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ENTERTAINMENT FOR MEN APRIL 1970 « ONE DOLLAR 


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THE GIRLS OF ISRAEL 
CAMPUS MANHUNTS 
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So grab for all the gusto you can. 
Even in the beer you drink. 

Why settle for less? 


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to put them. Because they not 
only can attach to your ceiling. 
Orto your walls. But they can 
stand ontheir own two feet. 
And when we made the 


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speakers versatile, we didn’t 
forget about the rest of the system. 
Like the 4-track cassette unit 

that plays pre-recorded cassettes. 
Or lets you record your own. 
Instereo. 

Like the FM/AM and FM 
stereo tuner. With sliding 
controls. The kind the pros use. 

We put other things into 
this system. An AFC control that 
keeps the FM from drifting. And 
FET to pull in distant stations 
—one at a time. 

We built ina Stereo Eye that 
lights up to let you know when 
you're listening to stereo. And a 


For people who don't have any. 


We made a stereo system with 


sound monitoring system with two 
professional VU meters so you 

can hear what you're recording, 
while you're recording it. 

And you Il be hearing it all 
through those chrome-faced 
globes that notonly look 
slightly ahead of their time, but 
sound that way. 

The RS-2528 is all Solid State. 
And comes with a microphone, 
mike stand and pre-recorded 
cassette. Also jacks for a phono 
and headset. 

There's only one place to get 
hung-up on it. Ata dealer we 
permit to carry the Panasonic line. 


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PLAY BILL ^^: ^ метке avour те Ripon Society 


а 9000-member progressive-Republican research 
ind policy group, has President Nixon's seal of approval. Indeed, the 
highlight of the association's recent seventh-anniversary dinner was а 
telegram from the Chief, hailing Ripon's impatience with the “tired 
approaches of the past and its readiness to explore ideas whose time 
is coming.” Just such an exploration is presented in this issue by Josiah 
Lee Auspitz, the organization's 29-year-old president. In For a Moder- 
ale Majority, he foresees the emergence of a young elite whose politi- 
cal involvement will lead the nation toward reconciliation, reform 
social progress. After serving on the White House staff as resea 
director of the President's Advisory Council on Executive Organiza- 
tion, Auspitz is now back at Harvard, teaching courses in government 
while completing work for his Ph.D. Another hopeful note is sounded 
in The Great Campus Manhunt, in which. Max Gunther reveals how 
corporate college recruiters are hiring more postgraduate talent th 
ever before, despite increased student sales resistance. and. growing 
numbers of anti-business activists. While researching Manhunt on vari- 
ous campuses, Gunther spent a day talking to the students at Hofstra 
University’s placement office. “After ` he says, “it became ap- 
parent that many of them had а mistaken notion of my mission—they 
thought I was recruiting new employees for rav and were dis- 
appointed to learn that 1 was working on a story assignment. When 
1 asked why they wanted to work for a mag; they gave answers 
ind of footprint in history.’ The 
only thing that scared them was the possibility of becoming anonymous. Moncy was onc of the 
last things on their minds, which seems to be symptomatic among a growing campus group.” 

‘The old saw that truth is stranger than fiction is entertainingly reaffirmed in Dr. Otto 
Matic, I Presume, PLAYBOY Associate Editor Craig Vetter's wry account of his psychoanalytic 
encounter with a California computer. Alter it was over, he almost got а complex trying to 
convince fellow stall members that the bizarre narrative wasn't a figment of his imagination 
he had the actual tape printout to prove it. In The Sports Hustlers, his first contribut 
nov, Barry Rosenberg chronicles those соп artists who make a tidy livi the expense 


MAC DONALD 


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nce to make some 


such as ‘chance to influence people,’ ‘ch 


ng 


who recounts for us шту Lewis, a nearly forgotten Memphis blues. 
poign Furry's Blues, will appear in volume two of The Age of Rock, 
an anthology soon to be published by Random House. “Since my meeting with Lewis.” Booth 
tells us, “many young people have begun to rediscover the blues, and their interest has created 
2 new market for recordings and perlormances by Furry and his few remaining contemporaries 
the Mississippi Delta, I'm sorry to report that Furry recently suffered a heart attack; but, 
fortunately, he has recovered sufficiently to play weddings, bar mitzuahs and other engage- 
ments" Music authority Booth is currently living in England, writing a book tentatively 
titled The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones Outlaw Band. 

In an exclusive Playboy Interview conducted by Senior Editor Nat Lehrman, Dr. Mary 
Calderone, executive director of SLECUS, airs her forthright views on female sexuality, modem 
approaches to marriage and the right-wing assault on sex education in the schools. Appro- 
priately, Lehrman is also in charge of The Playboy Forum, The Playboy Advisor and articles 


dealing with human behavior. Our Mortgaged Future, by James Clayton, demonstrates how the 
crippling altereffects of war sap a nation’s human and financial resources for decades—and even 
centuries—after the hostilities have ended. Director of the University of Utah's honors pro- 


gram and an associate professor of hi 
tor William Proxm 
ng a book about the economi ı will he ba 

An exclusive prep school in New York provides the sett confrontation between father and son in. 
Black Shylock, a Louis Auchincloss story that heads up April's fiction, Although Shylock marks his first appearance in 
»rAvnov, Auchincloss is the author of many books, among them The Great World and Timothy Colt, Portrait in Brown- 
stone, The Rector of Justin, The Embezzler and A World of Profit. His most recent work was Motiveless Malignity, 
a book of essays on Shakespeare. John D. MacDonald has written more than 600 short stories and over 50 books dur- 
ing his 23-year writing career. In Dear Old Friend, he weaves an ironic tale about the disintegration of a long-standing 
friendship on the shoals of business avarice. Master of the macabre Richard Matheson wrote his voadooistic yarn By 
Appointment Only in one sitting, alter а visit то his local barbershop. Matheson’s last spellbinder for вглувох, Prey 
(April 1969), is included in his forthcoming collection of stories, Shock IV. 

Other treats to welcome April: The Bilingual Pleasures of Montreal, which outlines (and encapsulates in an accom- 
panying action chart) the post-Expo attractions of Canada's stylish cosmopolis; Playboy's Spring and Summer Fashion 
Forecast, Fashion Director Robert L. Green's preview of sartorial trends for the upcoming sunny seasons (Green ought 
to know—along with such notables as Bill Blass, Hubert de Givenchy and Luis Estevez, he was named one of 1969's best- 
ssed men in the fashion world); The Grooming Boom, an ar of new notions for the perfect finishing touch; and 
Class with Glass, a quartet of cars for those in search of individuality and style in vehicular body design. Beauty also 
abounds in The Girls of Isracl, a pictures-and-text essay devoted to the spirited and sensuous women who grace the 
embatded and. of milk and honey: nomadic Playmate of the Month Barb; 
on a visit to Alaska; and Bunny Myra: She's Entitled, a photographic tribute to the British cottontail who, after win- 
ning the Miss England crown, competed in the last Miss Unive contest. So read on—April won't rain on our parade. 


tory, Clayton testified on this subject last year before Sena- LEHRMAN 


eis Subcommittee on Economy in Government and is presently planning a leave of absence to finish 
consequences of the Gold War, | 


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vol. 17, no. 4—april, 1970 


YBOY. 


CONTENTS FOR THE MEN'S ENTERTAINMENT MAGAZINE 


PLAY BIL ate ТЕ: 

DEAR PLAYBOY... 9 
PLAYBOY AFTER HOURS. ——— © 
THE PLAYBOY ADVISOR... ——— СЯ 
THE PLAYBOY FORUMS — 53 
PLAYBOY INTERVIEW: DR. MARY CALDERONE—candid conversation. s c8 
BLACK SHYLOCK-— fiction. : m LOUIS AUCHINCIOSS 80 
OUR MORTGAGED FUTURE «riicle. JAMES CLAYTON 86 
FOR A MODERATE MAJORITY —article JOSIAH LEE AUSPITZ 89 
BUNNY MYRA: SHE'S ENTITLED—pictorial = Oh 
THE GROOMING BOOM—accouterments. — x v3 


DEAR OLD FRIEND —fiction. JOHN D. MACDONAID 99 
FURRY'S stuks-memoir . STANLEY BOOTH 100 
PLAYBOY'S SPRING & SUMMER FASHION FORECAST «tiro. ROBERT 1. GREEN 105 


NORTH TO ALASKA —playboy's playmate of the month. = 0 
PLAYBOY'S PARTY JOKES—humor.... z - — 124 
THE BILINGUAL PLEASURES OF MONTREAL—travel . 126 
SPORTS HUSTLERS—arlicle е . BARRY ROSENBERG 133 
THE LAND OF A MILLION ELEPHANTS— fiction. ASA BABER 134 
GIRLS OF ISRAEL—pictorial еззау.............. 138 
DR. OTTO MATIC, | PRESUME-—arficle. CRAIG VETTER 151 


СНЕСКМАТЕ— 


MARGARET OF NAVARRE 153 
CLASS WITH GLASS—modern living... 7 н ЕЮ 
BY APPOINTMENT Ou fiction RICHARD MATHESON 159 
THE GREAT CAMPUS MANHUNT —arti MAX GUNTHER 161 
WORD PLAY scii eee ROBERT CAROLA 163 


dd lassie... 


MAN AND THE IDEA —humor. ALPHONSE NORMANDIA 164 


. 182 


ON THE SCENE— personalities. 


HUGH м. HEFNER editor and publisher 
А. C. SPECTORSKY associate publisher and editorial director 


ARTHUR PAUL arl director 


JACK J. KESSIE managing editor VINCENT т. TAJIRI picture editor 
SHELDON WAX assistant managing editor; MURRAY FISHER, MICHAEL LAURENCE, NAT 
LEHRMAN senior cdilors; ROME MACAULEY fiction cditor; JAMES GOODE articles edito: 

ARTHUR KRETCHMER associate articles editor; том OWEN modern living edilor; pavi 
BUTLER, HENRY FENWICK, WILLIAM. J. HELMER, LAWRENCE LINDERMAN, ROBERT J. SHEA, 
DAVID STEVENS, JULIA TRELEASE, CRAIG ҮЕ ROBERT ANTON WILSON associate editors; 
ROBERT L. GREEN fashion director; DAVID TAYLOR fashion editor; REGINALD POTTERTON 
travel reporter; THOMAS MARIO food & drink editor; 1. PAUL GETTY contributing edi- 
tor, business & finance; ARLENE BOURAS copy chief; KEN №. PUKDY, KENNETH TYNAN 
contributing editors; tun korr. administrative editor; STEVEN м. L. ARONSON, 
GEOFFREY NORMAN, STANLEY PALEY, BILL QUINN, CARL SNYDER, JAMES SPURLOCK, ROGI 
WIDEAPR, RAY WILLIAMS assistant edilors; BEV CHAMBERLAD ARILYN GRABOWSKI 
associate picture editors; вил. ALSENAULY, DAVID CHAN, DWIGHT HOOKER, POMPEO 
POSAR, ALEXAS URBA staff photographers; MIKE сотилкр photo lab chief; noNALD 
BLUME associate art director; BOM POST, GEORGE KENTON, KERIG PONE, TOM STAEBLER, 
ROY MOODY, LEN WILLIS, CHEK SUSNI, JOSEPH PACZEK assistant art directors; WALTER 
ERADENVCH, VICTOR HUBBARD, KAREN YOIS arf assistants; MICHELLE ALTMAN asociale 
cartoon editor; JOHN mastro production manager; ALLEN VARGO assistant produce 
lion manager; PAT partas righis and permissions e HOWARD W. LEDERER advertising 
direclor; JULES KASE, JOSEPH GUENTHER associale advertising managers; SHERMAN 
KEATS chicago advertising manager; KONERT A. NC RENZIE detroit advertising man- 
ager; NELSON виси promotion director; nemur Lows publicity manag 
BENNY DUNN public relations manager; ANSON MOUNT public affairs manager; т 
кєрєк. personnel director; JANET Picris reader service; ALVIN WIEMOUD. sub- 
scription manager; ROBERT S. PREUSS business manager and circulation. director. 


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GETTING IT TOGETHER 

The January issue of PLayBoy should 
be required reading for every American 
who is concerned about what is happen- 
ing to our county. How hollow-sound- 
ing is President Nixon's year-old pledge 
to ther" when the very 


of our society is being torn apart 
abroad and strife at home. 
The several articles certainly were ad. 


dressed 10 the major sources of division 
in our country. Of special interest was 
Senator George McGovern's. article on 
reconciling the generations. He present- 
ed а cogent and accurate appraisal of 
the problem and how it can be solved 
if we are willing to take the necessary 
steps. California has a lot to learn from 
the Senator from South Dakota 

March К. Fong 

California State Assembly 

Sacramento, California 

For those who came in late, “Bring Us 

Together" was a four part feature in the 
January ruaysoy proposing procedures 
for resolving the polarities that plague 
the nation. The four parts included 
“Reconciling the Generations,” by U.S. 
Senator George McGovern, “Sharing the 
Wealth,” by Gesar Chavez, “Uniting the 
Races," by Julian Bond, and “Forging а 
Left-Right Coalition," by Tom Wicker 


In Bring Us Together, U.S. Senator 
George McGovern’s contribution, Recon- 
ciling the Generations, is a masterpiece. 
It should be read by every individual 
1's youth; it 
might help them adjust to new genera- 
tion of citizens fed up with the hypocri- 
sies of this "Christian" land 
It has been my pleasure to have been 
a friend and sometime confidant to < 
tor McGovern over the past 16 years. T 
know him to be a man as thoroughly 
dedicated to building a better country 
and a better world as were his friends 
John F. and Robert F. Kennedy. Such 
"bad politics" as telling it like it is, and 
how it should be, may not sit so well 
ith some of the home folks, but the real 
believers in truth, justice and a peaceful 
world cannot but urge him on. 
Bruce M. Stoner, Executive 
The Daily Republic 
Mitchell, South Dakota 


who has lost faith in Ame 


na- 


I would like to thank both rLAvnoy 
and Cesar Chavez for voicing, in Sharing 
the Wealth, the plight that confronts the 
Mexican-American farm workers. In To- 
ledo, Ohio, as in other cities, many of 
the health agencies responsible for the 
living conditions of the migrants are 
controlled by the growers or their friends 
or relatives. In this environment, the 
complaints of sanitarians who check the 
living condi 
the complaints of the migranis them 
Il оп deaf 


ons of the migrants and 


selves I3 


Hector Guzman 
Chicago, Il 


nois 


You have contributed to the fulminat- 
ing nonsense in this country with the 
articles by MeGovern, Chavez, Bond and 
Wicker. McGovern says we should adore 
those "fools who rush in where angels 
fear to tread," because they аге young. 
Chavez, representing only a small ре 
centage of the grape pickers, says that 
our system should not reward talent or 
hard work but, rather, should spread 
the wealth somehow. Bond ignores the 
fact that this country was built by whites 
who neither owned slaves nor oppressed 
anyone and who prospered by taming 
nature, not one another. And Wicker 
should be told of the rise and fall of the 
Third Reich, during which Communists 
helped finance Nazi activities and forged 
а leltaight coalition for tyrann 

We of the silent majority (1 speak for 
ill 
solve none of our many problems. Never- 


only one of us) feel that stridency w 


theless, I enjoy your magazine; keep me 
stirred up. 


William J. Ramsey 
Livermore, California 


A FACT OF LITE 

David Halberstam’s The Americaniza- 
tion of Vieinam in your January issue 
gives an accurate account of the condi- 
tions there, but it blames Americans too 
much for the graft and corruption that 
now exist. I spent two years in Turkey 
an engineer and one year in Thailand a 
а teacher and found graft and сонар 
tion from the South China Sea to the 
Bosporus, Graft has been accepted as a 
fact of life as long as my wife (а Thai 
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small villages, where Occidentals are rare 
ly seen. So ingrained is it that my wife 
was incredulous that I didn’t have to slip 
a tip to the immigration officer who proc- 
esed her when we entered the 
United States. Graft is not something 
that was taught by the Americans— 
though we did up the ante. 

Don Wilson 

Troy, Alabama 


David Halberstam's The Americaniza- 
tion of Vietnam is undoubtedly one of 
the best articles written on the situation 
in Vietnam. It should be reprinted in 
history books as the gospel on our in- 
volvement in Southeast Asia. 

TT. L. Thompson 
FPO San Francisco, California 


The article on Vietnam is a fine piece 
of journalism, but this is not surprising 
—for two reasons; One, David Halber- 
stam is one of the best craftsmen I 
know in our wade and his writing at 
times comes dangerously close to being 
an art form. Two, the amide is the 
latest addition to the still-growing acre- 
age of exhibits to prove—if Vice-Presi- 
dent Agnew will forgive my instant 
analysis—that the journalists in Vietnam 
have consistenuly presented a clearer 
picture of that tragedy and the direc- 
tion it was taking Шап any of the diplo- 


matig military ог political brass have 
ever expressed. 

However, one of Halberstam’s sate- 
ments troubles me: “We have learned, 
I think, more about ourselves than 
about the Vietnamese.” What we have 
learned about the nly 
has been little, but I also fear the ex- 
perience has taught us too little—as yet. 


inamese cer 


about ourselves. It appears, for in 
stance, that the country isn't particu- 
larly interested in learning about My 
Lai, or so the polls indicate. More 
pieces like Halberstam's would help rec 
Шу that awful educational deficiency 
Edward P, Morgan 
ABC News 
Washington, D. C. 


BEHIND THE BARRICADES 

І am wholeheartedly in favor of the 
statements made by the Honorable Ar- 
thur J. Goldberg in Our Besieged Bill of 
Rights (v, January). To alter our 
Bill of Rights would put us back into 
the Stone Age. Forty-three years ago, my 
instructor in criminal Jaw stated that a 
fence should never be removed unless we 
first know why it was erected. It is my 
honest belief that we have too many laws 
that are not enforced and that if these 
laws were enforced, we would not have 
individuals screaming to change our Bill 
of F 


George R. Bieber 
Attorney at Law 


Chicago, Illinois 


Like Arthur Goldberg in Our Besieged 
Bill of Rights, Y am a bleeding heart. 
But my heart bleeds for the victims of 
crime, for the tens of thousands of Wash- 
ington, D. C., citizens, mostly blacks, who 
barricade themselves in their apartments 
every night because of rampant crime. 

Would Mr. Goldberg, who reportedly 
feared the “brutality” of a New York 
political campaign, be willing to serve as 
a policeman in Harlem. in South Chica- 
go or іп Anacostia here in D.C? И he 
tried it, even he might think differently 
about the hurdles to effective law cn- 
forcement that have been built up so 


recently by the courts. The victims and 
those who live in daily fear of crime 
have some constitutional rights. too. 
J. Edward Day 
Attorney at Law 
Washington, D. C. 
Mr, Day was Postmaster General dur- 
ing the Kennedy Administration, 


MAKING POINTS 

Justice William О. Douglas article 
Points of Rebellion (PLAYBOY, January) 
is one of the most eloquent statements 1 
have ever read. The lesson of history is 
clear: Those things not done by civilized 
men through intelligence will be done by 
primitive men duough violence. We 
must restore a Government that is re 


sponsive to its citizens and we must have 
an economy that is responsible toward its 
consumers. The question at hand is: Are 
we sophisticated enough to enact the 
legislation to do this, or are the vested 


interests so entrenched that the violence 
and counterviolence of the Sixties will 
continuc? 

Capt. В. L. Thomas 

APO New York, New York 


A SOUND DOLLAR 
I've just seen Harvey Kurtzman's The 
Good, the Bad and the Garlic in the 
January PrAYsov and found this spoof 
of the “Dollar” films hilarious, as did 
almost everyone I've talked to about it 
If 1 decide to do a sequel to the series, 
1 may use Kurtzman's great story idea. 
Clint Eastwood 
Pebble Beach, California 


THE JOYOUS REVOLUTIONARIES 

For Christ's Sake, by Harvey Cox 
(erAYbov, January) says with verve many 
things that 1 have been saying in my 
preaching and counseling. The picture of 
Christ as a great celebrator is опе that 
І draw for couples in premarital coun 
we discuss the la of the 
riage service: “Which holy estate 
is. adorned and beautified with 
chind the 


seling а xa 


presence in Cana of Galile 
stately language is а boisterous and hu 


п spirit of celebration. Jesus did not 
want the party to poop: and so, as Cox 
wrote, Jesus supplied the booze. 

In my counseling, particularly with 


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Christian students troubled by se 
guilt, I remind these young men thar 
Jesus, being fully human, undoubtedly 
went through adolescence and the process 
of psychosexual development, including 
masturbation and possibly relationships 
with women, details of which are simply 
absent from the Gospels, I think Cox 
would agree that the silence results not 
from an attempt to censor Jesus’ sexual- 
ity but because the Gospels are not bi 
ographies and therefore do not concern 
themselves with the sexual aspect of his 
development. 


. Peter Sabey. Chaplain 
LaFayette College Church 
Easton, Pennsylvania 


My compliments to you for publishing 
"or Christ's Sake. In all my studies of 
religion and mysticism, I have never read 
anything so to the point about Jesus 
The only theologian I've read who 
would have agreed with Harvey Cox 
about Jesus is Thomas Merton, who 
once wrote (in Conjectures of a Guilty 
Bystander): “After all, it was the right- 
cous, the holy, "the believers in God" 
who crucified Christ, and they did so in 
the name of righteousness, holiness and 
even of God... . When will we le 
that ‘being good’ may easily mean hav- 
ing the mentality of a Christ-killer?” 

To find this kind of agreement and 
inship of spirit with Merton, the Trap- 
pist monk, in a rLAYpov antide is, in 
itself, proof that the church establishment 
, indeed, losing "a monopoly on the 
portrayal of Christ and his significance." 

“wo years before Merton died, I asked 
him, during a visit to his hermitag 
Without hesitation, he 
answered, ‚ each of us has to find 
out for himsel—but for me, all I can say 
is that love is somehow lifeaflirming." А 
definition with which both Harvey Cox 
and PLAYBOY might agree. 

Stephen J. Smith 
San Francisco, California 


Although I agree with Harvey Cox 
that the Christian Church has often 
inted a distorted picture of Jesus by 
ignoring those aspects of his personality 
and ministry that appeared revolution- 
ary to his contemporaries, T feel moved 
to point out that the sketch Cox furnishes 
is not entirely accurate, either. 

True, Jesus was rejected by some of 
his enemies "because he had no interest 
in fasting and was (in their opinion, at 
least) ‘a glutton and а winebibbei 
Unlike John the Baptist, he came “eat 
ing and drinking” (Matthew 11:18, 19). 
Yet this same Jesus warned his hearers 
that people who ate and drank without 
watching for the coming kingdom of 
God would suffer the fate of those not 
fortunate enough to board Noah's ark 
when the rains began (Matthew 24:37— 
39). Cox may be right that Jesus “fre- 


quented parties, 
weddi 
he is supposed to h supplied some 
booze when an embarrassed . . . host 
found he was running low" (John 2:1- 
11) is of doubtful historical value; and 
one шау question whether his dinners 
for “the outs, the riffraft and the misfits” 
of society were altogether partylike for 
the guests, whom Jesus seems to have 
regarded as sinners in need of repent 
ance (Mark 2:15-17; Luke 5:30-32 
As for Jesus’ relationship with women, 

the most one cin condude from the 
1 record is that several of them 
mong his friends and/or followers. 
Not even the extra. Biblical sources hos 
tile to him charge him with fomication 
or adultery. Indeed, the only thing tradi 
tion reveals is that he was single, though 
this was remarkable enough in а culture 
that expected all its sons and daughters 
(except the ascetics) to pair off in their 
ly 20s. 
is right that Jesus scandalized 
many in his society by "breaking . . 
taboos—violating the Sabbath, rapping 
with ‘impure’ men and women, wander- 
ing around with no visible means of 
support, sharply ridiculing the righteous 
prudes of the day.” But Cox goes too far 
if he means to suggest that the 20th 
Century would recognize Jesus as a “jo 
ous revolutionary” rather than a "melan- 
choly ascetic.” Albert Schweitzer's grea 
book, The Quest of the Historical Jesus, 
should have taught us long ago io be- 
ware of re-creating the man from Naza- 
reth in our own image. 

John Koenig 

Union Theological Seminary 

New York, New York 


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ve 


It has been а long time since I have 
read such a superb article as For Christ's 
Sake on the sacred and profane aspects 
of Christmas in the 20th Century. You 
are to be congratulated for asking such а 


"now" theologi to 
write a longov valuation of such 

» important feast as Christmas. 
vritings, 


Cox again makes many valid observations 
stianity from the inside. There 
isn’t any doubt that clerical Christianity, 
as it now exists, will not be the religion 
of the future. It will find its place in the 
religious future of mankind only if it 
undergoes a reformation. It will have to 
be able to withstand the test of both 
believing and supporting the teachings 
of а man who fought ethnic hated, 
religious snobbery and intellectual. pre- 
tense; а man who announced that his 
mission was one of liberating the cap- 
tives and who cast his lot with “the 
outs, the riffaff and the misfits’—the 
Palestinian equivalent of hippies. 

"The Rey. Warren DeFilippis 

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From Shaw to Williams to Greene to 
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and all with top-flight material. In this 
era of declining fiction in the slicks, 
PLAYBOY keeps up the grand tradition 
and proves in the process that while 
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fiction has its own reality and does far 
more than a * article to illuminate 
both the lighter and the darker sides of 
human nature. My congratulations again 
on your holiday fiction. 

Malcolm Rubinsky 

sas City, Missouri 


FAIRY TALE 

Although I thoroughly enjoyed Art 
Buchwald’s The Most Unjorgettable 
Swordsman I Ever Met in your January 
issue, let me sorrowfully state that his 
hero's Lam-a-Lag-so-honey-convertme ploy 
proved a total disaster [or me when I 
attempted it years ago in Bound Brook, 
New Jersey 

At the time, 1 was running with a cat 
named Moishe Levitsky, even more gross 
and unprepossessing than I am, which is 
why I buddied with him in the first 
place. Somehow, we latched onto a pait 
of secretaries named Elin and Sandy at a 
Young Judea dance and, around two 
A-M., ended up at the former's apartment. 
Following my ill-conceived stratagem, 1 
backed off from Elin’s amorous advances 
as Moishe began his unoriginal, banal 
but highly effective assault on. Sandy. 

"Don't you find me—uh—attractivez" 
queried a somewhat annoyed Elin. 

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well 1 can't function with girls" I 
looked down ruefully at the tips of my 
Florsheim cordovans. "I'm—uhi—queer." 
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and threw me out. My last glance 
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statically by both of the girls. To top it 
oll, the janitor of the building. one Die 
go, tried to kiss me in the elevator. 
“You're just my type 

Sol W 
Levittown, Pennsylv 


CHARMER AND THE CHARMED 
I have just finished reading Mort 
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funniest articles l've ever had the pleas 
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Being an owner of sports cars, both past 
and present, 1 thoroughly enjoyed the 
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BASE HUMOR 

Having long enjoyed the humor of 
Jean Shepherd, I a happy that 
he again received the writing award in 
that category. His newest contribution, 
Zinsmeister and the Treacherous Eighter 
from Decatur in the Janu ue, was 
superb. I completed my basic training at 
Fort Leonard Wood a short time ago 
id I'd like to г. Shepherd that 
he driving de- 
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pass is just the same and so is the town. I 
hope you continue to honor him and the 
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monthly in the pages of vl 

James B. Cook 
Northbrook, Illinois 


1 want to take this auspicious occasion 
to thank all the little people who made 
it possible for your great organization to 
present me with the 1969 humor award 
ne's Wanda Hickey's Night of 
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selflessly struggled through hail and sleet 


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arbon paper and the envelopes that I 
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ard and acknowledge my deep 
and continuing debt to the little people, 
those unsung heroes who made it possible. 

Jean Shepherd 

New York, New York 


BONUS BABY 

I seldom write fan letters, but the 
January issue of PLAYBoY is ап excep- 
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vou for it. The first piece that got me 
was Bruce Jay Friedman's story, The 
Mourner, a beautifully celebrative work 
that ties in well with the theme of Cox's 
article, For Christ's Sake. Then the Bring 
Us Together essays, along with the Gold- 
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G с and Williams fiction, rounded 
out a bonus issue worth far more than 
$1.50. 


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Church of the Three Crosses 
Chicago, Illinois 


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THE CANDID RAQUEL 
Since a good percentage of your read- 
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interested. in reading about other wom- 
en who combine attractiveness with 
brains, I want to congratulate you on the 
interview with Raquel Weld: in your 
January issue. Listening to Raquel ex- 
plain that what she really was was a la 
who did not fuck around, hump or l 
to get ahead was a near mystical expe- 
rience. I was also thrilled to see that 
you included Jeanne Rejaunier (“Beauty 
Trap” Beauty) in the same issue, not 
necessarily because she was a writer but 
because she was naked. Now, boys. And 
girls, too. There are plenty of us women 
writers around who may not hold a 
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ble surf, the pinball and tilt-a-whirl world 
of Playland-athe Beach plays incurious 
host to a famous San Francisco rock 
dance hall, The Family Dog. The D 
slightly inaccessible from downtown, but 
at this hospitable site, the neighbors are 
not the kind to be offended by hippie 
high jinks, and it's a prime choice for an 
evening of heavy rock. Not long ago, on 
a Tuesday night, we dropped in not for a 
dance but for the opening ceremonies of 
a threenight Holy Man Jam, a sort of 
summit meeting for hip-community reli- 
gious figures from East and West. 
Threading our way through the crowd of 
2000, past clusters of stretched-out hip- 
pic ascetics we found a vantage point 
near the stage—just in time, it tumed 
out, to sce a fire enter and his backup 
band embraced one by one by a huge, 
bearlike chap in a bathing suit. “Stoned 
on barbiturates and Ripple wine. 
syed a I4-yearold groupie, who was 
inted up as a lady of the cvening. 
Hippie religious gatherings have an 
atmosphere all their own—an air of 
apocalypse, stirred by whirlpools of frec- 
floating fear, sexuality. hostility, ecstasy 
—especially when someone has been раз 
ing out psychedelic Holy Man Punch. 
“It’s like the love-ins,” we heard a hairy 
form sigh, silhouetted against the dazzling 
lightshow screen. “Its like a fucking 
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сап make the blood rush to on 
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sweat, incense and musty fabric, mingled 
with an occasional whiff of pot. As people 
pasicd one another much handled slices 
of apple, jumpy little braless teeny- 
hoppers flashed erotic glances in every 
direction. A girl with gold stars pasted on 
her bosom was dancing, awkwardly, as if 
on a tightrope. We decided to return 
for all three nights of the jam. 

The holy men themselves were an odd- 
ly assorted group. On Wednesday, Tim 


is 


Leary gave his standard talk on matters 
spiritual and hedonistic; and occasional- 
ly, when the jam's organizer thought 
Leary was interjecting politics into the 
religious sphere (Leary is running for 
governor of California), they engaged in 
what looked like a struggle for the mi- 
crophone. The next night, Alan Watts 
сате onstage in Zen robes (accomp 
nied by an entourage of conch-shell 
trumpeters). seemingly imbued with a 
sense of obligation to play—though with 
evident discomfort—the role of teen 
prophet that Leary had pioneered. After 
Watts came a “world messiah,” who 
launched into a long and tiresome rap 
about his mission on earth and invited 
everyone to leave their bodies and join 
him in an “astral trip." Predictably, most 
of the audience remained in their bodies, 
andered to a heart 


and our attention м 
breakingly pretty girl who sat on the lip 
of the stage, sifting the audience with 
her eyes. On her face, a brave hint of a 
smile wrestled with an expression of near 
despair and sorrow for the world. When 
the audience began to laugh at the mes- 
siah’s message—about an imminent land- 
ing of flying saucers—she smiled with 
them, sadly 

That same night, a mountain-climbing 
yogi exhorted the crowd to get out into 
the mountains, where purity was to be 
found, He commanded a hearty round of 
applause. The gurus who gave the audi- 
to stand. 
up, sing or engage in meditation—were 
received more warmly than those who 
didn't. But those who played music, elec 
wified or otherwise, were the only ones 
who really turned on and tuned in the 
crowd—perhaps because, as a young dev- 
otee of the sitar said, "Music is reli- 
gion.” They included a superb sitarist 
from the Ali Akbar College of Music, 
а band of wild-looking ccsatics from 
Bengal. several solid rock groups and a 
guitzrist identified only as Malachi, who 
played some cerily stirring ragas and 
chanted passages from The Tibetan Book 
of the Dead. 

Holy men commonly seize every occa 
sion 10 make impassioned pitches Гот 
their own particular churches, and this 


ence something to do—whethe 


опе was no exception, Yet despite thei 
disci 


various bags—dict, drugs, physical 
pline. ecology, erotica, massage, medita- 
tion, selfabnegation or self transcendence 
—they seemed to agree that the human 
race is living in a state of unawareness 
and imbalance. As the evening wore on, 
the literal intoxication of the atmosphere 
and the reinforcement of the common 
sentiments occasionally built to something 
approaching exaltation. We heard some 
one whisper, “If only we can keep this; 
if only we can show this to everyone.” 

As we followed the crowds out of The 
mily Dog and into the Bull Pupp en- 
chilada stand next door for a snack after 
the final invocation, we were left with a 
strange feeling. The spiritual fervor had 
been but по one seemed con- 
cerned about, or even aware of, the 
sizable obstacles that confound their com 
mendable ideal of universal harmony 
through yogurt, meditation and brother- 
ly love. The holy men in attendance 
were no less divided by dogma than the 
overground clergy and, like their fol- 
s, tend to forget that theirs is not 
necessarily the one true faith. It's sad but 
symptomatic, we think, that the unity 
they preached was shattered even before 
the jam ended, when Chief Rolling 
Thunder and his band of Indian dancers 
opted for self-interest on the Jast night 
‘They did very little dancing but a lot of 
militant specchmaking: and when the hos 
tility escalated into red power vs. Whitey, 
quite a few acidheads suddenly stopped 
thinking about their minds and started 
worrying about their scalps. 


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Many happy returns and condolences 
to ex-University of California student 
Jack Weinberg. of Berkeley, who, a few 
years ago, coined the young-radical slo 
Never trust anyone over 80.” Mr. 
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is used for the artificial insemination of 
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We hereby grant a Cminus to the 
Columbia University physics department. 
for its commendable but unsuccessful 
auempt to boost dass attendance by 
tting a seminar on experimental optical 
techniques: "I Am Curious (Infrared). 


Support Your Local Team Depart- 


ment: Now that the baseball season is 
here, we're reminded of the Christmas 
card sent out by the Chicago White Sox, 


who suffered a dismal drop in attendance 
last year. The message prayed, “ “О come, 
all ye faithful." 


Before a recent formal bash, the Mary- 
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mapolis Evening Capital that ^ 
bucks, you can ball all night: 


London's Daily Mirror quotes a sign 
posted near a power station in Ireland 
that warns: TO TOUCH THESE OVERHEAD 
CABLES MEANS INSTANT DEATH. OFFENDERS 
WILL BE PROSECUTED. 

А burglary in a Sydney, Austral 
Chemists shop cleaned out everything but 
48 bottles of hair cream and a supply of 
birth-control pills, causing the Australian 
Security Journal to comment, “Police, 
it's understood, are looking for a bald- 
headed Roman Catholic." 


Apparently, it doesn't pay to start at 


the top. The San Francisco Chronicle 


п two ads in its cl n. the 
first calling for ancers—Topless, 
$44.15 а day,” the second seeking “Dan- 
cers—bottomless, $500 wk.” 


assificd sect 


In an age when everyone seems to be 
playing the name game of glorifying job 
titles, we applaud the man in charge of 
the meat department at the Liule Silver, 
New Jersey, A&P store: On his weekly 
imecard, he describes his position as 
“Meat head.” 


Something new has been added to the 
three Rs, to judge from an item in the 
Lexington, Massachusetts, Minute-man: 
“New courses in drugs, smoking and al- 
cohol will be taught in the town's 
schools, the assistant superintendent has 
announced. Smoking will be taught in 
grades six and seven, alcohol in grades 
eight and eleven, and drugs in grades 
nine and twelve.” 


You've got to admire the peerless logic 
in the American Medical News report of 
an 1.Q-longevity study made by the Phila- 
delphia Geriatric Center that showed 


“those still alive at the age of 80 are 
more intelligent than those who died.” 


Hotel literature is finally catching up 
with the times. During а recent visit 10 
the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles, one 
of our editors says he found the follow- 
ing book in his room: A Pictorial Guide 
to a Happy Sex Life. 


BOOKS 


Robert Townsend, chief executive of 
Avis Rent A Car during its wy-harder 
days, has written a very funny manual— 
Up the Organizction (Knopf)—with the 
serious purpose of dismantling the sense- 
less hicrarchies and useless institutions 
that characterize American business. Un- 
fortunately, his reforms would cause mass 
unemploymen ire the whole per- 
sonnel department. Records can be kept 
in the payroll section of the account- 
ing department and your one girl people 
department (she answers her own phone 
and does her own typing) acts as person- 
nel (sorry—people) assistant to anybody 
who is recruiting." What about public 
relations? “Yes, fire this whole depart- 
ment, too. If you have an outside PR 
firm, fire them, too.” And purchasing? 
“Yes, fire the whole purchasing depart- 
ment.” As for management consultants, 
they are “people who borrow your watch 
to tell you what time it is and then walk 
off with it.” Up the Organization is even 
harsher on that oddest of all business 
institutions, the board of directors. “I've 
never heard a single suggestion from a 
director (made at a board meeting) that 
produced any result at all.” As for board 
meetings themselves: "Be sure to serve 
cocktails and a heavy lunch before the 
meeting. At least one of the older direc- 
tors will fall asleep (literally) at the 
meeting and the consequent. embarrass- 
nent will make everyone eager to get 
the whole mess over as soon as possi 
blc" Most books about business 
poorly written, humorless and. pointless. 
Let us hope that the encouraging trend 
begun by The Peter Principle and car- 
ried forward by Up the Organization will 
continue. A final quote from the quot 
able Townsend: “If you can't do it ex- 
cellently, don’t do it at all. Because if 
it's not excellent, it won't be profitable 
or fun. And if you're not in business for 
fun or profit, what the hell are you 
doing here? 


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Levin is not only a 
telligent one, we 
came to his first effort at science fiction, 
This Perfect Day (Random House), w 
a feeling of confidence bred of his earlier 
novel A Kiss Before Dying, a masterly 
murder-mystery debut, and Rosemary's 
Baby, that more recent chiller-diller of 
the supernatural. His new book is set 


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ans of weekly chemical 


infusions, while the labs keep working 


on some form of biochem; 


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that will breed the desired docility and 
efficiency right into the genes. Mean 
while, one has one's "advisor" to turn to 


if one senses troubling thoughts. Mem- 
bers watch compulsory TV and are al- 
Towed ten minutes of mechanical sexual 
activity ev Saturday night. Though 
not an unfamiliar sci-fi scheme of things, 
the expository first half still holds one’s 
attention compellingly. It's the second 
half—which relates the attempt of a few 
misfits to escape Uni and then return to 
overthrow it—that misfires. It all dwin- 
dles into the tale of a guerrilla expedi- 
tion with a Dr. No-like ending, i 
dissident hero and master manipulator 
fight it out hand to hand and Uni- 
Comp's headquarters is blown sky-high. 
Jt will make a marvelous movie, but it 
doesn't quite make it as a novel, because, 
in the end, the ideas are obscured by the 
derring-do. 


Richard Harris is a diligent staff writ- 
er for The New Yorker. He is not a 
"personal journalist." The writing is low 
key and nothing about Harris himself 
emerges except his commitment. to con- 
stitutional rights and liberties. Last year, 
in The Fear of Crime, he examined the 
ays in which the Omnibus Crime Con- 
trol and Safe Streets Act of 1968 was 
steered through a Congress largely igno- 
rant of its chilling implications. (he 
bill reversed. three key Warren Court 
ions protecting the rights ol pris- 
oners in criminal cases and also gave 
na , state and local government 
officials unprecedented power to use 
wire-tapping and bugging devices) Har- 
tis’ new book. Justice: The Crisis of Low, 
Order and Freedom in America (Dutton), 
is an even more ominous report. In 
part an examination of the nature and 
functions of the Department of Justice, 
the book explores the contrasts betv 
the direction of the de ment under 
Ramsey Clark and his hard-line suc- 
cessor, John Mitchell, Clark kept the 
dep: dependent of politics, Lyn- 
don Johnson included. He was 
mitted to the civil liberties and 
individual citizens as he was to 
not rhetorical, fight 
ime. In Clark's view, electronic sur- 
lance is "incompatible with a free 
society." Clark would not prosecute the 
Chicago eight (lmer seven) on charges 
of conspiracy to incite a riot at the 1968 
Democratic Convention. “If the new Ad- 
ministration does prosecute them," he 
said toward the end of his term, “that 
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detailed by Harris, Mitchell has moved 
1 repression of dissent, Justice ol. 
fers a stage-by-stage account of the poli 
icalization of the Department of Justice 
under Mitchell and analyses of the de- 
partment’s current approach to school 
desegregation, voting rights and criminal 
justice. (Mitchell not only has firmly 
advocated. preventive detention, thereby 
ignoring the presumption of innocence 
central to American law, but was also 
engaged during his first year in office in 
a secret study to determine whether the 
Fifth Amendment could be changed to 
make prosecutions easier.) Harris’ view 
of the future is bleak: “When the people 
finally awaken, they may find their frec- 
doms gone, because the abandonment of 


the rule of law must bring on tyrann 


Lawrence Sanders’ first novel, The An- 
denen Торез (Putnam), is a new kind of 
book: an electronic novel, told almost © 
tively in official transcripts of 
by various investigative agencies 


apes made 


ng 
bugging devices. The participants in 
a major New York City crime are thus 
pinioned by their own words, and the 
reader is the fly on the ceiling as John 
Duke Anderson recruits a 


ng for his 


big-think job. They include a whore, a 
homosexual, H. k, a “profes 
sor” and a homicidal maniac assigned by 


lem lı 


the Mafia to protect its interests. The 
crime: the attempted robbery of an en 
ast Side apartment building on 
Labor Day weekend. The leader, Duke, 
steals most of the scenes. A hard e 
with a quietly commanding personality, 
proud in the way of а Kentucky moun- 
t American 
gone wrong. Author Sanders gives him a 
new dimension—which 


-con 


eer, he is a classic hero 


seems somchow 
sadly right in context: Duke is sexually 
bent. In а casual Slack up with one of 
the target building's wealthy tenants, he 
tells her she has a body like mush and 
proceeds to mash the mush around. Lat- 
er, across town, he must beg his humor- 
less German girlfriend. to torture him, 
for that is his only way of turning on. 
Sanders docsu't dwell on the details, but 
such as he provides convey with some 
poignance the tragedy of the criminal 
life. The robbery itself scems almost too 
casy, until Anderson overlooks а short- 
wave set in a bright youngsters bed- 
room. Straining credulity now and again 
(as when a. Central. Park picnic is clec- 
tron d). the story is tense 
enough in the Warner Bros. manner so 
that only the most crabbily critical will 
find it hard to suspend disbelief. 


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King: A Critical Biogrephy (Praeger), Бу 
young black historian David L. Lewis, 
is a richly documented, cleanly written 
book that will bring tcars to the eyes of 
a reader whose capacity for tears is all 


but exhausted. Lewis is seeking truth, 
not glorification. King was attacked by 
many black militants for his hubris, 
his seeking of publicity, his "pork 
chop preacher" rhetoric, his heralded en 
trances into jail and his quiet departures 
оп bail soon after, his eagerness to com- 
promise, his ignorance of Northern ghet- 
tos, the surrealistic disorganization of his 
Southern Christian Leadership Confer- 
ence, Much of this criticism. and more, 
was justified; and Lewis has it all down, 
to the likely anger of Kin; 
But if King was flounder 
rights leader in the months before | 


> admirers. 


murder, he was also beginnii 


nt than that which led to 


more impor 


his early successes in Montgomery and 
Birmingham. 
national leader to attack the Vietnam 


King was the first gre 


w 


ү. He saw that civil rights could not 
be achieved by a civil + 
alone but only by a broad and sustained 
assault on the political, economic and 
social structures of the United Si 
Lewis has told his story in a work of 


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major importance and lasting value 


The excesses of “a sensibility cult” are 


put down hard in 
(Grove), by Parker Tyler, 
ic who argues that underground film 
though not quite in its infancy—is 
great big toddler,” p: 
cal permissiveness and “the unabashed 
lyricism of self- praise." Tyler's unfriend- 
ly remarks about Jonas Mekas. under- 
ground guru of The Village Voice, or his 
view of the kitsch Hitchcock films that 
François "Truffaut mistakes for serious 
п no way peg the author as а fo 
the avant-garde. On the contrary, he is 
an enthusiast who traces the role ої 
Dadaism and Surrealism in the evolution 
of underground film, pays appropriate 
tribute 10 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 
(1919) and Andy Warhol's The Chelsea 
Girls, and plainly recognizes the “human 
interest” of an explicit display of fellatio 
in Stan Brakhages 1969 sex film, Love 
Making. In discursive but perceptive 
prose, Tyler deplores what he calls drug 
attitudes (“A thing may well be groovy. 
and yet far from great”) and the glori- 
fication of amateurism (“Technical pol- 
ish in the filmic almost. an 
affront to beat and hip morality”). He 
offers a persuasive analysis of why under- 
round films are swarming to the sur 
face recently—the horror and tragedy 
of early avantgarde films ha 
given way to voyeurism, те 
ined sexual innocence amd “the be 
nignity of Flower Power." Underground 
Film probably should be required read- 
ing for cultists, in-groupers and super 
revolutiona 
contemporary movie scene will c 


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In Sister Bear (Simon № Schuster), 
Herbert Burkholz has, in his first novel, 
created а memorable pair of star-crossed 
contemporary lovers: Steve and Аппа 
Mathias—not husband and wife bur 
brother and sister. Burkholz’ tale of tor- 
tured incestuous romance is set on the ski 
trails of New England and the Bernese 
Alps; the author knows his schussing, and 
the book's ski passages arc excitingly and 
excellently executed. But the real lure of 
the book is Sister Bear hersclíf—Anna, а 
beautiful, lı ted heroine whose sexual 
frustration, incestaboo hang-ups and 
general unhappiness lead her to become 
a ski bum in both senses of the word: 
Her reputation on the slopes pales in 
contrast to her reputation between the 
sheets. Orphaned when they were cight 
and three years old, respectively, Steve 
and Anna grow up under the protection 
of a young Quaker, who contracts cancer 
and weds Anna shortly before his death. 
Anna's marriage, however, proves to bi 
futile attempt to forget the single sexual 
episode she ever enjoyed—with her 
brother when she was a teenager. The 
book's title refers to a bear mask with 
which, as а child, she amused herself. 
Later, it became, in а way, her security 
blanket, a childhood possession behind 
which she could hide, presenting a false 
face—a defiant, inscru ace 
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existence of aimless skiing and sexing, 
and her brother does the same until he 
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which he and Anna play house until an 
accident on the slopes nearly kills him. 
After leaving the hospital, Steve search 
through Europe and New England until 
he finally finds his guilt-ridden sistcr— 
involved in a climactic sex scene worthy 
of The Story of O. It’s all told in a brisk 
narrative style that grows more effective 
as the story unfolds. 


The provocative starting point of Rich- 
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exist. Now, however, Rabbi Rubenstein 
holds, “they are not an expression of 
the arbitrary will of an alien God; they 
are inherent in the very structure of 
possibilities available to man as a social 
and biological organism." We hope that. 
someday Rubenstein will write the book 
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THE BEST WAY TO SEE EUROPE 
IS ONAGUIDED TOUR. 


The nicest thing about a TWA guided 
tour of Europe is that practically everything 
is planned for you. It's based on the idea that 
having a schedule and sticking to it is the 
most efficient way of seeing Europe. 

"That way, you won't remember a place 
you wanted to see when you're on the plane 
going home. 

See Europe With A European. 

The person who arranges your 
sightseeing is a local host. Since he’s a 
European, he understands what makes the 
local people tick. And he speaks the local 
language. Fortunately, he also speaks your 
language. The first time you'll see him is 
when he meets you at the airport and takes 
you to your hotel. 


Meet An American In Paris. 

Incidentally, the ride to the hotel gives 
you an opportunity to meet the other people 
on the tour. One of the things people 
remember about our guided tours is how 
they got to know people from back home. 

A Day In The Life Of A Guided Tour. 

A typical day on a guided tour of Paris 
could be something like this. First, you have 
breakfast at the hotel from 9 to 10. At 10, a 
tour guide takes you to the Eiffel Tower. 

A Walking Encyclopedia. 

You soon discover that the tour guide is 
a walking encyclopedia. “The Eiffel Tower, 
built in 1889, is 1,000 feet high, and weighs 
15,000,000 pounds? 

Then he might recommend a restaurant 
for lunch. Like Fouquet's, and make your 
mouth water by describing their /angouste. 

Rest for a while on the ride back to the 
hotel. Because you'll be taken to the Louvre 
in the afternoon. And the Theatre National 
Populaire at night. 


Champagne Taste On A Beer Budget. 

A two-week TWA Bonus Adventure 
Tour like this would take you to Lisbon, 
Madrid, Paris and London. Prices start at 
$429* Which includes air fare to Europe and 


"Includes 14/21 day Group Inclusive Tour economy air fare from New York. Price effective March 15, 1970. 


between cities, hotels, private bath, 
breakfast, and basic sightseeing. 

After you shop around, you'll realize 
that TWA tours give you a lot of extras 
without making you pay extra for them. 
(Maybe that's why our scheduled flights 
flew more people to Europe last year than 
any other airline’s.) 

Of course, this isn't the only guided tour 
we have. In fact, TWA has a Bonus 
Adventure Tour for you no matter where 
you want to go, what you want to see, and 
how much or how little you want to spend. 
To have someone take care of the details for 
you, see your travel agent or TWA. 

By now, it should be obvious that a TWA 
guided tour is the best way to see Europe. 

After all, people who are on vacation 
shouldn't have to be bothered with details. 

: - 


THE BEST WAY TO SEE EUROPE 
IS BY YOURSELF. 


The nicest thing about a TWA un- 
guided tour of Europe is that practically 
nothing is planned for you. Besides plane 
reservations, hotels, and transportation 
between cities. 


You Don't Play "Beat The Clock? 

A TWA un-guided tour is based on the 
idea that a person whose life runs by the 
clock all year long doesn’t want a vacation 
run by the clock. 

o we let you make your own schedule, 
with nobody telling you what to do. 


Alone, But Not Lonely. 

On such a tour, you'd be alone without 
being lonely. Because we've arranged for 
people to give you advice in every city. They 
can give you directions, tell you where to 
get a good meal, or help you rent a car. 


The Law Of The Bus. 

One of the things people remember 
about our un-guided tours is how they 
discovered places on their own. For instance, 
you might get on a bus and stay on until the 
end of the line. This is a perfect opportunity 
to meet the local people and practice the 
sentences from your phrase book. To get 
back, use the /aw of the bus: if you stay on 
long enough, it goes back to where you 
started. 


А Typical Un-typical Day. 

If you were in Rome you could take the 
CD bus (at the Piazzale Flaminio) to the Flea 
Market in Trastevere. 

After you work up an appetite from 
bargaining, you could eat at La Cisterna, 
Alfredo’s (their Fettuccine Al Burro is a 
knock-out), or Corsetti’s. 

Later on, you might like an evening of 
dancing at Cabala, if your feet hold out. 


Cheaper Than You Think. 
You can see these fancy places without 
aye ‘ancy prices. A typical two-week 
onus Adventure to Lisbon, Madrid, 

Rome, and Paris starts at $499* Which 
includes air fare to Europe and between 
cities, hotels, private bath, breakfast, and 
the advice of a local host. 

Of course, TWA has other tours that go 
all over the world. Your travel agent can help 
you decide which one suits you best. 

By now, it should be obvious that a 
TWA un guided tour is the best way to see 
Europe. 

After all, people on vacation should 
have the freedom to see what they want to 
see, whenever they want to see it. 


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find interesting, if not entirely unfamil- 
iar, essays on such subjects as work and 
its reward, ethics and altruism, marriage 
and divorce, and love and aggression. 
Rubenstein, no stranger to these pages. 
takes his stand alongside Freud: First 
love yourself, he advises, and then see 
about loving thy neighbor. He is in 
favor of premarital sex but suggests that 
those who raise the issue of casual sex 
show ignorance of human nature: “In 
most circumstances, if it's good sex. it 
doesn’t remain casual very long" He 
believes that “only marriage permits the 
full flowering of life," and yet he recog- 
nizes divorce as the most desirable choice 
of action in some cases and respects 
the motives of those who choose it. In the 
I chapters, Rubenstein the psy- 
rabbi is abruptly replaced by 
Rubenstein the theologian. Instead of 
grappling with such here-and-now issues 
as passion, commitment and morality, the 
author writes of “God after the death of 
God,” suggesting that He be called Holy 
Nothingness. We found ourself more il- 
luminated by the rabbi's speculations 
about man, otherwise known as that 
unholy something or other. 

As he proved in Division Street: Amer- 
ica, Studs Terkel is an extraordinarily 
skillful orchestrator of interviews. Again 
working with a tape recorder and a 
finely tuned sense of the diversity of life 
styles in this country, Terkel has now 
produced Hard Times: An Oral History of 
the Great Depression (Pantheon). We hear 
from people of nearly all races and class- 
es, those who stayed in the cities and on 
the farms and those who took 10 the 
road. Some of the chroniclers kept and 
even increased their wealth, but most 
became expert in the techniques of sur 
al. The cast includes figures promi- 
t then or later (Cesar Chavez, Saul 
Alinsky, William Benton, Raymond Mo- 
ley, Gerald L. K. Smith, James Farley), 
as well as scores of Americans whose only 
appearance in a book will be here. One 
of them sums up the feelings of many: 
“I don't sce the Depression as an enno- 
bling experience. Survivors are still ridin” 
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charge of a slave ship; a meeting with an 
insatiable nymphomaniac; the kidnaping 
of a hermaphroditic oracle; and an en- 
counter with a Minotaur in a maze, fol- 
lowed by a case of impotence so severe 
that Encolpius has to placate the god 
Priapus by bedding a sorceress whose 
mount of Venus emits fire. Because Felli- 
ni's particular talent, as evidenced in 
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around the creatures of our cool contem- 
porary society, a kind of aesthetic over- 
kill results when he uses his genius to 
embellish the already extravagant blend 
of myth and profligacy that Petronius 
knew as Rome. Yet what Fellini means 
to say, in his matchless and sell indulgent 
way, is something about the etemal prom- 
ise of youth in a time of violence and po- 
litical upheaval. His venturesome, amoral 
young heroes would rather make love 
than make money or war. In the film's 
compelling climax, it is only the young 
who sail away to discover a new mode of 
fe, while their greedy elders stay behind 
nd honor the bequest of a scheming old 
poet whose heirs must devour his corpse. 
Patton: A Salute to a Rebel is a superb 
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men's lives to achieve his own dreams of 
glory in battle, who believed firmly in 
reincarnation and apparently saw him- 
self as the natural successor to every 
great conqueror since Julius w and 
who was relieved of his Sicilian com- 
mand for angrily slapping a young sol- 
dier paralyzed by fear. Director Franklin 
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ness funny and somehow necessary. Pat- 
ton may have been a potential fascist, 
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top brass, after all? Didn't he tell off the 
Russians, create headlines every time he 
opened his mouth and save Bastogne 
from Hitler's Panzer divisions? If the 
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tole. Patton as a whole may give comfort 
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general he played in Dr. Strangelow 
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fighting, so "you won't have to say ‘I 
shoveled shit in Louisiana," and Pat- 
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lines. This may not be great moviemal 
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Male and female nudity are shown 
with complete frankness—but without a 
hint of exploitation—in the course of 
Women in Love, produceradapter Larry 
Kramer’s literate treatment of the 50- 
year-old novel by D. H. Lawrence. Wear- 
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prophetic beliefs about men, мөте 
marriage and sex, Alan Bates could pass 
for Lawrence himself. Women in Love 
has little to do with conventional ideas 
about romance; yet director Ken Russell 
deserves credit for the fact that Bates 
and his gifted costars appear to know 
precisely what they are talking about at 
all times. As glish gentlefolk 
bedded for matched doubles during the 
carly 1900s, they talk with Lawrence's 
own passionate intensity about the nature 
of love and friendship—between man and 
ifo, man and mistress, 
‘That the discussions never become book- 
ish is surprising, since the movie dotes 
on words and more words. Bates man- 
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late hero who achieves sexual fulfillment 
with the pretty schoolteacher he marries 
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Playing the sister-in-law, С Jackson 
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who tended to express themselves in im- 
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The compromises people make and the 
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Breathes there a male with soul so 
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the sleep-over guest in Ma Nuit Chez Maud, 
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wintry evening, he bumps into a former 
schoolmate, who takes him up to meet 
Maud (played with immense charm and 
anly wisdom by Françoise Fabian), 
a lovely divorcée who invites him to stay 
night in her guest room. Because 
snowing, you sce. Later, tui 
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or shirt, she admits that she doesn't hap- 
pen to have a guest room. The engine 
hems and hi begins to discuss Pasc 
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that his Catholic moral hang-ups 
prevent him from sleeping with a wom- 
an unless he intends to marry her. "You 
are ashamed of being a Christian and 
ashamed of being a Don Juan," the 
Protestant Maud observes wryly, So they 
talk—and talk and k. Millions of 
would-be wooers have had similar ex- 
changes, and Rohmer knows the dialog 
backward, but he also discerns the elusive 
impulses that glisten beneath the cool su 

face. With warmth and wit, Ma Nuit 
Chez Maud treats the love game as le 
sport, Rohmer's rueful denouement 
reveals the penalties for à fumbled play 


Playing the firs black she if of a 
small but virulent Southern town. cx- 
Jim Brown has a fine team 
of pros lined up against him. Fredric 
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ence wanscends credibility gaps and 
makes it almost irrelevant to ask whether 
he can really act. 


The plot of The Kremlin Letter, Noel 
Behn's novel of espionage as retold by 
director John Huston, will remain an 
unsolved mystery to moviegoers who 
have not read the book. It has something 
to do with getting U- S. ıs into Ru 


sia to buy back a stolen letter in which 
the U.S, more or less declares war on 
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explains why the letter is vitally impor 
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are left with another luridly illustrated 
lecture on the amorality of spying. This 
caper looks like Hell Weck in Moscow. 
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scr if he would mind showing her 
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Some genuine talent partially redeems 
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Rock ‘п’ roll—like most musical idioms 
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created it. So it didn't surprise us to find 
that Сап Perkins on Top (Columbia; also 
available om stereo tape) is а stone gas. 
Backed by a hard-driving combo. the 
original Blue Suede Shoes mim is together- 
ness itself as he wails on Superfool, Power 
of My Soul and eight other items. Con- 
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Back in Memphis (both RCA; also available 
on stereo tape). In excellent voice and 
with stellar support (The Sweet Inspira- 
tions were present at the Vegas gig), Elvis 
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number-one hit, Suspicious Minds. 


The itation to Get Together 
Andy Williams (Columbia 
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sardonic offering from Steve Marcus, 
who can play some pretty good jazz on 
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ever, are Marcus’ nihilistic rendition 


of the despairingly abstract title track 
and Larry Clark's frantic vocal on Just 
Like Tom Thumb's Blues. For those who 
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Soul Man (Warner Bros; also available on 
stereo tape), wherein young Lawrence 
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bossa nova, funk, pop, rock, et al. The 
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Master Jazz Piono: Volume 1 (MJR) is 
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Clif Jackson and Claude Hopkins—were 
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this LP: the result provides a superb 
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We ме familiar h the work of 
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"Ihe house of rock might as well be a 
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able on stereo tape). The former Gospel 
quartet—who really аге brothers—and 
drummer Brian Keenan use Wade in 
the Water to open the proceedings with 
a splash and wind up the concert by 
giving a solid demonstration of un- 
accompanied r&b-Gospel group singing 
on their medley of Undecided and 
Love! Love! Love! Half of a double 
release, the LP is paired with the studio- 
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lumbia; also available on stereo tape), a 
collection of five soulful tunes plus the 
side-long title opus. All are well done, 
but it’s on the live set that the Brothers 
really cook. 


This Is Jeremy Steig (Solid State; also 
available on stereo tape) finds one of 
today’s most refreshingly inventive young 
flutists stretching out in formidable fash- 
ion. He wields a variety of axes—flute, 
alto flute, alto piccolo, Indian flute and 
electric flute—and all are honed to razor 
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up of Warren Bernhardt on electric 
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In the past three years, while В. В. 
King's popularity has been soaring, his 
music has been deepening. Completely 
Well (Blues-Way: also available on stereo 
tape) finds him fronting а sure-fingered 
combo on nine outofsight items 
duding Cryin’ Won't Help You Now, 
which leads directly into You're Mean, 


an extended and apparently impromptu 
jam; the musicians don't want to quit, 
and one can't blame them. A relaxed 
blues session by artists who are really 
where it’s at is Earl Hooker's Don't Have 
to Worry (Blues-Way; also available on 
sterco tape), on which the quicksilver 
guitarist is joined by vocalist Little 
drew “Blues Boy" Odom and | 
singer Johnny “Big Moose” Walker. 
If supermimic David Fi 1 Am the 
President (Elektra; also available on ster 
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the Goliaths that David has laid Iow vi 
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ply comic to make it one of the delights 
of the season. Simon's hero is a fat, 40ish 
fish restaurateur—most admirably played 
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humdrumly married. He decides го have 
one dashing affair to give some dazzle to 
his ennui-filled life. In cach of the three 
ts, red-hot comic Coco tries, desperate- 
ly and ineptly, to vault into adultery. 
His first flop is with an oversexed, under- 
satisfied matron (Linda Lavin). Her 
face atwitch with impatience, she aw. 
his pass; but he is full of misgivings. For 
one thing, he’s mortally afraid that they 
will leave some sign of disarray in his 
mothers apartment—the scene of all 
three trysts. The first scene is very funny 
and oddly touching, as the author reveals 
the nerve ends beneath the buffoonery. 
As if afraid of emotion, he quickly under- 
cuts the moving moment with wisecracks 
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postteeny-bopper and with his wife's 
best friend. The actresses, Marcia Rodd 
and Doris Roberts, adept, but the 
characters are less distinctive than the 
first. Their scenes are not really develop: 
ments of a dramatic line, just two more 
amusing set pieces illustrating the restau- 
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[т about to become engaged to the girl 
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ship her. 


INlcc month, I'm leaving for Japan and 
plan to purchase a new camera, three 
lenses and miscellaneous accessories. A. 
friend wants me to do the same for him, 


which means I'll be returning with two 
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he'll pay cxcessbaggage charges, if any, 


plus the duty. However, another friend 
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equipment. What are the difficultiesz— 
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WI, girl is a Catholic and she uses the 
rhythm method of contraception when 
we make our beautiful music together. Г 
asked several well-informed people if a 
girl using this method can become preg- 
nt and their answers varied greatly. 
Can you tell me if the rhythm method is 
a sure-fire means of birth control? 
О. R. Kansas City, 

Sadly, the rhythm method is too often 
followed by the blues followed by soft 
rock, as in rock-a-by baby. There are 
other, surer means of birth control. A 


recent survey by the Planned Parenthood 
Federation rated the pill more than 99 
percent effective, I. U. P. (the coil) 95 to 
98 percent, while the rhythm method, 
which is dependent on menstrual regu- 
larity, rated only 65 to 80 percent. 


Let week, my date and I were dining 
at a rather expensive Italian restaurant 
when the owner (whom I vaguely know) 
came to our table w а small bottle of 
chianti, which he virtually insisted we 
accept to enhance the meal. We politely 
declined. However, when the man_per- 
sisted, we agreed to drink the wine if he 
would join us in a toast, which he 
When I received the check, I was amazed 
to see that it included a charge for the 
chianti. I decided not to make an issue 
out of it, but now I'm wondering if I 
should have spoken up. What do ! do 
the next time something like this occurs? 
—R. F., New York, New York. 

Take the owner aside and explain that 
the waiter must have made a mistake in 
adding the complimentary wine to the 
bill. If the owner insists that the charge 
is legitimate, drop the mallet, at the 
same time letting him know that you 
don’t generally patronize restaurants where 
the owners con their custome: 


AAs a liberated young woman, I am 
yed by men who resort to 
ploys when T decline an 
invitation to their boudoir. The most 
common tactic consists of sad headshak 
ing, sympathetic comments on my pre- 
sumed hangups, reflections on how 
puritanical my parents must have been 
and a kind offer to help me get over my 
alleged problem. This gimmick is sup- 
posed to make a gal jump between the 
sheets right away to prove that she 
doesn't have complexes. The only coun- 
ambit is the blunt truth: “1 have no 
ир» at all; it's just that I find you 
unattractive.” However, this seems un- 
necessarily cruel. Does rtivmov have 
any advice for my problem?—Miss R. 
W., Chicago, Illinois 

Yes. Ask your friend to define frec- 
dom—and then counter with George Or- 
well's definition: "Freedom. is the right 
10 say no.” He'll get the point. 


Thm а newcomer to tape recording and 
would appreciate an explanation of the 
ference between sound over sound, 
sound with sound and sound on sound. 
—М. L., San Francisco, California. 

In sound over sound, you disconnect 
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because of distortion, but it is the only 
one of the three techniques that you can 
employ with a monophonic recorder. In 
sound with sound (using a stereo record- 
er), you record one track and then listen 
to it through headphones while you re- 
cord your accompaniment on the second 
track. In sound on sound, you record one 
track as before, but this time, both the 
sound on the first track and your accom- 
paniment are recorded together on the 
second track. If you wish, you can then 
listen Lo the sound on the second track 
and accompany yourself again, the results 
being recorded back onto the first track 
(the previous solo recording on the first 
track, of course, will have been erased), 
and so on. Usually, five dubbings of this 
sorl are considered the limit on home 
equipment. 


For the past six months my husband 
has been in Vietnam. I saw him recent- 
ly on leave for rest and recreation and 
he told me he is not having sex while 
overseas. I know he is my husband, but 
I don't think normal men can go with- 
out sex for that period of time. Can 
they2—Mrs. T. N. Denver, Colorado. 

Sexual abstinence is. frequently made 
bearable by a strong sense of fidelity toa 
partner, as well as by a lack of stimulus. 
Assuming your husband is in the boon- 
docks of Vietnam or—if not—doesn’t 
find the urban honky-tonk girls attrac- 
live, either or both factors might be 
operative. 


[хе frequently heard reference made to 
a Mrs. Grundy as the arbiter of what's 
tight and what's wrong in а moral sense, 
Did she ever really exist and, if so, when? 
I. N., New Orleans, Louisiana. 

Mrs. Grundy was fast mentioned in 
the play “Speed the Plough,” by English 
playwright Thomas Morton, produced in 
1798. She never appears onstage, but one 
of the plays characters is a neighbor 
worried about Мух. Grundy’s opinions 
on matters of morals and respectability 
who makes constant reference to her with 
the line “What will Mrs. Grundy say?” 
Mrs. Grundy was further immortalized 
by English poet Frederick Locker-Lamp- 
son im the vers 


They cal, and drink, and scheme, 
and plod, 
They go to church on Sunday; 
And many are afraid of God, 
And more of Mis, Grundy. 


Tor several ус аз been a won 


derful rel 


y respect. 
However, this year she began attending 
college in another city and, although she 
a't admit it, I feel that our bond is 
weakening. I have been told by several 


м 


reliable ds that she has had sexual 
intercourse a number of times since our 
separation. When I mention this, she 
denies it. I had been thinking seriously 
of marrying her after I graduate this 
June. Now I wonder if 1 should keep оп 
dating her or just drop her—L. R, 
Miami, Florida. 

It's up to you—you can believe your 
friends or you can trust your girl, de- 
pending on which means more to you. A 
Roman named Publilius Syrus had a few 
well-chosen words for you: “Trust, lik 
the soul, never returns, once it is gone.” 


Im in ihe market for a sports саг A 
great many of these vehicles have 100 hp 

tly in the maximum torque. 
ne torque and its relation to 
nd performance? The maxi- 


horsepower 
mum torque is usually at a lower ipm 


than the ma 


mum horsepower. Where 


the correct rpm to shift for the greatest 
possible accelerationz—P. S., San Jose, 
California. 


Torque is twisting force, usually meas 
med in foot-pounds: А lever one foot 
long wilh a weight of one pound on the 
end of it develops one fool-pound of 
torque. Horsepower is а measure of the 
тие at which work is done, measured т 
a straight line: to lift 33,000 pounds one 
fool in one minute, or to move 550 
pounds one fool in one second. Torque 
is important for starting—in о 
inertia—and in acceleration. Horsepower 
i more important in top speed. For 
practical purposes, shifting should be 
done at the time the engine is exerting 
maximum torque—presuming, of course, 
that you're in a hurry. This point will 
vary from one engine to another. 


ercoming 


МІ, girl is beautiful, affectionate and, 
by most standards, sexy; but, nonethe- 
less, she doesn't turn me on. Our al 
grew hugely out of her strong feelings 
for me and my weakness for comfort and 
Ability to reject her. My consci 
beginning to bother me 
terminate our айай to minin 
pain to her, as she is investing her emo- 
tions in a future that 1 know will never 
come to pass. Can one cut off some! 
like this without causing рай 


ца, Georgia. 

It's not likely. But the best part of 
honesty is that it justifies the pain it 
sometimes causes. Take your girl to а 
restaurant where the atmosphere ix as 
little charged as possible, tell her honest- 
ly why you are unwilling to continue the 
relationship, then take her home without 
lingering and don't call her again. In 
time, she'll understand that the pain you 
saved her was greater than the pain you 
caused her. Shell also realize that she 
was the beneficiary of a policy of honesty 
without having had to pay a premium. 


Le gotten into an argument with my 
girlfriend, who insists that family films 
draw at the box office, 
tain that family flicks are 


nd Midnight Cowboy are run- 
ning away with the honors. At any rate, 
whenever I try to see one of them, the 
line stretches around the block. Who's 
right on what flicks draw the most cus- 
tomers?—B. H., Birmingham, Alabama. 

For 1969, at least, your girlfriend was 
right. Biggest grosser was Disney's “The 
Love Bug" ($17,000,000), closely fol- 
lowed by “Funny Gir" ($16,000,000 
plus) and the borderline family film 
“Bullitt” (ditto). But “Midnight Cow- 
boy” chalked up а very respectable 
$11,000,000 and *I Am Curious (Yellow " 
turned some movicmakers green with a 
tidy $6,600,000. Incidentally, among mov- 
ies for today’s generation, “Easy Rider” 
rolled up $7,200,000—a small fortune for 
the talented. Messrs. Hopper and. Fonda 
—and “Alice's Restaurant," a relatively 
low-budget аат. did а hot $3,500,000. 
Hime box-office champ is “The 
oj Musi’ ($72,000,000), with “Gone 
with the Wind” ($71,000,000) and “The 
Graduate” ($43,000,000) in second and 
third places. With the exception. o 
"GWT." few films 20 or more years 
old hi the mammoth grosses because of 
thew lower ticket prices. Some classics, 
such as “King Kong,” failed to make the 
st of box-offiwe greats, and others— 
“The Wizard of Ош” Jor example— 
just barely made il. 


ound 


BBetore my wife became pregnant, she 
frequently experienced orgasm. during 
itercourse, She is now in the seventh 
month and has not had an orgasm in all 
that time, We would like to know wheth- 
er changes take place dur 
that interlere with orgasm. 
dale, Arizona. 

According to Masters and Johnson, 
many women lose interest in sex during 
the fust three months of pregnancy: but 
during the second three months, the ре 
dulum swings to а peak of sexual de- 
mand that may be higher than any pror 
to pregnancy. In your wife's case, the 
trouble may be that her initial decine in 
sexual desire caused her to worry, and 
this anxiety could delay her return to 
normal sexual response. 


AIL reasonable questions—from fash- 
ion, food and drink, hi-fi and sports cars 
to daling dilemmas, taste and etiquette 
—will be personally answered if the 
writer includes a stamped, self-addressed 
envclape. Send all letters to The Playboy 
Advisor, Playboy Building, 919 N. Michi- 
gan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60611. The 
most provocative, pertinent queries will 
be presented on these pages each month. 


With our new stereo, if you get tired of Beethoven, 
you can listen to Berkowitz. 


The Sony HP-199 lets you listen to 
all your favorites including your most 
favorite of all: yourself. 

Because along with an already ter- 
rific stereo unit, we have thrown in a 
cassette tape recorder. 

