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APRIL 1971, ONE 


PLAYBOY PANEL ON HOMOSEXUALITY * ROGER VADIM'S “PRETTY MAIDS” 
THE DEATH OF LIBERALISM · ESP - HIP QUIZ - FASHION FORECAST 


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VADIM 


MATHESON 


PLAYBILL "от more widespread in the U.S. today 


than it was а decade or two ago, or has it simply attained 
greater visibility? That's the first question Laced by this month's Playboy Panel 
d it leads into a wide-open discussion by 11 experts of varied sexual and 
psychosociologicil backgrounds. America's attitudes toward sex, AC. or D.C. 
may be becoming liberalized, but politicil liberalism is movibund—the victim 
of arteriosclerosis—according to writer Jack. Newheld. Neweld's article, The 
Death of Liberalisin. will appear. in slightly different form, as an introduction 
to his book, Bread and Roses Too, 10 bc published by E. P. Dutron this month 
А powerful рено as the chanvinistic. archconservative 
S. Patton has made George С. Scou a frontrunner for an Academy Award 
—whicdh we hope he won't reluse in advance, as he did in 1061. Scot, a 
consummate actor and а compelling personality, is revealingly portrayed 
by Saul Braun in Great Scott? Both Braun and his subject are due for froh 
exposure this fall: Scott as star of Universal's They Might Be Giants and 
Braun as author of a book of esis titled, he solemnly affirms, Square 
America and Son of Square America Together Again for the First Time on 
This Continent (Dial). In his article Sixth Sense, free-lancer Jules Siegel delves 
into the world of ESP and relied phenomena. The girl he calls “С. Jolly" 
in his opening paragraph has since become Mrs. Siegel: their first child 
due in May, and his precognitive intuition is that ill be a boy. Шимгий 
Sixth Sense ar nal sculptures by hanian-born. Chicago artist Parviz 
Sacdlighian. Eve ier than telepathy is the percep wns gradually— 
wd terrifyingly—on the hero of Richard Matheson's Duel, who is pursued by 
а mysterious adversary seemingly bent on highway homicide. Associate Editor 
id Stevens describes roadway mania of another sort in Baja's Queasy 
Rider, first-person account. of the grueling Mexi 1000 ашо race. 
Associate Travel 


eneral George 


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off Cabo San Lucis" he reports “My biggest previous catch 
a two-ounce gudgeon in ihe Thames." Neither Stevens пот Pow 

ton is fuent in Spanish. but they had less linguistic difficulty in Mexico th. 
a fictional Chief Fxecutive encounters with his bumbl ag service in 
Dan Greenburg's Mister Noxon's. Lockets—and considerably less cultural 
shock thim Zubin Mehta experienced with Frank Zappa, et al, as recounted 
by Е. P. Tullius in Zubm and the Mathers. € eenburg has just finished his 
first movie role. as editor of the Tombstone Epitaph in Frank. Perry's Doc 
(to be released by United Artists in. May). Tullius, a knowledgeable observer 
of the hip scene, makes his PLAywoy debut, appropriately enough, in an issue 
that also includes a wonderfully wacky hip quiz devised һу staffers Craig 
Vetter and. David Standish. An ingenious burglarproofing ploy is developed 
by Warner Law in The Harry Hastings Method. Law says about his story: 
“Since this will probably be read by a few burglars, 1 wish it known that 1 
do nor live in the geographical arca described. in the story, and there is 
nothing of the slightest value in my house except for my collection of pull 
adders, which 1 let roam loose." Paul Theroux depicts a farout beauty 
contest in The Miss Malawi Contest, which—with December 1970's Santa 
Claus in the Jungle—will appear in his novel Jungle Lovers (Houghton Mill 
lin). Beauty, American style, is lavishly displayed in Vadim's “Pretty Maids,” 
a picorial essay in which film maker Vadim Plemiannikow, better known as 
Roger Vadi ies about the women in his life—from Brigitte Bardot 
to those in his fist U. Samade movie, MGM'S Pretty Maids All in a Ro 
Natalie Wood's sister. Limi shows hitherto unrevealed. talents. (as well as а 
good deal of herself) in The Well-Versed Lana. Wood with. poems from a 
collection soon to be published. Contributing Editor Tomi Ungerer is also 
awaiting book publicaion; his The Beast of Monsieur Racine is due 
y from Farrar, Stans & Giroux, “H's for children, and a bit outrageous” 
says Ungerer, whose current riavioy offering is Spring Rites. And finally, 
there's Robert L. Green's Spring and Summer. Fashion. Foverast, rounding 
out an April package that, we trust, will efliciciously exorcise the winter blahs, 


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vol. 18, no. 4—april, 1971 


PLAYBOY. 


CONTENTS FOR THE MEN'S ENTERTAINMENT MAGAZINE 


PLAYBILL г з 
DEAR PLAYBOY. ey 
PLAYBOY AFTER HOURS 21 
THE PLAYBOY ADVISOR 43 
Hostings Method THE PLAYBOY FORUM 47 
PLAYBOY PANEL: HOMOSEXUALITY —discussion oe (ЕТ 
DUEL—fiction RICHARD MATHESON 94 


THE DEATH OF LIBERALISM —o; 


JACK NEWFIELD өв 


THE WELL-VERSED LANA WOOD—pictorial 100 
TRUE OR FALSE? —humor. DAVID STANDISH опа CRAIG VETTER 104 
THE MISS MALAWI CONTEST—fiction PAUL THEROUX 109 


lona Wood 


PLAYBOY'S SPRING £ SUMMER FASHION FORECAST 


re ROBERT L GREEN 113 


THE HARRY HASTINGS METHOD fiction WARNER LAW 123 
TURNING OVER A NEW LIFE—playboy's playmote of the month 124 
PLAYBOY'S PARTY JOKES—humor 132 
SIXTH SENSE—article JULES SIEGEL 134 
TIMELESS TIMEPIECES—accouterments 137 
Spring & Summer 
GREAT SCOTT!— personality SAUL BRAUN 138 
BAJA—THE OTHER CALIFORNIA —travel REG POTTERTON 141 
BAJA'S QUEASY RIDER—humor DAVID STEVENS 143 
THE LONG WEEKEND —food and drink THOMAS МАКО 146 


ZUBIN AND THE MOTHERS edi F, P. TULIUS 149 


VADIN'S “PRETTY MAIDS"'— pictor ROGER VADIM 153 


VARGAS GIRL —pictorial ALBERTO VARGAS 162 
163 

MISTER NOXON'S LOCKETS—humor DAN GREENBURG 165 

SPRING RITES—humor TOMI UNGERER 166 

ОМ THE SCENE personalities 198 

LITTLE ANNIE FANNY —sotire HARVEY KURTZMAN and WILL ELDER 254 

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ANNOUNCING CHARGER TOPPER 


...@ Custom-equipped economy Charger from Dodge. 


Take the lowest priced Charger hardtop built, 
add the features most young people buy, 
plus a great-looking landau vinyl roof at по 
extra charge and you've got it—the 
Charger Topper. 


THIS CUSTOM-EQUIPPED CAR OFFERS: 


Vinyl landau roof 

White sidewall tires 

Wheel covers 

e Bumper guards, front and rear 
e Left remote-control mirror 
Special bright finish mouldings 
 Fender-mounted turn signals. 


WITH SALES UP 100% OVER LAST 
YEAR'S, CHARGER MUST HAVE SOME- 
THING CAR BUYERS WANT. IT DOES. 
We call it the great shape. And a lot of people 
agree. Charger was voted Teen Car of the 
Year by Scholastic Magazines. Performance 
Car of the Year by Cars magazine and Best 
Styled Car of the Year by Car and Driver 
magazine. Not bad for a car that's also mak 
inga reputation by saving you money 


CHARGER IS ONE OF THE ROOMIEST 
2-DOOR HARDTOPS ON THE MARKET. 


^ roominess index published in Automotive 
Industries magazine showed the Dodge 
Charger 2-door hardtop to be roomier than 
the Ford Torino 2-door hardtop and the 
Chevy Chevelle 2-door hardtop. Who said 
Charger isn'ta family car? 


NOW THAT YOU KNOW ABOUT ITS BIG 
ADVANTAGES, A WORD ABOUT A SMALL 
ONE— CHARGER TOPPER'S PRICE! 
Hard to believe that this luxurious family 
sized Charger V8 costs only $17.75* more 
than the Torino 500 $39.25* more than 
the Malibu. But thats the way it is. And 
Chargers standard 318-cubic-inch VB is 
bigger than either of theirs . . . and so are 
its 62-inch rear track . . . and its 21-gallon 
gas tank and its big F-78 tires on V8 
models And Chargers standard all-vinyl 
deep-pleated interior is an optional cost item 
on the other two cars. Now lake another 
look at the picture of Che r Topper. How 
can you think of buying anything else? 


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Drop in the film cartridge—a spring motor automatically ad- 
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as you focus, Signals in the viewfinder light up automatically 
when you need to use flash, or when you need to change the 
magicube (the new flash that doesn't need flash batteries). 

See the new most automatic automatic at your photo dealer's. 
Better still, hondle it a bit, and get the feel of it. With fast f/2.8 
Kodak Ektar lens, less than $145. Price subject to change without notice. 


KODAK MAKES YOUR PICTURES COUNT. 
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PLAYBOY 


HUGH M. HEFNER 
editor and publisher 


A. С. SPECTORSKY 
associate publisher and editorial director 


MICHAEL DEMAREST executive editor 
ARTHUR PAUL art director 


JACK J. KESSIE manag 


ng editor 


VINCENT Т. TAJIRI photography editor 


EDITORIAL 
SHILDON WAX, MURRAY FISHER, NAT 
assistant managing editors 
ARTICLES: AETHER KRETCHMER edilor, 
ту BUTLER associate editor 
FICTION: пем MACAULEY edilor, SUZANNE 
MC NEAR, STANLEY PALEY assistant editors 
SERVICE FEATURES: TOM OWEN modern 
living editor. worm. wines, RAY WiLLAAMS 
assistant editors; ROWEKT L. GREEN fashion 
director, nx TAYLOR fastiion editor, 
DAVID PUNTT assistant editor 
p BION asociate Iravel editors 
^5 Mato food & drink editor 
STAFF: FRANK М. ROBINSON, CRAIG VETTER staff 
Mess: MENKY FENWICK, WILIAM J 
LNTR, LAWRENCE LINDERMAS, GRETCHEN 
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TODS J. COHEN, LEE NOLAN, GEOFFREY NORMAN, 
JAMS SPURLOCK assistant editors: 1. PAUL 
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TYNAN, TOMI UNGERER contributing editors: 
MICHELLE URRY asociate cartoon editor 
COPY: ARLENE BOURAS editor, 
SIAN AMBER assistant editor 
RICHARD м. Kort arinimi alive editor 
PATRICIA PAPANGEEIS righis © permissions 
ар ZIMMERMAN adininistimliee assistant 


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KAREN Yous arf assislanis 


PHOTOGRAPHY 
BEV CHAMBERLAIN, ALFRED DE RAT, MARILYN 
ERAMOWSKE associate edilors; JEFFREY COUEN, 
assistant editor; BILL ARSENAULT, 

DAVID CHAN, DWIGHT HOOKER, РОМГО 
rosar, ALENAS Luna staff photographers; 
CARL їкї associate staff photographer; 

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BRINGING THE WAR HOME 

І would like to commend vou for 
publishing David Halberstam's The Viet 
namiation of Amenca (PLAywoy, Janu- 


пу). Et was an excellent and insightful 
examination of the damage the war has 
ed here at home as well as in 
Southeast Asia, The author's point that 
the war magnified all of American socie 
гуз faults and the failure of many of its 
values is especially significant. И nothing 
che, Halberstam has shown the 
alienation and frustration. many of us 
now feel over the war and what it has 
done to our country. He says he finds 
himself “rebelling more and more 
nst the symbols of my own country.” 
This is the same dilemma many people 
now face. In attempting to analyze thi 
problem, Halberstam has performed a 
valuable and necessary service 

Pic. Robert Marquez 

Fort Bragg, Nortli Carol 


ense 


David Halberstam would have us 
believe that through our own Vi 
zation, the United States has lost iis sense 
of values. its pride. its honor, its ability 
to contribute to the world and its sense 
of hope for the future. That a brilliant 
and often perceptive reporter—whose 
own influence оп the American. view of 
the Vietnam war can be easily acknowl 
edged—has lost his own sense of hope 
seems clear. And it is sad to note, for this 
nation still has much to give to the 
world. 

