings. I could. 
upply more but Pouer was 
right—eventually I would become the 
small boy crying wolf and then I would 
lose them for good. What I had to do 
was manufacture an emergency, a genu- 
ne emergency in which there would be 
an honest clement of chance that we 
might not make it, an emergency that 
could be coped with—but just barely. 


I wanted to confide in Potter and 
Coleman but knew I couldn't take the 
sk. so I researched it myself with the 
aid of the computer. It was the cargo 
manifest that finally gave me the idea. 
There were dangers in it—there had to 
be—and in the end it would all depend 
on the ingenuity of the crew. And if I 
had guessed wrong—well it would be 
no worse than bleeding their lives away 
staring out the ports, to finally get so fed 
up with themselves that they would 
walk out forever and spend the rest of 
eternity cartwheeling through the lonely 
reaches of spac 

I waited until a time period when 
most of the shadow screens were on, 
found a crowbar and crept back to the 
Lifesystems compartment, Behind the 
food-dispenser fronts was a small com- 
partment containing the automated 
algae tanks, the small farms of living or- 
ganisms that were our life's blood. Y 
wedged the bar into the lip of ihe dis 
penser and slowly bent it down, hooking 
my feet under a brake ring to gain lever- 
age. The front gradually yielded and 
finally there was an opening wide enough 
for me to wiggle through. I squeezed 
past the driers and the formers and the 
flavorers and then started swinging the 
crowbar. Tanks erupted and the contents 
splattered against the bulkheads—streams 
of green slime geysering through the com- 
parunent, filling the air with a thick green 
mist and coating the bar with a viscous 
slime. І was so frightened 1 wanted to 
vomit, but I kept swinging. I had to be 
right. 

I finally squeezed out, ng and 
gagging and dripping slime, and made 
my way to the control console. I located 
the central bank of shadow-screen con- 
trols, opened the panel beneath and 
rammed the crowbar into the wiring at 
the same time I pressed the general 
alarm. 

The brassy clangor of the alarm beat 
through the ship like heavy surf, and si- 
multancously the control board for the 
shadow screens arced and sputtered and 
one by one the screens went off, until 
1 was looking at a single long compart 
ment with nine alarmed and almost nude 
crew members scrambling off their elasto- 
hammocks, 

A second later somebody hollered, men 
started to stumble into one another and 
then somebody spotted me standing by the 
console, covered with slime and still 
dutching the crowbar. And all the ume 
the alarm was screaming throughout the 
ship like a hysterical airraid siren. 

They swarmed up to the console. 
Hey, what gives? 

‘What the hell? 
“Hey, Potter, the food dispenser!” 
"What happened to the screen: 
“What the bloody hell is going on? 
“The food dispenser.” 

A shriek. “THE FOOD DISPENSER! 
They swept to the other end of the 


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compartment like a tide, then one by one 
they fluttered back to form a silent, 
watchful ring around me 


"You stupid bastard," Jimenez said in 
a freezing voice, “you've signed a death 
warrant for everybody here. For your- 
self. too.” 

I shook my head. “No, we can get 
through. There's grain in the cargo com- 
partments and we can build hydroponics 
tubs. I think we can do it.” 

Everybody looked at Potter. Jimenez 
said, "Can we?" 

Potter was squatting on the deck, 
holding his head in his hands and shak- 
ing and mumbling, “Holy Mother of Je- 
sus, Martin, you shouldn't have done it, 
you shoukl've warned me, you should've 
warned me.” Jimenez’ toe caught him in 
the ribs and he looked up, still pasty- 
faced and trembling. “I don't know, 7 
don't know. Its a big maybe. We'll have 


to break into the cargo compartment and 


we'll have to 
Reynolds squeaked, “We'll 
build a whole new ecology, that's what 


have to 


we'll have to do, a whole new ecology! 
You just don't make tubs, where'll we 
get the fertilizer? 

“I didu't think you'd ask anything so 
obvious,” I interrupted. He turned green. 

Coleman had turned his back to me 
when Jimenez asked him about the cargo 
compartments. “Yeah, maybe we can get 
through. It'll take a lot of work. We'll 
have to burn our way through and I 
don't even know if we have enough oxy- 
acetylene to do it. One thing for sure, 
we'll be damned hungry by the time we 
get there 

It was Ball who said coldly, “Why'd 
you do it, Martin?” 