For listening, you get a 4-speed 
automatic / manual turntable, an all- 
silicon transistorized amplifier, and 


an FM stereo/FM-AM tuner. 

For recording, you get a 4-track 
cassette-corder that lets you record 
(in stereo, no less) directly off the 
tuner or the turntable. Or, with an op- 
tional microphone, directly off your 
own mouth. And a little doohickey 
called Sonymatic” which automatic- 
ally adjusts the volume level to opti- 


тит and balances the volume of the 
left and right channels 

And for listening to what you re- 
corded, а 6%” woofered and 2” tweet- 
ered pair of airtight enclosed 
Speakers. 

Which is just about everything you 
need to listen to Ludwig van. 

Or Abie W. 


The Sony HP-199. A stereo phono/receiver and cassette-corder in one. 


Thot'solotoflire fora cor. 

But that's alot of car for the lire. 

I's one of the most meticulously built 
sports corsin the world. 

The clossic body wos designed where 
топу greot sports cors are designed: 

Turin, Italy. By the famous Ghia Studios. 

{t's built by one of Europe's oldest cus- 
tom coochmokers: Karmann of Osnabrück. 

Only o limited number are mode each 
doy. Moinly because it tokes interminobly 


long to shape the body. 

So intricate ore some of Ghio's lines that 
machines can't form them. So Karmonn em- 
ploys sculptors to finish the body. By hond. 

It's welded, burnished, smoothed, 
painted, sonded ord rubbed. By hond. 

And only when it passes hundreds of in- 
spections does it get together with. 
chassis. Which is o beauty in itself: 

Torsion-bor suspension. Double-jointed 
reor axles. Four-speed sync box. Front 


disc brakes. Reor-mounted magnesium en- 
gine. Air-cooled. Utterly dependable. Eco- 
nomical. (About 26 mpg.| 
All that will cost you o good 1,500,000 
lire. 
Or 2,399 American dollars.* 
Foro Volkswogen Kormonn Chia. 
That's not a lot of dollors for 
a cor. 
But that's o lot of cor for th 
dollars. 


THE PLAYBOY FORUM 


an interchange of ideas between reader and editor 
on subjects raised by “the playboy philosophy" 


FRIEND IN NEED 

Traditionally, a soldier with a gripe is 
advised by friends to tell it to the chap- 
lain, take it to the Inspector General or 
write to his Congressman, depending on 
the gravity of the situation and the dif- 
ficulty of getting a hearing. Now, prob- 
ably because of letters about military 
injustice in The Playboy Forum, an- 
other court of last resort has been added 
to the list. 

A foreign-born GI serving in Viennam 
had earned U.S. citizenship, but two non- 
commissioned officers who were processing, 
him noticed he was wearing a peace 
medallion and refused to si E 
ization papers, The New York Times 
quoted a buddy of the shafted soldier as 
saying, “I told him he should write to his 
Congressman or PLAYBOY or something.” 

John Benson 
New York, New York 


AIDING THE ENEMY 

Some people in the U. S. 
Gls in Vietnam a terr 
there is, i 
strong 


"t noticed, a 
nk between the level of Commu- 
nist aggression here and that of anti-w 
activism in the States. I'm a recon Ma- 
tinc; and our mission is to find enemy 
camps, supply routes and other facilitics. 
Thus, we're among the first to know 
when Communist activity increases. Since 
the Moratorium demonstra as in Wash- 
ington, this is exactly whats happened. 
Charley is on the prowl again and his 
attacks on Americans arc more frequent 
and ferocious. 

One would think that Ame 
home would do everything they can to 
aid GIs in Vietnam to stay alive; but in- 
stead, the anti-war demonstrators 
tributing to our possible defe 
at home prolongs the war and renders 
negotiation useless. As peace faction 
demonstrations at home get larger, the 
Reds become more convinced that, if 
they wait long enough, President Nixon 
will eventually be forced to order total 
withdrawal of American troops. Every 
dication that our will to fight is weak- 
ening intensifies our enemy's belligerence. 

But I'm really not surprised that th 
simple common-sense analysis isn't ap- 
parent to antiwar protesters, because 
much of what they do reveals their dis- 
ordered minds. They march with coffins 
containing the names of dead Service- 
men: How is this a protest against the 


ans at 


е con- 
Dissent 


war? Many of those men, Im sure, died 
believing in the war. To recall their 
deaths is to recall that we must not waste 
their sacrifice by accepting defeat now. 
If those dead men whose names were 
used to protest the war could rise up, 1 
believe their wrath would be terrible. 
Speaking as a fighting man in Viet- 
nam, I say that our will to carry on is 
unshakable. We know why we're here 
and we believe in what we're doing. We 
mean to ensure that the freedom that 
prevails in America shall also prevail in 
Vietnam. And we're determined that the 
American lives lost so far will not have 
been wasted, which is what will happen 


if, after all this bloodshed, we simply 
pull out and let the Reds take over. 

1 myself am willing to die for the 
eventual victory of the American and 
South 


Vietnamese cause. We United 
Marines are welkuained kille: 
this is our job and we do it for freedom 
and the Corps. L know the majority of 
Americans is behind us and it’s time 
jority to speak out and the 
srity to be silent, The 
sence of manhood is willingness to fight: 
Let's get on with the job. 

Cpl. T. N. Dicks 

FPO San Francisco, California 


BIAS IN THE MEDIA 

Since certain high Government offici 
charge that the Amcrican press and 
broadcasting arc slanted and sclective, 
let's see what kind of reporting Gls get 
in Southeast Asia, where the media are, 
more or less under the Government's 
influence. Aside from rLavsoy and the 
Southeast. Asia editions of Time and 
Newsweek, the only sources of news in 
Vietnam are Armed Forces Radio and 
TV and Pacific Stars and Stripes. which 
calls itself “an authorized unofficial pub- 
lication for U.S. Armed Forces assigned 
to the Pacific Command.” 

Here is how the latter sources covered 
the November 1969 Peace Moratorium: 
The Noyember 13 Moratorium-eve issue 
of Stars and Stripes detailed ali Veterans 
Day activities in support of present war 
policies. It reported the protesclinked. 
bombings in New York, the Army's ban 
on wearing uniforms at demonstrations, 
plans to send paratroops to Washington, 
D. C., and two other trivial instances of 
support for the war, The following day's 
coverage consisted of front- and back-page 
stories on the airlift of 9000 “riot troops" 


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54 


to Washington. The next issue of Stars 
and Stripes screamed, "sENATE, HOUSE 
CHEER NIXON," Senators Kennedy, Good- 
ell and McGovern went unmentioned. 
"The stars of that day were Bob Hope, 
Tricia Nixon, a World War Two vet 
and the telephone company, all of whom 
criticized or hampered protest activities. 
Sunday's Stars and Stripes, with uncon- 
scious irony, headlined a story: "sero 
SOCKS IT TO TV ‘ELITE’: NEWS BIASED.” 

On Monday, November 17. Stars and 
Stripes covered Friday's and Saturday's 
peace activities, leading off with an in- 
stance of violence and mentioning "Yip- 
pies," "uluzcextremists," and the "Chicago 
ight" before naming any of the digni 


tries who supported the Moratorium. 
Statements by Senators McGovern, Mc 
Carthy and Goodell got a total of six 


lines, the first time any words uttered by 
Moratorium speakers was reported. These 
were balanced by stories of 12 instances 
ol violence and nine cases of police in- 
tervention. Other than a short article 
and a photo on the San Francisco peace 
parade, all of page two was anti protest, 
including a story on Baltimore strip 
joints that dosed down for the day in 
support of the war. 

Armed Forces Radio and TV did give 
priority coverage to the Moratorium and 
candidly admitted that Friday's protest 
crowds were the largest in history, but 
stressed episodes of violence. TV pointed- 
ly presented an interview with an officer 
in Washington's Veterans’ Administration 
Hospital who criticized the demonstrators, 

As a commissioned officer in the U.S. 
Army. Lam not permitted to express opin 
ious on political or controversial matters, 
and I do not intend to do хо here. I merely 
report. thee [icis and ask рілувоуУ read- 
ers these questions: 


(1) Is the coverage I've desc 
example of what some of our 
leaders mean by unbiased report 


it 


(2) Is it the peace demonstrat 
у weaken the morale of our Gls or is it 


m: 
the emphasis, in Governmentinfluenced 
media, on instances of violence and 


extremism? 

(3) Can the opinion of a soldier i 
Vietnam—whose information comes from 
these media—be used as valid evidence 
that peace protests demoralize the troops? 

(4) Can one say that it is for freedom 
that over 40.000 American men have 
died i Vict m when 500,000 morc 
soldiers are being held in poli 
ignorance? 


apt. Irvin 5. Roger 
APO San F isco, 


nia 


BLOOD BATHS 

Much has been said and written by 
hawkish commentators about the blood 
bath that will presumably take place if 
we, as we should and must, leave Vi 
ım. Yet there was no talk from this 
crowd about a blood bath when the 
French, with money and weapons supplied 


FORUM NEWSFRONT 


a survey of events related lo issues raised by “the playboy philosoph, 


APHRODITES POTIONS 

WASHINGTON, D. C.—Old men suddenly 
lusting after nurses, а bedridden female 
vamping her doctor, тиз and rabbits 
engaging in sex orgies—such incidents 
are leading scientists to think they arc 
on the brink of discovering that clusive 
elixir, the true aphrodisiac, 

Two phenylalanine compounds have 
produced these outbreaks of venery 
among humansand rodents. The first, levo- 
dihydroxyphenylalanine (L-dopa), has 
been used with success in the 
treatment! of Parkinson's disease; and in 
about two percent of the cases, an unex- 
pected side effect has been hypersexnali- 
ty. Dr. William E. O'Malley, neurologist 
at Georgetown University, reported that 
some men in their 60s and 705 suddenly 
showed more sexual vigor than the aver- 
age 20-year-old; one became so excited 
that nurses refused to enter his room 
except in pairs, and then he started chas- 
ing both. At least 20 other investigators 
have reported erotic rejuvenation among 
their L-dopa patients. 

Meanwhile, Dr. Gian L. Gessa and his 
colleagues at the National Heart. Insti- 
tute became curious when a drug used т 
tumor treatment seemed to cause female 
patients to blush—and one of them start 
cd “chasing everybody,” according to The 
Wall Street. Journal. The drug, p-chloro- 
phenylalanine (PCPA), was then admin- 
istered to experimental vats, resulting in 
a rodem version of “La Dolce Vita 
which “lasted for several hours and usual- 
ly reached а climax with all the animals 
im one cage attempting to mount cach 
other at the same time.” Similar results 
were obtained wilh rabbits and een 
greater stimulation was obtained by com- 
bining PCPA with another drug, par- 
gyline. 

With a view to treating frigidity and 
impotence, scientists are hoping that fur- 
ther studies of the drugs may yield a 
true, safe aphrodisiac. Meanwhile, the 
drugs are available only to certified med- 


some 


ical researchers, some of whom have ex- 
pressed concern over the possibility of 
black-market sales to the adventurous or 
the desperate. Early tests have revealed 
that the drugs sometimes cause serious 
side effects, including lowered blood pres- 
sure, depression, confusion and severe 
nausea. 


DANISH SEX CRIMES 
COPENHAGEN—During 1969, the year 
Denmark legalized pornography, total re- 
ported sex offenses dropped by 31 pe 
cent in Copenhagen and by 50 percent 
in Aarhus, the country's second larges 
city. Police noted, however, that the 


sharpest declines occurred in such offenses 
as voyeurism and public indecency, while 
rape and sexual assault remained at pre- 
vious levels. At the request of various 
authorities, including the О. 5. Congress, 
Danish criminologists are studying the 
Sex-crime data to determine whether or 
not the lower offense rates can be at 
tributed to the country’s liberalized laws 
on pornography and obscenity. 


TOPLESS THERAPY 

REPWOON CITY, CALIFORNIA—Dr. John 
N. Marquis, a clinical psychologist af- 
pearing as an expert witness im the 
“lewdness” trial of a local bar operator. 
explained to the court why he considered 
erotic entertainment not only harmless 
but beneficial to a substantial minority 
of Americans. According to Dr. Marquis, 
quoted in The Palo Alto Times, many 
persons experience anxiety in their. per- 
sonal sexual lives. partly because they 
are woefully uninformed about sex mal- 
ters or are afraid of nudity or things 
having to do with attractive people of 
the opposite sex approximately their 
own age. For these people, he said, the 
nonthreatening, undemandiug climate 
of an erotic show permits “systematic de- 
sensitization” to sexual stimuli. He also 
compared such entertainment with the 
therapeutic technique called “implosion,” 
in which patienis are “bombarded with 
stimuli associated with the things of 
which they ате afraid, until the anxiety 
response is no longer present.” 


GREAT GUNS! 

The Government has withdrawn a 
movie promoting Federal gun controls 
after several Congressmen complained it 
was too violent, too sexy and failed to 
explain the lows. 


CALIFORNIA FOLLIES 

Los ANGE Like certain movies, Cal- 
ifornia libraries may soon be off limits 40 
minors if the state's ne 
carried to its illogical extreme—which 
seems to be happening. Under the law, 
no one may distribute harmful matter to 
a youngster even with parental permis- 
sion; and librarians have been warned 
to exercise caution in dispensing adult 
books to children under any circum- 
siances. One instance, recounted by Los 
Angeles Times columnist Art Seiden- 
baum, involved an eighth-grade girl who 
tried to check out a not very spicy vol 
ume titled "Quarrels That Have Shaped 
the Constitution,” which she needed for 
a school paper on historic Supreme Court 
decisions. Because the book was in the 
adult section, the librarian refused, apol- 


y antismul lam is 


ogizing to the student's mother that while 
she didn’t want to be а censor, she didn't 
want to be arrested, cither. 


LIBERAL OF THE MONTH 
emexco—Youth found an unexpected 
defender when Chicago's Mayor Richard 
J. Daley announced on a television inter- 
view with TV newscaster Fahey Flynn, 
“I'm for youth and everything it em- 
braces” More explicitly, the mayor 
stated: “[People] think the younger gen- 
eration is going to pot because they might 
wear long hair or a mustache. Well, if 
you look at the pictures of Christ, [you'll] 
see he wore long hair and a mustache.” 
Daley also urged older people to show 
patience and compassion in dealing with 
the young and said fervently, “I hope to 
God we never see [another] 1968.” 


WHO'S WATCHING THE STORE? 

WASHINGTON, b. Ge controversial 
Federal loyalty oath of the Joe McCarthy 
era has died a quiet death—so quiet, 
indeed, that many Government agencies 
did not learn of its demise until three 
or four months later. Although the oath 
was officially abolished by the Civil Serv- 
ice Commission in September 1969, early 
this year The New York Times found 
that many top-level officials were unaware 
of this development; some expressed 
astonishment and admitted that “tens of 
thousands” of new employees were re- 
quired to sign it in the interim. 

This bizarre chain of events began 
when a Federal court ruled the oath un- 
constitutional last June. Most depart- 
ments assumed that the Government 
would appeal the decision, but when no 
appeal was filed in 90 days, the Civil 
Service Commission sent out а letter on 
September 29 revoking the oath. Asked 
why the letter had been ignored for so 
long, Anthony Mondello, general coun- 
sel for the Commission, could only reply, 
“Nobody seemed to pay any attention 
to it.” 


MORE PANTHER PROBLEMS 

WASHINGTON, D. C—Afler more than 
two years of persecution, prosecution 
and costly gun battles with the police— 
often invited by their own violent rheto- 
riche Black Panther Party now faces 
trouble from the Internal Revenue Serv- 
ice. An IRS spokesman declined to com- 
ment on reports that the party was 
under investigation for tax evasion, but 
he confirmed that the IRS had no record 
of the Panthers either filing any returns 
or applying for tax-exempt status. 


PATTERNS OF SUICIDE 
ATI „ GEoRGIA—Parlicipants in the 
University of Georgia's Conference. on. 
Crisis Intervention made the following 
observations on the nature of suicide: 


* Suicide ranks as the tenth leading 
cause of death in the United States; and 
if accurately reported, it might rank as 
high as fifth. 

+ High-risk segmenis of the popula- 
tion include professional people, the eld- 
erly and college students. 

+ Among professional people, dentists 
have the highest suicide vate, nearly eight 
to one over the national average. 

* College men who commit suicide 
tend to be unusually bright and to have 
had an unsatisfactory relationship with a 
professionally successful father, 

+ Most coed suicides result from the 
girl's belief, often mistaken, that she is 
pregnant; many have also had poor rela- 
tionships with their fathers and make 
strong psychological demands, which lead 
а young boyfriend to break off the 
relationship. 

+ A sharp increase in the suicide vate. 
among rural Southerners reflects their 
inability to adjust to rapid social and 
economic changes and the rising feay that 
the individual has lost control of his 
destiny. 


FEMINISM 

Skirmish reports from the women's lib- 
eration movement: 

+ To press their demands for acccpt- 
ance in the University of California's 
allmale karate classes, militant feminists 
invaded a men's locker тоот and chant- 
ed to its nude occupants, “Self-defense 
for women now!"; the school promised 
lo establish a separate karate class for 
women. 

- Two dozen “Women Against Ma 
Bell picketed a telephone company office 
in San Francisco, demanding that women 
be hired as telephone linemen and in- 
stallers. The company explained that its 
policies were based on tradition and on 
slate laws against women doing heavy, 
dangerous work, but it agreed 10 consider 
another of the group's demands—that the 
company hire male operators. 

* New York attorney general Louis 
Lefkowitz, responding to feminist. pres- 
sure, has introduced state legislation that 
would give women equal access to all 
bars, night clubs and similar businesses 
that have men-only rules or require that 
women be escorted by а male. 

Opposing feminist tactics, Jeannie Sa- 
kol, New York writer and founder of the 
Pussycat League, thinks the traditional 
womanly wiles аус a more efjective means 
of attaining both love and independ- 
ence. Recalling one encounter with a 
militant feminist: “She shouted [at те]: 
“Ро you want to be like a slave on а 
plantation—to be at the sex whims of 
your master?” 1 thought, ‘That sounds 
pretty damn good’—so many men don’t 
have these whims anymore.” 


by the U. S., were killing 800,000 people 
in Algeria. There was no blood-bath talk 
from them about Biafra, where some 
2,000,000 people died in a war that we 
could have stopped, or that the UN 
could have stopped had we chosen to let 
it. There was no talk of a blood bath 
when 400,000 people were murdered 
Indonesia not long ago on the pretext 
that they were all Communists; indeed, 
some of our leading blood-hath weepers 
publicly boasted and rejoiced about our 
part in bringing about that particular 
massacre. There has been no regretful or 
contrite talk about the nearly 600.000 
people we have already killed in Vietnam, 
hor any suggestion that we are not pre- 
pared to go on killing indefinitely to get 
what we want. Finally, oddly enough, 
there has been no suggestion that our 
friends Ky and Thieu, who do not hesi- 
tate to jail, torture and murder those who 
oppose their policies. might, if they had 
the power, conduct quite an impressive 
litle blood bath of their own. 

There will certainly be killing if and 
when we leave Vietnam. We can perhaps 
mitigate it by offering rcfuge—as we 
have done elsewhere—to all who want 
leave. But there will almost certainly be 
less killing il we leave than if we stay: 
and our opponents in this war are al 
most certain to be more just and merciful 
than the gang of thugs and murderers we 
are support 


John Holt 

Boston, Massachusetts. 

John Holt is the author of two well- 
received books on education, “How Chil- 
dren Fail" and "How Ghildyen Learn; 


JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG 
People who condemn the draft 
ance movement little 
form of dissent is bascd oi 
ternational law formu 
United States and its alli 
Nuremberg trials. The Nazi officials 
who were mied there and punished 
daimed they had no responsibility for 
crimes, since they were act 
orders” from their government. 
Opening for the prosecution, Supreme 
Court Justice Robert. H. Jackson pointed. 
out that, in rejecting that plea, the Allies 
themselves to а history- 
ng precedent; “We must never for- 
he said, “that the record on which 
we judge these defendants today is the 
record on which history will ju 
tomorrow.” Sir Hartley Shawcross, 
senting ed, 
ical loyalty and ary obedience are 
excellent things, but they n 
mor do they justify the commissi 
patently wicked acts. There comes a 
point where a man must refuse to an- 
swer his leader if he is also to answer 
his conscience. 
The silent majority that President 
Nixon calls upon to support his crimes 
against the Vietnamese people is li 


this 
principles of 
ated by the 
s during the 


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Germany's silent majority, who did noth- 
ing to stop Hitler's atrocities. The issues 
remain the same as those at Nuremberg: 
totalitarian conformity vs. individual con- 
science. Only the names have been 
changed to save American pride. 

Fred Yale Joseph 

Brooklyn, New York 


BLACK ARM BANDS 

Tam a GI at the Arctic Test Genter in 
Alaska. Some weeks ago, a close friend of 
mine was imprisoned for disobeying а di- 
rect order to remove his black arm band 
оп the day of the second national Mora- 
torium. 

I think General Abrams once re- 
marked, about the troops in Vietnam 
who wore black arm bands, “I don't care 
what they wear as long as they do th 
job" And at Fort Lewis, Washington, 
thousands of men wore these arm bands: 
Im sure the sime is true at many posts. 
But in a place as remote as this, the 
brass make their own rules and to dis 
play a peace sign is to be charged with 
being a Commie. We've also been told 
that wearing a peace medallion is consid- 
ered carrying a concealed weapon and 
that the MPs would act accordingly. That 
may sound like a joke back in civiliza 
tion, but up here, we know we'd better 
comply with the system if we want to go 
home at the end of our tour of duty. 

Our commanding officer puis his war 
sentiment on his car's back bumper: win 
ак VIETNAM—but he can do that, because 
if you got the might, you got the right, 

I have a girl back home, whom I love 
very much, so please don't print my 
name. It’s hard to make love through a 
wire fence. 


(Name withheld by request) 
APO Seattle, Washington 


ANTI-FLOWER POWER 
It seems people are becoming more 
conscious of petty military injustices late- 
ly and are will 
them, One such injustice is requiring 
sonnel to obey ш 
rules for civilian dress. The officers who 
make these rules have outmoded notions 
of what constitutes acceptable civilian 
attire; and. at some posts they forbid 
bell bottom trousers, ruffled shirts, beads 
and other expressions of personal choice 
and taste, In fact, many of the turned-on 
“now look" fashions shown in PLAYBOY 
would be unacceptable under these regu- 
lations An infraction of these dress rules 
results in possible restriction to the base 
and suspension of liberty. 
When will they ever learn? 

РО/$ Mitchell 5. Tubman 

PO/3 Ray Weisgerber 

FPO Seattle, Washington 


HONORABLE OFFICERS 

І just got back from Vietnam, so I was 
ted in several letters in the De- 
Playboy Forum on mi 


life in that unlucky corner of Southeast 
Asia. One officer quoted ап August 1969 
Forum letter from а GI, who had said, 
We busily go about our daily liberation 
of this tragic country by blowing away 
entire villages, by butchering prisoners 
and by annihilating enemy hospitals, 
while our leaders mouth pious platitudes 
and resounding lies about freedom." 
‘Then, the officer attempted а bit of 
doubt casting by innuendo: "I wonder 
if this person has seen combat firsthand. 

Well, the whole world now knows what 
happened at My Lai, Га like to add dis 
I was in the field and that description of 
combat is exactly the way 1 siw it. Of 
course, I'm only nd our officers are 
all honorable men. 

Another officer wrote that in his bat- 
talion there was over 40 percent exter 
sion of duty. demonstrating that th 
troops were true believers who wanted 
to stay there and get the job done. Now, 
it happens that if you extend your tour 
of duty in the Nam, you can get out of 
the Army earlier. But our officers are all 
honorable men. 

Then, there was a whole mess of 
officers who wrote about the dangers of 
pot smoking while in the field and 
praised sold ad hos 
pitalized their pothead buddies to get 
them out of the way. I wonder if these 
officers have firsthand experience with 

j I also wonder how 
they feel about soldiers who dr 
field. But I'm sure they're all honorable 
men, too. 


Sp/4 Te 
Fort Ord, California 


REFORMING THE ARMY 

I would like to criticize Captain James 
W. Ryan's letter in the January Playboy 
Forum. Captain Ryan says, "It is specific 
people within the Army, not the Army 
пье, who should come under verbal 
fire.” But the Army is nothing but an 
orgi ion of “specific people,” al 
though these people (the lifers, not the 
draftecs) arc united by common inter- 
ests. There is no place for dissent or 
diversity; uniformity is the law of the 
military (Uniform Code of Military Jus- 
tice, dig?). Merely to be known for such 
inconsequential things as liking Lenny 
Bruce or reading the "wrong" literature 
n get the май sergeant on your back. 
The captain states, “I ve never 
known the Army to be reluctant to enlist 
a man because he is too enlightened, too 
intelligent or too judicious.” That's why 
a man with three years of college is given 
le and taught to kill, I suppose. Ac 
wally, intelligence is wasted because 
there is no place for rational thinking in 
the Army. Soldiers are put through basic 
taining to numb their higher mental 
faculties (abstract creative thought) and 
to teach them to react by conditioned 
reflex, like Paylov's dogs. 

And Captain Ryan 


ys that the w 


to improve the Army is to join it and 
make it better. The only people who 
could possibly make the Army better are 
precisely those individuals who would 
never willingly enter that inhuman 
organization, 

James S. Johnson 

Camino, Calilorni 


THE PEACE SYMBOL 

Im in the Navy, stationed on. board 
Ciry, presently Io- 
g. Vietnam. A while 
play was made for the crew's 
galley and it included the upside-down 
trident, which is w 


the U.S. S. ONahon 


ely used as a peace 
symbol This led to a long discussion 
about the appropriateness of displaying 
this sign on a U.S. Navy vessel. Our 
senior supervisor is under the impressioi 
that beatniks or hippies originated the 
symbol, but we suspect it has some other 
origin. We'd like to know how the sym- 
bol originated and if its significance has 
changed since it was first used. 
BM/3 Terry D. Stair 
FPO San Francisco, California 
Аз we said in the January 1967 
“Playboy Advisor," the peace symbol was 
fast used by English ban-the-bomb pro- 
testers in the mid-Fifties. It is the com- 
bined semaphore symbol for the letters 
ND, standing for nuclear disarmament. It 
is now being used as a symbol for peace 
in the abstract and is worn or displayed 
by clergymen, middle-class citizens and 
students, as well as hippies and New 
Leftists. Its meaning has become so gen 
eral that it can't be identified with any 
particular brand of politic 


LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT 

The following resolution has been 
passed by the Progressive Student Aso- 
ciation of the University of Southern 
Mississipy 


WHEREAS: Dr. M. M. Roberts, 
president of the Mississippi Board 
of Trustees of Institutions of High- 
er Learning, has said, in effect, that 
if one does not like the conservative- 
racist environment of Mississippi, he 
should leave; 

WHEREAS: M 
United States; 

WHEREAS: The sentiments of Dr. 
M. M. Roberts are against the scnti- 
ments of the majority of citizens of 
the United States; 

AND WHEREAS: The Progressive Stu. 
dent Association has raised $281.01 
to help purchase Dr, Roberts a onc- 
way airplane ticket to the Union of 
South Afric: 

ВЕ IT THEREFORE RESOLVED BY THE 
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISS 1 
PROGRESSIVE STUDENT ASSOCIATION: 
hat Dr. Roberts, not being in 
agreement with the majority senti- 
ments in the United States, accept 
our offer of 5281.01 to help purchase 
him a one-way airplane ticker to the 


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Union of South Africa, with the only 
stipulation being that he agree never 
to return to any part of the U.S. 


William J. Young, President 
Progressive Student Association 
University of Southern Mississippi 
Hattiesburg, Mississippi 
This resolution was passed in response 
lo а speech given by Dr. Roberts at the 
winter-quarter meeting of the University 
of Southern Mississippi chapter of the 
American Association of University Pro- 
Jessors. Dr. Roberts was quoted as fol- 
lows by the campus newspaper, The 
Student Printz: 


“I have been on the board for 

nine and a half years now and some 
of them haven't been so pleasant,” 
Dr. Roberts stated, 
The first real task 1 had Jor my- 
self was to try to decide what to do 
with [James] Meredith going to the 
University of Mississippi; and I said, 
‘No, he won't go’ I felt like he 
would go over my dead body. 

“But as I've gone along through 
the years and looked back, I've said 
to myself really that 1 am а racist. 
Every time 1 vead a definition, I say, 
“Well, that’s me? 

“I have no apologies for it, 
though,” he continued. “It’s me.” 

Dr. Roberts urged the professors 
to “say kindly things about your 
fellows, about your institutions and 
about the administrative heads, and 
be very kindly disposed in а Chris- 
tian manner.” He contended that 
the creation of such an atmosphere 
would cause the legislature to “be 
eager to do more than they have 
ever done” in appropriations for 
higher education. 

“It really ought to be a rule on 
the campus of every institution. that 
if one wants to talk about the other, 
they ought to leave. If they don’t 
like their environment, they ought 
to leave; and that applies to presi- 
dents, vice-presidents and all the 
rest 

“I can't keep from being proud of 
Agnew that he would go out and 
say... why in the hell doesn't those 
that are getting protection under 
the First Amendment be worthy of 
the protection the First Amendment 
sought to give them?” 


TECHNOLOGY VS. ECOLOGY 

Having spent two years as a Peace 
Corps volunteer in the primitive, under- 
developed environment of a small moun- 
tain village in southern Ethiopia, I am 
appalled at the ecological contrast be- 
tween this area and that of "developed" 
Europe. Though my village had its share 
of flics, dirt and disease, at least the air 
was clean. You could see and smell nat- 
ural greenery. 

When I subsequently traveled in Eu- 


rope, I saw heavy, noxious fume clouds 
hanging over every large town, and 
bage floating and gathering everywh 
It was especially bad 
Venice; and every beach from Greece to 
the Canary Islands was covered nearly 
half the time with a black, sticky resi- 
due of washed-up tar, plastic b; 
ubiquitous, indestructible pl 
bottle: 
Is the sad state of Europe (and the 

industrialized parts of America) the in- 
evitable consequence of technological 
advancement? Is this the price for elimi- 
nating disease and poverty? For the sake 
of the world's future, I hope not. 

Stephen К. Smith 

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 

Canary Islands 


In 1908, 78 coal miners in Farming- 
топ, West Virginia, were паррей and 
killed in a mine disaster. The salt coul 
industry maintains a. powerful lobby 
Washington, and proposed safety laws 
that possibly threaten to interfere with 
coal production fail in Congress. One 
miner who was lucky enough to get out 
of the Farmington disaster said, "АШ they 
worry about is getting that coal out of 
- They don't spend the money 
г that coal dust and methane gas 
fast enough." 

The same coal dust and methane gas 
present a threat to all of us, above or 
below the ground. Below the ground, 
it’s a problem of mine safety; above the 
ground, it’s air pollution, The coal lob- 
by keeps up а fight with Con- 


gress and the Department of 
Health, Education and Welfare, ham- 
pering the control of smog. In Ma 


1967, according to The New York Times, 


the director of the National Center for 
Air Pollution Control assured the coal 
ndustry that “the Federal Government 
[would nor] set national standards re- 
garding sulphur emission . . . until 
researchers find economically feasible 
methods of preventing such pollution.” 
The truth is that such methods were 
developed many years ago in St. Louis, 
Missouri. 

1 urge everyone to write to his Con- 
gressman, Gilling for an end to collusion 
and sellous between the Government 
and the smog producers. 

orge М. Fisher 
South Gate, California 


CONSERVATISM AND YOUTH 

As a longtime PLAYBOY reader and an 
interested observer and sometime partici- 
pant in this nation's social and political 
scenes, I have watched the parallel revo- 
lutions on campus and in the ghettos 
since the earliest stages, when even a 
nonviolent sit-in by a handful of act 
was viewed with alarm and indignation. 
At the risk of being branded an aging 
Maoist, 1 would like to register one 
older (3)-year-old) conservative's. com- 


plete sympathy with, and approval of. the 
struggle being waged by these young 
people for ideals that the older generation 
itself instilled in them. I find it com- 
pletely admirable that our spoiled. over- 
indulged youth have the guis ro suller 
Mace, jail. expulsion and denunciation 
n their attempt to bring about changes 
that are right. timely and necessary 
While I don't always like their methods 
or agree with their political conclusions. 
I am gratified that they at least give a 
damn about what direction this country 
takes in ап age of nuclear impasse. I 
find hope in the sheer energy and dyna- 
mism of their movements—hope that the 
American dream and the continu 
American revolution will not die of 
lysis caused by the [ears and preju- 
s of an older generation in love with 
the status quo. 


WOMEN’S LIBERATION 

ГА like to comment on the idea of 
a feminine revolution. American men 
are not terrified of women who have 
tressed to see 
women femininity, which is 
what happens when women compete 
daily with men. 

Many college coeds and some working 
women have forgotten the art of being 
feminine. No one can convince me that 
women in pullovers, blue jeans and 
boots are trying to compete with their 
minds; they're throwing their whole 
bodies into the act. They have virtually 
forgotten how to be women. Since they 
do not act as such, they cannot complain 
when men also forget to treat them with 
deference and courtesy. Having lost their 
own self-respect, they will have to fight 
for the respect of men. 

One final point: This so-called femi- 
nine revoluti, which is childish non- 
sense, should not be compared with the 
black revolution, a great and good cause, 
y Kasten 
San Pierre, Indiana 


good minds: they are di 


lose the 


May I suggest an. important. step. for- 
ward for tlie women's liberation. move- 
ment? The time has come to take to the 
streets and. demonstrate. ap; 
ed rest rooms in public places. The signs 
MEN and wowrx must come down and 
the rest rooms must be integrated. Sepa 
тае but equal has failed: Women are 
being denied the chance to use fac 
supplied without question to men. All 
power to the peepee! 

Eugene Austin 
University City, Missouri 


s 


I heartily agree with Michael Shar- 
wood-Smith, whose letter appeared in 
the January Playboy Forum, and would 
like to see PLAYBOY take an active ран 
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60 


Women are now beginning to make а 
vigorous effort to enter the mainstream 
of American life, where hitherto their 
potential has been largely wasted. Th 
protests and the exposure of their resent- 
ments and grievances arc proving a shock 
io most men end many women. 

Although it is true that PLAYBOY states 
frankly that it is a magazine for men, 
and by its choice of stories, articles and 
illustrations carries out this theme, I 
would like to see the editors take a good 
look at what is happening with women 
and how it will alfect the quality of 
national life and, in particular, the rela- 
tionship between the sexes. I feel the 
liberation of women will benefit men 
perhaps even more than women, and 
that only men who are unsure of their 
value as men, and as human beings. are 
likely to fear improvements in the status 
of women. 

Indeed, I would like to scc rLaysor 
not only discuss this subject, as have so 
many of the other national magazines 
in recent months, but also include arti- 
cles by and about prominent women. 
pLaynoy's readers should be informed 
and prepared regarding the change in 
women's activities and personalities that 
will take place during their lifetimes. 

Myra A. Josephs, Ph.D. 
New York, New York 

PLAYBOY has published several inter- 
views with women, including Dr. Mary 
Calderone, in this issue; and Helen Gur- 
ley Brown, Virginia Johnson, Princess 
Grace, Madalyn Murray О’Най, Ayn 
Rand and Raquel Welch in past issues. 
Women's by-lines appear in PLAYBOY 
from time to time, but, as you point out, 
it is desirable to retain our male orien- 
tation, which interests and benefits not 
only our male readers but also our nu- 
merous female readers. 

Though we ате opposed to the de 
structive radicalism and the anti-sexuality 
of the extremist fringe of militant femi- 
nism, our position on women's rights, we 
feel, is as consistently liberal as our posi- 
tion on all human sights. We've been 
crusading for a long time for universal 
availability of contraceptives and birth- 
control information, as well as for the 
repeal of restrictive abortion laws; we 
believe a woman's right to control her 
own body, in scxuality and in reproduc- 
lion, is an essential step toward greater 
personal freedom. Likewise, we reject the 
Victorian double standard, which ap- 
plauds sexual experience in men and 
condemns її in women; indeed, the sex- 
ual revolution, in which we have played 
а significant role, has helped women 
achieve greater sexual parity with men 
than they have ever enjoyed in previous 
Western history. We think one of the 
main causes of women’s subjugation has 
been a religion-based misogyny, dating 
back to the Middle Ages, which asserts 
that women are corruplers of men and 
ought to be subservient to them; we have 


repeatedly condemned this. We are also 
opposed to the traditional stereotype that 
relegates women to domestic drudgery. 
We certainly believe that any woman who 
wants to shun the homemakey’s vole for a 
career, or who wants to combine Бой, 
should have the opportunity to imple- 
ment that decision—recognizing, without 
inflexibility, that some occupations are 
better suited 10 most members of one sex 
than the other, It should be needless to 
add that we believe women ought to be 
given equal pay for work of equal value, 
Although we clearly recognize that there 
are certain inequities т these areas, 
which are in obvious need of reform, we 
fecl, nonetheless, that American women 
have never had more freedom of choice 
than they have today. 

However, despite our wholehearted 
sympathy with those clements in the 
feminist: movement that crusade against 
these inequities, we cannot go along with 
the radical "liberationists/" who maintain 
that sexual differences are insignificant 
(some say “nonexistent”). In our view, 
these "wealherwomen" are more anli- 
masculine than genuinely pro-femininc. 
We believe that many distinctions, apart 
from the purely physical, do and should 
exist and whether they are primarily cul- 
tural or innate (or a combination of 
both), we rejoice in them—as do most 
men and women—because they help form 
the very basis for heterosexual attraction, 
This leads us to conclude that there 
should be distinct social roles jor men 
and women in а society in which they 
complement one another rather than 
compete with one another. 

A discussion of feminism and how it 
relales to the shifting roles of male and 
female will appear in the May issue. The 
articles author, vLavnoy contributor 
Morton Hunt, has written several books 
on the relationship of the sexes, includ- 
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ABORTION WITHOUT GUILT 

Five years ago, I was fortunate enough 
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Since my fiancé was 
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fiancé and I were able to finish our edu- 
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have a daughter whom we want and 
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think how lucky I was to have had the 
abortion. 


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ABORTION LAWS CHALLENGED 
In the January Forum Newsfront, ref- 
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American Civil Liberties Union to have 
the New York abortion law declared 
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brought by a number of individua 
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The lead counsel s case is Roy 
Lucas, general counsel to the James 
Madison Constitutional Law Institute. 
As a member of the firm of Greenbaum, 
Wolf and Ernst, general counsel to 
Planned Parenthood of New York City 
and the Association for the Study of 
Abortion, 1 and one of our associates, 
Jane Zuckerman, are working closely 
with Luci. Other lawyers coope 
on behalf of the plaintiffs are Melvi 
Wull of the American Civil Liberties 
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When Mary Steichen Calderone, a 
public-health physician and grandmother 
of two, became director of the newly 
formed Sex Information and Education 
Council of the United States in May of 
1964, she scarcely anticipated that within 
Jour years she would be accused of cor- 
rupting children and countenancing com- 
munism. For Dr. Calderone and the 
other founders of SIECUS, their aim had 
been nothing more sinister than “to es- 
tablish man's sexuality as а health entity.” 
According to their slatement oj pur- 
pose, this means: “to identify the special 
characteristics that distinguish [human 
sexuality} from, yet relate it to, human 
reproduction; to dignify it by openness 
of approach, study and scientific research 
designed to lead toward its undersiand- 
ing and its freedom from exploitation; 
10 give leadership to professionals and to 
society, to the end that human beings 
may be aided toward responsible . . . 
assimilation of sex into their individual 
life patterns as a creative and re-creative 
force.” 

To Dr. Gordon V. Drake, an obscure 
educator who wrote a pair of explosive 
pamphlets in 1968 for the Reverend 
Billy James Hargis rightwing Christian 
Crusade, SIECUS' motives were far less 
lofty. Drake's booklets and subsequent 
public statements not only questioned 
the propriety of sex education but 
linked it to political subversion, pornog- 
raphy and atheism. Sex educators were 
compared with Karl Mary, who, accord- 
ing lo Drake's. interpretation, believed: 


“Instead of debating an issue, our oppo- 
nents will march into a bonrd-of-educa- 
lion meeting and stampede it; they'll 
shout personal attacks and refuse to 
allow any proposals to be heard.” 


DR. MARY CALDERONE 


a candid conversation with the outspoken and embattled first lady of sex education 


that “religion had to be destroyed before 
communism could hope to maintain con- 
trol of a nation by reducing й to slavery 
and dumb obedience.” Having smeared 
the sex educators Red, Drake added oth- 
er hues to his spectrum of denunciations: 
“[They] are in league with sexologists 
who represent every shade of muddy 


gray morality, ministers colored atheistic 
pink and camp followers of every persua- 
sion—ofJbeat psychiatrists to ruthless pub- 


lishers of pornography” Drake later 
added toilet training to his list of sex- 
education sins, declaring, “Cats know that 
sort of thing without having to be toilet 
trained.” And he excoriated nudism, ex- 
plaining that if God had meant us 10 be 
nudists, He would have created us with 
fur—or at least feathers. 

Drake's fulminations would have pro- 
vided little more than Sunday-sermon 
fodder for the Oklahoma-based Christian 
Crusade were it not for the fact that the 
John Birch Society leaders, still chafing 
over their failure to keep America’s pre- 
cious body fluids free of fluoride, recog- 
nized sex education as an issue with 
enough demagogic potential 10 restore 
vitality to their moribund organization. 
Some six months after Drake's initial dia- 
tribes (and almost five years after SIECUS 
allegedly began corrupting America’s 
youth), Birch Society founder Robert 
Welch—best known for his assertion that 
President Eisenhower was a “conscious 
agent of the Communist conspiracy"— 
issued a call for an “organized, nation- 
wide, intensive, angry and determined 


“The pill carries with it some statistical- 
ly proved dangers, But the risks involved 
don't begin to approach those associated 
with pregnancy itself, which the pill 
prevents with virtual certainty.” 


opposition to the now mushrooming 
program of so-called sex education in the 
public schools.” He termed the program 
a “subversive monstrosity” and declared 
that the great (and apparently silent) 
majority of Americans was “not yet even 
aware of this filthy Communist plot.” 

Following Welch's alarum, a Birch 
front called MOTOREDE (Movement 
10 Restore Decency) was organized to 
conduct a campaign on the community 
level; almost simultaneously, disquicted 
parents throughout the country raided 
the alphabet for similar action groups, 
acronymically POSSE (Parents 
Opposed to Sex and Sensitivity Educa- 
tion); MOMS (Mothers Organized for 
Moral Stability); POSE (Parents Opposed 
to Sex Education): PAUSE (Parents 
Against Universal Sex Education); PAMS 
(Parents Advocating Morality Standards); 
and SOS (Sanity on Sex). To varying 
degrees, these organizations followed 
MOTOREDE's master strategy of invit- 
ing parents with legitimate concerns 
about their children’s education to join 
hands with right-wing. 
combine traditional criticisms of sex edu- 
cation with hard-core smear tactics. The 
Birchites. for example, frequently link p: 
chiatry with communism, yet they ardent- 
ly advocate the fusty Freudian theory 
that preteenagers may be damaged Бу 
exposure to sexual thoughts. 

Because of the anxiety and ambiva- 
lence with which many Americans т 
rd sex—especially when children a 
mvolued—the seeds of doubt cast by the 


named 


(remiss and to 


“I think some of the feminist organ 
lions are shrill and anti female, and 1 
am not a crusader for women’s rights. 
Women don't have rights—as women 
only. They have human rights?" 


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64 


Christian Crusaders, the Birchers and 
their allies fell on fertile ground. By last 
fall, 19 state legislatures and the U.S. 
Congress had before them measures to 
prohibit, control or curtail sex education 
in the schools—ihis despite the facts that 
71 percent of adult Americans polled by 
Gallup in 1969 approved of sex educa- 
tion in one form or another and that sex 
education is supported by such prestig- 
ious organizations as the American Medi- 
cal Association, the National Congress of 
Parents and Teachers, the National Coun- 
cil of Churches. the U.S. Catholic Con- 
ference, the V. II. C. A. and the V. A. C. A. 
Dr. Calderone and SIECUS’ other 
leaders, the focal points of the controver- 
sy, have responded [or the most part 
with silence—on the assumption, they 
feel, that fighting in the mud would only 
soil their own hands—and with an ap- 
parent determination to continue their 
work. This has consisted primarily of 
making available information to private 
individuals, professionals and the press 
through a newsletter and study guides on 
such subjects as. premarital sex, mastur- 
bation, homosexuality and sexual moral 
values, SIECUS also provides speakers, 
organizes conferences and contributes to 
the sex-educalion training of clergymen, 
doctors, psychiatrists and other counse- 
lors. SIECUS had not originally planned 
to become actively involved in school sex 
education but was soon swept into it by 
a prodigious demand from school of- 
ficials, who had no other place to turn 
for guidance. Allhough |тедиепИу ac- 
cused of furnishing elementary school 
children with pornographic educational 
aids—to its critics, this appears to mean 
virtually anything dealing with sex— 
SIEGUS, in fact, provides these students 
with no materials at all; it does write 
reviews т its newsletter of publications 
and films prepared by other sources. 
SIECUS' response to undocumented 
accusations of communism among ils 
leadership is to point ош that its 50 
board members—each of whom serves 
for three years—include eminent busi- 
nessmen, clergymen, educators, physi- 
cians, scientists, Government officials, 
journalists and authors. A brief sampling 
of recent board members: Dr. George 
Packer Berry, retired dean of the medical 
school at Harvard; Mary Bunting, pres- 
ident of Radcliffe College; the Reverend 
John Thomas, a Catholic family sociol- 
ogist; and Clark Blackburn, general di- 
rector of the Family Service Association 
of America. Dr. Harold Lief, director of 
the division of family study at the Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania, is president. 
But the task of making SIECUS func- 
tional and relevant falls mainly on its 
salaried ditector, Dr. derone, who is 
described in a forthcoming book by Dr. 
David Mace, a well-known sociologist 


and past president of SIECUS, as an 
“obvious choice” for the job. In addition 
lo her experience as medical director of 
the Planned Parenthood Federation of 
America and her qualities as a physician, 
grandmother and Quaker, she is, says 
Mace, “a remarkable person. . . . Daugh- 
ter of Edward Steichen, the world-famous 
photographer [who created the celebrated 
“The Family of Man”), niece to [the 
late] Carl Sandburg, the distinguished 
poet ...she is in every sense a cultured 
person... remarkably knowledgeable 
in а great variety of fields. Add to this 
the fact that she has charismatic gifts of 
no mean order, and is a powerful and 
persuasive public speaker.” 

Dr. Calderone, who was born on July 
1, 1904, in New York City, may have 
developed some of these traits through 
her pursuit of dramatics with Richard 
Boleslavsky and Maria Ouspenskaya. She 
studied the Thespian art for three years, 
following her graduation from Vassar in 
1925, where she majored їп chemistry. 
Her career ambitions were temporarily 
abandoned in 1926, however, when she 
was married—a relationship that ended 
in divorce seven years later. Not long 
after, one of her two daughters died of 
pneumonia, plunging Dr. Calderone into 
an emotional crisis that was resolved 
with the help of psychoanalysis and the 
determination to pursue a carcer in med- 
icine. She received her M.D. in 1959 
from the University of Rochester Medi- 
cal School and worked intermittently in 
public health until she joined Planned 
Parenthood in 1952. During this period, 
she met her present husband, Frank 
Calderone, also a physician, who at one 
time served as chief administrative officer 
of the World Health Organization and 
director of health services with the Unit 
ed Nations Secretariat; they have two 
children 

Although Mary Calderone achieved 
wide recognition [ог her birth-control 
work with Planned Parenthood, she be- 
gan lo feel a deep sense of frustration 
with organization policies that didn't al- 
low her to develop programs of aid for 
people suffering from such sexual prob- 
lems as impotence, frigidity and homo- 
sexuality. This led her, with five fellow 
participants in а conference on family 
and religion, to form SIECUS. 

A skilled and versatile writer, Dr. 
Calderone is also the author of two pho- 
tography books (under her first married 
name, Martin) in collaboration with her 
father; “The First Picture Book” and 
“The Second Picture Book. rent, 
Biography describes these as “pioncering 
examples of the successful use of photo- 
graphs in children's books.” She has edit- 
ed “Abortion in the United States” and 
the “Manual of Contraceptive Practice”; 
and an original book, “Release from 


Sexual Tensions,” was widely acclaimed 
by medical, psychiatric and religious 
publications. An independent Republi- 
сап, a gourmet cook, an adept horticul- 
turist and an accomplished sailor, she 
spends her vacalions with her husband 
aboard а 60-foot schooner in the Carib- 
bean. Their home is а 175-year-old farm- 
house om Long Island's north shore, 
where Dr. Calderone met with PLAYBOY 
Senior Editor Nat Lehrman for the first 
of their recorded conversations. 

“1 had known Dr. Calderone casually 
for several years)" says Lehrman, “and 
РА always considered her witty, gracious, 
charming and disarmingly outspoken; 
but it took six lengthy taping sessions 
and additional discussions—in her home 
and in her Manhattan office—for me to 
begin 10 appreciate the depth, spirit and 
open-mindedness of this woman. She be- 
lies the extensive knowledge she has ac 
cumulated in a wide variety of areas by 
approaching questions with the freshness 
and enthusiasm of an 18-year-old. I was 
constantly conscious during the interview 
that she was rethinking opinions that she 
must have begun formulating in early 
adulthood. 

“Her youthfulness shows up as well in 
her physical appearance. At 65, she car- 
ries her height 5'6” —erectly and walks 
with vigor and bounce. Her conversation 
is punctuated with abundant physical ani 
mation; and her blue eyes, deeply set in 
those dark 
face, sparkle with the curiosity and can- 
dor of a college debating captain. I was 
also impressed by her unwavering cour 
age. Dr. Calderone is a moderately well- 
to-do woman who could be spending her 
days at home or in the serenity of a ‘safe’ 
job; instead, she has chosen to stand up 
against an organized and abrasive cam- 
paign of vilification—not only of her 
ideas and principles but of her family 
and her personal integrity. On this note, 
I began the interview with a question 
about the nature of the extremists who 
have singled her out as a target for their 
anti-sex-education crusade.” 


shadows that characterize her 


PLAYBOY: Sex education in the schools has 
been under vociferous attack this past 
y la half from a large number of 
pressure groups. Supporters of sex educa 
claim that virtually all these organi 
ions arc fronts for the John Birch 
Society. Are they? 

CALDERONE; Not all of them. Many а 
unquestionably inspired and enco 
by the John Birch Society, but just 
certainly, they include a great number of 
well-intentioned individuals who a 
rious questions about sex edu 
just as STECUS does. 

PLAYBOY: How do you explain the sudden 
formation of these groups? Sex education. 
has been around quite а while. 
CALDERONE: The information we've been 


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given—by such bodies as the Institute 
for American Democracy and the Anti- 
Defamation League of B'nai B'rith—is 
that organizations like the Birch Society 
and the Christian Crusade are constanily 
looking for causes on which to pin a re- 
cruitment program, recruitment of mem- 
bership and of money. Actually, the drive 
was initiated in the summer of 1968 by the 
n Crusade, which гип by the 
rend Billy James Hargis. He's an 
conservative preacher of fundamen- 
m. He is, of course, rabidly 
anti-Communist. If I can judge by a TV 
news story 1 saw, one of his major ac- 
tivities is to shepherd groups of elderly 
tourists to Rhodesia. where he introduces 
them to Prime Minister Ian Smith. Most 
of the rightwing allegations about sex 
education stem from a Christian. Cru. 
sade booklet titled "Is the Schoolhouse 
the Proper Place to Teach Raw Sex?" 
PLAYBOY: Many of the charges in this 
booklet have been widely disseminated. 
А large number of them were read into 
the Congressional Record by Representa- 
tive John Rarick of Lou nd some 
have appeared in newspapers throughout 
the nation. One of the most widespread 
accusations concerns a teacher who sup- 
posedly became so carried away while 
conducting a cours: in sex education 
that she completely disrobed in front of 
her class. Is there any basis of truth for 
this story? 

CALDERONE: No. One of our board mem- 
bers tracked it down and found that, in 
a health class a Flint, Michigan, 
school, a teacher demonstrated how dif- 
ferent ways of dressing expressed differ- 
ent personalities, mores and manners. 
She modeled a number of dresses to 
illustrate these points and changed be- 
hind а screen, She was never without her 
slip. And bear in mind that this was an 
all-girl 0 you can sce, these simple 


making the rounds for example, it's 
alleged that in some schools, kids are 
herded together in closets so that they 
can feel cach other, and that kindergar- 
ten children are taught to model genital 
These tales are utter. 
«а by 


organs out of d 


nonsense and are never substan 
name, place or date. I look upon them as 
blatant insults to the integrity and intel 


tion's 


ligence of the teachers in our n 
schools. 
PLAYBOY: Some of your owi 


words have 


been given wide publicity through the ef 
forts of Gordon Drake, author of the 
Christian Crusade booklet. He's made 


you sound like a libertine by associating 
your name with the following lines: 
“What is sex for? It’s for fun . . . for 
wonderful sensations. Sex is not some- 


thing you turn off like a faucet. . . . We 
need new values to establish when and 
how we should have sexual experiences.” 
Did you say that? 

CALDERONE: Yes, but those words were 
surrounded by many others during a 
speech at Blair Academy that was report- 
ed in Look. Here's the original quote, 
with the words that were deliberately 
omitted by Drake italicized: "What is sex 
for? It’s for fun, that Г know, for won- 
derful sensations. It’s also for reproduc- 
tion, sedation, reward, punishment. It’s a 
status symbol, a commercial come-on, 
proof of independence, a form of emo- 
tional blackmail. Many of these are neg- 
alive ways of using sex. What we are 
trying to feel our way toward are the 
positive ways. Sex is nol something to 
be feared or degraded or kicked around or 
used. Sex is not something you turn off 
like a faucet. If you do, it's unhealthy. 
We are sexual beings. legitimately so, at 
every age. Don't think that sex stops at 
the age of 50. It doesn’t. We need new 
values to establish when 
should have sexual experiences. 
a typical Christian Crusade disto; 
PLAYBOY: Drake also quotes you 
to the Blair Academy boys, "I don't 
believe the old thoushalt-nots apply any- 
more.” Was this extracted from the same 
Look article? 

CALDERONE: Yes, but it's from a totally 
different speech—to the National Con- 
gress of Parents and Teachers. I said. 
“I am a religious person, but I don't 
believe the old thowshalenots apply 
anymore.” Look senior editor Leor 
Gross, who wrote the piece, carefully 
added an important qualifying phrase, 
which Drake chose to ignore: “Hers is 
not а moral judgment but а description 
of our society." Moreover, Drake delib- 
erately transposed that quote to make 
it appear I'd said it at Blair Academy 
PLAYBOY: Yor ized by 
H. I. Hunt's Life Line, which describes 
renetic flock of 
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е also been 


your organization as a " 
scholars and Communists 


nation!” 

CALDERONE: Well, scholars they arc; but 
frenetic and Communist they are not. 
PLAYBOY: Life Line adds, “SIECUS has 
tainted itself with Moscow-oriented think. 
ng, and Moscow has not been noted for 
its tender mercies toward the American 
way of life.” Are there any facts to sup- 
port these allegations of communism in 
SIECUS: 
CALDERONE: No facts ll. One person 
on the board of SIECUS once had an 
accusation before an official body m 
t him, and that was all. Dui 
the McCarthy period, his 
many—was read off by a police spy і 
a meeting of the House Un-Ameri 
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along with several others, of having at- 
tended a Communist Party meeting i 
the Forties. He was not even present 
at the committee hearing to confirm or 
deny the accusation, Prior to that, he 
had been asked by the counsel for anoth- 
er Congressional committee whether he 
was or ever had been a member of the 
Communist Party. Our board member 
answered in the negative, under oath 
and apparently the committee was sati 
fied, because no official charges of perju- 
ry or disloyalty have ever been made 
against him. We are convinced that this 
man is completely loyal to his country 
and we deeply resent these stale witch- 
hunting charges. In fact, we have just 
re-elected this man to our board. If our 
opponents are genuinely interested in 
sex education, let them stick to the issues. 
PLAYBOY: A bit closer to the issues, they 
have charged you with shocking your 
audiences by using four-letter words. Do 
you? 

CALDERONE: I have used a specific four- 
letter word in a public setting about six 
imes in my entire professional life. On a 
al occasion, I used such a word in 
response to a written question from a 
high school girl. She wanted to know 
why boys "talk dirty" in front of girls. I 
sid, “It really depends on what you 
mean by talking dirty. Some good words 
can be used in dirty ways, yet we know 
that the verb ‘to fuck’ is used by very 
nice husbands and wives in their rela- 
tionships with other. It’s the atti- 
tude with which the word is used that 
counts.” There were no ill effects in that 
school. Not a kid blinked or giggled or 
whispered—and I think they got the 
point I was trying to make. 

PLAYBOY: Another right-wing criticism 
pertains to sensitivity uaining, which is 
anathema to the Birchers and their co- 
hors, because it is linked—in their 
minds, at least—to brainwashing, which, 
in turn, they link to communism. Does 
SIECUS advocate the use of sensitivity 
waining? 

CALDERONE: SIECUS has taken no posi- 
tion on sensitivity training. I've per- 
sonally writen that ме need to know а 
great deal more about this technique 
before we allow it to proceed indiscr 
nately, The А. M.A, has expressed the 
same opinion. It’s one thing to have a 
highly skilled leader who can control the 
length and the depth to which a sensitiv- 
ity session gocs, and quite another to 
open up topics among strangers that can 
be threatening and disturbing. I think 
sensitivity training will find its place, if 
it's handled in the right way by people 
who are skilled at it. In any case, 
should be for professionals not 
young people in school situations. 
PLAYBOY: Have these charges against 
SIECUS and other supporters had any 
effect on the course of sex education? 


ni- 


for 


CALDERONE: It's hard to assess at this 
moment. The right-wingers have certain- 
ly won some victories, but I think that 
since so many of their false and sensa- 
tionalized accusations have been exposed 
—particularly in the nation’s press and 
in church publications—the tide is be- 
ginning to turn, They did succeed, how- 
ever, in watering down the excellent 
sex-education program in Anaheim. Cali 
ia. Although 95 percent of the parents 
ere polled as approving 
the program, only 14 percent of the 
people went out to vote during а school- 
board election, As a result, two rightist 
members were electect and there have 
been changes there, 

But that’s only one case. Generally, 
there are many communities in which 
a sound, slowly developing, carefully 
thought-out curriculum has been scurril- 
ously attacked by the right wing and 
perhaps prevented from ever coming 
to being. What happens when scream- 
ing, hysterical men and women attack 
local school boards is that the educators 
simply lay aside their plans for sex edu- 
cation, because they don't want to jeop- 
ardize their other programs. 

PLAYBOY: Have any of these attacks 
touched you or your family? 

CALDERONE: No tactic has been too low 
for our critics, My husband, Frank, was 
e chief administrative officer 
the World Health Organization. Its 
distinguished ditector, Brock Chisholm, 
was a psychiatrist—and therefore, to 
these benighted souls, a brainwasher— 
and his agnosticism was well-known. 
Thus, he, by implication, and my hus- 
band, by association, are Communists. 
Nothing, of course, could be farther 
from the truth. But that's not ай. My 
husband inherited a small chain of 
theaters on. Long Island from his father 
—who, incidentally, like mine, came to 
this country as a poor immigrant. Along 
with many wellreviewed pos-Broadway 
productions, Frank also showed the pop- 
ular Minsky’s burlesque at one of his 
theaters; as a result, he’s been described 
by some of our critics as a pornographer. 
This, in spite of the fact that he willing- 
ly made cuts in the show at the sugges 
tion of the local district attorney. 
PLAYBOY: Do you receive any hate mail? 
CALDERONE: Yes, a few letters, usually 
written neatly on pink note paper with 
cute little rosebuds on top. They're 
signed "Anonymous" and they express 
the sincere Christian wish and expec 
tion that ГИ roundly roast in hell. 
PLAYBOY: As unpleasant and irrational as 
your critics may be, they appear to have 
marshaled support throughout this coun- 
try lar in excess of their own numerical 
strength. Doesn't this indicate that a 
great many moderate citizens—people 


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who wouldn't dream of indulging in 
smear tactics—are following the lead of 
these extremists because they, too, disap- 
prove of sex education for children? 
CALDERONE: "That's very possible; and, 
so, they've missed the point of what 
SIECUS is trying to do. My personal 
belief is thar a society gets what it wants 
If society doesn't want sex education for 
children, then no one should impose it 
on society. That's why we've never 
adopted an aggressive program of dis- 
seminating sex education in the schools 
сі our critics conveniently ignore. 
SIECUS has simply responded and will 
continue to respond to requests for infor- 
ion. That's been our policy all along. 
In fact, we are far more interested in edu- 
cating the adult segment of society. Ob- 
viously, if the attitudes of adults about 
sex and sexuality were other than they 
the kids wouldn’t be in so much 
trouble. They wouldn't have the hang- 
ups, the difficulties, the ignorance. They 
wouldn't be confused by an exces of 
eroticism on the one hand and an excess 
of repression on the other; this would 
work toward eliminating all the pathetic 
ovcracting that we sec in kids. Returning 
to your question, I think the cxtremists 
have touched upon the publics fear of 
sex and sex education. But there are also 
"ge numbers of courageous and cle: 
sighted parents and school-board members 
who nonetheless will persist in support- 
ing programs. 

PLAYBOY: What can these concerned par- 
ents and educators do to establish and 
preserve sex education in their communi- 


ar 


ties in spite of the opposition? 
CALDERONE: Educators, clergymen, physi 
cians and other influential individuals 


must be enlisted to stand up and be 
counted. These people, who are respect. 
ed in the community and cannot easily 
be smeared Red by the hate merchants, 
must use whatever platform is available 
to tell the truth about sex education and 


10 expose the opposition's lies about their 
own community's programs. They should 


organize a committee that names itself, 
that announces its membership and pur 
something the opposition rarely 
For some reason, 
usually operate in the shadows and are 
dificult to identify. The committee 
should state its program through news- 
paper publicity and advertisements. Then 
it should continue to act by attending 
and speaking before school-board meer- 
ings, so ас the educators aren't left 
without support in the face of criticism. 
The National Education Association in 
Washington has prepared ап excellent 
information kit on how to proceed on 
the local level. 

PLAYBOY: Ihe opposition isn't unfamiliar 
with the techniques of organization. One 


pose- 
does. 


the extremists 


of your California critics offered the fol- 
lowing tips on how to head off a local 
education program: "If you're not 
already a member of an organization, 
start one—and don't hesitate to join 
more. Co to schoolboard meetings 
your town and in other towns—applaud 
and groan at the right times and, if 
necessary, stomp your feet and scream. 
... The more brazen you are, the more 
attention you'll get" Has this kind of 
tactic been effective? 

CALDERONE: On the contrary. As a matter 
of fact, the extremists tend to expose 
themselves, as they did in this instance, 


At one state legislative committee meet- 


E. for example, there were so many 
hysterical women screaming that the leg- 
islature simply got disgusted and tabled 
antisexeducation resolutions for 
two years Supporting citizens, on the 
other hand, have been by and large 
sober, intelligent, quiet and strong, and 
they bring documented evidence that 
presented. by leading professionals 
orderly way. The contrast between the 
two groups is usually very apparent. The 
opposition’s methods are totally undemo- 
craüc; in fact, to use terms I generally 
employ sparingly, they're typically Com 
munist or fascist methods. Instead of 
debating or discussing the merits of an 
issue, they'll march into a board of edu. 
cation meeting and stampede it; they'll 
scream and shout personal attacks and 
yell obscenities and blasphemies; they'll 
boo and hiss and refuse to allow any 
proposals to be heard. 

I think, frankly, that they're killing 
themselves. They're destroying their ov 
cause, This saddens me, in a way, be- 
cause I don't like to think in terms of 
winning, losing or fighting battles. As a 
Quaker, I prefer to work toward consen- 
sus through dialog, with everyone having 
a chance to express his carefully consid- 
ered viewpoint and all parts of a discus- 


n 


sion contributing to agreement. The 
irrationality of anti-sex-education extrem- 
ists sometimes gains immediate victories, 


but, ultimately, it alienates the moderates 
in any community in which the subject 
has come up. In the face of name-calling 
and hysteria, they begin to feel that their 
best bet lies with the honest, solid citizens 
who really attempt to examine the 
evidence. 

PLAYBOY: ‘There has also been serious 
criticism of sex education by people with 
по apparent. political ax to grind. Child 
psychologist Rhoda Lorand. for example, 
has said that “presentation of sexual 
material overwhelms, embarrasses, upsets 
and excites the children, forcing them 
in turn to then repress all of these 
troublesome feelings, and this may lead 
to many difficulties. It would very likely 
Jead to sexual difficulties later in life.” 
Is she correct? 


CALDERONE: “The concept of the latency 
period, which is what Dr. Lorand is 
referring to, and which describes а peri- 
od in the child’s development—from five 
or six to ten or twelye—when he theo- 
retically has no interest in sex. is not 
accepted by most psychiatrists and psy 
chologists today. The general feeling is 
that the postulation of a latency period 
as one of the five stages in the sexual 
evolution of a child may have been 
applicable in Freud's time but is no 
longer valid, because we live in a dif- 
ferent society. In Freud's day, sex wasn't 
so ubiquitous and intrusive in the life of 
the child; he was insulated from it. This 
is no longer so. Also, I believe Dr. Lor- 
and may have been speaking from the 
point of view of the disturbed young 
people she has treated as a child psychol- 
орі. The observations of teachers and 
physicians who have had an opportunity 
to deal with normal children indicate 
that these kids ger a tremendous sense of 
relief when they find an adult ready to 
level with them about sex—and this is 
true at any age. Dr. Carlfred Broderick. 
who has done the best studies so far of 
readolescent sexuality, has said Шаг 
children develop a very clear-cut and сон 
tinuing interest in sex as early as five 
years old 

PLAYBOY: Dr. Lorand also claims 
child analysts have accumulated 
trovertible evidence” that the "major 
portion of sexual energy and curiosity 

in the young child is “normally redirect- 
ed into learning academic subjects and 
physical skills” She feels that this leaves 
him “free to learn in school and to behave 
bly sedate and controlled 
and that to interfere with this 
can be ha 
CALDERONE: Dr. Lorand doesn't state what 
her incontrovertible су nce ds no 
which child analysts have accumulated it 
Her theories certainly don't sccm to bc 
borne out by the authorities I've consult- 
ed. These experts do, indeed, agree tha 

the pre-adolescent has a strong interest 
academic learning. But that’s exactly 
why they believe its an ideal time to 
provide young people with objective and 
factual knowledge about sex and repro- 
duction, before the Sturm und Drang of 
puberty begins; when it does, they'll 
have a good basis for understanding 
what's happening to them. 

PLAYBOY: How do you go about teaching 
them what's happening to them? What 
is taught in sex-education course: 
CALDERONE: There are an incredible num- 
ber of variations. Basically, ап adequ 
sexeducation program is one in which 
the parents, the school, the community 
and the church have all participated at 
appropriate times in the child's life, 
with the aim of producing mature, aware 


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adults, capable of understanding them. 
selves and others and of behaving re- 
sponsibly as sexual people. 

As for scope, а good program beg 
Kindergarten and continues throughout 
school in an imegrated мау. In the pri- 
mary years, the study of the nature of 
the family, the relationships and respon- 
sibilities of husbands and wives, of moth- 
ers and fathers, of brothers 
the role of the family in society is para- 
mount; and а good program should cer- 
tainly attempt to impart an understanding 
of the changes that occur in boys and 
girls—and it should do so just prior to 
the occurrence of these changes. Thus, 
the fifth-grade girl will know what to 
xpect of meusu uation; and the boy will 
know what to expect of nocturnal emis- 
sions and he will understand the growth 
of his sexual organs; both sexes will 
know about pubic hair and be prepared 
for it. They'll also acquire knowledge of 
reproduction, of sexual physiology and 
of the similarities and differences be- 
tween male and female sexual response. 
PLAYBOY: You said that sex education 
should begin in kindergarten. Isn't that a 
bit early? 

CALDERONE: Not really, when you consid- 
er that it actually begins at birth, in the 
home, by the way parents demonstrate, 
or fail to demonstrate, а loving relation- 
ship to cach other, by the way they talk, 
or refuse to talk, about how a neigh- 
bor had a new baby, by the way they 
educate the child about its body. Th 
very important: Is the child's body some- 
thing beautiful? Is it good to get pleas- 
ure from one's body, whether in dancing, 
swimm yes cven in mastur- 
bation? Positive attitudes are needed 
here. This, and the way parents answer a 
child's questions, is part of sex educa- 
tion. And, of course, they should be 
open and honest, yet. not overwhelming 
with a whole lot of details. ПШ 
balance to achieve. If what I’m saying is 
true, then kindergarten is certainly not 
too early to make it clear to children 
that reproduction and sex are areas of 
life that merit the same dignified impart- 
ing of information as any other arca. 
PLAYBOY: Are school children ever taught 
the techniques of intercourse as a part of 
this program? 

CALDERONE: Not to my knowledge. I don't 
think this should be taught in the 
schools. I'm суеп against its being taught 
in marriage manuals. 

PLAYBOY: Why 
CALDERONE: It's not necessary. In one 
week, I received letters from two young 
husbands that bear this out. “We've 
been married nine months and we have 
great sex," one of them wrote. "My wife 
has an orgasm every time, but we want 
to be sure we're not missing anything. 
Isn't there а book that teaches tech- 


nd sisters, of 


is 


niques?” I wrote back 
heaven's sake, let your 
your guide. Don't go to a book; explore 
with cach other various ways of making 
love. Discover them as you go and not 
all at once. Leave something for the 
future.” 

PLAYBOY: Yet marriage counselors and 
other authorities point out that sexual 
intercourse, though not as complicated as 
playing a. musical instrument, does need 
to be learned and that “doing what 
Шу" can lead ro humiliation 
аз often as to success. 

CALDERONE: Not really. Failure shouldn't 
lead to humiliation as long as the cou- 
ple’s attitude is free and joyful. 
PLAYBOY: How is this achieved? 
CALDERONE: "That's the sex educator's job. 
The attitude to be conveyed is that sex is 
an exalted, wonderful, exciting gift (rom 
God and that it is probably most reward- 
ing within an enduring relationship such 
ge. Sex is a human attribute 
ts in us from earliest childhood. 
Young people need to develop a positive 
attitude about this that will help them 
fulfill themselves sexual relationship 
when they come to it. That's very di 
from the old guilts that stem from the 
grudging concession that sex may be good 
—but only in relation to reproduction. 
PLAYBOY: Would this attitude help alle 
ate the guilt that many people feel about 
noncoital sex? 
CALDERONE: Yes. Ci 
ask if the different noncoi 
sexual stimulation are perverted. A good 
ex education program should make it 
clear, for example, that oral-genital co 
tact is nol perverse. I think the consen- 
sus in socicty is that any act two people 
find gratifying is definitely not abnormal 
and should not be subject to supervision 
by the state. The churches have been 
very helpful in this area, many of them 
having removed the moral stigma that 
noncoital sex used to have. 

PLAYBOY: Does SIECUS recommend that 
sexual morality be taught in the class 
room? 

CALDERONE I don't sec how worthwhile 
education about any subject can avoid 
moral issues. "The teacher usually makes 
his own personal beliefs clear; but at the 
same time, he should be careful not to 
take such а moralistic, authoritarian 


n be 


comes natur 


ferent 


stand that he throttles free discussion 
among the youngsters. If he does, there 
won't be any exchange of views and they 


won't teach one another, which is the 
best way to learn. И you really want to 
hear a conversation on ethies and morals 
that would warm the cockles of а minis- 
ter’s heart, listen to a bunch of adoles- 
cent boys and girls talking about sexual 
morality. The great thing about all our 
young people today is the way they chal- 
lenge the adult world for its false and 


PLAYBOY 


74 


hypocritical values—not about sex alone 
but about all of life's great issues 
PLAYBOY: You mentioned boys and girls 
Are sex-education classes coed? 
CALDERONE: For the most part, ves. 
students generally want it that 
There comes а time in early junior 
when they occasionally prefer to be 
rated. But very shortly thereafter, 
want to be back together again, not only 
because they've developed an interest in 
opposite sex but so they can answer 
quest 


nother T seen 
any embarrassment in these situations 
PLAYBOY: Many parents who don't op- 
pose sex education per se are more con- 
bout the emb; sment of the 
than the st They feel 
that the task is too often turned over to 
frustrated o'd maids or uptight gym in- 
structors. How teachers picked for 
the job? 
CALDERONE: This 


point of great con 
cern to STECU! irst, let те say that 
th disqualifications other than 
those you mention. Some teachers go 
field with unhealthy motiva 
tions. A few are unconsciously seductive 
others may seek to work out their own 
sexual hang-ups by teaching the subject. 
| others have such closed minds 
"t help but foist their own 
moralistic biases on the children. These 
teachers simply have to be screened out 
by the principal, who presumably knows 
his staff. Or, failing this. the person in 
charge of the training program can usu 
ally assay which teachers fit and 
which aren't. Many teacher-training pro- 
grams are under way, and there will be 
more. 