Few would seriously question that 
this tragic war has stirred bitter debate, 
divided both elected officials and voters, 
provoked missive demonstrations and 
produced confrontations that have ended 
in violence and death and lelt che nation 
angry, shocked and saddened. Yet, it is a 
war that will end. We are, however be- 
latedly in some eyes, withdrawing from. 
that unhappy conflict 

Jc wa't Victnam alone that brought 
many of the strains within American 
society inio a new visibility. A series of 
dramatic events, including the shock of 
public figures falling to assassins bullets, 


nami. 


also forced us in the past decade to look 
anew ar our nation. Other problems have 
been the jarring realities o£ racial prej 


udice, the tragedy of poverty and dep- 


rivation, the unfairness of an economy 


thar allows some to grow fat while others 
starve, These problems may well have 
been exacerbated by the wi 
solely the result of it. It is a 


but arc not 
measure of 
our strength that we admit these prob- 
lems and have made progress toward 
correcting them. 

Halberstam sug 


ests that we look to 
some other nation for advisors to teach 
us democracy and help with our values 
and institutions. Certainly we have 
gained a great deal from the knowledge 
of others aud we will continue to do 
so, but Halbersiam suggests chat we have 
been destroyed by Vietnam. and have 
little left to give to other nations need 
ing assistance. As 


ector of the Peace 
Corps, 1 camnor accept such a verdict. 
Any nation that can. produce volunteers 
who work in the remote corners of the 
carth for the benchi of others cannot be 
without hope or without something to of 
fer, something thai people in other coun: 
tries embrace with friendship. Prompted 
by this example. the United Nations 
voted to establish its own Peace Corps, 
modeled alter ours. 


Аз long as we find in adversity a 
challenge and in innovation an oppor- 
vanity, then we will have something 
to olfer the world. It is far too early to 
abandon America 

Joc Blatchford 

Director of the Peace Corps 

Washington, D. C 


Halberstam has stated most dearly and 
authoritatively what many of us feel, His 
analysis of the divisions in the country 
today amd of the forces behind them is 
disturbingly convincing. The «Пес а war 
сип have on a nation, in all arcas, almost 
defy enumeration; The Vietnamizatton of 
America has come uncomfortably close 
One сап only hope that Halberstam has 
not yet actually reached the desperation 
implied in his last paragraph but will sec 
fit to continue his efforts to make America 
live up to itself, 


ad possibly to live at all 
Barry R. Wood 
Berkeley, California 
MEMOSMANSHIP 
Your puton collection of memos be 
tween our fearless leader Richard Nixon 
and his stalwart advisors, What Exact 
Should Make Perfectly Clear? (PLAYBOY, 


Pub 
Cologne 


The man who 
wears Pub 
is half way there 


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January), is one of the funniest th 
сопа 


we read іп years, But, on 
thought, maybe irs not so funny. 

Ralph Norton 
Las Vegas, Nevada. 


SAVE THE COUNTRY 


of National Priorities, in your Janu 
ary issue, it occurred to me that taking 
leral funds from the military in order 


10 implement new domestic programs 
would be а terrible waste of that most 
ellicient organization. the Pentagon. I 
telligent allocation of resources and 
у assets 
that the Department of Delense ha 
spades, as evidenced by the great st 
our foices have made in Southeast Asia. 
Peter L. Battles 
University of Southern Са 
Los Angeles, California 


Way back in 1966, U. $. Senator Gay- 
lord Nelson, author of the Cleansing the 
Enviionment section of your A New Set 
of National Priorilics, was one of the 
few Americans then willing and able to 
tell us the truth about the environ 
tal crisis, At one of Lady Bird Johns: 
beautification conferences, he gave пем 
direction and depth to the movement. 


Now, all of a sudden, Senator Nelson 
sounds about as timely as last year's Earth 
Day. His article said, in effect, that the 


5 been blind, un- 
nd he 


jovernment lı 


ment, gove al controls, and 
more taxes. Haven't we learned that such 
an approach won't work? The only policy 
that can save us is this: reverence for life. 
If Senator Nelson can help us adopt that 
one, not only the environments 
but racism and war, too, will be 
fade, and the really silent majorit 
creatures with which we share this planet 
Û last h 


—vill ме great cause to rcjoi 
Malcolm В. Wells 


Cherry Hill, New Jersey 


Thanks for A New Set of National 
Priorities. 1 was particularly interested in 
the ¢ nis by Cleveland. Mayor Carl 
B. Stokes on the future of our cities and 
ree completely with his clear, elfectiv 
of the matter. As he pointed 
па doesn't have a monopoly 
The 96 


descriptio 
out, Cleve 
on the problems of the cit 
major cities of America. as well as the 
smaller ones, are all confronted with the 
same problems, Unless the leadership of 
our Federal and. municipal governments 
in cooperation. w 
and indusmy—faces the issue. frankly. 
with the earnest desire 10 find the tools 
to accomplish the end result, Mayor 
Stokes. predictions could come to pass 
There are no easy solutions, E cor 
Inte maveoy for taking the in 


h business, f 


nce 


ing these problems to the attention 
of its reading public in а comprehen- 
e, forceful and uive statement 
ol tacts. 


magi 


Arthur Rublott 
chicago, Illinois 
Realtor Rubloj} conceived Chicago's 
Magnificent Mite of prestigious stores and 
office buildings and developed its vast 
Sandburg Village housing complex. 


1 have sent a photocopy of Mayor 
Stokess Saving the Cities 10 the present 
White House inhabitant with the р: 
graphs on our national priorities circled 
п red. Maybe if all the readers of the 
article would take a mi 

i. we could make an impression on 
the President. 


te to follow 


Judy Rosner 
Chicago, Ilinois 


THE DISTANT SHORE 

‘There are few stories that will make 
me ery particularly sciencefiction sto- 
ries—but Arthur C. Clarke's Transit of 
Earth (кулуу, January) did more than 
come Clarke, o comme, is the 
best of the reality boys in the Пек: his 
scientific background (from. dee 
sea diving to astrophysics) lends а verisi 


close. 


own 


militude to his stories that few other 
authors can match, It was а fascinating 
Г somewhat depressing, because of its 


possibility—story and the reader was as 
much there as it was possible for him to 
be. Not altogether a likable experience, 
but one that 1 wouldn't trade. 
Robert Couniney 
Chicago, Illinois 


Thank you very much for Arthur С. 
Clarke's story Transit of Earth. 1 expect 
that we will have people ou Mars within 
the next 100 years. It should be 
ng experience and I would like to 
stick around to enjoy it. 

pt. Alan L. Bea 
NASA Astronaut 
Houston, Te: 


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PAYING THE MUSE 

1 liked reading collection. of 
bestsellingauthors’ observations on The 
High Cost of Fame (risvuov, January). 
It is always interesting to learn what my 
fellow craftsmen think about our work 
and its problems, the rewards we get and 
the price we рау for them. A successful 
book has its diawbacks, of cou but 
the rewards are great, too. Some of the 
people 1 have met because 1 am а well 
known writer are horrors or hopeles 
bores, bur 
friends, Having dined often ou soup and 
crackers in а caleteria, 1 do it 
her have а wellmade 


your 


others have become real 


could 


rant. 1 


and the sense of security it 
have some extra money i 
like being а best seller 


the lı 


wen Bristow 
ino, California 
en Bristow's key lo success was 
“The Calico Palace.” 


My writing isn't influenced one way or 
mother by the degree of success (or 
disaster) that auended. a previous ellort 
It scems to depend on cycles of enthusi 
asm, followed (at predictable 
vals) by cieative exhaustion or ste 
Т have finally learned not to torment 
myself during the dry spells and to work 
10-15 hours a day, for extended sprees, 
whenever the creative gremlins are 
flourishing within the 
of the subconscious level. 
spells or long noncreative miserie: 
much more a function of Factors 
cately involved within uie cr 
and not formed by monetary responses 
The real trouble with moncy-minded 
writers is that they uy to imitate them 
selves after they hit the jackpot; and 
derivative work always looks and smells. 
it, P have always disagreed with Samuel 
Johnson's crack: “No man but a block- 
head ever wrote except for money.” 
Leo Rosten 
New York, New Vork 
Rosen, whose most recent book is 
“Leo Rosten's Love Affairs, or People 1 
Have Loved, Known or Admired," has 
alo written “The Joys of Yiddish” 
and “The Education of H*Y*M* A*N- 
KAIP LS A*N 


mysterious abysscs 
High creative 
are 


My The Lord Won't Mind was on the 
bestseller lists for a number of 
weeks, but perhaps success is different on 
а small Greek island. Truc, а total 
stranger called me from Reno. Nev 
but D was so stunned that I could 
think of anything to say. To me, 
ng down to the port every Tues- 
iting for the boat to b 
the international edition of the Herald 


Tribune, which reprints The New York 
Times Book Review bestelle list. 
Would I still be on i? The wait was 
repeated the next day, when Time ar- 


rived with a list of its own. There are 
only ten places on the list, so somebody 
go in order 10 make room for a 
newcomer. When E climbed aboard. Puzo 
was exhausted from. months of exposure 
and didu't even notice it when 1 gave 
him a gentle shove. In quick succession. 
1 disposed of Jimmy Breslin, Saul Bellow 


and Graham Greene. We picked up Up- 
dike, but he w very good. shape 


Dickey and | tested 
al weeks, 


1 didn't survive 
cach other's strength for seve 


but E needn't have worried, Irwin Shaw 
took care of him. Within a week. I 
received а posthumous bur clfective blow 


from Ernest Hemingway. You have to be 
ruthless to survive, Next time, I won't 
hesitate to bash Taylor Caldwell over the 


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head with an oar if I see her coming. 

That's what success does to you. 
Gordon Merrick 
Hydra, Grecce 


FLY NOW. PAY LATER 
Evan Huntei—perhaps. tightly—por- 
ayed the generation gap as а monu- 
nental chasm in his really classic story 
Terminal Misunderstanding (PLAYBOY, 
у). Sam Eisler is a masterpiece of 
tion and the depiction of 

truly superb piece of writ- 
it would be accurate 
establishment writer, 
үйү in the field may 
but I keep comparing 
ne with that 


adman and the hippies. Sam 
Ter. Both superior jobs, and on essential- 


Je 


ile. Washington 


THE BEST OF THE WEST 
Your January interview with Mae 
West was a satirical masterpiece. As they 
the race wack, she ran true to 
н. attorney and ad- 
nony once warned Harry 
Richman, her piano accompanist, "If 
you ever have a romance in any way 
with Mae West, you're finished.” 
Israel Good 

Louisville, Kentucky 


say at 
form. 


THE BREATH OF DEATH 

Arthur Paul's Airscape #1 in your 
January issue is а siddening and abso- 
luiely ingeni page that 
is to be transformed into a work of art 
by pollution 


Joann Garin 
Teaneck, New Jersey 


Tm reminded by Arthur Paul's Airscape 
#1 of a song Гус recently been working 
on: “Who'll cry when the world is over? | 
Who'll be sad when the world is gone?" 