They all stopped talking then and I 
could sec the almost imperceptible 
movement to line up behind Ball. This 
was the big one, I thought, this was the 
final challenge. And I had no friends 
among them. “Because I had to, Ball,” I 
said slowly. “Because that was the only 
way I could guarantee that we would 
get there at all. 

He thought about it a minute, then 
said logically, "You may have guaran- 
teed just the opposite." 

І nodded. “Р might have, but I don't 
think so. Be honest, Ball—would you bet 
that we would have made it anyway?" I 
turned to the rest. “Would any of you 
het? Did any of you really give a good 
goddamn before right now? Oh, sure, 
you care now all right—you have to!” 

Ball and I stared at each other, fenc- 
ing, and after the longest moment in my 
life, he said quictly, "Maybe you're 
right. We'll see.” 

I glanced at the rest of them. Cole- 
man was nodding sliphtly to himself, 
Reynolds looked a little uncertain. 1 even 
thought I detected a slight glimmer of 
approval in Jimenez small myopic cye 

Well, I had done it, 1 thought with 


absolutely no fecling of elation. They 
were valuable to one another now, they 
were involved now—they had to be, 
their lives depended on it. 

Then Hulsman stepped out of the 
crowd clutching a spanner wrench and 
shaking his head slightly to clear away 
the dirty blond hair from in front of his 
blazing eyes He was all tiger now, I 
thought; he would try something foolish 
if ticked just right. I had the feeling he 
was still furious about. the other. 

"I ought to kill vou, Martin? 

I sized him up and said contemp 
tuously, "No, you won't, Hulsman. Nei- 
ther you nor anybody else would dream 
of it right now. 

He showed his teeth and waved the 
wrench and said. “Why not? What 
makes u so sure?” 


1 was pretty tired and I was starting to 


shake with reaction. I wished to God 
that I could go to sleep and forget about 
it all, but I realized I couldn't do that 
now any more than they could. 

“Because you need a captain," I said. 
“And I'm the only one who's qualified, 
I'm the only one who really wants it 
Everybody clse had his chance and 
nobody took it, nobody wanted the re- 
sponsibility. So I'm it, Hulsman, don't 
bother looking any further." I shoved for- 
ward slightly and grabbed the wrench 
away from him. "Now get the torches 
and get to work—all of you. Snap it! 


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part of the discomfort was simply the 
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the manifest and there were certain items 
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Callahan, the portmaster, was а com- 
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portmaster оп a colony planet always 
was—and I had no doubt his relaxed at 
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came to the subject of the missing items. 

Much to my astonishment, he really 
didn't seem to notice and had started to 
write his name at the bottom when I 
interrupted him. 

"I'm very sorry, sir,” 1 said formally, 
“but there are some missing items 

He put down his pen, leaned back in 
his wicker chair and raised an eyebrow. 

Oh? 

The seed grains,” I said stiffly. "I 
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then looked up at me with alert brown 
eyes that seemed a little out of place 
his fleshy face. “You're referring to the 


Hat metal sheets you converted into 
hydroponics tubs?” 

I didn't know I started, sur 
prised. 

He waved a hand. “Of course I know, 
Vm no idiot, Martin. I've been portmas- 
ter here for almost ten years, handling 


an average of an Earth ship a month. 


The first thing we do—after unloading, 
delousing the crew and [umigating the 
pigpen thar the crew's quarters have 


been turned into—is to check the ma 
fest against what actually arrives here. 
And then we check the ship's log. You 
missed a Jot of entries, but you were still 
pretty explicit as to what happened.” 
reddened. "I didn't mean 

“As to missing items,” he continued, 
it doesn't matter. The virtue of bu- 
requeracy is that it constantly seeks to 
minimize risk. Three out of the five ships 
carrying identical cargoes as yours made 
it on the long voyage. That's not to say 
the seed grains won't be missed—but 
they weren't rcally vital." 

“You're trying to tell me that the ship 
and its cargo weren't very important,” I 
said. biucily. 