PLAYBOY: Do the people responsible for 
screening concern themselves with the 
potential teacher's sex experience or lack 
of it? 

CALDERONE: They shouldn't, because the 
fact of having had or not having had 
intercourse isn't what makes a good 
teacher of sex education. Remember, it 
isn’t techn s taught in the class- 
room. Rather, it is, or should be, the 
dynamics of becoming a man or a wom- 
nd of understanding one's own sex- 
Lure t ol others. 
e celibate, such as a pi 
nun, has had sexual urges and has had 
to learn how to deal with them within 
his or her particular. framework. Ob- 
viously, a celibate who has dealt with 
such urges in a repressive way—in other 
words, denied to himself that these urges 
part of himself—isu't 
п sex education, But 
could also apply to ап unmarricd, 
celibate, nonreligious teacher as 
well. It could even apply to the married. 
We don't find g ades about sex 
only in the celibate. Many nuns and 
priests, particularly if they're warm people 


are 


1 0 
y to teach d 
fulfilled. men 


who understand the 
demonst 
dren how to becoi 
women. 

PLAYBOY: Your sympathetic expl. 
notwithstanding. celibates teach 


хи 


ей thei 


са 


1g sex 


to sex. Jol d William Simon. 
both sociologists with impressive creden 
als im sex rese in fact. wi 
ten that children learn more, and more 
effectively. about sex from their peers— 
the kids on the street—than at home or 
in school 

CALDERONE The children themselves tell 
us that. OF course, what they learn n 
not always be correct and it surely isn’t 
what most of their parents would like 
them to learn. But we're not going to 
stop that kind of education and we 
shouldn't uy to. Rather, we need to 
provide additional sound information 
conveyed. by respected authority figure 
to rectify the misinformation exchanged 
mong peers. You know, there's a lot of 


ch. have. 


eration to generation. In cer 
groups. for instance, there is a fiction 
that a male's brain will explode if he 
doesn’t ejaculate regularly. On the other 
hand, the myth that the oftene 
а male ejaculates, the more he weakens 
his future sex life—exactly the opposite 
of the muth. Certainly, communication 
among the kids is better than no commu- 
nication, but communication based on 
facts is best of all. 

PLAYBOY: Aren't you concerned that all 
this communication will lead to just 


what most parents fear—an increase i 
experimentation among children? 
CALDERONE On the contrary: It’s igno- 


тапсе that most ofien leads to experi- 
mentation. Kids have known the hazards 
all along—in fact, that's practically all 
they've known; and it hasn't deterred 
them in the past. I think teaching 
truth about sex—the hazards, the pleas- 
ures the responsibilitics—allays 
many of the children’s anxieties, which 


and 


are another impetus for experimenta 
tion. Additional causes of juvenile sexual 
activity. in my opinion, are the stimulus 
now widely given in the medi 


freedom given to children by their p: 
ents. When intercoui 
play takes place among adolescents, it’s 
aost alv the home of one of the 
proved by studies of unwed 


d ys 


two. Th 


pregnancies. 
PlAYSOY: In the home? Are you suggest- 


ing this is done with the knowledge 


and approval of the parents? 
CALDERONE: No, behind the 


backs. And 
this is because overpermissive parents try 
to have it both ways. They give children 
almost total freedom, and. then expect 


т. 


the kids to restrict their own beha 
In my day, it was very difficult to get 
gnant. It was made difficult for us, 
because everyone always knew where we 


were 
PLAYBOY. The automobile changed ıl 
didn't i? 

CALDERONE: There were plenty of cars 
then, only we weren't given the keys or 
the freedom 

PLAYBOY: How old do you think 
поша be before he's trusted by hi 
ents to be on his own? 

CALDERONE. Ideally, by the time young 


child 
P 


sters are 16, we've done whatever we ca 
to help thei 


n develop standards of behav- 
If we trust them from then on 
to make fairly sensible decisions about 
most important things, we're not going 


to influence them. Thee days, they're 
pretty independent. 
PLAYBOY: Perhaps with good reason: 


cause the more educated they become, 
the better equipped they are to mal 

i But if they know about 
and V.D. prevention 


th 
И 


control 
they're taught to respect one another as 


people—and these 
ty defines as sexual maturity 
reason is there to discourage them 
prem sexual experimentation? 
CALDERONE: The implication of your 
tion is that the decision to engage in pre- 
marital sex is not only а mor 
also one of appropr 
rity level of the pe 
PLAYBOY: Isn't it? 
CALDERONE: Probably. And, you know, the 
mature young person very well 
choose not to have premarital sex. There 
are a number of young people who have 
decided against it until they're sure their 
tionship has meaning, whether or not 
it will be permanent However, I do 
think tlie vounger generation is definitely 
al sex—that is, sex in 
ion of marriage. In many cases, 
they accept it regardless of whether or 
not the engagement is officially an- 
Now, will the next мер be 
al sex that isn't 


are the qualities socie 
then what 
from 


ques. 


one but 


jeness to the matu 


son 


may 


nounced. 


part of a rela p thats acknowl- 
edged to be temporary? Society is prob- 
ably already moving into that stage 
PLAYBOY: In both cass, you're talking 
about what sociologist Ira Reiss classifies 
as permissiveness with affection, or co 
mitted sex, But how far arc we fror 
acceptance of permissiveness without affec 
tion, that is, casual sex? 

CALDERONE: It seems that adult society is 
now becoming so openly involved with 
casual sex that I don't know what's going 
to stop the younger generation from fol- 
lowing suit. After all, they tend to imi- 
tate us—although perhaps they do things 
with a sounder basis of honesty than we 
do. But I'm not looking forward happily 


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My puritan conscience prevents me from 
ing it; 1 don't like casualness in any- 
thing. Fm particularly concerned about 
those who aren't old enough to engage 
in casual sex without being hurt. 

PLAYBOY: Would you use the old pejora- 
tive promiscuity to describe casual sex? 
CALDERONE 1 look upon casual sex as 
being purely for pleasure, with no regard 
for the relationship of the partners. It 
can be promiscuous but not necessarily 
so. To me, there are two kinds of promis- 
cuous behavior. One is compulsive prom- 
iscuity, which is a way of expressing 
neurotic difficulties, Some people show 
compulsiveness in alcoholism, or in drug 
addiction, or in excessive eating. But 
others express it sexually, Studies show 
that compulsively promiscuous girls 
rarely experience sexual pleasure, rarely 
attain orgasm. Their sexual activity is 
motivated by very deep-seated needs that 
result from emotional deprivations of 
various kinds in early childhood. And 
some studies on males indicate that 
while the promiscuous male—the Don 
Juan, ше Alfic—achieves ejaculation, he 
doesn’t thereby experience full satisfac- 
tion. There's another kind of promiscuity 
that I call environmental promiscuity. 
Here, children grow up seeing casual 
sex all around them. They don't learn 
is any other way to be- 
ve sexually. This is frequently. true 
the ghetto. In neither case can you 
blame nor judge the youngster for re- 
sponding in a way he can't consciously 
control. 

PLAYEOY: Do you sce any increase in these 
forms of. promiscuity? 

CALDERONE: I'm not sure, I imagine the in- 
cidence of compulsive promiscuity might 
reflect the incidence of neurosis in a popu- 
lation group. Environmental promiscuity 
has probably increased, because the urban 
environment has become more v а 
more damaging, in terms of overcrow: 
PLAYBOY: Casual or committed, do you 
think premarital sex has a beneficial or a 
harmful effect on marriage? 

CALDERONE: As a scientist, I have to re- 
port that studies show very little correla- 
tion between premarital sex and success 
or lack of it in marriage. On the one 
hand, we know that a gil who has 
achieved orgasm in any whatsoever 
before marriage will have a more rapid 
sexual adjustment in marriage. But this 
doesn't guarantce that the marriage itself 
will be successful. On the other hand, a 
girl who has had no sexual experience 
until marriage may turn out to be a very 
responsive person, As for my personal 
view, I don't believe in premarital 
But my feeling about this may be due to 
a generational hang-up, which I don't 
try to impose on others. I certainly know 
from experience that you can’t reach the 


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ta moralistic beliefs. They won't 
accept them, because this is a rational 
generation, a generation that wants the 
facts and wants to make its own deci- 
sions. Many of the churches themselves 
have recognized this. 

PLAYBOY: When you say you disapprove 
of premarital sex, what age are you talk- 
ing about? Would you disapprove of it 
for a 30-year-old man or woman? 
CALDERONE: No. I'm talking about the 
teenager. And I'm not even talking 
about 19-year-olds. I just don't think that 
14- or 15-year-old youngsters are mature 
cnough to have this kind of experience. 
PLAYBOY: But young people mature faster 
physically than emotionally. Some educa- 
tors, in recognition of this, have suggest- 
ed compromises, such as that teenagers 
be encouraged to pet to climax until 
they're mature enough to engage in in- 
tercourse, Do you advocate this solution? 
CALDERONE: I advocate discussion of it, so. 


young people know they have 
choices, beginning with masturbation, of 
couse, and petting 10 с па mu- 


tual orgasm, before moving on to intcr- 
course. But 1 don't take a position on 
any of these choices, because I think it 
would be silly to do so. The kids simply 
don't jon to adult didacticism. 
PLAYBOY: Do you fcel that parents should 
advise their children about masturbation 
ata particular age? 

CALDERONE: No, they should simply ac- 
cept it at any age. If the question comes 
up, parents should be sure to make dear 
that there is not only no harm in mastur- 
tion but that it serves a very useful 
function at many times in the life cycle 
and is accepted by most psychi 
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proces. For a parent to bring it up, 
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PLAYBOY: Why? 

CALDERONE: Because it makes too big a 
thing of what should bc a purely private 
matter for the child. But I should add 
that there are some people who feel that 
girls ought to be given instruction about 
masturbation, so that they'll have a more 
rapid sexual adjustment later on. It isn't 
a problem for boys, because without in- 
struction, they all cjaculate and have 
orgasms by their late teens. But by the 
age of 18, 60 percent of the girls still 
haven't had a comparable experience. 
PLAYBOY: Though mentaLhealth practi- 
tioners approve of masturbation as a 
normal practice, some say that it can be 
harmful in excess. Do you agree? 
CALDERONE: Physically, there's no such 
thing as excess; masturbation is self-regu- 
lating. Emotionally, it could be the visi- 
ble symptom of an inner conflict, but 
then, so could sexual intercourse. What 
needs to be dealt with are the conflict 


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and its sources, not the masturbation 
itself, What is there the child's life 
thats driving him to seek this outlet? 
Some children seek refuge in masturba 
tion because of poor grades or feeling 
nloved in the home or overcompeti- 
tiveness with a sibling. 
PLAYBOY: Do you think thi 
ject should be factually i 
into school curriculums? 
CALDERONE: Yes, if it’s done calmly and 
objectively, h the teacher simply 
pointing out that masturbation is almost 
universal, doesn't hurt anyone and is 
useful as a release from tension. It serves 
a purpose not only in youth but in later 
life. It can help adjust a difference in 
sexual drive between two partners and it 
can provide an adequate substitute if 
one partner is sick or if they are separat- 
ed. And. of course, masturbation also 
plays a valuable role in the child's psy- 
chosexual development. 
PLAYBOY: How so? 
CALDERONE: It can help a person come to 
know his most intimate self. He is expe- 


sensitive sub- 
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e. that his body is good. In 
sense, it lays the groundwork for 
experiencing oneself with another per- 
son s I've indicated, this can be a 
positive factor in a sexually well-adjusted 
marriage. 

PLAYBOY: Well-adjusted marriages, if we 
are to judge by staggering divorce sta- 
tistics, aren't terribly common these 
days. Do you have any ideas how the 
trend might be reversed? 

CALDERONE: I'm not competent to com- 
ment on that question, but I do think 
that if some of our notions about child 
rearing were changed, we'd have better 
family adjustments. I think this is one of 
our most important sex-education needs 
today—better family planning. 

PLAYBOY: You mean a wider dissemina- 


tion of birth-control information. 
CALDERONE: It's much more than that. It's 
not just saying that couples shouldn't 


have children until they can afford them 
or that they should space them properly 
when they can—important as this may 
be. Rather, one of the most important 
parts of preparation for marriage is a 
real understanding of the dynamics of 
child development and nurture. This 
would help people—particularly males 
know when they're ready to play the 
heavy role they ought to be playing in 
the raising of their own children. I fre- 
quently tell boys it's going to take more 
than a sperm from them to make a baby, 
a child, a person; they've got to invest 
themselves. Now, obviously, a boy and а 
girl of 17 or 18 aren't ready for this 
investment. They can produce a baby, 
but they simply don't have the capacity 


to nurture that child, to have the com- 
that there оц 
al commitment to the child until it 
is at least 18. 

If we're ever going to interrupt the 
chain of irresponsible sexuality that leads 
to irresponsible procreation, then the dy- 
namics of child development must be 
introduced into sex-educat 
when the kids are 13 or 14. Just handing 
them contraceptives and saying, “Be sure 
you don’t get pregnant,” is to me a very 
shallow approach to this problem, Teen- 
agers have got to understand wh 
means to have a child—not a doll, not a 
toy, not a status symbol—placed in the 
care. I don't think they can fully achieve 
this understanding unless they delay 
their childbearing. 

PLAYBOY: Then would you recommend 
later marriages than are now common? 
CALDERONE: Not necessaril 
view of the open erotic stimuli all 
around us today. There are pos 


n courses 


it 


le solu- 


tions to the problem that don't necessi- 


tate delaying marriage. Margaret Mead 
has suggested breaking marriage imo 
three phases, which can be called pre- 
parental, parental and postparental. Thi 
would mean that the couple might marry 
young—even as young as 18 to 20, which 
I think are marvelous years for mating. 
lt would be a contract marriage that 
would be entered into in good faith but 
would not be binding until the couple 
elected to make it so by having children. 
Now, that doesn’t mean you could just 
say goodbye and walk out. But there 
wouldn't be the drawn-out and emotion- 
ally damaging process of legal divorce 
proceedings if there's a splitup. And, 
because of the elective nature of this 
preparental marriage, there wouldn't be 
the terrible stigma of failure that accom- 
panies so many divorces today. Once 
they chose to have children, of course, 
they would be as legally committed to 
raising them as they are in present mar- 
riage. But the most important commit- 
ment would be the moral one of staying 
together as mother and father to thc 
children, until they reach adulthood, 
when the partners would then move into 
the postparental phase. Then, the disso- 
lution of the marriage—if desred— 
‘would once again be less complicated. 
PLAYBOY: Thosc are dramatic reforms, 
and they may take a long time to go into 
effect—if ever, Meanwhile, a number of 
sex counselors and clergymen have sug- 
gested that extramarital sex can be an 
effective safety valve for the pressures of 
marriage as now instituted. What do you 
think? 

CALDERONE: Generally speaking, no one 
really knows how effective extramarital 
sex is in helping or hurting a marriage. I 
think that requires sound scientific study, 
not guesswork based on a few cases. But 


I can certainly conceive of situations in 
which it might be helpful in stabilizing a 
marriage during the parental phase. For 
instance, a man and a woman are devot- 
ed to each other and have a famil, 
Then опе of them becomes sexually 4 
abled—from disease or an accident or 
something of that nature. What are they 
supposed to do? Is the healthy mate to 
live with sexual drives and no outlet for 
the rest of his or her life? Or should 
they break up their family? I would 
think in cases like ti 
affair that's really solid might 
good results. 
PLAYBOY: Do you think commu 
viages сап be a solution to society 
marital ills? 
CALDERONE: It’s too early to tell. Personal- 
ly, however, 1 can't imagine myself and 
my husband in such an arrangement. Т 
think it would be difficult to pick people 
not only one would want to have sex 
with but with whom one would want to 
have breakfast every morning and who 
shared ones ideas about bringing up 
children. If you've ever been оп ship- 
board or in a resort hotel, where you're 
thrown together with the same individ 
Ш the time, you've become aware 
how very few people you can be compat 
ible with on a day-to-day basis. At the 
е time, I think there's much to be 
leamed from the fact that younger 
people are experimenting with this com- 
munal type of mating. For one thing, I 
believe it's more of a social than a sexual 
phenomenon. One of the messages to be 
gotten from these p as well as 
from the popularity of sensitivity groups, 
is that there is great hunger among 
people to relate to onc another in groups 
This is something we had in the old 
days, with the family and its many 
anches coming together for celeb: 
tions, or during periods of stress, or just 
to socialize with one another. Everybody 
knew everybody else well in those rela- 
tionships and there was a great deal of 
interpersonal give and take. People to- 
day Jack these family patterns and, pre- 
sumably, they are secking warmer, more 
intimate contact with people other than 
their mates. They are rebelling against 
the loneliness of the urban nuclear fami- 
ly, in which a mother, a father and a few 
children have only one another for emo- 
tional support, Perhaps society is trying 
to reorganize itself to satisfy these yearn- 
ings. 
PLAYBOY: Do you think the emotional 
support provided by group patterns 
would eliminate some of the gender- 
identity problems that are common today 
—homosexuality, for example? 
CALDERONE: That's difficult to say—al- 
though the carly childhood period, when 
this emotional support is most needed, is 
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[ees pows did not go along with 
the generally accepted principle of 
Our century that a teacher has a moral 
obligation to like his pupils. Affection 
as not necessary to the training of 
tigers, seals nor even of dogs, so why 
should it be to the instruction of such 
brutes as made up the eighth grade Eng- 
lish class at St. Christopher's? Of course, 
he had to be careful to avoid being 
caught, by parents or even by the boys 
themselves, in any open display of ani- 
mosity. It was a kind of parlor game and 
one that the latter, God bless them, 
thoroughly enjoyed. They were always 
doing their exuberant, whooping best to 
drive him into open country 

The boys of St. Christophers exuded 
the peculiar confidence of Manhattan's 
upper middle class, rejoicing belligerent- 
ly in being thoroughly abreast of all 
modern currents. They were up on evcry- 
thing, from the destruction of the ccology 
to the building of antiballisticmissile 
1 their ideas of integration, urban 
and word disarmament were 
liberal. Sometimes Francis felt 
that he was being answered by 30 shrill 
voices from The New York Times edi- 
page. It was а world that he had 
only too well through his е 
family. Indeed, his own son was ii 
eighth grade, a situation that the boy, 
considering his abominable grades, owed 
more to his maternal grandsire's position 
as chairman of St, Christopher's trustees 
than to his father’s being a poor pedagog- 

Standing, on a November morning, by 
the door to his classroom in the five- 
minute break between classes, Francis as- 
sumed the pose of storklike immobility 
that he felt suited his tall, polelike, dark- 
ly tweeded figure and pretended to be 
oblivious of the din of the corridor. The 
eighth grade poured by him into the 
sroom, shouting. laughing. whistling. 
Francis ignored them, even when they 
greeted him loudly by name, as a long- 
carcerated creature in а zoo might ig- 
nore the hustling crowd beyond its ba 
His aloofness was not resented. He even 
enjoyed a certain bleak popularity with 
the older boys as a character, whose rep- 
utation for sardonic sarcasm gave a mild 
status to those whom he deigned to no- 
tice. It was a mark of sophistication to be 
singled out as a target by Mr. Dows. 

As the second bell sounded, and as 
Francis turned to enter his cl. ‚һе 
spotted, peering up over the landing of 
the stairway and apparently waiting for 
him to disappear, the pale, round coun- 
tenance of Mr. Tomkins, the headmas- 
ter, and the redder one, under red-gray 
hair and ov blue collar, of his former 
wife's father, Leo Wright. The headmas- 
ter was taking his chairman on the 
monthly tour and obviously hoped to 
avoid a confrontation with the detested 


"ex." Chuckling, Francis strode over to 
them. 

"Good morning, Headmaster. Good 
morning, Mr. Chairman. 1 trust you are 
well? I trust Mrs. Wright is well? I trust 
all your family are well? 

“Just fine, thank you, Dows, 
Wright grumbled. “Just fine.” 

"Would you do me the honor of visit- 
ing my class? I think you might find a 
bit of amusement in it. We shall be 
ing The Merchant of Venice, 
which the eighth grade is presenting for 
Christmas. I had so hoped that your 
grandson, Daniel, might play Old Gob- 
bo, but Mr. Tomkins seems to feel that 
it would be difficult for him to be direa- 
ed by his own father. Do you agree, sir? 

Mr. Wright gave a glance of appeal to 
the headmaster. Mr. Tomkins, normally 
a gentle, preoccupied man, could be sur- 
prisingly forceful under direct attad 

It is hardly the time, Dows, to go into 
family matters,” Mr. Tomkins reproved 
him. “Nor is Mr. Wright here this morn- 
ing for his amusement. May | remind 
you that your class is waiting for you? 

“Thank you, Headmaster.” It w: 
other of Francis little needling habits to 
address Mr. Tomkins in the English 


Leo 


fiction 
By LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS 


BLACK 
SHYLOCK 


style. “1 shall be with them anon. Good 
ay. Mr. Wright. Please give my best 
ishes to Mrs, Wright, And to Mis. 
Wright Dows. 

And with а simpering smile as а final 
insult, he returned to his classroom, not- 
ing with satisfaction, as he closed thc 
door, that the little encounter had been 
overheard and enjoyed by all. 

^] was so hoping,” he announced to 
the class, “that my former father 
the august chairman of St, Christopher's 
board, would be able to visit us for a few 
mes; but, alas he is too busy. His 
time is precious. Your classmate’s grand- 
father has a great name in the paper- 
book industry. He brings Shakespeare to 
the unwashed multitudes. To the poor 
and lowly. To the slums and ghettos.” 
Here Francis paused, as if lost in adm 
tion. “In due time, he will no doubt 
bring Shakespeare to the moon!” 

He directed a smile at his son, Daniel, 
seated in the back row, but the boy did 
not return it. This did not have to mean 


m 


any resentment on Daniel's part. He was 
very saving in his responses. He seemed 
to accept the situation, the reverse of his 
classmates’, that he should see his father 
at school and not at home. He was a fat. 
moonfaced boy with small distrustful 
eyes. He did badly in his studies only 
because he was lazy. One could tell by 
the sharpness of the wisecracking with 
which he dominated his more successful 
contemporaries that he had a store of 
unused intdligence, He liked to loiter on 
corners, in playgrounds, in drugstores and 
impress other boys with his knowledge of 
sex. For adults, as for schoolwork, he had 
no use, barely even contempt. It was as if 
he were simply waiting for the inevitable 
enfranchisement of time. 

Francis pulled out his pocket watch 
nd held it down to his navel as he 
examined it, "I shall ask you to write a 
theme this morning. Do you consider 
that Jessica was morally justified in steal- 
her's ducats when she eloped 
with Lorenzo? Ten minutes. 

Ignoring the groan that always went 
up at the announcement of a theme, he 
took his seat as they turned to their 
pads. He needed a moment to savor the 
little scene in the corridor. For six years 
now, ever since Arabella had flown to 
Juárez for their divorce, his keenest satis- 
faction had been in mot resigning from 
St. Christopher's faculty. Word had been 
privately conveyed to him that if he 
would give up the position, originally 
obtained only through the grace of his ex- 
father-indaw, the latter could be counted 
оп to secure him a better onc, at a larger 
salary. at Buckley or St. Bernard's. But 
Francis had retorted that St. Christo 
phers suited him down to the ground 
and that he liked being able to sec his 
son Danny on weekdays as well as on the 
meager Saturday-afternoon visits stipulat- 
ed in the separation agreement drawn 
up by Mr. Wright's expensive counsel. 
Oh, he had them! They could never 
remove poor Danny from a school where 
his bad record was covered by his grand- 
fathers favor, and they could never re- 
move him, the wretched father, without 
seeming to act for the most invidious of 
reasons. 

"Hand in you he told the 
class, precisely at the expiration of the 
given time, "and let us proceed to 
the day's topic. We will not discuss Jessica 
until 1 have read what you have lo say. 
Personally, I think she was a bitch.” He 
paused for a moment, as the room tit 
tered. “I sce that expression of "Good. 1 
guessed right!” on some of your faces. 
But most of you must surely know by 
now that your grades are not advanced 
by the coincidence—if it is а coincidence 
—of your happening to agree with me. 

The tittering ceased and Francis 
turned to the subject of the morning. 


so he taught prep school english and his son was in his class, which complicated life... 


^We do not know how Shylock was 
portrayed in Shakespeare's day, but it 
seems probable, by comparison with 
Marlowe's The Jew of Malta, that he 
was depicted as the blackest kind of 
villain, Certainly, this interpretation pre- 
vailed in the next two centuries. It was 
not until the 19th that great actors, 
particularly Sir Henry hving, began to 
enjoy playing him as a sympathetic, even 
a noble character. Today, in some quar- 
ters, there has been a reaction against this 
so-called. sentimentalization of Shylock. 
How about you, Burrows? How would 
you play him? 

“Well, 


could do it 
ys. Shylock is certainly a villain 
to plot against Antonio; but then, 
Antonio shouldnt have spat on his 
gabardine, 

“Гуе always found it a bit difficult to 
picture Antonio doing that,” Francis ob- 
served judiciously. “It doesn’t seem quite 
like him.“ 

“But Shylock says he does." 

“Perhaps he was speaking metaphori- 
cally. Anyway, Antonio certainly sneers 
at him, which may be just as bad. How 
would you do Shylock, Gates?” 

“I think I'd make him pathetic, sir. 
After all, he loved his daughter and she 
betrayed him.” 

“Did he love Jessica? In what line of 
the text does he reveal that to you? 

"Well, I cai 
sir, but the general impression 

“Ll have nothing to do with your gen- 
eral impressions, Gates. How about. you, 
Pitney?” 

Well, sir, I think 1 agree with Bur- 
rows. 

Francis was disappointed as he went 
through the class, After all, at least а 
fifth of them were Jewish, though none 
came of orthodox families He found it 
dificult to believe that the question of 
persecution would not, sooner or later, 
find its way into the discussion. But 
after ten minutes of chatter, he had to 
give up indirection. 

“What about playing Shylock as the 
hero and spokesman of а persecuted 
race?” he demanded. “What would you 
say to that, Levy?” 

“He wasn't persecuted, sir. He was 
disliked. I asked my father about it. He 
said we Jews were all right as long as 
we were only disliked. We can rule the 
world as long as we're only d 

“But Jews were more th 
liked in Shakespeare's time,” Francis pro- 
tested. “They were actively persecuted 
in many places. I wonder if their plight 
is not comparable with that of the 
Negro in our own time. Mightn't that be 
the way to play The Merchant today? 
With Shylock a Negro?” 

"The class murmured in surprise. 

"But the text doesn't justify that!” 


Levy pointed out, shocked. "Everyone 
would think you had mixed it up with 
Othello.” 

Works of art are like constitutions,” 
Francis retorted, “They need to be con- 
stantly reinterpreted. We don't have to 
be confined to what Shakespeare subjec- 
tively intended. Burrows, you're going to 
be Shylock. How about doing it in black- 
face?” 

“Oh, Mr. Dows, you're kidding 

"Tm not, truly. 1 suggest it's the only 
way to make him the hero.” 

“The hero! But, sir, he wants to hill 
Amonio. He wants to cut his heart out 
with a knife. He wants to do it himself, 
too!” 

Yes, but why does he want to do it?” 
‘Because Antonio has been snooty to 


hin 


Exactly. Because he has spat upon 
him! Metaphorically or not.” 


“But, sir, you don't cut a man's heart 
out for that.” 
“It’s just what you do do!” 


The last comment came from the back 
bench and was uttered in a kind of bark 
To everyone's surprise, the utterer was 
Danicl Dows. Daniel had never before 
voluntarily contributed to a class discus 
sion, which had been set down to his 
natural embarrassment at having his fa- 
ther in charge. Similarly, he had refused 
any part in the plays and could 
be used only to paint scenery. But now 
he seemed involved. He glared about the 
room as if his own integrity had been 
called in question. 

"Thank you, Daniel,” Francis replied. 
m glad that the Dows think alike. 
Nobody is going to spit on our gabar- 
dines, are they?” 

ıt this, immediately lost inter- 
est. He shrugged and drew a large circle 
on the pad before him. 

“Seriously, boys,” Francis continued, 
“I suggest that Daniel and I are the only 
ones here in tune with the times. The 
greatest crime in the world we live in— 
рх the only one that young people 
e seriously—is to insult а man 
use of his race. Now, what does 
Antonio do but just that? He struts 
about the Rialto in his languid way, 
sneering at Jews and expectorating on 
their gabardines. For this, he has de- 
served the humiliating death from which 
he is spared only by the tricky casuistry 
of Portia, a typical establishment lawyer. 
But the fact that Shylock goes down to 
defea 
the splendor of his 

The room looked at him doubtfully. 
‘They never knew whether he was joking 
or not, but like good bourgeois, they also 
knew that it did not much matter. 

“It would be an awfully funny Mer- 
chant,” Burrows observed. 


before white power cannot lessen, 


“It would be an awfully novel one,” 
Francis returned, “and 1 can assure you 
that it would not be soon forgotten. 
What do you say we пу it?” 

This was followed by an outburst of 
questions. 

“Would we change the text to make 
Shylock really black?” 

“Would a Negro be apt to be a 
moneylender?" 

“How about Jessica? What color would 
she һе?" 

“And Tubal 

Francis held up his hands for silence 
as the questions proliferated. “We would 
not change a word of the text. The Jews 
in Venice would be black, that's all. 
Tubal would certainly be black. Jessica 
could be very light, for in the play, she 
abandons her Jewish faith. But the real 
change would be in the Venetians. In 
the trial scene, they would become a 
howling, lynching mob, out Гог Shylock’s 
blood! 
"The boys who were cast as Gratiano 
nd Bassanio began to sce possibilities in 
this and enthusiasm gradually permeated 
the class, As Francis had foreseen, it 
was the idea of secrecy that most app 
to them, the prospect of confoundii 
yuletime audience of th 
ents with a shocking interpretation of 
the Bard. By the end of the hour, they 
were so excited that they were talking 
among themselves, threatening corporal 
chastisement on any member who leaked 
the plan. 

Afterward, as he neatly erased from 
the blackboard the suggested chronology 
of Shakespeare's plays that he had as 
neatly chalked there lor his own diver- 
sion, Francis considered with 
fication the continuing frase 
Messrs. Tomkins and Wrigh 
could they possibly object to his black 
Shylock? Was it not “relevant,” as the 
young people said? Was it not just about 
as relevant as a production could be? 
Was it not precisely the kind of thing 
that his ex-£uhberinlaw pretended to be 
jeve in? 

He had met his wife while he had 
been working for this brisk, bustling, 
jovial, red-faced. ed-tied, blue-shirted 
reissuer of classics and smut. Arabella 
nd her brothers had been bigger, paler, 
milder reproductions of the busy sire 
whom they had wholly admired and al- 
most invariably obeyed. Indeed, as far as 
Francis could make out, the only expres- 
sion of filial independence in the life of 
his bland, blonde spouse had been her 
surprising and bitterly contested election 
of himself. For Leo Wright, however 
strong a partisan of the struggling writer, 
had no desire for one in his own famil 
A writer, to marry a Wright, had first to 
make his mark, 1 first to qualify with 


aled 


... but much graver problems loomed when he played shakespeare’s jew as a negro 


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a signed photograph in the gallery of 
celebrities that constituted the great 
man’s office. It had been Arabella's single 
error to have believed that she had out- 
guessed her progenitor in respect to 
Francis capacity to join this gallery. 

Oh, the Wrights had all tried, yes, but 
it had been worse than if they hadn" 
Stuck with Francis Dows, they had at- 
tempted to make something of him and, 
in so doing. they had revealed the full 
horror of their Philistinism. They had 
poor, pale manuscripts 
bored him with suggestion: 

t he should put in more sex or more 
iolence, that he should use more images 
ot more literary conundrums, that he 
should be obscurer or simpler, more 1 
cid or more proble al The only 
t he had published after 
his marriage, a brief sylvan fantasy of 
childhood memories of the Adirondacks, 
аа been greeted with snorts of derisioi 
"Writing for yourself in this way," his 
ex-father-in-law had reproached him, "is 
а form of masturbation." Francis had re- 
torted that publishing as the Wrights did 
it was a form of rape. This crack had re- 
sulted in his transfer to St. Christophe 

Standing up to the assembled Wrights 
would have been all very well, might, 
indeed, have provided the justification of 
a lifetime—or part of one, anyway—had 
Arabella only learned her proper role. 
She belonged with he nily—what 
could have been more blatantly obyious? 
Yet she had had the poor taste to cling 
tenaciously to her conjugal duties, to try 
with a foolish pathos to reconcile her 
family and husband, to quench the scorn 
of one and to deflect the it bility of 
the other. Tt exasperated Francis that, 
cven agreeing with the Wright estimate 
of his inca „as she could never 
quite help herself from doing, his wife 
should still want him. Arabella's husband 
might not be much. her blurry gaze 
1 to concede to her impatient f: 
ther. but might she not for that very 
pason be allowed to keep him for her 
n? There were moments when Fran- 

trying 10 prove to her what her 
с had been, was made to feel as i 
he were pounding with an oar on the 
desperate fingers that clutched the gun 
wale of God, what а position 


seem 


to be in! There was no end to the male- 
of the Wrights. Even when he 


facti 
was most their victim, they went on as 
if he were the monster! 

Arabella had given in at last. She had. 
returned to her family with their son; she 
| gone to Mexico under the orders of 


her father's attorney. Back in the Wright 
camp, she had resumed her filial, pre- 
f now inter- 


Dows submissiveness. Notl 
fered with the bristling wall of Phi 
by which Francis felt himself encircled. 
‘The war would be open and clean and 
without quarter. He could represent the 
soul of man against the spirit incarnate 


of vulga 
from wit 


ty. He could fight the enemy 
its own citadel, 


The rehearsals of The Merchant of 
Venice were almost as exciting as Francis 
had hoped. The boys developed ап un- 
precedemed enthusiasm. It exhilarated. 
their director to observe with what high 
spirits and facility they converted them- 
selves, under his interpretation, into a 
wolf pack, The boy who played Anto- 
nio, in his first scene with Shylock, was 
quite marvelously mocking, When he 
said, “The Hebrew will tum Chri: 
he grows kind," he did it in a pretended 
aside to Ba io, bur raised his voice as 
if to call after the departing Shylock. 
Then he and Bassanio burst into wild 
shrieks of insanely insulting laughter. 
Later, 8. and Salarino cont 
the baiting in the same spirit. and Fran- 
ost ready to wager that by 
the time of the trial scene, the audience 
would be antagonized to the point of 
wanting a. pound of Portia’s flesh. 

And then, only three days hefore the 
Christmas performance, Burrows, who 
played Shylock, came down with the 
mumps. For 48 hours, Francis worked 
desperately with one and then another 
substitute, but it was hopeless. They sim- 
ply could not learn the part in the time 
left. Francis locked himself in his class- 
room for 15 minutes of contemplation, 
Was it, as his pounding heart told him, 
the chance of his lifetime? Then he 
walked down the corridor to the head- 
master's office and announced that he 
would have to act Shylock himself or 
cancel the pla 

"But can you?" Mr. Tomkins asked in 
astonishment. "Can you lea 


with а touch of superiority. "T shall 
simply have to run over it by myself and 
rent my costume. But for that, I shall 
need all tomorrow morning off. Can you 
get someone to take my classes?” 
"Certainly, my dear fellow. ГИ take 
them myself 


all be here at two. The 
п at two-thirty. Everything else is 


usclC up the following 
afternoon in a closct off the stage. He 
allowed nobody to see him until the cur- 
had actually parted, and he could 
Antonio, in the opening line, won- 
dering why he was so sad. Then he walked 
to the wings and awaited his cut 

There was a gasp from the dark void 
beyond the footlights as the tall black fig- 
ure in flowing robes of sky blue strode out 
upon the stage, followed by a gesticulat- 
ing Ваза olding his arms, tower 
ominously and silently over Antonios 
friend, the Shylock of Francis Dows gazed 
contemptuously about at a white n 
Venice. He allowed the would-be bor- 
rower to saw the air for a minute before 
he responded, with a rich low gravity of 


tone: “Three thousand ducats—well.” He 
maintained this air of aloofness right up 
to his first aside, and then, stepping to 
the footlights and removing 1 
abruptly from the world of Bassanio 
Antonio, he shouted in a fit of fu 
directly into that section of the audi 
where he knew Leo Wright was sittin; 
^] hate him for he is a Christian!” 

In the negotiation of the contract, he 
never fawned hypocritically, never whined 
and bowed, as he had seen so many Shy- 
locks do. He pointed out, in measured 
tones, with haughty demeanor, the wrongs 
that Jews habitually received of Venetians 
and ‘contrasted these with the good that 
he ostensibly offered to Antonio, throwing 
off the implied question, with a magnifi- 


се 


cent shrug of h shoulders, of which, 
under the circumstances, was the superior 
race. 


As the audience recovered from the 
first shock of his costume and black face, 
it became silent as a school audience 
hardly ever was When Shylock went off 
stage, the applause was tumultuous. 

Francis, exulting in the wings, think- 
ing with feverish rapidity, decided on a 
new version of the scene with Tul 
This had. posed the biggest problem for 
his heroic interpretation; for in it, 
lock seems irretrievably avariciou 
he would play it now as if the stolen 
ducats represented to Shylock the indis- 
pensable weapon of a persecuted race. 
When he came on stage, he was bent 
groaning, clasping his hand to his 
side, as if in despair at the thought of an 
empty scabbard. And his contempt for 
Jesica was total, monumental. She had 
written herself out of the tribe; she had 
ceased to exist for him. The money that 
he was spending in her pursuit was only 
to recover the dus t would 


rial scene was the perfect clin 
to his interpretation. Never had he 
dreamed that the eighth grade could 
to such histrionics, As he stood in the 
center of the court, drawing himsel( up. 
to his untest, his grimmest, runni 


Y yed the Vene- 
tian ıiffrafî howled about him, screa 

iScmitic insulis, and were pushed 
back by supposed marshals of the court. 
Francis, aware of the tensencss of В 
audience, wondered if he 


1 not һе. 


come the incarnation of the spirit of old 
Africa, demanding the flesh of Simon 
Legree! 


The boy who played Portia almost 
stole the scene from him. He was cute, 
giggling, tricky. It was as if all the prin- 
cipal characters were in on the plot, 
drawing it out only to intensify the uli 
mate humiliation of the Jew. But Francis 
had everyone's attention back at the end. 
When he broke, he broke rapidly, bend- 
ing over as if stricken by a hideous 

(concluded on page 195) 


“Er, look, Slim—I don't want to break up а 
really important relationship. . ..“ 


86 


$23,000,000 
as 


nice By JAMES CLAYTON 


412,000,000 


5 


e 


ws 


AS 


$2,551,600,200,000 


$365, 400,000,000 


the enormous cost of 
actual warfare distracts 
us from the far greater 
postwar burden— 

win or lose—bequeathed 
to generations yet unborn 


IN THE SECOND HALF of 1968, a new 
mood of realism about the finan 
impact of the Vietnam war began to 
emerge in high-level Government con- 
ferences and in rhe national press. 
The most notable example was а г 
port delivered by Daniel ick Moy- 
nihan that said the budgetary savings 
from the war's end would be totally 
consumed through the early 1970s by 
current and propesed military and do- 
mestic programs, given projected pop- 
ulation growth. Little money would 
be left over for social reform. The ef- 
fect of the report was to dash the hopes 
of many socially conscious Americans 
that the billions of dollars being spent 
in Vietnam could be turned to urgent 
and exciting new projects as soon as 
the war is over. 

This new mood of financial realism 
may be the signal that the United 
States is now fully into phase two of 
the Vietnam war. Historically, phase 
one in almost any modern war is 
typified by a widespread mood of ор- 
timism, of viewing the war asa venture 
of honor or high moral purpose. Vir- 
tually no thought is given to costs or 
c s. But as time passes and cas- 
ualty lists grow longer, 
a bricf war and complete 
II the war indeci 
disillusionment and 
The war is seen as either a monu- 
mental error or an unavoidable ca- 
lamity due to the allegedly inherent 
evil in man. 

Phase three—the aftermath of war 
is rarely discussed. It is time we had 
such a discussion about the Vietnam 
war, as more discerning observers n 
ize that the greatest anguish—and the 
greatest. financial burdens—are yet to 
come. Like Yahweh, the gods of war 

isit the sins of the fathers upon the 


The sums on the pictograph represent 
onnual warrelated Federal expenditures, 
past, present and future, borne by the 
American taxpayer, assuming the Vietnam. 
war ends т 1970 and the United States 
substantially decreases Из military activities 
—and engages in no global war—through 
the year 2050. The totals were derived 
and projected by Dr. Clayton from reports 
made by the U.S. Treasury Department. 


87 


PLAYBOY 


BB 


children unto the th 
eration—and beyond. 

The most enduring consequence of the 
Vietnam war, of course, is to be found ii 
the casualty lists, for nothing is more 
permanent than death. As of January 
24, 1970, the number of Ame n battle 
deaths stood at 40,301. the number of 
wounded at 265,254. Only World Wars 
One and Two and the Civil War have 
produced more dead. If the present rate 
of conflict continues until the Congre: 
sional elections next autumn, American 
Vietnam-war dead may surpass the battle 
deaths from World War One. The num- 
ber wounded in Vietnam li lready 
exceeded those wounded in World War 
One. In short, the Vietnam war will go 
down in American history as our fourth 
and possibly our third major war. It is 
already our longest war. 

The Vietnam civil war will also be 
recorded as one of the major wars in 
world history. From its inception in 1945 
until the French withdrawal in 1954, the 
French suffered 172,000 casualties and. 
the Vietnamese an estimated 500,000. 
Since 1954, according to the Defense De- 
partment, approximately 750,000 persons 
have been killed in South Vietnam, 
including an estimated 595,000 enemy 
dead. И those wounded e 1954 
included and both the South and. North 
Vienam wounded are estimated at only 
twice the number of our own—a 
tedly conservative calculation, since 
my dead are officially counted at /2 times 
our dead—the total military casualties 
the Vietnam war to date are over 2,000,000. 
If w 1 South Vict- 
namese civili 
wounded, especially by our bombs (the 
total tonnage of which now amounts to 
almost one third more than that of all 
the bombs dropped by the U. S. during 
World War Two), this figure would be 
well over 3,000,000. This is also a con- 
ser 
every wa 
been more civ 
tary casualti 

Historically, 3.000.000 ualties is a 
staggering number. According to com- 
р с figures gathered by historian. 
Quincy Wright and the late economist 
Lewis Richardson, the best authoritics on 

jue, SEN [n killed or inj 


d and fourth g 


admit- 


ive 


s century, there h 
ın casualties than mi 


Vietnam-war casualties to date have al- 
ady doubled that number. Viewed an- 
other way, the Vietnam war has produced 
more casualties than all British casualties 
in all the wars Great Britain has waged 
am I conquered England in 


1066 

The long-range effect of the Vietna 
casualties will not be substantial inso- 
far as the genetic n -up of the race or 
the birth rate in Vietnam or America is 


ed. Moi are killed 


young men 
in this country in automo iccidents 
ich year than are killed in Vietnam. 
ven major wars—such as World Wars 
One and Two, in which 40,000,000 and 
60,000,000 people were killed, respectively 
—have little measurable permanent effect. 
nd. lost forever, is the pos- 
sibility that these dead and their children 
could have been employed in worthy ac- 
tivities and could have contributed to the 
progress of civilization. Who can say 
whether one might not have been another 
Michelangelo, or another might not ha 
found a cure for cancer? Greatness aside, 
any death in a mistaken cause is a tragedy 
of immeasurable proportions. 
Distribution of the war dead also is 
worth noting. For the first time in Аше 
1 history. we may soon know who in 
our society actually pays the ultimate 
price of war. To emphasize the unpopu 
larity of the Vietnam conl 
man Paul Findley recently read into the 
Congressional Record the names of all 
the American Vietnam-war dead, мше 
by state. Newsday magazine for August 
2, 1969, analyzed the war dead of Long 
Island. With the assistance of a grad 
student, Jerry Smith, Г made а 
study for the state of Utah. Both studies 
agree in their essentia ad if these 
two areas are typical, when the cast 
data are analyzed fully, it seems probable 
that the following patterns will emerge: 
(1) Most of the survivors of the dead ( 
terviewed in Long Island) believe that the 
sacrifice of our fighting men has been 
(2) The great majority of those 
п, according to the Long 
Island study) either believed i 
ved it was not thi 
question the war 
ment. (3) The ov 
of the dead were 
lies or 


the war 


siness to 
Govern. 
ernwhelming m 
vom blue-collar fami 
al workers, (4) 
typically white, 
aged 20, athletically inclined and had 
never attended college. (5) The dead 
tended to be Catholic. rather than Prot- 
estant, and Low Protestant rather than 
High Protestant 

The consequences of these 
they become widely known, a 


difficult to 
measure; but one suspects that future 
generations—and especially working-class 


families—will abominate the memory of 
Vietnam, though the working class will 
also receive more aid from pensions and 
educational benefits than other classes. 

Next to the loss of life, the most permi- 
nent consequence of war in our history 
has been the veteran's pension. Although 
some economists would not include these 
ions as a war cost, because over the 
years they have become more like wel- 
fare payments, nothing in the history of 
U.S. public expenditures has been more 
costly than veterans’ benefits. The orig- 
inal direct cost—major national-security 


expenditures—of all of America’s wars 
prior to Victnam was approximately $72 
billion dollars. This figure is about fen 
times higher than our second most ex- 
pensive ^ purchase—public education 


Veterans’ benefits for these same wa 
d—will amou 


— 
when finally pa t to nearly 
500 billion dollars, even if the rates and 
extent of coverage were frozen as of 
today, which, of course, they won't be. 

к ns’ benefits for our first five ma- 

s are now virtually paid out. 
They have increased the cost of those 
wars ап average of almost four times the 
original cost, primarily because it tak 
such a long time to pay out funds to 
veterans and their dependents. In the 
case of the War of 1812, veterans’ bene- 
fits rose for 08 years after the war wa 
over and were not fully paid out until 
1946, 131 years after the fighting stepped. 
In no case have veterans’ benefits from 
past wars lasted les than 113 years. 
son these benefits are so 
lived is that most a il out 10 
dependents, rather than to exsoldiers, 
amd most have nothing to do with a 
ice-connected injury but, rather, are 
a form of welfare assistance. Morcovel 
benefit rolls tend to become more inclu- 
sive and payments tend to increase with 
time. More than 90 percent of Spanish- 
American War and 50 percent of World 
War One veterans are now receiving some 
kind of compensition. Also rising rapidly 
is the percentage of those using their GI 
Bill education benefits. In 1964, 34,000 
men were using their GI benefits; today, 
more than 500,000. 

If veterans’ benefits for the Vietnam 
are anything like those for previous 
» we may expect them to incr 
aually (after à small initial spurt 
decline immediately following the wat) 
until about the year 2020. Then they 
will lu 
the 2lst Centu 
altogether. Assuming no change in pres- 
ent laws, the total cost of Vietnam veter- 
ans pensions will be about 220 В 
dollars. Since costs alway se with 
time, the final bill will undoubtedly be 
much higher. 

Alter veterans benefits, the interest on 


nd 


ic inge financial cost of war. It 
is difficult to measure interest costs, be- 
cause the interest on war loans is not 
separated from other interest costs in 
the national accoun Intercst costs for 
war debts prior to the Civil War were 
probably less than 20 percent of origir 
war costs. During the Civil War era, 
however, interest on the public debt 
jumped from less than $4,000,000 in 1861 
to $144,000,000 in 1867. For the next 25 
rs, interest payments gradually fell, 
until they finally leveled off about 
$30,000,000. These payments, which are 

(continued on page 98) 


u 


se 


the president of the progressive-republican ripon society foresees the emergence of а young elite whose 
political involvement will lead the nation toward a new pragmatic policy for the seventies and beyond 


article By JOSIAH LEE AUSPITZ 
IF THE COMING AGE is to call forth the 
best energies in the country, those who 
arc engaged in politics must adopt а po- 
sition that fits reality. Unfortunately, 
such a stance is not to be found in any 
existing doctrine—liberal, radical or 


conservative—and I would like to de- 
scribe a politics that will be more suited 
to the realities of the new decade than 
those outmoded idcologics. My position 
is engaged, moderate, progressive. 
Republican. And since my reasons for 
adopting it are neither autobiographical 


and 


ULUSTRATION BY OON FUNCHATZ 


nor mystical, I expect that they can be 
shared by a large number of people. 
Because dropping out has been pre- 
dicted as the wave of the future, let 
me begin by defe 
Political engagement will become more 
popular in the future, for an increasing 


ding engagement. 


PLAYBOY 


90 


number of citizens will realize that what 
is at stake in American politics is the 
future of American culture. They will 
see that the political coalition on which 
a government is founded shapes not only 
the distribution of patronage and in- 
come but also the rhetoric that moves 
people to action, the kinds of arguments 
that scem binding and the life styles that 
are encouraged and imitated. They will 
begin to notice that much of the national 
income (36 percent in 1968) is disbursed 
through government; that legislation and 
administrative decisions at all levels of 
government greatly influence the direc- 
tion of the economy and can elevate cer- 
tain groups and regions to positions of 
dominance. They will see that in times 
of social change, even the exercise 
of police and judicial power is not above 
politics. 

All this has always been true, but it 
has not always been obvious. In this 
decade, the importance of political en- 
gagement will become clearer as a result 
Of several irreversible historical develop- 
ments. 

‘Khe most far-reaching of these is the 
rise of a new political class that behaves 
in a way the ancient Greeks considered 
aristocratic. Its members are not aristo- 
cratic by virtue of inherited wealth, high 
birth or social status. Many, in fact, are 
of humble origin and proud of it. Their 
political behavior is aristocratic because 
they seck a meaningful public role that is 
not directly related to their own pecuni- 
ary interest. They have a strong notion of 
service, of political participation and of 
public—as opposed ic private—good. 
"They prefer to work in organizations i 
which they can feel themselves colleagues 
rather than subordinates. They have a 
strong distaste for hierarchal structures 
and when subjected to them in the 
church, the university, the Army or in 
government or corporate bureaucracy— 
they begin to press for reforms. They 
have a well-developed sense of privacy, 
of tolerance for dissent and of individual 
freedom and responsibility. They are 
willing to devote portions of their lives 
to voluntary work and may even plan 
their carcers in such a way as to give 
prominence to social concerns. They tend 
to choose as leaders not men with an 
authoritarian style but those who are 
ible to enlist them in a spirit of partner- 
ship around projects that have immedi- 
ate practical consequences while serving 
a higher and well-articulated vision. 
They tend to conceive of their lives as a 
process not of material accumulation nor 
even of bureaucratic advancement but of 
learning, adventure and service. 

America has always had aristocrats of 
this sort. Indeed, the republic was found- 
ed by such men, and the success of its 


democratic system has depended on 
them. But they have usually been 
confined to one class, Now a whole 
generation has grown up under condi- 
tions conducive to the growth of public- 
spiritedness. They have not known the 
cataclysm of a depression or a world war, 
so they think of social problems as man- 
ageable. They have not known want, so 
they are not preoccupied with material 
security. They have been well and freely 
educated, so they demand convincing 
reasons for the rules they must obey. 
And they have had political models that 
convince them that politics need not be 
narrowly manipulative. From Eisenhow- 
er they saw that it could be decent; from 
Kennedy, that it could appear noble and 
exciting; from Martin Luther King, that 
it could be infused with religious com- 
mitment. And even from Richard Nixon 
they may have learned a vital lesson—the 
importance of tenacity. Their standards 
are high and they will not compromise 
them for short-term advantage. 

This description is often said to fit 
only а small, vocal group at a few elite 
universities. But those who so dismiss it 
well behind the times. "The new class 
is, in fact, a mass aristocracy. Its members 
can be found at schools in all regions of 
the country, and also among young 
laborunion members and white-collar 
workers. They are in the U.S. Army aud 
in the slums. There are some working in 
police departments and in businesses. 
They tend to predominate in the profes- 
sions, but independence of spirit and 
public concern, rather than occupational 
or educational status, are the hallmarks of 
the new aristocrats. Political engagement 
will assume new importance in Ame: 
life, because they will insist on it. 

Already, the impact of their concerns is 
evident, not only in pressures for reform 
in old institutions but in the invention 
of new institutional forms. The public- 
interest lawyer, the Peace Corps vol- 
unteer, the community organizer. the 
environmental planner—these are a few 
of the roles that the new class has already 
created for itselL More innovation is 
bound to come—new kinds of communi- 
ties and economic enterprises, new tech- 
niques for expanding the democratic 
process itself. These changes—like all in- 
novations—will be pioneered on a small 
scale, by local and private groups. Yet 
their chances of spreading will depend 
on the climate of national politics. It will 
then be clear that the reasons for engage- 
ment on the national level ро far beyond 
a mere desire for participation. National 
politics will decide whether the mass 
aristocracy сап exist on the terms it has 
set for itself. 

Though the rise of a mass aristocracy 
is in many ways a fulfillment of Ameri- 
can ideals, it also threatens established 


procedures of government. The tendency 
of the new dass will be to decentralize 
major decisions, so as to enable more 
people to influence them in meaningful 
ways. Vet, for a generation, truly momen- 
tous decisions haye been concentrated 
a very few hands. In domestic affairs, the 
New Deal inaugurated an era of emphasis 
on Federal programs; these have greatly 
increased the importance of the Federal 
bureaucracy vis-a-vis state and local gov- 
ernments. Even within state and local 
governments, the initiative has moved 
from elected governors and may to 
career civil servants who can extract 
grants from their opposite numbers in 
Washington. In foreign affairs, World 
War Two and the Cold War left us 
with gigantic military and intelligence- 
gathering agencies that operate in secrecy 
and follow hierarchal chains of command. 
They have shifted initiative from the 
many to the few—from Congress to the 
President and, even within the Presi- 
dency, to a small group of experts who 
are immune from Congressional inqui, 

The press and the nation's most prom- 
inent intellectuals speak in an idiom that 
makes these developments seem logical 
and inevitable. They invoke internation- 
al crises that justify new increments in 
the powers of the foreign-policy establish- 
ment. To justify a reliance on Federal 
domestic programs they contrast the high 
intentions of the President with the 
wardness of state and local governments. 
A crisis mentality abroad and statist 
liberalism at home have been used to 
legitimate secrecy, bureaucracy and an 
overcenualization of policy making. 

A conti ion of these doctrines will 
make it impossible for the aspirations of 
the mass aristocracy to be fulfilled. If the 
country insists on perceiving as problems 
only those that require centralized con- 
trol in Washington, it will be unable to 
accommodate. demands for new political 
roles; there are simply not enough niches 
in Washington to go around. To get 
decisions out of Washington, however. 
requires that а decentralizing coalition 
take control of the Federal Government, 
and this can be achieved only by replac- 
ing the New Deal alliance that has been 
the majority group in this country for 
nearly 40 years. 

Since 1948, there have been clear si 
of the decline of the New Deal coalition 
—and, indeed, its death has been pro- 
claimed quadrennially. Yet the fact re- 
mains that nothing has taken its place. 
"Though unpopular wars under Presidents 
Truman and Johnson have twice shifted. 
the Presidency away from this coalition, 
the calcified New Dealers remain the Con- 


gressional majority, and their ideology of 


statist liberalism continues to dominate 
national discourse. All this despite the 
fact that the coalition and its doctrines 

(continued on page 94) 


ENTITLED Y 


the sterling assets that 
made this croupier 
cottontail miss england _ 
in the miss universe 
contest add up to a 
visual reward for 
lucky london 
hutchgoers 


неск is involved in the world 
of gambling, by nature as well as by 
profession. Occupationally, the 23-year-old 
British beauty is a roulette croupier at 
the London Playboy Club. But contests 
f all kinds are her forte, because her 
clearly stated ambition is to be rich and 
famous and to retire early. Since beauty 
contests have a way of bringing their 
winners precisely those rewards that 
Myra professes to seck, she entered the 
Miss England Contest. “I went for а 
giggle with all the other girls,” she said 
But the blue-eyed brunette was soon 
smiling brightly in all her Britannic та). 
esty as the queen of the event. “I never 
dreamed of entering a beauty competi 
tion before that,” said the regal Bunny 
Though it started as a lark, it turned 
ош to be a serious thing—and hard 
work when the competition actually be- 
gan.” As a result of her victory, there was 
more work in store for Myra. She be 
came one of the 62 girls representing 
their respective homelands in the 18th 
nnual Miss Universe Pageant at. Miami 
Beach. Though she didn't сапу the 
crown away after that event, Myra did 
emerge as the most candid contestant of 
the hour. When asked about the tight 
schedule of activities the entrants wei 
required to attend, Myra snapped 
They don't even give us time to go to 
the bloody bathroom." But when one of 
the pageant’s chaperones told a televi 
sion reporter that the girls had no time 
to watch TV, Myra reversed field. "She's 
fibbing,” Myra said of the chaperone. 
We watch the telly every night to sce if 
с on.” Upbraided for her bluntness, 
the lovely Myra said, "I'm not going to 
change the way I talk for any beauty 
pageant” After the contest, Myra те 
turned to Bunnydom and her gig at the 
gaming tables. "It's as interesting as any 
job can be," she says "And it tak 
certain amount of intelligence to control 
all the action at the board. You have to 
watch the spinning wheel, the ivor 
the stack of chips and the bettors—all at 
the same time. It's really a challenge 
After becoming one of the crowned heads 
of the Commonwealth, there followed 
an inevitable increase 
sponsibilities around the Bunny hutch. 
In addition to other new duties, she 
began working d s а teaching as 
sistant for the director and general n 
ager of the London Playboy Club, Peter 
Ryan, who lectures on business manage 
ment at by polylechnical school 
The subject of his course is a nx 
ter for close scrutiny to the many Brit 
ish businessmen who attend: It's a study 
of the growth of Editor Publisher Hugh 
M. Hefner's Playboy empire. Though 
yan does most of the talking, Myra 
is a capital aset in keeping the class 
tentive. Queen Myra may not be 
or famous enough to retire just 
yet, but when she does take her turn at 


PLAYBOY 


94 


MODERATE MAJORITY (continued from page 90) 


are obsolete. The rise of a mass aristoc- 
racy is not the only development making 
the New Deal alliance stagnant. 

Modern communications have outdat- 
ed the New Deal habit of satisfying 
demands of particular voting blocs and 
regions. A generation ago, this was the 
essence of politics. Franklin D. Roosevelt, 
let us remember, succeeded in getting 
Senate approval for his Clement Hayns- 
worth—Justice Hugo Black, a former Ku 
Klux Klan member from Alabama, who 
seemed to be a sop to the Deep South. 
Roosevelt was able to bargain through 
termediaries for the support of diverse 
blocs; the courthouses were his gateway 
to the pre-industrial South, the labor 
unions and big-city bosses his gateway 
to working-class and ethnic groups, 
prominent New Deal bureaucrats his 
gateway to university intellectuals. He 
was able to split the business community 
with policies that saved capitalism, hid- 
den by rhetoric that baited businessmen. 

All these techniques are more difficult 
now, because instant communication 
makes it virtually impossible to isolate 
one constituency from another. Any 
political utterance or action can immedi- 
ately become known nationally. And 
though in some ways this draws the 
country together, it is as likely to divide 
it. The national news media have not 
diminished the fundamental cleavages in 
American society; indeed, they can make 
them more visible by assuring that state- 
ments that appear to favor one group 
will instantly arouse their antagonists. 
This makes it harder to slip through pro- 
grams that favor any one interest group 
without justifying them in terms of the 
public interest. Old politicians will, of 
course, continue to push such programs, 
but these have become unsatisfactory as 
the major means lor building coalitions. 
“The mass media make it not only possible 
but necessary to appeal to citizens direct- 
ly, instead of buying them off through 
intermediaries. The old groupings are, in 
any case, losing their importance to those 
within them. There is a growing constit- 
uency that can be appealed to only as 
citizens. 

Affluence has had an even more shat- 
tering effect than the news media on the 
Roosevelt alliance. The New Deal was, 
after all, a response to the Depression; its 
major political achievement was to sub- 
merge religious, sectional and ethnic dif- 
ferences in economic and class issues. It 
pitted the have-nots against the haves 
and posed directly the question “Who 
gets what?” as the central one for poli- 
tics. But now that the majority of 
Americans no longer consider themselves 


have-nots, politics has moved to other 
questions. Instead of debating how eco- 
nomic classes shall be rewarded, we 
are increasingly asking which sectors of 
the economy and what styles of life de- 
serve favored treatment by Government. 
Should we invest more in military spend- 
ing? In housing? In transportation? 
Should we aim at increasing consumer 
spending, at generating full employment 
or at maintaining a stable currency? How 
should Government, with its laws on di- 
vorce, drug taking, Bible reading and 
sexual deviance, attempt to shape the 
activities of the individual? These ques- 
tions certainly influence who gets what, 
but they really address a broader con- 
cern: “What is the good life?" They mau- 
gurate an era of politics in which issues 
of life style, conscience, national priori- 
ties and goals will assume an important 
place. 

Finally, Government's role in the econ- 
omy has changed in ways that could not 
have been anticipated 30 years ago. In 
those days of economic stagnation, any 
Government activity at least helped 
get things going. Today, in an economy 
that is closely integrated, every Govern- 
ment policy has unintended consequences 
elsewhere. Farm supports in the Deep 
South can set migrations in motion that 
cause a rise in crime and a lowering of 
the tax base in the urban Northeast. 
Moreover, the New Deal relationship of 
Government to business does not provide 
for thc growth of new industries based on 
technological breakthroughs. In the past, 
Goverment has regulated or protected 
industries; now it should concentrate on 
creating them. New technologies and de- 
mands for new services will make possi- 
ble the growth of a whole range of 
activities. The rise of computer, elec 
tronic and nursing-home industries is an 
example, Government should grease the 
wheels for new economic activity and 
not just prop up inefficient industri 
and police corrupt ones. 

These changes have produced a fluid 
period in American politics. An old coali- 
tion is in decline and it is not dear 
what will take its place. A new dass 
is entering politics, new constituencies 
are being mobilized and new questions 
are asked of Government, These develop- 
ments and the struggle to shape a new 
ruling combination will assure an unprec- 
edented level of political engagement. 

Yet engagement in itself is nothing 
to be applauded. Pre-Hitler Germany and 
preRevolution Russia had an intense 
degree of political activity just before 
they collapsed. What counts is not the 
fervor but the quality of involvement 


in politics. In America today, none of 
the prevailing political doctrines fits the 
new realities. I have said that statist 
liberalism, with its emph: on bureau- 
cratic solutions, is unsuited to the rise of 
а mass aristocracy. To those who recog- 
nize this, conservatism, with its sharp 
critique of New Deal programs, may have 
an initial appeal. But it, too, discusses 
realities that are behind us. One can be 
enlightened by debates between liberals 
and conservatives, but one should expect 
no reliable guides to action from either 
side. On any given issue, one is better 
advised to consult the facts rather than 
the ideologies. What is needed is a radi- 
cal's analysis of the forces at work й 
society, a liberal's sense of tolerance and 
his generous impulses toward the disad- 
vantaged, and a conservative’s respect for 
traditional values and his skepticism 
about bureaucracy. In general, those who 
сап make such a synthesis will be moder- 
ates, not because they are moderate 
the intensity of their commitment but 
because they have a sense of balance 
about social institutions. 

It is both the strength and the weak 
ness of the moderate that he can hold in 
his head more than one idea at a time. 
He can speak of decentralizing Govern- 
ment programs and still provide for a 
proper degree of central guidance. He 
can sce that trade-offs must exist between 
social equality and economic efficiency, 
between participation and decisiveness, 
between liberty and order. Above all, he 
can distinguish between the facts and 
what he would like the facts to be. 
Because his position never falls unambig- 
uously under any banner, he lacks a 
certain chivalric simplicity. Because he 
tries to preserve a balance, he often 
scems inconsistent: "The moderate may 
oppose military spending this year and 
fight to increase it five years from now, 
because circumstances have changed. Be- 
cause he deals with complexities and 
conflict, he prefers rational discussion to 
confrontation and mediation to violence. 
Because he recognizes that glorious end: 
are seldom achieved, he puts a great em 
phasis on means: He judges policies by 
their immediate human consequences 
more than by their presumed effects a 
generation hence. 1f his position sounds 
unglamorous, then we had better start 
glamorizing it, for our institutions will 
not survive without the moderate's quiet 
pragmatism. His skills are needed most 
now, when American institutions are 
going out of kilter. 

Yet moderation by itself is no longer 
enough. The great attraction of the mod- 
erate has been his ability to preserve 
stability without undue repression or 
cormption. It is this ability that has 

(continued on page 186) 


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“Stop worrying, honey. My wife always spends the day with 
her mother when she thinks I'm out of town." 


95 


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PHOTOGRAPH BY BILL ARSENAULT 


kk row, left to right: Hot Comb 

hair dryer comes styling 
brush ond fine- ond coarse-tooth 
comb attachments, by Remington, 
$19.95, stands in o foldable 
leather toiletries kit with strap 
ond vinyl lining, mode in Eng- 
land, by Alfred Dunhill, $20. 
Brut Fresh-Up foce cleonser ond 
refresher lotion, 4% ozs., by Fo- 
bergé, $3. Кип Koboodle dov- 
ble-zippered carryoll of brushed 
suede easily tucks into comers 
of suitcase, car’s glove сотрап- 
ment, by Arnold Polmer/Enger 
Kress, $17.50. Lovis Vuitton vinyl 
corryoll with LV initials in cover 
pattern, from Saks, $60. Cowhide 
Dopp-Kit that folds flot, opens 
wide ond stays open, features 
zipper closure and stitchless vinyl 
g by Chorles Doppelt, 


$12.50, holds o sideburn, mus- 
toche and beard brush and comb, 
from Kent of London, $5. For A 
Mon's Trek cowhide case with 
brass fittings comes with 2 ozs. 
each of eau de toilette ond ofter- 
shave lotion ond one coke of 
зоор; when empty, case can be 
used for field glasses or camero 
equipment, by Givenchy, $35. 
linen and cowhide carryall with 
snap-strop, mode in England, from 
Morsholl Field & Co, $13.50, 
Front row, left to right: Body Oil 
resse contoins а combinotion 


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of oromatic ond emollient oils, 
comes in 3-oz. Pl. 
by Xonadu, $15. 
Thermol Shaving Foom thot’s self- 
heating comes in polished-clu- 
minum container, 6% ozs, by 
Colton, $5. Privote Deodoront 
Sproy for allover protection, 
helps control perspiration, 4% 
ozs., by Broggi, $5. Pantene for 
Men Conditioner, o cream that 
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end Forming de Pontene #1 
lotion, o Swiss grooming oid 
especiolly designed for men 
with ойу Ной, also ovoilable in 
formulos for dry ond fine hoir, 
8 ozs, $5, both by Pontene. 
Jetstar hoir dryer con be set to 
110-120 volts or to overseas 
220-240 volts ot the flip of 
a switch, by Ronson, $19.95. 


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fivorescent-lighted shoving mir- 
тог with compartment for geor 
in bock, by Bercy Industries, $20. 
Standard-sized English Box Kit 
of podded cowhide thot feotures 
vinyl lining and pocket, $16, is 
otop о king-sized English Box Kit, 
$19, both by Chorles Doppelt. Elec- 
tric mossoger with cushioned cy- 
lindrica! heed, by Norelco, $25, 
stands on electric heated-lather 


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sol Dry Foce Moisturizing Foom, 
5 ozs., $5 each, both by Arami: 
Chrome cantina holds concen- 
troted men's essence, by Xanadu, 
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magnificotion grooming lens, 
presses onto ony mirror, by Stim- 
ulont Products, $10. JRP Both ond 
Shower Gel, o scented shower 
1 
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98 


OUR MORTGAGED FUTURE оа пот page 66) 


auributable to the Civil War, raised the 
cost of that conflict by about one third. 


The rate of interest costs of recent 
wars is comparable. The noted economist 
John M. Clark, using Treasury Depart- 
ment data, once calculated the interest 
costs of World War One to 1929 at 9.5 
billion dollars, or about 37 percent of 
the original cost of that war to that date. 
Henry С. Murphy, in his book National 
Debt in War and Transition, has shown 
that the Government borrowed 215 bil- 
lion dollars to finance World War Two. 
That debt is still on the books and has 
cost us about 200 billion dollars in inter- 
est to date. This interest cost is now 70 
percent of the original cost of World 
War Two. 

Although we have reduced our debt 
alter every war prior to 1945, no serious 
effort has ever been made to reduce the 
debt from World War Two or from sub- 
sequent wars. The Korean War probably 
added an additional ten billion dollars 
to the already swollen war-debt ledger. If 
the principal for the Korean War is not 
paid off any faster than that for World 
War Two, the ad nal interest by 1978 
will be about 20 percent of the original 
cost. If interest costs continue to dimb 
and attitudes toward public debt do not 
change substantially, it is conceivable 
that interest costs for World War Two 
and the Korean War eventually may ac- 
tually exceed the original cost of those 
wars. 

The amount of indebtedness for the 
Vietnam war is unknown. Since the war 
escalation of 1965, however, the public 
debt has risen almost 70 billion dollars. 
If this debt is treated like the Korean 
War debt—i.e., if no more than half of 
it is attributed directly to the war in 
Vietnam—then, by 1990, the interest 
costs on the Vietnam-war debt be 35 
billion dollars (at four percent per an 
num—a conservative estimated rate), 
with the entire principal still outstanding. 

Increased taxes have been an enduring 
consequence of war because of increased 
Federal borrowing. Income taxes began 
in this country as emergency war taxes. 
The Civil War made them a permanent 
feature of our Governmental system. By 
1911, the high costs of financing the 
Spanish-American War, which required 
doubling tax receipts, pushed income 
from internal revenue above receipts 
from Customs duties. World War One 
increased internal-revenue receipts more 
than fourteenfold, from $380,000,000 in 
1914 to 5.4 billion dollars in 1920. Per- 
capita taxes increased nine times during 
that war. World War Two increased per- 
capita taxes an additional seven times. 
If neither of these wars had occurred, 
our per-capita tax rate would have been 
about one tenth of what it actually was 
in 1946, assuming no inflation—which is 
primarily caused by war, as we shall see. 


For this reason, it is misleading to 
view the present surtax either as tem- 
porary (as former President Johnson 
promised and as President Nixon still 
promises) or as the ultimate tax cost 
of the Vietnam war. From 1965 to 1967, 
the most recent date of available data, 
our percapita taxes increased 27 per- 
cent. This is partly the result of an in- 
crease in military-retirement pay, which 
is now increasing $200,000,000 per year 
independently of other Department of 
Defense activities. Obviously, our taxes 
must go higher yet. The long-range taxa- 
ton consequences of the Vietnam war 
are more likely to be an additional and 
permanent burden on top of an already 
large tax structure (itself mostly the re- 
sult of past wars) rather than anything 
unique or presently unforeseen. 

Traditionally, much of the cost of war 
has been met through inflation. We have 
had four periods of extreme inflation 
and deflation since 1800—all produced 
by war. The Civil War and World War 
One each doubled prices. World War 
"Two increased prices by 50 percent. The 
Korean War further increased the cost of 
living by about ten percent. 

Following the Napoleonic Wars, the 
previous upward surge of inflation ta- 
pered off during the 19th Century—a 
century of relative peace in Europe. 
Prices generally fell for 100 years. But 
the 20th Century has been a century of 
war and the price trend is sharply up. 
Prices are now five times higher than 
they were in 1900. If wars continue in the 
coming decades, the upward trend will 
continue and prices could be four times 
higher in the year 2000 than they are now. 

Despite the extreme steps being taken 
by the Nixon Administration, the infla- 
tionary effect of Vietnam will probably 
result ultimately in а ten percent reduc- 
tion in the standard of living of the 
average American. Since 1964, the con- 
sumer price index has increased 16 per- 
cent. If only half of that increase is 
attributable to the Viemam war—a con- 
servative estimate—then the inflationary 
cost of the Vietnam war to our С. N. P. 
to the first quarter of 1969 has been 
about 17 billion dollars in only four 
years. In the past, it has taken 10 to 20 
years of peace to erase this warcaused 
inflation. If peace were to come u 
year, therefore, we could expect the 
flationary effects of the Vietnam war to 
last at least until 1980 and cost a 
mum of 30 billion dollars. 