Ernest Trova 
St. Louis. Missouri 

Creator of PLAYBOY'S December 1970 
introductory do-it-yourself multiple, Er- 
nest Trova is an eminent American artist 
best known for his “Falling Man" series. 


PLAYING FOR SADISTIC STAKES 

Gumes for the Virginia Woolf Sct, by 
David Stevens (mavnoy, January) was 
hilarious—so funny that 1 decided to try 
some of them out at a New Year's Eve 
party. The only question 1 have to ask 
thor Stevens is, Who's going 
10 pay for my d We got only 
as ar as "Categories"; D imagine if we 
had made it through to “Lifeboat” I 
might have ended up in the hospital with 
a couple of broken arms and legs. 


mar 


Minneapolis, Minnesota 


AN AVERAGE JOE 
In his High Noon for Broadway Joc 
(rtAvmov, January), Lawrence Linder- 
man called the shots pretty much like 
they were on the sct for The Last Rebel 
with Joe Namath. | have wen the film 
in final cut and it's a better movie than 1 
thought it would be. Although it wont 
make a star of Joe or get me any work, 
the damned thing is strangely entertain- 
ing and could easily make a harful. 
Jack Elam 
Hollywood, California 
Jack Elam has made a carcer of play- 
ing “the bad guy” in Westerns. 


LOOKING FORWARD. 

I read The Future of Ecstasy in your 
January issue with much excitement. In 
this time of ecological crisis, it is encour 
wing to sce a light being carried by a 
try such as Alan Watts. I hope this 
aride will stir the deepest insides of 
uptight individuals, the deepest insides 
that are a part of the 


PLANE HUMOR 

Major Howdy Bixby's Album of For- 
Warbirds (riavoy, January) is 
certainly of great interest, and 1 must 
Brock Yates and Bruce 
1 on collecting such an incredibly 
humorous атау of “forgotten acro: 
planes.” What a pity that they can never 
appear in Jane's! My secretary comment 
ed, "I thought the readers of rrAysov 
birds of a different 
k I can add anything 


gotten 


were interested in 
kind." E don't th 
to that. 


John W. R. Taylor 
Suney, England 
“Jane's АП the World's Aircraft,” the 
authoritative reference on the subject, is 
edited by Taylor. 


ble success in uncovering айа: 
neglected by the routine ay 
How admirable his analy 
accurate the markings on drawings. Per- 
haps some will complain about the Lick 
of photographs, but after all, these types 
were once all top secret. More det 
the Saud U-14 a book Korean 
Kombat Krates nally remem- 
ber secing the Humbley-Pudge leading an 
R. A. F. rev n by P 
Churchill in honor of Neville C1 
Iain and Sir Oswald Mosley. 

Ray Wagner 

San Diego, Californii 

Ray Wagner authored “American Com- 

bai Planes.” 


WHEN GAMES WERE GAMES 
I have never read a more profound 


Sheet. Games (mravnov, January). Brook- 


lyn born and bred, I recall each of those 
games vividly 


Seth A. Kock 
North Springfield, Virg 


LIVING WITH LIBERATION 
I read Joan Rivers Dear Women's 
Lib: (otavnov, January) and would like 
to put my vote оп her side. She has stated 
the sensible woman's side of liberation 
very well, letting the world know that 
there are still some women in the world 
whe love being what God made them. 
Linda Rowboth. 
San Dicgo, € 


SUPER YARN 
Craig Veuers Undergronnd. al 
Planet" (PLAYBOY, Ja 
rated by a stoned pothead Ji 
was a great piece of humor. 
Superman, disguised as Clark Ki 
longer works directly for the Daily Planet 
subsidiary, the Galaxy Broad- 
ng System, His new boss is Mo 
Edge. And last but not least, Olsen's de- 
rc to slip Сак Kent а Kryptonite 
sandwich was rather fatuous, since all the 
“Green К” on earth was turned to harm- 
less iron in Superman #233. It seems to 
me that PLAYBOY has made a Super- 
Blunder, 


Vance Carruth 

Scal Beach, California 

It’s difficult to keep up with the career 

of а man who moves faster than the 
speed of light. 


Thank you for the hilarious Under- 
ground at the "Daily Planet" in your 
January issue. Vetter's humor seems per- 
fectly timely, since the comic-book heroes 
of old have recently been exchanged. for 
more "relevant". characters. 

Randy Haddock 
Culver City, California 


EDITORS' CHOICE 
I would like to thank G nd 
Martha. Al Hamilton, Nat Hale, Benc- 
dict fake-a-Milli Arnold and all 
the boys who fought in the American 
Revolution. Without them, my winning 
PLAYBOY'S best-humor article of 1970 edi- 
tors award for my audit of George 
Washington's Expense Account (Febru 
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that it is given: pLaynoy’s de- 
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being named rravwov's best essay for 
1970 and I couldn't be more delighted. 
"The honor is nice, the money is nice and 
sure of working with 
lcs is even nicer. 

David Halberstam 

New York. New York 


the case and ple 
your editors on a 


Thank you for your recent letter. in- 
forming me of my award as runner-up 
best new writer (nonfiction). I am glad to 
realize the editors liked Gine-Duck (Octo- 
ber). I means a great deal to me to know 
that my writing is appreciated, particular 
ly by those whose judgment [respect 
Once again, thank vou lor the medallion 
and for your confidence in my work. 


Leslie Epstein 
Fhmhing. New York 
I was delighted to receive your best 
short-story award for Sanl Bird Says: Re 
late! Communicate! Liberale! (October) 
Thank you very much for the honor, the 
check. the medallion (which will look 
impressive on my desk here at the uni 
versity) and for your interest in my work. 
Joyce Carol. Oates 
University of Windsor 
Windsor, Ontario 


The handsome medallion naming my 
Nuke Thy Neighbor (July) as runner-up 
for praynoy's bestsatire awid now sits 
on my сойсе table, to which my daughters 
casually drag all guests to admire ir. T have 
written for almost every major American 
ne amd Гус found none that has 
shown the 
writers that PLAYBOY has shown to me. 

Ralph Schoenstein 


waly and. generosity 10 its 


Princeton, New Jersey 


My thanks to your editors for naming, 
me rLAYBoY's best new writer of non 
fiction in 1970 Гог Furry's Blues (April) 
Once. in Waycross. Georgia, when I was 
in the tenth grade, the dean of boys, a 
red-faced man. who walked on his heels, 
impounded the issue of rravtoy. T was 
reading in the schoolyind at lunchtme. 1 
went dowmewn ind stole another copy 
but it wasn't until some time alter the 
inival of your Rabbit medallion 
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Grand Ole Opry, Nashville, Tennessee” 
that I thought of the deam and felt E 
had truly tasted the sweetness of rever 
Stanley Booth 
Memphis, Tennessee 


Naming me best new writer (fiction) 
for my Gerber Resurrected 
(November) is vet another instance of 
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млувоу'к unflinching, very forward 
looking philosophy. It gives me great 
pleasure to receive the PLAYBOY award 
for the precedent it may establish for the 
тем of our national literature. D would 
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Laster of the William Morris. Agency 
who convinced me to send my work to 
PLAYBOY in the first place, and pass along 
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be considered. their 
very courageous decision to award à top 
prize to my work 

Hal Bennett 

Hackensack, New Jersey 


for what can only 


Your honor of naming my The Giant 
Chicken-Eating Frog (October) as best 
satire constitutes everything E have strived 
for as а writer, and E wish to thai 
onc on your still for making it possible 
The medallion occupies the 
ır coffee table, where it catches dawn's 
st light and casts lite silver bunnies 
on the walls and ceiling—we love it! 
Richard Curtis 
New York, New York 


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not acknowledging your letter sooner, but 
both it and the accompanying copy of 
PLAYBOY were impounded by the Trish 
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ter and sent it on. 1 was surprised at this 
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ps ruaysoy is now a periodical of 


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est to all serious writ 
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and publishing the work of the 
writers in the world. 


considerable inte 


best 


Sean O'Faolain 
Dublin, Ireland 


Thank you for naming the three inter 
rekued stories (January, March, July) ex 
cerpted [rom my novel Rich Man, Poor 
Man as bes major work for 1970. rd 
pay my respects to PrAvnov. for 
making three coherent. narratives out of 
the mass of manuscript that 1 submitted 


like 


I've been fortunate enough to work with 
some of the greatest editors in the bus 
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and yours rank with the best of 


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th commendable fervor, the U.S 
Рома Service has girded its loins, 
adrenalized its personnel and computer 
ized its operations to assure а new kind 
of nondelivery—in this case, of mail that 
appeals to “prurient” interests. As re- 
ported in last montes Forum Newsfront, 
a citizen no longer must decide for him- 
t junk-mail advertisements offend 
ad then call the Post Office to 
demand the removal of his name from 
such mailing lists. Though hc still may 
do this, the new Postal Reorganizs 
tion Act of 1970 now invites him to 
merely advise the postmaster that he 
wishes to receive no “sexually oriented” 
mail whatsoever and his problem, theo- 
retically, is solved. Once a month, the 
Postal Service will publish an up-to-date 
list of those who have written. in with 
that request. The trouble with the old 
law was that too many people were 
finding all junk mail offensive, as was 
their legal right, and they were making 
themselves a thorough nuisance to Gov- 
emmen grayfices. (Some people de 
red they found grocery-store ads erotic: 
others complained of receiving “obscene” 
material—draft norices—from. the Selec 
€ Service System.) Now the responsi- 
bility has been shifted from the citizen 
to the direct-mail advertiser, who must 
for himsell if he i 


decide 


t wish to 


the names of those who dor 
receive his missives. 

We are tempted to call this scheme a 
postal protection racket, since purchas 
of the monthly list by panderers is mands 
tory, and those who send mail to the 
names on it ae subject to five years’ 
prisonment and а 55000 fine. But, of 
course, we won't. Instead. we will simply 
marvel at the Government's keen sense 
of priorities and shade our eyes at the 
brilliance of this new concept. Think of 
it: For the first time in history, a nation 
compiling a list of all its citizens who 
don't like sex; or who like sex so much 
that they fear they couldn't resist dircct- 
mail temptations to buy erotic literature. 
What such a white list might be good for, 
God only knows. Quite possibly it will 
prove to be the least useful directory of 


names ever compiled since the invention 
of the alphabet, which should carn it at 
least а mention in the Guinness Book of 
World Records. 

There's only one way we can imagine 
that the list could be put to some social- 
ly redeeming purpose. For every citizen 
ngly engulfed in the rising tide of 
filth we keep reading about, there i 
nother whose unabashedly prurient in- 
terests are still being woefully neglected 
hy the absence of his name from the 
mailing lists of pornography purveyors 
Alier work cach day, he returns home 
and finds nothing in his mailbox but 
bills, bank credit cards and siren songs 
for Arizona real estate. Under the new 
nti-pandering law, we think it should be 
his right—guaramteed by the Constitu 
tion's equal-protection dmse—to have his 
name placed on a second list, to which 
the U.S. Postal Service would readdress 
I the smut mail rejected by those on the 
first list. 