“I mean nothing of the sort,” he said 
kindly. “Look. Martin, vou did what you 
had to do for the good of the ship and 
the On a larger scale, Earth. does 
what it has to do for the good of the col- 
ony planets. And as important as the car 
go is, don't forget that the crew is even 
more importint—we need their techni- 
cal skills badly. You got them all here 
fely; for that, you're to be congratu- 
lated" He suddenly looked grim. "You 
ought to see how some ships come in— 
murders, insanity, | mutiny, some 
times half the crew dead. You did pretty 
well, Martin, better than you realize 

I stared out the window behind him, 
not listening. Port tugs were hauling the 
Jassiopeit away, to be smelted down for 


aew. 


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from Xerxes and the extra incoming 
ships were mehed down for badly 


needed metals. My mind started to drift, 
remembering the loneliness on board 
nd the stink of the crew's quarters and 
we had 


Potter's slashed arm and what 
done то Нии 
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It was flauering and 1 lit the cigs 
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triumph of bureaucracy was that it 


sought to minimize risk. I'll buy that— 
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aew is going to be green, a crew that 
makes only one trip. the ship has to be 
pretty much automatic. Which means 
there's nothing for the crew to really do 
—in one sense, it isn't needed. And it 
knows it. 

“Is that necessarily bad?” 
asked, surprised. 

“Any environment that doesn't require 
1 to do something is a hostile envi- 
I said slowly. "And the less it 


Callahan 


a 
ronment,’ 


requires him to do, the more hostile it 
is 


» looked blank. “Е don't get 


I frowned. "I didn't either. Not until I 
had read the same material that Hen- 
drix, the psychologist on board the John 
B., had read about the problems of cities 
in the 20th Century. Those сапу cities 
were a mess—they were overcrowded 
and they sullered from air pollution and. 
igulation and crime and all of 
1 but there was another problem, a 
"1 concentrated on the 

"Man's. gregarious, 
roups—first in ham- 
lets, then villages, then towns, and final- 
Cities. But nobody ever 
would be a law of dimin- 
ishing returns. The larger the city, the 
Jarger the population duster, the less im- 
portant the individual man within it. 
Нез a smaller and smaller cog in a |: 
er and larger machine and finally he 
really doesn't matter at all. And those 
carly cities were machines, tremendous 
machines made up of trafic flows and 
power grids and commu net- 
works and huge water systems and di 
posal planis. Eventually, а man became 
aware of his own insignificance, and 
when he did, he started to withdraw. 
"They had a word for it. They called it 
alienation—anomie.” 

Callahan didn't say anything, just 
puffed on his pipe and watched me with 
those alert brown cyes that could see 
two inches below the surface of my skin. 
"here was something else," I contin- 


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ication 


neighbors, the less close you felt to 
them. You didn't want to know the 
people who lived next door, or down the 
hall, or across the street. They were just 
part of the faceless mass. Besides, you 
knew they didn't give a crap about you, 
so why should you give a crap about 
them?” I shivered. man could be 
murdered in a transit shuttle and nobody. 
would come to his defense, Nobody 
wanted to be involved. À woman could 
scream for help in the streets and people 
would plug their ears and close their 
windows, They accepted horror—and 
weren't even aware of it.” 

“Apathetic?” Callahan asked. 

I nodded. "That's right. Not only to- 
ward one another, but toward them- 
selves as well, Once, during a power 
black-out, people stranded in the transit 
nic, didn't riot, didn't 


try to get oùt. They just sat there. The 
marvelous machine had stopped wi 
and all the little cogs couldn't function 
on their own. They had forgotten how.” 
1 fell silent, watching the activity of 
the port outside the window 
"What's the co 
prodded gently. “You! 
city with millions of peopl 