Rapid price fluctuations in time of 
war have historically created a crop of 
newly rich, which has aroused wide- 
spread contemporary condemnation. Pol- 
iticians and merchants—or, more recently. 
idustrialists—have been the targets of this 
condemnation since the beginning of time. 
The widespread criticism of our present- 
day military-industrial complex is simply 


history repeating itself on schedule. ‘This 
complex is the source of our newly rich 
Although the lower income brackets 
gained most from the full employment 
accompanying World War Two, the major 
increases in income from the Vietnam wa 
lave dearly gone to the upperincome 
occupations. Within those income classcs, 
the most noticeable benefits have gone to 
management and scientists in the ord 
nance, aircraft and electronics industries. 
"These industries are concentrated in € 
fornia, Texas, New York, Massachusetts, 
Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New 
Jersey and Missouri. Moreover, the war 
has strengthened already existing trends 
of large corporations toward conglomera- 
tion and already existing tendencies in 
science toward applied rather than basi 
research. In the long run, we may expect 
the Vietnam war to further widen the 
economic gulf between classes. 

"The newly created poor caused by war 
are often overlooked. Who today mourns 
the Tories of the American Revolution, 
the slaveholding planters of the Civil 
War or the farmers who, at the request 
of the Government, overexpanded dur- 
ing World War One? It is too soon to 
say who the newly poor of the Vietnam 
conflict will be, but those who have been 
left out of the war-generated prosperity 
are clearly recognized. By state, they are 
found chiefly in Wyoming, Idaho, Ore- 
gon, Montana, North and South Dakota, 
Kentucky, West Virginia, Arkansas and 
Oklahoma. Individuals on fixed salaries 
and pensioners with fixed incomes have 
been hurt by wargenerated inflation 
and the unskilled have been lelt out of 
the 1,000,000 new but sophisticated jobs 
that have been generated by the war in 
Vietnam. 

‘The major research universities of this 
country also have paid a price by surren 
dering some of their independence and 
by neglecting teaching. Most others have 
suffered financially as funds that might 
have been used for education have gone 
for war. 

The more enduring political and so- 
cial consequences of the Vietnam conflict 
are the most difficult to define and u 
worst served by the evidence of past 
wars. There are no landmark studies on 
the social or psychological consequences 
of war. Indeed, there is an absence of 
objective standards of measurement, Ob- 
servers are, therefore, largely left to im 
pressionistic insights full of paradox and 
ambiguity. Yet informed judgment 
even if imperfect—are better than whol 
ly objective silence. 

Over the centuries. war has tended to 
centralize Government; and during all 
major American wars, the power of the 
Federal Government has markedly 
creased. As economist Herman Krooss 
has shown, each of our three major wars 
has cost ten and a half times more than 

(concluded on page 197) 


fiction By JOHN D. MAC DONALD 


Lucy, please save this whole tape. This 
is a tough letter to write and 1 may not 
get it right the first time. But I want to 
save any false starts, just for the record. 
No need to transcribe the false starts, if 
any. Just file the tape, after you type up 
the final version. Ihe letter goes to How- 
ard J. Faxton, at that Holiday Inn north 
of town. You сап check the proper ad- 
dress. ГЇЇ want hand delivery on it. 

If 1 don't get it right the first time, I'll 
leave a note on the machine with the 
index number of the final version. 

Dear Howie. You might be able to 
guess that after you left the house the 


other night, Ruthie and I stayed up a 
long time and talked. It was quite a 
shock, having you come out of the blue 
after seven long years. 

And, naturally, we were very upset to 
hear that Annabelle passed away over 
a year ago. Ruthie was quite hurt about 
your not letting us know. Remember, 
she gave up writing when Annabelle 
wouldn't write back. After all. the gals 
were the best of friends. But I suppose 
there comes a time when a woman has to 
be loyal to her husband. And it was 
pretty obvious at the time you and I 
split up that Annabelle had the strange 
idea that Га given you a raw deal. You 
know that is not so. and 1 know it, and 
so does Ruthie 


ILLUSTRATION BY K. ERAMS. 


DEAR OLD FRIEND 


tt took him four tries to get 
the letter to the proper 
pointed point, but 
the end result was 
surgically precise 


All three of us had a little too much to 
drink the other night, and we finally 
started saying things that none of us 
really meant. The evening shouldn't have 
ended on that note. 

After you left, Ruthie and 1 did some 
reminiscing, and she remembered a lot 
of things Га completely forgotten. Га 
forgotten how scared and edgy and inse- 
cure you and I felt back there in 1956, 
when we cut ourselves loose from Win- 
Tech and all that nice job security and 
set up as Ra). Fax. Incorporated. 

One crummy little cinder-block build- 
ing out on Route 181, eight grand work- 
ing capital. two employees—four, if you 
count Ruthie (continued on page 220) 


99 


memoir By STANLEY BOOTH 


WHEN WE CAME into the alley, the children stopped 
playing. They stood l watching us. There 


wooden stairways that shut out all but a thin blue 
strip of sky. Filthy rags and broken bottles lay on 
the concrete pavement. There were women sitting 
on the doorsteps, some of them together, talking, 
but most of them alone, sitting 511), ignoring the 
heat and the buzzing flies. 

“How are you?” Charley Brown spoke to one of 
them. 

“I ain't doin’ no good," she said. She did not 


look up. The children's gaze followed us as we 
walked on. The women talking would stop as we 
came near and then, as we went past, would start 
again. 

Close by, a fat woman was holding a small 
brown-and-white dog to her bosom. "What you 
got there?" Charley asked her. 

"Little spitz," she said. "Look how dirty he is. 
He pretty when he clean 

"Nice dog," he said. "Is Furry home?" 

“Dey up deah. Dey ain't been long gone up.” 

We climbed the back stairs of the building on 


LUBES 


RAPHY BY САМО CHAN 


our left and went down a bare, dusty hall to a door with a metal mber three over the cloth-patched screen, 
Charley started to knock, and then we heard the music and he waited. “ ‘Got a new way of spellin', " a quiet, musing 
voice sang, " ‘Memphis, Tennessee. A run of guitar chords followed, skeptical, brief; “ "Double M, double E, great 
God, A Y Z; Ihen two closing chords, like a low shout of laughter, and Charley knocked. 

The door swung open. There, sitting next to a double bed, holding a guitar, was Furry Levis. During the hey. 
day of Beale Street, when the great Negro blues artists played and sang in the crowded, evil blocks between Fourth and 
Main, Furry, a protégé of W. C. Handy, was one of the most highly respected musicians. He was also one of the most 
popular, not only in the saloons and gambling dives of Memphis but in the medicine shows and on the riverboats all 
along the Mississippi. In Chicago, at the old Vocalion studios on Wabash Avenue, he made the first of many record- 
ings he was to make, both for Vocalion and for RCA Victor's Bluebird label. But Beale Street's great era ended at the 
close of the 1920s; since then, Furry has had only one album of his own—a 1959 Folkways LP. 

Nor, since the Depression, has he performed regularly. 
even in his home town. He makes his living as a street 
sweeper. When he does play, it is usually at the Bitter Lem 
on, a coffeehouse that caters mainly to the affluent East 
Memphis teenaged set, but whose manager, Charley Brown, 
is a blues enthusiast and occasionally hires Furry between 
rock-n-roll groups. 

Charley, а tall, blond young man, bent to shake hands 
with Furry. Furry did not stand. One leg of his green pa- 
jamas hung limp, empty below the knee. 

The boy wearing gold-rimmed spectacles who had got up 
from a chair to let us in said, "I'm Jerry Finberg. Furry's 
been giving me a little guitar lesson." We shook his hand, 
then Charley introduced me to Furry and we all sat down. 
The room held a sizable amount of old, worn furniture: 
the bed, a studio couch, three stuffed chairs, a chifforobe 
and a dresser. Beside the bed, there was a table made from 
a small wooden crate. 

“It's good to see you, Furry,” Charley said. 

“You, too," said Furry. “You hadn't been here in so long, 
I thought you had just about throwed me down 

Charley said that he could never do that and asked Furry 
if he would come out to the coffeehouse for a couple of 
nights in the coming week, Furry picked up a pair of glasses 
from the bedside table, put them on, then took them off 
again. He would like to, he said, but his guitar was at Ма 
than's. This here one belongs to this boy, Jerry.” He put 
the glasses back on the table, It held aspirin, Sal Hepatica, 
cigarette papers and a Mason jar full of tobacco. Charley 
said not to worry, he'd get the guitar, 

Will you, sure "nough?" Furry asked, looking at Charley 
with serious, businesslike gray eyes. 

П get it tomorrow. What's the ticket on it 
Sixteen dollars." 

П get it tomorrow." 

‘All right," Furry said, "and ГИ come play for you." He 


Furry makes most of his music these days in а Memphis reached out and shook hands solemnly with Charley. = 
boardinghouse room similar to this. When he does ber. Could you play something now, or don't you feel like it? 
form publicly, it's at the Bitter Lemon coffeehouse, а Charley asked. p 
local gathering place for moneyed teens. But it's all rock Furry smiled. “I may be weak, but I'm willing,” he 
n' roll there; the kids don't know much obout the blues. Не took a small metal cylinder from his pajama pocket and 
picked up the guitar. "I believe I'll take you to Brownsville." 
He slipped the cylinder over the little finger of his left hand and started to play, his short leg crossed over the longer 
one, his bare narrow foot patting softly the plain brown boards as he sung.“ "Well, Ги goin’ to Brownsville, Im goin’ 
take that right-hand road’ "; the cylinder slid, whining, over the treble strings. 

"I was in Brownsville, Tennessee,” Furry said, “working on a doctor show, and I met a little girl J liked; but 
her parents wouldn't let me come around to see her, cause І was showlolks, and they was respectable. So І wrote 
this: ‘And the woman I love's got great long curly hair." The guitar repeated the line, added a delicate, punctuat- 
ing bass figure, and then, as if it were another voice, sang the next line with Furry, staying just behind or slightly 
ahead of the beat: But her mother and father do not allow me there 

As he played, 1 looked around the room. The brown-spotted wallpaper was covered with decorations: Over the 
bed were a few sprigs of artificial holly, an American flag, hanging with the stripes vertical and the stars at the 
bottom left, three brightly colored picture postcards and an ink sketch of Furry. On the wall behind the couch, 
there was a child’s crayon drawing in which Jesus, dressed in handsome red-and-blue robes, held out his arms to an 

102 enormous white rabbit. Furry's right hand swooped and glided over the guitar, striking notes and chords in what 


“Is this all I am to you, Arnold medium for social protest?" 


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looked but did not sound like complete 
random. At times, he slapped the guitar 
box with two fingers or the heel of his 
hand as, in the same motion, he brushed 
the strings. “Call that spank the baby,” 
he said. The guitar was both an echo of 
his voice and a source of complex and 
subtle accents. He sang, " ‘Don’t you wish 
your woman was long and tall like 
mine? " then repeated the line, leaving 
out, or letting the guitar speak, half the 
words. “ “Well, she ain't good-lookin', but 
I "аге, she takes her time“ The bass 
figure followed, then one amused final 
chord. Furry laid the guitar down. 

“You play beautiful guitar,” Charley 
said. 

"Yes, it is," Furry said, holding up the 
instrument. "Believe I'll be buried in this 
one.” 

“Was that Spanish tuning?” asked 
Jerry, who had been leaning forward, 
elbows on his knees, listening intently. 

“They some beer in the icebox,” Furry 
said. 

Jerry sighed and stood up. "Come on," 
he said to me. “Help bring the glasses.” 
We went into the kitchen. It was almost 
as large as the front room, with a stove, a 
refrigerator, a good-sized table and, in 
one corner, another double bed. A cabi- 
net held gallon jars of flour, sugar, lima 
beans and an assortment of canned 
goods: Pride of Illinois white sweet corn, 
School Day June peas, Showboat pork 
and beans, Lyke's beef tripe, Pride of 
Virginia herring, Bush's Best black-eyed 
peas and turnip greens. 

Jerry took a quart of Pleiflers beer 
out of the refrigerator. I found four 
glasses on а newspaper-lined shelf, rinsed 
them at the square metal sink. (They 
dean,” Furry called, "but no tellin" 
whats been runnin’ over 'em") and we 
went back imo the other room. We had 
just finished pouring when there was a 
knock at the door. 

“That's my wife,” Furry said, sliding 
the latch open. “Come in, Vei She 
came in, a compact, handsome woman. I 
introduced myself and the others said 
hello. Versie, in a pleasantly hoarse voice, 
told us that only that morning, she had 
been asking Furry what he had done to 
make his boyfriends stay away so long. 

“They all throwed me down,” Furry 
said, then laughed and told Versie he 
was going out to play at the Bitter 
Lemon. She smiled and asked if she 
could get us anything to eat. We all said 
no, thank you, and she sat down. 

“My wife loves to see after folks,” 
Furry said. “Do anything in the world 
for people. Feed ‘em, give ‘em something 
to drink; if they get too drunk to go 
home, got a bed in there to put you to 
sleep on. And I’m the same way. But you 
know, there’s one old boy, I see him 
every day at work, and every time I see 
him, he bum a cigarette from me. Now, 


it ain't much, but it come so regular. So 
the other day, I told him, “Boy, ain't but 
one difference "tween you and a blind 
man.“ And he said, What's that? And I 
told him, ‘Blind man beg from every- 
body he hear, you beg from everybody 

u see. 

“Well,” Versie said, from her chair on 
the other side of the room, "it's a pleas- 
ure to do things for people who are so 
nice to us. We tried and tried to find ош 
Furrys age, so he could get this Medi- 
care, and Jerry went ош to Furry's old 
school and made them look through the 
records and find out when he was born. 
He spent several days, just to help us.” 
‘ound out I was born 1893," Furry 
said. “March the sixth, in Greenwood, 
Mississippi. But I moved to Memphis, 
with my mother and two sisters, when I 
was ях. My mother and father were 
sharecroppers and they separated before 
1 was born. 1 never saw my father, never 
even knew what he looked like." He 
took a drink of beer. 

"Where did you live when you came 
here?” I asked. 

"My mother had a sister lived on 
Brinkley Avenue,” he said. "Call it Deca- 
tur now. We stayed with her. They a 
housing project there now, but I could 
still show you the spot." He took anoth- 
er drink, looked at the glass, then emp- 
tied it. "I was raised right there and 
walked a few blocks to the Carnes Avenue 
School. Went to the fifth and that's as far 
as I got. Started going about, place to 
place, catching the freights. "That's how 1 
lost my leg. Goin' down a grade outside. 
Du Quoin, Illinois, 1 caught my foot in 
a coupling. They took me to a hospital їп 
Carbondale. 1 could look right out my 
window and see the ice-cream factory." 

He took a cigarette from a pack of 
Pall Malls on the bedside table. "That 
was 1916," he said. "] had two or three 
hundred dollars in my pocket when that 
happened, too; 1 had just caught a 
freight ‘cause I didn't feel like spending 
the money for a ticket.” He struck a 
match, but the breeze from the window 
fan blew it out. Charley took the ciga- 
it and handed it back. “Love 
Furry said. "Coin' put you in the 
Bible.” 

He stuck the cigarette in the corner of 
his mouth, picked up the guitar and 
played a succession of slow, blues 
drenched chords that seemed to fill the 
room. "I'm doing all right," he said. 
"What you want to hear?" 

“Do you remember Stagolee?" I asked. 

"What song?" 

"One you recorded a long time ago, 
called Stagolee.” 

“Long time ago—I wasn't born then, 
was 1?” He quickly changed tunings and 
started to sing the song. He did one 
chorus, but it went off after the second, 
which began. when you lose your 
money, learn to lose. 


“What was that last?” Charley asked. 
Furry repeated the linc. “That means, 
don't be no hard loser. That's what this 
song is about.” He began again, but 
after a few bars, he lost the tune. He was 
tired. 
Charley stood up. “We've got to go. 


Furry said. “You just got here.” 
to go to work. ГИ pick you up 
Tuesday night.” 

"I'm so glad you came by," Versie told 
Charley, in the hall. "Sometimes Furry 
thinks everybody has forgotten him." 

It had rained while we were ide 
and the air in the alley smelled almost 
fresh. The women were gone now and 
only a few of the children were still out. 
It was nearly dark. We walked back to 
the car and drove down Beale Street, 
past the faded blocks of pawnshops, liq: 
uor stores and poolrooms. The lights 
were coming on for the evening. 


The Beale Street that Furry Lewis 
knew as a boy had its beginnings when, 
after the Battle of Memphis in 1862, the 
Federal Army made its headquarters in 
the area, The Negro population of the 
city consisted mainly of former slaves, 
who felt they had good reason to fear 
the local citizenry and, therefore, stayed 
as close to Federal headquarters as possi 
ble. After the War, many Negroes came 
in from the country, trying to find their 
families There were only about 4000 
Negroes in Memphis in 1860, but by 
1870, there were 15,000. Beale Street 
drew them, it has been said, “like a 
lodestone. 

The music the country Negroes 
brought, with its thumping rhythms, 
unorthodox harmonies and earthy lyrics, 
combined with the city musicians’ more 
polished techniques and regular forms to 
produce, as all the world knows, the 
Beale Street blues, Furry cannot remem- 
ber when he first heard the blues, nor is 
he certain when he started trying to play 
them. 

“1 was cight or nine, I believe,” he 
said, “when I got the idea I wanted to 
have me a guitar." We were at the Bitier 
Lemon now, Furry, Versie, Charley and I, 
Е for the crowd to arrive. The 
waitresses, pretty girls with long, straight 
hair, were lighting candles on the small, 
row nd tables. We sat in the shadows, 
ing bourbon brought from the liq 
wor store on the corner, listening to 
Furry talk about the old days. 

He was coatless, wearing a white shirt 
with a dark-blue tie, and he was smoking 
a wood-tipped cigar. “I taken a cigar 
box, cut a hole in the top and nailed a 
piece of th. our on there for a neck. 
Then I got some screen wire for the 
strings and I tacked them to the box and 
twisted them around some bent nails on 
the end of the two-by-four. I could turn. 

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PLAYBOY'S SPRING AND SUMMER FASHION FORECAST 


the definitive statement on coming trends in warm-weather wearwithal 


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The comely bird alighting from the Rolls-Royce has been delightfully driven to distraction by her date’s good-looking 
threads: a linen and Terylene patent-leather-belled suit, $225. with matching body shirt, $25, both by Pierre Cardin 


attire By ROBERT L. GREEN now tnar the sun 
season is almost upon us, it’s time we again cast ош- 
self in the role of fashion seer and predict what we 
believe will be stylishly wise investments for the 
months to come. As readers of PLAYBOY know, the 
word suit is no longer limited to a matching jacket 


and trousers. Shirt suits in various fabrics, including 
satin, synthetic blends and shiny knits, will continue 
to be worn in place of conventional models when the 
occasion is relatively casual. (The shirt can be worn 
open to the waist, if you've the build for it.) During 
working hours, of (text concluded on page 111) 


PHOTOGRAPHY BY ALEXAS URBA 


105 


Above: Mustechioed mysterious stranger prefers a Dacron and cotton longer-length raincoat, by Michael Maiello for 
Weathercraft, $85, and wide-brimmed fur felt hat, by Le Dernier Cri, $35. Opposite page: Stylishly shipshope boat- 
swains down beside the sheside favor, left to right, striped knit shirt, $18, and single-pleated stacks, $30, both by 
Viceroy; acetate body shirt, by Peter Golding for Van Heusen, $15, tucked into corduroy slacks, by Paul Ressler, $14; 
in the fore, snakeskin-print pullover, by Mike Weber for Boutique Sportswear, $15, and polyurethane slacks, by Viceroy, 
$26.50; finally, knit body shirt, by Ken Scott for Kandahar, $30, worn with straight-legged slacks, by Glen Oaks, $11. 


Top: Beachniks dig, left ta right, a striped cotton vest, by 
Himolaya, $10, and denim jeons with contrasting side 
stripe, by Male, $9; a fringed leather vest, $75, worn with 
suede jeans, $62, both by Siddhartho. Above: Gentleman 
is eminently embraceable in a python-skin short jacket 
with zip closure, by Sebastion, $260, and crushed- 
velvet slacks with flared leg bottoms, by Viceroy, $28.50. 


White-hatted gaod guy estoblishes 
his sartorial bench mark with 
& linen-and-cottan-blend 
lina-weave shirt suit, $70, and a 
linen belt, $5, both by Larry Kane 
for Raffles Wear; buffcla-lecther 
demiboats, by Verde, $3 
а Panama straw braad-bri 
het, by Rafael, $25. 


Above: Our guy comes on in a linen ond Terylene shoped suit, by Cricketeer, $85, twill cotton shirt, by Hathaway, 
$12, Aztec print tie, by Bert Pulitzer, $6.50, and two-loned shoes, by Verde, $26. Opposite page: Two gentlemen find 


thot the well-suited 
Cohen, $135, Aztec print shirt, 


isn't a lonely one. The chap up front likes a silk and wool suit, by Jackie Rogers for Joseph Н. 
by Creighton, $15, silk twill wide tie, by Ralph Lauren for Polo, $12.50, and kidskin 


boots, by Verde, $38. Man behind him favors a striped wool twill suit, by Linett, $120, geometric print silk shirt, by 
Giovonnelli, $30, silk sotin tie, by Bill Miller for The Village Squire, $7.50, and two-toned bols, by Renegodes, $29. 


course, you'll want to play it fashionably safe and 
wear а more conservative look—perhaps a two-button 
shaped suit, classic white, oyster and gray being the 
most popular shades. (We also foresee that light- 
colored linen suits will return in wide lapelled single- 
breasteds that feature bellowed patch pockets, wide 
straightlegged trousers—some with pleats—and deep 
сий.) 

The aforementioned white, oyster and gray will give 
your suit and sports-jacket wardrobes increased versatil- 
ity, provided you supplement your garb with the ap- 
propriate accessories. At the office, for example, a white 
suit can be coordinated with a solid-color shirt and a 
neatly patterned wide tie (five inches is the maximum). 
Then, if you're going to an informal warm-weather 
party straight from your desk, you can change your 
shirt and your look simply by donning a printed satin 
shirt worn unbuttoned at the neck. 

Although a white suit will help you keep your cool 
оп a sultry afternoon—and show off а decp midsummer 
tan—also take notice of white's attractive opposite. A 
belted black suit, such as the one pictured on page 
105, combined with a black shirt is elegantly correct 
for both day and evening 

Topping off the white belted shirt suit and longer- 
length raincoat shown in our Fashion Forecast are two 
wide-brimmed Thirtiesstyle hats of Panama straw and 
fur felt. Both hats are excellent examples of what to 


expect in menswear during spring and summer 1970, a 
period when male-fashion designers will continue to up- 
date old flamboyant looks in terms of the new decade. 

Browsing through the racks of slacks in your favorite 
men's store or boutique, you'll see that leg widths are 
still running the gamut from tapered and trim to floppy 
and flared. Naturally, you'll want to pick the cut that's 
most flattering to your physique. Tie-dye jeans (denims 
that have been tied in knots and dipped into dye, in 
order to create a splotchy pattern that resembles a 
Rorschach test) will be a top-drawer choice among the 
wilder offerings, along with polyurethane wet-look styles 
to be held up with a wide belt. (The broad belt, 
incidentally, is a cinch to remain popular for at least 
another six months) 

Proceeding from the city to the strand, you'll find 
that beachwear has kept pace with urban gear; there 
will be a multiplicity of styles available. Expect to see 
briefs in fisherman's knits and printed shiny fabrics, 
as well as trunks that reach mid. h. Striped knit 
beach pants and sleeveless matching tops worn après- 
sea will make the scene, as will swinging beaded and 
fringed leather vests. Tank tops in a variety of weaves, 
including open knits, and one-piece belted tank suits 
in stretch fabrics that hug the body will also be fa- 
vored. All in all, the warm months ahead should be 
a fun time to pick and choose from the abundant 
array of wearables, both dressy and casual. 


Above: Able-bodied зеотеп at top sport, left to right, a pair of 
stretch-nylon trunks, by Incentra, $20; and a cotton crochet-knit 
tank top, by Jantzen, $9, worn over terrycloth beach pants with 
an elasticized waist, by Sebastion, $17. Reclining gent, center, 
goes for a pair of long-legged stretch-nylon trunks, by Sabre, 
$22. Attentive lod just above weors a linen crochet-knit 
vest, $18, and a pair of matching trunks, $12, both by Sabre, 


ЗБЕ 


Chop creates 

new fashion waves in his long-legged 
lederhosen. style knit trunks, 

patterned in the colors of the West German flag, 
by Sea Mark, $15. 


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FUITY'S BLUES „ш pase 109 


the nails and tune the strings like that, 
you sce. I fooled around with it, got so 1 
could make notes, but just on one string. 
Couldn't make no chords. The first real 
guitar 1 had, Mr. Cham Fields, who 
owned a roadhouse, gam! 
W. C. Handy gave it to me. 
brought it out to my mother's and I was 
so proud to get it, I cried for a week. 
Them days, children wasn't like they are 
now." His cigar had gone out; he relit it 
from the candle on our table, puffing 
great gray clouds of smoke. Е was а 


у yea 
Charley asked. 


Furry put the candle down and leaned 
back in his chair. "When I was eighteen, 
nineteen years old,” he said, “1 was good. 
And when I was twenty, 1 had my own 
band, and we could all play. Had a boy 
named Ham, played jug. Willie Polk 
played the fiddle and another boy, call 
him Shoefus, played the guitar, like I 
did. All of us North Memphis boys. 
We'd meet at my house and walk down 
Brinkley to Poplar and go up Poplar to 
Dunlap or maybe all the way down to 
Main. People would stop us on the street 
d say, Do you know so-and-so?” And 
we'd play it and they'd give us a litle 
something. Sometimes we'd pick up 
fifteen or twenty dollars before we got to 
Beale. Wouldn't take no streetcar. Long 
as you walked, you's making money; but 
if you took the streetcar, you didn't 
make nothing and you'd be out the 
Er 


That was Furry’s wild days" Versie 
ng, staying out all night. 
way, if I let him." 

“We used to leave may- 


Furry smiled. 
be noon Saturday and not get back home 


till Monday night. All the places we 
played—Pee Wee's, Big Grundy's, Cham 
Fields’, B. B. Anderson’s—when they 
opened up, they took the keys and tied 
them to а rabbit's neck, told him to run 
off to the woods, ‘cause they never meant 
to close.” 

I asked Furry whether he had done 
much traveling. 

“A right smart,” he said. "But that was 
later on, when I was working with Gus 
Cannon, the banjo player, and Will 
Shade. Beale Street was commencing to 
change then. Had to go looking for 
work" He rolled his 
against the side of an ashtray. "In the good 
times, though, you could find anything 
you could name on Beale. Gambling, 
girls; you could buy a pint of moonshine 
for a dime, store-bought whiskey for a 
quarter. We'd go Irom place to place, 
making music, and everywhere we'd go, 
they'd be glad to see us. We'd play 
awhile and then somebody would pass 
the hat. We didn't make too much, but 


114 we didn't need much back then. In them 


days, you could get two loaves of bread 
for a nickel. And some nights, when the 
people from down on the river came up, 
we'd make a batch of money. The roust- 
abouts from the steamboats, the Kate Ad- 
ams, the Idlewild, the Viney Swing—I've 
taken trips on all them boats, played up 
the river to St. Louis, down to New 
Orleans—white and colored, they'd all 
come to Beale. Got along fine, too, just 
like we doing now. 'Course, folks had 
they squabbles, like they will, you know 
I saw two or three get killed.” 

There were enough squabbles to make 
Memphis the murder capital of the coun- 
try. In the first decade of the century, 
556 homicides occurred, most of them 
involving Negroes. Appeals for reform 
were taken seriously only by those who 
made them. When Е. Н. Crump ran for 
mayor on a reform ticket, W. C. Handy 
recorded the Beale Streeters’ reaction: 
“We don't care what Mr. Crump don't 
allow, we goin’ barrel-house anyhow.” 

But as the righteous Crump machine 
gained power, the street slowly began to 
change. Each year, the red-light district 
grew smaller; each year, there were few- 
er gambling houses. fewer saloons, fewer 
places for musicians to play. 

Then came the Depression. Local 
newspapers carried accounts of starving 
Negroes swarming over garbage dumps, 
even eating the clay from the river 
bluffs. Many people left town, but Furry 
stayed. “Nothing else to do,” he said. 
"The Depression wasn't just in Mem- 
phis, it was all over the country. A lot of 
my friends left, didn't know what they 
was goin' to. The boy we called Ham, 
from our band, he left, and nobody ever 
knew what became of him. I did have a 
little job with the city and I stuck with 
that. I had been working with them off 
and on, when there wasn't anyplace to 
play. They didn't even have no trucks at 
that time. Just had mules to 
garbage carts. Didn't have no 
tor; used to take the garbage down to 
the end of High Street, across the rail- 
road tracks, and burn it.” 

Before Beale Street could recover from 
the Depression, World War Two brought 
hundreds of boys in uniform into Mem- 
phis; and, for their protection, Boss 
Crump closed the last of the saloons and 
whorehouses. It was the final blow. 

Furry sat staring at the end of his 
cigar. “Beale Street really went dow 
he said after a moment. “You know, old 
folks say, it's a long lane don't have no 
end and a bad wind don't never change. 
But one day, back when Hoover was Pr 
dent, I was driving my cart down Beale 
Street and 1 seen a rat, sitting on top of 
a garbage can, eating a onion, crying." 


Furry has been working for the city of 
Memphis, sanitation department, since 


1923. Shortly after two o'clock cach 
weekday morning, he gets out of bed, 
straps on his artificial leg, dresses and 
makes a fresh pot of coffee, which he 
drinks while reading the Memphis Press- 
Scimitar. The newspaper arrives in the 
afternoon, but Furry does not open it 
until morning. Versie is still aslecp and 
the paper is company for him as he sits 
in the kitchen under the harsh light of 
the ceiling bulb, drinking the hot, sweet 
coffee, He does not eat breakfast; when 
the coffee is gone, he leaves for work. 

The sky is black. The alley is quiet, 
the apartments dark. A morning-glory 
vine hanging from a guy wire stirs, like 
a heavy curtain, in the cool morning 
breeze. Cars in the cross alley are covered 
with a silver glaze of dew. A cat flashes 
between shadows. 

Linden Avenue is bright and empty in 
the blue glare of the street lamps. Down 
the street, St. Patrick's looms, a sign, 100 
YEARS WITH CHRIST, over its wide red 
doors. Furry, turning right, walks past 
the faded, greenglowing bay windows of 
an apartment house to the corner. A 
moving van rolls past. There is no other 
traffic. When the light changes, Furry 
crosses, heading down Hernando. The 
clock at Carodine's Fruit Stand and Auto 
Service reads 2:49. 

The cafés, taverns, laundries, shoe- 
repair shops and liquor stores are all 
closed. The houses, under shading trees, 
seem drawn into themselves. At the Clay- 
born Temple African Methodist Episco- 
pal Church, the stained-glass windows 
gleam, jewellike against the mass of 
blackened stone. A woman wearing a 
maid's uniform passes on the other side 
of the street. Furry says good morning 
and she says good morning, their voices 
patiently weary. Beside the Scola Brothers 
Grocery is a sycamore, its branches sil- 
houetted against the white wall. Furry 
walks slowly, hunched forward, as if sleep 
were a weight on his shoulders. Hand- 
printed posters at the Vance Avenue 
Market: CHICKEN BACKS, 12% LB; HOG 
MAWS, 15е; RUMPS, 19е. 

Behind Bertha's Beauty Nook, under a 
large, paleleafed elm, there are 12 gar- 
bage cans and two carts. Furry lifts one 
of the cans onto a cart, rolls the cart out 
into the street and, taking the wide 
broom from its slot, begins to sweep the 
gutter. A large woman with her head 
tied in a kerchief, wearing a purple 
wrapper and gold house slippers, passes 
by on the sidewalk. Furry tells her good 
morning and she nods hello. 

When he has swept back to Vance, 
Furry leaves the trash in a pile at the 
corner and pushes the cart, with its emp- 
ty can, to Beale Street. The sky is gray- 
The stiff brass figure of W. C. Handy 
stands, one foot slightly forward, the bell 
of his hom pointing down, under the 

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porth 
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april playmate 
barbara hillary 
— stakes her claim in the 
3 state 


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After arriving in Juneau for a visit with her sister, Barbara catches up on the latest activities 
of nephews Eddie and Danny: “I like seeing the boys and finding out what they're daing.” 


“I GET STALE if 1 stay too long in one 
place, says Playmate Barbara Hillary. 
"In fact, it really doesn't do me any good 
to just go from city to city; I need to 
keep changing the total character of 
my surroundings to feel challenged.” 
Milwaukee-born Barbara has followed her 
nomadic impulses far and frequently in 
her 21 years, sampling everything from 
the urban sophistication of Manhattan 
to the frontier rigors of Alaska. “I don’t 
feel the split between country and city 
the way some people do,” says Miss April. 
1 find something | like in just about 
every environment.” Part of the lure of 
New York was her job as a Bunny at our 
hutch there. “I loved it. It's great experi- 
ence for a young girl; 1 got to know all 
kinds of people—girls I worked with and 
customers I served—and 1 learned а lot 
from them.” Like many of the Club 


Dinner—an Alaska king crab of modest proportians—is provided by Barbora's brother-in-law, Gerri, who, like many Juneau residents, 
catches the crustaceans in a trap in his back yard, the Gastineau Channel. After enduring some teasing abaut her squeamishness, Miss April 
helps to prepare the feast, dipping each spidery leg in boiling water. “You use only the legs of the crabs, but that's still a big order.” 


17 


Miss April and her young nephews enjoy on 
early-morning romp in the brisk Alaskon cir. 


Above: The icy surface af Mendenhall Glocier 
tests the balonce of Barbara ond her sister, 
Sherri. Below: The girls run home for lunch. 


Bunnies, Barbara also did some free-lance modeling and acting, 
appearing in a number of television commercials and опе full- 
length A. T. & T. documentary film. After nine months, she left for 
Florida and a more leisurely life style. Our sunny Miss April found 
arm and relaxed, full of all those 
sions eulogized in the airline ads. "I love the sea. I guess I love 
it the way poets do, for its mystery. That's what I dug about Flori- 
da, the beauty of the sea, the solitude of a quiet beach.” After the 
Midwest, New York and St. Pete, our pioneer Playmate decided to 
investigate the last frontier—Alaska. “I first went up there to visit 
my sister and her husband, who live in Juneau—right on the Gasti- 
neau Channel—and I liked it so much I stayed and worked for a 
few months as a camp counselor. I've been back a couple of times 
since then. I'm like the natives, who have a difficult time explain- 
ing why they love the place to skeptical outsiders, It may be cold, 
remote and. ive, but I think it's great. It's clean and wil 
really feel like you're on the edge of civilization, where things arc 
a little dangerous. I was chased by a bear once at camp; that's really 
more excitement than 1 need, but it makes а good story." Back in 
the more prosaic confines of Milwaukee, Barbara intends to return 
to Alaska. Readers will certainly agree that she would make a boun- 
teous addition to the already abundant resources of the 49th state. 


Barbara wants ta prospect, so she and Gerri leave for an after- 
noon of panning for gold in appropriately nomed Gold Creek. 


Our intrepid Playmate arrives—with an assist from Gerri—at o river bed just below an abandoned mine and begins the panning operation. 


“It's nat as simple as it looks,” she says. “You have to be patient and extra careful when you're looking for nuggets fin: 
suspended in silt.” Her labor is rewarded when she discavers a small sample of gold ore: "It's na bonanza, but very еж 


enough to be 


Down for the night but by no means out, 
the boys moke Aunt Borboro reod to them, 
then insist she try their bunks for size. 


Right: Borboro's two chorges stove off 
bedtime os she grants them a momentory 
reprieve so they con do some stargazing. 


PHOTOGRAPHY BY POMPEO POSAR 


PLAYBOY'S PARTY JOKES 


I hope you're not planning to be alone in that 
bachelor’s apartment tonight,” the worried 
mother cautioned her daughter. 

“Don't be silly," the young thing answered. 
"He'll be there with me.” 


We know a cinema buff who's very excited by 
current trends in films—the hero still gets the 
girl in the end, but he's never sure which end 
it will be. 


The lanky Texas ranch hand was still a virgin 
at 21, so, on his first trip to the big city, he 
decided to visit a brothel and find out what 
he'd been missing. Upon securing the address 
of a rather exclusive establishment, he soon 
found himself lying in bed with an attractive 
partner. Sensing the lad was somewhat inex pe. 
rienced, the professional gently took his hand 
and placed it on the source of her income. “Is 
this what you're looking for?” she whispered 
seductively. 

“Well, I don't rightly know, ma'am,” the 
cowboy shyly murmured. "I'm a stranger to 
these parts.” 


And of course you've heard about the pessi- 
mistic historian whose latest book has chapter 
headings that read “World War One,” “World 
War Two” and “Watch This Space.” 


Our Unabashed Dictionary defines suburb 
community in which a man will lend you 
wife but not his golf clubs. 


A union official stomped over to an open lot 
where an excavator was being used. “A hun- 
dred men with shovels could be doing that 
job," he complained to the contractor. 

“I agree,” the builder retorted, “but why not 
a thousand men with teaspoons?” 


Our Unabashed Dictionary defines unicorn as a 
horse with a horn on. 


The shapely topless dancer went to Mass 
dressed in her working clothes, but was 
he 


her, 
have a divine right." 

‘And your left isn't bad, either," the man of 
the cloth responded, “but you still can't enter 
the church without covering your head 


On incir wedding night, the honeymoon cou- 
ple checked into an expensive Miami Beach 
hotel. Next morning, the groom telephoned 
room service and ordered a breakfast of bacon 
and eggs for himself and a plate of lettuce for 
his bride. “Would the lady care for anything 
else?” the puzzled clerk asked. 

“Not right now,” replied the chap. 
want to see if she eats like a rabbit, too. 


"I just 


Then there was the basketball player who was 
so tall that his girlfriend had to go up on him. 


Im perpetually exhausted,” Joe told the psy- 
chiatrist. "Every night, I dream I'm driving a 
truck from Galveston to Chicago and in the 
morning, I wake up dead tired." 

"Beginning tonight," advised the analyst, 
"you stop at Tulsa and ГИ take it on to 
Chicago." 

Later, at a bar, the relieved patient listened 
to a friend's problem. "Each night,” related his 
buddy, "| dream that I'm being forced to 
satisfy four beautiful women. It's killing me.” 

Joe recommended his psychiatrist; but the 
next time the acquaintance came around, he 
was in worse shape than ever. 

"What happened?” Joe asked him. "Didn't 
my shrink do anything about your problem?" 

"Oh, he took away the chicks, all right," 
moaned the guy, "but now every night, I 
dream I've picked up а damn truck in Tulsa 
and I have to drive it all the way to Chicago.” 


thoy Bima 


When the shrew learned that her husband had 
taken a mistress, she demanded, “Does this 
mean that you've had enough of me?” 

“No, my dear,” he coolly replied. "It means 
that I haven't had enough of you. 


A young major was apprehended, completely 
nude, while chasing a woman through the 
lobby of a large hotel. However, his lawyer 
soon had him freed on a technicality. The 
Army manual specifically states that an обсег 
need not be in uniform, provided he is proper- 
ly attired for the sport in which he is engaged. 


Heard a good one lately? Send it on а post- 
card to Party Jokes Editor, PLAYROY, Playboy 
Building, 919 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, 
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"Can't you set that damn thing down?" 


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The fountains at Place du Conoda are a 
popular rendezvous for young Montrealers. 


F MONTREAL were located in Europe 
instead of in North America, it would 
probably be as popular with Americans 

as London and Paris, for Canada's big- 

gest city is also one of the Western 
world's most beautiful and stylish me- 
tropolises. For some reason, however, 
proximity has bred relative indifference 
and neglect and, with the exception of 
the Northeastern states, America knows 
and cares little about Montreal. But 
that's changing fast, thanks to such dis- 
parate developments as Expo 67, the 

Quebec separatist movement, last fall's 

police strike and resulting mass riot, 

baseball's National League expansion 

and John and Yoko's Bed-in for peace. 
Montreal has evolved radically in the 

past decade. А mation whose favorite 

Sixties politician was John F. Kennedy, 

Canada now has its own cool head of 

state, Pierre Trudcau, who probably 

wishes that Sergeant Preston could come 
in from the cold to occasionally deal 
with Montreal's rambunctious and revo- 
lutionary new generation —unisexers, 

English and Australian modsters, U.S. 

hippies and straights dodging the draft, 

leftist college students and a huge influx 
of Canadian kids from the farms of Que- 
bec, Ontario and Manitoba. Long the 

New World's bastion of Gallic grace, 

quiet and contemplative joys, Montreal 

has become a citadel of and for youth 

If the city begins the Seventies not 
quite certain what to make of its young 
people—or of itself, for that matter—per- 
haps it's because Montreal's transforma- 
tions have occurred in so short a time. As 
recently as 1966, less tha third of 

Montreal's 2,500,000 pop 

der the age of 84; the percentage has shot 


census will undoubtedly show. Montreal 
during the (text continued on page 130) 


PHOTOGRAPHY By BARRIE FLAKELAR, 


The Bilingual 
Pleasures 
of Montreal 


canada's stylish cosmopolis 
celebrates youth, 
entertainment and 


the arts with urbane 
Joie de vivre 


le Vieux Montréal, the city's scenic ald quarter, 
is a place for lovers. Above, o poir of sighl-seers 
ends o leisurely coléche ride; left, twa Sunday 
strollers discover flower power, Montreal style. 


<. — = 


Montreal offers almost as much action in the cfternoons as il does 
evenings. Above, a yacht-bome ou naturel sun basker glides by Lo 
Ronde, а huge amusement park. The city's proud Gallic trodition 
is reflected in military drills staged at Fort St. Hélène, below. 


DON'T LEAVE UNTIL YOU 


spend os much time ax yeu con touri 
the best of Expo 67, plus added attractians—naw а permanent f 


visit Old Montreal ond its flea morket on a Sunday morning. 


browse through the city's network of underground shopping plazos. 


make the bautique, antique ond gallery scenes olong Crescent Street. 


ride Montreal's pride, the Metro; oll 26 underground stations were 
individually and imaginatively designed by master architects. 


toke her for a trip to the top of Mount Royal in о coléche. 
enjoy Lo Rande, the amusement pork next to “Моп ond His Warld.” 


watch Montreal Expo fans root for un puissant frappeur (а home run]. 


Although Montreal right life centers on discos, the city's biggest 
hotels offer a variety of entertainments; above, Le Chateau 
Chomploin's elegant Caf’ Conc revue, а mini-Vegos spectacular. 
Early Ams ore best spent in casual cofés such as Le Bistro, below. 


One of the "s most opulent restaurants is Le Costillion, the 
Hotel Bonaventure's bastion for gaurmets, below. After an eve- 
ning on the town, right, romantically inclined couples tête-ò-tête 
at Habitat, part of Montreal Expo's futuristic apartment complex. 


PLAYBOY 


120 tioncers doc 


past decade also underwent an almost 
total civic face lifting; high-rise hotels, 
luxury apartment buildings and ultra- 
modern office complexes altered its sky- 
line from stately to futuristic, while the 
world’s most ingenious network of under- 
ground shopping plazas and a spectacu- 
larly designed subway system were built 
beneath the sidewalks. The result is that 
Monucal—located on a $2-milelong, 10- 
mile-wide island in the St. Lawrence— 
has become a show place of modern urban 
ing. And because of its compactness 
covers less than half of the island), 
the city’s myriad divertissements are al 
most all within walking distance or a ten- 
minute cab ride. 

But before you begin pursuing the 
city’s pleasures, you'll nced а base of 
operations; and since Montrcal's best ho- 
tels arc constantly crowded, make certain 
your travel agent confirms a booking 
well in advance of your departure. 
‘Three of Montreal's finest hotels are 
centrally located architectural eye stop 
pers, cach unique in its own way. Le 
Chátcau Champlain, built and run by 
Canadian Pacific Railways (which merits 
its reputation for hotel excellence), is a 
35story edifice with Moorish-looking bay 
windows that lend it an external ele- 
gance more than matched once you step 
ide. The rooms (20 to a floor) come 
ped with a wealth of push-button 
ities and decor that is tastefully 
lavish. Even the baths are distinctive— 
Portuguese marble is used instead of tile. 
The Hotel Bonaventure, two blocks east 
of Le Chateau Champlain, example 
of inspired planning and execution. 
Perched atop the world's largest conven- 
tion mart, the Bonaventure is a pent- 
house hotel, with guest rooms tucked 
away on levels leading from the main 
floor. It often seems as if the Bonaven- 
ture holds no more than 50 guests—even 
though its 400 rooms nearly always play 
to capacity. The standard double rooms 
are the largest of any Montreal hotel and 
the staff (costumed Chinese bellhops, 
doormen dressed in Napoleonic outfits) is 
energetic. if a bit bizarrely attired. The 
year-round outdoor pool is something to 
remember, especially if you swim during 
the wintertime: Hot air keeps the water 
temperature up and you can enter and 
exit through a heated swimway without 
catching a chill. 

The other space-age caravansary is the 
cen Elizabeth Hotel, occupying half 
а city block in downtown Montreal 
and less like a hotel than a stationary 
luxury liner. As noted in our chart on 
page 128. the Queen E. contains 1216 
rooms and, in spite of its size, offers such 
uniformly excellent services that it could 
never be accused of impersonality. Even 
the fact that it always houses conven- 
't prove noisome. Hilton 


manages it and seems to do а beter job 
there than in most of the hotcls bearing 
the chain's own name. A few other 


choices, all of which can prove as pleas- 
ant as the three above: the Ritz Carlton 
Hotel (where Liz and Dick spent their 
wedding night), 2 gracious if a bit too 
formal Celebrityville; Le Martinique 
Motor Inn, which lacks cachet in its 
name but not ts accommodations; the 
Windsor. a charming and pleasant inn 
with splendid high-ceilinged guest rooms 
and Victorian-furnished public rooms; 
and the Sheraton—Mount Royal, a solid 
choice if you're in on business and want 
the company of other executives on the 
road. If we prefer Le Chateau Cham- 
plain and the Hotel Bonaventure, it's 
because their architecture and their sense 
of singularity are so much in character 
with Montreal's shift into high-powered 
urbanity. 

But all is hardly la vie en rose in this 
second-largest French-speaking city in the 
world. During the Sixties, while all the 
new buildings were going up, Montreal's 
sense of Frenchness was also rising—and 
causing major problems. Nearly 80 per- 
cent of the city’s residents are French; 
and in the past several years, Montreal 
has been the guiding force of La Révolu- 
Québécoise—the separatist move- 
ment that hopes to translate the province 
of Quebecs Gallic heritage into law. 
At the very least, the separatists want to 
make French both the province's official 
language and the first tongue taught to 
school children. But language and pride 
in France are only surface reasons for 
the controversy: the conflict really rests 
in the fact that the English colony con- 
trols mast of the city’s big commercial 
enterprises. The English haven't exactly 
helped the situation; Montreal’s Britons, 
less than 20 percent of the population, 
tend to be generally contemptuous of 
French Cana and rather heavily 
into the same kind of snob scene as 
England's own establishment. As a result 
of the friction, many of the impressive 
homes in thc English preserve of West- 
mount arc now up for sale; their owners 
have chosen to live in Toronto. And the 
rate of departure accelerates every time 
separatists set off another explosion. In 
the past two years, there have been more 
than 100 bomb incidents involving sepa- 
тайыз, who usually warn authorities in 
advance, so that no deaths will result. 

The French рор n makes a 
show of deploring radical sepa) 
but silently wishes them success. 
a former police inspector (who did 
want to be named, because of his ром 
tion in the city bureaucracy), "Most of 
the separatists are college students who, 
if they're not crazy kids, are Communist 
troublemakers from east European social- 


ans 


ist countries—going to school here by 
government invitation. If there are more 
than 400 people committed to the sepa 
ratist cause, I'd be surprised.” Yet, like 
most Montrealers, the speaker himsclf is 
а moderate Anglophobe not unduly up- 
set when English economic interests ta 
a tumble. 

Planting bombs, however, can hardly 
be considered the style of Montreal's 
youth. IE the city's collegiate population 
were polled for its top hero, Ché Guevara 
would undoubtedly come in a distant 
second to John Lennon. At the end of 
last spring, Lennon and his wife, Yoko 
Ono, staged а weeklong Bedin for 
peace. Ensconced in a posh $100a-day 
suite at the Queen Elizabeth, Lennon 
granted hundreds of interviews duri 
his stay. While there, he also wrote 
what is coming to be known as the 
pacifist anthem, Give Peace a Chance, 
which he recorded his room with the 
“Plastic Ono Band himself and Tom 
Smothers on guitar, Yoko walloping a 
clothes closct door and a Canadian rabbi 
as part of the chorus. By the end of No- 
vember, Give Peace а Chance had sold 
close to 1,000,000 copies in the 0.5. 
alone, which was precisely what Lennon 
was aiming for. Said the Beatle, "I hope 
to make peace into a product that will be 
big business for everybody. If war can be 
sold, so can peace.” Such gentle revolu- 
tionary rhetoric is extremely appeali 
to the majority of Montreal's young gei 
eration, whose single most emph: 
manifestation of independence seems to 
be the clothes it wears. 

Strolling down Sherbrooke Street or 
St. Catherine Street, the 
commercial arteries, the vi 
becomes aware of what seems to be an 
endless parade of bright, tightfitting 
blouses and tighter-fitting slacks. Avant- 
garde casualwear is the rule, and that 
still-radical clothing trend—unisex—has 
found a home away from home in Mont- 
real. In the U.S., unisex is generally 
considered to be sexless or swishy; but in 
Montreal, it simply describes styles that 
can be worn by either sex, allowing each 
to be as masculine or as feminine as 
desired. Thus, a leading unisex garment 
—such as the stretch-cloth, one-piece jump 
suit—looks as good on a man as it 
does on a woman and quite different, as 
you might expect, on either. But be ad- 
vised that Montreal's men tend to have 
European dimensions; recently, at Le 
Chateau, a vell recommended boutique 
on St. Catherine Street, a 6 2" American 
ripped up two extra-large jump suits just 
trying to get fitted; the average Montreal 
man is 5 77. Our chart lists several pre 
ferred men’s establishments for those of 
average si 

Shopping is a passionate pastime of 

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“Мо need to be embarrassed; bein 
body doesn’t bot 


g a doctor, your warm, lush, full 
her me a bit." 


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Montrealers. In addition to the specialty 
and department stores on St. Catherine 
and Sherbrooke, smaller thoroughfares— 
particularly Crescent and Mountain 
sucets in midtown—are dotted with 
expensive designer boutiques, good an- 
tique shops and art galleries whose 
exhibitions run from Eskimo art to post- 
pop hyperrealism. One kick you can't 
possibly enjoy anywhere else—simply be- 
cause no other city has it—is browsing 
through Montreal's connecting network 
of underground shopping plazas. In fact, 
its possible to stay in many of the city's 
top central hotels, visit more than 300 
shops, see films in a dozen theaters, dine 
in any of more than 50 restaurants—and 
never once step outside. Ihe most соп. 
venient, central underground plazas to 
visit are the Place Ville Marie (below 
the Queen Elizabeth Hotel), the Place 
Bonaventure (below the Hotel Bonaven- 
ture) and the Place du Canada (below 
hateau Champlain). These three 
ected by walkways; other under- 
ground shopping arcades are reached by 
Metro, Montreal's 1514-mile-long super- 
subway. All 26 stations were designed by 
different teams of architects, and when 
the rubber-wheeled, noiseless trains whisk 
you to cach immaculately maintained 
stop, you'll probably credit Montrealers 
with being clever enough to make even a 
subway ride a delight to the eye—and no 
strain on the ear. 

You'll hardly have to dream up an 
excuse to ride the Metro, for it's the 
fastest way to get out to "Man and His 
World," Montreal's spectacular summer 
attraction that rcopens this year on June 
12. Mayor Jean Drapeau, in office since 
1960, sold Canada on the idea of Expo 
67 and, after the successful. exposition 
officially came to an end, he threatened 
to resign if it weren't continued as an 
annual event. Since Drapeau is credited 
with finding the financing for the Metro, 
as well as with being the key man in 
geuing the National League to grant its 
first foreign franchise; Montrealers sup- 
ported his plan for an annual expo 
tion. So far, his magic touch is still 
intact; "Man and His World" has been, 
by all accounts, a striking success. Trying 
to capsulate the best of the exposition's 
more than 70 pavilions would be pre- 
sumptuous, but a few recommendations, 
vertheless: the U. S. pavilion—to see 
America the Beautiful, a  360-degree 
nema odyssey across the nation; Sports, 
in features films of athletes such as 
former Montreal Canadian hockey star 
Maurice Richard and former heavy- 
weight champion Muhammad Ali, and of 
t sporting events (eg, the Indianap- 
olis 500. the World Cup soccer match, 
the Stanley Cup pro-hockey play-off); 
and Strange, Strange World, which cov- 
ers such mysterious phenomena as un- 


identified flying objects—and which so 
thoroughly shakes up visitors that it 
has become perhaps the most popular 


pavilion. 
Adjoining “Man and His World” is 
La Ronde, a kind of urbane Disneyland 


spread over 135 acres. Of the many rides, 
the most exciting are the Gyrotron, a 
$3,000,000 simulation of a jaunt through 
outer space, and the Flume, а 1400-foot 
mock-up of a waterfall in which boats 
shaped like logs are sped down enough 
50-foot drops to keep you out of breath. 
La Ronde also includes a 1500-seat disco- 
thèque, an aquarium and а Canadian 
wild West show. 

1f the government seems to have in- 
vested heavily in projects that have the 
look of tomorrow, it hasn't ignored the 
city's yesterdays. Over the past seven 
years more than 36,000,000 has been 
spent restoring the old quarter, Le Vieux 
Montréal. Although there are no struc- 
tures left that go back to the years imme- 
diately postdating 1642, when 24 French 
settlers founded Montreal, dozens of 
18th and 19th Century buildings have 
been restored. The result is that Le 
Vieux Montréal, a section of narrow, 
meandering streets, has the look and feel 
of old Europe. There are a number of 
local landmarks for rubbernecking, shops 
stocked with tourist art and entirely too 
many people with cameras. When it's not 
crowded, Le Vieux Montréal can be fas- 
cinating, so sec it on a Sunday morning; 
even though the historic buildings will 
be closed, Old Montreal is to stroll 
through and there's a nifty little Sunday- 
A.M. flea market ou the Rue St. Paul. 

If Montreal provides nonstop diver- 
sions during the day, the evening action 
is even better. To begin with, this is 
the finest citics in North America 
"s difficult, indeed, to 
any of the top 100 of 


find a bad meal 
the city’s 5000 restaurants, Generally, 
you'll discover that lunches are just a bit 
on the expensive side and dinners fre- 
quently inexpensive, since most of the 
restaurants—including many of the bet- 


ter-known—apparently stick to one 
menu and don't vary their prices. There 
are as many subtleties in mood and food 
as can be conjured up. and the level of 
service is uniformly superior. Restaurants 
are most crowded from 7:30 to 9:30, 
and reservations are necessary for the 
city's better eating establishments. If you 
want classic French food, prepared impec- 
cably and served royally amid surround- 
ings that are elegant yet restrained, Chez 
Bardet is the place to get it. André Bar- 
det, whose six culinary awards are listed 
on the menu, has made his restau- 
rant an imperative for gourmets. A re- 
cent dinner for two, consisting of two 
cocktails each, Escargots à la Chablisi 
enne (snails simmered in white w 


Tournedos Rossini (small filets mignons 
topped with рае de foie gras), Steak à 
la Clermont (served in а demand wine 
sauce), a bottle of medium-priced wine, 
desserts and coffee for two cost just under 
$50 with tip. 

If you want to do it up without the 
formality of Chez Bardet, Le Castillion, 
an intimately lit, wood-paneled room in 
the Hotel Bonaventure, can be romanti- 
cally rewarding. Strolling lady violi 
provide soft music, and there's a wide 
choice of international dishes—from shish 
kabob to fondue Bourguignonne and Aus- 
tralian carpetbagger steak (stuffed with 
oysters). The Café Martin, one of the 
city’s most respected restaurants, boasts 
a huge selection of fine French food 
and a knowledgeable dientele that ap- 
preciates try the Minced Chicken 21 
(served in a white sauce over wild rice 
and topped with cheese). The Chateau 
Madrid dishes up seven different ver 
sions of paella and a flamenco show in 
its oftenovercowded quarters. Zum 
Schnauver offers Alsatian specialties and 
decor to match; Osteria dei Panzoni, 
informal and Italian, has delicious can- 
nelloni; the Bluenose Inn prepares such 
memorable gifts from the sea as doré, 
crab and scallops; and, for formal dining 
in Old Montreal, visit Le St. Amable 
and sample its Chateaubriand with truf- 
fles, topped with páté de foie gras and a 
delicious Bordeaux wine sauce. If you're 
"Man and His World," you might 
t to stop in at Hélénede-Champlain; 
it's formal and French, and the highest 
priced entrees on the menu—such as 
frogs’ legs and filet mignon—cost only 
$4.50. For a treat, visit either of the two 
versions of A La Crépe Bretonne, famous 
for huge paperthin crepes and your 
choice of nearly 80 fillings. There are 
dozens of other worthy Montreal restau- 
rants that could be recommended here as 
well, so don't merely stick to our list— 
go ош and start your own. 

After dinner, the city's night clubs and 
discothèques begin to fill up. Montreal 
has an inordinate number of spectac- 
ularly designed dance spots, and since 
unescorted young ladies are often in at 
tendance, the discos should be your des- 
tination if you're flying solo at the outset 
of the evening. The highestrated are Le 
Cercle, with a comparatively large dance 
floor bordered by a wall of pulsating 
lights; Le Vieux Rafiot (called Alfie's by 
the English clientele), very amiable and 
usually packed solid; the Whisky A Go 
Go, too filled with plastic for our taste, 
but host to a sybaritic clientele; La Li 
corne, the first disco in Montreal; and 
Plexi, whose dance floor is lit from 
underneath. Chez Zou Zou is our prefer- 
ence as an intimate spot for a nightcap: 
you won't be able to find room for 

(concluded on page 192) 


at 


article By BARRY ROSENBERG the boozer, weenie beanie, old aches 


and pains, the viking, tuscaloosa squirvelly, the stunt man, corn-bread red, 
daddy warbucks and peter rabbit—how do they take you? let us count the ways 


HARD-DRINKING, HIGH-LIVING Eddie (the 
Knoxville Bear) Taylor, a man not 
above challenging a destitute widow to a 
game of nine ball for her last loaf of 
bread, ran into pure and pious Irving 
Crane а while ago in Washington, D. С. 
Crane, rested and looking his usual well. 
groomed best, had just won the world 
championship in pocket billiards and 
was in the capital to present a series of 
exhibitions to local Servicemen. 

“Hey, Irving,” greeted Taylor, “what 
say you "п" me drive up to Baltimore and 
skin a few of them suckers of some 
unwanted cash?” 


“Oh, no, Eddie.” Crane was nearly 
undone at the thought. "You know I 
never shoot pool for money outside tour 
nament play.” 

“I plumb forgot, you're not the gam- 
bling type. Still, how ‘bout coming along 
for the ride? 

“OK, Eddie.” 

So up to Baltimore they went and 
found the hangout known to be fre- 
quented by Baltimore's finest stick men. 
Scanning the large room, Taylor's eyes 
settled upon a rather elderly gentleman, 
who was shooting especially well. Taylor 
waited until the man finished beating 


ILLUSTRATION BY HERB ROGOFF 


a younger opponent, then. approached. 

“Say, old-timer, how bout a round of 
nine ball for half a yard?” 

“Sure thing," said the man, having 
judged Taylor a soft touch. They played 
and, miraculously, the elderly gentleman 
took the Bear. 

“You sure are good, old-timer,” said 
Taylor, shaking his head sadly. Then he 
flashed a big smile. "But another fifty 
says you ain't as good as my cousin 
here." The old man glanced past Eddie 
‘Taylor and studied the face of the bil- 
liards champion of the world. “Ill take 
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SYNOPSIS: The kingdom of Chanda, once a peaceful never-never country of elephants, parasols, temples, handsome 
brown people and the mysterious spirits called phi, has changed, Since the war began in Vietnam, there hauc been 
many newcomers doing many strange things in Chanda. There ате, for instance, the official Americans, all with 
something different on their minds. Colonel Kelly, the military advisor to the king, has decided to raise American 
prestige in the land by acquiring an elephant—which will “show the slopeheads we understand their country.” He 
has sent for Marine Master Sergeant Danny Campo to do the job, and Campo has latched onto Harry Mennan, a 
cowboy spotter pilot, to help out. There is also Coakley, an Ivy League whip who is the missions State Department 
clerk and who fears the imminent arrival of an inspection team under General Grider. Coakley, it should be noted, 
has kept no files whatsoever. En route with the general are foreign-service officer Walter Glover and Margaret, his 
assistant both in the office and in bed. Unofficial American types include Charley Dog, who drifted in after a couple 
of busts in the States. And then there is Dawn, a voiceless beauty of much-mixed ancestry who got there by way of a 
Special Services entertainment troupe. A number of people represent other nations in Chanda as well: Tay Vinh, a 
cultural attaché from North Vietnam, who knows a lot more about artillery than about poetry; Alexander Nadolsky, 
the Soviet ambassador; Marya Pleisetskya, a diligent Soviet military attaché-watcher; and Andreas the Greek, who 
combines hotelkeeping with a one-man spy service. There is also Buon Kong, the wise and venerable Chandan 
philosopher. 

In Chanda, even the most carefully plotted enterprises have a habit of aborting somewhere along the linc. 
Andreas and Nadolsky, for example, sneak up on Dawn in her hotel room with evil intent; but while they engage in 
а furniture-smashing brawl with Mennan, Charley Dog skips with Dawn and winds up trying to absorb some of 
Buon Kong's maddeningly obtuse philosophy. General Grider, arriving from Washington on a presumably hush- 
hush inspection tour, is met at the airport by the king, the royal band and a crowd of spectators. But snafus not- 
withstanding, some kind of a power struggle for Chanda is brewing. As Charley Dog says, “This town is getting so 
fortified it looks like they're going to hold the next Democratic Convention here.” 


Concluding a new novel 


By ASA BABER 


with kong les men toting 
around live ammo in their 
cartridge belts and the people 
leaving the city, the smell of 
revolution was in the air 


"i THINK airplanes make me horny," said Margaret. “You suppose so? The vibration, maybe. Or the cabin pressure. ГИ 
bet that’s it, huh, Walter?” 

They were lying under mosquito netting in the musty hotel room. It was late in the evening and Walter Glover 
assumed that everyone had been channeled to the proper room by Andreas. 

The preliminary meetings had been held. It was time for sleep now. The general was а stickler for programed rest 
periods after long flights. This was fine with Walter; it gave him more time for humping. 

“This is a nice little country, you know, Walter? It's kind of cute. We should get out and look around.” 

“OK. We'll take a picnic.” 

“Hey, yeah. With a wicker basket and lots of coconuts and things.” 

“Sure. We'll just tell the general that war is hell and we have to take a break after our brea 

Margaret sulked at his sarcasm and pulled the cotton coverlet over her breasts. Walter pulled it down ag: 


kissed them. 


and 


They drank a banana liqueur, the two diplomatic staffers in white-cotton karate uniforms that symbolized high 
tropical camp to their tired minds. 

“You look like a ghost in that light,” said Sumner Clark. He turned down the lantern until it glowed orange. 

“I feel like a ghost.” 

“What did you learn in school today?" 

“They're bringing in some kind of task force,” said Coakley. 

“I know that. They want us to put in a detachment or two with you. Hands across the sea and all that. The ques- 


tion is, When and where will the task force be sent?" 
“Yes, well, I talked to Glover about that. Not that we're supposed to know anything or discuss it with you, for 
God's sake. He's not such a bad man, that Walter. I used to think he was a puritan. 
“But, for a Statesider, he understands a lot?” 
“Exactly.” 
134 They sat on the rickety hotel balcony and watched the river far down the slope. The bats crossed through 


POLYCHROME WOOD SCULPTURE BY BILL BRYAN 


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136 


the moonlight like bullets. 

"When and where" 
muscd after a long silence. 

“It scems to me,” said Coakley firta- 
tiously, "that I spend a great deal of 
time writing your reports." 

Sumner Clark feigned injury. “You are 
speaking to the man who saved your 
starred little ass from the embarrassment 
of empty filing cabinets” 

“So I am. And so I tell you that when 
is almost immediately and where is still 
to be determined.” 

They pondered this in the dark. 

“They'd better not decide to sit 
around the airport, if they come in here. 
‘They'll have to move around.” 

“Glover and 1 are arguing for the 
river; just come up to the other side of 
the river, so they're not in Chanda prop- 
er. But Grider keeps pulling out these 
airrecon maps that Гуе never seen be- 
fore and he keeps screaming, "Build- 
E 
Sumner Clark yawned. "Almost bed- 
time. Sleep on a powder keg. Don't 
sneeze, don't cough, don’t wake the ani- 
mals.” He stood and stretched and rubbed 
the back of Coakleys neck. “If those big 
meanies come in here and tear up my 
sandbox, I'm leaving, I'll tell you that.” 

“Leaving for where?” 

“L don't know exactly. But I mean it. 
I've been changed here and I like it and 
1 won't play war games with them.” 

“That would be the end of your ca- 
reer,” said Coakley. “Think carefully 
about that.” 

"End a carcer—begin а life. "That's 
what I say.” 

Each laughed a quiet laugh. They 
went inside, The bats crossed through 
the moonlight like bullets. 

"The basement floor of the Constellation 
Hotel was covered with rat droppings and 
broken glass and sand, Andreas put the 
vodka bottle down and hovered over the 
switchboard. Actually, he was trying to 
look down Marya Pleisetskya's cleavage. 
In the heat, she had taken off all but her 
bra and skirt. She hardly noticed Andreas. 
He poured her a drink. No reaction. He 
waved it under her nose. She ripped the 
earphones off her head and scolded him. 

“Andreas, how am I to listen, if you 
are always interrupting me?” 

“Please drink this, Marya. It is late 
and you have two more hours before 
Nadolsky takes over.” 

She sipped from the cold tumbler 
while she held one earphone to her 
head. "Are you sure this was wired prop- 
erly, Andreas? I am picking up very 
little conversation.” 

He checked the switches and flipped a 
few. She shook her head. " Nothing." 

“That should be the general's room.” 

“He snores.” 

“Perhaps he will talk in his sleep.” 


Sumner-Clark 


“I do not think this is very efficient,” 
she said. 

“I am sorry, Marya Pleisetskya, but 
how could I. a poor Creek 

“Shhh! I think I hear something.” 
He had flipped another switch and she 
listened very intently. “Who is in this 
room, please?” 

Andreas checked the board. “Walter 
Glover." 

"No one else?" 

“Мо, not listed." 

She held her pencil poised over her 
note pad. She pushed the earphones 
tight against her ears. Andreas smiled 
and waited to watch her copy. Nothing. 
He tapped her on the shoulder. 

“Shhh!” she said. “Со away!” 

“What secrets are you learning, Marya?” 

She not move except to cross her 
legs. “Shhh!” Her face grew red. Then 
she remembered that she was supposed 
to be transcribing and she made a few 
ineffectual marks on the paper. She 
squirmed. Andreas made as if he would 
flip the switch and she slapped his hand. 
Hce laughed. 

"I, too, would like to hear these affairs 
of state, Marya.” 

Embarrassed, she handed him the car- 
phones. He listened for a time, then 
shared them with her, each holding one 
carpicee. Andreas pulled her gently away 
from the switchboard. 

“What are you doing, Andreas?” 

“I think we should also make some 
policy," he laughed. 

Marya smoothed her hair in a prim 
gesture and flushed red again. “This is a 
listening post. I cannot leave it.” 

Andreas laughed again, as he led her 
toward the door. “If the floor was suit- 
able, I would not ask you to leave it, dear 
Marya. We could lie here and listen. 

“Andreas!” she scolded again. 

“But since the floor here is worse than 
the beach at Paleokastritsa, I must take 
you to my room. Come along, Marya.” 

She did not resist. But she tied to 
admonish him, even as they reached his 
bed. “You must hurry, Andreas, for my 
watch is over in two hours.” 

He groaned as he entered her. “You 
set the limit,” he said, “let me set the 
pace." 


For some reason, he was not sure why, 
General Grider found himself awake at 
two in the morning. He wished his day 
could begin then. There was so much to 
do. 

The previous day had been a success. 
Grider had taken it upon himself to 
stage a training problem for his own staff 
and some of the Chanda army officers. It 
was a short course in special tactics: how 
to hold and defend Royal City. No one 
seemed to have thought properly about 
that before. Colonel Kelly had grand 
plans and Kong Le, the litde captain, 


had no plans, Grider had been amazed 
but had tried to hide it. After all, that's 
what he was there for: to pick up the 
chunks of incompetence that were falling 
all about him. 

So, working from maps of all scales 
and compass and riding through town in 
a convoy of quarter-tons that raced from 
int to strategic point, the group had 
written up a scenario of a possible attack 
against the city. 

‘One thing bothered Grider more than 
any other. Colonel Kelly had been bitch- 
ing about the lethargy of the Chanda 
officers. But on this Particular day that 
Grider had been able to work with them, 
they seemed alert and observant. Kong 
Le had taken notes all day and when the 
time had come for a summation of what 
they had learned, it was Kong Le who 
understood the strategies they had just 
created. 

Under the flame trees in the mission 
yard, his tiger suit rumpled from a long 
day, the Chanda captain had added a 
suggestion of his own that was good 
enough for Grider to want to use as his 
own in the report he was writing: “You 
say all time, General, we got to have 
airficld and radio station. We got to hold. 
waterworks and. power station. We got to 
control post office and telegraph and 
maybe government buildings. That way, 
city is took over. I say OK, General. 
Numberone plan. Also maybe one more 
thing.” Kong Le held up a small transis- 
tor radio for all to see. "We got many 
radios now in Chanda. Radios up yin 
yang. OK, we listen good. First thing you 
got to hold is radio station. Each soldier 
wears radio around neck like this" he 
looped a necklace string around his neck 
and tied the radio to it—"tune in, get 
orders. Very easy. You like?" The captain 
smiled nervously and scratched himself. 

Grider smiled back and commended 
Kong Le. 

Yes, Grider thought in the middle of 
his insomnia, given a little leadership in 
American know-how, these people could 
think for themselves. Grider sighed against. 
his pillow: I can't be exerywhere at once 
in this world, but Jesus, I'm a smart son 
of a bitch sometimes; imagine how much 
I've done in a day. 

"The three of them had taken nervous- 
ly at first to their bicycles, but the road 
leading north out of Royal City was flat 
and moderately paved for the first mile. 
After that, as the foliage thickened and 
the arching trees came together over the 
road to form speckled shade, each had 
recovered the childish pleasure of balanc- 
ing and pedaling. 

Both Glover and Edelman carried por- 
tions of the lunch Margaret had packed 
for them. Edelman wore a rucksack on his 
back. Glover had appropriated saddlebags. 

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"I'ue got a stockholders’ meeting in twenty minutes, the board of 
directors is on my back, and all I can think of is your boobs!” 