The Reverend Dr. Joseph Fletcher, 
father of situation ethics and a professor 
at the Episcopal Theological Seminary in 
Cambridge, Massachusetts, likes to col- 
lect heartwarming stories of human 
charity. He has passed along to us a 
lener received by a һай 
donated а radio to а home for the elder- 
ly: “I am writing to thank you for the 
radio that you donated to the rest home. 
I enjoy it very much. I have lived here 

ow for nine yeas. I am 82 years old. 
Life here is pretty pleasant. I only wish 
that I would get more visitor. Tt 
wouldn't be so bad if my grandchil- 
dren came to sce me once in а while, but 
I guess they're too busy with their own 
lives to bother with an old woman like 
me My roommate's name is Mrs. 
Nelson. Four years ago, Mrs. Nelson's son, 
Fred, gave her a radio. Fred is а lawyer, 
so he can afford expensive gilts. He is 
very nice aud always says hello to me 
when he comes to visit Mrs. Nelson. 
Mrs, Nelson is a very nice lady, but she 
Iso rather stingy. Whenever I would 
come into the room while Mrs. Nelson 
was listening to her radio, she would 


man who 


that Т 


olf, so 


immediately turn it 
couldn't listen to it. I 
many times if 1 could listen to her га 
but she would never let me. It's much 
casier to get along Пот day to day with 
some nice music to distract you. Once I 
became angry with Mrs. Nelson and we 
didn’t speak to each other for two weeks, 
but it's better to talk to someone you 
don't like than to talk to nobody at all. 
so we made up. Now I have my own 
dio, though. and I can listen to the 
adio amy time ] want to. Last week, 
Mrs, Nelson's radio broke. She asked me 
if she could listen to my radio and I told 
her to go fuck herself. Sincerely yours. 
Ada Bixby.” 


In Tarrytown, New York, an Italian 
immigrant who grew marijuana in his 
back yard explained to a village justice 
that he and his wile didn't use the stull 
to smoke or sell. In their native Italy, 
said the man's wile, "We make soup. 
Christmas cand, 
from the seeds 


es and other delicacies 
Children eat them as 
Americans eat peanuts. We also make 
clothing, doilies towels from the 
dried plant fibers.” She expressed sor 
row that they wouldn't be able to let 
the judge sample the marijuana-seed 
soup, as they had promised when ar 
rested, since “the detectives took all the 
seeds and plants away from uz" They 
were let off with an admonition to 
cultivate Jess controversial crops. 


and 


Forewamed Is Forearmed Department: 
А talent agency has apparently bilked 
hundreds of stage-struck Las Vegans out 
of thousands of dollars. For payment of 
5085, the Vegasbased firm produced a 
short screen test on video tape and took 
а few mug shots of the client, supposedly 
destined lor viewing by TV and movie 
producers. The hopeful future star would 
then sit back to await Hollywood's call 
10 greatness. The firm, of couse, sub- 
sequently abandoned its offices, leavi 
behind unpaid bills for advertising and 
rent. Our tears of commiseration for the 
bilked clients are diluted by the fact that 


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they failed to heed the foreboding tide 
of the late and lamented company in 
question: Take Onc! 

The Japanese, marvelously adept at 
mastering so many Western skills, still 
run into trouble occasionally in the Tan- 
guage department, as exemplified by this 
thoughtful admonition on a radiator 
cover in a Kyoto hotel bedioom: PLEASE 
bo NOF TOUCH THE VULVE INSIDE, 

Our Peerless Logic Award, National 
Security Division, goes to the U.S. De- 
partment of Agriculture for issuing a 
pamphlet telling “what to do with your 
fertilize there should be a surpi 
enemy attack upon the United States.” 
‘The guide is intended for manufacturers 
of commercial fertilizer and notes, “The 
message of this folder has no meaning 
lor persons and businesses that fail to 
survive. 


Outraged women in Nepal forced the 
resignation of a government minister 
who was found guilty of bigamy—and 
fined 25 cents. 


The underground Ghicago Voice urges, 
“Rate war X. and don’t ket anybody go 
unless accompanied by their legislators.” 


To a Florida road sign proclaiming 
JESUS savesi, some wit added, "And at 
today's prices, that’s a miracle? 

In Lexington, Kentucky, where city 
police who are late for work must submit 
three copies of a written excuse, one 
officer turned in this impressive explana- 
tion: "Due to metabolic inability to cope 
with a rccent shift change, I did not 
respond to external stimuli, thereby re- 
ng in a comatose condition. 


‘There resides in California am enter- 
prising fellow who  peddles modestly 
priced booklets and pamphlets оп home- 
made bombs and other terrorist devices. 
wc he advertises quite openly, he's 


doubtlessly known to the authorities, as 
promoting the 
“Get 


he acknowledges in a fly 
sale of his Militant’s Formulary: 
onc before they get me." Unde; 
bly, a good many people disapprove of 
disseminating such information and w 
take little comfort in the infernal 1 
chinist a 

sales policy. He advertises in journals 
icd at both the right and the left, and 
lists, along with his how-to materials, a 
selection of arm bands for every occasion. 
and persuasion: Nazi, SS, Peace, Red 


Guard, Black Panther Party and the 
Confederacy. At best, he would sccm to 
be an equalopportunity destroyer. 


Mis. Bess Myerson Grant, New York 
City's consumer affairs commissioner, 


tells of a woman who complained about 
а local computerdating service. Th 
unhappy customer got a guy all right, 
but when he showed up for the first date, 
he was wearing nothing but an overcoat, 


-old Israeli 
charged with watching 


А 21y 


Peeping Tom, 
а girl undress, 
pleaded in a Haifa court that he was just 
following the example of King David, 
who, according to the Bible, fell in love 
with Bathsheba when he spotted her 
nga bath. The man was acquitted. 


ART 
zod Almighty rubbish 
as sister Gertrude nui 


He was so incensed 
by her moony writing style and loony 
coterie that he took all his pictures and 
moved out, thus beginning the dispersal 
ol one of the most remarkable collections 
пеха to Havemayer or Guggenhcim— 
in the history of modern ant, By the pains 
taking examination of old photographs 
of the Stein apartments, New York's Mu- 
seum of Modem Art has reconstructed 
the collection and. 
debut in New York, “Four Americans 
‘The Collections of Gertrude Stein 
"ds waveling то Balu 
ıd Ot The 
drawings. photographs 
and sculptures are as noteworthy for 
their collectors as for their creators. In 
the first years of this century, Leo and 
Gertrude set up housekeeping at 27 Rue 
de Fleurus (Alice B. Toklas moved 


after a sensational 


иа. 


only some years later, while their 
brother Michael and his wife Sarah lived 
around the corner on Rue Madame. 


Everybody who later turned out to be 
somebody visited their salons, and. the 
walls were covered with examples of new 
works by Picasso, Matisse, Cézanne, 
Renoir, Manet, et al. Gertrude has got- 
ten most of the credit for their discov- 
crics and acquisitions, but all the Steins 
collected with fervor and fierce parti 
ship. Gertrude identified herself. prima- 

ly with Picasso; Michael and Sarah with 
Matisse (who once said that Sarah un- 
derstood more about his work than hc 
did); and Leo with Cézanne and Re- 
noir, all of whose work from the family 
collection he wok with him when he 
lelt. The result of these highly individ- 
ual tastes 8, conveying in full 
force the hi ative climate of Paris 
at the turn. of ihe century. Witness to 
the connection between collectors. and 
collected are the large number of por- 
traits of the Steins themselves—not only 
the famous Picasso of Gertrude in 
ish style but others by Matisse, Picabia, 
Tehelitchew, Vallouon, Lipchitz and 
Davidson. Then there are the collectors 
writings. Here is Gertrude on Picasso: 


"Something had been coming out of him. 
cenainly it had been coming out of 
him, certainly it was something, cer- 
tainly it had been coming out of hint 
and it had mi ng meaning, 
а solid mea ning 
dear me; NECS 
portrait of her, she wrote in li 
able way. “For me, it is I, and it is the 
only reproduction of me which is always 
I, for me.” A remarkable quartet, the 
Steins: separate voices, but complemen- 
tary, adventurous, exuberant, observant 
id assured. Art collecting, the way they 
did it, was indeed a creative 


BOOKS 


Barbara W. Tuchman's new work, 
Stilwell and the American Experience in Chino 
(Macmillan), ranks with her The Guns 
of August—no small praise. She's cl 
ly enchanted by the legendary 
gar Joe, the caustic, заспе, stubborn 
but valiant general who slogged along- 
le his foot soldiers through the blood. 
mud and rain of the terrible China-Bur- 
ma-India campaigns, To 
matched by any other n 
figure, Stilwell’s career 
with the emergence of China as а un 
modern state. As а young and a middle 
aged officer, he served in China for many 
zs and, impatient with the pre-War 


Vine- 


jor 


cocktail-party set. journeyed, often on 
foot. through vast areas of the mainland. 


Fluent in several Chinese dialects, with 
| unequaled knowledge of the country 
amd a brilliant strategic sense, Stilwell 
had the discouraging task in wartime of 
persuading the “Gano.” Generalissimo 
ng Kai-shek, to commit his enormous 
armies to the collective effort to defeat 
the Japanese. But Chiang simply did not 
want to fight them, His inten 
Darian nation to defeat the 


n was to 


allow one ba 
other, while he hoarded men and Ameri- 
cum miliay supplies for the post-War 
struggle with the Chinese Communists. 
This might have been brilliant. games- 
manship if Chiang had not been so ca 
pricious, «o corupt, so incompetent and, 
worst of all, so badly informed about his 
that he was unaware that 
despite enormous American 
assistance, was collapsing all around him. 
Mas Tuchman brings this scenario 10 
vivid life, from Stilwell’s early days in 
China to his list, when he could see the 
United States sliding ineluctably toward 
the post-War commitments to Asia that 
landed us in the jungles of Vietnam. 


own country 
his regime, 


Of the plethora of books on the Black 
Panthers, Reginald Major's A Panther Is a 
Block Cot (Morrow) does far the best job 
of placing those bellicose and besieged 
revolutionaries in context. Formerly 
director of ihe educational opportunity 


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е College, 
rching the 
anend- 


program at San Francisco St 
Major spent three years гезе: 
Look by means of interviews, 
ance at. Panther meetings and trials, and 
analysis of police and court records. Major 

who is the Panthers 
refusal to continue. being part of a sub- 
merged "colony" in the "mother coun 
Uy but he is ako critical of what he 
considers to be their serious I 
Lack of “a program which | 
well beyond the obvious charisma of the 
present N substitution. of 
“ungainly adaprarions ol revolutionary 
rheroric developed by Asians” for it badly 
needed “unified theory of Black Ame 
d thers 
establish broadly based al 
blacks. including the black ан 
But Major admires the Panthers’ cour- 
and he silts through their rhetoric 
tory al (d 


black—shares. 


lures: the 


S extensions 


adership?: th 


history” inability 10 


сеу among 


iddle class, 


to construct o careful hi 


IET 
. (Don 
fearful 
м 


less publicized figures as 
Hewitt, David Hilliard. D. 
Cox) and Emory Douglas. The 
possibility of am eventual attempt 
ocide, which hovers over the hook, is the 


explicit theme ol The Choice: The Issue of 
Black Survival in Americo (Pumin), by 
Samuel F. Vette, a black reporter in ihe 


Washington ob Newsweek. Nei 
ther а reckless alarmist nor 2 manipulative 
polemicist, Yene di back- 
ad in Goverument (including а p 
s chief civil rights ofaa for the 
Olfice of Economic Opportunity) and his 
reportorial experience to sound ип ur- 
ing. Hs Veue's argument that 
“озинин blacks face. a 
society that is brutally pragmatic, tech- 
cally accomplished, deeply racist, 
increasingly md surly” 
Blacks. in sum, will cither shape up (ac 
vols and criteria m: 
by the Government) or be restricted. to 
their ghettus—withi their leaders removed 
to detention camps. On ihe [ice of it; this 
seems do be a paranoid’s vision, But 
Yeuc—dnough. ex 
sional hearings. interviews, his 
servations at OEO and his close appraisal 
ol the Nixon. Administ 
vision seem distur 


aws on 


riod 


gent wiar 


the ion's 


overcrowded, 


dated 


ation of Congres 


эми ob- 


ion—makes his 


Most New Ya 


хаз only 


the disdosures ol high-level graft 
coruption that xandalized. their city à 
few yews ago. More disturbing was the 


monumental incompetence ol the wrong- 
ak their crimes 
d that 


„ which suggested th 


c only the Gp of ап iceberg 
the ошу honest public official is one who 
has no influence to sell or whose price 
has not yer been met. Though the head- 
lines have faded, Walter Goodman. dis 
cerned in this episode an archetypal 
example of civic corruption: he skillfully 


distinguishes this case study from 
so many others is the writer himself. With 
the insight of a good novelist and the 
it of an honest reporter, Goodman 
У doser skeletons back to lile. The 
result is а suspenseful nonfiction myst 
that orbits the short, unhappy public life 
ol ames L. Marcus, Mayor 1 ^ 
politically appointed water commissioner, 
who all too willingly stepped. into the 
quicksands of corruption. Struggling 
petatcly to keep from sinki 
aged only to dray down oth 