about 
there were only ten of you aboard the 


C 


issiopeia. I 
1 wondered for a moment if the man 
were stupid, then realized he only want- 
ed me to confirm what he already 
thought. "It was a spacegoing slum," I 
said. “There were only ten of us, but on a 
numberspersquarefoot basis, it would 
make the most overpopulated cty look 
like a prairie. And like the people m 
those early cities, we had no control over 
our environment. We were helpless. We 
had routine jobs to perform—makework 
but nonc of them really mattered. We 
didn't matter. We had no sayso in what 
was happening to us. And there was the 
final factor.” T could feel my armpi 
start to bleed sweat. “We didn't need 
one another—and the horrible thing was 
that it had all been planned that way. 
The Colonization Board was afraid we 
might kill one another during the long 
voyage, so they provided shadow screens, 
taught us to respect Privacy above all, 
and arranged routine so we could avoid 
опе another. And no weapons, of course 
of any kind. Which made us even more 
helpless in the face of the unknown, And 
like the city dwellers, the final result was 
loss of identity. We became remote from 
one another, from ourselves, from our 
own feelings. Like the people in the 
aansit shuttles, we could watch Potter 
bleed to death and fel nothing. We 
weren't involved. 
Gallahan said, “Why did the crew of 
the John B. walk out? 
“The environment," I said slowly. “The 
horrifying, indifferent environment, and 
the loneliness. When you're alone in a 
crowd, you're really alonc. And th 
you become afraid. Finally, all you w 
to do is get away from that crowd.” 
“But walking Outside was suicide 
1 shrugged. "They didn't know it. 
"They had lost touch with reality by then. 
As for Outside, it’s mot al world 
without end —sometimes it’s more like 
ittle black room with lights studding the 
walls. It's as real one way as the other 
sat there quietly for a moment, my cigar 
slowly turning to ash in the tray, unno 
ticed. “I can understand why the crew of 
the John B. walked out. The poor bas- 
tards wanted to get away from the ship. 
away from one another.” I could feel 
myself start to break then. “The opposite 
of love isn’t hate," 1 said slowly. “ИЗ 
indifference. Ask any kid 
Hahan stood up and said, “I'I make 
recommendations and send them back to 
the Board. Probably urge that they make 
the ships less foolproof. They may lose 


some ships that way; but in the long run, 
I think it will be better." He stood up 
and handed me the manifest receipt. 
“We need leaders here, you know. That's 
one category we're always short of." 
ts a difficult one to train for and 
ship," I said. 

We've never asked them to ship us 
any," Callahan said quietly. “They sort 
of develop along the way." I had my 
hand on the doorknob when he suddenly 
id, “We need a good man at the port 
here. After you've looked around a bit, 
come on back.” 

I saluted and turned and walked out 
into the bright sunlight. Three blocks 
from the spaceport, the Rod and Pile 
nestled beneath some of Xerxes tall, 
from the 


palmlike trecs, set well back 
boulevard. 

They had rounded up a dozen girls 
and everybody cheered when I walked 


Jimenez was the first to buy me a 
drink; his glasses were clean and his 
beard was trimmed. and he had clothes 
on and I damn near didn't recognize him. 
He called me a dirty gringo, smiled 
when he said it, then. bought. another 
drink. downed it and did a magnificent 
all off his stool. Hulsman was next, the 
all-American-boy grin having suffered a 
sea change into a happy, drunken smile, 
and then Ball was buying and slapping 
me on the back and сусп Reynolds, 
scrubbed and pink in a spotless uniform, 
broke down and bought a round. We 
dr. id sang and made passes at the 
girls and dates for later and roared with 
laughter at anecdotes that had been any- 
thing but funny at the time. We made 
arrangements to have a reunion every 
year and I wondered to myself what lies 
we would be telling one another after 
we had spread across the continents of 
Xerxes and had wives and kids and the 
Cassiope almost forgotten and the 
stars only something to look at at night 
and feel romantic about. 

Then I found myself alone at a table 
with Coleman. I reached into my pocket 
and pulled out a small package I had 
treasured all afternoon and set it gently 
on the table in front of him. He stared at 
it, puzzled. 

o ahead," I said. "Open it 
He fumbled at the wrappings and then 
spread the contents out on the table. A 
bishop, a queen, a knight and a rook. 


nk 


They were lovely, delicate figures, al- 
most exact duplicates of the ones 1 had 
smashed. 


“When it comes to. porcelain,” I said, 
“Xerxes has the best craftsmen. this side 
of Earth.” I stretched out in the chair 
and watched Coleman play delightedly 
with his chess pieces and listened to the 
overhead fan and stared at the pool of 
sunlight by the open door. Then I or 
dered a drink, relaxed and let myself 
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