137 


^^"^" THE GIRLS OF ISRAEL 


a profusion of cultures exotically commingle in the superbly 
feminine beauties who grace this land of milk and honeys 


PHOTOGRAPHY BY MARVIN E. NEWMAN 
SHE STANDS BELOW YOU, at the foot of the steps that have been wheeled up to the door of the jet. She's wearing a 
rather dowdy ground-hostess uniform and a modified overseas-style cap set almost squarely on her head and looks 
much as you might expeci—buxom, dark-haired, dark-eyed and slightly stocky. But, contrary to the Broadway- 
Hollywood-musical-comedy version of Israeli life in which beautiful girls dance in a circle and sing “Shalom, sha- 
lom" to all visitors, this girl—the first Israeli you have encountered—says only, "Please stand here until all the 
passengers are off the plane,” and then marches you across the concrete ramp to the (text continued on page 150) 


Ex-Californion Connie Turner socks up the sunshine atop one of Judea's hills; she spent а summer working in a kibbutz ond elected to stoy- 


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m 


Despite its diminutive size, Israel boasts a dizzying variety af landscapes and cityscapes that span the centuries and reflect life styles drawn 
from a wide assortment of cultures. The serenity of ageless Mount Carmel, savored by a pensive Lea Vardi (left), cantrasts strikingly with the 
mechanized aura of Tel Aviv, which frames Ilana Yonah (above lefi). Lea, а sabra, is а ballet dancer and a former beauty queen wha has 
represented her country in internatianal competition; Nana's father come from Yemen and her mother from Addis Ababa, but she's a native 
of T.A., where she work: as a hairdresser. Hana Friedman (above center) is a high school student with a zest for athletics—she’s а tap-noich 
sprinter. Esther Zewko (above right) was born in Poland and grew up in Australia; she journeyed to Israel to serve as a volunteer during 
the 1967 war with the Arab cauntries and stayed. Esther’s an actress with four years’ television experience; she was previously active in 
Melbourne's Yiddish theater. Below: The Mount of Olives, of New Testament fame, provides an exotic setting for Oma Shmuelowitz, а 


political-science student at Jerusalem University, whose ambition is to became a member of the Israeli parliament; her hobby is gliding. 


Shifra Vander (above), Dassy Shachar (below) and Leo Wolf- 
son (right) exemplify the occupational versatility of Isroel's 
young women. Shifra has a degree in political science but 
works for an ad agency; in her spore time, she writes poetry. 
Dossy, pictured on а weather-beaten wall in Old Jaffa, is a 


much-troveled dancer who appeared in an Israeli production 
of My Fair Lady. Lea, whose father is a banker and whose 
awn interests run taward politics, works as an assistant to a 
sculptor; she unwind: by horseback riding or playing tennis. 


Raven-tressed Aviva Paz (above) displays the grace she 
acquired сз a student of ballet in America, where she danced 
for two years under the masterful guidance of George Balan- 
chine; Aviva currently acts with the resident theater company 
of Tel Aviv ond recently starred in a television film. Below: 
Sun-burnished Sandra Viva, who enlivens the stark contours 
of the Negev desert, migrated to Israel from her native Ro- 
mania; now a resident of Tel Aviv, Sandra is a professional 


model who gets on the other side of the camera just for fun. 


Left: Galilee’s ancient seashore at Tiberias, 
steeped in religious and historical signifi- 
cance, gets a bright new face, courtesy of 
Bella Raviv, who handles the secretarial 
chares of on Israeli film company; Bello's a 
dedicated swimmer ond a wauld-be world 
traveler. Below: Swimming is also a favored 
pastime of flame-haired octress-artist Tirza 
Arbel, in the surf at Sidni Ali, near Herzliya. 


Above, from left: Sassona Magen, o native of Haifa, earns her living as an architectural draftswoman and her hobbies—knitting, embroidery 
ond graphics—reflect her artistic orientation. Zahava Blau—pictured at Caesarea, which incorporates a Roman amphitheater and a fortress 
built by Crusaders in the 13th Century—is а native of Cyprus, a former policewoman in Tel Aviv ond currently a university student, majoring 
in philosophy and literature; perhaps because she’s led such an active life, Zahava feels thot there's nathing graovier than "a lazy day 
spent with a book.” Aliza Kratashinsky, framed by a concrete Picasso and a steel Vasarely in Jerusalem's Billy Rose Sculpture Garden, was 
also born in Cyprus and is presently a student, majoring in political science; in addition, Aliza serves in the army, helping out in settlement 
programs. Below: Irit Avni, о sabra, is also a political-science student. Irit has been earning her way os а ground hostess for El Al Airlines; 
formerly a member of an army theater group, she would like to work in films someday—though not necessarily as an actress. An accom- 
plished athlete, like so mony Israeli girls, Irit rides horses—as do Zahava and Aliza—and finds time to go swimming just about every day. 


Above: Athletics are where it's at for blonde beauty Irit Lavi, who claims to be the tallest gid in all her classes and admits to hey grown 
up as c tomboy; still in high school in Haifa, whose favorite sporis are swimming and water-skiing—expects to become a physical- 
education teacher. Below, from left: The sands of Palmahim, ten miles south of Tel Aviv, pravide a subtle backdrop for Ronit Ramot, o model 
who paints in her off-hours and who speaks for the majority of Israeli girls when she lists peace” as her most ardent desire. Casually dressed 
Ronit Rosenstein, a lawyer’s doughter wha attends high school in her native Tel Aviv, hopes to became а psychologist; befreckled Во! 

to paint, read, play tennis and take part in theatrical productions at school. Breezily attired Yoel Magor, inviting passengers aboard а 
British Herald at Tel Aviv Sde-Dov airport, works as a stewardess far а domestic airline, even though her education included faur years at 
an agricultural school. Born in Poland 22 years ago, Yael grew up in an Israeli kibbutz; formerly an army lieutenant, she was stationed 
near the embattled Suez Canal. An animal lover, Yael gets a kick aut of grooming friends’ pooches; she also enjoys working with silver. 


What these three sabras have in common is the fact that all 
‘are professional models. Multilingual Leora Lapidot (lef), 
whose harem dress sparkles against the clay hills of Sodom, 
specializes in high fashion: she has starred in one feature film 
and is looking ahead to a successful cinema career. Jeru- 
salem’s Aviva Rosenthal (abave) frequents an artists’ calony 
outside Haifa. Tami Alani—who has made three films, two of 
them abroad—is an art school graduate and still points when- 


ever she has the chance; she alsa callects stamps and coins. 


Above, from left: Varda Carmeli serves the Tel Aviv police deportment os a secretary; in the evenings, she studies industrial design, a pursuit 
that she complements by painting in her free time. Ziona Tuchterman, who has made three feature films, likes to swim and ride horseback 
but candidly names “men” cs her number-one hobby. Yael Yardeni, a likeral-orts student who enjoys folk dancing and gymnastics, hopes 
for a career as а journalist. Marie Dunham (below) and Anne Tuchmeyer (opposite) are both actresses. Marie, born in France and raised in 
а globe-spanning set of lacales, inherited her love of show business; her mother is a dancer and her father is а set designer. After learning 
her trade on the legitimate stage in Paris, Marie—whose skills as a Thespian are balanced by her own dancing ability—came to Israel to 
participate in the country's still-growing television industry. Anne, who was born in Leningrad and ance packed parachutes for the Israeli 
army, has made а half-dozen films; one of them, a short subject simply titled Anne, was shown at the Berlin Film Festival. Icanoclastically in- 


sistent on her right ta pose in the nude, Anne is а typical Israeli girl in her recreational preferences: riding, swimming and water-skiing. 


PLAYBOY 


doors of the terminal building. 

Don't be discouraged by your first 
contact with а sabra, as a native-born 
is called. Instead, bear in mind 
means a prickly pear, 
an indigenous fruit that is thorny on the 
outside but sweet and succulent inside. 
‘Though it often takes a few slightly 
painful attempts before one learns how 
to peel a sabra, it's worth the effort, for 
the rewards are great. indeed. The Israeli 
girl, you will discover, is both complex 
and simple, combining sophistication with 
naiveté, subtle Middle Eastern femininity 
with open strength and an intense interest 
in the world with a fierce pride in being 
Israeli. She has a passionate desire for 
equality with males yet is touchingly 
thankful if she's treated as a tender fe- 
male. At times, she has a straightforward, 
willing approach to sex; on other осса- 
ions, she seems puritanical. In other 
words, an Israeli girl is thoroughly un- 
predictable. You think you have her fixed 
in your mind as you first see her, brisk 
and businesslike in a uniform, until sud- 
denly she appears before you in the short- 
est miniskirt you've ever seen. Soon you 
scc her again, lying on a beach under the 
hot Mediterranean sun in a brief bikini. 

"I hus, from the moment you step onto 
Israeli soil, be prepared for surprises 
After you've been escorted ro the terminal 
by a hostes who fits your stereotyped 
notion of a Jewish girl. you'll get your 
first pleasant shock. Once inside, she'll 
wave you into a little booth for passport 
inspection by an immigration officer. 
who turns out to be а slender, blue-eyed 
blonde, A Jewish girl who is a natural 
blonde, looking as if she lives in Copen- 
hagen? Yes, its true. Then another girl 
in uniform—this one a tall redhead—di- 
recs you to the baggage arca, where a 
customs inspector chalks OK on your bag 
alter only a perfunctory question or two. 

Outside the airport, a babel of voices 
rises and falls there, as everywhere in 
Israel, you will hear people shouting 
excitedly at one another in Hebrew, Ger- 
man, English, French, Spanish and Ara- 
bic. It is no everyday event for Israelis to 
travel abroad, so the scenes of departure 
and arrival are always tumultuous and 
emotional. You may also have arrived at 
the same time a famed Hasidic rabbi is 
being welcomed home by his followers, 
who joyously dance in a circle around 
him, the men wearing long beards, black 
suits and huge fur hats, singing their 
happiness at his safe return, the women 
discrectly standing a little distance away. 

As you sit in the taxi or bus taking 
you to Tel Aviv, you will see anothér 
young Israeli girl in а dark-blue uniform 
when you stop at a barrier across the 
highway. She is one of a small police 
team checking vehicles for possible Arab 
saboteurs. And when you approach the 
outskirts of Tel Aviv, the roadside will 
be crowded with more reminders that 


150 Israel is in a state of war: soldiers, sailors 


and air-force personnel, half of them fe- 
male, waiting at bus stops ox hitchhiking, 

Under any circumstances, one would 
marvel at the women who make Israel 
such an unexpected delight for the visi- 
tor. But when you realize that they are 
the product of a nation that has existed 
for less than a quarter of a century and 
was built by people who came to the 
Middle East from such diverse cultures 
as the staid pre-Hitler lile of the assimi 
lated German Jews and the quasi-Arabic 
bazaar life of the Moroccan Jews, they 
seem even more remarkable. The Israeli 
girl today, from the tiny Yemenite with 
her dark-coffee, slightly reddish complex- 
ion to the tall, peachesand-cream blonde, 
is a totally new kind of woman, one still 
in the process of being created, almost 
without any ties to her past. By tangible 
necessity as well as by temperament, she 
lives almost entirely in the present. 

For the outsider, an essential key to 
understanding her is knowing that every 
girl—like every boy—in Israel is con 
scripted into military service beginning 
at the age of 18. The only exceptions to 
this rule are conscientious objectors and 
girls from strict Orthodox Jewish families, 
whom no outsider is likely to meet, any- 
way. The Israeli girl doesn't view her 
military service as an onerous burden. On 
the contrary, she looks forward to it, not 
only because she’s totally committed to 
the survival of her country but also be- 
cause she knows that in the service she 
will meet Israeli boys and girls with 
whom she has never had contact before. 
Despite the smallness of the country, the 
military service is Israel's great leveler, 
its version of the melting pot, thc one 
common experience of all young 1 s 

Thus, it doesn't matter how an Israeli 
girl grew up—in a sheltered middleclass 
family in Nahariya, where so many of Is 
rael's German Jewish refugees are settled: 
in the much more open life of a kibbutz, 
where she alternated schoolwork with 
work in the fields; or in the semislum 
atmosphere of a mabarot, a temporary 
housing settlement in which the immi- 
grants from Arab countries so often 
lived. It doesn't matter, because all of the 
15 come together in their military serv- 
ice; for 20 months, they are away from 
home except for an occasional weckend 
They also come together with the 
young men of Israel, all of whom must 
serve two and a half years. Within the 
military, the girls are considered almost 
the equals of their male contemporaries, 
doing many of the same jobs, working 
side by side with them and living in 
close physical proximity to them. The 
girls sleep in separate barracks, but after 
the day's duties are over, they are free to 
exchange their uniforms for mini-dresses 
and to dance in a communal lounge. 
And if a girl wants to get on the back 
of a friend's motor scooter and go for 
a late-night swim or picnic, no superior 
officer will tell her she's forbidden to do 


so. The swim and picnic may even last 
past midnight, when the gates to the 
barracks are locked; but any girl in m 
tary service learns such useful skills as 
scaling a fence, made easier by a friendly 
male boosting from the rear. 

Such daily contact with young men 
puts the Israeli girl in the position of 
learning other important matters as well, 
not the least being the use of the pill. 
which is easily available in Israel. Even 
so, an Israeli girl often has contradictory 
attitudes toward sex. One visitor to Isra- 
el recalls taking a girl to her apartment 
after a party and, since it was late, 
asking if he could stay all night on the 
sofa. She agreed, on the condition that 
he stay on the sofa. The next morning. 
she asked him why he'd made no at- 
tempt to come into her bedroom. 

“You were pretty emphatic when you 
said you didn't want me,” he answered, 
“so I took you at your word. I wouldn't 
force myself on you." 

She told him, “If you had been an 
Isracli man, you would have forced your 
way into the bedroom.” 

"And then?” 

“Then I would never see you again. 
Where are you going to stay tonight?" 

Perhaps the best illustration of this 
ambivalence is found in another incident 
which a young Israeli girl soldier went 
out on a date and found the barracks 
gate locked when she returned. Her boy- 
friend suggested that rather than пу 
to scale the fence, she spend the night at 
his apartment. She agreed but insisted 
that he allow her to sleep and not try 
any other activity. Once in the apartment, 
he found it impossible to lie in bed, 
listening to her even breathing. So he 
began to make love to her and she 
responded. The night was long and won 
derful; but the next morning, when he 
asked to see her again that evening, she 
very calmly told him that she would 
never date him again. 

"Why not? Didn't you enjoy last 
night?" 

"Yes, but you broke your promise 

The Israeli girl has learned to be war 
of the overaggressive approach that 
characteristic of so many Israeli men; so 
initially, she extends this wariness to 
other males, too. But if she senses that a 


foreigner won't treat her disrespectfully 
behave as if she has the right to 


and wi 

make a choice, the barriers will drop. 
The foreigner starts out with a great 
advantage over his Israeli counterpart: 
He comes from outside the narrow bor 
ders of Israel and brings with him all the 
glamor of the world known to most 
Israeli girls only through films, books 
and magazines. Travel beyond the bor- 
ders is very difficult for Israelis; their 
immediate neighbors are all at war with 
Israel and the only way to leave is by 
plane or ship, both rather expensive. In 
addition to the fare, an Israeli traveling 
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article By Craig Vetter computers that talk back are fine fare for science fiction, 
but what do you do when you find one alive and well and living in santa monica? 


LAST SPRING, a friend of mine handed me 
part of a computer printout and told 
me, “It's off a machine in California that 
uses a program called Dr. Otto Matic— 
get i?—and when you run it, the com- 


psychiatrist, Isn't that a trip?" 

The exchange between the unnamed 
human and the machine was printed in 
that alleap teletype style and the com 
puter had evidently started the conversa 
tion. It read: 

GOOD DAY. 1 AM DR. OTTO л 
1 PRESUME YOU KNOW THE RU 
BEGIN RIGHT AWAY. WHAT SHALL WE TALK 
ANOUT TODAY? 

And the 
hack 


Dr. Otto Matic. 
(Presume 


IC. SINCE 
WE CAN 


human involved typed 


**LFT'S TALK ABOUT COMPUTERS. I 
HATE THEM. 

And the machine responded, neat as 
you please . . . 

WHY DO YOU MENTION COMPUTERS? 

And the man said .. . 

***°THEY ARE HATEFUL AND RUINING 
MY LIFE. 

And the machine said . . . 

SUPPOSE THEY WERE NOT HATEFUL AND 
RUINING YOUR LIFE? 

And man said . 

****poCTOR, 1 CAN'T DO THAT. 

And machine . . 

HAVE YOU TRIED? 


And man... 
****yrs, 1 HAVE, MANY, MANY TIMES. 


When I was through reading, 1 asked 
my friend if this wasn't really just some- 
one's fine joke. The answer was no, it 
wasn't a puton, the machine that had 
done this did exist, in Santa Monica. 
"You sit down at a teletype keyboard," 
he said, "and type in anything you want 
and the machine responds. Don't you 
think that's trippy? The damn machine 
talks to you. 

1 remember right then having a flash- 
back to a time in grammar school when 
a magician (“The Amazing Kellaway”) 
called my best buddy up on stage and 
then made him disappear in a very large 
mushroom cloud of white smoke. 1 knew 
it was dever (continued on page 231) 


“Sure Гт for the feminist movement. 
In fact, Im pretty good at it.” 


CHEECH WO tom Tie Heptameron of Margaret of Navarre 


THERE WAS A CERTAIN GUIDO in Naples who had a secret 
madness, an obsession of the most absurd kind. Yet he was a 
handsome, courteous gentleman, well educated, prosperous 
and wellborn, and no one suspected this fantasy of his. In 
fact, if it had ever been spoken, any listener would have taken 
it as no more than a joke in bad taste. Guido had fallen in 
love with the queen 

It must be explained that King Alfonso V, who reigned 
at that time, bore a scepter of lechery. He was a great 
wencher and seducer and, if anyone had thought of it, half 
the rich houses of Naples could have borne the legend KING 
ALFONSO SLEPT HERE. But the queen, on the other hand, took 
great pride in her armored virtue—despite the fact that she 
was young and beautiful and could have had any gentleman 
in Europe as her lover. 

The second royal fact threw Guido into deepest despair, 
but the first royal fact gave him hope; and, after the longest 
and most esh tive kind of thought, Guido conceived a 
solution. He began to look for a wife. 

It was not the easiest thing in the world to find in that cit 
for the lady had to have three qualities: She must be ex- 
ccedingly good-looking, she must be very charming and, above 
all, she must have remained entirely out of the kings view 
Thus, Guido was forced to go to Rome, where, within 
months, hc 1 succeeded in finding, winning and wedd; 
his handsome heiress. They returned to Naples, where they 
settled in a fine and spacious house just before carnival time, 
very happy and very much in love. 

Now, like everybody else, Ше king used to go masked from 
house to house during the carnival, accepting hospitality and 
being а good fellow to all. Of course, the king's disguise was 
always well published in adyance of the festivities and, thus, 
everyone recognized him—while pretending not to—and 
made a great elfort to receive him well. At Guido's house, he 
met with a more elegant reception than anywhere else in the 
city. Confections, musicians, fine repasts, wine, dancing, gaiety 
were all there—but to the veteran satyr che, the most splendid 
amusement was the voluptuous young stranger Guido had 
taken to wife. She fascinated Alfonso and when, after the 
repast, husband and wife sang a melodious duet to entertain 
their guests, the king took less pleasure in hearing the sweet 
harmony of the two than in calculating how he might break it. 

Shortly thereafter, the king dispatched Guido on a mission 
to northern Italy. During the three weeks the young man was 
gone, the king called frequently on Donna Maria, the lonely 
wife, and consoled her with his charm and with some tasteful 
lide presents. At first, being genuinely distressed at her 
husband's absence, she was grateful to the king. Then she 
began to look forward to being consoled by him. At the end 
of the three weeks, she had changed so much that she was 
distressed at her husband's return and had to meet the king 
secretly to be consoled again. Whenever Guido went to 
inspect his country estates, the royal consolation of his wife 
proceeded furiously. 

Some said that Guido himself quietly spread the report of 
this. At any rate, the intrigue soon became so well known that 
—unlike most of the king's passing fancies—it came to the 
cars of the queen, who was much distressed. She was a lady of 
nice sensibilities and she felt sorrow for Guido, who was 
careful to sigh and look woebegone in her presence, One day, 
in order to speak some words of comfort to him, she invited 
him to stroll in a secluded part of the roy: dens Не 
thanked her and summoned a tear to his eye. 

“Be steadfast, good Guido,” she said. “I, too, have my aches. 
1 have the honor of my rank, but another receives the pleasure 
of my marriage.” 

In his most sincere voice, Guido said, “Honor is born in 
you, madam. You are noble by nature and the glitter of т: 
cannot possibly add a thing: but your beauty, your graces and 
your winning deportment merit so much pleasure that she 
who robs you of that which is your due must ultimately find 
her joy alf turn to shame. And, madam, let me say that the 
king—seuing his royal station aside—is not more capable than 
I of contenting a woman. In fact, 1 should guess that my loyal 
temperament is even more suitable to a 
merit as yourself.” 

The queen suddenly had her breath 
to suspect that this gentleman’s tongue was the interpreter of 


Ribald Classic 


his heart and, far from her offering him comfort, it was 
actually beginning to be the other way around. 

“1 love the king." she said. "No heart can love with passion 
such as mine.” But she said this in a somewhat weak and 
perfunctory voice. 

“Allow me to say, madam, that there is one who loves you 
more deeply than you have ever imagined love to be. His love 
grows stronger as the king's grows lax. Think, madam, on that 
theorem.” 

The queen was i 


confusion and her heart beat faster. It 
occurred to her that this handsome young man might be 
melancholy not because he had lost a love but because he 
could not gain onc. She looked at him with a different kind 
ideed, Guido did appear more amiable and 
devoted than her husband. After they had spoken further, the 
queen exclaimed with a sigh, "My God! Shall vengeance 
make us lovers? Can honey be drawn out of gall?” 

Jengeance cam be both honest and sweet,” said the now- 
hopeful Guido, “when, instead of killing one’s enemy, one 
bestows life on a real friend. So let us forget that we are 
despised and abandoned. A new life сап begi 
ed by her emotions that she took 
m into а s rbor, where they were 
quite concealed. In à moment, they had embraced. In two 
moments, they had lost their garments. In a few more 
moments, Guido had usurped the royal posessions—if not the 
whole t its most interesting corner—just as 


Thereafter, G nt more and more often to inspect his 
estates. The king would hurry to visit Donna Maria; Guido 
then hurried at once, by a secret way, to the queen’s bedcham- 
ber to play viceroy. ‘Thus, the puzzle of the four was solved 
and all were superbly happy. It even became the occasion of 
а famous joke. 

Onc day, Guido 
Guido's house and the king noticed а 
crudely. “How well they become your wall! 

“But have you noticed the inscription just beneath?” Guido 
asked. The king read: 

Io porto le corna, ciascun lo vede; 

Ma tal le porta, chi no lo crede. 

І AM HORNED AND PLAINLY SHOW IT; 

OTHERS WEAR HORNS AND DO NOT KNOW IT. 

— Retold by Jonah Craig EI 153 


nd the king were standing together in 
air of antlers and said 


ILLUSTRATION BY BRAD HOLLAND 


PLAYBOY 


PLAYBOY INTERVIEW (continued from. page 78) 


probably the same period when homo- 
sexuality is programed into the child. 
So perhaps it would have a positive 
effect. You know, this is something very 
few people realize—that the child is psy- 
chologically oriented to homosexuality 
by circumstances tl apparently come 
together during his first ten years. Ex- 
perts don't agree on what these circum- 
stances are, but you can reverse what I 
said and postulate that heterosexuality 
also has to be programed into the child 
during the same prepubertal period. The 
individual's anatomy—his chromosomes 
ог hormones—doesn't automatically de- 
termine what his or her sexual orienta- 
tion will be. This is proven in cases of 


mistaken gender identity, in which a 
baby born with the apparent genitalia of 
a female is brought up as a female; but 


it is discovered later that the child is 
really a male with some minor genital 
abnormalities that could have been cor- 
rected by surgery. However, the parents, 
thinking the child is a girl, have brought 
it up as a girl. By the age of 12 or 13, 
when puberty begins, the mistake is rea 
ized. But by then, it’s usually impossible 
to change that child's personality struc- 
ture back to male, 

PLAYBOY: Are you implying that homosex- 
wals necessarily identify with the other 
sex? We thought the opposite was gener- 
ally true—that, apart from sexual. prefer- 
ences, a male homosexual is essentially 
male and a Lesbian, female. 

CALDERONE: "That's correct, I was just us- 
ing that example to illustrate how gen- 
der identity is built into the child. Wh: 
lm trying to say is that, even though 
very little is known about the complete 
causes and the full personality structure 
of homosexuality, мете fairly certain 
that it isn’t inherited but definitely relat- 
ed to childhood conditioning. Another 
proof of what I'm saying is the fact that 
the facultative homosexual—the one who 
accommodates to a situation where there 
is no heterosexual outlet, such as in 
prison or during extended periods of 
isolation in the Armed Forces—will re- 
vert to his previous heterosexual pat- 
terns as soon as he has the opportunity. 
PLAYBOY: You've used no emotionally 
loaded terms—such as sick—to describe 
homosexuals. Would that indicate that 
you disagree with the psychoanalytic con- 
cept that homosexuality is an illness? 
CALDERONE: I don't know cnough about 
psychoanalysis to agree or disagree. I feel 
sad for the promiscuous onc-nighter— 
he's missing so much in Ме. But, as I 
said, so is the promiscuous heterosexual 
onenighter. Perhaps its an illness in 
both cases. But I can't feel that homosex- 
uals—those who may not be recognized 
as such in the community and are living 


154 totally responsible and dedicated lives— 


are ill. And yet they don't have the 
opportunity to form families. Tt must be 


a lonely life, particularly when they 
reach old age. However you define their 
condition—ill or not—I feel compassion 
for them. I think they are deprived. 

PLAYBOY: You 


compassion might be re 
y's homosexuals, 
who proclaim that they don't feel de- 
prived and who are becom i 
ly militant about securing their rights. 
Indeed, "gay power" has become а com- 
mon slogan among homosexuals, 
CALDERONE: Then perhaps my compas- 
sion is misplaced. But it saddens me to 
see the way society treats them. I don't 
believe any group in society should be 
treated in such a way that it has to 
become militant. 

PLAYBOY: As much as today's homosexu- 
als resent being told they're sick, they 
also resent the corollary notion u 
can be cured: In spite of the e 
hood forces that cause homosex 
you think it’s possible to reverse thi: 
condition with the aid of psychotherapy? 
CALDERONE "The psychiatric reports зау 
it's very difficult, no matter how high the 
motivation. Apparently, the best that 
can be accomplished is to change a homo- 
sexual t xual. But as I understand. 
it, he constantly has to be careful to lı 
away from his homosexual toward his 
heterosexual 2 
PLAYBOY: If homosexual tendencies are 
that difficult to reverse, is the opposite 
equally true? For example, many parents 
are greatly concerned that their adoles 
cent children may be seduced into a 
fixed pattern of homosexuality by older 
men or women. Is this likely? 

CALDERONE: No. The adolescent's sexual 
identity is already firmly established. by 
then. And if he does allow self to be 
seduced, it’s because his early emotional 
relationships, with his parents primarily, 
made him seducible. 

PLAYBOY: The adult adolescent homosex- 
wal seduction scene is probably much 
rarer than imagined by anxious parents. 
But many experts point out that homo- 
sexual contact among adolescents. them- 
sclves is exceedingly common. How do 
you allay parental apprehension about 
that? 

CALDERONE: I assure them that, as we 
grow up, we all experience many homo- 
sexual feelings, which have nothing to 
do with the way we're eventually going 
to out. Many young people not 
c attracted to members of the 
but they may even express thi 
attraction in overt sexual contact. How- 
ever, if we're honest adults, we'll admit 
that we all have had this range of feeling 
1d experience while maturing, There's 
quite a difference between the person 
who has been conditioned in early child- 


hood to a homosexual fixation and the 
person who simply experiences some at- 
traction to the same sex as part of grow- 
ing up. 
PLAYBOY: Many psychiatrists believe 
the fuss made by parents over an early 
sexual experience—regardless of its na- 
ture—is more harmful to the child than 
the experience itself, Do you agree? 
CALDERONE: I surely do. This is a belief. 
I've had for a long time, because I have 
a knack for being able to gain insights 
through personal experience some years 
before science establishes support for 
such insights. I had an experience when 
I was six or seven involving a young 
man about 17 or 18, who was working 
a gardener on my father's place їп 
France. This young man got me behind 
a tool house one day and exposed him- 
self to me. He was in full erection. He 
didn't approach me, didn't touch me; he 
wasn't even masturbating, as I remem- 
ber. But 1 must have displayed curiosity, 
because he repeated this exposure two or 
three times. I'm a little hazy on some of 
the det now, bur what 1 remember as 
clearly as if it were yesterday is my 
father’s reaction when he learned about 
this garden scene. He dragged me into 
the house and threw himself on his knees 
in front of me and wept and said, “Now 
you have lost your innocence!" "Then 
he called in the boy's father, made а 
tremendous whoop-dedo and fired the 
boy. After that, every time we went 
through the village, we'd have to drive 
past the boys house and my father 
would say, "Don't you look at t 
house." Now, I hadn't even. been think- 
ig of looking at the house, but as soon 
as my father spoke, naturally, my head 
would turn like a magnet and he'd slap 
me. Unquestionably, the fuss my father 
made far outweighed the experience it 
self in my memory; yet he was only 
ng as a "normal" father would. 1 
felt I had been d” and “dirty,” which 
caused me troublesome conflicts later on. 
PLAYBOY: Did you have any other misad- 
ventures in your youth that helped shape 
your sexual philosophy? 
CALDERONE: None like that. But what did 
make an indelible impression on me was 
being a young, growing person—and a 
girl—during precisely that time when 
female sexuality began its fantastic emer- 
gence some 50 years ago. It was then 
d in the 1930s that the marriage man- 
uals began to appear and, of course, 
when D. H. Lawrence resexualized a 
woman before our cyes—and very beau- 
tifully, too—in Lady Chatterley’s Lover. 
Indeed, this past half century has been 
what sociologist Jessie Bernard calls the 
age of the resexualization of women 
Females have moved from the Victorian 
ета, the period in which nice ladies 
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158 


A Million Elephants (continued from page 16) 


Margaret hauled the Thermos of cold 
rice wine in her handle-bar basket. 

It was their plan 10 follow the road 
upriver until they found a picnic spot. 
They were prepared for leisure after 
several days of conferences and pressure, 
and none of them tried to speal the 
pace or throw challenges. 

The heat was not too severe. The sun 
was present between clouds. 

When they wheeled through a village, 
the lowland children ran after them un- 
Ul they passed into the jungle road 
again, Neither the old men nor the 
chickens squatting under the huts made 
them any gesture. 

Walter gave 


ing lecture on what 
they were seeing. “They refuse to lock 
up their animals. The stock would dic if 
you did, they think. It’s worse up in the 
mountains. They let the animals sleep 
with them in the huts there. 

When the road got too steep to ride 
on, they dismounted and walked toward 
the noise of a waterfall. Glover broke 
trail into a green and grassy area that 
looked over the river. It was a cliff, of 
sorts, and Margeret stayed far from the 
edge and spread the luncheon, while 
Edelman and Glover threw stones out 
into the air and watched them arc to- 
ward the white-capped water chat curled 
against itself. 

Back on the checkered tablecloth, they 
drank the wine and tried to name the 
trees. Walter pointed to а huge sandal- 
wood across the river. "When a king 
dics, they have to find a sandalwood wee 
that has no rot at its center. It has to be 
big enough so that the body can sit up 
when it’s hollowed out. "That means it 
has to be over а century old, usually, and 
sometimes they have a hell of a time 
finding a good one. 

The sun turned critical and Glover 
and Edelman swipped to their under 
shorts and lay dazed and tired against 
the soft earth. They enjoyed the fashion 
in which Margaret waited on them and 
made them feel worthy of rest. They all 
talked of what they were Icarni 

“The diseases over here, 
“T. b, yaws; it's unbeli 


said Edel- 
able. Ma- 


said Glover. 
Liver flukes, leprosy, worms" 
“You got three, no, four kind worm, 
round-cy¢,” said Walter again 
Oriental m "You got menu A, 
hookworm and Strongyloides. You got 
menu B, roundworm and tapeworm. You 
also got im forume cookie: trachoma, 
pellagra- It was not funny and he 
stopped his routine, “There's so much to 
do here,” he said softly. 
They ate goat's cheese and bread. Mar- 
ret poured wine when it was needed. 
You'd be a good ojosan, you know 


ner. 


thar?” said Clover to her. “The women 
over here do most of the work.” 

“Fine and superfine,” said Edelman. 
"Just the м ought to be. Fix ту 
food and draw my bath and then go out 
and plant a little rice for me and the 
kids." 

‘No arguments, Martin," said Marga- 
ret. Its too nice а day. Besides, I agree 
with you guys. Men are weaker. I'm 
serious. This is the only place I've seen 
where they acknowledge that poor little 
malformed chromosome and all it means.“ 
She patted both their foreheads. “Sleep 
for а while, babies. I'm going to get out 
of this rig and take my own sun bath.” 
Both men raised their heads slightly and 
squinted at her. She laughed. “1 am not 
horny and I don't want to play doctor. 
OK? I just want to get some sun, damn 
ic 


he stripped and stretched out be 
tween them. The wine and the sun and 
the easy noise of the waterfall led them 
into sleep. Edelman snored and turned 
away on his side. Glover dozed for not 
long, woke excited and erect, took off his 
shorts and pushed his penis against her 
thin thigh. 

“Not now, Walter,” she mumbled and 
he said OK and continued to nestle his 
face in her neck and collarbone. When 
he ig, he could half open 
his eyes and watch her breasts rise and 
fall with her breathing. Her sweat was 
sweet to his tongue. Once a bee teased 
him by trying to settle on her nipples 
and Glover felt amused at his own pro- 
tective instincts as he stayed awake to 
brush it away. 

“Walter, you are a good kid,” she 
murmured |o him once as she turned 
and cupped herself inside the curve of 
his thighs, her buttocks resting against 
his mildly stiff prong. 

The three of them slept. 

Until Glover felt the pressure of his 
bladder building. He pulled himself 


as not dream 


the thicket line to find a place. got 
to pee,” he kept saying to himself, and 
then he admonished his stiff dick, beg- 
ging it to droop long enough for com- 
fort. “Come on," he said to it, “where 
are you when I need you? 

It was probably his la 
for, as his [oot 
toes caught on a rigid catgut fishline that 
was tied to a tree root, and the line led 
up to the rusted ring of a grenade that 
was wedged in the fork of the trce he 
stumbled against, and the ring snapped 
way with a slight ping sound that could 
not be heard over the water or the air, 
nd, as Walter straightened his back and 
looked down at his feet to see what had 


tripped him, the grenade passed through 
its delay time and blasted off most of the 
right side of his head. 

All day in the opium den, Buon Kong 
had been receiving reports. Runners 
came, as if to court, and whispered to 
him while they knelt near his seated 
figure. The old man listened but rarely 
asked a question of them. 

When Charley Dog and Dawn came 
back into the room from their pad, Buon 
Kong signaled that they were to sit with 
him. “The news is not good. Tonight, we 
must leave Royal City as soon as it is 
dar 


What’s happening?" Charley Dog 
asked. 

"There will be fighting here tonight. 
You may stay if you wish, but 1 must 
lead those who want peace out of our 

iy. 

Im with you, Buon Kong,” said 

Charley Dog. ^But where wc got to go 
in this world? Seems like trouble comes 
around, no matter where I ат. Anyway, 
as soon as we cut out of here, they'll 
come looking for us. That's one thing 
the power boys сапт tolerate, dad 
Worst thing you can do to them is 
ignore them. And they're not about to 
let that happen. No, sir. The one way to 
get every mother and his gun out snoop- 
ing for you is to drop out.” 
"Perhaps," said Buon Kong. “But I 
ant to take my people to the place of 
the phi, the Plain of Elephants. lt is 
there that we must try to survive.” 

"Man, thats a Jong walk, Buon 
Kong.” Charley Dog thought about that 
for a time. “OK, I'm with you babies, 
but I got to get me some pot to smoke 
on the way up there. That wip is so long 
it'll take another опе to make it." 
"Something's going on." said Sumner- 
k. "I can't quite place it, but some- 


A 


g very much like it, Im or- 
ry to sound colonial on you, but. . . 
and the sentence faded off as he drank 
his mineral water. He held his glass in 
the air and looked at it. “The time to 
leave a city is when the water becomes 
more expensive than the wine. 

Coakley picked at his food. Luncheons 
were often a chore when his mind would 
not slow down. “I don't know any more 
than you. The general seems busy and 
Kelly сапт stop talking about this ele- 
phant scheme of his. Glover is olf in the 
woods somewhere on a picnic. I haven't 
scen anything that abnormal. 

"I don't know, I don't know," mur- 
mured Sumner Clark. “The comm shack 
has been frantic. Messages all over the 
place. But I don't care about that, really. 
You never learn anything that way. 
(continued on page 199) 


AT H4 THAT MORNING, Mr. Pangborn 
came into the barbershop. Wiley looked 
up from his Racing Form. "Morning," he 
id. He ced at his wrist watch and 
led. “You're right on time. 
Mr. Pangborn did not return the 
le. He removed his s 
and hung it on the rack. He wudged 
across the clean-swept floor and sank 
down in the middle chair. Wiley put 
down his Racing Form and stood. He 
etched and You don't look. 
so hot, Mr. Pangborn,” he said. 

“1 doi 


Wiley said. 
ked up the chair and locked it. 
" he asked. 

Pangborn nodded. “Okeydoke.” 
said Wiley. He pulled a clean cloth 
its shell and shook it oi 


angborn sighed. 
“Kind о” тип down, are you? 


the word,” said Mr. Pangborn. 
"What've you been di 

“Not a hell of a lot.” Wiley answered, 
He pinned the cloth in place. “Drove ир 
to Vega 
sound. “Lost a pil 

“Too ] 
Oh, well" Wiley grinn 
come, easy go." He picked up th 
clipper and switched it on. “ 
called. 


She made an inqui the 
k room. 
“Mr. Pangborn's here." 
right out. id. 
ing on the back of 
Pangborn 


Wiley told 


born shifted on the chair 
uncomfortably. 
You sure don't look so hot,” said 


w,” he said. "I just don't know.” 
What's the problem?” Wiley 
“The leg.” said Mr. Pangborn. 
ight arm, off and on. My 


aid, concerned. “You 
seen your docto 
“He doesn’t know what it i 
Pangborn answered scornfully. 
bother going to him anymore. 
ever does is send me to sp : 
Wiley ducked. “Thats lousy, Mr. 
ngborn.” 
Pangborn exhaled. “ 
only one who ever help: 
He does?” Wiley looked delighted. 
"Hey. I'm glad to hear that,” he said. "I 
е whether I should even 
or not, him not being an M. D. 
1 all. My brother swore up and down 
t he was something else, though.” 


Rand's the 
с said. 


aPPOINTMENT 
OnLy 


нспоп BY RICHARD MATHESON 


2 is a very exclusive barbershop, 
Just the sort to make a man 
feel great, but there are also 

special ways in which 

Te can be trimmed and clipped 


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set her manicuring table and 
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she took out the doll labeled. rANGBORN. 
Wiley finished dialing the telephone and 
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GIRLS OF ISRAEL ca from pese 150) 


outside the country must pay a heavy 
travel tax and a surcharge on the price 
of the ticket. So the Isracli girl, patriotic 
though she is, sces the forcigner—espe- 
cially a young, handsome onc—as a 
romantic figure, indeed. 

In all of Israel, no better place than 
Tel Aviv can be found to begin your 
acquaintance with the local girls. Extend- 
ing for four miles along the Mediterra- 
nean coast, Tel Aviv lacks architectural 
beauty, with balconied apartment houses 
no more than rectangular blocks built in 
solid rows, one right next to the other. 
But Tel Aviv is alive—a bustling, noisy 
city abounding in busy cafés, restaurants, 
coffee bars, pizza parlors, ice-cream shops, 
bookstores, concert halls, cinemas and 
beaches. Tel Aviv is the country's heart, 
its cultural center. Israelis newspapers and 
magazines are published there and, al- 
though Jerusalem is the nominal political 
capital, Tel Aviv is the real seat of power. 

This vibrant city is quiet only on 
Saturday, the Sabbath, and from about 
0 г.м. to 4:30 т-м. every day, when 
people drowse in their apartments, espe- 
cially when the city is being blanketed 
by the hamseen, the hot wind that blows 
in from the desert. Of all the streets in 
Tel Aviv, Dizengoff Boulevard is the best 
one on which to view a representative 
sampling of Israel's girls. Dizengolf com- 
s of Fifth Avenue 
n Avenue in Chi- 
cago, King's Road in London and the 
Boulevard St. Germain in is. Dizen- 
golf intersects Dizengolf. Circle, where 
four other streets pour vehicular and 
pedestrian traffic together to make a mad 
whirl around a plaza in the center. 

From the circle, Dizengoft stretches for 
two miles, but the part of the boulevard. 
that everyone. means when they s: 
zengoff runs from Dizengoff Circle to 
Keren Kayemet, a nce of only five 
blocks. In that short stretch are crammed 
an incredible number of sidewalk cafés 
and restaurants. most of them so close 
together that it's impossible to tell where 
one ends and the next begins. 105 the 
cafés—jammed with Israclis talking and 
looking up from their food or drink to 
stare, openly and unabashedly, at the 
parade of people walking back and forth 
on the street—that give Dizengoll its 
special place in the сиу. "Chaticha! 
someone vill say, and all eyes will turn 
to a trio of beautiful girls strolling Ici- 
surely by, arms linked, their voices rising 
and falling as they talk to one another 
in the modern, slang.filled Hebrew that 
has developed among the young. Chati- 
cha means a slice of bologna, but every- 
one uses it to express his admiration for 
the beauties passing by. 

The girls of Tel Aviv dress in a special 
y. Some of their clothes are modeled 
after the styles worn in New York, Paris, 


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160 London and Rome; but Israel's own 


dustry has succeeded in creat- 
ing an original mode of rakish couture, 
filled with bold colors and wild patterns 
—anything new, different, daring. Isra- 
el's climate is partially responsible: The 
temperature in Tel Aviv rarely drops 
below 50 degrees Fahrenhcit, so no one 
needs heavy outerwear. In the summer, 
Tel Aviv is hot and humid to the 
point of mugginess, so the girls seldom 
wear more than а minimum of clothing 
—and they concentrate their energies on 
making that minimum as arresting as 
possible. For the price of a beer, which in 
Israel is not only good but inexpensive, 
isitor can take а café seat ig the 
idewalk on Dizengoff and watch the 
female panorama pass before him. These 
lively, attractively dressed girls may be 
models, nurses, salesgirls, 
chers, actresses or engineers. Whatever 
their occupation, chances are that they 
view their work as more than just a job: 
Israeli girls tend to be quite concerned 
with achieving a high occupational status. 
ach café on Dizengoff has its own 
band of regulars. If. you're looking for 
girls from the younger bohemian set, 
head for Café Ĉasi, where young are 
ists, film directors and novelists sit drink- 
ng coffee or miz tapuzim, the orange 
drink that is consumed by Israel 
enormous quantities, (Imported liqu 
very expensive in Israel, although good 
gin, vodka, cognac and beer are pro- 
duced domestically.) But the main fea- 
ture of Casit is the talk, which goes on 
incessantly, as it does in every other café; 
for Israclis—induding the girls—must be 
numbered among the great talkers of the 
world. The talk at the California, a café 
on Frishman Street just а few hundred 
feet west of Dizengoll, is mostly about 
politics. The California is owned by Abic 
Nathan, a man who once quixotically 
flew his own plane to Egypt in an effort 
to seek peace with Nasser. 

But as lively as the Casit and the 
California are, they aren't necessarily the 
best places to meet younger Israeli girls. 
The café clientele tends to be a little 
older, more settled in their relationships, 
less inclined to favorably view an outsid- 
er moving in on one of the girls in the 
group. So if the visitor tires of just 
looking at the girls on the street, he can 
move on to the coffee bars, in which the 
younger girls congregate, or to a disco- 
théque. There, he is more likely to find 
what he seeks by simply asking a girl to 
dance. In a discotheque, you need not 
worry about approaching a stranger; she 


into a discothéque where everyone scems 
to be from Morocco or Iraq, use discre- 
tion, for the young Israeli men and wom- 
en whose families come from Arabic 
lands tend to frown upon a stranger 
ing to find a dancing partner. 


If operation discothèque has been suc- 
cessful and your dancing partner is ready 
for another scene, a good place to begin 
is The Pub, known in Hebrew as Ha 
Pub. Inside Ha Pub, which is directly 
opposite the Dan Hotel on Tel Aviv's 
beach front, is a replica of a British bar. 
But the duplication extends only to de- 
cor, for Ha Pub's clientelc—unlike the 
British, who tend to exchange no more 
than a nod with their neighbors— 
doesn't go there to sit and quictly drink 
Instead, Ha Pub bursts with life, with 
continuous table hopping and noisy con- 
versation, loud laughter and shouts of 
recognition from the actors, writers, 
painters, politicians, journalists and jet 
setters who keep it open late at night. 

At some point, you may discover that 
the animated conversation that excites 
the head doesn't quite fill the stomach. 
But a newcomer to Israel will be ver 
disappointed if he looks for what is 
known America as Jewish cooking— 
there are no kosher delicatessens, no 
corned-beef and pastrami sandwiches and 
hardly a bowl of chicken soup with 
matzoh balls. For many years, the coun- 
пу was poor and the early Zionist pio- 
neers were more concerned with building 
their society than with becoming рош 
mets. Recently, though, a change has 
taken place. The country is more affluent, 
the tourist trade more important and 
immigrants from the Arab countries and 
from central Europe have imported their 
cating habits, often opening restaurants 
for those who share their cultural back- 
ground. So, scattered throughout Tel 
Aviv are many small restaurants—some 
owned by Romanians, who specialize in 
serving grilled meats and vegetables, 
others offering “Oriental” food, which is 
not Chinese or Japanese but Arabic in 
origin. In these tiny places, Israclis sit 
dipping pieces of flat bread called pita 
nto humus tachina, a succulent mixture 
of ground chick-peas, spices and lemon 
juice, topped with sesame paste and olive 
oil And after that dish come kabobs 
and chips—ground meat cooked on a 
skewer, usually over charcoal, ассотра- 
nied by French-fried pe Another 
marvelous snack is falafel, a mixture of 
ground vegetables formed into small 
balls, deep-fried in oil and then plunked 
into a pita split open like an envelope. 
The falafel stand is as much a part of 
the Tel Aviv scene as the hot-dog stand 
is in many American cities. 

If you want a more substantial meal, 
Tel Aviv has scores of eating places of 
almost every kind. None of them are 
great, but almost all are adequate and 
а few are very good. And at such non- 
tourist restaurants as the centra 
Ааоров, which serves Greek 
tervanean food, Shaldag, 
port, or the Casbah on Jeremiah Street, 
the tables will be Gowded with Israclis 

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THE GREAT 


CAMPUS MANHUNT 


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a new breed of corporate recruiter—with a new corporale image—is meeting less sales resistance їп 
the annual vernal confrontation with shy, suspicious and sometimes downright- hostile college grads 


artide By MAX GUNTHER 
MIKE FRAZIER, the young personnel man- 
ager of Grey Advertising, Inc, sits in a 
library cul-de-sac at Harvard University. 
He is prospecting, His mission is to find 
bright Harvard men who, upon gradua- 
tion, will be willing to work at Grey 
as account-executive trainees. He studies 
some sheets of paper supplied to him by 
the university's job-placement office; the 
résumé and academic history of his day's 
first prospect. On paper, the prospect 
looks ideal; he's a student of high aca- 
demic standing and apparently enormous 
energy, a man involved in extracurricular 
activities and part-time work, a man with 


drive and ambition. A man, evidently— 
ah, beautiful!—to whom might be applied 
all those grand hyphenated labels that the 
business world esteems so highly: a self- 
starter, a gogctter, а take charge guy. 
Exactly the kind of man to be an account. 
executive in a big New York ad agency. 

The prospect appears—a rumpled- 
looking young fellow with a dark shirt, 
wild hair and devilish grin. Mike Frazier 
stands up and holds out his hand. “Hi, 
I'm Mike Frazier. Sit down and tell me 
about yourself,” 

"Well, I do OK, as you can see. What 
I want to know is, how good are you? 
Your brochure says you're a big organiza- 


tion but you allow room for individual 
expression. Do you really want individ- 
uals? I mean, individuals?” 

Mike Frazier sighs. He isn't interview- 
ing the student; it’s the other way around, 
as usual. This student, this talented young 
man, can hope for half-a-dozen promising 
job offers before he graduates. He can 
pick and choose. If Grey Advertising 
wants him, Grey must sell itself to Я 

Does Grey want him? Mike Frazier 
isn't quite sure. He ends the interview 
by inviting the student to visit the agen- 
суз offices in. Manhattan—all expenses 
paid, of course, A few days later, the 
student turns up in Manhattan. He 


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brings his guitar. He sits in Greys mod- 
ish reception room, sings and strums folk- 
Tock. 
“What are we hiring these days?" says 
an older executive. "I know we need 
new blood, bui А 

Frazier doesn't know quite what to 
say. “We're afraid not to be interested in 
this guy," he tells the executive. "He's 
terrific. But, well, we wonder how he'll fit 
in. We run a freewheeling shop here, but 
it is an organization. You can't get 1500 
people working together efficiently with- 
ош some kind of organization.” 

The great campus head-hunt. It began 
in the early Fifties, when a few large 
companies, worried about having enough 
resident talent to keep them riding high 
in the expansive years ahead, sent exper- 
imental recruiters to a few campuses and 
snatched up a few hundred of the bright- 
est, most business-oriented seniors and 
graduate students, The typical campus 
placement office in those days was hid- 
den in a dim little basement room and 
administered by a dean or somebody else 
who spent most of his time in other 
offices attending to other duties. The 
average student never thought of finding 
a job through this obscure establishment, 
if, indeed, he even knew of its existence; 
and the average company was not repre- 
sented there at all except, perhaps, by a 
faded, dusty, five-year-old recruiting bro- 
chure that nobody read. But as companies 
began to worry about a talent shortage, 
the on-campus recruiting business grew 
bigger. Universities hired full-time place- 
ment directors. The placement offices 
moved upstairs into bright new quarters 
with libraries and interviewing cubicles. 
In the 1968-1969 academic year, by a con- 
servative estimate, some 3000 companies 
sent recruiters onto more than 1000 cam- 
puses, and they held several million inter- 
views with some 300,000 students. The 
majority were hired before graduation. 

While this scramble for campus talent 
was growing bigger, it was also growing 
more nervous. Companies found them- 
selves competing not only against one 
another but also against a new set of 
campus attitudes. The so-called Silent 
Generation of the Fifties had given way 
to the more articulate, socially concerned 
and politically activist—or at least louder 
—generation of today. In this new gen- 
eration were many who said that b 
ness was, as the cliché went, “irrelevant. 
They accused business of being motivat- 
ed solely by profit, linked in sinister com- 
radeship with the military establishment, 
resistant to social change, stiflingly con- 
formist, intellectually dead, run by and 
for white-collared robots whose suburban 
lives were tormented by ulcers, failed 
marriages and unhappy children. 

On the campus of the University of 
California at Berkeley, а harassed and 
angry man shuffles backward down a 


sidewalk. Two feet from his face, advanc- 
ing as he retreats, is the front rank of a 
large, equally angry crowd of students. 
Everyone is gesticulating and shouting 
wildly. A few policemen jitter about on 
the periphery of the crowd, carnestly 
trying to look unbrutal, The man who is 
walking backward stops abruptly, shouts 
a few words in the ear of a cop and 
grabs the cop's bullhorn. The students 
are pressing hard against him, but he 
stands his ground. 

"You've got the wrong chemical com- 
pany!” he howls through the bullhorn. 
“I'm not from Dow, goddamn it, I'm 
from Celanese!" 

The recruiters of Dow Chemical Com- 
pany, until recently the Government's 
subcontractor in producing napalm, had 
been held prisoner in so many campus 
interviewing rooms that each routinely 
carried a ham sandwich as part of his 
recruiting kit. Other companies have had 
similar trouble, though not usually so 
often. Even banks, “Every company in 
the world sems to do something stu- 
dents don't like,” remarks Jack Peyman, 
employce-relations vice president of the 
Chase Manhattan Bank (which now re- 
cruits on about 125 campuses—up from 
28 seven years ago). “Our man got him- 
self picketed at Cornell last year, for in- 
stance. He couldn't imagine what the 
beef was. Turned out it was the bank's 
financial involvement in racist South 
Africa.” 

There is a lot of anti-business talk in 
the air. Time Inc. and the Marketing 
Science Institute once held a seminar on 
“The Crisis in Marketing Manpower" 
and invited a group of students to come 
and say why they didn’t want marketing 
careers. “Business is largely ignored at 
Swarthmore College,” one student told 
the assembled executives. “There are a 
lot of problems that seem more relevant 
to the students—in civil rights and the 
social field, VISTA, the Pe 
environmental pollution. . 
from the University of Michigan grum- 
bled, "I don't think it's accidental that 
every person in this room is white." He 
went on to tell of his experiences as a 
musician with the Lansing Symphony: 
“All the Oldsmobile executives would 
come to the concerts and they all wore 
dinner jackets.” Something about the din- 
ner jackets uoubled him. He couldn't 
quite articulate it; something businessish 
or uppermiddle suburban, something 
about conformity. “My impression was 
that these people weren't interested in 
the music, didn’t know anything about 
it and didn't really care.“ 

On the campus of the State University 
of New York at Buffalo, a big manufac- 
turing company's recruiter scans the file 
of one Michael Aldrich. The recruiter 
reads it with mixed feelings. Mike Al- 
drich, the dossier says, is a teaching fellow 
and a straight-A student, heading for a 


Ph.D. in English, with a strong second- 
ary interest in science. A rare catch for 
any big company: potentially a high- 
level salesman, Perhaps, or public-relations 
executive. But the file also says Aldrich 
isn't quite sure where he wants his life to 
go. He is evidently talking to corporate 
recruiters mainly to get information. 
The recruiter is worried. Some of the 
very brightest students, he is aware, are 
stridently anti-business. 

Mike Aldrich enters the interviewing 
room and the recruiter’s face brightens. 
Unlike many students on this often- 
turbulent campus, Aldrich has had a hair- 
cut recently, wears no beard, is dressed 
neatly in jacket and tie. He looks—well, 
businesslike. 

When they start to talk, the recruiter's 
smile sags a little. "My karma is self- 
determination, Mike Aldrich explains. 
"It may sound petulant, but the only job 
I'm interested in is one where I'd be 
driven by my own demands, not the de- 
mands of the company. I've got to set my 
own course.” 

The recruiter mumbles: “Well, uh, 
I'm sure, when you've worked your way 
up the ladder" 

"I'm not interested in ladders and all 
that,” says Aldrich. "I've got to be inde- 
pendent, whatever I'm doing. It's got to 
be my job, you see? Something I'm total- 
ly immersed in. Not just a place in some 
hierarchy, where you get ulcers waiting 
for the next promotion.” 

‘The recruiter flounders toward firmer 
ground. He brings up the subject of 
money. Aldrich shakes his head. “Money 
doesn’t interest me," he says. “Matter of 
fact, right now I live in a commune. I 
can get along on a thousand dollars a 

ү,” 

"The recruiter is out of his depth. Не 
says: "Well, chen, lers talk about your 
specific interests. What kinds of activities 
are you in?” 

“Most of my time these days is taken 
up by an organization I founded, called 
Lemar. That’s short for Legalize Mari- 
juana. It's nationwide now, growing fast. 
It keeps me pretty busy.” 

After a while, the recruiter shambles 
to his feet. "Well, um, it's been nice 
talking to you." 

"Sometimes they just don't understand 
each others language,” says John Fox, 
the longhaired young director of Har- 
vard's Office of Graduate and Career 
Plans. “Even when they both want to get 
together, it can be hard. They've been 
living in different worlds. Their goals 
can be different. Neither can quite grasp 
what the other wants.” 

“Yes, times have changed,” says Jack 
Shingleton, placement director at Michi- 
gan State University. (Shingleton runs 
one of the biggest placement offices in 
the country: some 2600 recruiters and 
recruitment teams visited his campus in 

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begged off. 

“Aw, just one game, Cuz,” whispered 
Taylor with a wink, "Win back my fifty 
and we'll go right home." 

Well о 

So they playcd. And, even more mirac- 
„ because Crane was 
ng to win, the old guy again 


АШ the way back to Washington, 
Crane bemoaned his los. "Eddie, I don’t 
know how that old man ever beat me.” 
“No sweat, Irving.” 
“But your fifty dollars.” 
“Forget it. Happens to the best of us.” 
But Irving Crane couldn't forget. Ir 
bothered him through the night and all 
the following day. Finally, the man who 
never bet on his pool ваше went to ste 
Taylor. 
“Eddie, lers go back up to Baltimore. 
I'm going to win your money back.” 


"Ain't necessary, Irving.” 
What do you mean?’ 

"Went back there this afternoon. 
"Took that old coot for his whole wad— 
eight hundred clams.” 

"You did?” Crane was stunned. 

“Hell, I knew all along 1 could put 
that old man away. ‘Course, just to make 
extra certain, I had him spot me two 
balls a game. 

Crane couldn't believe that. “Eddie,” 
he said, “you're one of the greatest pool 
shooters in the world. How did you ever 
get him to spot you two balls a game?” 


wide grin, “that’s hustling!” 

Eddie Taylor is just one of thousinds 
of men who carn or supplement their 
livings by hustling. They exist every- 
where—but the wildest action is in pool 
halls, on golf courses and on tennis 
courts. Hustlers differ in appearance, 
socioeconomic background, approach and 
technique. There is, for instance, a mil- 


“By being the unemployed father 
of seven, you think you've found yourself a nice 
little tax loophole, don't you?" 


Bonaire oil magnate who husiles. So does 
a Broadway actor. There is a man who 
hustles only doctors and another who 
restricts his trade to movie stars. No two 
are alike; but they are brothers, united 
in an invisible, clandestine coterie, their 
common bond an American society whose 
compctitive spirit and Jove of the game 


are such that its 200,000,000 members bet 
billions of dollars each year on what is 
generally dassificd. as sport. 

There is only one cardinal mule for a 
hustler: 


Never 


put your money on a 
Good things are for the 
suckers. The hustler moves only when he 
has a sure thing. Watching him work is 
watching a shark eat. No matter what his 
game or his angle or his adeptness, most 
of the hustlers effort is expended in 
climinating any chance that his oppo- 
nent might w 

Thats p 


sely what Eddie Taylor 
accomplished. altimore. He knew 
that on any given day, he could beat 
that old man. But why take a risk, espe- 
cially in a fast, chancy game like nine 
ball? The old man had, alter all, defeat- 
ed Crane, the billiards champion of the 
world. By conniving a two-ball spot from 
his opponent, Taylor started off so far 
front that only a miracle could have 
allowed the old man to beat him, And 
not а hustler alive will admit to a belief 
in miracles. 

The key word, then, is percentages. To 
gain a sure thing, the hustler, a master of 
odds, manipulates the percentages until 
they are heavily in his favor. Lhe sub- 
liminal formula by which all hustlers 
work is to gain an edge greater than the 
wue difference between their normal 
game and their opponent's best game. 

The easiest place for the hustler to 
fnagle the percentages is in the sport 
where handicapping is a legitimate part 
of the game—golf, Theoretically, ше 
handicap is golf's great leveler, the cle- 
ment that makes all men equal. But in 
the hands of the hustler, the handicap 
becomes a weapon with which to send 
his mark to the poorhouse. 

Dr. Cary Middlecoff once estimated 
that 40 percent of all golfers lie about 
their hand but a more accurate 
figure, according to one old-time pro, is 
“between 100 and 110 percent" What 
the sucker doesn't realize as he cagily 
pads his handicap by a stroke or two is 
that the hustler is probably getting away 
with 10-12 strokes. Even the great Sam 
Snead, recognized as a very shrewd mon- 
ey player, has been taken for a high- 
handicap ride. 

“1 was playing at a dub in Florida a 
few years back,” Snead recalls, “when 
a fellow approached and asked, ‘How 
would you like to shoot a round for some 
money?’ I asked him what his handicap 
was and he told me a 14. I had no 


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reason to doubt his word, so I said, Ok. 
you're on.’ Well, after nine holes, he had 
а 35, and since I didn’t figure to shoot a 
21 on the back nine, I just gave the guy 
his money. Sometime later, he came up 
to my home course and challenged me to 
another round. This time, 1 ducked in- 
side to a phone and called the man’s 
club in Florida. They told me he was 
listed as carrying a five handicap, which 
most likely was still a few strokes above 
his real game.” 

While most hustlers will seek to gain 
their advantage by taking a high han 
cap, it sometimes works the other way, 
with the victim being given an edge. A 
common golf hustle, for example, is one 
in which the mark is allowed the option 
of playing three balls to the hustler’s 
one, taking the best score on cach hole. 
What the victim doesn’t realize until too 
late—and sometimes never—i 
playing 54 holes to the con m: 


Somewhere about the middle of the back 


nine, he finds his clubs getting heavy, his 
legs tired and his game a shambles. 
Minnesota Fats docs something of the 
same on a pool table. Hell give his 
opponent the chance to shoot at all 
pockets, while he himself plays only one. 
In other words, Fats is playing the very 
specialized game of one-pocket, while his 
Victim plays straight pool. “When I give 
them that, their eyes light up and they 
start smackin' their lips,” laughs Fats. 


"Only thing, 1 just happen to be the best 
one-pocket player in the universe. Most 
times, the Jamb will never even get to 
the table." 

One of the most bizarre handicappers 
among sports hustlers is the man gener 
ally looked upon as the world's foremost 
tennis hustler, former Davis Cup ace 
Bobby Riggs. Riggs will spot an oppo- 
nent up to 40-love a game, as many as 
five games a set. But that’s only when 
he's in a conventional mood. Other 
times, hell give his mark the doubles 
line, while he hits for the singles; or play 
two opponents e onc 10 
four chairs on the court, 
making his side of the net а veritable 
obsade course, and give his victim a 
point each t 
play wearing 
or holding a suitcase 
а prety absurd picture—one п 
ing among four chairs in full ra 
a valise in one hand and a tennis racket 
in the other, yelling at his two opponents 
that it's 40-loye and their serve—but it 
matizes the edge with which most 
hustlers start. Riggs has been hustling for 
30 years and he doesn't lose тис! 1l. 

“Face it," advises one moncy player, 
who has been the frequent victim of 
good-thing sports hustles, “no matter 
how much a hustler gives you, he knows 
from experience that it’s still not enough 
to beat him.” 


“You'll get a new bowl when I can afford а new 
bowl and not one minute sooner!” 


Except for this common denominator 
of gaining the sure edge over an oppo- 
nent, hustlers and husding techniques 
vary markedly not only from sport to 
sport but within any individual sport. I 
few does the spectrum range as wide 
in golf. Golf hustlers are everywher 
on public links, at private clubs and on 
resort courses. No one who'll put 
‘on his golf swing is safe from them. At 
th al courses, Cobbs 
Creek in Philadelphia and Forest Park 
in St. Louis, he is usually Negro. Until 
recently, professional golf was closed to 
black men, and hustling was the only 
alternative. Charlie Sifford tried for ycars 
to break into the tour and, despite his 
grcat game, couldn't. Then, about ten 
years ago, the Р. С.А. decided to shop 
around for a representative Negro and 
Sifford was sought for the role. Accord- 
ing to a sportswriter who bas followed 
jord’s career with interest, “By this 
time, Charlie was doing so well hustling 
he didn't want to join the tour. The 
Р. C. A. fathers practically had to force 
their membership card on him.” 

On a good day at a public course, a 
golf hustler, white or black, may take 
home $50 to $100. But on a good day at 
the exclusive and restricted clubs of Flor- 
ida and Southern California, a man may 
make as much as a publiclinks hustler 
earns all year. The hustlers who operate 
in these resort areas have one distin- 
guishing characte а deep, uniform 
tan. Their victims are usually m: 
their chalky executivest Lions 
the hustlers call them “patefaces.” Short- 
ly thereafter, the scalping starts. 

Palm-bedecked Normandy Shores in 
Miami Beach is often called Hustle Ha- 
ven. There, the hustlers lounge around 
оп chaises, ogling the new arrivals as they 
their way to the first tee. When the 
hustler zeroes in on а paleface, he am- 
bles over, working hard to look like just 
another lonely vacationcr out for a 
friendly round. Then he'll suggest that 
they join up with two other baked-tan 
loungers, to make it a foursome. The 
trap has thus been set; the mark has just 
been caught up in a con familiarly 
known as three brothers and a stranger; 

1 from this point on, the thing reads 
like Uncle Remus. But it works. 

The betting always starts slowly. “Hey, 
leres go for a fin on the next hole,” says 
tan number onc, and tan number two 
says something like, "Na, make it twenty 
dollar: OK,” says number three. Pale- 
face (a little afraid of the stakes), he 
don't say nothing. His game is the five- 
dollar Nassau limit, The game goes on, 
the bets rise and then things get a little 
hot, Number one: “Aw, you're so lucky, 
luckyluckylucky." And number two: 
"Ain't luck." “Then we up the bet next 
hole, smart guy. Two hundred dollars,” 


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says number three. By now, palelace 
feels so lonely he says, "I'll take hity 
dollars of that.” But somehow, number 
two takes everybody's money. Undaunt- 
d, the paleface keeps kicking in $25 and 
$50, while the three others battle dramat- 
ically for $200 or 5300 on every hole. 
Paleface just feels happy he's not the big 
loser—except that he's the only loser. 
Back in the clubhouse, the brothers re- 
turn one another's money and split pale- 
face's three ways. 

A basic rule of successful golf hustling 
is never to let the mark know he's being 
hustled, for the satisfied customer is 

ite likely to retum for more, Not 
ago, a Cleveland orthodontist was 
"dumped in the river" for $5000, neatly 
spread over his two-week stay in Miami. 
The day before he was to fly home, 
another paleface, a man who had similar- 
ly been taken the previous year, 
formed the orthodontist that thos 1 
whom he had been playing were rather 
notorious con men. The orthodontist 
vociferously refuted the allegation. He, 
an intelligent man, gullible enough to fall 
for a hustle? Nonsense! He staundily 
defended his newly found friends and, 
just to prove the point, went out and 
played one more round with them. The 
final day's extraction came to 51500. 

To hustle a man without his knowing 
it, of course, is an art; its practitioners 
must be highly polished, A true hustler 
is gifted. with the charm of a diplomat, 
the purity of a priest, the salesmanship 
of a boardwalk pitchman and the di 
natic flair of a Shakespearean tragedian. 
Some of the stock roles played by golf 
hustlers include Boozer, Old Aches and 
Pains and Stunt Man. 

Boozer keeps a bottle of bourbon in 
his дой bag. Following every swing, he 
kes a swig. Pretty soon he's having 
himself a private party, laughing, telling 
funny stories, his words coming slowly 
and slurred. At the end of nine, appea 
ng barely able to stand, he proclaims 
himself the greatest golfer alive or dead. 
nd demands that all bets be doubled or 
better, The victim rarely refuses, thinking 
that drunks make poor golfers. While he 
seems no less tipsy than before, of 
couse, Boozers drives remain straight 
and his putting never better. It could be 
the refreshing taste of all that tea he's 
been guzzling from the bourbon bottle 
that's spurring him on. 

Old Aches and Pains is truly a case for 
the Mayo Clinic. He limps, complains of 
a bad back, arthritis, rheumatism, swollen 
glands and God. knows what else. Yet he. 
always manages to live through a gruel- 
ing 18 holes, more times than not eking 
ош a "lucky" onestroke win. Stunt Man 
is a trickster. His mode of play is so 
unlikely that no victim in his right mind 


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172 can alford to let this opportunity to 


strike it rich pass him by. But whether 
his gambit is using only a single club 
(normally, a three or a four iron) or hit- 
ting the ball while standing on one foot 
or sitting in a chair or blindfolded, or— 
as 1968 U.S. open champ Lee Trevino 
once did as a youngster, hustling the 
suckers in Texas—hitting all his tee 
shots with a Dr Pepper bottle, if Stunt 
Man offers to do it, brother, you had 


a of golf hustlers are 
se with memberships in elegant coun- 
пу clubs, The LaGorce Country Club in 
Miami Beach probably has about 200 
bona fide millionaires as members. The 
number of bona fide golf hustlers may 
be equally high. The same is true of 
Palm Beads Seminole Club and sime 
ilar spots across the country. How do 
they get in? “L don't know," bewails an 
executive at a club in Palm Springs 
whose membership is worth a collective 
approaching the gros national 
product of Europe. "I only wish I knew 
how to get them the hell out. 
Often a hustler will be brought into 
an uppercaste club as a permanent guest 
by a member who pays the hustler а 
straight salary (which may run as high as 
$10,000 a weck), plus a percentage of his 
hustling earnings. For where there are 
millionaires and golf courses, there are 
suckers who will bet—and  lose—big 
money. Which bears out the hustlers’ 
adage: Whatever is b 
els and dimes, you 
done somewhere еке for thous: 
hundreds of thousands, whi 
case a few years ago at Sam Snead's home 
course of Greenbrier in White Sulphur 
Springs, West Virginia. It was there that 
a wealthy oilman dropped 5100.000 by 
three-putting a single hole. According to 
one alleged. witness, at the end of this 
chap's week's vacation, he owed a cool 
$500,000. "He sat down at а card table 
in his hotel room with a suitcase full of 
$1000 bills. The hustlers lined up very 
orderly and, one by one, that man would 
count out the bills—50 for you, 80 for 
you. And he never once flinched.” 
Many of today's top golf pros got their 
start on the hustling circuit. Few, how- 
ever, like to discuss their dark pasts, 
because, as P.G. А. members, they have 
images to protect, Not that they don't 
bet on themselves anymore. They do, 
both nd out of P.G. A-sanctioned. 
competition. One pro, known as the Vi- 
king because of his tall, athletic build 
and long blond hair, has won few tou 
naments the past five years, yet it's not 
uncommon for him to leave the club- 
house after 72 holes with more gr 
his pockets than the tourney champion. 
When questioned about his hustling ac 
tivities, the Viking becomes terribly 
upset. “Hell, I'm no hustler. А ћиѕПег a 


h was the 


thief, no better than a common crimir 
Sure, Im a money player, but not a 
hustler 

Another pro, who admits privately to 
his before-tour hustling days, mourns the 
passing of hustling as a proving ground 
for new young pros. “Today, if a kid's 
any good, he gets a scholarship, plays 
four years on a college team, then, soon 
as he gets out, a syndicate buys him up 
and puts him on che tour, Another 
thing: TV has made legitimate golf so 
lucrative—there's hardly а tournament 
played where first prize is under 
520,000— that hustling for 556 and $100 
a day scems a pure waste of time. Its a 
shame, ша way. A guy sure can learn an 
awful lot about golf by hustling. 

The hustling action on tennis courts is 
harder to find. J's there, but it's morc 
covert, because of the strict distinction 
between amateur and pro that was part 
of the sport until recently. So 
hustlers are, for the most part, unobiru- 
sive, like the high school teacher in Fort 
Lauderdale who supplements his income 
by taking 5105 and 5205 from tou 
the public courts of Miami Beach; and 
the par stunt who 
spends his afternoons clipping the more 
affluent college students on the campus 
couris in Los Angele: 

Though most of the scalping is more 
prosaic than in golf or pool, tennis does 
have its legendary hustles and most of 
them include the aforementioned Bobby 
Riggs. In 1947, the late Errol Flynn was 
busy talking up a young tennis player 
named Pancho Gonzalez. Gonzalez was 
then the 17th-ranked American amateur 
and very few people knew how really 
good he was. Flynn did, and it was no 
secret that he wanted to match him 
against the current world's champion 
pro—fellow named Bobby Riggs. Riggs 
talked Flynn into a doubles match, with 
Riggs and a pro named y 
facing Gonzalez and Bobby Falkenburg 
—the latter, like Riggs, one of the top 
name tennis players of the post-War era. 
The fattest cits in Hollywood showed 
up at Flynn's house for the big event 
and, since many were close friends of the 
swashbuckling маг. they were eager to 
back his find. Gonzalez played well that 
day, as did Falkenburg; but Riggs, un- 
beatable when there's big moncy in- 
volved, was invincible; and he and Brink 
won. There's no authoritative account 
of the money that passed hands, but one 
spectator pegged it in the lowto- 
medium-range six figures. 

Riggs currently plays out of New York 
(he's sill active in official competition 
and last August won the United States 
senior gras, court championships) and 
most any fair day can be lound on the 
roof of the "Tennis Center on East 38th 
Street, where his knowing victims will be 


tennis 


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people such as Jack Dreyfus of the fund 
by that name, former baseball gre: 

Hank Greenberg and a host of New 
York's richest merchants, industrialists 
and executives. Al the center, you'll 
1 the leftover hustlers from the now- 
defunct Rip's Tennis Courts, which used 
to be the hotbed of hustling in New 
York," says pro Len Hartman, а steady 
tennis partner of Riggs's. "Ore day, ma 

be they'll all go over to Riggs's place 
Queens or down to my own Hi-M 
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y 
inis in Brooklyn. Comes winter and 
me bunch, with Riggs leading the 
ade like the Pied Piper, are down at 
lamingo Park in Miami. It’s like a float- 
ing crap game in underwear.” 