“including che hitherto  unoud 
Carmine. De Sapio, who raed the day he 
met so inept à Crook, This detailed ex 
amination of the mechanics of miscrcince 
leaves the reader to ponder the caliber 
of men in hig busines amd high public 
осе, the degree of ineptitude necessary 
for their exposure, the pr ol 
judicial system that хо liy 
this form of robbery, and. just where the 
Federal Government both. the Justice. 
Department and the CLA—fits into the 
business politicsrackers triangle. 


des 


mishes 


In recem months, the proliferation. of 
books on the. Pentagon and all that it 
symbolizes has become a minor industry, 
No one but a specialist—or a masochist 
could read them all, yet anybody con- 
cerned with the present and faure of 
America needs 10 be beter informed 
abour this ubiquitous institution. A first- 
rae primer is Adam Yarmolinsky's. The 
Military Establishment (Harper & Row). I's 
long and complex. but that’s the nature 
of the subject. Some will wish that Yin- 
molinsky raised. more hell, but he's no 
revisionist or radical. А Першу Assistant 
Secretary Defense lor International 
Security Айайу under President Kennedy, 
he has come—bekutedly, he concedes—to 
sec that things aren't quite what he 
thought they were when he was one of 
Robert MeNamara's bright young men. 
What he attempts in this 20th Ci 
tury Fund study is а judicious look at 
the most powerful. institution in Ameri- 
сап society, H's not as much Fun to read. 
nor as likely to rouse people to 
n alon polemic—hut. even 
Leftist would have difficulty Гаа, 
moliusky's scope. He's covered just about 
everything: the Pentagon's leverage o 
foreign policy, the Executive Branch, 
Congress and the economy: its potent 
influence on popular education, race rel 
tions, the univ 
dom: iis bumbling attempts 10 police 
domestic disse 
оху. Considering his subjea, Yurmoli 
п overly restrained, but his 
coolly factual approach is the greatest 
virtue of his book. 


y of 


y and academic Irec- 


To write effectively about insanity, 
you have to be a little nuts yourself{— 


witness Dostoievsky and Suindberg, ıo 
stick to the best in the field—but the sad 
tru as to be that Doris Lessing isn't 
even remotely potty. This is clear from 
her new novel, porteutously titled Briefing 
for a Descent into Hell (Knopf), which de- 
scribes the mental breakdown of а clas- 
sies professor, Charles Watkins, who goes 
on а kind of innerspace voyage—the 
inner space of his mind and. by analogy 
mankind's—white lying in a hospital bed 
suffering from. amnesia, Watkins deliri 
um, which tikes up the fist section ol 
the book. is complicated. and 
yer it is here 
esing hopes the reader will 
inportant truths" that men 
tal breakdown reveals ro the sullering in 
dividual bur that society has nor yet 
been able to master and incorporate. 
It is only în her dust realistic section 
Mis s talents as an acer! 
social critic come imo play. Watkins, it 
seems, dislikes his wile. his mises and 
his profession. but ру ау 
nor the world he inhabits seems capable 


h xci 


rely 


without emotional 
that Mis. L 
find those 


na 


thar Lessi 


neither 


у 


ot giving him other relationships or 
goals. А depressing. finale, but, para 
doxically. Mrs. Lei 4 


beer and better as thi 
more hellish, 


iss get more ai 


In th 
Mencken 
world as "a low ог disrept 
den.” (їп later years, of couse, 
came synonymous with a marijuan 
rete) In underworld 
means. prison—whose residents 
ate, bevi ng up a storm. 
rent literary season is double jo 
There is. to name the lesser book first 
James Blakes The (Doubleday). 
which consists of a few hundred shrill 
nd whecdling letters Blake wrote. be 
tween 1951 and 1961 while in and out of 
prison (mostly in). Some of his letters 
re addressed to Nelson Alg 
Blake had once met at a Chicago bistro: 
imd it was through Algren's good olfices 
that a batch of them was published by 
The Paris R. in 1958. Untortun 
ly. they appeared alongside another pris 
jcle—Jean Gener's 
am. Bla 


1870s, 
the “joi 


cording 


ered unde 


today’s 


The eur 


wri 


icd. 


Joint 


t 
whom 


w 


T te- 


on cdi 
е has confused hi 


would sc 


sell with Genet, Blake is a homosex 
Jike Genet, and his cellmates are inv 
bly large, loutish and lecherous. His fa 


vorite stopping place is Raiford Si 
Penitentiary in Florida, and whenever he 
gets the шве to return, li 
da, takes up a life of crime and tips oll 
the police. "I wanted to go back to th 
tribe, to my people, in the joint.” he 
explains. And then, abandoning Genet 
for Frost: “Home is where, when you go 
there, they cant turn you away." Less 


goes to Flori 


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pretentious and morc objective is The 
Joint: American Style (Randon 
Howe), edited by Robert Minton, a 
college teacher who has been visiting 
California prisons and encouraging in- 
mates to write about thi 
These unsenrime vignettes convey a 
pice of hundreds of thousinds of 
men and women “festering in the | ab- 
scessed womb | of the siate” (irom a poem 
by Mich; ire, a Soledad prisoner). 
At Soledad. the guards periodically fo- 
mem bloody racial battles among the 
comics ar San Quentin, recalcitrant 
prisoners are thrown naked imo dark 
aud narrow cells filled with the excrement 
ob previous sufferers; im most, prison 
rds can bribe one convict 10 murder 
other (the going price seems 10 be two 
tous of cigarettes). Prison atrocities, of 
couse, have been reveal in and 
gain—but the writers in this case pos 
wthentic poetic powers. Readers of 
book will surely get the message: 
America's prions are breeding 
grounds for the social pathologies they 
intended. то curc—ánd. that the 
fault is ours 


Prison 


were 


ivis Lewine’s Good-bye 
(McGraw-Hill) is 


to All Thot 
nostalgic look at the 
role cigurettes have played in Western 
culture, beginning with the Crimean 
War, when British cavalry officers brought 
back handvalled gifts from their Turk 
ish, French and Sardin s 
10 Dr. Charles W. Mavyo's obdurate insist- 
c “1 just dont believe smoking 
causes lung cancer". Мом of the 
however, concentrates on the golden age 
of tobacco—the Twenties s and 


book, 


Fortics—an ста when sophistication was 
synonymous with a lighted butt. Good- 
byes 128 pages can be tiken in slow, 


casy draws or finished in the ti 
10 smoke a quarter pack of 
Lewine pulls out tobacconali 
faster tham the oll Camels sign on Times 
Square could blow a smoke ring. Though 
is niin is i ivs the 48 
ol illustrations. inchiding four-color re- 
productions of Sweet Caporal, Home Run 
and Egyptian Prettiest packs (phis ciga- 
теше mading cards), that really justify the 
book's 56.93 price. A blue duotone shows 
La Dietrich lighting up in top hat and 
uils while Lewine comments that she 
“was the female nonparcil in the cine 
matic pantheon of smokers, She had a 
Dead stari—coming from the decidem, 
moral and narcissistic Germany of the 
Twenties—but it was through her Sven- 
ali, director Josef von Sternberg, th 
ged her cigarette beauty around 
with her the way ап стаи Rothschild 
drive a dentedfender 
7 On another page is Erich. von 
Stroheim, "out of uniform, monocle, per- 
fume, dresing gown and pistol range 
Bur nor out of cigarettes. Here, Фай 


she dr 


lighting a ‘Turkish "bomber'" Good- 
bye to All Thal is a book filled with 
ood reading and good taste—except 
perhaps lor those struggling to quit 


Е. Scou. Fitzgerald, whose j 


izrage 


els and short stories stand near the sum- 
nit оГ modern American literature, has 
become a favorite subject for lesser 


authors, Fitzgerakls own works are [re 
quently quoted in—and carry the day for 
-Crazy Sundays—F. Scott Fitzgerald in Holly- 
wood (Viking), Aaron Lathanrs critical 
account ol those last lew tragic years 
from 1937 until his death in 1940. when 
Scott way desperately clutching at Holly- 
wood's flimsicst tinsel to save 

man and writer. The name of 
umnist Sheilah Graham, — Scott's 
mistress (who proudly told her stor 
Belawd Infidel). these pages 
alongside those of Dorothy Parker, Sam 
wd Joe Mankiewicz. Yet Crazy 
s less concerned with celebrity 


gossip than with a thorough study of the 


isell as 
col- 
Tast 
in 


crowds 


Goldwyn 


Sundays 


movie projects to which Fiugerald was 
signed. and from which he was, olten 


s Hol. dismissed. Given access то film 
company archives, Latl up 

good deal of material heretofore neglect- 
ed by Fitzgerald scholars, and most of 
is acutely depressing, When Scott. was 
neither drunk nor disorderly, he tried to 
cut his talent down 10 size lor saec 

adaptations that lid Hollywood's 
homegrown comm: by the time he 
learned how to write movies, lı 
loser in a 
A generally 
marked. fondness for 


m dig: 


ощ 


reputation as а town where 
winners take all 
biographer with 
footnotes. Latham eyes Fitzgerald's Гай 
ings rough. а soft-focus lens, and ap 
proaches some of the sc 
were Scripture. Raised eyebrows are 
onder when Latham begins comparir 
the women in Fivgerald’s life with the 
heroine of Madame Curie (опе of the 
frustrating assignments for 
received no sereen credit). Still, C 
Sundays—taken from the title of his own 
grim short story about а Hollywood writ 
er—makes a highly readable epitaph to а 
sorely troubled life. 


which Scott 


How way а white man to understand 
what blacks "had been and w 
re the 
questions 1 white 
James Toback. and he decided that a 
swers might be provided by Jir 
ex-football sta, curent 
symbol of black sexual clout. The re- 
sultant book is called sim (Doubleday). 
but its subtitle really tells the story: The 
Authors. Nelj-Cente the 
Great Jim Brawn. Jim is a vemarkable 
book—not what it reveals 
about Brown but for what it reveals about 


с, how 


ve with 
rge 
writer 


white people could or ca 
them in the Tutne?” Such 
woubled 


Brown 


movie star, 


d Memoir on 


so much. for 


Торак: mot for its veveluions about 
black Americi bur lor its revela 
about a part of white America, Tu his 
pursuit of Brown—and thus of himself 
—Toback gocs one-on-one with Brown 
1 basketball. teaches him tennis (only 
to discover that the student is about to 
become the master) and parties with him 
(the climax coming mistd-doubles 


ions 


match in Brown's bedroom). s Brow 
"M а heavy white cat wants 10 swing 
with a heavy black car. that’s cool 


Bur 


the blick cat gomma beg for 
‘cause hes got his own thing goin 
Toback assumes that Brown is what 
being black is all about—a_ self-reliant, 
decent, straight person, " 
of American. success 
dreams. а 
vision is shaken somewhat when 
ol Brown's tells Горак: “Jim 
doesn't hold a prayer as the real black 
hero. He's talented, he's smart. he's gen- 
слота: but he's involved in old ide: 
old solutions—partying, pleasure. com- 
petition, work—makin а mark in what 
is always going to he a while world. Hip 
black Gus won't ride with that anymore.” 
In the end, Toback doesn’t quite know 
where ло ride. And he reels out of 
Brown's world in a coud of sentiment, 
striking out with his fists at a drunken 
white passe called Brown a 


Brown 


MOVIES 


the magic of Prom- 
Not passion. but 
that pristine, once-in-a-lifetime romance 
m а boy and his mother. based in 


ise at Down. 


mater. а Russi 
сир Whose life was a series of flamboyant 
disguises. Playing all of N 
star, seamstress. cr. тош! 
nd con i na Mercouri 
camps and outclases Auntie Mame in 
the first screen assignment to match her 
talent since Newer on Sunday, A 
scarred but unsinkable beauty, 
dominates her handsome. surrou 
no maner where the film takes her— 
fom queening it on a movie set in 
snowy Leningrad ло peddling 
of tourists on the sparkling Cote d'Azur 
daper Jules Das 
(Mercouri's husband in private life). best 
known as the man behind Newer on 
Sunday and Tapkapi, also plays a small 
role as the hammy Russ * idol 
who appears to be Кошай» absentee 
father, and plays it surprisingly well 
though, for reasons of his own, under 
an assumed name. Last but by no 
means least of the three young actors 
who portray Romain up to the age of 2 
is Asaf Dayan, son of Israeli defense 
minister Moshe. Its some boyhood, 
Пов prepuberty to mod 


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That's right, superior. 
Women are more resistant 
to starvation, fatigue, 
exposure, shock, and 
illness than men are. 