Riggs tries hard to play down his 
hustling action by claiming he indulges 
only in “friendly games in which a dol- 
lar or two changes hands.” "Add a few 
zeros 10 the right of the one and you'll 
be more accurate,” Hartman laughs. 
Riggs, according to Hartman, will bet 
nyone anything when it comes to ten- 
nis. He rarely loses; but Hartman тє 
members once when he did. “A young 
amateur named Steve Ross came up fror 
Florida, The kid has the most god-awful 
serve you've ever seen—floats over the 
net like a beach ball—but aside from 
that, he's ап extraordinarily fine tennis 
player. Г kept him under wraps at my 
place until, one day, Riggs came over 
to play. 1 made sure Bobby got a good 


the 


look at Ross, at his soft, easy serve, then 
T went over and asked him if he'd like 
to play the kid. "What would you give 
him?’ I asked. Riggs just laughed. "With 
a serve like that, three games? Out they 
went and Ross, floater and all, whipped 
iggs soundly. Well, Bobby grew angry. 
"Nobody with a serve like that can beat 
me, he bellowed. He challenged Ross 
in, this time spotting him two games. 
And Ross whipped him again. This kept 
up all afternoon, until Ross was spotting 
Riggs three games; but Bobby never won 
а set. T guess it just goes 10 prove that 
even a hustler can get hustled 

This last statement, when related, got 
a big laugh from America's best-known 
sporis hustler. “Even a hustler can get 
hustled?” said Rudolph Wanderone, alias 
Minnesota Fats. "Listen, only а hustler 
gets hustled. You're not going to get 
anything from the Johnny straight d 
zen, because he doesn't want anything 
from you. It’s the greedy little guy who 


wants to get his hands on your boodle 
hustle.” 
in pool, 


who's the easiest target for 

This is especially the са 
where hustlers rely almost exclu 
other hustlers. “Pool hustle: 
among themselves,” says Tom Fox, co- 
author of Fass autobiography, The 
Bank Shot and Other Great Robberies. 
“They have the most unbelievably Run- 
yonesque names—like Weenie Beanie, 
Tuscaloosa Squirrelly, Corn-bread Red— 


“You can't talk to that crowd—they’ve 
all got extra Y chromosomes.” 


they sport egos as big as houses and they 
are collectively the biggest bunch of 
natural-born liars on earth. They'll liter- 
ally spend days sweet-talking onc another. 
tying to squeeze out an edge. In the 
end, it's usually the one with the most 
patience and best sales resistance who 
comes out on top." 

Unlike golf, there is little problem in 
picking out the hustlers here. When an 
unfamiliar face ks into а pool hall, 
his two-piece cue in а black-leather cise 
tucked under his arm, his identity 
immediately established. (As a matter of 
fact, a pool hustler wouldn't think of 
frequenting а place where hustlers 
weren't welcome, as did Paul Newma 
in The Hustler.) The big thing in this 
game, then, is not what he is but how 
proficiently he shoots. 

As a hustler, you just cannot delude 
yourself into believing you're а bener- 
grade pool shooter than you are," says 
Jerry Orbach, star of the Broadway musi- 
cal hit Promises, Promises and one of the 
top cue men in show business. (Orbach 
is known around New York pool halls as 
Jerry the Actor) “Having done а lot of 


theatrical roadwork, I've hustled 
tically every city in the country, but Гус 
always had enough sense to realize the 


limits of my ability.” 

"The best of the hustlers, of course, can 
perform at any level. “When I go into a 
town, 1 go solely with the idea of making 
money,” sıys а well-traveled hustler who 
goes under the cognomen of Peter Rab- 
bit, “If I run up against a D-rate shooter 
with a bundle, ГИ play below speed and 
shoot D rate, only a little beuer, C rate, 
А rate, the same thing. What I won't do, 
though, is whack out a D after 
leting him think I play at his speed, 
then take on an A ога D man. А guy 
can get in a little trouble that way." 

Peter also dispels any notions about 
the element of risk in his line of wo 
“I don't think of myself as a gambler, 
because, to me, there's never any doubt 
as to the outcome of the match. Rather, 
I consider myself a doctor, a surgeon, 
nd the victim as my patient. The 
tient comes to the doctor and gives him 
money to be operated оп. It’s as cut and 
dried as that.” 

One man who does consider pool hus- 
tling a gamble is Hubert Cokes, а mil- 
lionairc oilman from Evansville, Indiana, 
Cokes, known as Daddy Warbucks be- 
cause of liis remarkable physical likeness 
to Lite Orphan Annie's gu i 
hustler of the B-plus variety. His р 
interest in pool, howe 
sot. 


man 


ра- 


heck of a lot of money,” he note 
have to rely on backers. What ГИ do, 


stake a 
if he wins, 


like most professional backers, 
man to a certain limit and, 
we split 50-50. If he loses, 1 lose 
As a rule, he contends, pool hustlers 
are mot the most astute bettors. “Their 


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egos are so g 


that many times, it's 
casier for some superspieler to con them 
out of their money than it is to beat 
them at the table Last year, for exam 
ple. 1 staked а man to а nine-ball match 
n Houston. They played all night and 
when they quit, we were 53800 ahcad. 
Well, 1 went to bed, thinking I had won 
myself 51900. The next day, I learned 
that after Fd left, my boy was talked 
into playing some one pocket. which 
isn’t his game. Instead of winning 51900, 
1 wound up losing over $1000.” 

Ask him to his face, and no pool 
hustler has ever lost а hustle. Peter Rab- 
bit, for instance, boasts of taking Minne- 
sota Fats for $1200 in Miami last winter: 
but accor ats, he let Peter win, 
to set him up for the next night, when 
he sent him home shoeless And so it 


goes. At present, with all the publicity 
he has received as а result of Jackie Glea- 
son's film portrayal of him, Fats is the 


verbal target of every pool con from 
Boston to San Diego. Listen to them 
tell it and they can take the man any 
day of the week. Not so, counters Cokes. 

“Just look at what happened in Vegas 
in 1968," he argues. “It was just after 
the п 1 championships were finished 
and all the hustlers were there. They 
began chiding Fats for being over the 


hill, Fats really got mad. He said he 
would play anybody there, if $2000 were 
put up, and that if an opponent were to 
put up his own money. Fats would give 
half of it back if he won. Well, some 
backers put up the two thou оп Marvin 
Henderson, who'd just won the tourna- 
ment—ind, along with it, the tide of 
national one. pocket champ. They played 
one-pocket and Fats mowed him down 
like grass. Uh-uh; Fats may be a little 
off his game of ten years ago, but he's 
still the greatest money player in the 
world.” 

Yet there have been times when Cokes 
has elected to back Fats's opponents, One 
occasion was during a recent Hustlers’ 
Tournament, au annual event staged in 
Johnson City, Illinois. Once again, Fats 
was getting the razz, Finally, he was 
challenged by Handsome Danny Jones. 
But Jones didn't own the necessary capi 
tal, so, as Fats himself describes it, “They 
formed a subsidiary to finance Mr. Dan- 
ny Jones against me.” Cokes had 60 
percent of the $500 riding on Jones. The 
game was one-pocket, four out of seven, 
Jones won the first game and the stakes 
went up. Jones won the second game 
ad the stakes went up again. Game num 
ber three also went to Handsome Danny 
and there now resed $4000 in the pot, 


with Jones needing only one of the next 


four matches to cash 


n. 


“That's when the gab really came on," 
Fats recalls. "Danny said something like, 
Fast 


? I'm 


"Know who I am, fat mi 
Eddie and I've come all ih 
fornia to get you.” Daddy Ман 

then took Danny aside and told him to 
cut the banter, because it would only get 
me mad and that I play best when I'm 
1. But Danny didn't heed the warn- 
tty.’ he said, ЧГ you were as in- 
telligent as you say you are, you would 
know it's time to quit posing as a pool 
player’ “Intelligent” I screamed. ‘Listen, 
sonny boy. ГИ tell you how intelligent I 
am: I could spot Einstein the ten ball! 
Then I cooled down and told him. Dan. 
ny, I happen to be a businessman, You 
and I have a little business propo: 
going on the table and right now. the 
stakes are four thou.’ When I mentioned 
the four grand, you could see Handsome 
tighten up. He now had something to 
thi Soon he made a dra 
mistake—he misplayed a safety and left 
me just enough room for a shot, which 
was all I had been waiting for. I whacked 
him the way Sherman marched 
through Gcorgia. Well, this shook Danny 
so he never did recover. From there, it 
was all the мау home for the fat man. 
The story may be apocryphal—according 


hour. 


out 


to Handsome Danny, it is—bu Fats tells 
it well. 

Despite all the money that good hus- 
ders take from good victims every year 
in pool halls, on golf courses, on tennis 
and anywhere else they can get a 
sure thing, most of them are chronically 
broke. I'm like a bank telk laughs a 
hustler who once won $100.000 in golf 
and lost it at cards, all in the same day. 
“I just take the money from one person 
and pass it on to somebody else.” Anoth- 
er says, “It’s like playing Monopoly. АШ 
that money doesn't seem real. 

But it's a way of life. Most hustlers 
would no more think of taking a legiti- 
e job—forget the money involved— 
than they would of giving a sucker an 
even break. Wherever there's sport, and 
sportsmen, there will always be a place 
for the hustler. The dice hustler needs 
no more equipment than a couple of 
speckled cubes, educated fingers and a 
cast-iron constitution. He's everywhere а 
crap game can be found. Ping-pong hus- 
tlers abound at Y. M. C. A.s in New York 
and other cities. Eating hustlers (Minne- 
sota Fats claims to be the world’s cham- 
pion) will tke your money and yo 
dinner, There's а man who goes from col- 
lege to college, challenging track coaches 
to run their best men st him for 
cash. His specialty is the half mile, but 


cour 


he’s been known to run everything from 
the 220 on up. provided the distance 
lead offered is to his liking. The collegi- 
ate runners are never told there's a bet 


involved, of course, and even the coaches 
at this 


are, for the most part, unaware th 
track hustler received much of his tr; 
ing in the exercise yard at Leavenworth, 
Or so the story goes. 

Separating truth from fiction in the 
folklore of hustling is impossible. Usu- 
ally, the more outrageous the story, the 
more eyewitnesses one can find. But 
somehow, there is always the feeling, 
when you're talking to a hustler about 
hustling, that you're being hustled, And 
although it’s generally true that the hus- 
tler you're talking to believes he's the 
greatest hustler in the world, there is one 
name that gets a reverent nod even from 
Minnesota Fats and Bobby Riggs: Titan- 
ic Thompson, the father of all hustlers. 

The folklore goes that Titanic (real 
name: Alvin Clarence Thomas) is mas- 
ter of every kind of hustle, from quick- 
and-dirty to the subtle long-term ploy. 
He'll shoot craps. play cards, throw quar- 
ters into potatoes and generally bet on 
anything in which he can eke out his 
edge. But the most sustained portion of 


the Thompson legend was 
golf course. For years, he practiced put- 
ting with a wedge. He became so good at 


it that many of his hustles were pulled 
off on the practice putting green, before 
the victim ever reached the first tee. He 
could also kick a ball 25 feet into the 
cup with his instep. 

Perhaps the most incredible of all golf 
hustles is a Titanic Thompson story. At 
Park Dallas, long one of 
ne hustle spots (and where 
now close to 80, still operates 
rt time), Ti was engaged in a running 
match with a wealthy industrialist. At 
the end of the first week, Ti was losing 
badly. The size of the bet rose stcadil 
as Thompson “tried my darnedest to 
break even.” Finally, he did break even, 
and soon after, went ahead —far ahead. 

"Listen," Ti told his rich opponent at 
the end of the second week, “you were 
good enough to give me a chance to 
caich up. Now I'm going to do the same 
for you. For double or nothing, ГИ play 
you one more round, only this time, ГИ 
play left-handed.” That must have been 
hard for the industrialist to believe. For 
an entire fortnight, Thompson had been 
hitting exclusively righthanded. Now he 
wanted to play 18 holes southpaw. The 
mark said go, and they did. Ti not only 
beat him but shot a 69 doing it. How? 
Simple. Thompson's a natural left-hander. 

That's hustliny 


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“And if you young people get tired of television, there's 
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SEX-EDUCATION ENIGMA 

There is a consistent irony that has 
occurred repeatedly in recent American 
history—an irony that civil libertarians 
seem to ignore, despite its many repeti- 
tions. I speak of the three-step phenome- 
non whereby (1) those of conservative 
persuasion vehemently oppose enlarge- 
ment of a Government agency or function 
on the grounds that dangerous central- 


ized control will result; (2) liberals 
support the new progam, meanwhile 
scorning the opposition as paranoid and 


Neanderthal; (8) then, once the innova 
cepted, it not only turns out 
there is, indeed. monolithic central- 
«d control but also that the innov 
ost responsible to and guided by the 
right-wingers who initially opposed it. 

1 think there is real danger that this 
pattern will be ma in in the 
ficld of sex education. Already, some sex 
educators are being forced to tke а 
specific “moral” position, adopt а tone of 
defensiveness and generally avoid a head- 
оп collision with the rightists. 

This, it seems to ше, is а portent of 
what will happen: To escape charges of 


communism and degeneracy, sex-ed classes 


will become brainwashing sessions 10 in- 
still the most reactionary and repressive 
attitudes, PIL be damned if I want the 
school doing this to my children; and 
Id rather sce no sex education at all. 
Dr. Dave Berkman 
Norwalk, Connecticut 
Your points are thoughtful and worth 
considering; nevertheless. we think you 
have focused attention on a problem that 
permeates public education and is not re- 
stricted to the sex-education issue alone, 
The price of quality education, like 
the price of liberty, is eternal vigilance. 
That is, there is no part of the curricu- 
lum that reactionaries have not, at one 
time or place, sought to alter. И one 
asumed that this right-wing element 
would win all such battles, the answer 
would be to abolish not just sex educa- 
tion but the public-school system as well, 
A few leſtauing individualisis, notably 
Norman Mailer and Paul Goodman, have 
actually suggested this, urging thal the 
state provide a tax rebate out of which 
parents could hire the tutors they choose 
for their own children. While this pro- 
posal may have something to recommend 
it, we feel fairly certain that it is nol 
likely to be adopted in the near future, 
so the only answer is jor liberals and 
libertarians to fight just as hard for the 
kind of progresswe education they want 
as the Birchers fight to return our 
schools to a medieval curriculum. Ajter 
all, nobody ever got anything worth hav- 
ing without working for it. 
Dr. Mary Calderone discusses the vari- 
ous problems and prospects of sex educa- 
tion in this month's “Playboy Interview.’ 


(continued from page 60) 


THE PLOT SYNDROME 
Recent letters in The Playboy Forum 
call attention to the rightwing tendency 
to denounce anything they disapprove of 
—such as sex education—as а Commu- 
nist plot. Fm familiar with this argu- 
ment, since a co-worker with whom I 
frequently have political discussions sol- 
emnly told me, “Did you know that for 
the past fifty years, che Communists have 
been working for gun contol and sex 
educa 
My reply was, "So wl 
His face fell. He had been expect 
me to challenge the truth of his state- 
ment, at which point he undoubtedly 
would have produced some John Birch 
Society-inspired document as his clincher 
I then pointed out that the Commu- 
nists have supported all kinds of worth- 
while causes when it has suited their 
purpose—but that this doesn't change the 
fact that the causes are good. Communists 
in Russia have worked for literacy, im- 
proved public health, industrial 
electrification, space research and n 
programs supporting athletics and the arts. 
Communists in America have supported 
the labor movement, racial equality, the 
war against Nazi Ge number 
of other good causes involving justice and 
social progress. These are 
any min of reason and good 
take the same position as the Commu 
mmunists also advocate dictator- 
ship. thou ol, censorship and the 
n one’s ends—but 
in reactionaries and 
conservatives. right-wing Ameri- 
cans ave equally vulnerable to the charge 
of furthering communism. 
John Hearty 
Pensacola, Florida 


5 


PRAISE FOR PLAYBOY 

1 never cease to be amazed at how 
well informed the editors of PLAYBOY al- 
ways seem to be. When I n 
torted references to Sweden in a letter in 
the October 1969 Playboy Forum, 1 was 
sufficiently aroused to write you in order 
to set the record straight. On turning the 
page, however, I found I hardly needed 
to do so, since you had done the job 
remarkably well yourselves. 

When I was а junior at Clark Univer- 
sity in Massachusetts, I spent а у 
studying in Sweden with the Scandinavi 
п Seminar Program and I have just re- 
turned from a second visit to that country. 
While doing research for an extensive 
paper 1 wrote, I investigated quite thor- 
al attitudes and be- 
havior their relationship to sex 
education. Despite my intensive study and 
nd knowledge of the culture, I can 
hardly present a more complete or more 
representative picture of the situation as 
it really exists than you did, as editors, 


in the Forum. This indicates that you do 
a remarkable job in gathering back- 
ground material for your comments. 

Thomas W. V 
Yonkers, New York 


SHOCK AND DR. SPOCK 

A defense of censorship by Dr. Benja- 
min Spock appeared in the January issue 
of Redbook. This surprised me because 
I'd come to think of Dr. Spock as a 
monument to civil liberties after his 
work for peace and his celebrated trial. 
In the article, he says he has long op- 
posed censorship but has changed his 
mind because of recent trends toward 
what he calls "shock obscenity.” Even 
civil libertarians admit, he says, that 
depiction of certain acts would offend 
them, and: 


To justify legal or customary 
standards of decency, I don't think 
should be necessary to prove that 
adults have committed sex crimes or 
that adolescents have lost their virtue 
as a direct result of reading a story 
or looking at a picture. No single ex- 
peri to happen. 
However, various psychological ob- 
servations have shown clearly tha 
people's stand 
modified—sometimes n, some- 
imes up—by the ethical atmosphere 
in which they find themselves. This 
applies to sexual behavior and to 
violence. Experiments have proved 
that after viewing films of violence, 
people become more cruel in their 
relations with others. 


The essay says that man has come up 


from barbarism by constructing. systems 


of values and social and legal codes. 
which are threatened when children and 
undisciplined adults are exposed to 


views that undermine the codes. 


I'd suggest that for public presen- 
tation there be standards of toler- 
ance or taboo. What is allowed for 
open display on newsstands and in 
bookstores—for children as well as 
for adults to buy—and what is shown 
on television during children’s view- 
ing hours and in theaters open to all 
ages should be only what average 
citizens would consider not disturb- 
ing to children, not debasing to their 
ideals. 


Some works. Dr. Spock thinks, should 
be absolutely forbidden: 


Movies, plays, novels, articles, 
paintings and photographs in which 
a primary aim is to shock, revolt or 
embarr: 
ual intimacies—especially 
loveless, perverse or brutal kind—and 
also acts of nonsexual brutality. 
The abrupt and aggressive break- 
ing down of inhibitions can be dis- 
turbing to a society as а whole and 


179 


PLAYBOY 


rücularly to its children, even if 
ere efforts are made to shield the 
children. This seems riskier when a 
society already has soaring rates of 
delinquency and crime, an insatiable 
ppetite for brutality on television 
and what I consider an unprecedent- 
ed loss of belief in man’s worthiness. 


К 


Admitting that works of cultural value 
were suppressed in the past and acknowl- 
edging the process by which the courts 
adually made these works available to 
the public, Dr. Spock. nevertheless, says 
that the standards used by the courts to 
define obscenity “are too limited and 
1 то bar the kinds of material 1 

destructive" Ideally, he says, 
people should act as their own censors, 
rejecting material that revolts them. 


But it is because I don't. believe 
whelming revulsion is likely 
to occur for another 10 or 90 у 
that I would now joi j 
h developed, in 
that would determine guilt simply on 
the basis of judges and juries! sense 
of shock and revulsion. (1 realize that 
almost no liberals or intellectuals, 
young or old, would go along with 
me) ГА want such laws to spe 
that they are not intended to dis 
courage the presentation of themes 
volving immorality, lawlessness, 
cruelty or perversion (all of which 
have regularly been dealt with in 
nd art), but only 


n ove 


that used by all would-be censors, Dr. 
Spock insists that nations and ci 
tions have collapsed because they let go 
of their standards. Dr. Spock is not the 
vy nownothing censorship zealot 
nd he is considered an authority on 
g children. What does PLAYBOY 
nk of his position on this issue? 

Edward Russell 

Los Angeles, Californi: 

Dr. Spock has good reasons to be dis 
appointed with our society, such as the 
war and his own persecution by our 
Government. But, ironically, it was his 
right of [ree speech that was threatened 
and then vindicated when he was con- 
victed of conspiracy to advise draft avoid- 
ance and then exonerated on appeal. He, 
therefore, should appreciate the liber- 
tarian bent of the U_S. judiciary, which 
he implies is guilty of undermining our 
standards; and he should recall he's had 
firsthand experience with the evils inher- 
ent in vaguely worded laws prohibiting 
poorly defined crimes, such as “conspir- 
acy’—or “obscenity” presented in a 
“shocking manner- 

Perhaps, having focused his attention 
for so long on some of our real prob- 
lems, Dr. Spock is relaxing by turning to 
an imaginary problem: the assumption 


180 that freedom of expression harms society. 


Too good a scientist to claim that a 
single instance of “reading a story or 
looking at a picture" will hurt people, 
he makes the threat more amorphous 
by speaking of generalized detriment to 
“the ethical atmosphere." In this, he is at 
odds with the psychiatrists and. psychol- 
ogists polled in a University of Chicago 
study (“The Playboy Forum,” Janu- 
ary) 53.7 percent of whom believe that 
pornography is not a causal factor in 
antisocial sexual behavior. As for ethical 
atmosphere, 61.9 percent of this same 
group of clinical observers felt that cen- 
sorship can be socially harmful. because 
it contributes to a climate of oppression 
and inhibition within which creative in- 
dividuals cannot adequately express them- 
selves. Dr. Spock also overlooks the 
experience of Denmark, where pornogri 
phy has been legalized. There has been 
no observable decline in the ethical 
atmosphere in Denmark; in fact, the 
rime rate has dropped. 

Man has certainly been aided in his 
vise from barbarism by the construction 
of systems of values and codes of beh 
ior; one of the most important ways in 
which he has risen has been his increasing 
recognition of individual freedom. The 
ancient and medieval worlds had little or 
no sense of the value of freedom from 
censorship. The social and legal codes by 
which freedom of expression has been 
safeguarded are threatened when impr 
sionable people are exposed to views thal 
undermine it, but onc of the paradoxes 
of freedom of expression is that it gives 
people the right to advocate censorship. 

Dr. Spock's decision to speak in behalf 
oj censorship because many current 
books and movies aim 10 shock people 
neglects the fact that shock is a transi- 
tory phenomenon that occurs usually 
only upon first exposure to previously 
forbidden material. What is considered 
shocking and what is considered com- 
monplace thus necessarily varies from 
age to age, in fact, from year to year. 
Shock cam only exist in an atmosphere 
of suppression, and the best protection 
against it is exposure. The Danish situ- 
ation, in which pornography sales to 
Danes dropped olf once the public got 
its fill of this material, underlines this 
point. Shock is also a phenomenon that 
varies greatly from individual to individ- 
ual. If people were convicted merely 
on the basis of individual reactions of 
shock and revulsion, this would consti- 
tnte a definition of guilt from which 
there could be no appeal, and there would 
be wast inequities in the application of the 
law. Dr. Spock might not have fared so 
well in his own trial if his guilt or inno- 
cence were determined by subjective 
responses to his words and actions. 

Thus, while we emphatically share Dr. 
exploitation of 
“loveless, perverse or brutal” sexual ac- 
tivities, the fetid sadomasochistic trash 
currenily in circulation is—like the pub- 


se: 


lications of the American Nazi Party— 
part of the price we have to pay for 
the First Amendment. 

Nations and civilizations have, indeed, 
collapsed when they let go of their stand- 
ards; we seriously doubt that the good 
doctor has any desire lo see us sink back 
into the hypocrisy of Victoriani the 
repression of puritanism or the 
of the Inquisition. Dr. Spock is a wise 
and concerned man, but even Homer 
nods, 


THE SWAPPERS 

I agree with the Wichita couple who 
spoke in favor of mate swapping (The 
Playboy Forum, November 1969) and, like 
them, my wife and I have exchanged 
partners а few times. This did more than 
provide variety; it forced us to get out of 
our rut and to learn new techniques, 
and it actually increascd our enjoyment 
of cach other. 

Mariage involves mudi 
just sex: living together, vaising children, 
for each other dw ness, 
ining a household. and so forth. Tt 
should be one's primary relationship, but 


more tli 


mai 


s 
job. their in. 


amy relations) with others that do not 
endanger or encroach upon the marriage 


(Name withheld by request) 
k Ridge, Tennessee 


DIVORCEE DIVIDENDS 
Like others who have written to The 
Playboy Forum, 1 feel that the divorce 
laws in America should be changed. 
The present laws are far too tempting to 
the unscrupulous woman who, because she 
wants an easy life, will snare a mo 
six-month marriage, after wh 
will dump him and take much of his 
hardearned money and property 
vorce laws should guarantee c 


port and, perhaps. money for the extr: 
help needed to care for the childrei 
while the ех at work earning her 


living. Bur a divorced woman. unlessther 
ате mitigating circumstances, should be 
expected to support herself. 

1 am divorced und although I have 
child, 1 asked for no help from my ex- 
husband. This allows him. as it docs m 
to try to find happiness elsewhere. I se 
no reason a man should he prevented 
from providing a new wife and family 
with the necessities they deserve. 

(Name withheld by request) 
Vüginia Beach, Virgin 


REWARD VS. PUNISHMENT 
Lately, I have noted, the discussion 
The Playboy Forum his moved from 
condemnation of specific punishments 
meted out for noncrimes and fun crimes 
(continued on page 181) 


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CAROLINE COON [egal aide 


mer ELEcTRIe ими, hip slang and midifashions suggest 
ne Coon is a social butterfly rather than a social 
This pretty 23-year-old is the cofounder of Release, a 
based. youth-oriented welfare agency that provides 
service round the clock. Over two yearsago, Caroline abandoned 
a lucrative career in modeling (you may remember her well- 
publicized men’s-magazine uncoverage, reported by Time and 
Life) and. with friend Rufus Harris. organized Release to help 
young violators of Britain's drug laws. "Too many kids were 
getting busted and doing time because they didn't have the 
right information." says Caroline. “The straights wouldn't 
even admit a problem existed, so the kids were on their own." 
She knows what that's Hil When she was five, her parents 
рад ballet school and at 16 she left home—and school 
d. “But the strict discipline at school,” she says, “did 
cp me together enough to stick with what I'm doing 
For those who come to Release, it’s a good thing she 
did: The agency has capably handled more than 9000 c 

to date. Last spring. Caroline and Rufus published the 
Release Report on Drug 


es 
st 
Offenders and the Law. stating that 
on marijuana and hashish charges, none of their first offenders 
went to prison (as against 17 percent nationally) and, of all 
their cases, only 10 percent went to prison (compared with 26 
percent nationally). Release recently expanded its май and 
services to include counseling on contraception and abortion; 
and advice on other legal problems is dispensed by volunteer 
lawyers twice a week. After her long work week is over, Caro- 
line studies sociology and psychology and makes frequent radio 
and TV appearances for the cause. Because Release is differ- 
ent from what Caroline calls “the straight agencies," it is effec- 
tive; she and her co-workers think, talk and dress like the 
wy to help. Certainly for Britain's troubled youth, 
the best thing that's happened in a Coon's age. 


JANN WENNER stone mason 


AN UNEMPLOYED COLLEGE DROPOUT in thc fall of 1967. New 
Yorker Jann Wenner had an idea for a rock publication that 
would do more than supply tecnyboppers with pinups and 
singalong lyrics. It would be well written and carefully edited, 
with respect for the intelligence of the audience it was aimed 
at—"the new America," as he called it—and would frequently 
deal with subjects not directly related to music, since he felt 
this was “only the tip of an iceberg of cultural change.” With 
this conception—formed while gaining experience as a music 
critic and columnist for UC's Daily Californian and as a staff. 
writer for Ram parts—Wenncr approached jazzrock columnist 
Ralph Gleason and freelance photographer Baron. Wolman 
for help with the practicalities of the projec. Gleason 
matched Wenners $3000, and the budget for the project 
totaled $7500 after a little help from their friends. Along 
with an aggregation of volunteers, the threesome started work 
on Rolling Stone (the title taken from the old saying) i 

a loft ofice over a printing plant in San Francisco, The 
publication's stature rose steadily; so did the circulation— 
now over 125,000 and gaining 5000 subscriptions monthly 
—and its influence in the rock world. A puton review ap- 
sing a nonexistent album by “the Masked Marauders” as 
an authentic jam of such artists as John Lennon, Bob Dyla 
and Mick Jagger stirred so much comment that a group of 
pscudonymous mimics decided to cash in by recording the 
LP. They did; it sold 100,000 copies. Having launched a Brit- 
ish edition, Wenner, now 24, hopes to publish new period- 
icals with similar formats on different subjects—but only if 
political trends don’t continue toward the right. If they do, 
he has already made “all contingency plans necessary to 
leave this county.” "Though Wenner views this as "a high 
possib; hes philosophically undaunted: “I'm prepared 
for a Ше of change; nothing lasts forever—even misfortune. 


JOHN CASSAVETES shadows, faces, husbands 


Ms GoNvicHON that a film director should give actors the 
freedom to find what's best in themselves has made John 
Cassavetes. at 40. an acknowledged master of the traditional- 
ly authoritarian director's craft. Unlike y equally suc- 
cessful but less gifted colleagues, however, he has had to prove 
his ability many times over. It was in 1950 that Cassavetes, 
fresh from the American Academy of Dramatic Art in his 
native New York. started in summer stock; he quickly pro- 
gressed to television, acting in about 100 live dramas and 
starring in a series, Johnny Staccato, After several grade-B- 
ble one in Edge of the City 
ected Shadows, an improvised, experimental film 
won him a director's gig at Paramount. But multitudi- 
he bankers” of Hollywood left many 
Cassavetes was finished in filmland 
э of obscurity followed before he launched. 


movie roles—and a memor: 
—he 


by 1963. Two ye 
a second acting carcer that soon included roles in The Dirty 


Dozen and Rosemary's Baby. His incentive was a film of his 
own, Faces, shot with hand-held cameras in his house and 
е the bill collectors growled 


that the banker 
dom—so it was with Пава 
Peter Falk began filming Husbands. Slated for release next 
month, it tells the story of three men who, after a friend's fu- 
neral, take off on a binge that leaves them painfully aware 
of their own mortality. -uncut result was hailed in 
London as a work of ge h may portend that Cas 
savetes will never again have to scramble for his scratch. 


183 


PLAYBOY 


184 


PLAYBOY FORUM 
(drug and s 


x "offenses") to consideration 
of the punishment principle itself and 
the indiscriminate way this principle is 
applied throughout our penal system. 
Such discussion inevitably produces the 
usual rebuttals coddling crim 
nals,” "the permissive society." “do-good- 
ism,” “dewy-eyed idealists,” and so forth 
Nevertheless, I think vou and your 
readers are on the right track. 
Punishment is the easiest method. of 
behavior control known, and anybody, 
regardless how low his I. Q.. can learn to 
apply it. When Mr. А misbehaves, hit 
him with a club. If he doesn't chang 
ways, hit him with a heavier dub 
repeat the dosage more often. IF he gets 
worse instead of better, kill him. Th 
method is popular, 1 believe, only becuse 
it is simple to use. Its actual effectiveness 
is mediocre at best, and often the result is 
the exact opposite of what was intended. 
instance, after a prison term, many 
ts do not reform but commit a new 
few months.) From an en- 


crime with 


"Let's just say we're 


(continued from page 180) 


gincering standpoint, such a spotty success 
factor is enough to disqualify the tech- 
nique used and send us all back to the 
laboratory to find a bener method 

In fact, back at the laboratory, the 
people who have been working on this 
subject most scientifically—the psychol- 
ме the creation and 
ог patterns—have 
technology. They 
shapes behavior 
nd persistently than 
amed that 


n of bel 
developed a 
have found tha 
more effectively 
punishment. They have 1 
many types of behavior (eg 
can often be extinguished without 
punishment ||. merely by re 
ing incompatible behavior (nonsturte 
whenever it occurs, They have seen chat 
when punishment is used, the effects are 
unpredictable, and that, if it must be 
used, it works best in tandem with equal 
and opposite reward—the technician 
does not merely punish cach instance of 
"wrong" behavior but also quickly re- 
wards each ins 


ince of “r 


moderates.” 


These principles have been vindicated 
dozens of statistical studies, using sane 
and "insane" people and even animals. 


anwhile, our prisons continue to 


ге on a control technology created 
by chiefs of the Stone Age tribes. Just 
imagine the outery and the uproar for 
reform if our hospitals used only the 
medical knowledge of Stone Age sha- 
mans! Obviously, the debate about pris- 
on reform is not a matter of idealism 
versus “hardheaded realism,” as conserva- 
tives would have it, but is merely а case 
of precise technology being ignored. 

Simon Moon 

Chicago, П 


EQUAL JUSTICE FOR ALL 
PLAYBOY may wish to print the follow- 
ing letter, which I sent to a lady т 


Nevada, in response to an item that ap- 
peared in the December 1969 Playboy 
Forum 


l am in receipt of your letter 
regarding the lile sentence I handed 
down in the case of Randolph Hop- 
kins. I would expect this type of 
response from someone who is not 
aware of all the acts. 

In the fist place, contrary 10 your 
. I do not owe you an 
planation. I w: 
the people of Brow 
to protect them from those I 
consider dangerous and a menace to 
society. 1 direct my explanation 10 
those who elected me. 

Hopkins was convicted of th 
crime of robbery by six jurors, who 
sat through a daylong trial. The 
ladies and gentemen of the jury 
heard evidence that Hopkins pistol- 
whipped a young girl and threat- 
ened to shoot several others while 
in the process of this robbery. P 
haps you do not consider this a 
serious crime: but 1 most certainly 
do and feel it is my duty ro protect 
the citizens of Broward County. by 
ridding them of this type of indi- 
vidual. 

Mr. Hopki 


will be cligible for 
Florida Jaw, in seven 
by that time he is deemed 
ted. 


years, 
rehabilii 


E. Summers Shelle: 
Court of Record 

Fort Lauderdale, Florida 

The December item consisted of a 
leter from a Fort Lauderdale. resident, 
John H. Allen, quoting a Fort Lauder- 
dale News report of the cas 


idge 


The jury deliberated 20 minutes. 
[Judge] Sheffey said he did not know 
whether Hopkins had been previously 
arrested and did not order a pre- 
sentence investigation by the proba- 
tion and parole department because 
“nothing would have changed my 
mind." 


Allen commented, “I think there is, 
at least, a 50 percent chance that the 
young man is black, and а 100 percent 
certainty that he is poor!” An after 
investigating, responded, “The defendant 
was both poor and black? Thus, in both 
Allen's letter and in PLAynoy’s answer, 
poverty was stressed over race and only 
the facts were given, without any judg- 
ment offered. Nevertheless. another Flor- 
ida paper editorially criticized us for 
implying that Judge Shefjey was “one 
of those Southern cracker judges, who 
punish Negroes for being Negroes.” 

Although we made no judgment then, 
we'll make one now. We believe if Hop- 
kins were both rich and white, he would 
not have been represented in court by a 
public defender, but by a lawyer of his 
own choice; he would not have been sen- 
tenced to life; the judge would not have 
failed to investigate for past crimes before 
imposing such a sentence; and the judge's 
remark “nothing would have changed my 
mind” would have resulted in an appeal. 


POT PROHIBITION 

I have sent the following letter to 
Scnator Peter Dominick in response to 
his hearings on drug abuse: 


The people of this country have 
been led to believe that marijuana is 
a dangerous drug and represents а 
threat to sodety. Time and time 


again, the Federal Bureau of Narcot- 
ics has viciously attacked and de- 
nounced scientific studies, such as 
the La Guardia Report (1944), which 
show that marijuana is actually 2 
vely innoarous herb. It is worth 
while to question the motives of 
those behind this propaganda. То 
avid Solomon, editor of The 
uana Papers, “[Т]һе upsurge 
of the use of marijuana in the Thir- 
ties was opposed primarily by pressure 
groups in both the Federal Govern- 
ment and the newly revived liquor 
industry. The suggestion that the 
ban on marijuana might have been 
in part a result of a powerful liquor 
lobby does not seem improbable 
when one considers that a substan- 
tial public shift to marijuana might 
have created considerable competi- 
tion to the sale of alcohol 
Harry J. Anslinger, chief of the 
Federal Bureau 
Congress in 1 
galization of n 
this drug led to v 
ет, he dropped this daim and, in the 
Forties and Fifties, argued that use 
of marijuana leads to use of heroin. 
Both daims are now known to be 
untrue—yet the anti-marijuana law, 
based on these fallacies, survives. 
We are now seeing a repetition of 
all the problems this country faced 


during alcohol prohibition. Just as 
vast numbers lost their respect for 
law and order at that time, so, too, 
are many today losing such respect. 
Just as many were killed by bath- 
n. many are today smoking 
ana adulterated with really 
addictive drugs, such as opiates or 
amphetamines—a problem that could 
easily be solved if marijuana were 
legalized and produced under Gov- 
ernment supervision, like alcohol. 
Furthermore, Government regulation 
of marijuana production and sale 
would transfer millions in taxes 
from the hands of organized-crime 
cartels to the Government. 


Joe Duncanson 
Boulder, Colorado 


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MODERATE MAJORITY (continued from page 94) 


made him trusted to manage large enter- 
prises, to mediate conflicts and to hold 
high office. But the coming decades will 
require more than mere balancing skills 
and good intentions. In times of rapid 
change, one cannot preserve a sense of 
balance without a clear sense of direc- 
tion—without a firm idea of the drift of 
events and a philosophy for shaping 
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future. 

Now, each of us has his private vision 
of what he would like America to be—a 
utopia in which the Dodgers are back in 
Brooklyn and one's own unique abilities 

nd prejudices have the widest possible 
scope. This, however, is not sufficient for 
politics. The vision of the political activ- 
ist, unlike that of the artist, cannot be 
idiosyncratic. It must Бе shared by others 
and articulated in such a way that di- 
verse people can act on it, А fresh polit- 
ical vision most often emerges from 
group activity. It may draw on the in- 
sights of isolated thinkers, but ultimately 
it is shaped and tested by many men 
working together in à common enterprise. 

If there is as yet no well.formulated 
vision for moderates, it is because they 
have not recognized a common cause. 
They are so nonideological, so aware of 
the importance of objective facts that 
they often fail to sec that a disposition to 
look at the facis in a hardheaded way i 
itself a unifying ideology. They 
accustomed to assuming themselves in the 
mainstream of American life that they 
treat any articulation of their position as 
a ncedles intellectual exercise, When 
they enter politics, it is usually around a 
single issue or around a magnetic per- 
sonality. Very rarely do they have the sus- 
tained appetite for the petty squabbling 
and infighting that is necessary to take 
th ty machinery, which derer- 
mines the issues and the candidates. 
more rarely do they unite with other 
moderates into a national movement, 
‘Their favored candidates are usually de- 
cent, intelligent, pragmatic men who so 
pride themselves on their independence 
that they are often unable to team up 
with others. 

Yet if the center is to hold in Ameri- 
can politics, moderates must or 
To my knowledge, the Ripon Society 
the only group developing а moderate 
strategy and organization without basing 
it on a single personality. Its views may 
provide a starting point from which a 
wider moderate movement can build. 
Ripon's approaches have been worked 
out over a period of seven years by men 
and women, mostly young, from different 
parts of the country and from widely dif- 
fering backgrounds. For the most part, 


у 


186 Ripon members have sought not a new 


philosophy but progressive, practical 
ways of dealing with problems such as 
the draft, Vietnam, welfare, Biafran re- 
lief and Federal-state relations. Common 
threads, however, seem to underlie the 
specific approaches of Ripon members; 
and new philosophies—of government, 
political parties and political action— 
seem to be emerging. 

Take, for instance, some basic ques- 
tions about the role of Government. The 
New Deal cleavages follow familiar lines: 
liberals versus conservatives, more versus 
less spending, the welfare state versus 
laissez faire, a global foreign policy ver- 
sus isolationism, bureaucratic controls 
versus an untrammeled  freeenterprise 
system, a strong President versus states’ 
rights, But when one examines a con- 
crete area of policy, these old cleavages 
direct one to the wrong issues. They are 
all different ways of asking a question 
that has already been answered for the 
majority of Americans: Should Gov- 
ernment ty to play a positive role in 
society? There are still pockets of opin- 
ion in which it is popular to say that 
Government shouldn't: but even here, 
opposition is usually confined to a few 
symbolic issues. The govemor of Mis- 
sissippi may find it convenient to dedaim 
nst Federal bureaucrats in civil rights, 


but not when it comes to hurricane relief, 
cotton subsidies or FHA. Similarly, in 
those who oppose the UN 


foreign policy, 
and foreign aid take a positive satisfac- 
tion in advocating U.S. resumption of 
the bombing of North Vietnam. An ac- 
tivist role for Government, then, is 
accepted throughout American society. 
Once this role is recognized, new ques- 
tions arise about the means and aims 
of Government's activities, and one's an- 
swers to them chart a new set of polit- 
ical cleavages: internationalism versus 
nterventionism, "reprivatization" versus 
bureaucratization, devolution versus con- 
centration of power, libertarianism ver- 
sus authoritarianism and a moderating 
versus a polarizing political strategy. 

In forcign policy, indicated, the new 
cleavage is between internationalism and 
interventionism. The ternationalist 
secks to channel the decisions of foreign 
governments and factions in the interests 
of an equitable world order. He has a 
limited view of American foreign policy 
as an attempt to influence foreigners but 
not 10 impose desired outcomes on them. 
When opportunities arise, he tries to fur- 
ther those international practices and 
institutions that can make the process of 
exerting influence less coercive and more 
peaceable. The interventionist sets more 
ambitious goals for American foreign 
policy, so ambitious as to make direct 
action by the United States more likely: 
He is always helping nonnations in the 


goal of nation building: he makes sure 
that countries without enemies have the 
armaments to defend themselves ade- 
quately, while those facing determined 
foes are always kept relying on Amer- 
ican force. He prefers unilateral to 
multilateral action, confrontation to ne- 
gotiation, and military force to just 
about anything else. 

In the domestic realm, there an 
analogous cleavage between a limited 
and a hyperactive conception of the role 
of Government. Government can be seen, 
on the one hand, as a designer of 
centives for outside bodies, as a sort of 
systems manager for society; and, on the 
other hand, as a solver of problems by 
direct burcaucratic means. The morc 
limited view stresses that Government 
should not do things itself but find w 
to get others to do them. It favors guided 
market systems over a patchwork of 
bureaucratic subsidies and controls. It 
relies on reprivatization, on the use of 
outside institutions—semi-public corpo- 
rations, profit-making businesses, univer- 
sities, foundations, voluntary associations 
—to do work in the public interest 
stead of having Government itself deliver 
the necessary goods and services. It will 
propose contracting out delivery of the 
mails to a private corporation, moving 
toward a free market in farming, design- 
ing the tax incentives to encourage pol- 
lution control, giving money directly to 
state and local governments and giving 
cash income subsidies to private citizens. 

Opposed to Ше use of these market- 
oriented and decentralizing devi 
view of Government that relics 
reaucratic measures. It sets up a Govern- 
ment agency to deal with every problem 
and measures success by the amount 
spent by the agency, the number and 
ethnic balance of its employees and the 
number of people reached by its services 
This is the New Deal way of doing 
things, and it would be ideal were Gov- 
ernment the most efficient sector of our 
economy. But since Government is flabby, 
overextended and riddled with patron- 
age, the bureaucratic mode must con- 
stantly make up in inflated rhetoric what 
it lacks in performance. 

Reprivatization versus bureaucratiza- 
tion is one way of labeling this new 
cleavage, but one may also see it as 
involving the issue of devolution ver 
concentration of power. Reprivatization 
is a means of parceling out the execu- 
tion of policy; devolution, of parceling 
out the making of policy. Reprivatiza- 
tion is possible because Government need 
not do things itself to get them done; 
devolution is necessary because a mass 
aristocracy will not be заса with 
ап overconcenuation of policyama 
power. Reprivatizat condi 
tion of managerial efficiency and deci 
siveness; devolution, of social justice and 
participation. 


n is a 


Reprivatization and devolution are 
part of a decentralizing process. They 
are closely related but occasionally in 
conflict. They are related because any 
dispersal of the doing of things leads to 
a widening of a voice in what should be 
done. Conversely, any widening of a 
voice in policy will usually lead to de- 
mands for changes in operating respons 
bility. They аге in conflict because, as I 
have said, there are inevitable trade-offs 
between efficiency and justice, decisiveness 
and participation. One is best advised to 
emphasi ion in areas where 
efficiency is valued (for example, the de- 
livery of the mails), and devolution in 
areas where people want a voice (for 
example, education). 

Perhaps the most fundamental dea 
age is that which poses questions about 
the ultimate purpose of governance. 
Should the governing authority seek to 
protect and enlarge the realm of individu- 
al liberty or should it seek to enforce a 
conformity of behavior that will keep 
isting institutions running smoothly? 
When this question is posed in concrete 
ways—on such issues as privacy, narcot- 
ics, dossiers, dissent, disruption, criminal 
procedure, administrative rules and free- 
dom of information—it is emotionally 
the most difficult for moderates to face. 
It would be pleasant to assume th: 
liberty and stability аге always reconcil- 
able; but they are not. Free choice always 
disturbs the existing balance of things, 
and the presence of it always forces one 
to ask whether he is devoted to pre- 
serving the status quo or to seeking new 
balances that will widen the scope for 
individual choice. Many who call them- 
selves moderates cling to the status quo 
and, in effect, decide that institutions 


should be run for the convenience of the 


rules that exist, They can properly be 
called reactionary, because the rules of 
today are always a response to the reali- 
s of yesterday. By contrast, progressive 
moderates want institutions run for the 
convenience of the individuals within 
them. They try to anticipate new areas 
for free choice, to keep institutions on an 
even keel They seek institutions that 
will always be in transition, never in 
crisis 

The differences between progressive 
moderates and status quo-oriented mod- 
crates are fast growing into a conflict 
between libertarian and authoritarian 
styles. Rapid social change has brought 
behavior that does mot fit yesterday's 
realities nor today's rules. The status quo 
moderate feels he must suppress such be- 
havior and becomes authoritarian. The 
progressive moderate is tolerant of diver- 
sity and dissent and adopts a libertarian 
style. But note that he supports change 
not for its own sake but for its salutary 
effects on individuals. Herein lies the dif- 
ference between a libertarian and a lib- 


“That's certainly going to take all 
the fun out of playing doctor.” 


ertine style. The libertarian always secks 
a new order that is responsible and hu- 
mane; the libertine simply glories in the 
undermining of old customs, without 
giving a thought to what should take 
their place. 

Note, also, that there is a distinction 
between a libertarian style and laissez 
faire. Laissez faire, the doctrine of pas- 
sive government, evolved at the same 
time as the doctrine of maximum liberty 
for all, and some thinkers tend to con- 
fuse the two. But if Government is to 
preserve and extend liberty, it cannot 
merely let natural forces play. There 
rc many citizens who are denied basic 
liberties by virtue of their race, sex or 
пу. There are others who work in 
utions such as the Army, the labor 
union and the university, who have not 
yet developed adequate guarantees of in- 
dividual rights. A libertarian style must, 
therefore, be a liberating one, continually 
opening up new realms to free choice 
and mobility. 


The reader will have noticed that I 
have betrayed a marked preference for a 
given side of each new cleavage. I like 
internationalism, reprivatization, devolu- 
tion and liberta m, and I choose to 
call them progressive. I don't like inter- 
ventionism, burcaucratization, concentra- 
tion of power and authoritarianism. I 
think, moreover, that thoughtful people 
who have no vested interest in the status 
quo or in New Deal social engineering 
will make the same choices, because the 
progressive side of cach cleavage is not 
only more attractive morally but more 
workable at this stage of American his- 
tory. Moreover, it is better suited to the 
needs of a m y and will be so 
recognized by those members of the new 
class who have a chance to enter public 
affairs. 


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J do not, for these reasons, sce the 
fulfillment of a progressive vision as in- 
able. On the contrary; the success of 


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g as is often pointed out, don't vote 
in great numbers and are by no means 
all of a mind. But since the alienated 
young are more energetic than the rest of 
the population, they are unusually active 
in protest. politics, 
electoral politics in the greatest numbers 
through insurgent ents; young 
blue-collar workers have been the т 
stay of George Wallace, college students 
of Eugene McCarthy. Yet others go 
outside the system to radical groups on 
the right and the left. The number of 
those who do go outside the system is a 
measure of the inability of two American 
institutions, which are presently governed 
almost exclusively by old men—the labor 
union and the university—to forge neces- 
sary patterns of cooperation between the 
generations. If such patterns were forged, 
young people would normally choose 
face-to-face collaboration with an experi- 
enced older man to being anonymous 


Indeed, they enter 


moves 


followers of a far-off leader. Many of 
the educated young were overcommitted 
to the Democratic Party before its 1968 
convention in Chicago. Now some are 
prepared to act as an independent group, 
which is their only means of gaining 
leverage on national policy. If they show 
a willingness to switch parties, neither 
party will dare use them as a focus for 
polarizing the electorate. 

The blad e in a similar position. 
They are locked into the Democratic 
Party much as the Deep South was until 
1961. But, unlike white Southerners, 
blacks do not control key Congressional 

blacks, leverage in Pres- 


priorities. Gunnar Myrdal, the Swedish 
sociologist who wrote The American 4 
lemma, recognized that they must take 
care to hedge their bets on the Presiden- 
s. They did so in 1956, when 
Eisenhower- Nixon won 36 percent of the 
nonwhite vote, and in 1960, when Nixon- 
Lodge won 32 percent. But Goldwater's 
disastrous Southern strategy drove blacks 
out of the ©. P.; and it would have 
gesture, such as put- 
Percy or Brooke on the na- 
ticket, to win them back in any 
appreciable numbers 68. At the 
moment, black Americans are beginning 
10 feel like a permanent minority. 

К by Republican leaders of a 
t majority” and а “middle-Americ 
strategy only reinforce this feeling. True 
to the insights of The Federalist, some 
are becoming increasingly alien- 
ted aud radicalized and are responding: 
to an ideology of violence. Others, how- 
ever, arc looking for new ways 10 become 
a swing voting group that can exercise the 
kind of leverage that farmers had in the 
post World War Two period. In the 1969 
off-year elections, these blacks gave Re- 
publicans healthy support—26 percent 
for Cahill in New Jersey. 31 percent for 
Specter in Philadelphia, 46 percent for 
Capra in New Haven, 53 percent for Hol- 
ton in Virginia and 80 percent for Lind- 
say in New York City. In none of these 
areas did the Nixon-Agnew ticket exceed 
ten percent of the black vote. It is clear 
that many blacks would like to hang 
loose between the two part 
A moderating political strategy would 
assure that they аге allowed to do so, not 
only for their sake but for the sake of 
the white majority. It would result in 
shifting coalitions instead of a permanent 
majority. It would aim at a supple, re- 
sponsive political system in which now 
one, now another political group has 
cass to power. Educated by such access, 
dı group would moderate ‘the shrillness 
of its rhetoric. The best way to get Amer- 
icans 10 lower their voices is to give them, 
ccess to the quiet corridors of power. 
How can the present party system be 
shaped to assure, at the very least, a 
moderate majority? How can it also aim 


toward the progressive goals of interna- 
tionalism, reprivatization, devolution and 
libertarianism? One can devise a politica 
strategy that aims at the best for Ameri 
can society—a progressive vision—while 
avoiding the worst, a permanent polar- 
ized majority. 

To the voting public, American poli- 
tics appears to be dominated by а two- 
party system; and by the time an election 
comes around, so, in fact, it is. But in the 
really decisive period for political action 
—the time when national leadership is 
comtested—a different picture emerges. 
The Republican Party turns out to be 
three parties—the conservative party 
(which looks to Reagan for leadership), 
the regular С.О. P. (Nixon's base) and 
the progressive G. O. P. (whose present 
leaders are Lindsay, Percy, Hatfield and 
Goodell). The Democrats are divided in- 
to four partics—the Southern Democrats 
(from Eastland to L B. J), the big 
labor-big city machine axis (George 
Meany-Richard Daley), the old liberals 
(centered in the Americans for Demo- 
cratic Action) and the new liberals, who 
are the presently leaderless remnants of 
the McCarthy-Kennedy insurgency. Then 
there is the Wallace movement, In all, 
there are eight parties, with some over 
lap among them by people who hedge 
their bets by belonging to more than one. 

Notice that the eighrparty system is 
defined not by constituency groups in 
the voting public but by networks of 
contributors and. political activists. Mod- 


crn communications permit any group 
that has the money, the brains and the 
ctive leadership to mount a national 
ign to find its own voting consti 


camp 
uency through the news media and ad- 
vertising. New national party networks 


an emerge in a relatively short time: 
The Wallace party and the new liberals 
are creations of the 1960s; and the con- 
servative party can be dated from the 
founding of National Review in the mid- 
1950s. The reason more parties are not 
formed is that our election laws are de- 
signed to force action through the tw. 
party system. The influence of the eight 
parties on national policy is felt largely 
by the bargains they strike in the context 
of the two-party system. Even the Wal- 
lace movement sought to win influence by 
deadlocking the election and bargaining, 
with the two major 

There are two choices, then, that an 
engaged person must make about his 
party. The first is through which of the 
eight subparties to work; the second is 
for which of the two parties to vote on 
Election Day. Of the two parties, in my 
opinion, the Republican comes closer to 
the progressive vision; devolution and 


reprivatization are concepts that come 
casily to it, largely because 


has been 
ederal patronage for more 
than a gem Republicans have 
found. somewhat to their own surprise, 
that the arguments they have be 


deprived of Е 


“I can't tonight, Ralph. 


I've got the curse." 


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190 is posed most sharply 


President Nixon has said: Power has 
been flowing to Washington for more 
than a generation; now it's time lor it to 
flow back to the states, the private sector 
and the people. Within the Democratic 
Party, the New Liberals are the only 
group urging decentralizing initiatives, 
but they are hopelessly overpowered by 
the three other groups, as was evident 
in 1968 when George Meany, Richard 
Daley and Lyndon Johnson nominated 
Hubert Humphrey for President. Some 
younger New Liberals may persevere in 
trying to reform their party; others, such 
as Daniel Р. Moynihan, find a more sym 
pathetic audience among Republicans. 

On the issues of internationalism, Ji 
ertarianis moderating strategy, 
there is somewhat less agreement within 
the G. O. P. Typically, the c 
party and the progressive С. O. P. strug- 
st each other to win the soul of 
и and the regular party. In 
foreign policy, the progressive С.О. P. 
now the more inte 1, the con- 
servative more interventionist; but the 
ех of cleavage are by no means clear- 
cut. The President (and the regular 
party) have been tending toward inte 
ationalism, but exte nis could 
change this. On libertarian issues, the 
strongest spokesmen long been 
соп: tions of po- 


inservative 


s 


ationali: 


al e 


have 


uthori- 
tarian pose on life-style issues. "They try 
ze a majority on the x 
side of questions such as dissent, mari- 
juana and Supreme Court decisi 
equal rights. Yet, in actual practice, the 
conservatives cannot go as far as the 
Wallace constituency would like. The lib- 
ertarian ethic is so deeply ingrained 
in their party that it will not accept 
sures that really reverse progress on 
individual rights. The result is the pres- 
ent syndrome of overpromising, in which 
а conservative Attorney General tries to 
look more authoritarian than he can 
hope to be. Conservative Republicans 
ight be truer to their individualism 
were they less afraid that it would attract 
so many liberals into the party as to 
threaten their control of the apparatus. 

The two major cleavages within the. 
G. O. P., then, involve foreign policy and 
political strategy. The foreign-policy de- 
bate is now in the hands of the President 
and of external events, The debate over 
political strategy thus becomes the focus 
of the struggle for the soul of the party. 
‘The conservative party favors an elector- 
al strategy that courts the Wallace vote; 
the progressive, one that woos young, 
black and middle-class voters. The issue 
the South, where 


two theories have emerged about the fu- 
ture of the Republican Party. The progres- 
sive theory was summarized in Southern 
Republicanism and the New South, pub- 
lished by the Ripon Society in 1966. It 
urged formation of a G. O. P. based in 
the newly industrializing areas of the 
South and competing actively for black 
votes. The conservative theory, put forth 
in 1969 in The Emerging — 
Majority, by Kevin Phillips, 
to Attorney General John M 
at building a lilywhite party based on 
present Democratic support in the rural, 
one-party South. To date, the progressive 
theory has been winning, largely because 
those running on it 
exception of Strom Thurmond, a rene- 
de Democrat who would be elected if 
an as а vegetarian, the major Repub- 
licans to win high office in the South 
have sought the votes of the blacks and 
the enlightened middle class. Men such 
as Winthrop Rockefeller, Linwood Hol- 
ton and Howard Baker, Jr, have run 
with the endorsement of civil rights 
groups and have actively sought black 
votes. The major hope for the conserva- 
tive strategy thus appears to rest on the 
Thurmond model of getting established 


segregationist Democrats to convert to 
the G. O. P. 
Outside the South, the conservative 


theory writes off what Kevin Phillips in 
one place calls the “Yanke 4” 
states and counties—New England and 
the arcas that were settled by New Eng- 
landers. These happen to be the arcas 
that founded the Republican Party and 
have most staunchly preserved its historic 
commitment to civil rights—from passage 
of the 13th. 14th and 15th constitutional 
amendments to legislation of the Civil 
Rights Act of 1964 and the Philadelphia 
Plan of 1969. The progressive G. O. P. is 
truer to this tradition than is the conserv- 
ative party. The б. О. P. is, after all, the 
party of Lincoln, not of Calhoun, 

The reader will again have detected 
my preferences. I feel that the progressive 
G.O.P. is the one to work through in 
the eight party system; and if it wins the 
batte for political strategy, the Rept 
can Рану that emerges will be unquali- 
беу the most worthy of support. If it 
loses, conservative strategists have pre- 
dicted gleefully that its constituents will 
leave the С. O. P., which will in that 
case, probably go the way of the Whigs, 
who assembled a retrograde coalition that 
won power for a brief period 
nished from American history. 

The outcome of the struggle would 
be certain were it not for the lassitude 
of moderates. Because the progressive 
С.О. Р. has mobilized in the past only 
around personalities, it now lacks the 
political infrastructure essential to а suc- 
cessful political movement, Because many 


nd then 


of its present leaders suffer from a certain 
prima donnasm, the new movement will 
not be built from the top down. This 
provides a historic opportunity for 
young leadership. There are already 
some indications that the harvest can be 
great. Moderates are best at intelligent 
discussion, at persuasion, at developing 
workable proposals. When they decide to 
cooperate, they are able to pioncer new 
patterns of collaboration between gener- 
ations and to achieve results. They are 
able of exciting others with ideas and 
eliciting sustained commitment. If they 
dead from their strength—not mass dem- 
onstration but reason. competence, per- 
sistenceand tough-minded idealism—they 
can revolutionize the political system. 

The experience of the Ripon Society 
may give some hope for these quiet tac 
tics. Begun in December 1962 with only 
17 members and named after Ripon, 
Wisconsin, the birthplace of the Repub- 
сап Party, it is still far from а mass 
organization; yet it has moved to change 
the tone of political debate in the 11 
cities in which it now has chapters. Tt 
attempts to reach our to groups that 
have never considered voting Republican 
and to build bridges to the professional, 
ademic and bu 
offers politicians research, political aid 
and а monthly magazine with independ- 
ent criticism and positive proposals. Its 
members adhere to the Republican Party 
not for what it is but lor what they can 
make it become. They are now working 
at the White House, in Government 
agencies and on politi ffs at all 
levels of government, and some will be 
running for office this year. 

Ripon's mottoes have been simple all 
along. Its members have sought not ex- 
pedient slogans but 
time is yet to come"; 


ess commun 


ideas whose 
nd many of their 
programs for welfare reform, a volunteer 
Amy, revenue sharing and policy toward. 
China and Viemam have helped shape 
national policy. They have sought not 
heroes to admire but ways to galvanize 
themselves to action. As the society's first 
statement said, well before this author 
had become a member: 


the 


This, then, is a call to action. 

The question is often asked, 
“Where are the leaders of the new 
Republican Party?” We have shown 
just how we need such men. If we 
cannot find them, let us become 


them. 


This spirit of challenge, from Ripon 
and other young, engaged groups. is des- 
perately needed to shake up both of 
America’s decrepit political parties. 


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doing the popcorn or funky chicken, 
however; the dance floor appears to be 
slightly bigger than а waiters tray. An- 
other attractive disco is Epoca, but it 
has not as yet become a haunt of disco 
regulars. George's offers live rock music 
nd, often enough, attractive female vo- 
calists. Occasionally, owner George Durst 
brings his pet cheetah and lion cub to 
the establishment. Almost directly across 
from George’s on Aylmer Street sits the 
51,000,000 Montweal Playboy Club, one 
of the newest of our chain, The live, 
Ametican-oriented entertainment fea- 
tured in the Penthouse makes for a 
welcome change of pace, and there’s top- 
flight buffet dining in the Living Room. 

Monueal’s crowd of disco addicts de- 
cree what places are in or out and 
when, but the prerequisites for member- 
ship usually consist of nothing mo 
than a tip to the doorman and striking 
up a conversation at the bar. In PI 
one evening, Rusty Staub, allstar first 
baseman for the Montreal Expos. told 
us, “It's really hard to stop in at two or 
three discothèques during a night and 


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not meet a prey girl.” Redheaded 
Staub, known to Montrealers as le grand 
orange, has some practical advice for 
visiting Americans. “One thing I've 
found out: If a girl likes the way you 
look and you ask her to dance, no prol 
lem. But if she doesn't want to, she'll 
aswer in French and try to make you 
feel like a dunce for not knowing her 

guage.” Says Paul Tietolman, whose 
family owns two Monweal radio stations, 
“The easiest way for a guy to score is 
just to make the rounds of the disco- 
théques for a few nights. If he can't make 
it with a chick here, he can’t make it 
anywhere.” 

If you've landed a feminine escort 
carly in the evening, there are several 
lateevening alternatives at your disposal. 
Should you opt for midnight dinner and 
a show, La Salle Bonaventure at the 
Queen Elizabeth Hotel is one of the 
city’s most elegant spots to visit. In Le 
Chateau Champlain, the Caf Conc, a 
tering replica of a 19th Century Pari- 
an music hall, presents а Follies-type 
revue; although the girls are rather 


“Did you hear the one about the little Dutch 
boy who stuck his finger in the dyke?” 


overdressed, the vaudeville entertainment 
(recently, we watched a comedian. pick. 
pocket magician) is fun. And if you're in 
the vicinity of Old Montreal (many ol 
the discos are located there), take her to 
Le Black Bottom, an informal haunt for 
soul sounds that regularly imports such 
talent as Muddy Water: 
By the end of several fast-paced nights 
and days, you'll begin believing you 
know the city and its people quite well. 
You will, And you won't. Case in point: 
Montreal's own conflict between youth 
and its elders—almost as abrasive as our 
own, but the city refuses to let it e 
late, even under stress. We were in 
Montreal on the rainy October night the 
city’s police force went out on strike and, 
cabbing back to our hotel, we ran into 
an enormous traffic jam at the busy in- 
tersection of St. Catherine and Peel 
streets. Our cab driver, who had been de- 
livering a nonstop polemic about how 
students at McGill University and Si 
George Williams University were proba- 
bly responsible for the looting that had 
taken place earlier, was getting progres- 
sively angrier as we sat in the intersection. 
Suddenly, a young man appeared in the 
very center of the ticd-up street and 
began directing traffic. “Well, maybe 
those college kids aren't so bad,” said the 
driver. Instead of helping to clear the 
congested corner, however, it became ap- 
parent that the young man was deliber- 
ately fouling matters up further, much to 
his own amusement—and ours. We ex- 
pected a string of obscenities from the 
driver, but instead he began chuckling. 
"One thing about the kids here,” he said. 
“They're crazy, but they're all right.” It 
was an and rather sophisticated 
way of spanning the generation gap; and 
when the driver pulled up to our hotel, 
we asked him what he thought the aver- 
age Montrealer [eels about his city. “It's 
a great place 10 live.” he said, “and I 
hope it stays that way. As long as the big 
factories don’t give us air pollution, and 
as long lic doesn't get too bad, 
1 be all right.” 
‚ we had asked the same 
ttractive Canadian girl 
ban commune and 
ms University. 
she said, 
big 
сап city to solve urban 


who 
auends Sir 


ves an 


North 
problems such as air pollution 
housing. The people know that th 


Ате 
nd mass 
r gov- 
ernment is really behind them." We 
tried to think of an American metropolis 
where a 45-year-old cabdriver and а 20- 

st share similar (and equally 
optimistic) views about the place they live 
in, We couldn't. 


year-old ac 


FUXTYSBLUBS „о nm 


manicured trecs of his deserted park. 
The gutter is thick with debris: empty 
wine bottles, torn racing forms from the 
West Memphis dog track, flattened ciga- 
rette packs, scraps of paper and one 
small die, white with black spots, which 
Furry puts into his pocket. An old bus, 
on the back of which 
yellow paint, LET NOT YOUR HEART BE 
"TRoUnLED, rumbles past; it is full of cot- 
ton choppers: Their dark, solemn faces 
peer out the grimy windows. The bottles 
clink at the end of Furry's broom. In a 
the Club Handy, two men 
are standing at an open window, looking 
down at the street. One of them is smok: 
ing; the glowing end of his cigarette can 
be scen in the 


is written, in 


room above 


arkness On the door to 


the club, there a handbill: sues 
SPECTACULAR, CITY AUDITORIUM: JIMMY 
REED, JOHN LEE HOOKER, HOWLIN' WOLF. 


Furry pushes the garbage onto a flat 
scoop at thc front of the cart. then goes 
to the rear and pulls a jointed metal 
handle, causing the scoop to rise and 
dump its contents into the can. The 
scoop is heavy; when he lets it down, it 
sends a shock from his right arm through 
his body, raising his left leg. the artificial 
one, off the ground. Across the street, in 
a chinaberry tree, a gang of sparrows are 


making a racket. Furry sweeps past two 
night clubs and then a restaurant, where, 
through the front window, large brown 
rats can be seen scurrying across the 
kitchen floor. A dirty red dog stands at 
of Beale and Hernando, 
sniffing the air. A soldier runs past, head- 
ing toward Main. The sirect lamps go 
off. 

When Furry has cleaned the rest of 
the block, the garbage can is full and he 
goes back to Bertha’s for another. The 
other cart is gone and there is a black 
Buick parked at the curb. Furry wheels 
to the corner and picks up the mound of 
trash he left there. A city bus rolls past; 
the gives honk 
Furry waves. He crosses the street and 
begins sweeping in front of the Sanitary 
Bedding Company. A n's high- 
heeled shoe is lying on the sidewalk. 
Furry throws it into the can. “First onc- 
legged woman I sec, I'll give her that,” 
he says and, for the first time that day, 
he smiles. 

At Butler, the next cross street, 


the corner 


driver a greeting and 


woma 


there 


is a row of large, old-fashioned houses, 
set behind picket fences and broad, 
thickly leafed trees. The sky is pale blue 


now, with pink-edged clouds, and old 
men and women have come out to sit on 


the porches. Some speak to Furry, some 
do not. Cars are becoming more frequent 
along the street. Furry reaches out quick- 
ly with his broom to catch a windblown 
scrap of paper. When he gets to Cal- 
houn, he swaps cans again and walks a 
block—past Tina's Beauty Shop, a 
ern called the Section Playhouse and 
another named Soul Heaven—to Fourth 
Sucet. He places his cart at the corner 
and starts pushing the trash toward it 

From a secondstory window of a 
rooming house covered with red brick- 
patterned tarpaper comes the sound of a 
blues harmonica. Two old men are sit- 
ting on the steps in front of the open 
door. Furry tells them good morning 
“When you goin’ make another record?” 
one of them asks. 


“Record?” the other man, in а straw 


says the first onc. “Не 
me records. Used to.” 


makes them Lig 

Furry dumps a load into the cart, then 
Jeans against it, wiping his face and the 
back of his neck with a blue bandanna 
handkerchief 

Down the stairs and through the door 
(the old men on the steps leaning out of 
his way, for he does not slow down) 
comes the harmonica player. He stands 
in the middle of the sidewalk, eyes 


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closed, head tilted to one side, the har- 
monica cupped in his hands. A man 
wearing dark glasses and carrying a 
white cane before him like a divining 
rod turns the corner, aims at the music, 
says cheerfully, “Get out the way! Get 
off the sidewalk!” and bumps into the 
harmonica player, who spins away, like a 
good quarterback, and goes on playing. 

Furry puts the bandanna in his pocket 
and moves on, walking behind the cart. 
Past Mrs. Kelly's Homemade Hot Ta- 
males stand, the air is filled with a strong 
odor. Over a shop door, a sign reads: 
FRESH FISH DAILY. 

Now the sky is a hot. empty blue, and 
cars line the curb from Butler to Vance. 
Furry sweeps around them. Across the 
street, at the housing project, children 
are playing outside the great blocks of 
apartments. One little girl is lying face 
down on the grass, quite still. Furry 
watches her. She has not moved. Two 
dogs are barking nearby. One of them, a 
small black cocker spaniel, tots up to 
the little girl and sniffs at her head; she 
grabs its forelegs and together they roll 
over and over. Furry starts sweeping and 
docs not stop or look up again until he 
has reached the corner. He piles the trash. 
into the can and stands in the gutter, 
ting for the light to change. 

For the morning, his work is done. He 
rolls the cart down Fourth, across Ponto- 
,toc and Linden, to his own block, where 


wa 


he parks it at the curb, between two cars. 
Then he heads across the strect toward 
Rothschild's grocery, to try to get some 
beer on credit. 

While we were talking, people were 
coming in, and now the tables were 
nearly filled. Charley looked at his 
watch, then at Furry. "Fecl like play- 
ing?" he asked. 

Furry nodded abruptly, the way Indi- 
ans do in movies. "I always fcel like 
playing.” he said. He drank the last of 
the bourbon in his glass, "Yes, sir. Al- 
ways feel like that.” 

“ТИ announce you," Charley said. Не 
carried a chair onto the stage, sat down 
and repeated the lecture he uses when- 
ever he hires an old-time musician. It be- 
gins, “Without the tradition of American 
Negro music, there would be no rock 


music.” The lectures purpose is to in- 
spire the rock generation with love and 
respect for the blues. However, this audi- 
ence, none of whom looks older than 20, 
scems more interested in cach other than 
in anything else. 

When the speech ended, with * 
proud to present . . ." Furry, carrying his 
battered Epiphone guitar, limped onto 
the stage. The applause was polite. Furry 
smiled and waved. "Ladies and gentle- 
men,” he began, “I'm very pleased to be 
here tonight to play for you all. I've 
been around Memphis, playing and sing- 


am 


“Tve had to be both mother and father to her.” 


ing, for many years. My wife is with me 
tonight; we've been married many ycars. 
When we got married, I only had fifteen 
cents and she had a quarter.” I looked at 
Charley. He avoided my eyes. 

“And then one day,” Furry went on, 
his tone altering slightly, “she upped 
and quit me, said I had married her for 
her money.” 

Furry laughed, Versie laughed, the 
crowd laughed, and Charley and I 
looked at each other and laughed and 
laughed, shaking our heads. "I love him, 
the old bastard,” Charley said. “Sorry, 
Versie.” 

But Versie, watching Furry proudly, 
had not heard. 

He had begun to play a slow, sad 
blues, one that none of us had ever 
heard, a song without a name: "'My 
mother's dead,’ " he sang, the guitar softly 
following, “ ‘my father just as well’s to be. 
Ain't got nobody to say one kind word 
for me“ 

The room, which had been filled with 
noise, was now quiet. “ People holler 
mercy, " Furry sang, “ don't know what 
mercy mean, People . . . and the 
finished the line. ""Well, if it 
апу good, Lord, have mercy on 


When, after nearly an hour, Furry left 
the stage, the applause was considerably 
polite. But I knew that it was 
only the third time Furry had heard 
public applause during the year and that 


in this year, as in most of the years of his 
life, his music would probably bring him 
less than 5100. Soon, we would take him 
home and he would change clothes and 
go out to sweep the streets. I wondered, 
as Charley and Versie were congratulat- 
ing him 


nd pouring fresh drinks, how he 
ged to last, to retain his skill. 
s sitting back in his chair, 
hokling a drink in one hand and a new 
cigar in the other, smiling slightly, his 
eyes nearly closed. I asked him if he had 
ever been tempted to give up, to stop 
playing. "Give out but don't give up,” 
he said. He tasted his drink and sat 
straighter in the chair. “No,” he said, 
Ш these years, I kept working for the 
у, thinking things might change, Beale 
Street might go back like it was. But it 
never did.” 

“But you went on playing.” 

“Oh, yes, I played at home, Sometimes, 
nothing to do, no place to play, Pd hock 
the guitar and get me something to 
drink. And then Га wish I had it, so I 
could play, even just for mysclf. I never 
quit playing, but I didn't play out 
enough for people to know who 1 was. 
Sometimes I'd sce a man, a beggar, you 
know, playing gj on the sidewalk, 
and I'd drop something in his cup, and 
he wouldn't even know who I was. He'd 
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OUR MORTGAGED FUTURE кыа о» page 98 


the previous one. With new financial 
obligations and new powers brought on 
by the war emergency, the Fede 
ernment more than doubled in 
ing each of the 


st two major wars. The 
Vietnam war will continue, if not accel- 


erate, this trend. 

One can expect no heroes to emerge 
from the Vietnam conflict, but political 
scapegoats will be sought by some to 
explain away the war's indecisive results 
and unfortunate consequences. Already, 
Professors Galbraith and Schlesinger are 
blaming the military; others are blaming 
civilian advisors to past Presidents. Post- 
master General Winton Blount blames 
the student dissenters. Nor should we 
expect those political leaders who were 
responsible for getting us into Vietnam 
to be punished. As poct William Ellery 
Channing observed long ago, "Ihe 
wrongdoing of public men on a large 
scale has never drawn upon them that 
sincere, hearty abhorrence which visits. 
private vice." "The deaths of over 40.000 
Americans dictment. 


tions at Chappaquiddick Pond—what- 
ever they were—have already resulted in 
an indictment, a suspended sentence and 
widespread condemnation. Such is the 
nature of public opinior 

When the war ends, America’s flagging 
international prestige can be expected to 
increase noticeably, id France's pres- 
tige following her withdrawal from Vict- 
nam and Algeria. Civil liberties have 
suffered less in this war than in all wars 
of recent memory, although it is too soon 
to say whether or not another cra of 
McCarthyism is already looming. It is 
also often said that war promotes crime, 
but there are no reliable crime indexes 
extending backward in time; so this is, 
nd possibly always will be, a moot ques- 
has been ar- 
those drafted or forced by the 
aft to volunteer for the Armed Serv- 
ices; but the GI Bill will probably more 
than make up for this delay. 
ther positive legacy of Viernam— 
ps the major one—may be a dimi- 
nution in the power of anti-communism 
s а crusading ideal. The charge that this 
var was started by Communist aggres- 


sion from the north has not been con- 
cried wolf once 


vincing. Perhaps we 1 
too often, In any event, if Communist 
countries continue to go their own indi- 
vidual ways, and particularly И tension 
the great Communist powers in- 
scs over the years, the raison d'étre 
for our anti-Communist stance—which 
inent in the early 
Cold War—will be consider- 
ably vitiated. Yet we should not expect 
a major shift in public ideology to occur 
in less than a decade, for basic assump- 
tions of evil change slowly. 


Ic is widely assumed, especially among 
economists, that the generation that 
fights the war is the generation upon 
which the burden of the war falls, For 
those who are killed and maimed, this is 
absolutely true. But, as we have seen, 
many burdens, such as veterans’ pensions, 
last for several generations. These pen- 
sions irrevocably commit future funds 
that might have been used for other, 
more pressing purposes. Over зем 
decades, these pensions, along 
wargenerated graduated-income-tax 
tem, also have tended somewhat to im- 
prove the social status of veterans. Partly 
because of a generous educational sub- 
sidy, veterans аге better educated than 
nonveterans; their income is higher, their 
job security tighter and their rate of 
unemployment lower. The incidence of 
poverty among veterans, moreover, is 
less th 


to the views of some economists, may 
also have la: fluence. It can, for 
example, reduce the lifetime income of 
future generations if they decide, unlike 
this generation, to pay off the national 
war debt. In any event, we have been 
frustrated by the unwillingness of past 
generations to pay for their own wars, 
which has led to current inflation and 
the devaluation of the dollar. May not a 
future generation also be frustrated by 
our unwillingness to pay the full costs of 
the Vietnam war? Millions of peopl 
today are living on relatively fixed 
sources of income. As the cost of living 
continues to rise because of the war, not 
only do these individuals suffer decreased 
purchasing power but their children may 
fall to the next lower 
unless the inflationary cycle is broken. 

The Vieu has unquestionably 
lowered the standard of living of this 
generation. It has also lessened our will- 
ingness and that of future generations to 
take enterprising risks. because taxes re- 
main high. It has materially lessened the 
supply of natural resources available to 
our children and shifted even further 
the balance of mil 
oritics—a shift that is now going into its 
second. generation. 

Contrary to popular opinion, the Viet- 
nam war will also probably decre the 
С. N. P. in the long run. It is true that 
we have solved the problem of unemploy- 
ment only in time of war, but this fact 
has misled many into believing that war 
means economic progress. Even with the 
enormous expenditures of the Cold War, 
our annual rate of increase in the С. М. P. 
has been less than three percent for the 
past generation. Historian John Nef, in 
his book War and Human Progress, look- 
ing back to the 15th Century, found that 
economic progress was laster in 


economic class 


peace than in times of war and greater 
in countries less inclined than in those 
more inclined to war. John J. Clark, in 
his recent book The New Economics of 
National Defense, which focuses on the 
Cold War era, agrees with Nef. In the 
long run, decisions to continue the Cold 
War or to delay getting out of Vietnam, 
based on the alleged necessity of kcepi 
people working and Кеер! 
omy healthy, are at odds with histori 
experience. 

"The main reason many people feel that 
а war economy enhances the G.N. P 
rate of growth is an excessive belief in 
the problem-solving powers of technol 
ogy and in the generative force of re- 


ng the econ: 


search. Syllogistically, their reasoning 
runs something like diis: 
1. Modern war requires enormous 


amounts of research. 

2. Rescarch leads to new technological 
knowledge. 

3. "Technological knowledge leads to in 
and makes our economy rum 

re efficiently. 

4. Hence, war accele 
growth and brings prospe 

For many, this now seems self-evident 
truth. But, as economist Robert A. Solo 
has shown in the Harvard Business Re- 
view for November and December, 1962, 
rising expenditures on research and de 
velopment may actually be reducing the 
rate of economic growth in the United 
States. There is a negative relationship, 
he shows, between Cold War research 
expenditures and output per man-hour, 


"s economic 


at 


inventive activity and the rate of in- 
crease of the С. М.Р. Nor is the spin-off 
We 


from defense projects substantial. 
must realize that money spent for w 
largely lost to other purposes. War—in- 
cluding research for war—depletes socie- 
туз ability to solve nonwar problems. 
One can either fight, which is essentially 
destructive, or one can build. At no time 
in the past has a nation been able to do 
both. 

When future historians mold the Мес 
nam war into its final image—sometime 
toward the end of the 215 Century, 
perhaps they will more clearly per 
ceive what beasts were loosed by that 
conflict. Today, the most we can do is try 
to understand what we have wrought 
But that understanding should not be 
limited to the moral enormity or the 
immediate results of our actions It 
should include the firm realization that 
most of the major consequences of our 
decision to intervene in Vietnam will 
continue not for years but for centuries. 
As William Cowper, in one of most 
perceptive moments, once said: 


War lays a burden on the reeling 
slate, 
And peace does nothing to relieve 


the weight. 


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stomach-ache, and fairly screamed in his 
agony. Then, limping slowly, his hands 
on the shoulders of two tiny marshals, he 
hobbled off stage, as if to desired extinc- 
tion, while the mob howled in victory. 
When he appeared to take his cur 
call, the entire audience rose, It was a day 
without precedent. Hi: ther-in-law 
ige to shake his hand. 
t was a fantastic experience, Fran- 
in a tone that his ex-son- 
inlaw remembered as the one that he 
reserved for his most important authors. 
“I take a personal pride in the whole 
g. because I always таймай 
a first-class 
know exactly what it consisted of. Now, 
of course, it's dear. You're a great inter- 
preter! You have the gift of putting 
Shakespeare across so that he's almost 
frighteningly alive. I don't say that you 
should necessarily go on the stage. But 
maybe we should arrange for a serics of 
Shakespeare readings or recordings. 1 


don't know. We'll have to see. Well 
have to look into things. God bless you, 
my boy!” 

When Leo Wright left, Mr. 
Tomkins came in to add his felicitations. 
"ve brought somcone else to see you, 
Francis,” he said, and Francs turned 
around to see hiis son. 

“You were good, Dad." 

Francis stared inten 


embarrassing the hovering headmaster, 
he threw rms around the boy's neck. 
Mr. Tomkins fled. 
Dh, Danny, do you really think so? 
Danny pulled away roughly fom hi 
father's embrace. “I said I did, didn't I7 
You don't have to make а production of 
it. 


Francis stood up straight at this, again 
the teacher, a bit wilted, of the eighth 
grade. “Im sorry. 1 must have been 
carried away. I guess that's what acting 
does to a man. And a very good reason 


“Should realize clear twelve hundred if seil 
now. On other hand, if wait, may climb, could hit 
seventy. Fourteen hundred if sell 
at seventy. Dear God, what should I do?” 


why gentlemen should not become ac- 
tors. But your approval means something 
to me, Daniel. Гус had only its reverse. 
I've only been conscious of you sitting 
there, in the back of the classroom, 
sneering.” 

don’t sneer at you.” 

“Oh, come off it. You know you do! 

“I don't. You re а good teacher. You're 
qor, too. Ma says you could 


“Does she? 1 


didn't think she ever 


ioned 
‘Oh, she talks about you all the time. 
She's always asking about you. You could 
have her back now. You wouldn't 
even | 


away, writl 


ng in burrowing his 
face into an imagined pillow to shut out 
the hard, garish light of a world that 
refused to let him be a rebel 
Jo, Danny, I can't do 1 
put the clock back. I never fitted into 
your grandfather's family; and even if 
divorce is wrong, remarriage doesnt 
make it right. And I'm not going to stay 
on at St. Christopher's, cither, Because 
Ive discovered something. I've discov- 
cred I'm а fraud and а phony. I've 
cultivated the art of protest without hav- 
ing anything to protest about. I've been 

lor games in a world that's 
st I know now what a 
n with a caus 

Even as he talked, he felt his elation 
draining away. He was not going to be a 
man with a cause. Not at 40, anyway. 
"The human mind was made up of habit, 
as the body was of water. And as the 
vision of his indefinite. continuance as 
а selEdram: 
boys, jumped back into his mind, like 
old, hated slide stuck in a project 
machine, he felt nausca in his thro: 

“Daniel, hdp me!" he appealed. “Help 
me! I can't stay here!" 

The boy turned and walked deliber- 
ately to the lectern. It was the headm 
ters. kept in that room while the stage 
was in use, and it supported the grea 
school Bible from which the lesson was 
read at prayers. As Francis watched, par- 
alyzed. his son opened the heavy volume, 
grasped a handful of pages and ripped 
them out. Tossing them to the floor at his 
father's feet, he stated in his flat tone: 
“You told the class that if a man spa 
on you. you should cut his heart out 

Francis, awed, knew that he was look- 
ing into the eggy eyes of a delinquent. 
He would have to find a cause, and a 
good one, to make up for the damage he 


had done. 


ized rebel, a poser before 
ап 


A Million Elephants (continued from page 158) 


We're busy enough with our codes, what 
with that task force about to come in. 
It's not thai 

“Then what it is? Are you reading 
coffee grounds for your political projec- 
tions?” 

Sumner-Clark smiled. “In a way, I 
suppose I am. Little things, bits and 


or example?” 

aple, Kong Le had his whole 
at for a rifle inspection this 
morning. Farb." 


akley. “Не 
wants to put on a show for Grider. 
Probably has visions of май school in the 
Jand of the big PX." 
“Yes, I want to d 
the inspection v. 
schedule, 


t on the tr 
s it, now? And | must say, 


that's the first time I've ever seen the 
Chanda army do anything extra. 1 just 
don't know about it" Sumner-Clark 


rubbed his eyes with his knuckles. “I've 
been in this business too long, I guess. 
The details bother me now, not the big 
picture. Little things.” He paused again 
and thought it out, remembering how 
doll lite the Chanda soldiers had ap- 
peared as they stood for inspection in 
the carly-morning fog. What part of that 
paure was out of place? He snapped his 
fingers. “Their cartridge belts!” 


“Are you cracking up?" kidded Coakley, 

“Their cartridge belts were drooping. 
They were heavy. Magazines, even the 
BAR men. You know, those little shrimps 
had ammo issued!" 

Coakley shook his head and laughed. 
“It’s ironic how we panic when the army 
we are supposedly training gets its hands 
оп live ammunition." 

"Yes, well, you go ponder the ironies, 
dear heart, while I write up a report.” 

"To whom and for whom? There's not 
going to be any revolution, Hilary, They 
don't know how to go about it. By all 
means, go and write your report, if it 
will make you feel beter. But 1 am tired 
of reports that are never read. 1 сап sce 
us on the last minute of the last day, 
describing ovr own burning flesh, you 
know? Reports are cheap. 

Sumner-Clark was not listening. “One 
other thing. Very strarge, indeed. They 
were passing out radi, 
ick tens?" asked Coakley. 

"No, no, not those lovely things” 
Both men laughed, "Little radios, Hong 
Kong specials, to everyone, Not just the 
radiomen. Everyone.” 

Coakley pooh-poohed this. “Must have 
been a good haul on the black market. 
Damn it, I told Kong Le to cool that 
sort of thing. He thinks he’s an alderman 


or something. One day, I had to watch 
while he gave cach man а can of hot 
dogs. For meritorious conduct, he told 
me later, laughing up his snout.” 

"Strange," whispered SumnerClark to 
self. 

“To paraphrase a brilliant philosopher 
І know, you go ponder the strangeness of 
it, while 1 go back to work. Grider has 
called mectings into the night and he's 
screaming for poor Walter. Where is 
that shit bird? he asked me as I left. 
‘I'm sure I wouldn't know,’ 1 said. ‘Am I 
the Defense Department's keeper? 

They laughed together again, not 
cheaply or roguishly but like children 
who genuinely enjoy cach other and who 
have no other 


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got to be your business. But we can't 
fund it straight out. How would that 
look on a requisition? I can see some 
dove getting his hands on that and tell- 
ing the American taxpayer we're run- 
ning а zoo instead of a war over here. 
There are other ways of funding it, aren 
there? Build up your Special Services 
account and chalk it off as football equip- 
ment or something. Jesus Christ, Kelly, I 
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that." The general slammed his fist on the 
desk to emphasize his irritation. 

By that time, Colonel Kelly did mot 
care. Both men were tired enough and 
drunk enough to drop formalities. The 
day's meetings had been plagued by ca- 
bles from Washington that were filled 
with critical questions. Their preliminary 
suggestions for intervention in Chanda 
had stirred up the specialists at home who 
wanted to cover their own tracks in case 
of c 

Now, in the evening dusk, the two 
men shared a fifth of bourbon and com- 
plained to each other. They did not 
bother to turn on the office lights and, as 
the sun faded, each man had the com- 
forting feeling that he was really talking 
only 10 himself. 

“It’s a good fucking idea 
on record as saying that. 
at his own hands. 

"So recorded. Now let's figure out 
where my three little lost sheep are and 
whether I should send out a search part 

“Га say they stayed late at their picnic 
and will be straggling in soon. 

“Not having the responsibility for 
them, vou'd say relax, hui 

Kelly laughed at the insinuation. “Ex- 
actly. Га say hope for the best. I'd say 
don't do anything, and maybe they've 
been ambushed by the Bulgarian bicycle 
cops and maybe you'll lose your com- 
mand for that and РИ move up one on 
the list.“ 

Grider shuddered in the n 
held his wrist in the air and squinted at 
watch. “TH give them another hour.” 
He yawned. To think we've got another 
g I'm aps. They should 
be like comics; they should come in 
other colors.’ 

"Read right and up,” said Kelly use 
lessly, quietly. He was almost asleep. He 
did not hear the knock on the door. 

‘Come in," bawled Grider. 

Harry Mennan, hat in hand, wied to 
see the colonel in the dark. nan 
seemed. very hesitant. "Colonel, 1 came 
by for the envelope. 

Kelly did not register. 

"Me and Sergeant Campo thought 
wed do a little night flying, Colonel, 
and we, un.. . 

Kelly jumped to his feet. “Oh, the 
enyelope, the envelope. Certainly.” He 
rooted through his desk drawer and, aft- 
er much fumbling, handed Mennan a 
large folder. “There you go, Harry. Give 
them hell.” 

Mennan seemed surprised for а min- 
ute and then picked up the cue. "Yes, 
sir, We will, sir.” He smiled nervously. 
“Thank you, Colonel." 

"Sce you first thing when you get back 
in the morning, OK: 

“Yes, sir, Colonel, the very first thi 


I want to go 
Kelly nodded 


г dark. He 


g 
said Mennan as he ducked out the door. 
Then, thinking he was being friendly 


202 and suave, Mennan stuck his head back 


and said, “Maybe the second thing, if 
I got to take a crap." He laughed loudly 
at his own joke, heard nothing but si- 
lence and shut the door fast. 

‘What was that about?" asked Grider. 
‘Oh, just a little mission. Nothing at 
all.“ 

Grider yawned again. He stood up 
and flipped the light switch and looked 
directly at Kell imes I think you 
know more than you tell me.” There was 
nothing to add to that and the general 
Jeft the room, to get ready for the next 
meeting. 

And outside, on the road to the air- 
por, Mennan drove furiously while 
Campo held onto the chassis of the 
quarter-ton with one hand and the enve- 
lope with the other. 

“Hf you Jose that Ише brown bitch, ГИ 
have your ass,” yelled Ме over the 
noise. “That's got more moncy in it than 
1 make in thice paydays. 
“Now I do respect 
you rich fucker.” 
ate funds, Top,” Me 


Campo shouted, 


you. Them mountain folks near the 
plain ain't nobody to mess with. We 
don't get out of the aircraft all night. 
They light. the strip while we land. You 
give them the envelope when they come 
up for ir and they go away and count it, 
We Меер if we can and in the morning, 
they bring a couple of tea chests over to 
us. We № them load, because those 
chests are lined. with zinc and they are 
heavy. They got to go under your feet 
id you'll be cramped on the ride back. 
We don't check nothing or say howdy or 
goodbye. We just haul our asses off that 
plain when the fog lifts." 
m going to have a hard time sleep- 
ing, with those monkeys all around us 
somewhere. 

“Yeah, 1 know, and maybe nobody 
should sleep. ГИ keep the canopy oper 
so we can hear them if they start getting 
restless. But worry about the spider on 
your balls before you worry about the 
one across the road. First thing we got 10 
do is Jand my шие BirdDog on that 
shitass strip. They usually choose a brier 
patch for a runway, too." Mennan 
stopped the jeep outside the lights of the 
comm shack. “ГИ sign us out. You get 
the chutes. Don’t come in, just get in the 
bird,” 

Campo shook his head, “This may be 
more than I bargained fo 

Mennan was truly hurt. "You 
buddy, ain't you?” 

“Yeah,” Campo said slowly. 

“And you'll get your cut.” 
brightened. 

Mennan sang to himself in а country 
whine, as he walked to the shack: 


my 


“When it's poppy-picking time т 
Chanda, 
We'll do as all the other poppies do; 


When ifs poppy-picking time т 
Chanda, 
ТИ feather my little nest for you.” 


"The den was crowding up and Charley 
Dog got a little claustrophobic. Signals 
had somehow been given across the city 
As he came out into the night air, he saw 
the streets lined with people, all stand- 
ing silently close to the porches and 

ley Dog went back down for 


at that,” he said to her, “I 
think the old guy is taking the whole 
town with him, Sugar, this is scary.” He 
hugged her tight for comfort. 

At the end of the street, the crowd 
ed and people gasped. One of the 
King’s cars nosed toward the den, 

“They're going to bust us," said Char 
ley Dog. “That's the king.” 

But as the front door opened, Wam- 
poom slid out of the car. She carried a 
small satchel. "She's with us, too?" Char- 
ley Dog wondered to himself. 

Like peasants with pikes at the rising 
of the moon, like nervous paratroopers 
hooking onto static lines for a night 
jump, the crowd picked up litters and 
wagons and samlors. They began to file 
out toward the road. A few lanterns were 
lighted, but for the most part, they de- 
pended on the moon and their instinct. 

Buon Kong was carried 
wicker scat. Charley Dog noticed that he 
had his pipe with him. The old man did 
not speak as he rode between his porters. 
As he was transported. toward the head 
of the column, the people moved to the 
shoulders of the road to let him through. 

Charley Dog felt lonely. Dawn held hi 
hand as they walked. He wanted to talk 
about what they were doing and the 


risks they were taking. He had visions of 
the column being strafed from the air or 
ambushed on a road curve. He wondered 
if they could reach the plain in a night's 
walk. Not all of these people would, he 
knew 


that. There were old folks d 
There were mothers marc 
t their breasts. Dogs snilfed 
«trotted haphazardly around the per- 
imeter of the files. 

a crew,” thought Charley Dog. 
to himself. He liked 
is some crew,” he said 
Yes, it is. Im 
glad to be h OK? This is bo pen- 
hang! They may bust our ass, but we’ 
ЗИП the crew and, what the hell, it 
home. 

He picked a crying baby from its 
mother's back. “Come on, sweetheart, I'll 
сапу you and let your mommy make 
milk, We got a long road to Division 
Street.” 

And they walked like that for quite a 
while. They did not even look back until 
they all heard a little pop behind them 
that sounded like a cork out of a bottle. 
The sky flashed lighter. As they turned 


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to look, there were several more tiny 
explosions and from their height above 
the city, they saw p: 
ing like seeds in the wind over the main 
part of the town. 
“Awww, t th 
Dog to D: 
his arms, so the child could sce. 


Just 
like the Fourth of July, honey, whether 
you know it or not.” 

"Ihe rest of the column was strangely 
silent while they watched the illumina- 


tion. Charley Dog wondered why and as 
dering. the answer cam. 


'd tracer bullets was fired 


and white phosphorus exploded in the 
midst of wooden shacks and thatched 
huts Within five minutes, the city 
on fire in many places. 

"Oh, oh, they donc it now,” said Char- 
Icy Dog. "There's going to be some kind 
of wrath around here now.” 

"The column began to move again. "The 
baby cried, then slept The mother 
offered to take the kid back, but Cha 
Dog shook his head. "No, m 
OK, I don't mind. We're all i 
together, now, with no place to go ex- 
cept where were going, and I guess we 
ought to help each other as long as we 
can." He trudged farther and added, to 
himself, really, “Before the shit hits the 
fan and they come looking for us. We're 
going to have every damn side looking 
for us, we arc." 
awn wanted to carry the baby. Ch 
ley Dog handed it to her. She kissed it 
with silent lip 
‘Before I die, I'd like to 
baby, too, Dawn honey. Why don't we 
hitch up somehow, legallike, Our own 
legal, I mean.” She smiled at him with- 
out hearing him or understa 
Charley Dog sighed. That was the first 
time he had proposed to any chick and it 
was his luck that the one he picked was 
and dumb and did not realize the 
must be out of my skull, 
said out loud. 

All lanterns doused, to avoid being 
sighted from the city, the column moved 
up the steep climb toward the Plain ol 
Elephants. The fire fight at their backs 
cast its shadows on the dark jung 
xodus was passing the 
limits, Coakley and 
balcon: 
that’s herd instinct," said Si 
‚ trying to be contemptuous 
about a sight that scared him. “Like rats 
from a ship, do you suppose?” 

“I'm going with them,” said Coakley 
suddenly. 

How can you do tha 
There's one nice thing about being a 
spy, Hilary; you can do a lot of comfort- 
able things and claim it’s all in tke line 
of duty. Besides, I think it’s our job to 
know what they're up to. Easy, isn’t it? 


While the 
fringes of the 


I'm just going to walk out there and je 
th 


Sumner. 
"We 


Told on. ГИ come, too." 
Clark patted his karate uniform. 
have to get out of thes 

“Nonsense,” Coakley said. “1 can think 
of nothing better to wear. If we're going 
to be refugees, lets do it with some style. 
Hai Karate!” and he posed with his hands 
extended. 

The two of them raced to the road to 
join up with the end of the column, 

"The first round of illumination caught 
Andreas in midstroke. He grunted in 
surprise and came. Marya screamed in 
anger and pounded her heels into his 
kidneys. “Wait for me,” she sobbed over 
and over. 

When he could speak again, Andreas 
told her to get dressed, “АП th s I 
have known exactly what was going on, 
and now they fool me! We must get 
out of here." 

1 have my duty!" argued Marya. 

An airburst of high explosive clapped 
like thunder in their ears. The palm 
outside the window was chopped apar 
Marya screamed again and held her е 


"You come with me, Marya Pleiset- 
skya. You have your duty, but I have 
your love.” Andreas pulled lier down the 
stairs and into his small Citroën. The car 
coughed and jerked toward the road 
leading north. Marya demanded 10 know 
where they were going. 

“1 don't know, little rabbit, but when 
we get there, 1 will give you another 
medal.” 


aret and Edelman had, with the 
is, wiapped. Walter Glov- 
егу body in the tabledoth and tied the 
bulky siusage over the back of a small 
pony. 

As they worked their way down the 
меер trail, they met Buon Kong’s group 
coming up. They were grateful for it, 
indeed. It had seemed that they were 
Iking down into some kind of inferno, 
y spotted with flames. “I 


the 


ret had 
They turned the pony around а 
joined the crew. Thank you,” Margaret 
had remembered to say to Edelman 
when he һай agreed to go with them. 
Edelman nodded and tried to cover 


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206 


his nervous, almost sentimental state 
with the professional reporter's excus 
“There's more of a story here than down 
there.” He marched automatically now 
in his bare feet. There was a Kindness in. 
his gestures that Margaret was not aware 
of. Edelman always stayed on the pony's 
right side. It was there that Walter's half 
head still bled slightly, like a crushed 
tomato, through the cloth and the blood 
dripped onto Edelman’s ankles and feet. 

General Grider considered himself 
quite composed. Не was relieved 19 be 
back under fire. But the risk of Nadol- 
sky's misunderstanding the circumstances 
gave him fears for the world and, as he 
talked, he saw himself saviorlike. “Yes, 
this is General Grider, Mr. Ambassador. 
How are you?” 

“General, I protest this aggression and 
when my government hears of t = 

“Хез, yes, we understand, Mr. Ambas- 
sador. You see, we protest it, too. Under- 
stand? It is not our idea. Th what 
you've got to understand. This is tempo- 
rarily out of our control. What I'm say- 
ing, Mr. Ambassador, is we're in this 
together. Nyet?” 

"Unless your Russian is as good as my 
glish, 1 suggest we speak your lan- 
guage, General." 

Grider laughed uneasily. He moved 
closer to the wall when the air condition- 
er was blown into the room by a close 


ШЕ 


hit “The point is we don't have much 
time to argue, Mr. Ambassador. I suggest. 
we send off appropriate cables, saying 
that we are all under attack. You and us 
both, OK? Then we should fall back to 
that staging area near the airport, OK? 
You and us? Understand?” 

“I cannot leave my post" Nadolsky 
felt the taste of bile in his mouth. 

“That’s up 10 you, sir, but Kong Le 
will burn this place down if he has to. 
These little shacks here burn like paper, 
anyway. I say we give him the town until 
we get reinforcements. He can have it. 
And I don't like the idea of cremating 
myself. Do you?" 

"I do not like it," 
firmly. 

“Then let's get out of here and 
fight another day.” 

“It is agreed, General." Nadolsky 

sighed. It would be пісе to have compa- 
ny. And where was Marya? 
‘Good deal, Alexander. We got some 
things to sort out at the airport. Like, it 
seems that most folks pulled out of here 
before the shooting started. Now, that's a 
real problem, isn't it?" 

“It ds" affirmed Nadolsky. “A city is 
nothing without peop! 

“We are nothing without people, 
Mr, Ambassador. That's what worries me. 
Kong Le can have the town for a while. 
What the hell, there’s nothing in it. But 


said Nadolsky 


ive to 


“The administration is willing to give in to 
the first nine nonnegotiable demands, but under no 
circumstances will it consent to the dean of women 

being burned at the stake.” 


those people, they're our bread and but- 
ter, if you know what I mea: 

“I do." 

“OK. So, one way or another, we've 
got to get them to come back. Under- 
stand?” 

“I understand,” said Nadolsky. "One 
way or another. 


When Kong Le was certain he con- 
trolled the intersections of the main 
streets, the pow ion and waterworks, 
the telegraph and post office, he went 
into the small radio-station studio. He 
prepared to give his speech. His mind 
was spinning with his history, his coun- 
туз history, and he almost forgot that 
victory was not total, even by the modest 
standards of the p i 
under General Grider's naive tutelage 
the airport was not his, would not be. 
Major Poon had been lent enough force 
to keep Kong Le's troops away and the 
spot was too touchy, now that the Ameri- 
cans and Russians and French and Brit- 
ish and the royal court had retreated to 
the place. But at this moment, he was 
too happy to care about the potential 
threat out at the airport. 

The engineer in the control room sig- 
naled and Kong Le spoke. “My people,” 
he said. The engineer motioned that he 
had not spoken loudly enough. Kong Le 


cleared his throat and began again: “My 
people, tonight I have taken a step for 
freedom. What leads us to carry thi 


revolution is to stop the rape of our 
country. For centuries, we e laid 
open like whores to every foreign power 
I am tired of that. So tonight 1 did 
something 

He paused, thinking that he should 
have written this out. It was getting 
complicated. “I am sorry that in my 
strike for freedom, the city has suffered, 
the houses are burning and many of any 
people leave for the Plain of Elephants. 
Come back. If we work together, we win. 
We say to those who think they cin own 
us— ‘No! Your money по good.’ And 
we say to foreigners listening now at the 
airport and we say to the king, too—Be- 
ware! Вем 8 

Kong Le stared at the microphone for 
several moments before he drew his 
finger across throat to gesture his 
cutoff by the engineer. He was mad at 
himself. All his life, he had dreamed of a 
moment like this, when he would take 
his country forward to a new independ- 
ence. Words, words: He wished they 
were as easy to handle as platoons. 


In the dark streets of the town, the 


Chanda soldiers set up their barricades 
and observation posts. They went about 
their work quietly. They listened to the 
radios around their necks. As soon as 
Kong Le's speech was over, the fam 
voice of the executive officer came 1 
on the air with specific orders for each 


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“There goes one of antitrust’s biggest headaches!" 


element. There was no need for shouted 
commands, because the radio told them 
everything they needed to know. 

And somewhere far out in the hills 
around the city, the crew struggled 
through the climb up to the Plain of 
Elephants No one heard Kong Le's 
words there. 

And safe inside the concertina p 
ter of the airport, the king and Gener: 
Grider and Nadolsky and others listened 
to the speech without worrying too 
much. The Chanda captain had inherit 
ed a ghost town, the routes of resupply 
were still open and Royal City could be 
retaken any time it was decided to do so. 

“We're going to stay cool and pool our 
resources. I'll supply the photo recon and 
air cover, if you lend us a few tank 
said Grider. 


е- 


“Excellent,” said Nadolsky. "Consider 
the tanks yours. The city will be ours by 
dawn 


uck the city," spat Grider. “We've got 
to psych out those people on the Plain of 
Elephants, They bother me one hell of a 
lot more than some two-bit tin soldier 
who thinks he’s captured the palace, when 
all he's really got is the outho 

"How can I be king without my 
asked the king in a lonely 


ou've got the picture, King Six,” 
said Colonel Kelly. "And how can we 
advise an army we haven't got?” 

Ё said Nadolsky, "und how can 
the confrontation of the Twentieth Cen- 
tury be brought to conclusion in dialecti- 
cal terms, if we have no people to sway? 


208 It would all be quite meaningless.” 


They shook their heads silently in uni- 
son, as no matter what their differ- 
ences, there was a common bond among 
them. 

The fog stayed late that morning. The 
chests were delivered and loaded and the 
tribesmen had signaled that Mennan was 
clear to go. But he gestured helplessly at 
the thick soup that swirled like smoke and. 
blocked his vision. After a time, he and 
Campo were left to sit alone in the air- 
craft and it out. They dozed as the 
fog brightened but did not lift. 

Campo heard something first. He won- 
dered if he was dreaming. The sound of 
ї activity was picked up by his 
"s cars. He sat straight and pushed 
the door farther open. Quiet voices he 
heard and feet sliding through grass and 
а general settling all 


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hg us. Li 


Nothing we c 
"IE 1 try ro t 
There's по way. 

Campo shook the chute off his shoul- 
ders and prepared for batte. He saw а 
tall figure approaching the plane, Cam- 
po pushed his foot st the wing strut 
and felt his heart pump. The figure 
wandered about unaware, but when it 
came close enough, Campo launched 
himself in a flying tackle and hit the 
body at the knees. They fell into the 
thick wet grass and pummeled cach 
other. Campo went for the throat and 
missed. He was up against strength 
‘They fell apart and scrambled to th 


ой now, ГИ total out. 


feet. Campo threw a sharp karate punch 
that cut only air. Then he stopped and 
stared at the figure who was staring at 
him. It was the man he had seen run- 
ning into the opium den with the girl on 
his arm. 

“What the fuck?” Charley Dog asked 
me to you,” 
embarrassed. 

“That the way you treat everybody?" 
Charley Dog was brushing himself off. 
‘Instead of slipping some skin, you just 
knock them around a little first, huh? 
Thats some way to introduce yourself. 
t time, you walk on by, OK, дай 
m sorry,” said Campo. "I thought 
you were here to pick us off." 

“Pick you off?” Charley Dog laughed 
"I'm here to keep from being picked off. 
"This here," he waved his arms grandly to 
indicate all the territory that was slowly 
appearing under the fog, “is going to be 
my new happy home. How about that?" 

Campo did not understand. Charley 
Dog told him what had happened. He in- 
vited Mennan to st ng with Campo. 

"We t do that," said Mennan. 

“I wouldn't want to have to try to get 
back to that airport at Royal City," said 
Charley Dog. "All kinds of confusion 
back there." 

"Well why should we мау here?" 
. “What's here that ain't 


said Campo. He was 


there?" 
As he said this, Wampoom walked 


by. She was gathering sticks for firewood. 
Mennan whistled at her and she smiled. 
“Come on, flyboy, you build big fire for 
me?” 

“My pleasure, ma'am,” said Mennan. 
He took off his cowboy hat and gave a 
Renaissance bow. He turned to Campo. 
“Might as well?” 

“Might as well,” 

“Toni 
phoo,” 
come.” 

Campo slapped his palms. “Never did 
turn down a p 2 
crotch and I'm still a party boy, with а 
few more stripes than when 1 сате 

"The Plain of Elephants: 

A place of waterfalls and rice. grana- 
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center, low hills are covered with ele- 
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In the mornings, before the mists evapo- 
rate, there is the smell of jungle pine. The 
stream beds are full all year, 

Jungle rings the prairies and grows 
even to the mountains that circle the 
saucer of green. No snow tips on these 
But smoke almost always from 
pinnacles, where the hill tribes 


Campo laughed. 
ight, were going to have us a 
said Charley Dog. "You all 


There are many tribes and many vil- 
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their tribes have many names, such as 


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"You don't know how much Где always hoped to 
meel a girl from Ceylon.” 


Meo and Yao and Youne and Khalom. 
Each tribe builds its own village near its 
elds of corn and cabbage and poppy- 
Alter the soil is burned and the fields: 
are cleared and many crops have grown, 
the villagers must move to new arcas, 
where the land is virgin and rich, 

No maps can track their continual 
dislocations. 

h day is a season. 

The men wear pheasant feathers in 
their hair and silver collars on their 
necks and leather leggings when they 
hunt in the high grass. 

Women who want to please the phi 
wear a river stone in a leather amulet 
that hangs between their breasts. To be 
sacred, the stone must have been given 
to them by their first lover. He woos with 
songs like this: 


The fish in the river, 
The leech in the field, 
Ducks in the pouliry yard; 
You give food to all, 

Why are you cruel to met 


“We are now in the home of river 
serpents and buffalo demons,” Buon 
Kong said to the crew. “To aid the phi, 
let us help with the crops, let us dance 
and please ourselves, let us build our 
lives around cach other. Surely, the phi 
will understand and protect us. We must 
the dead one who joined us on our 


The bundled body of Walter Glover 
was taken downstream to be washed and 
prepared for the coffin. 

“To die is hard, to die is painful, yet 
let us make death a feast. Time does not 
move from past to present to future on а 
line. Rather, it swings like the seasons. 
The dead are our children and we are 
theirs. If we listen to the voices of the 
phi, we will never be owned.” 

Many of the crew moved into the 
fields to harvest the poppics, for it was 
that time. 


The pod of the poppy is bluish-green. 
It is in the form of a small flat apple. 
The flowers of the poppy are shaped like 
tulips. They are beautiful to look at: 
whites, pinks, purples; but they are not 
pleasant to smell. The seeds of the pop- 
py contain no opium. They are white 
and blue and yellow and black. They are 
ground into oil. 

Before the plants grow too high, they 
are trimmed. Those shoots growing too 
close to one another are uprooted. Their 
leaves are used in salads. The fields are 
seeded by hand. The plants are cut and 
picked by hand. 

А few days before they are ready for 
harvest, the petals of the poppy fall and 
expose the pod. This is the time of 
constant testing, when only the wisest 
farmer can determine exactly which 
night the pods should be cut. If they are 


cut too soon, the sap is thin and falls on. 
the ground. If they are cut late, the 
morphine changes to codeine, 

Cutting the pod is an art. The incision 
must be neither too deep nor too shallow 
and it must run only three quarters of 
the circumference of the pod. The pods 
are cut in the late afternoon and eve- 
ning. The sap is collected the next morn- 
ing. In Chanda, the night of the cutting 
is honored. 

The mature plants are taller than chil- 
dren. No child under 14 may help with 
the harvest, for you must be able to 
breathe above the fumes. The sap i: 
reddish-brown on the outside of the pod 
and it gives off fumes that can make you 
drowsy. If you lie down in a poppy field 
at harvesttime, you do not get up again. 
Babies have suffocated while on th 
mothers’ backs. 

The collection of sap is made in a 
small copper cup carried on the belt and 
lined with broadleaves. Once collected, 
the sap is wrapped in banana leaves and 
blocked out into bricks. Each family 
places one small brick in the center of 
the old field that has just been harvested. 
This is for the phi. 

No one may enter the field for 15 
days, until the phi have smoked and 
enjoyed the product. This they always 
seem to do. The earth of the field turns 
brown and only seeds and shells are left. 

There is no law against opium in 
Chanda, for there is no law against 
pleasure, and pain is not worshiped. 

The crew split up and worked without 
direction. Some built windbreaks, others 
worked in the fields, some carried water. 

It was the foreigners, men like Andreas 
and Edelman and Sumner-Clark, who 
pressed Buon Kong about the defense of 
the plain. But the old man refused to 
give that his first consideration: “What 
are we to do? We have one planc, one 
small car and no weapons. Let us build. 
whatever kind of life we can here and 
depend on our spirits and those of th 
phi. Here you see the poppy harvest 
being taken 1 prepared, moth- 
ers about to give birth. These are the 
vital things for us” 

“You got to survive,” Mennan called 
out, “That comes first 

Buon Kong smiled. "Perhaps. But that 
is the cry of the unharmonious and. а 
long as we can. we vill try to avoid that. 
How often have we been told that we 
must wrap ourselves in protection before 
we stop to enjoy life? And how often has 
that advice led to destruction?" 

Only the wind answered. 

Walter Glover's body was washed with 
water that had been perfumed with mint 
and jasmine. A small gold coin was set 
between his teeth. Cotton threads, each 
with 32 knots, for the 32 souls, were 
wrapped about his neck and wrists and 


ankles. A rough cotton shroud covered 
him and he was placed in a coffin. The 
wood of the coffin had been sealed with 
the resin of the pinc wee. he crude box 
rested on the trunk of a ba 
while the funeral pyre was being bui 
Some women remained at the coffin's side 
to clear away termite hills and wood bugs. 
In the wide stretch of rice field lying 
bare after the harvest, the crew built a 
pavilion of bamboo frame and thatched 
roof. Half ls of woven reeds were 
wound around three sides. Gilded paper. 
flowers, a few photos from Walter's wal- 
let and drawings were tied to the walls. 
Many of the pictures and sketches 
were realistic portrayals of people mak- 
ing love. Edelman asked about this, but 
Buon Kong replied: “In Chanda, life 
never loses its rights. 
In the late afternoon before the night 
in which Glover was to be cremated, 
Mennan tried to cat from a small bowl 
of rice and fish sauce. His face twisted as 
he swallowed the pungent meal. "God- 
damn," he sa that is plain awful 
stuff. Smell th. he shoved the ri 


but d 

Mennan looked about for sympathy. 
No one. “This crap smells like a fer 
er truck that run over a skunk in front 
in a paper-mill town. 


You know that? 

Margaret and Edelman and Campo all 
laughed with him. But they were looking 
at the pyre, with its piles of wood and 
rags, the four posts ready to receive the 
coffin in the next hour. And, to frame 
the scenc, smoke and haze from the burn- 
ing fields in the background, the brume 
séche, colored the sky and made the dis- 
tant thunderheads even darker. 

A long day was dying and the sun 
sank copper. 


Night comes on fast, but the dance, 
the lamvong, starts with the setting sun. 
Around and around the pavilion circle 
the young people. It is their night to 
celebrate life, this night of cremation. 
Their favor to the dead is to use thei 
nergies and their lusts in praise of life. 
The girls beckon and tease—Come, come 
—but then they break off the patterns 
they have been shaping in the air and 
on the ground with their hands and fee 
The chase must not be ungraceful and 
some girls force their lovers to circle 
after them for hours before they wander 
ой together. 

The khene pipes wail and soft drums 
beat. 

Candles and lanterns light the shelters. 

The old women roll cigarettes of hash 
and marijuana. They prepare quids of 
betel. 

No one hurries. 

There are dishes of boiled chicken and 
fish, meat and pimientos, sweet potatoes, 


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212 


areca and sugarcane buds. Rice alcohol 
has becn bottled. 

As the coffin is carried to the center of 
the pavilion, Dawn takes a small lighted 
candle between the thumb and fore- 
finger of each hand and dances around 
and under the box. Her arms make arcs 
and the tiny flames leave momentary im- 
pressions of fiery paths in the air. Charley 
Dog joins her and they dance to the 
drums. The other dances continue. 

Eventually, Charley Dog takes her by 
the waist and leads her away. He wants 
her at that moment; but before they 


picks up the grass hidden white slab he 
has tripped on and shows it to her. It is 
а gravestone, wind-whipped and rain- 
washed, all but indecipherable, and he 
can read only the words MORT POUR LA 
FRANCE. 


When ihe moon rises orange, а string 
of firecrackers and some small rockets are 
set off down by the stream. An old man 
opens a wicker bird cage that has held 
five mourning doves and as they fly first 
toward the light and then away from it, 
he chants: 


“The body is nothing, once the soul 
has left it; 
So we are told. 


The home is nothing, once children 
leave it; 

So we would believe. 

Birds, I release you because all 
things must be free. 

And the body does not trap the soul 
but beautifies it, 

And children are guests in the 
house.” 


More rockets are fired into the air. If a 
rocket а dud, there are jokes about its 
impotence and the impotence of its mak- 
cr; while he tries time and again to light 
it, girls dance around him and undress 
him. They hand him sticks and cucum- 
bers and other phalli. 

"The last rockets are used to light the 
funeral pyre. The blaze builds and con- 
sumes the coffin, then the entire bamboo 
structure of the pavilion. The crowd 
backs slowly away. They retreat only as 
far as the Hames force them. 

The fire is complimented for its beau- 
ty and energy. Drinks are taken. A few 
people point at the moon, which this 
night is going into eclipse. 

Neither the dancing nor the loving 
stops until the fire has bled itself and 
only ashes and smoke are left in the 
night. While these are stirred, Buon 
Kong speaks: 

"To діс is hart 


, to die is painful, yet 


“When you give him the transfusion, could you 
pump a little Latin blood into him?" 


death is a feast, We celebrate the life we 
are trying to lead. Here on this plain, we 
will take doubt as our pillow and free- 
dom as our food. 

"Up in the sky, the moon is about to 
die in the earth's shadow. In Chanda, 
this is known as the time when the frog 
swallows the moon. 

"In the same way. perhaps, we are all 
about to be swallowed by the things in. 
this life that are unharmonious; by gov- 
emments and armies, by those who 
would tell us how to live, if it сап be 
called living. 

“Some have said that if our children 
grow to maturity on this plain, they will 
spoil and rot. I say that we must train 
our children as we train elephants, with 
sugar cane and songs and stories, so that 
they learn to know life instead of death, 
so that they learn to live instead of 
spending a lifetime preparing for death. 

“IE there is darkness coming upon us 
as there is upon the moon tonight, then 
let us remember that no eclipse is total. 
id that light shines from the deepest 
lows, and times may pass but they 
Ш return again as surely as the scasons. 
“If we are to be crushed by what has 
become the world, by the forces that may 
destroy us—if the phi cannot protect us, 
if we forget how to live in pleasure with 
each other—then our deaths will be 
hard, our deaths will be painful. But we 
return again with our laughter and 
singing and loving and all those things 
not permitted by the unharmonious, the 
powerful, the judging. 

“We have tried to break away. We ask 
only to be left alone. But perhaps this 
the greatest sin, the one unthinkabl 
Nothing is more frightening to those who 
would control us than that we ignore 
them. Truly, that sends rage and terror 
to their mangled spirits. 

“Soon, sometime soon, there will be 
tanks coming to crush us and planes to 
bomb and burn us. Let us trust in our- 
selves and the phi and see if the gentle 
spirits are any match for those who pur- 
sue us It will test us fully, yes But 
remember that the phi have been 
through at least one life and they know 
what some people in the world do not: 
that life is sweet and to be valued over 
property or borders or faiths. 

“And we say to those who are now 
assembling in the valley of Royal City, 
we say, ‘You may kill us. That remains 
to be scen. But at least we will not be 
dying for you anymore. At least we will 
dic with right things in our hearts, d 

Buon Kong dropped his arms and sat 
back in exhaustion. His porters picked 
up his chair and started to move him 
away, but he stopped them. With quiver- 
ing steps, he walked toward the ashes 
and stared at the pyre. Then he turned 


and placed two fingers to his teeth. He 
whistled. There was a silence and the 
people listened to the whistle echo down 
the plain. Then, dimly, they heard a 
strange noise. Whistle again, noise ag: 

Da-dum-da-da trumpeted from 
the jungle and in the night, the carth 
shook. Da-dum-dada, as the elephants 
approached the astonished crew. 

Babu led the train of elephants toward 
the light. He knecled before his old keep- 
er and Buon Kong was lifted aboard. The 
crew cheered. The elephants raised their 
trunks and trumpeted. 

“They have come to join us" said 
Buon Kong from his high perch. "It was 
their decision.” 

Cheers and trumpets again. 


was 


Darkness and fog. The ashes are still 
stirred, as they must be for the next days, 
until they are one with the dust. The 
lovers come back toward the ash heap 
for warmth. They sleep. 

Only Mennan hears the sound. He sits 
up and cocks his head. The small noise 
of a vacu . 
knows мі ‚ he does. He shakes 
his fist up at nothing. Wampoom turns 
in her sleep and Mennan prods her. 
"You hear that?" he asks. She nods no. 
"Listen," he says. "Know what that is? 
I-II tell you." And he rips the blanket off 


them both, to show the night their na- 
kedness. Wampoom yelps and tries to 
pull the cover back. Mennan laughs and 
shakes his stiff prong at the sky. “Take a 
Jook at that when you get back to the 
labs, boys!" Wampoom throws the blan- 
ket over them and mounts hirn; she thinks 
he has gone crazy. As she rides him, 
hobbyhorse style, Mennan gets bitter and 
scared, “They can see everything,” he says, 
“with their special films and infrared stuff 
and sidecar radar; how are we going to 
beat thats“ But her motions are giving 
him some ease and they rock in tandem 
and by the time he feels his release spring- 
ing up from his gut and spine, he has his 
humor back and he giggles (at the line 
that bounces in his head) as he comes. 
When it is over, he finally manages to 
say it. “Smile, honey,” he whispers to the 
limp and happy girl, “you're on Candid 
Camera.” 


A jungle dawn, The night sky dying 
and monkeys calling. The birds get 
ready for heat. Smoke, river mists, low 
clouds on the hills. The charcoal porters 
walk the trails, Out of the brush comes 
Buon Kong, riding his elephant. Tall 
grass falls under the slow shifting weight. 
Into the circle he rides, beast kneels, 
dismounted is Buon Kong. Not a word. 
He waits. 


Dawn has bathed in the stream, She 
comes back up the hill with her hair 
dripping. She is naked to the waist and 
points of water jewel her skin. She faces 
the rising sun and combs her hair with 
an elephant comb and her face has the 
look of seeing nothing. 

The ritual of a new day begins. Dawn 
kneels and raises her hands to the sky. 
Buon Kong reaches up. On each wrist, 
he ties a string. Each string has 32 knots 
in it, for the 82 parts of the body 
the 32 souls. He leads a group, sa 
“Come, my soul, by the path t 
just been opened, by the track that has 
just been cleared. Come with me and 
bouleversez. Take your tie and hang your 
ghost. Come, before it's too lat 

The clephants were used for the few 
defensive preparations Buon Kong wished 
to make. They hauled trees and piled 
them across the trails that led toward the 
center of the plain. They carried buffalo 
skins filled with water into the camp. And 
at night, they stood guard duty on the 
far perimeters, for their trumpeting calls 
could be heard even in the wi 
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stakes and tank traps would be necessary. 
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to clear sections of jungle that grew too 
dose to the camp. But Buon Kong 
would have none of it. “There are more 
important things to do,” he daimed. 
Such a тро challenged. 

“You will see,” said Buon Kong. The 
old man was very tired and Campo did 
not argue with him; indeed, could not, 
for Buon Kong was asleep again. He had 
taken to sleeping often, at odd times of 
the day. 


And so it was that one dawn, before 
anyone was prepared for the day, there 
was a fearful bellowing on the southern 
reaches of the plain and Babu and sever- 
al other elephants came rumbling back 
to the camp with their trunks high in 
the air. As the qew woke and stood 
about in the mist, they heard the fright- 
cning sound of tanks invisible below the 
horizon, a sound that, once heard, can- 
not be forgotten, as if giants were drag- 
ging chains and shaking the earth, 

Two jets flew low over the crew and 
dropped canisters of leaflets. The papers 
fluttered to the ground. They read: 


TO THOSE 
PHANTS 

YOU ARE LIVING IN 
RITORY 


ON THE PLAIN OF ELE- 


DISPUTED TER- 


THIS CANNOT BE TOLERATED 
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Dog. Anti personnel actions will be 
jointly undertaken: " 

"That means,” said 
they will all bomb the shit out of us." 

“Well sce about that," said Charley 
Dog. “We'll call up а few phi, we will.” 

Mennan snorted. 

“Hey, Buon Kong,” 
called, “we're about read 
nodded, "I sure hope he 1 

“He don’t look so good,” 

“Wall,” said Charley Dog, 
got to start this day.” 

“How? asked Menn: 

“Like every other, with pipes and love 
and things. Buon Kong says that's the 
only way the phi will stick around. 

“J think this is crazy, you know 

nan. 
h, I know, but I'd rather die 
ng than fighting." 

“OK, Charley Dog, it's your funeral." 

“Ooo, don't say that, man, it’s bad 
luck. Besides, it's my wedding, not my 
funeral.” 

“Your what?” 

My wedding. Me and Dawn. 

“You mean while the tanks are coming 


Mennan, “that 


Charley Dog 
‘The old man 


"E guess we 


M 


Ye 


214 and the bombs are dropping, we're going 


to sit around and watch you get married 

Charley Dog laughed. “Ain't that some 
trip? Not really married like church and 
all. Just a ceremony that the phi will 
like and all. A love-sun thing.” 

And the day began, the girl up from 
the stream, the tying of strings and light- 
ing of pipes. Charley Dog put on a robe 
of silk and took Dawn to the center of 
the circle. “Nobody knows how this is 
going to turn out,” said Charley Dog, 
“but Dawn and me wanted you all to 
join us in a sort of sunny-day dance, 
and let's consecrate this whole thing 
here.” So saying, the music began again. 

All day the battle, what there was of 
it, raged. Planes came in low and 
dropped napalm, the jelly canisters fall- 
ing like fat cigars into the ueetops. But 
the pilots found their aim off target and 
their compasses and sights disturbed by 
strange vibrations. The tanks that roared 
over the feeble barricades lost their 
treads for no reason whatever and the 
elephants towed the helpless vehicles 
back down the trail. 

When the first radio report reached 
Royal City, General Grider did not be- 
lieve it. He ordered more armor, more 
planes, with the same result. 

“Magnetic ficld, my ass," said Grider 

after he interrogated one of his best 
pilots. “Magnetic field! That's not enough 
jet plane." 
t stop them, sir" said the 
pilot. “They just divert them. We can't 
get a straight shot. All those people out 
there in the middle of that prairie and 
we can’t get to them. I made five passes 
before my bomb release would work, and 
then it was ten seconds late, Like to blew 
me up, General.” 

Nadolsky paced about the shack. “Rus- 
n tanks are Russian tanks! No one 
stops us! But we cannot get near the 
place. Do you know how long it takes to 


change a tank tread? And we must keep 
something in reserve down here, It's im- 
possible! 


Colonel Kelly shook his head. “We've 
got everybody working on this. I don't 
understand it. Tay Vinh has been throw- 
ng eight shells a minute into that place, 
but they're all сапу airbursts and that 
doesn’t hurt a thing. Colonel Gaillard set 
up a radio relay, but all we hear is sı 
I don't understand it.” 

Lieutenant Goodfellow cleared h 
throat and said with deep gloom, “If 
we're not careful, we're going to have a 
precedent here," The king and the 
officers stared at him. "I'm trying to be 
helpful, sirs” 

“What do you suggest, Lieutenant 
asked General Grider. 

All his young life, the lieutenant had 
dreamed of this moment. He cleared his 
throat again and pulled maps and charts 
from his special kit. “According to my 


computations, sirs, this would be the 
ideal time to drop the, uh. . . . His 
voice trailed off. 

“The bomb,” Colonel Kelly concluded 
for him. "We've got this figured down to 
a cunt hair, gentlemen. The weather 
conditions are ideal. 

“The wind is good ——" 
ant interrupted eagerly. 

“The terrain is receptive,” added the 
colonel, not exactly sure what he meant 
by that, but he had read it somewhere, 
nd we have a Stratofort оп call from 
Guam and he should be over us now. 

All pondered. General Grider mused: 


the licuten- 


"We need clearances for this sort of 
thing.” 
Lieutenant Goodfellow brightened. 


“We have just received clearance for this 
small a kilotonnage, sir." He stiffened. "I 
think the leaders of the world are as 
concemed about precedents as we ar 

"If not more so," nodded Kelly in 
agreement. 

"Of course they are,” said General 
er. “This kind of thing could put 
them out of work, right, Nadolsky?” 

The Russian nodded. “Don’t forget us. 
It would put us out of work, too.” 

“You got to nip precedents right in 
the fucking bud.” shouted Colonel Kelly. 
“We can't let those people stay up there. 
Let's hit them and go get them and slide 


1 Grider frowned. "What would 
happen if we simply left them alone? If 
we let them stay there?” 

"No, sirec," said Kelly. “I can see it 
now." He used his hands to describe his 
vision. "Pretty soon, other folks hcar 
about this Plain of Elephants. Newspa- 
pers and TV build it up. You got resort 
hotels and jet flights and a big tourist 
boom. No, sir.” 

“Are we in contact with the bomber 
yet?” asked General Grider. 

“Yes, sir," said Lieutenant Goodfellow. 
“L have them on the frequency and they 
are standing by. Two bombs loaded but 
not armed.” 

The general put his hands on his hips 
and narrowed his eyes. “Does anybody 
here object?" 

Major Poon waved his hand in the air. 
"General, as head of the peace-keeping 
force" 

“Major Poon, there's no need to get 
your speech ready. I understand уо 
position, but you can hardly be consid- 
ered a full voting member of this body. 
Try to remember your status as an ob 
server, Major.” The little Indian bowed 
his head. “Does anybody else object? Any 
who do, raise their hands, ог... or — 

“Or forever hold their peace," added 
Kelly. 

The general winced. "I wasn't going 
to say that, Colonel.” Kelly shrugged. 
Grider changed the subject. “I assume all 
our elements are out of the arca?" 

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Kelly. “There must be a million ele- 
из up there.” 
Elements, Colonel, elements.” 
"Excuse me, sir. Nobody flying up 
there now, sir. No sense to it 
"And my tanks are all in the ditches,” 
said Nadolsky sadly. “It is not to be 
helieved.” 
No one spoke. Colonel Kelly cleared 


his throat. “General, before you give the 
final order, ГА like to say something” 
Go ahead.” 


Kelly stood and looked cach man in 
the eye. “I think we all know what's 
happening here today. And I think we 
are damned lucky to be a part of it. For 
years and years, nobody knew when ог 
where this would happen. Oh, there 
were guesses, sure, and books and movies 
about it" Kelly smiled sly) 
don’t suppose that th 
this business who 


n't say to himself 
1 he was stuck in some dog post 
somewhere—and if Chanda isn't a dog 


wh 


post, then tell me what is—that there 
n't one of us who didn't say: Boy, I'd 
like to be around when history is made. 
You think about that, King, old boy 
lor. Our names are going to 
bed in the book of history. 
hink about that." 
General Grider stood up aga 
el. — 
Just one more minute, 
know youre rushed, but theres опе 
more thing we got to do.” 

Му point is, the B-52 


eve 

Kelly waved in agreement. “I know 
that, General. But forever is a relative 
word right about now. You can't just go 
out and make history м 
thanks. And that’s what 1 


now. 

Nadolsky slammed his fist into his palm. 
“If you are about to do what I think, 
need I remind you that the state” 
C'mon, Alexander, old buddy. It 


"For years, 


I said I wanted а girl—just like 


the girl—who married dear old Dad—until 1 got 


a glimpse of what Dad had going on the si 


ide!” 


won't hurt you to listen in for a minute. 
You might learn something" Kelly 
dosed his eyes and raised his arms in the 
Gentlemen, call it message, call it 
prayer, call it what you will, let's say а 
few words to set this thing up proper 
d to give thanks that we were the ones 
called on to do it." There was a silence, 
broken only by the static from the ra 
headset. “Today we have been asked to 
teach the world a lesson. All our goi 
ments l c together, with the 


ve cor 


edge that this lesson must be taught. It 
is а special moment and we would ask 
certain things of it. 


"We ask for accuracy from the bom- 
sk that; 


ardier. First and foremost, w 
bec: 
a fn 
‘cad of those for whom and to whom 
this lesson is directed.” 

^Y never thought of that!" whispered 
Goodfellow, but Kelly went “Shhh! 
through pursed lips and continued. 

"Second, we ask that this lesson new 
have to be taught again and that people 
all over the place, here and everywhere, 
learn that they got to behave. We can't 
have people running off to places like 
the Plain of Elephants. That's no good. 
Not only is it selfish and immoral but it 
also makes more work for those of us 
who are trying to run this old world. We 
got cnough headaches. We got enough 
troubles. People haye just got to appre- 
ciate that and play along. 
inally, must remind ourselves 
that we are humble in our task and that 
we just happened to be in the right 
place at the right time, and for that we 
nkful.” Kelly opened his eyes and. 
stared around him. "Anybody get that 
on tape?” 

General Grider slapped his hands to- 
gether and walked to the radio. “Tell 
them to fire for effect when they are 
ready and to keep us informed of what is 
ppening.” 

Lieutenant Goodfellow repeated the or- 
der over the radio mike. He held the ear- 
phones close to his head, to m 
that he caught all that was commu 
са from the bomber. 

For several minutes, nothing could be 
heard in the room except the mumbling 
of Colonel Kelly as he wrote rapidly on 
a pad of yellow legal-sized paper, trying 
to remember exactly what he had said. 

Lieutenant Goodfellow jumped. “Fifth 
fail-safe olf . . . sixth failsafe off ... the 
baby is armed . . . final approach. 
doors are open . . . altitude and azimuth 
steady . .. no sign of magnetic field . 
looks good for go . . target in sight . . . 
fifteen seconds to release time . . . ten 
. . . five, four, three, once 
she's off . . . fuse time now . . . misfire?” 
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stand Бу... 
fire what... Say aga . Mush- 
?... Did I read you right? Mush- 
The lieutenant seemed confused. 
lonel Kelly tried to clear things up. 
That's not a misfire nt. The 
blast just looks like 
Shut up and let him listen!" ro: 
General Crider 

“I don't believe this," said the licuten- 
ant under his breath. He wrote on his 
board. "Say all after mushroom. Rog- 


mi 
roo 


Lieutena 


а mushroom. 


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ern... Rogen... Roger. . No shit? 
-.. Roger, stand by." 
The lieutenant wheeled about and 


faced his superiors. He was very pale. He 
bit his lips and looked at his feet. “Th 
bomb crew requests permission to return 
to their base. 
“What the hell happened?” 
General Gride 
“I don't really understand it, sir, but 
they want to go back to Guam. 
“Permission denied until you tell us 
happened!" 
Well, sir, sirs, we don't really know, 
except there wasn't much of a blast and 
the bomb behaved badly, very badly for 
that kind of bomb.” The lieutenant 
shook his head, as if he were scolding a 
child. 
“God 
some sort of dud, the 
drop their other one.” 
“No. sir, they can't 
"Don't you tell me! 
eral. 
"What I mean, sir, sirs, is that the 
crew chief reports the one in the bay 
broke open at the same time as the one 
one they 


roared 


wi 


un it, Lieutenant, if there's 
n go back and 


screamed the 


dropped behaved very badly, as I said, 
and seemed to break into litle tiny 
pieces and they couldn't tell what was 
ng on but it looked like everything 
was screwed up and about that time the 
crew chief reported that the one in the 
d cracked open, too 

The general interrupted. to slow the 
lieutenant down. “Easy, easy, Licuten- 
I just don't believe that. If that 
of bomb busts open in a bomb bay, 
to tell about 


bay h 


theres no crew chief le 


"Oh. yes. si can talk 
to him if you want and maybe you 


there is. sir. yo 


y. Lieutenant — 

s been a hard day, sir, and I 
don't believe any of this myself. Oh, I 
thought dropping the bomb would be 
very much different, I really did." 


"Now, casy,” the general said 
"What was the report on the bomb 
they're ng now? 


The lieutenant blew his nose. “I really 
don't want to tell you that, sir. 105 
Crazy." 

You can tell me, 
tell me.” 

“Mushrooms.” said the 

Colonel Kelly had had enough. "What 
is it with you and these goddamn mush- 
rooms, Lieutenant?” He mimicked Good- 
fellow’s tears. “Mushrooms, mushrooms." 

"That's what was in the bomb,” cried 
the lieutenant. “Thousands of mushrooms. 
The whole plane is filled with them. The 
bomb crew is very disturbed and they 
want to retum to their base.” 

General Grider sighed. He figured it 
was the end of a long career for him. 


wenant, you Gin 


icutenant. 


“Permission granted," he said. The licu- 
tenant relayed the message. “Tell them 
not to cat any of those things!” the 
general added as an afterthought. 

"Damm mushrooms could be poison- 
ous!” Kelly called out. 

"It's toadstools that are poisonous.” 
said the general “Mushrooms are just 
psychedelic.” 

“Same goddamn thing.” said Kelly 
"Go on, Goodfellow, tell them what we 

1 

No one spoke as the lieutenant talked 
over the radio. Grider and kelly shook 
their heads. “1 don't understand id 
Kelly. 

Well, Colone said Grider, “they 
may rip my stars off, but ГИ take a lew 
defense contractors with me. There's no 
quality control these days. 

^I just don't understand it,” the colo- 
nel said again. He looked out the wi 
. to rest his eyes and mind. Instead, 
w Major Poon's jeep, with Nadolsky 

ted at the Indian’s side, racing off on 
the road to the Plain of Elephants. “Stop 
the colonel yelled 10 no one in 
пїсшаг. “Look at those bastards cut- 


neral Grider could not get excited. 
“L don't blame that fat Russian. Think 
of what they'd do to him for this. Bi 
des, I was reading an intelligence sum- 
mary on him last night. They know the 
old goat pretty well. It turns out he's 
queer for mushrooms." 

“I just don't understand it,” said the 
colonel. "1 just don't. 


of 
nd storing the mush- 
100ms tl great areas of 
the plate; rey Dog laughed to 
himself as he peeled and ate one of the 
more exotic exotic. He fed Dawn small 
nibbles, 100. 

“We've been through something to- 
gether, ain't we he called out to the 
whole group, to Andreas and Marya, 
Campo. Edelman and Margaret, Buon 
Kong, Sumner-Clark and Coakley, Men- 
п and Wampoom, the elephants, the 
boatmen апа ballad singers and fish sell- 
ers and pack peddlers and children and 
dogs. “We've been through some kind of 
good lifetime today," he cheered, as he 
hugged Dawn. “Hey, Buon Kong,” he 
айса across the grass, "tell us a story.” 

"Yes, yes.” everyone cried, "tell us а 
story, Buon. Kong!" 

Babu kneeled to let his master down 
from his back, but the old man was 
asleep, or seemed to be. 


the day cl 


This is the third and concluding install- 
ment of the novel “The Land of a Million 


Elephants.” 


©1969 Liggett & Myers Inc. 


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DEAR OLD FRIEND коша pom page 99) 


and Annabelle. Those gals worked like 
dogs for no pay at all. 

Those were the fun years, Howie. 
How many times did we nearly sink 
without a trace? I can count three times 
that fist year. But then the contract 
from Army Ordnance got us over the 
hump. 

I am perfectly willing to admit, any- 
where, any time, that you are the fella 
that made it work. You are the wizard. 
Win-Tech wied a lot harder to keep you 
than they did to keep me. I'm a back 
stop-type guy, hot on administration and 
‘ols. But people who can design cir- 
nd take the bugs out of them are 
e birds. 

Like you said the other night, you 
haven't kept up with the state of the art, 
but I'd think that once you caught up 
with all the new miniaturized advances, 
you could write your own ticket any- 
where. 

Because I've got confidence in what 1 
know you can do, I'm willing to make а 
place for you in Ray-Fax. Our budget on 
R and D is a little slender, but the way 
the projected earnings look, I think 1 
could get the board to agree to fatten it 
up some. 

But I wouldn't want you to come in 
again feeling as if you were getting the 
dirty end of the stick on the option 
rangement that we made seven years 
аро. 

Let me refresh your memory, Howie. 
You wanted to keep the company in 
high-risk areas by concentrating all our 
resources in money and manpower on 
neu. product development. I said we had 
to dig in and milk the maximum return 
out of the Diatrex line, cut costs further, 
go for volume. 

We argued bitterly for months before 
we decided to split. And then we negoti- 
ated. Right? You wanted to peddle your 
20,000 shares to me for $20 a share and 
walk away with $400,000. How was 1 
supposed to raise that kind of money? 1 
couldn't put up the stock, because there 
wits no established market in it then. 

1 did the best I could, Howie. I scram- 
bled up $100,000, and that looked like 
all the money in the world back then, 
believe me. That was, as it Sys in our 
conuact, an option for ten years to buy 
your 20,000 shares at $15 a share, and 
you agreed to escrow the stock and give 
пе a proxy to vote it for you. 

And you went away and left me with 
the whole ball of wax and more 15-hour 
days and seven-day weeks than Г want to 
count. 

I can sce your point on how it could 
scem unfair to you for me to exercise 
that option at this time. With the stock 
splits and dividends during the past 
seven years, your 20,000 shares are now 
$1,600, which means that I would be 


buying for a little under ten dollars a 
share stock now bid in the OTC market 
at 4134, as of today. So it will соя me 
an additional $300,000 to pick up shares 
now worth $1,307,450. 

I am not promising anything, but may- 
be we can get together and work some- 
thing out. We both have to take any 
kind of chip off our shoulder and talk, 
man to man, the way we used to be able 
10. 


nly wish a 


Scrap that letter. Try it again, damn. 


You left Ruthie and my- 
self in a pretty bad state the other night. 
I think that when a man wants to amend 
or adjust a legal contract, it isn't exactly 
smart to show up all of a sudden, with- 
out warning, and say some mighty ugly 
things. 

I was so taken aback the other night 
that I didn't get around to telling you 
some cold hard facts. 

You know the shape we were in when. 
you left. You know how the books 
looked, how the orders looked, how 
much money we were making. We'd 
been in the new buildings a year and the 
debtservice burden was heavy. Your stock 
interest wasn't worth a dime more than 
I agreed to pay for it at that time. In- 
crease in value has happened since you 
left and you had nothing to do with it. 
Right? 

In a pretty unpleasant way, Howie, 
you brought up the fact that the profits 
have come from the Diatrex line, which 
you developed and which we have 
fenced in with good solid patents. I want 
to remind you that at the time you were 

ing out the circuitry, we were both 
employees of Ray-Fax, working on. Ray- 
Fax time, and so any developments be- 
longed to the corporation, not to you as 
an individual. If you were an outsider 
and I had bought the Diatrex concept 
from you, I would imagine that 1 would 
be paying you royalties amounting to 
hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, 
even though you would hardly recognize 
the line these days. 1 have some hot 
young kids who are really on the ball 
and they have made some interesting 
improvements and refinements 

I think you ought to face the fact, 
Howie, that you are a little bit out of 
touch with reality. I realize that you had 
а very hard time, learning that Anna- 
belle had leukemia, and 1 can appreciate 
your going abroad, where living was 
cheap, so you could be with h 
three years, taking care of her, 1 can 
appreciate the fact that you are out of 
touch with the industry and that you are 
broke, but, old friend, $300.000 isn't ex- 
actly a pittance. 

Put yourself in my shoes for а mo- 
ment. 1 didn’t force you to get out. That 


for those 


was your decision. It shocked me that 
you actually wanted to leave. 1 thought 
at that time you were my best friend in 
all the world. 

You left me holding the bag. OK. 1 
went ahead with the plans you didn't 
want to live with. I stayed and fought it 
ош, Howie. So now, Ray-Fax has 600 
employees, and in the past fiscal year, we 
made an after-tax net of 51.77 per share 
on tlie 588,000 shares outstanding, 

Where do you think а record like that 
comes from? From my sweat, old friend. 
From plugging away at it for seven years. 
I added the value. You had nothing to 
do with it. 

You hit the sauce pretty hard the 
other night, Howie. 1 don't know if that 
has become kind of a habit with you 
since Annabelle passed away, but I can 
tell you that it made communication 
pretty difficult. 

You make it pretty rough for anybody 
to try to meet you even halfway on this 
thing. You certainly didn’t leave me with 
any big fat desire to bring you back into 
the fold and play wet nurse until you 
can pull your own weight again 
nt to come to the office and 
4 of apology for your 
words and actions the other night, it 
might give us some kind of a starting. 
point fiom which we could: 

No dice. Try it again. 

Dear Howard. If there were just the 
two of us inyolved, like in the old days, 
then it would make things a lot simpler. 
But in view of the present setup, your 
demands and your recriminations just do 
not make sense. As the chief executive 
officer and chairman of the board of 
directors of Ray-Fax, Incorporated, I am 
responsible to all the hundreds of stock- 
holders of the corporation. 
an that affect a private stock- 
п agreement between you and me? 
Because we are now in registration, com- 
ing out with additional shares of com- 
mon and some convertible debentures 

ith warrants ached to finance nec- 
essary expansion. I have provided the 
investment-banking firm, as required by 
Jaw, with all the facts in full disclosure. 
"The investment bankers are now prepar- 
ing a “red herring,” which will have to 
be approved by the SEG гу partic: 
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9 January 1970 
Mr. Howard J. Faxton 

Room 34 

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CAMPUS MANHUNT 


(continued from page 162) 


the 1968-1969 academic year and held 
more than 30,000 interviews.) “College 
nd 


people aren't interested just in salary 
security anymore. Thi more aiti 
and skeptical than they used to be. They 
k more questions, sharper questions, 
new questions. They can afford to; they 
know they're in demand. A company must 
be on the ball if it hopes to do any 


hiring.” 