Women have two "X" 
chromosomes in their sex 
cells, while men have only 
one "X" chromosome end 
а "Y" chromosome... which 
some experts consider to be 
the inferior chromosome. 


the red-green type, day blind- 
ness, defective hair follicles, 


defective iris, defective tooth enamel, 


double eyelashes, skin cysts, 


shortsightedness, night- 
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In view of these and 
other facts, the makers of 
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thc 
(a у 
Greek character actress Despo) 
mother who vows to make her offspring 
great. “It is decided , . . you are 
to Berlin 10 ate Hill 
deurces at one juncture, and never Ji 
to know that her son the writer does, 
indeed, one day become a War hero as 
well as а French diplomat. In this post- 
udian age. то celebrate such motherly 
devotion as а source of strength rather 
than a prelude w 


gle cyes of an 
ed by 


sex mania under 


asexual hang-ups 
is both refresh 


Frying to review the current bumper 
crop of sexploitation epics is roughly 
comparable to appr the artistic 
merits of sword swallowing or some 
other highly specialized indoor sport. 
About all one can do is to indicue the 
general trend of the new 1 
t relative freedom 
has put stag films and skin flicks—or a 
reasonable 1 le—into firstrun mov- 
ie palaces. One of the bener examples of 
titillation adorned with redee 
purpose is A History of the Blue Movie, 
euor Alex de Renzy's compil 
nd pornographic 
shorts dating back to the 1915 classic, А 
Free Ride (photography by Will B. 
Hard), It’s а memorable collection, all 
ll. featuring such winners as On the 
Beach (three nude girls, а man and a 
goat, abo nude) and celebrated. stripper 
morable en- 
the 1940s. 
ence here strongly refutes the 
g belief among the young that 
or six years ago at 


sing 


cases 


now 


from censorship 


sim 


ning social 


ion of 


famous infamous 


was invented fiv 
rock festival 
Moro is the wry and unblushing pres- 


agerly obliges her fiancé with oral grati- 
In fact, fellatio appears to be 
vocation, and she diligently 
practices it with total stran "Did 
you learn this by yourself?” 
of her many unzipped aequ 
"No, not by myself,” Mona replies de- 
murely. Played by shapely, saucer-eyed 
Fifi Watson, whose unique movie debut 
ought to guarantee her a reputation of 
sorts, Mona is an all but unadvertisable 
spectacle that may have to depend on— 
pardon us— word-of-mouth publicity The 
wellendowed stud who plays her beau 
also makes out prodigiously with Mona's 


fi 
Mona's 


intances. 


gi 


mom, who is surprised du 


ing an eve- 
ning at home with her whirring vibrat 
The quality of the photography is above 
average, but the effect is decidedly anti- 
erotic when all those swollen genitals fill 
a movie screen in close-up. Sill, the 


sound track manages to supply local 
stimulation with beeps. screams, moan- 
ing, drums and the clash of cymbals. Sex 
cymbals 


"The pitchmen's attempts to promote 
Soy Hello to Yesterday as а Brief Encoun- 
ter of the Seventies are pitiable at best. 
Noel Coward's poignant classic about the 
destine love of two middle-class mar- 
ried people has only one thing in com- 
mon with this upstart imitator: Both sets 
of characters travel by train. Jean Sim- 
nons, as а bored suburban houscwile, 
finds her shopping wip into London 
interrupted by а devilishly handsome 
teenager (Leonard Whiting, seen in 
Franco Zelirellis Иотео and Juliet), 
who impulsively decides to seduce her. 
And so he does, alter they have shopped, 

ed, joked a bit, walked in the park 
wrowed the generation gap by 


dds up to a simple сазе of. Mod-mects- 
matron. 


the Thirty Years War except that it was 
hell, naturally, and lased unnaturally 
long (1018-1618). Survival at all costs 
is the issue faced by Omar Sharit, Nigel 
Davenport, Florinda Bolkan and the in- 
habitants of an idyllic Alpine village 
occupied by a ruthless captain. (Michael 
Caine) and his mercenaries—a rapacious 
mob of Catholics, Protestants and nonbe- 
lievers. Despite the religious issues at 
stake, the spirit of ecumenism extends 
even 10 the accents overheard—every- 
thing from Anhur O'Connell's rural 
Americanese to Caine's oddly measured 
cadences that sound like a cross between. 
Low German and baby talk. Swedish star 
Per Oscarsson has Last Valley's most co 
hesive role as а fanatical village priest 
whose blind faith says a good deal about 
mankind's perennial lust for brutality 
invoked in the name of God, Writer-pro- 
ducer-director javell’s screenplay 
(from a novel by I B. Pick), though 


lor mal and in cine- 
matic vi pigs mS 
сам and crei 10 sOme stun- 


ning mountain scenery in Austria, Clav- 
ell favors sweeping long shots—whidh is 
aves the human 
a focused. 


Movies about campus radicals have 
been Hopping faster Шап Hollywood can 
churn them out. One hopes so, at least, 
because the public sees them for what 
they mc: bald attempts to cash in on the 
socalled youth market. The Pursuit of 
Happiness (based on a novel by Thomas 
Rogers) exudes an aroma of opportun- 
ism—but producer David Susskind and 
director Robert Mulligan have as much. 
it as anyone else to scize an oppor- 
tunity. Unswerving in its predictable 


course, Pursuit. was filmed in Manhattan 
with Arthur Hill, E. С. Marshall, the 1a 
Ruth White and other rusty New York 
actors backing up Michael Sarrazin and 
а Hershey, two of the brighter new 
faces, Sarazin plays a hip collegian whe 
has become disillusioned with society (he 
was "Clean for Gene" in 708). Barbar 
plays a dichard political activist who 
loves him AN their ideas about 
honor, truth American justice 

tested when the boy is convicted of mi 
fier an auto accident. 1g 
thy family's advice on how to 
conduct his defense, he goes to prisci 

and gets innocently involved in a 
of passion that links him with 
homosexuals. When he secs a chance to 
escape, he takes it, swiltly grabs his coed 
and they head for the border. Henry 
Fonda and Sylvia Sidney suffered far worse 
fates back in the ‘Thirties because. they 
had stole pennies to put bread on 
the table. It’s not so easy to sympathize 
with the rich, righteous young radical ро 
trayed by Sarrazin, whose behavior seldom 
makes sense—least of all when he con- 
demus the values of the over-30 generation 
while blandly taking a wl 
from-me attitude toward anyone thought- 
Jess enough to mention the woman he 
ran down and killed. 


yway. 


re 


nor 


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ou wan 


The heroine of Puzzle of а Downfall 
Child is а high-fashion model whose lc: 
endary face and figure are the envy of 
her sex, In fact, she is a. pitiable cr 
—lovely but empty. vain, neurotic. a 
habitual liar and so fearful of n 
up to men's expectations that she seuk 
for furtive irs with strangers collected 
cocktail bars. Obviously, the lady has 
ything it takes t0 be deadly dull. 
me 


cv 
That she rises above banality to be 


sympathetic, human—and even curiously 
courageous im the shadowy world she 
inhabits—is due to the electric presence 


of Faye Dunaway, proving her right to 
movie stardom as never before. There 
are no startling social 


insights in the seer 
(who wrote Five Easy Pieces), yet Down- 
fall Child's dialog is shrewdly tailored to 
provide its star with the smoothest on 
woman show since Darling. Licking her 
wounds in an isolated beach shack alter 
a mental breakdown, scoured by drugs 
and disappointment, the 
qu 

rapher friend (Barry Pr 
also her lover once upo 
way back at the beginning. Anyhow, she 
thinks he nd asks him—to make 
sure, As a narrative device, the interview 
is а dumsy and needless reminder that 
Downfall Child marks the directorial de- 
but of former fashion photographer Jer- 
ry Schauberg (who himself used to be 


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Faye's constant offscreen companion). 
In collaboration with ace cinematogra- 
pher Adam Holender, whose eye for 
ault, Schatzberg 
al style that 
ck of depth. Leave 


ay. 


partly conce 
the probing to Dw 


Is 
same dilemma that confronts 
em everywhere: how to reconcile 
i ‘atives of art 


the 
and come 
counterparts in Lon- 


nd Hollywood, they seem to 
one or the other more often than 
both. Two recently imported Israeli films 
tell the tale. tupot, already а box-office 
smash at home, is a frankly commercial 
folk comedy, by writer-director Menahen 
Golan, starring 25-year-old Yuda Barkan 
as an eccentric old. used-Furniture dealer 
who buys houschold goods from couples 
about to split. Equipped with a horse- 
drawn cart, à able daughter in 
the army and oodles ol ethnic humor, 
lovable Lupo is а crowd pleaser who 
makes Fiddler on the Roof's famous Tev- 
ye look like а hardened. cynic. OF course 
Lupo marries off his Rachel to the son of 
the richest man in all of Tel Aviv, while 
he himself exchanges his horse for a 
shiny new truck and settles down with a 
, jolly Bulgarian lady who makes fin 
blintzes. By contr with this corn 


Rome 


director Gilberto Tol 
to 


find U.S. distributor wi 
mble ou what may well be the finest 
drama film ever made about the rest- 
les quality of life i modern 15 
Siege would be worth seeing if only for 
gor's Hawless perform: 
d young widow who 
to terms with her dead 
friends, her fatherless 


imate 


ташу in a generally natu 
that borrows fom the best European 
tradition. As appointed. protector 
who сопу 
love айай, Ychoram Gaon injects 
ol rough, honest humor. Only 
nnered final seen 
cing only a movi 
ge's enlightened view of the w 
which lifeloving instincts renew 
reassert themselves im a society forever 
on the brink of war 

There are no tedmical advisors listed 
the edits of Doctors’ Wives, though 
the movie features a graphic display of 
opem-heart surgery as well as а messy 
probe into the sexual habits of five pros 
lifornia physicians. Who's 
to whose bored wife or brik 
d? Well, everyone is doing 
ple р: 
play 


ates the widow's first serious 
note 


Swinging Dyan Cannon, 


film's briefest but brightest role as an 
impudent sextrovert, breaks up a lady- 
like poker game by telling the wives of 
her hubby's colleagues: “I'll sleep with 
each of your husbands and find out what 
you've been doing wrong.” Next day, her 
husband shoots her d 
tally injuring one of his closest friends. 
Hippoc only knows what the 
A. M. A. is going to think about develop- 


es 


wives taking up goll 
student muse luring 
the emire medical staff t0 her bedside 
for “research.” The climax 
gs the murderous doctor 
(John Colicos) ош of jail to perform 
brain surgery on the son of the black 


and Lesbianism, 


head nurse (Diana Sands), who is secret- 
ly the mistress of the chief of the clinic 
(Richard Cremna). Some good actors 


e Hackman, Rachel Roberts, Cara 
ms and Janice Rule) appear at 
и» of crisis and. perform. compe- 
tently enough. 


brass lor his own debut as 
Alan Arkin gives a 
to Little Murders by 
casting himself i t role as a psychot- 
ic police detective who cannot. bear the 
shame of several hundred unsolved hom- 
icides. The setting is a city rather like 
New York or Chicago, the scenario an 
cliborstion of Jules Feiffer's play about 
an average American family up 10 its 
eyeballs in sex, identity problems, pars 
noia, power blackouts, obscene phone 
calls and ra violence. Despite а 
terrifying display of liberated America 
girlhood by comely Marcia Rodd, and а 
hice ode t0 apathy as a life style by Elliott 
a photographer who passes 
¢ shooting still-life studies of ex- 
Little Murders induces occa- 
ntil Arkin appears. Despite 
efforts on both sides of the camera, 
Feiller's work remains a nerv- 


Doubling 
а movie director. 
much-needed lift 


lon 


how 


ously animated comic strip full ol paper 

people a 1 fixed 

targets. Murders is no laughing matter. 
Wd none 


about it, Peter Iyich Tel 
out of bed and flings himself recklessly 
into his Fist Piano Concerto to launch 
The Musie Lovers. The rest of the movie 
consists primarily of scenes, mad 
scenes, attempted seductions and sexual 
fantasies. All are used to illustrate the 
psychological underbrush of Tcl 
greatest compositions everything 
the Romeo and Juliet Overture and 
Swan Lake to the Symphonie Pathétique. 
‘The cue for a bit of Marat/Sade set to 
music is a scene in which Glenda Jackson 
ry actress—is group-groped 


from 


—an exempl 


by the sobbering inmates of a lunatic 
asylum. Glenda plays the psychotic, over 


of Richard Chamberlain's Teha 
André Previn and The London Sympho- 
ny play most of the souud-track musi 
while Chamberlain plays hell wi 
sions of loyal fans, who remember him 
s television's Dr. Kildare. Poor Richard 
hulls and pulls and lunges and lan- 
gushes in an apparent effort to revive а 
floidly romantic acting style that was 
thought to have died out (and should 
have) well before the turn of the centu- 
ry. Though often ludicrous, Chamberlain 
is blameless compared with scenarist 
Melvyn Bragg and producer-director Ken 
Russell, who plainly see The Music Lov- 
ers as an ironic title applied to the 
moneygrubbers and cager but frustrated 
ladies in the Ше of Peter Шуе. His 
wife, his sister and his wealthy patroness, 
Madame Von Meck, greet every new 
piece he writes tion to or- 
вами, and the baton, in effect. becomes 
Tchaikovsky's potent phallus—the. only 
one they're likely to get а look at, The 


odd process of ransacking a composer's 


work for purposes of exploitation bri 
out the grand-baroque side of Rus 
who must have been carefully leashed 
| he directed last year's tasteful ad- 
of D. Н. Lawrences Women in 
In The Music Lovers, Russell gocs 
atic bii 


"s 


on a 
trickery to sell his ka 


trustin; 
idoscopic portrait 
of Tchaikovsky as a man who conquered 
impotence version by poundi 

out crescendos at the keyboard. Bad bio- 
graphics ies were decidedly better 
back in 1045. when Cornel Wilde played 
Chopin in A Song to Remember, This is 


simply a film to forget. 


tee 


The boy is 


hi 
maid 
dasmat 
a passion: 


parents and g with the family 
when he isn’t lending her to a 
The older woman in his life is 
e creature of 25 who gave up 
her carcer in journalism to keep house 
celebrated а cer. Although 
ench love triangle has been 
out along fam ies, The Tender Me. 
ment is directed with smooth confidence 
by Michel Boisrond, who wiscly avoids 
fashionable cimera tell 
his могу straight. ford 
to, with such a winn; 
assets in band—beautilul young people 
whose romantic proble: 
enough to cover their journey from the 
boulevards of Paris to an exquisite ski 
resort, and so to bed. Quietly sophisticat- 
ed and knowingly sexy, Tender Moment 
is the creamiest import of French amour 
сс A Man and а Woman. Опе ke 
10 the film's success is young Renaud 
Vorley, who at 19 becunc a мат over- 
night on the strength of his ardent, 
attractive, prematurely wise performance 
as the lovesuuck schoolboy, Holding 
their own opposite Verley are Nathalie 


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Delon (wife of Alain) as the object of 
aflection, and Robert. Hosein as the 
cat thats away, racing his engines in 


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far-olf Indianapolis. 


RECORDINGS 


John Lennon's latest solo effort, John 
Lennon / Plastic One Bend (Apple), is much 
more of a personal statement than any- 
thing he ever did with the Beatles. Ac 
companied by music that is honed to the 
bares essenti; 
10 almost be 
age to deliver just enough to provide 
basic, beautiful communication. The cut 
thar stands out is God, which seems to be 
obituary for the whole Beatles wip 
d the audience that followed along 
their footsteps. A string of “I don't. be- 
lieve in " (fill in the blank) is 
ended with “Beatles” and this is tok 
lowed shortly by “The dream is over. | 
What сап I say? | The dream is over. | 
Yesterday | 1 was the dreamweaver | But 
now I'm reborn, | 1 was the walrus | But 
now I'm John. | And so, dear friends, you 
just have to carry on. | The dream is 
Its been said that John became 
bitter after his mother died and his father 
deserted him when he was young. and 
amd ending cuts of the 
concern this tr: 
Lennon's life. Mother fades out with 
pleading shrieks of “Mama don’t go | 
Daddy come home,” and on My Mum- 
туз Dead, Le kes the voice of a 
child to recite a truth he's trying 10 accept. 


over." 


the opening 


bum 


Pearl (Columbia) is what her friends 
called her and that's the tide of the late 
Janis Joplin's last-recorded album. Janis 
into something new on this onc, 
discarding the screaming that had be- 
come 1 k and delivering the 
blues cither softly and beautifully or 


loud and clean, On Kris. Kristolferson's 
moving Me and Bobby McGee, she ac 
companies herself with acoust 


and the ten tunes in the sei—including 
the Ragovoy-Berns favorite Cry Baby and 
others with titles such as A Woman Left 
Lonely, Get It While You Сап and 
Buried Alive in the Blues—are all part 


of the blues that lifted Janis to stardom 
and destroyed he 

The Noel Coward Album (Columbia) 
made up of ovo LPs: Noel Coward at 


Las Vegas, issued in 1955, and Noel 
Coward im New York, which came out 
the following year. Together, these per- 
masterfully backgrounded. by 


gas, 


Peter Matz, provide irrefutable evidence 
—it 


| doubi— 
par with 
п. The wild- 
ge and the beautifully 
constructed interior rhymes (the two 


sue were ever 


the 
Coward is 


best examples are J Went to а Mawel 
ous Party amd А Bar оп the Piccola 
Marina) are joys to the car. As a singer, 
Coward can best be described as br: 
but as an interpreter of his own songs, he 
is faultless. 


ton John's first American album was 
lavishly praised by nearly everyone. His 
second, Tumbleweed Connection (Uni), is 
even better. It's pretty much all country 
rock this time, with fewer arty ambigui- 
ties Bernie "Taupin's lyrics, less ovi 
driven lushness in Paul Buckmaster's 
arrangements, better control on. producer 
Gus Dudgcon's part. This is suriclly а 
team effort, but Englishman Elton is now 
properly the superstar. The dramatic 
nge and intonational skill of his voice 
encompass warm ballads such 
ome Down in Time, lusty memories 
(Amoreena) and hard-rock allegories on 
the order of Burn Down the Mission. 
These modulations on country and folk 
uh sate this a superb album. It 
outdoes The Band on its home ground, 


ics have 


Guitarist. Charlie Byrd—without the 
frills and fancy suffis a delight on 
The Stroke of Genius (Columbia). Charlie 
is backed by uumpeter Hal Posey, flutist 
Mario Darpino. brother Joe Byrd on 
as amd drummers Bill Reichenbach 
and Michael Redding. The session 
overllows with pretty melodies George 
Harrison's Something, Fred Neil's Every- 
body's Talkin’, Amonio Carlos Jobim's 
lovely Wave and two tunes from Oscar 
Brown's Joy (Brown Baby and What [s 
а Friend) — enhanced by the brilliant and 
beautiful sounds of the Byrd guitar 


The ever-pretentious Eric Burdon is 
back with a scven-man group, War, b 
cording to the evidence on The Black- 
‘Man's Burdon / Erie Burdon end War (MGM), 
it looks as though he's gotten himsell 
over his head this time. Always aspiring to 
blackness, Britain's Burdon seems to have 
linked up with some brothers who are a 
Jule blacker than he bargained for and 
their souls hang out throughout the doi 
ble album package. Conga drums and 
jungle rhythms pervade and the ca 
opener is P. C. 3, a short bit of ротор 
phy with Lyrics such as, “7 saw the size of 
her burning bush, the fire within blazing 
hot. | 1 knew she could accept everything 
1 could give in one . . . soulstivring hot 
shot.” 


Laura Nyro's beautiful album Christmas 
end the Beads of Sweat (Columb 
nged by Laura and Arif Mardi 
man who helped create the Aren 
lin sound. Highligh ura's dear bel 
canto voie, he М 
mostly Muscle Shoals 


city јоу and sadness th: 
Blackpaich and Beads of Sweat arc 
rendered especially well and Been on « 
Train is as moving an anti-drug, song 
you will hear 


is her province. 


“The tangled and sinewy music of El. 
iot Carter may s be casy to 
fathom but rings t 


igh one of his 
like taking a 


у a life. with all the tensions, 
confusions and aspirations of our о 
plex technological world compressed into 
potent and pithy sonorities. Carter's 
мем work is one of his best: the tumul 
tuous Concerto for Orchestra (Columbia), 
first performed last year and recorded 
mmediately thereafter by Leonard Bern 
stein and the New York Philharmonic 
There are scintillating fancies in this 
piece as well as growling acerbities, and 
Bernstein lends himself with equal con- 
tion to both, William Schuman's morc 
conventional In Praise of Shahin occupi 
side wo. 


If Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gormé 

re half as compatible in their private 
life as they are on records, it is indeed a 
marriage made in heaven. Steve end 
Eydie / A Man and a Woman (RCA) is 
loaded with goodies. The Lawrences are 
lio а bossenova beat and it per- 
е two are tied 
€s the tide 
d. a medley of Love Is Blue and 
Autumn. Leaves. Watch What Happens 
1 a fine, funky Turn Down Day. 