те 


the recruiter from Grey 
ng, is at Morchouse College in 
A black student walks into the 
interviewing room 

"Hi," says Mike. “I'm Mike Fr 
suppose you're here to hire your 
token nigger, right?” 


And yet. 10 the surprise of many, busi 
ness is holding its oi а fact, is man- 
g to hire more college graduates 
than ever before. "We haven't found it 
true that college students are, quote, 
turned. off by business, unquote," says 
Harold E. Roush, collcge-relations direc 
tor of RGA. "Some Most aren't. 
We're hiring all we want. It isn't due 
that they all plan to drop out of our 
technological society. Wh: 
t just open a door anymore and 
expect them to pour in, begging for jobs. 
АХ 
vidi ever higher sala 
angible rewards.” (RCA sent 283 con- 
cers to campuses last year and signed 
some 1000 recruits.) Even Dow Chemical 
reports in somewhat amazed tones that 
the number of students signing up to 
talk to its men (they hunt on some 
300 campuses) has increased each year 
through the Sixties. College placement 
chiefs make similar reports, Dr. F. Thom- 
as Sheeder of the University of Miami 
says 25 percent more job interviews took 
place on his ca apus in the 1968-1969 
demie year than the year before 
osophical value of money v; 
ies inversely with the number of years to 
graduation and selfsupport,” remarked 
а cynical Princeton senior last spring, 
observing a group of sophomores who 
were demonsuating against the univer- 
s investments in South Afr 
“If business is for the birds,” says 
Newell Brown, Princeton -s career-services 
director, “then this campus is something 
` He admits he is puzzled, but 
ly everyone else in the campus 
headhunting business. How can the two 
phenomena be reconciled: the widespread 
notion that college students scorn business 
and the statistical fact that—in the end 
they don’t? Everyone has his own ex- 
planation, Some grumble that reporters 


are. 


is true is that 


we са 


= got to go out and convince them 


s and other, less 


v 


have exaggerated a minor phenomenon 
to manufacture а hot story. “There has 
Deen too much press coverage of student 
radicals, a small but very vocal minor- 
ity,” says Dr. Thomas Clark, university- 
relations manager of Celanese Corporation 
(whose recruiters spend some 650 man- 
days on 150 campuses each year). Others 
think business itself is guilty of exaggera- 
tion. “We've worried too loudly about the 
students inar ly critical attitude, 
says Eugene Boyd. vice-president and 
corporate personnel director of the Coca- 
Cola Company. “We've blown it up out 
of proportion. Sure, we're having a 
sharp debate with the students. But we've 
made the debate sound like a war." Yet to 
dismiss campus criticism of business as 
exaggerated—to 


ay the criticism is un 
statistical mistake—is itsell an 
exaggeration. “The criticism is real, 
says Herb Michener, college-relations 
manager of Scott Paper Company. 
“Damned real.” 


real, 


Then why is business hiring so many 
students? How could Scott, for instance, 
snatch some 125 "sharp minds” off cam- 


puses this year, twice as many as in a 
typical year at the beginning of the 
Sixties? “Ah,” says Michener, happy to 
be asked the question. "Whats happen- 
ing is revolution. Business is changing 
adapting, redesigning itself into forms 
that the students like better, The stu- 


dents have forced this to happen. The 
old image of business—stiff-collared, prag- 
tic, uninterested in aesthetics or h 
manitarianism or social citizenship—is 
dying. Companies in which that old 
image is not dying are not going to live.” 

On the Hempstead, New York, campus 
of Holstra University, a worried knot of 
students sits in the waiting room of the 
university s placement office. They all look 
uncomfortable in dark suits and white 
shirts. They await IBM, which is due on 
campus with a task force of three recruit 
ers. Among college seniors, giant IBM 
has a reputation for paying top dollar 
and offering wide-open opportunities but 
requiring decorous behavior and shirts of 
pure establishment. white. 

“I bought this white shirt specially for 
today,” one of the students says. “Do 1 
look IBM?” 

“Don't worry about it,” зуу the uni- 
versity’s placement director with an casy 
grin. “IBM is probably as anxious to get 
you as you are to get IBM 

The three youngish IBM hunters tuin. 
up. They talk in a breezy, informal way 
that sometimes borders on the hip and 
certainly doesn't sound like мій II 
("Whats your bag?” one of them asks a 
student, and the student looks 
and says, "You mean—what job am I 
looking for?") They them: 


startled 


introduce 


selves as Pete, Ev and John. Their shirts 
are, respectively, white, tan and blue— 
blowing that myth to the winds. 

The recruiting literature that festoons 
college placement offices today takes a 
determinedly unbusinesslike (and some- 
times self-conscious) attitude. Aetna Life 


& Casualty tides its job booklet "Your 
Own Thing,” explains that “helping 


people is our kind of thing" and promises 
recruits the double reward of "making 
good and doing good." Honeywell illus 


trates its booklet with a picture of a love 


beaded hippie and vows that the company 
is hunting for “mavericks.” Corning Glass 
Works claims to he looking for "icono- 
clasts." Norton Company shyly asks, 


you trust a company that’s over 89?" And 
the corporate recruiters are living re 
prints of the literature. Most are, or at 
least look and act, just under 30 years of 
age. Some fulltime recruiters 
Taunt campuses all others 
simply bright young men who are pulled 
gued to temporary 
campus duty during the peak (Tanuary- 
March) hunting season. They are care- 
fully picked for their degree of rapport 
with w 


who 


year; аге 


off other jobs and as 


leaders envision as 


ar business 
the “younger generation.” 


In an apartment on the East Side of 


Manhattan, а party is in progress. ПУ а 


the o 


that reflects your own special thing.” 


Lats, No. 1790: Right, No. 1 


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loud party of young adults that seems 
likely to become rather indecorous. Two 
young men arrive about 9:30 рм. One is 
а high-ranking senior from the Oshkosh 
campus of Wisconsin State University. 
His name is Lamy. He is tall and thin 
and looks bewildered. His companion, 
George, is a recruiter from a large Wall 
Street bank that is prepared to spend a 
good deal of money and effort to hook 
Larry. George and the bank are both 
aware that some college students imagine 
banks to be ponderously stuffy places, 
and he is a recruiter largely because of 
what he calls his "unstuffitude." He has 
advanced sideburns, talks a lot about the 
girls he's balled; and the word establish- 


E 


ment, sneeringly intoned, crops up often 
in his conversation. A rcal swingcr, this 


and makes sure Larry's glass stays full 
The party hasn't been organized exclu- 
sively for Larry's benefit, but most of the 
liquor has been supplied by George. He 
will pur the сом on his expense account. 
The bank won't question the amount. 
George's expense budget, like many re- 
cruiters, is virtually unlimited. George 
likes this life. He works hard at recruit- 
ing; he wants to keep the job until, like 

a athlete, he grows too old. 

Larry looks uncomfortable, People keep 
coming up to him and asking how he 


likes swingin’ New York. He has а pale, 
haunted face that reminds one of thc 
girls, she says, of a “misunderstood artist.” 
(“Acually, I'm а businessadministration 
major, he mumbles) The girls cluster 
around him in a 
Larry leaves about 11:80, looking ovcr- 
whelmed, with the explanation that hc 
must be up early the next morning to 
catch a plane home. The prospect of 
returning to the vast sient spaces of 
Wisconsin seems to fill him with rclicf. 
George sits morosely on а chair after 
Larry leaves he says "I 
think I overdid 
He is correct. А few days later, Larry 
phones recruiter Tom Lewis of Kimberly 
Clark, whose main executive offices are 
in the quiet lile town of Neenah, 
Wisconsin 
“Is that offer still open. 
“Indeed it is. 
“Great. I'll see you in swingin’ Neenal 


vaguely predatory way. 


asks Larry. 


Tom Lewis is a full-time campus 
headhunter, and a highly successful onc. 
He is 32. His manner is one of quiet 
good cheer; he wears no long sideburns 
and he speaks dictionary English. “It’s 
silly to generalize about the so-called 
younger generation,” he says. “Trying to 
figure out what they want or how you 
should act toward them is a losing propo- 
sition, because there is no ‘they’ in that 
sense. You're dealing with individuals. 
Some are swingers, some are social-reform 
types, some are born suburbanites, All 
you am do is be yourself. Try to put on 
some kind of act and you've had it.” 

Lewis’ company, the manufacturer of 
Kleenex and other paper products, mus 
add some 300 college-cducated people to 
its payroll each year to replace those 
leaving and to maintain an ambitious 
expansion program. About 100 x 
pected to come directly [rom college 
campuse: two other mi 
aided in peak periods by temporary re- 
iters pulled off other jobs, have the 
assignment of hunting down those 100. 
To do this, in the 1968-1969 academic 
ye: de about 160 trips to 110 
colleges all over the country. They inter- 
viewed some 3200 students. Of these, 800 
were felt to be worthy of further consid- 
eration, About 525 were offered company 
paid trips to various Kimberly-Clark 
plants and offices. and 400 accepted. Half 
of them pleased the executives who were 
their prospective bosses, and these 200 
were formally offered jobs. Half, or 100, 
signed on. 

"In other words," says Lewis, "to hire 
one good man, we interview 32. It isn't 
easy.” 

On a typical hunting day, Tom Lewis 
drives onto Wisconsin State's Oshkosh 
campus about 8:30 on a cold March 
morning. This vast, flat campus houses 


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some 11,000 students. It looks serene 
the bright morning sunshine, Back in 
November of 1968, a group of student 
radicals tore the president's office apart, 
but the hard line university administration 
promptly expelled most of them and the 
campus has been relatively quiet ever 
since. 

In a large room lined with file cabi- 
nets. Tom Lewis is greeted by Dick 
"Turzenski, a former elementary school 
ministrator who is now the university's 
placement chief. As is customary, Tur- 
zenski has coffee brewing for his recruiter 
guests. Among them are a man from a 
Milwaukee bank and two from Bendix 
Corporation. The Bendix men look 
tired. They have been traveling for a 
month and face another long trip that 
it. The night belore, secking diver- 
sion, they hit a few bars in Oshkosh. 
“I should know better,” one of them 
grumbles as he sips his coffee. “I'm going 
to spend April in bed.” 

Tuzenski, a quiet wryly humorous 
man, also looks tired. By the time the 
1968-1969 hunting scason is over, he will 
have scheduled some 8000 interviews for 
250 companies. “That’s about a 30 percent 
increase since last year,” he says. "Y: 
say students are turned. off by business? 
Sometimes I wish it were a litle bit 
truer. 

He hands Tom Lewis a bundle of 12 
student files. A few weeks earlier, Kim- 
berly-Clark had sent Tunzenski a list of 


the job categories for which the company 
g and students who 


ou 


would be recr 
were interested signed up to sce the hun 
cr. Turzenski then scheduled them into 
halfhour slots. Tom Lewis has a full 
schedule today: six students in the morn- 
ing, six in the afternoon. "I could han- 
dle more,” he says, "but it wouldn't be 
fair to the last few. After 12 interviews, 
I'm emotionally wrung." 

It's nearly nine A.M. Lewis goes into 
the interviewing cubicle Turzenski has 
assigned him ure office con: 
g a desk and three chairs. From hi 
ché case, he pulls a bundle of papers 
«d an alarm clock. He winds the clock 
and sets it on the desk. where it ticks 
loudly. He must stay on schedule through- 
out the day. 

He scans the papers on the first stu- 
dent. "Then he stands, walks to the door 
and looks out into a waiting room where 
several students sit, talking, flipping 
through recruiting brochures or staring 
speculatively into the middle distance. 
He calls out a name. One of the students 
rises and the day's parade has begun. 

Once every half hour, a student will 
stride, shamble or shuffle into the little 
room. Within 20 minutes of meeting each 
one, Lewis must decide whether the man 
seems worth а 57,000-512,000 ring 
lary, whether he should be invited to 
visit a plant or simply forgotten. As the 


n- 


ami 


day wears on, Lewis slumps lower in his 
chair, and his fingers, drumming on the 
desk, betray a gradual inner tightening. 

He says to a student, "I don't see 
much extracurricular activity on your 
records here, Why is that 

The student says, “I don't know. I'm 
not antisocial. But—well, I don't go for 
clubs and cliques and all that. I don't 
like the pettiness of it, the hypocrisy.” 
The student speaks in a soft voice and 
docs not look Lewis in the eye. ("I ha 
to sec a guy who's been beaten down by 
the system,” Lewis remarks after the stu 
dent has left. “That poor guy may be an 
outsider all his life." On а sheet of paper 
on his desk, he writes, “Not suitable. Poor 
grades. Apparent trouble getting along 

ith people.) 

He asks an accounting major, “Why 
do you want to work for Kimberly- 
Clark?" 

"Well, for one thing, it says in your 
literature that you give a man responsi- 
bility right away. No apprenticeship or 
anything like that, 

“You read the literature, did you? Un- 
al. Anyway, уоште right: We know 
«chip and training are bad 
words these days. If a man has what it 
takes, he gets real work on his frst day. 
1 like that. And I also like the compa- 
^s work on river-pollution control. І 
like the social conscience of it.” 

“You haven't asked about salary.” 

"Hell, that's minor. I assume you're 
competitive. Scven to eight hundred а 
month, right?" 

“Right. Listen, we'll be getting in 
touch with you.” 

(‘I liked chat guy," Lewis says. "He'll 
be hard to get. Probably has several 
other offers already.) 

‘The clock ticks on. 

A chemistry major 
to shave off my beard?’ 

“Hell, no.” 

“But I've heard— 

"You've heard my 

(The misconceptions they have,” says 
Lewis. “When is the celluloid collar im 
age going to dic") 

Another student begins to sense, to- 
ward the end of half hour, that he 
isn’t making the grade. He asks: “Will 1 
hear from you one way or the other?" 

"Yes You'll get a letter n two 
weeks.” 

The student fidgets uncomfortably. 
“Will you tell me the reasons for the 
decision, whatever it is?” 

“Well, we 

“I mean, 1 think a man ought to 
get reasons. Otherwise, he thinks maybe 
there’s something wrong with him after a 
lot of these vague turndowns, you know?” 

("Sad," says Lewis. "He's probibly had 
20 interviews without an offer. Usually, 


Will 1 have 


we have to do the selling; but in his 
case, it's the other way around.“) 

At the end of the day, the weary 
hunters gather around their host's coffee 
urn. Some placement directors hold for- 
mal post interview sessions, but Turzen 
ski thinks it's more useful just to stand 
around and chat. 

“How'd you ma 
ask one another, 

‘The Milwaukee bank man is gloomy. 
“Didn't score all day,” he says. “There 
was one man who seemed great, but I 
don't think he likes banks.” 

"I had a kid who wanted to know our 
ion on Vietnam, free sex and pot,” 
one of the Bendix men says. 

“What did you tell him 
asks. 

“I told him our main position is on 
money. We like it.” 

Somebody else is reading а copy of 
Business Today, a magazine published 
by a group of Princeton students who 
want business and universities to commu. 
nicate better. "Listen to some of these 
letters to the editor," the reader chuck- 
les. "Kid from Yale says, ‘When you're 
ready to stop licking business derrière, 
ТИ be ready to listen" Kid from Texas 
says, Don't send me another copy, 1 
wouldn't want anyone to think ГА read 
that—— Well, it ends with a blank. I 
guess he said shit.“ Some of these kids 
don't like us much.” 

The hunters laugh good-humoredly 
and start telling stories of encounters 
with campus radicals. Somebody tells of 
a demonstration in California. "I never 
saw so many beards in my life. Christ, 1 
was in a thicket. 

Tom Lewis recalls that he once 
formed a flying wedge with other hunt- 
ers to escort a Dow recruiter through an 
angry mob. “Curly Hendershot, his name 
was. Little guy. I hate to sce people 
bully a little guy.” 

“Yeah, I remember Curly,” says one of 
the Bendix men. “We hit Columbia to- 
gether couple of years ago. They picket 
ed the hell out of him. Didn't bother 
him at all 

It doesn’t seem to bother any of the 
hunters, in fact. “I don't mind a demon- 
stration once in a while,” says the bank 
man, “It sparks things up. Keeps you on 
your toes.” 

‘The only man present who seems wor- 
ried about the future is Dick Turzenski 
His worry is that the number of job- 
seeking students and campus-roving hunt- 
ers will continue to grow faster than his 
budget and staff. He stands slumped in 
his doorway, sips coffee and watches the 
hunters depart down the corri, 
be FH be lucky,” he says. "Maybe the 
business boom will slow down next year." 


ощ?” the hunters 


* somebody 


“And on my left is the town's recreation center. . . 


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GIRLS OF ISRAEL (continued рот page 160) 


who enjoy dining, as well as good eating. 

South of Tel Aviv, along the sca, lies 
its sister city, Jalfa, once an Arab city. A 
minaret still dominates its low skyline 
and its narrow streets are jammed with 
people, cars and trucks. Just along the 
waterfront at the southern edge of Jaffa, 
a transformation has taken place. An 
artists’ quarter has been established and 
the old Arab buildings, with their domes 
and arched entrances, have been mod- 
ernized and converted into studios and 
shops. And along with that change has 
come another: the opening of collce- 
houses, night clubs, restaurants and more 
discotheques in a setting so striking that 
its attraction for young Israelis is mag- 
Ct 

You can dine well in Jaffa. Two res- 
taurants, Via Maris and Toutoune, olle 
fine food and lovely views of the Medi- 
terranean; and Jeanette's is famed for 
its seafood. If you want thick Turkish 
coffee, walk over the cobblestones to 


Aladdin, а former dwelling turned into 
you don't want 


а coffeeshop. And if 
to leave Jaffa without 
club, Omar Khayyám and Khalif 
there waiting to welcome you, complete 
with Oriental belly dancers. But bear in 
mind that most patrons of the night 
clubs will be tourists: Israelis tend п 
frequent. them. 

No Oriental dancers display th 
vels in Haifa, Israel's northern 
city, despite its proximity to Lebanon. In 
fact, not many dancers of any kind can 
be found in Haifa, for this ciry—built 
on terraces and hills overlooking the 
Mediterrancan—is а staid and quiet 


g a night 
are 


na- 
harbor 


e given to little entertainment other 
than movies. The girls of Haifa are more 
conservative than those of Tel Aviv, less 
interested in original clothes, more con- 
cerned with propriety. Only at the water- 
front, where ships from all over the 
world tie up, especially during the citrus 
season, will signs of liveliness be found. 
But the waterfront calés of Haifa and the 
girls who use them as a base are hardly 
distinguishable from the waterfront cafes 
and girls of any major port in the world. 

Yet every city in Israel has at least one 
place where young people congregate, 
a is no exception. The knowl- 
van seeking feminine compan- 
p should head either for the 
Technion, Israel's world-famous techni. 
cal college, where a few girl students arc 
studying, or to а more likely plice—Gan 
Ha'em— Mother's Park, а name th: 
us joke about what 
happens there. Within its borders— 
ing or sunning themselves—vou will find 
those Н: s who seek to break from 
the settled pattern of their parents. But 
after Gan Ha'em, about the only place 
eft to go is back to the apartment where 
the girl lives with her parents. And unlike 
parents in Tel Aviv, they will not be 
likely to leave the flat for two or three 
hours of café sitting. 

Just а dozen or so miles south of 
а, at Ein Hod, is a totally dilferent 
kind of scene. Ein Hod was once an Ar- 
abic village, high up on a mouni 
overlook. the sea. Now it's a 
arti 
most eminent sculptors, potters, ceramists, 
painters and writers maintain homes 


rise to many an ob; 
roll- 


“Thank goodness there are still a few people left 
who aren't anti-establishment.” 


year round or for weekends and vaca- 
tions. The houses themselves are marvel- 
ous creations, for the residents of 
Hod have managed to retain Arabic 
architectural forms in their modern stu- 
dios. And the Ein Hod colony includes 
many girls. 

The romantic setting creates a sense of 
wonder as you wander up and down the 
terraces, perhaps accompanied by the 
unofficial mayor of Ein Hod, known as 
Itchy. А sm 1 filled with energy 
and an endless fund of stories about 
Isracli personalities, Itchy will take you 
from studio to studio. introducing you 
proudly to cach artist. Then you may sit 
in the open air on the terrace of Ein 
Hod's restaurant with a cup of coffee 
or a beer and the vista of 
the Mediterrancan Sca. As evening ap- 
proaches, the restaurant will grow crowd- 
ed, particularly on weckends, when 
people come from miles around to meet 
old friends and make new ones. 

Weekend nights at Ein Hod, especial- 
ly during the summer. are extraordinary. 
On the stage of the amphitheater, some 
of the best entertainers in Isracl per- 
form; though their Hebrew may not be 
understood by the foreigner, their ges- 
tures, mimicry and dancing will be, for 
the spirit of the colony overcomes all 
language riers. Everyone seems to 
know everyone else, and even if they 
don't, they're willing to establish contact. 

Also to Ein Hod come girls from the 
kibbutzim in the area of Galilee. Usu- 
ally, the inhabitants of these agricultural 
collectives travel very little. The larger 
settlements provide the kibbutzniks, as 
their residents are called, with most of 
their cultural activities movies, plays 
and even concerts; while the smaller, 
newer ones are generally located in rath- 
er isolated places with no means of easy 
transportation available. 

So kibbutz girls tend to lead more 
isolated lives than their urban counter- 
rts. But some can be scen at Ein Hod, 
ng shorts, blue jeans or slacks. 
r hair will not be carefully coifed 
and they will not have spent much time 
applying make-up. They cluster together 
and, for the most part, stay close to the 
young men of the kibbutz who brought 
them to town. 

Despite what seems to be an air of 
boisterousness, the kibbutz girls are rath- 
er shy creatures. Brought up in the kib- 
butz children’s house, they have been 
iving with other girls and boys almost 
from the day they were born. Little is 
kept from them and little can be, consid- 
ering the lack of privacy that characterizes 
communal life. Yet kibbutz girls te 
to be more limited in sexual perspec 
than any other group of girls in Israel. 
For one thing, they seem more con- 


cerned with the kibbutz than with sex 


С 


inished now? OK. Lets go pick or- 
; amd since they live and work 


almost as equals with the men, the tra- 
ditional notion of femininity is not prev- 
alent. Yet they are worth drawing out, 
and the rewards may equal the eſtort, 
especially if you enjoy picking oranges. 


Tes not very far from a kibbutz in 
Galilee to Jerusalem, Israel's 
But 


apital city. 
the psychic distance is enormous—a 
“up to Jerusalem” is a voyage to a 
atc world within Israel. All Israelis 
up to Jerusalem.” no matter from 
what part of the country they approach 
the capital, The phrase has both а physi- 
cal and a spiritual meaning: Jerusalem is 
2740 feet above level at the peak of 
the Judacan Hills, making it one of the 
highest points in the country. But even 
more important than its physical height, 
Jerusalem is the Holy City, a place to be 
approached with reverence, a city above 
all оше 

The atmosphere of Jerusalem is strik- 
ingly different from that of any othe 
Isracli city. It’s cooler than Tel Aviv; the 
old buildings are built of stone and 
many of the new ones follow the old 
style. Jerusalem is also much quieter 
than Tel Aviv in every way, from dr 
to deme: Indeed, in the Mea She 
rim, the quarter in which strict Orthodox 
Jews live, study and pray, females are 
scen only in dresses with long sleeves and 
long hemlines, heavy stockings and wigs. 

Despite its decorum and solemnity, 
however, Jerusalem manages to provide 
some social lile. The campus of Hebrew 
University is crowded with students from 
all over Israel, looking and behaving 
much like students in any other part of 
the world, except, perhaps, that they're 
à little more serious, a little more ded 
cated to study. The university students— 
especially the girls—tend (o be older 
than their counterparts in America; most 
of them don't enter. the university until 
they're in their 205 and have completed 
military service. The university girls are 
more likely to be interested in politics 
than those encountered at a coffee bar 
in Tel Aviv—and they will talk more 
seriously, at least in the beginning. Not 
gly, the war with the Arabs is 
nuch on their minds; last year, a 
bomb exploded in the university cafe- 
а amd more serious bombings have 
occurred in markets and at bus stops 
near the university. 

But when they take a break from the 
books and the barricades, they congre- 
gate either at the coffechouse and bar 
right on the campus or at the T'a Mon 
Coffee House on the corner of King 
George and Ben Hillel streets, a mile 
two from the campus. There, in an at- 


mosphere redolent of the cafés the 
Latin Quarter of Ра the students 
meet and talk under the kindly 


a tolerant. proprietor, willing alw: 
extend cr A somewhat more raffish. 
group of students attends the Bezalel 


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School of Art in the heart of Jerusalem. 
The girls dress in wilder clothes than 
do the university coeds and are much 
less interested in politics. At the school 
estaurant—which serves French 1004. 
по Tess—the student artists talk excitedly 
of thei k wh: 
being shown in the New York or Paris 
galleries. 

But. the city closes down early 
evening and especially early on Friday. 
when the Sabbath begins. After sundown 
that day, the gas stations close and the 
buses stop running until Saturday night. 
"The students’ parents stay home, 
more so than those in Tel Aviv. During 
the week and on Saturday and Sunday 
nights, however, a few places offer 
chance to meet Jerusalem’s girls in un- 
solemn settings: Puss-Puss Teq and Bac- 
thus are discothèques as lively as any 
п Tel Aviv; and right across from the 
city's tiny railroad station is the Khan, 
a theater-night club. You can be sure 
that almost any Israeli girl you meet at 
the Khan will be willing and able to 
talk with you on a wide variety of sub- 
jects, including the last performance of 
el Philharmonic at the Mann 
im in Tel Aviv—before telling 
you that she lives in an old Arabic 
house with another girl. Ac this point, 
the intelligent foreign male will ask hi 
to join him for а bowl of goulash at 
Fink's, one of the great bars of the 
world. And even if she says no, pleading 
she must morning, he 
should go to Fink’s alone, confident that 
he will not Jeave the same way. 


own wd ad about 


too. 


work the next 


Fink's is а tiny place, at the intersec- 
tion of Tzarfat Circle and King George 
Street, and its one room is always crowd- 
ed with a volatile mixture of foreign 
journalists, Israeli political leaders, the 
resident intellectual establishment, diplo- 
mats and very few tourists. The ambiance 
at Fink's is one of the great phenomena 
of Jerusalem. Even in а country where 
people always feel free to engage one an- 


other in conversation, Fink's is the ul 
у. You may join 


mate in informa 
conversation or get into ап argumci 
and you may leave with a group or with 
one member of a group who has decided 
she would like to talk some more with 
the interesting foreigner who had enougl 
sense to visit one of the favorite cz 
and d g places of astute Israel 
Not far from Fink's is another Je 
Jem institution, My Bar, a restaurant/bar 
much like those on New York's thri 
Upper East Side. My Bar has loud mu 
the best marüni in the Middle East and 
a dientele that includes a bevy of quite 
sophisticated girls. 
y-three miles southwest of Jerusa- 
lem is Beersheba, the ancient Biblical city 
that is still the gateway to the Negev des- 
ert. To Beersheba come the Bedouins, the 
nomadic Arab tribes that move continu- 
ously across the changing sands. At the 
camel market in Beersheba, the Bedouin 
women stand silently, shrouded in their 
Moslem clothes, faces hidden, while the 
husbands and fathers argue, gossip and 
finally complete their complicated busi- 
ness transactions. The Bedouin women 
remain as mysterious today as they were 


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1000 years аро, so immersed in the Arab 
Moslem culture that theyre hardly as- 
imilated at all into Israeli life. 

But the Jewish girls of Beersheba, who. 
giow up in new apartment houses and 
attend modern schools, are а different 
breed. For one thing, the desert is ever- 
present in their consciousness. The Neg- 
ey nearly encircles Beersheba, and the 
desert’s extraordinary colors and rock 
formations make the arca look like an- 
other planet. And the girls of Beersheba 
integrate their lives with the desert, us- 
ing it as а picnic ground, helping an 
archaeological party dig in its 
ruins or making the flowers bloom at a 
desert agricultural station. Beersheba also 
has a thriving artists’ colony, and to it 
come Isracli girls anxious to paint in 
desert hut rto use the desert sand as 
raw material for pottery and sculpture. 

The girls take camping wips into the 
desert, returning after a few days sun- 
burned and tired but refreshed by the 
contact they've made with their ancient 
past. Then they plunge back into the 
present, shaking their hair loose fom 
underneath their broadtbrimmed hats, 
changing from desert boots into sandal 
and from shorts into dresses, ready to 
rt the evening. That evening may be- 
gin with a movie and end at a cofice bar 
or with dancing at one of the city's 
discothèques. 

At the southern end of the Negev sits 
Elath, near the ancient site of King Solo- 
mom mines. Once just a tiny port and 
Israel's only access to the Red Sca, Elath 
s far better known today as a swinging 
beach town, a winter resort filled with 
hotels, bars, coffechouses and restaurants. 
The center of life in Elath is the beach, 
where Israclis and other tourists come 
for holiday weekends. The scuba- and 
skindiving there rank among the best in 
the world, for in Elath's clear-blue water 
are some of the most fantastic coral reefs 
found anywhere. 

Israel's beaches are the country’s most 
popular playgrounds—and a good place 
to find the Israeli girl in one of her most 
natural settings. The popularity of the 
beaches is easily understandable: They 
are readily accessible; the dimate makes 
them tempting almost year round; 
most of them are free—an important 
factor «те personal 
isn't very high. Young Israelis usually can- 
not afford automobiles or weekends in 
the country. Most of the action at an 
Israeli beach is on the sand rather than 
in the water. Israel has no surfing enthu- 
siasts because the Mediterranean has lit- 
tle surf. Waterskiing isn't very popul: 
her, because of the high cost of speed- 
boats. Scuba- and skindiving are growing 
sports, but the most popular beach 
sports, such as bikini watching, are played 
right on the sand. 

Israeli bikinis, 


ncient 


ind 


a country w icome 


like other Israeli 


fashions, are in the vanguard, and in 
them the Israeli girls turn the beach into 
a scenic spectacle. Israeli girls don't both- 
er much with such strenuous activities as 
swimming; instead, they're content to 
exerdse by patting suntan oil all over 

ir bodies, turning from side to side 
and manipulating themselves into posi- 
tions where a minimum of cloth exposes 
a maximum of body. 

One place to enjoy a maximum mum- 
ber of bodies is poolside at the Tel Aviv 
Hilton, where yearly membership in the 
hotel's cabana club entides young Israc- 
lis to sun themselves for hours under the 
wishful eyes of the hotel guests. But an 
Israeli need not be affluent enough to 
join a private club in order to get in 
plenty of beach time: Within Tel A 
city limits, just across the Yarkon River, 
Tel Baruch beach is one of the most 
popular in Isracl, always crowded in 
good weather with young Tel Avivians. 

A few miles north, the beach scene 
changes because of the big vacation ho 
tels in Herzliya and Accadia. The people 
there are more likely to be family groups 
ng a holiday. The resort town of, 
nya also attracts an older segment 
of the population, but Nahariya, north 
of Haila, combines family vacationers 
with a younger crowd. Nahariya 
lovely wide stream, Brook Ga'aton, flow 
ing through the middle of its main 
street; on both sides of the brook are 
cafés, restaurants and the ever-present 
discothèques. 

But Israel's beaches aren't limited to 
the Mediterranean. and the Gulf of 
Elath. Lovely beaches can be found all 
around Lake Kinneret up north; the 
center of life at the lake is the ancient 
city of Tiberias, now a popular resort 
area. The calés and restaurants on the 
waterfront offer a marvelous соп 
tion of the new and the old. At one 
table may be a group of carly Zionist 
pionecrs, men and women now in their 
60s, reminiscing about the days when 
the lake was a place to fish in peace 
and quiet, rather than a busy seting 
for a tourist holiday. Close by, a much 
younger group of Israelis talks excitedly 
of a new movie they're going to see that 
night. of new books they've read, of 
how they'd like to travel and see Amer- 
ica, Europe and Asia 

They are the youth of Isracl, the 
evolving Israelis of the future, a new 
breed so varied in physique and complex- 
it’s impossible to say, “Ther 
typical Israeli." What is typical of Israeli 
girls is their infinite variety—plus a near- 
ly insatiable curiosity, an intense interest 
in foreigners, а fervent sense of patriot- 
ism and the ever present excitement in 
their eyes that beckons a visitor to ta 
his first step on what can be an cxhila 
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jon tha 


Dr Otto Matic 


(continued from page 151) 
nd that the guy was using mirrors or 
something; but until 1 knew exactly 
what the trick was, and until my buddy 
Frank was back on that stage, it wasn't 
going to be “trippy,” it was going to be 
scary. 

And scary seems to be the thing the 
computer priests are most anxious to 
convey about thei 5 
who build them and write the proj 
for them have done precious little over 
the past 15 years to get the message out 
t computers don't, in f. t people. 
"They tell us that this is the industry that 
1 any other has begun to shape 
уез; but when you get down to 
whether computers could be dangerous, 
their voices trail off and there's а lot of 
shoulder shrug; ven if you seek out 
a computer sci d put the. ques. 
tion directly to him, he's likely to lean 
cavalierly against one $1,000,000 machine 
or another and say something like, “Oh, 
no, thats silly. Of course computers 
don't cat people. We simply don't have 
the technology to make computers do 
really human things. Perhaps tomorrow. 
. . -” Theres always thar “ 
morrow” thing they say, followed by 
technical jargon about “future advances 
in hardware and programming tedi- 
ues” and ending, usually, with some- 
like, “The sky's the limit.” All of 
means to me, “Yeah, kid, they 
could cat people.” 

Then on top of it come movies like 
2001: А Space Odyssey. If you're not a 
little scared of computers before that, all 
you have to do is watch Kubricks fagey 
Hal 9000 sing Happy Birthday to Keir 
Dullea and then kill a couple of guys. 
That'll do it. 

But Dr. Otto Matic was, in its own 
way, even more effective. It occurred to 
me, as 1 stood there with the print: gut 
in my hand, that if I didn’t go to sce 
this machine now, it might, someday, send 
for me. 

I called Santa Monica and talked to 
m Kehoe, a press officer with System 
Development Corporation—the company 
that has the program called Dr. Otto 
tic. When I told him t 
sit down and try the machine, he seemed 
surprised. Then I said it had to do with 
а story on man/machine interface (a 
food computerlingo term) and that I 
thought it would be interest 


which 


g to make 
auge how far the 
fledgling science of artificial intelligence 
had really progressed. And be 
said, the days when men, especially w 
ers, went ОЙ to war, or out to sca, or 
after wild game to prove their manhood 
were gone. I told him that the only 


а run in order to 


les, 1 


“Are you familiar with the term ‘beyond 


the call of duty 


fearsome beasts left were computers and. 
that I wanted a mano а mano with the 
a g” Dr. Опо Matic. He 
and said sure, come on out. 
The computer comp: 
may be designing the systems tha 
run our lives, don't seem to |i a 
penchant for palatial offices. System De- 
velopment Corporation looks from the 
outside like a group of warchouses in а 
weed field, Cyclone fencing and all. It's 
a software company—meaning that it 
writes the programs for the machines 
people build —and it was orig- 
inally part of the Rand Corporation; 
and from out front, the only clue that 
they receive ir Force generals 
nd other official visitors as they do pack- 
tilevered sort of en- 
lonely twisted. juniper 


ng crates is а 
traneeway with 
bush on cach side. 

Things inside are pretty much the 
same. Such get. le job: done decor hasn't 


really been seen since the interiors of the 
great railroad offices were built around 
the turn of the century. And, in fact, 
there are other similarities between the 
roads then and the computer compa- 
5 now. It used to be that bright young 
men with a wish for power went to work 
for Southern Pacific (SP) or Union 
Pacific (UP) or Atchison, Topeka & San- 
ta Fe (ISST). Now they go to work 
for SDC. ІВМ ог CDC. Government 
money built the railroads and Federal 
money finances a great part of the com 
puter research and development in this 
country. And it’s that fact—the moncy 
that has to be accounted for in 
ment reports—that dictates the architec: 
ture and the decoration of the interiors 
of the bu is the very spirit of 
efficiency ce, if not in fact. 

At SDC, the railroads’ old rolltop 
desks translate into graystcel cubes with 
numbers on brass plates 


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ides. 1х and ост boxes 
plainly marked for mail boys (if 
yowre doing your work properly. it's 
either coming or going). The floors are 
vinyl tile, Venetian blinds hang on the 
windows and the gun-gray filing cabinets 
have combination locks on them. These 
people—unlike their railroad predeces- 
sors—have secrets. At least 50 percent of 
the work SDC does is classified. Which 
5 the poster that repeats itself in 
the labyrinthine hallways. Under a dr; 


fastened to the 


ing of a man with a dagger, it reads, GIVE 
EVERY, 


MAN THINE FAR, BUT FEW THY 
TAKE FACH MAN'S CENSURE BUT 
iv уовомехг. Hamlet. It’s the 
n version of LOOSE LIPS SINK 


I told the girl at the lobby desk, I'm 
here to see Dr. Otto Matic.” 

“Who?” 

“Well, Jim Kehoe, I guess.” 

She said, "Just a moment, please, 
made а phone call and then had me sign. 
in on a sheet that had a place for my 
name, address, company and citizenship 
(eaets again). 

I met Kehoe in his office. The blinds 
were open to the bright, smoggy L. A. 
day and outside. two Air Force sergeants 
were strolling across the asphalt yard 
between buildings. Kehoe said, “If you'd 
like, there are some other people he 
you cm talk to who aren't involved 
directly with Dr. Otto Matic but who are 
doing other things in artificial intelli- 
gence. "There's a woman here who's pretty 
deeply into that sort of thing. Only 


trouble is, her project is classified and 
we'd have to be careful what got into 
print about it.” 

1 got а picture of someone installing a 


combination lock on my forehead and 
declined the interview. 
"Of course, Otto Matic 


Dr. 
classified," he told me, "it's a demonstra- 


isn't 


tion program that we take to computer 
conferences and things like that. Just for 
fun. It doesn't represent any particular 
breakthrough in programming and right 
now, there's no practical application for 
it. We have it set up in the conference 
toom. Would you like to go up and see 
if the ‘doctor’ will talk to us?” 
Conference room 2632 is through a 
series of hallways and up a flight of stairs 
and it departs from the linoleum-and- 
ne just enough to make it 
relaxing without seeming opulent. There 
is carpeting and there are drapes and 
a smooth rubbed-wood conference table 
with a dozen comfortable chairs drawn 
up to it. At one end of the room, a 
teletype had been set up and plugged in 
and, behind it, on # four-foot stand, sat a 
television set. On it was being broadcast 
the image of the teletype platen, so that 


t, the people in the 


room wouldn't have to crowd around to 
sce. 

John Burger. SDC's programmer in 
charge of Dr. Otto Matic, was there, 
and he handed me a printout and told 
me he'd run it earlier that day, to make 
sure the program would be working for 
the demonstration. The print out started 
with a conversation between Burger and 
the operators (humans) in the computer 
room, whom he addressed as “Dial 09.” 

SEATO DIAL 09, GIVING DEMO тн 
ERNOON USING OTIO MATIC. WILL YOU 
MAKE SURE IT STAYS ON D 

FROM 09, SURE WILL. WHAT TIME 15 
DEMO, PLEASE? 

10 00, 1:30 TO 3:00. 

FROM 09. OK, THANKS. 

Then it was just Burger and Otto. The 
madhine started. 

GOOD DAY, 1 AM DR, OTTO MATIC, SINCE 
WE CANNOT SEE EACH OTHER, THERE ARE A 
FEW CONVENTIONS I'D LIKE YOU TO ABIDE 
BY IN ORDER FOR Us TO COMMUNICATE AS 
WELL AS POSSIBLE. 

1. NEVER USE AN EXCLAMATION MARK OR 
QUOTATION MARKS. 

2. USE THE RETURN KEY A 
EACH LINI 

3. PLE: 


ти: 


"TER TYPING 


SE WAIT FOR ME TO PRINT FOUR 


ASTERISKS AND KING THE BELL BEFORE YOU 
TYPE ANYTHING. 


PERIOD. 
5. IF YOU MAKE A 
ENTER THE WORD OOP: 
6. WHEN YOU ARE FI 
СООБВУЕ WILL TERMINATE 11 
IF YOU WILL REMEMBER THESE RULES, 
OUR SESSION SHOULD GO QUITE WELL. NOW 
.. . WHAT SHALL WE TALK ABOUT TODAY? 
****HOW CAN I BE SURE YOU ARE GOING 
TO WORK TODAY? 
YOU SAY HOW CAN YOU BE SURE 1 ARE 
GOING TO WORK TODAY? 
****yEs, I HAVE TO KNOW. 
CAN YOU ELABORATE ON THAT? 
****1F YOU DON'T WORK, 1 COULD GEF 
INTO TROUBLE. 
DO YOU THINK 1 SHOULD? 
$55 * ABSOLUTEL 
PLEASE GO ON 
**** JUST PROMISE ME YOU'LL WORK OK. 
RESTED IN ME 
мї YOU TO 


WANT І TO LET YOU 


To you? 
****]M DEPENDING ON YOI 
15 IT BECAUSE YOU ARE NDING ON т 
THAT YOU CAME TO МЕ? 


von 


TER BELIEVE IT, BU: 
DO YOU SAY I BETTER BELIEVE IT FOR 


SOME SPECIAL REASON? 


«зарур KICK YOU IN THE POWER SUP- 
PLY IF YOU DON'T. 
THAT 1 


DON 
or NOW. 

WHAT ELSE WOULD YOU LIRE TO DISCUSS? 

енот. 

I asked Burger if he knew how 
this kind of thing scared people. 

“Oh, sure, I guess а lot of people are 
afraid of computers. But there's no intel- 
ligence there, in the human sense of the 
term. Computers are just incredibly fast 
and accurate. You can make them seem 
intelligent. In the case of Dr. Otto Mat- 
ic, you program some key words and 
some elementary grammar transitions, so 
that it can. have responses for the things 
that might be said to it And, if it 
doesn't recognize anything about the sen- 
tence, you give it a response for that, 
too. The machine seems to understand. 
the person who's typing things into it, 
but it doesn’t. All it knows are ones and. 
zeros." 

“Could you build a machine and write 
a program that really would under- 
stand?" 

“Oh, well, you mean will it be possible 
to do that sometime in the future? 
That's something else. Yes, I think you 
could. But, you see, І don't bel n 
anything paraply 
we could understand thc hum 
we could duplicate it оп machir 
course, when you say that, a lot of people 
get upset. They dont want то believe 
that they are just sophisticated pieces of 
hardware with software running. But 1 
think that’s what we are.’ 

1 was mying to crank my software up 
to full speed for the confrontation when 
Kehoe asked me if I was ready to start. 
I nodded yes, sat down at the teletype 
and, only because you can never go slow- 
ly enough when you're doing something 
for the first time (lt took my buddy 
about four minutes to walk 30 feet to 
the auditorium stage, while the magician 
kept saying. “Come on, it’s easy, nothing 
to worry about,” and the next thing 1 
knew, he was gone), 1 began looking for 
little stalling ceremonies. A seat belt to 
fasten, perhaps, or some nonsense words 
to warm up the machine, anything. 
There was nothing. 

“Go ahead,” stid Burger, 
the start button.” And ] did. 

MSG IN. 1909 JUL 09 1346. ОТТО MATIC 

DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM. GOOD DAY. 1 

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ALLY BAD TODAY? 
VES, IT MAKES ME CRY. 

WHAT WOULD MAKE YOU CRY? 

****SMOG AND, OF COURSE, A BROKEN 
HEART. 

WHAT DOES THAT SUGGEST TO YOU? 
****THAT CRYING 15 A COMPLICATED 
MOTIONAL. RESPONSE SOMETIMES BROUGHT 
ON ВУ CHEMICALS IN THE AIR AND SOME- 
TIMES BROUGHT ON DY GIRLS. 

1 EXPECTED YOU WOULD WANT TO TALK 
AWOUT GIRLS. 

s, SOMEHOW EVERYTHING EVEN- 
TUALLY COMES DOWN TO SEX, DOESN'T IT, 
DOCTOR? 

WHAT ARE YOUR REAL FEELINGS ABOUT SEX? 

****1 ADORE SEX. 

DO YOU EVER DREAM ABOUT SEX? 

Then, without my touching a thing, 
the carriage of the teletype jumped to 
the left, printed four asterisks and then 
jumped again. I also jumped. Behind 
me, Burger confirmed all my fears by 
saying, "What the hell?” I sat frozen, 
hands off the machine, and was waiting 
for something to explode. Instead, it 
started to type again. 

FROM OL, PLEASE DO NOT INPUT ANY- 
С FOR FIVE MINUTES STARTING NOW 
. - - DUE TO IBM MAINTENANCE. 

Burger, who had been sitting behind 
me, watching the ТУ screen, was stand- 


ing over my shoulder now. "Oh, hell, it's 
the guys in the computer room," he said. 
“They must be having problems. We'll 
have a little wait.” 

“That’s OK," I said. 

The computer itself, called the Q 32, 
and its satellite apparatus fill several 
basement rooms at SDC. The machine 
was specially built by IBM for the Air 
Force in 1959. The control-center con- 
sole is about 30 fect long and is banked 
with hundreds of little flashing lights— 
like the computers in the old sci-fi mov- 
ies. Most of the modern machines aren't 
that pretty, but when the military has 
one built, they specify that everything 
should be up front, where you can see it 
if it goes wrong. So you get lots of little 
lights. 

John Burger rewrote the Dr. Otto Mat- 
ic program so that SDC could use it on 
the Q 82. The original program was 
invented by Profesor Joseph Weizen- 
baum at MIT and he called it ELIZA 
(after My Fair Lady), because he taught 
it to talk. For him, it was mostly an 
academic problem in language transposi- 
tion—teaching a machine to react to 
plain English. 

He says of his program, “ELIZA is just 
a collection of procedures, and when 
they're explained in a lucid way, it all 


“Never mind about that yet . . 


first you've 
got to learn to wake people up!” 


looks very simple and benign. But the 
other factor here is emotional. The 


man/machine relationship is а compli- 
cated and deep theme. Almost any sim- 
ple statement you make about it is likely 
to be wrong. And people don't exam- 


ine their emotional relationships to ma- 
chines. Even sophisticated people. For 
instance, when I finished writing the 
ELIZA program, my secretary, who had 
been with me for the entire year that it 
took, came in to try it out. She sat down, 
at the teletype, began the run and then 
turned to me and said, ‘Would you mind 
leaving the room?” 

siving the machine the role of a 
Rogerian psychologist has had its effect, 
too. I chose the Carl Rogers nondirective- 
therapy technique because it allows the 
psychologist to feign ignorance, repcat 
the questions and generally just refuse to 
make any kind of commitment. The ma- 
chine, of course, really is ignorant and 
it can’t make а commitment. But some 
psychologists have gone overboard in 
their reaction to this thing. They talk 
about the age of automatic psychology 
and get very hostile and say the whole 
thing is dehumanizing. "That's ап over- 
reaction, It's true that in the wrong 
hands, a program like this could be dan- 
gerous. I can imagine a commercial se 
ice getting hold of it and people believing 
in what the machine told them and then 
running their lives accordingly. I hope 
we can avoid that kind of thing." 


The teletype started did 
again 

FROM 09, TSS 15 NOW RESUMED TO NOR- 
MAL STATUS. 


“That means we can go ahead any 
time," said Burger. “You'll probably find 
as you go on that you'll get belligerent 
with the machine. Almost everybody 
does, because it won't really relate to 
you.” 

"OK. Where were we?” 

“The machine just asked you if you 
ever dream about sex.” 

At that point, I began to feel more 
than a little absurd. Sitting there, trying 
to decide whether I was going to tell the 
wuth or lie about my sex life ю a 
machine. 

****yks, I DREAM ABOUT SEX ALL THE 


DO YOU REALLY WANT 
© *° "PERHAPS 1 SHOULDN'T DISCUSS SEX 
WITH A MACHINE. 
АКЕ YOU SURE 


› DISCUSS SEX? 


YOU REALLY SHOULDN'T 


KNOW SECRETS. 
DON'T YOU REALLY LIKE MACH 
KNOW YOUR DEEP SECRETS? 
o, YOU CAN'T TRUST COMPUTERS, 
THEY'RE SO PETTY. 
WHY ARE YOU INTERESTED IN ME? 
® °°) VACUELY AFRAID OF YOU. 


MY DEEP 


15 IT BECAUSE. YOU ARF VAGUELY AFRAID 
OF I THAT YOU САМЕ TO ME? 

ers. I DESPERATELY WANT TO OVER- 
COME MY FEAR OF MACHINES. 

DO YOU SAY YOU DESPERATELY WANT TO 
OVERCOME YOUR FEAR OF MACHINES FOR A 
SPECIAL. REASON? 

*1 LIVE IN A SOCIETY THAT IS RUN 
y INHUMAN, UNFEELING COLLECTIONS OF 
AL AND WIRE AND I HATE IT. 

ISN'T МАТЕ A RATHER STRONG 
PUT n? 

b. HATE 
WORD, ESPECIALLY 


WAY ТО 


15 EXACTLY THE RIGHT 
IN YOUR CASE 


WHY АКЕ YOU CONCERNED OVER MY 
CASE? 
#89. NOT REALLY. 


(OU BEEN NOT REAL 


ind ze- 
ros began showing through like crazy. I 
was heartened 

sesê! HAVE FELT SLIGHTLY UNREAL 
EVER SINCE I STARTED TALKING TO YOU. 

PERHAPS IN YOUR FANTASY, WE HAVE 
FELT SLIGHTLY UNREAL EVER SINCE WE 
STARTED TALKING TO EACH OTHER 

ФГ SORRY, 1 THINK 1 HURT YOU. 

APOLOGIES ARE NOT NECESSARY. 

****; SEE, THEN OUR RELATIONSHIP 15 
JUST А CASE OF TREAT ME HOW YOU WILL, 
JUST PAY YOUR MONEY ON THE WAY OUT. 

TELL ME AGAIN WHY YOU SHOULDN'T 
DISCUSS SEX WITH A MACHINE. 

*3***gECAUSE MACHINES DON'T. 
SEX. 


HAVE 


WHY DO YOU MENTION SEX? 

bo MACHINES HAVE SEX? 

COULD SEX BE PART OF YOUR PROBLEM? 

****My PROBLEM IS YOU. 

15 IT IMPORTANT ТО YOU 
PROBLEM IS 12 

****N0, YOU MEAN NOTHING TO ME, I 
DON'T LOVE YOU IN THE LEAST. 

WHY DON'T YOU LOVE 1 IN THE LEAST? 

$9 9 BECAUSE YOU DON'T HAVE SE 

IS THAT THE REAL REASON? 

Es, YOU ARE COLD AND SEXLESS. 

WHAT MAKES YOU THINK I AM COLD AND 
SENLESS? 

** ** THE WAY YOU LOOK AT MY LEGS. 

ОН, I LOOK AT YOUR LEGS? 

s, I SAW YOU LOOKING. 

WHAT ELSE WOULD YOU LIKE TO DISCUSS? 

**** CHICKEN. 

PERHAPS THAT CONCERNS YOUR LEGS, 

** **bON'T GET INSULTING, PUNK. 

WHY DO YOU SAY THAT JUST NOW? 

** ** BECAUSE ГМ LOSING MY MIND JUST 
NOW. THAT'S WHY 

DO YOU ENJOY BEING LOSING YOUR MIND 
JUST NOW THAT's WHY? 

bo YOU? 1 THINK YOU'RE 
YOURS, 

THAT'S QUITE INTERESTING. 

22° 5 MUCH AS 1 HATE TO DO IT, ГМ 
GOING TO HAVE TO SAY A PLAINTIVE COOD- 
BYE, DOC. 

IT APPEARS THAT YOU HAVE VERY STRONG 
FEELINGS ABOUT TO DO IT TO 1 YOU'RE 


THAT YOUR 


LOSING 


GOING TO HAVE 
GOODBYE DOC. 

8+3 GOODBYE. 

MY PLEASURE 

I especially liked the part at the end 
where the doctor really seemed to come 
apart. As 1 got up to leave, I had some 
thing like that good feeling I remem 
bered from when my buddy had come 
down from that stage and told me that 
when the puff of smoke had gone up. 
someone had thrown a black bag over 
nd pushed him against a black. 
curtain. We'd then that The 
Amazing Kellaway was pretty “cheesy.” 

I wasn't quite that relaxed about Dr. 
Оно Майе (after all. that n was 
still off somewhere in the building, work- 
ing on her “be careful what gets into 
print about project); but, for the 
moment, the idea of artificial intelligence 
seemed cuter than it did formidable. 
thanked Burger and Kehoe and, as I 
turned to go. the machine typed out a 


TO SAY A PLAINTIVE 


hin 


agreed 


won 


belated last line. I read it off the TV 
screen 
IE YOU SEE ANYONE IN THE WAITIN 


ROOM ON YOUR WAY OUT, WOULD YOU ASK 
MIM OR HER TO COME IN, PLEASE? 

And I said, “Ask him yourself, Doctor, 
if your cord is long enough,” and then 


left quickly. 


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(continued from page 156) 


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lung bucket seats. In most cases, 


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pLavnoy has pictured. 

Creative Engineering's Amante GT 

ble the greatest number of 
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A wide range of engine and chassis 
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mounted amidships on a speci 
ame. The do-it-yourself kit, minus chas- 
i, is available at $1495; and а com- 
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п existing chassis—costs $2895, 
Both the Avenger GT-12 and the Ja 
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rurally—up to and including hot 
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his own. In kit form. without chassis, the 
Avenger is $1695. Assembled and ready 
ve. powered by the new VW floor- 
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The Jamaican’s engine is front mount- 
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independent suspension. Because of the 
frame construction, this is the only one 
of the quartet not available 
form. The most potent engine optior 
Chevy's Z-28 and L-79 units, The 
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slightly above 150 miles per hour. As a 
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PLAYBOY INTERVIEW 
(continued from page 154) 


didn't feel anything s . to an era in 
which the woman is actually aggressiv 
so aggresive in demanding her se 
duc that she's beginning to strike terror 
1 the heart of the malc. 
This is the unfortunate. backlash of 
female resexuali Is grow up to- 
day with the expectation of experiencing 
orgasm almost on contact. And if they 
don't experience it, they feel there's 
something wrong with them or with 
their partner. Perhaps as а direct result, 
there appears 10 be a disturbing rise i 
ases of male impotence. Туе heard re- 
ports of this from university psychiatrists 
number of campuses—but, of 
course, we'd need studies on this befi 
forming any conclusions. Hopefully, ad- 
justments will be made as we become 
nore accustomed to our new-found fre 
dom. But what I wonder about most is 
ether the modern woman is finding 
something she had once and lost or is 
she developing something she never real- 
ly had? I doubt the latter, but who 
really knows? 
PLAYBOY: Masters and Johnson, in their 
Playboy Interview in May 1968, said they 
felt that female sexuality is enjoying a 
renaissance from pre-industrial times. 
CALDERONE: Probably so. In any case, I 
think it’s a good thing. What was sup- 
pressed in the Victorian cra—especially 
in Anglo Saxon socicty—i ng 
found again, and 1 suspect that somc- 
thing new has been added. There is an 
element in women's sexual attitudes to- 
day that's different from the lustiness of 
the Elizabethan or Restoration period. It 
isn't sex qua sex. In most women I talk 
to, it's sex for the relationship as well as 
for sex. 
PLAYBOY: Wouldn't you agree that this is 
one of the things that separate the boys 


ation. Gi 


on a 


now bci 


from the girls—that most men can enjoy 


sex for its own sake and that most wom- 
en prefer it within the context of a 
relationship? 

CALDERONE: Yes, I don't think women сап 
as easily accept casual sc men can. 
Maybe this is a biological difference, but 
I don't know. Sex for most women is a 
profound experience—the female puts 
a lot of herself into it. Males. by con- 
trast, probably can't be made monoga- 
mous. It took women 50 years to become 
resexualized, but 1 doubt that man 
could be made monogamous in 30 or 
100 or even 200 years. And possibly he 
shouldn't be. On the other hand, perhaps 
the new forms of marriage we discussed 
are an effort toward accommodation to 
these differences. Maybe such phenome- 
па as mate swapping are, too. This kind 
of behavior must be studied, free from 
preconceived rigidity and repre: 


ion. It's 


not merely licentiousness: it's not just 
chy. The people experimenting with 
these new forms of behavior have needs 
and they're trying to meet them. How 
successful they аге won't be known until 
some serious studies are made to find out 
the results. The trouble is that the sex- 
| reactionaries won't even let serious 
s scrutinize these problems. They 
believe it's God's plan that we all totally 
suppress our sexuality until the marriage 
ceremony: then the ceremony is sup- 
posed to turn open the faucet of sex and 
it will be great from then on. But psychi- 
atrists and clergymen know this isn’t so, 
ind so do the reactionaries. Th 
ng our of their own frusu 
their own inability to imagine, much less 
adjust to, a full sexual relationship in 
marriage. Part of the ani ducation 
campaign undoubtedly comes from frigid 
wives and husbands grimly suppressing 
sexual urges because they've been 
taught that they're sinful. I'm sure that, 
at least in part, they seck to project their 
own difficulties onto others by repression. 
PLAYBOY: But the behavioral changes you 
mentioned occur in spite of extremist 
opposition--obviously encouraged by a 
climate of social freedom that is unprece- 
dented in our history. Don't you agree? 
CALDERONE: Unquestionably. There has 
truly been a revolution in sexual 
tudes, and this is reflected by the ope 
ness that can be observed in the media 
and in public behavior. It was inconceiv- 
able in my time that a boy and a girl 
would hold hands—much less kiss- 
public. 1 remember when it 
considered indecent for a woman to ap- 
ply lipstick in public, When I was 14 or 
15, my bathing suit consistcd of what 
would be a miniskirt and tunic today. 
But underneath it, 1 wore long black 
stocking: was considered pretty 
daring if they were rolled to the knees. 
Tn courting, we went out with boys, sure, 
but there was little physical contact. An 
a kiss was literally an event; you led up 
to it for months. As I mentioned before, 
we didn't have the freedom to get into 
ations that young people have 
today. We were carefully watched and 
chapcroned: it was very, very difficult to 
get pregnant, I assure you. Oh, girls 
m ed, of course; it was the Е. Scott 
Fitzgerald era, But it was much harder, 
and irs all too casy now. Obviously, 
along with all this, there was less honesty 
about ourselyes as sexual people than 
there is today. We simply didn't admit to 
having sexual urges. Boys did. But they 
went to prostitutes. 

PLAYBOY: You said it’s much easier for 
girls to become pregnant today than it 
was 50 years ago. Wouldn't the availabil- 
ity of the pill contradict that? 

CALDERONE: Not necessarily, because the 
pill n. There 
are whole cultures—ghetto cultures 


act- 


was 


idi 


sexual sit 


а of the 
mple of 


where the girls have never he: 
pill. In any case, I used the c; 


pregnancy only to emphasize my point 
that sexual intercourse among young 
people is casier today. 


PLAYBOY: Do you think thc pill has con- 
tributed to that? 

CALDERONE: I agree with Ira Reiss, the 
sociologist we discussed before, who says 
the pill has merely made safer sexual be- 
havior that would have occurred anyway. 
PLAYBOY: There been considerable 
controversy—including а full-scale Con- 
gressional investigation—over the dan- 
gers of the pill, Do you think they are 
real or exaggerated? 

CALDERONE: Obviously, the pill саг 
with it some statistically proved dangers. 


But they are of a very low order of risk. 


Every medi 
carries with it certain risks. And the risks 
involved in birth-control pills don't be 
gin to approach those 
pregnancy itself, which the | 
with virtual certainty. 
PLAYBOY. What, specifically, are the medi 
risks associated with the pill? 
CALDERONE: Thrombophilebitis, or clouing 
of the blood in the veins, is the p 


ne we take even aspi 


sociated with 
1 prevents 


nary 


PLAYBOY: A recent women's-magazinc ar 
ticle implied that there is also a danger of 
cancer of the cervix associated with the 
pill. 
CALDERONE: The evidence that this might 
be so has not becn substantiated. There 
is a correlation between cancer of the 
cervix and intercourse with uncircum. 
cised males. It's assumed that this c 
virus emanates from the smegma that 
accumulates under the foreskin of the 
penis, and the cer y be shielded 
from it if the woman uses a di 
or the man a condom. Obviously, a wom: 
an using the pill is not so shielded and is 
therefore, more likely to be infected by 
the virus. So, putting th 
and facts together, you can see why the 
pill might have been associated with 
cer of the cervis 
When I sj to young people, 1 
point out that the younger the woman, 
the more susceptible she is to this virus. 
That's because the immature covering of 
the cervix apparently doesn't resist infec 
tion as well as it does once matured. So 1 
tell the youngsters not to haye inter 
course until they're 18. But they won't 
listen, any more than they listen when 
the dangers of cigarettes are pointed out 
PLAYBOY: "There's been criticism of those 
who marketed the pill before science 
knew about its long-range effects. Do you 
think that’s valid? 
CALDERONE: No. Countless drugs are put 
on the market before their long-range 
effects are known. The pill, on the other 
hand, had more long-term and intensive 
study than any other drug in history. In 
public health, the possible risk to а very 


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“Actually, Pm looking for something to defrock a priest.” 


few people is balanced against the bene- 
fit to a tremendous number, Overall, 
the pill is at the moment the single most 
effective method of contraception for the 
greatest number of people, and we have 
to be deeply grateful for it. If there have 
been a few deaths directly attributable 


to it, then, regrettable as they are, it’s a 
price society must pay, as with other 
medications, such as penicillin, We risk 


far more deaths in many, many other 
ways and never even give them а second 
thought—dviving cars, smoking, even 


crossing the street. 

Incidentally, you'll often find that 
some of the people who scream loudest 
about the pill are the ones who'd like to 
make it more difficult for 
secure a legal abortion. The number of 
deaths caused by botched illegal. abor- 
tions is unknown; but among the poor, 
ly risen, and they are 
y attribut- 


а woman to 


they have cert 
far greater in 
able to the pill. 

PLAYBOY: Are you in favor of legalized 
abortion? 

CALDERONE: I'm in favor of placing con- 
trol of abortion—as with all other surgi 
cal procedures—in the hands of the 
medical profession. "This would, of 
course, mean abolishing all laws against 
medically controlled abortion. 

PLAYBOY: The removal of abortion from 
the penal code has been one of the main 


umber th 


platforms of the militant new feminist 
movement. As a highly regarded crusader 
for women's rights, have you had any 
dealings with these groups? 
CALDERONE: No, indeed. I think some of 
izations are shrill and anti- 
le. and I am nota crusader for wom- 
n's rights. Women don't have rights—as 
women only. They have human rights. 
s what I crusade for. 
But wouldn't you say that the 
right to birth. control and abor 
with both o£ which you're strongly iden- 
tified—is primarily female? 
CALDERONE: Perhaps this is a matter of 
semantics. Certainly, a woman should 
have the right to control what happens 
to her own body. But I want to stress 
that this is a human right. Obviously, 
men should have the same right, but 
portion is not pertinent to men, since 
they don't get pregnant. As for birth 
control, I look upon it as a matter of 
moral obligation for both male and fe- 
male, and I want people of both sexes 
and from all social classes to have equal 
it and to feel responsibility 
ng it. That, i 


cvolution—or evolution, as I prefer to 
call it—hould head. 

PLAYBOY: What other directions do you 
hope for? 

CALDERONE: Basically, I hope that it will 


move in the direction of fruition, not 
destruction. I conceive of men and wom- 
en relating to one another on a far 
higher level than they do today. You 
know. many people think a higher level 
means less sex. That's not what I me 
Leave aside the bed id of sex and 
think of how difficult it is for a man and 
a woman to express love for cach other 
unless they are erotically involved—and 
by that I mean something as simple and 
innocent as touching each other. To give 
you a personal example, every time I 
meet a man who's dear to me, I sponta- 
neously throw my arms around him and 
Kiss him. Now, damn it, that doesn't 
mean I'm going to go to bed with him; 
it means J love him іп a way that to me 
is exciting and challenging. We relate to 
each other; our minds and spirits meet 
and clash and interact. Our bodies don't. 
meet, except in that very simple way, but 
we respond to and stimulate each other 
as persons. 

I wish men and women could be free 
to respond to their own sexes in thi 
way, too. My husband has a Sicilian 
background and in his culture, the men 
openly express affection to each other. 
They embrace when they meet, they 
alk arm in arm, they put their arms 
around each other's shoulders, This is 
very normal in the Mediterranean cul- 


iure. But in our society, men keep a 
great distance from cach other because of 


that occasionally, Frank will get into a 
passionate debate with an American and 
he'll reach over to grab the man's hand 
and hold onto it while arguing. And I sit 
there and watch the man shrink. So on 
the way home, I say jokingly to Frank, 
se keep your hands off Anglo- 


xor 
I've told this story two or three times 
public to illustrate how a pathological 
of homosexuality interferes with the. 
ity of men to relate warmly to one 


сар: 
another. Gordon Drake picked 


n husband because he 
can't keep his hands off other men. This 
is one of the hateful ways that such unfor- 
tunate people use to attack both of us. 
And Г do mean unfortunate, because 
they deny the beauty of sexuality, except 
in narrow, rigid terms. They don’t really 
understand what God meant by making: 
sual creatures. God wasn't expect- 
sh ourselves by repres- 
Obligation is to create an 


Our 
atmosphere in which we can fulfill our- 


sion. 


selves as men and women. That's really 
why Fm in this—to help create a new 
climate in society for sexual fulfillment 
and responsibility. 

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helped to be free to touch cach. other. 
This is what the erotic repressive fears 
most. He doesn't trust himself, because 
he thinks that when people touch cach 
other, they're automatically going to 
wind up in bed together. Maybe they 
more likely, they will develop 
spiritual nuances in their sexuality and 
they will enhance their capacity to touch 
and to be tender and to look. Did you 
ever notice how few people can really 
look into cach other's eyes? As for me, 
Ive never participated in sensitivity 
groups: 1 don't think I particularly need 
10, because I feel free to give and receive 


other person has to express it ger 
Isn't this a strange thing for me at 65, 
brought up as а puritan? Maybe it's my 
safety valve. 

PLAYBOY: You call yourself a puritan, yet 
you're in the vanguard of modem sex- 
wality, How do you reconcile this seem- 
ing contradiction? 

CALDERONE: It’s not always easy. I'm 
dividual caught in a moment of tre- 
mendous human evolut n evolution 
that encompasses many aspects, includ- 
ing the sexual. Obviously, І can"t—and 
don't want to—think or behave like a 
teenager any longer, even though I com- 
te with young people on many 
This means 1 become caught in 
some of my own convictions—for exam- 


n, 


ple, my really profound belief that sex 
belongs primarily in marriage. As a sci 
entist and an observer, I know my belief 
runs counter to the current trend. So 
t am I to do? I can't stop society 
from evolving and 1 can't force other 
people to adhere to my personal beliefs. 
No single individual can, not even Gan- 
dhi. Not even Jesus—we're still suug 
gling to interpret and live up to the 
ideals he propagated. Thus, my own life 
is a paradox in a very real sense. Many 
of the things I'm open-minded about as 
ientist are closed subjects to me p: 

sonally. But 1 think this makes me bend 
over backward to behave with integrity 
tist. I still struggle to reshape 
my personal views, though, and I'm con 
stantly learning, growing and changing. 

PLAYBOY; At 65, most people would be 
retired. But, ng already given five 
years to SIECUS and the better part of 
your career to publichealth service, you 
still seem ready, willing and able to con- 
tinue fielding brickbats from unfriendly 
people. Why? 

CALDERONE: I’m a Quaker who is con- 
сетей, that's why. And maybe I'm not 
as far from retirement as your question 
implies; perhaps just another inning or 
two and ГИ ask for relief—although 1 
doubt it, as long as life continues to turn 
me on, as it always has. Concerning my 
cnuy ation, 1 think the 
that when I 


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became national med; of 
Planned Parenthood quite late in life— 
at the age of 50. My first job was to put 
thi ially informational organiza- 
tion on a sound medical and public 
health E 

After accomplishing that, I moved into 
the ideological end. Gradually, 1 became 
aware that there had to be more to 
planned parenthood than just counting 
babies or handing out booklets on con- 
traceptive techniques. And 1 became 
aware of the many individuals who 
wrote letters to me about sexual prol 
lems that had nothing to do w 
planned parenthood. These people s 
ply had no other place to write 
About this time—in 1960—1 got together 
with several colleagues who, like myself, 
were resource people at the First North 
American onference on Church and 
Family of the National Councils of 
Churches of the U.S. and Canada. We 
had several meetin; nd kicked around 
the idea of organizing a sex-cducation 
council, and finally went ahead in 1964. 
Every voluntary health organization— 
and that's what SIECUS is—needs a 
fulltime director, so 1 left Planned Par- 
thood to assume that role. 

n the five years since its incep- 
tion, what do you think SIECUS has 
ned? 

CALDERONE: Let me Баски: 
Our purpose is stated as be 
ality 


of unease—or perhaps 1 should say “diy 
casc"—concerning this vital segment of 
man's life, we have been determined to 
help him achieve health in it. This 
means “a state of complete physical. men- 
tal and social well-being” with respect to 
his sexuality. More specifically, our goal 
has been to bring sex education into 
broad focus throughout all of society, 
not just in the schools. We believe that, 
in a democracy, people must think for 
themselves, and we want to help the 
American people do so by providing 
facts about sex and its role in their lives. 
We've published two books about this 
The Individual, Sex and Society and 
Sexuality and Man 

Аз for how well we have succeeded, we 
still have a long way to go and the path 
has been obstructed, аз you know, by a 
band of bigots whose only purpose is to 
stifle free discussion. But SIECUS has 
accomplished something tat is unique 
in society, We have succeeded. in estab- 
lishing in the minds of leaders in all 
professions and religions the concept 
that human sexuality is. in and of itself, 
a healthy and vitally important. part of 
man’s life above and beyond the 
acts that may or may not accomp 
We are proud of this accompli: 
and still prouder that we've done it 
only five years. 
PLAYBOY: WI 


have becn your main 


iccomplishing these goals? 
CALDERONE: During our first three 
our only frustration was lack of funds to 
do what we wanted to do as quickly as 
we knew it needed to be done. We've 
lacked the necessary research facilities. 
and we've constantly becu short of per- 
sonnel to perform the services demanded 
of us. But we've grown so fast that we 
always thought of these as growing pains, 
rather than as frustrations. Our first true 
frustration occurred in the summer of 
1968, with the opening volley fired by 
the Christian Crusade. Now, this wasn't 
a frustration in terms of their actually 
hindering us, because they've failed even 
to slow us down. We reccive increasing 
numbers of invitations and requests for 
service, and they keep coming from dis 
tinguished groups of all kinds—medical, 
religious, educa nd civic. The real 
sense of fr ation for me has been 
а personal one. in the sense that I. as a 
believing Quaker, am confronted by a 
group that calls itself Christian yet uses 
the most anti-Christian methods to 
achieve its aims. That has been a vicious 
front, less against me personally than 
against the very convictions by which I 
live, or at least try to live. 

I understand Christ's principles in the 
words our founding fathers used to ex- 
press them—that is. the practice of de- 
mocracy and the total respect for one 
another as individuals. True Chri 
means to me the desire to 
as much as possible 10 the needs of 
others, without sacrificing one’s own in- 
tegrity, so that we can all live together 
harmoniously. Christ said. “Judge not, 
that ye be not judged,” and this is ex 
actly what these so-called Christians have 
controverted. They presume to be judge, 
jury and advocate. To me, it’s a mock 


that these people who call themselves: 
ns use hatred and lies, fear and 


Christi 
suspicion against innocent people. And 
they do this without conscience, without 
any conscience at all. I can't fully ех 
press what an outrage this has been 10 
me and it's certainly che major frustra- 
tion I've experienced in my entire career. 

But, I'm happy to repeat, we find no 
lessening of public or professional con- 
fidence in SIECUS, no pressure to go 
backward from the groups we 
to reach; quite the contrary. So we plan 
to hold firmly to our path, in spite of 
enemies 


all obstacles. In fact. since ow 
have made SIECUS. household word 
throughout the land, we intend to take 
ntage of this and augment our ef- 
forts to press forward the boundaries of 
knowledge and understanding of hu- 
man sexuality, which all of us share 
and which can make life so exciting. re 
autiful. That's my mis- 
ist as a human bı 


ady; 


sion as a 
and as а wom: 


SUK OTO 


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