Viewing Biff Rose with Dick Cavett on 
eo a while back, it was hard to tell 
nis-composer Rose was p 
it straight or puting us on. With 
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Arica, As black poet Larry Neal sees it, 
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black-power concept.” Art intertwined 
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antecedents. The Industral Revolution 
produced Dickens; the Irish revolution of 
the 19205 produced Sean O'Casey: the} 
proletarian movement in the U. S, during} 
the 1930s produced Clifford Odets. It's 
probably too much to expect that any of 
the current black-activist playwrights will 
attain the niche of an O'Casey or even of 
an Odets, but there are some promising 
talents around. Charles Gordone won 
the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for No Place to! 
Be Somebody, a seething if sometimes, 
confused portrait of black racism, Gor- 
done's award was widely taken to be the| 
Pulitzer committee's way of. according! 
delayed recognition to such playwrights 
as LeRoi Jones (Dutchman, The Sla 
Fd Bullins (The Electronic Nigger, Clara's 
Ole Man), James Baldwin (Blues for 
Mister Charlie, The Amen Comer) and 
a growing lis that includes the late 
Lorr Hansberry, Do Turner 
Ward, Lonne Elder IH, Adrienne. Ken- 
nedy and Ben Caldwell. Their works 
regularly performed in some 40 p 
houses from coast to coast, ranging in 
age and size from Cleveland's elaborate 
Karamu House Theater, founded in 1915. 
to countless small groups that spring up 
in storefronts and churches in major 
cities. Among the newer theaters, two arc 
especially noteworthy. The Free Southern 
Theater, founded in 1963 and based in 
^w Orleans, tours small black commu. 
in the South. The off-Broadway 
insemble Company, founded in 
1968, is a more professional group that 
has won considerable attention. Other 
well-known companies are the New La 
fayette Theater and the Natic Black 
Theater in Harlem. Concept Fast in De 
той, Spirit House in Newark. The In 
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Angeles and Aldridge Players / West in San 
Francisco. ed with zeal and firm in its 
refusal to pull punches in the attack on 
Whitey, black theater has become a tar 
get of critics who contend that upd 
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example, by the rampant racism in Jo- 
seph A, Walkers Ododo, a musical pro- 
duced by the Negro Ensemble Company, 
d appalled by Miss Hausberry's Les 
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ey, a black critic, 
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albeit shed legacy to call upon 
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Nostalgia washed the 46-year-old musi- 
Cal Ne, No, Nanette back to Broadway, 
als depend 
not Naneite. 
is full of fond 
it's ako а 
As soon а 
looking 
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recollections—but 
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Busby 


1s" The old movie 
memory, Patsy Kelly—playing a back- 
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has in millions of Ilicks— shullles o 
the finale, Patsy, with the effrontery of а 
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who probably eat their hearts out, Ruby 
and Patsy look a little different. but they 
haven't really aged. The book, on Ше 
other hand, seems 2000 years old: The 
plot is ridiculous, the dialog is full of 
period slang like “None of your bi 
wax" and the show is too long. The 
young leads, Susan Watson as Naneue 
and Roger Rathburn as her beau, are 
simply adequate. But Helen Gallagher 
and Bobby Van, handling the subplot, 
make a classy dance team, as they used to 
. and Jack Gilford nicely underplays 
the role of Ruby's moneybags husband. 
The YoumansCaesarHarbach score is 
chock-full of standards such as Tea for 
Two and 1 Want to Be Happy, and they 
are all well used. Raoul Pene du Bois is 
credited with production design, Burt 
Shevelove with the direction and adapt 
tion, and Donald Saddler with stag 
the musical and dance numbers. All vich- 
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supervisor"? His stamp is all over th 
extravagant production—lrom the 
linking chorus line to the Twe 
decor. One number, ‚ illus 
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ball As she calmly keeps her balance, 
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Upon graduation from college, I in- 
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me was not shared by the rest of her 
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As а result, she's broken the engagement, 
Is there anything I can do?—E. D., San 
Jose, California. 
To quote Charles Dickens: 


О let us love our occupations, 

Bless the squire and his relations, 

Live upon our daily rations, 

And always know our proper 
Stations. 


But that was а sardonic reference to 
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social status. That is, he shouldn't be— 
but if the cockroach hasn't changed in 
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10 expect our fellow man to live up to 
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Your girl's acceptance of her parents’ side 
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Û seem to feel the beer served in New 
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AA: 46, 1 have been divorced for ten 
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children and I am not about to take on 
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result from using a gasoline with an 
octane rating that’s loo high? I wouldn't 
care to blow the extra money charged for 
а premium gas out my tail pipe, either. 
—D. G., Des Moines, Iowa. 

One recent study concluded flatly 
that neither the ашо industry nor the 
refining companies could state the octane 
requirements of any particular car and 
that it’s up to the motorist to determine 
this by trial and error. A major oil 
company has suggested that car owners 
try progressively lower-octane-rated (and, 
hence, cheaper) grades of gasoline until 
the car starts to knock, then go back up 
а blend. Since identical brands vary in 
oclane from one part of the country to 
another, you might as well try the off- 
brand gasolines, too; according to Ralph 
Nader, most cutrate service stations buy 
surplus gasoline from the majors. More 
gospel according to Nader: Using а gaso- 
line with an octane tating either too high 
от too low is dangerous. If too low, it will 
wear the bearings. possibly crack the pis- 
tons and valves, and the output of hydro- 
carbon emissions (incompletely burned gas) 
will rise drastically, If the octane is too 
high, the extra money you pay is wasted 
and the air pollution (if using a leaded 


gus) goes up. 


FRecently, a girlfriend of mine came to 
visit my husband and me. There was 
quite a bit of banter about my hush 
having two girls and when it cime time 
to go to Усер, my girlfriend and I jumped 
imo bed and waited for my husband to 
come in and be shocked. Well, the joke 
was on me, because he jumped right 
under the blankes wi us We all 


lLiughed and kidded about it and then 
went to sleep—at least, E thought we all 
did, I awoke in the middle of the night 
to discover my friend and my husband 
making love. ] was very shaken, but said 
nothing. Now I want to talk to him 
about it, but I don't know how. Though 
I don't consider adultery a major sin, 
nevertheless I was shocked and hurt and 
would like to know how to approach him 
on Mrs. J. P, Cleveland, Ohi 

There's not much you can tell him, 
except to suggest that he restrict his 
balling to women not your friends and to 
places you're not at—so that at least you 
won't know about it. But then he could 
терш with Oscar Wilde's famous line 
that the only way to get rid of a tempta- 
tion is to yield lo it. And who, after all, 
placed the temptation right in bed with 
him? Perhaps you ought to call it a 
draw, nol say anything and be more 
selective about future house guests—both 
as to person and. place. 


Д friend and 1 were discussing food and 
ed that while in Japan he had 
ten а Kobe stea it was the greatest 
uld you tell me why 
ticular type of steak is supposed to 
be so good?—D. S., Chicago, Illinois 
Kobe beef —which is actually produced 
in other parts of Japan, though it is 
shipped from that southwestern seaport 
—comes from cattle that have been fat- 
tened by force-fecding them on beer: 
some authorities consider it the tastiest 
and best-textured beef in the world, Costly 
though Kobe beef is, incidentally, it is 
not хо costly as Wadahin and Matsuzaka 
beef, which are produced not far from 
Mi. Fuji. [n this case, the cattle ave 
raised individually in dark sheds, given 
beer mash for feed and massaged daily. 


AAs à Don Juan, I am a definite flop; 


when I meet a girl, I seem to 
ally misjudge what she expects 
of me. Мом people consider me a lik- 


and suggest I be myself, but 
nds spend a lot of time develop 
nd suggest І do the same. 
what do you advise? And 
t feed me a lot of platitud 
factual advice is what I need.—R. D., St 
Louis, Missouri. 

No one can tell you what to do during 
that crucial moment when you make а 
lasting first impression on someone ој 
the opposite sex. But if you care to 
observe the experience of others, а re- 
cent sociological study indicales that 
there is a tremendous lack of communi- 
cation between partners on first dates, 
due primarily to false expectations con- 
cerning whal cach is supposed to do. 
This is most demonstrable in the area of 
sexual advances, in which both sexes 
(with mates taking the lead) behave in 
stereotyped ways, not necessarily because 
they want to but because they think 


Q pECIPES 4) 


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of guests with minimum time, work and money. 
This guide's full of ideas, even shows where 
to get Happy Hour party invitations, napkins, 
mod poster decorations. Most important, it 
shows how to mix superb drinks made with all 
the basic liquors: Bourbon, Scotch, gin, rum, 
vodka, Southern Comfort . . . plus mixing tips. 


How to improve drinks . . . secret of the "pros": 


You can improve many mixed drinks simply 
by “switching” the basic liquor called 
for in the recipe — to one with a more 


What is Southern Comfort ? 


Although it's used like an ordinary whiskey, 
Southern Comfort tastes much different than 
any other basic liquor. It actually tastes 
good, right ош of the bottle! And there's a 
reason. In the days of old New Orleans, one 
talented gentleman was disturbed by the taste 
of even the finest whiskeys of his day. So he 
combined rare and delicious ingredients to 


satisfying taste. A perfect example is the use 
of Southern Comfort instead of an ordinary 
liquor as a smoother, tastier base for Man- 
hattans, Sours, Old-Fashioneds, Collinses, etc. 
The big difference, of course, is in the unique 
taste of Southern Comfort itself. It adds a 
deliciousness no other basic liquor can. Mix 
one of these drinks the usual way; then mix 
the same drink with Southern Comfort. (Both 
recipes are in this guide.) Compare them. The 
improvement is remarkable! But, to under- 
stand why this is true . . . make the simple 
taste test on the following page. 


create this unusually smooth, special kind of 
basic liquor. That's how Southern Comfort 
was born. Its formula is still a family secret 

. . , its delicious taste still unmatched 

by any other liquor! First try 

iton-the-rocks.-. then you'll 

understand why it improves 

most mixed drinks, too! 


ш 
weekend brunch happy hour: 


Learn how to improve most drinks — 


Make this simple test: The flavor of any mixed 
drink is controlled by the taste of the liquor you 
use as a base. To realize the importance of this, 
pour a jigger of Bourbon or Scotch over cracked 
ice in a short glass. Sip it. Now do the same 
with Southern Comfort. Sip it. . . and you've 
found a completely different basic liquor . . . 
one that tastes good with nothing added! That's 
why switching to Southern Comfort as a base 
makes most mixed drinks taste much better. 


ordinary SOUR 

1 jigger (1% oz.) Bourbon or rye 
У pager fresh lemon juice 

1 teaspoon sugar 

Shake with cracked ice: strain 
into glass. Add orange slice 

оп rim of glass and a cherry. 
Now use recipe at right. See 

how a simple switch in liquor 
greatly improves this drink 


nothing makes it like this Sour 


Good food. good friends 'п lots of Comfort" Sours 
make a brunch the happiest of all Happy Hours ! 


the smoother SOUR 
1 jigger (1% oz.) Southern Comfort 
У; jigger fresh lemon juice 

% teaspoon sugar 

Mix just like other recipe. Then sip 
it. The delicious flavor of Southern 
Comfort makes it taste much better! 
Comfort* Sour 

the wey they make it at Hotel 
Merk Hopkins, San Francisco 


SCREWDRIVER 

1 jigger (1% ог.) vodka - orange juice 
Put ice cubes into a 6-oz. glass. Add 
vodka: fill with orange juice and stir. 
Give your Screwdriver а new twist. Mix it 

with Southern Comlor instead of vodka. 


SCARLETT O'HARA 
A drink as intriguing as its namesake. 
1 jigger (1% oz.) Southern Comfort 
Juice of % fresh lime 
1 jigger Ocean Spray 
cranberry juice cocktail 
Shake with cracked ice; strain into glass. 
It's as enticing as the French Quarter! 


BLOODY MARY 

2 jiggers tomato juice 

% jigger fresh lemon juice 

Dash of Worcestershire sauce 

1 jigger (1% oz.) vodka 

Salt and pepper to taste. Shake with 
cracked ice; strain into 6-oz. glass. 


And the perfect brunch dessert . 
ST. LOUIS COCKTAIL 

% peach or apricot 

Chilled Southern Comfort 

Put fruit in champagne or sherbet 
glass and add cracked ice. Fill with 
Southem Comfort. Serve with small. 
spoon and a cocktail straw. 


“Southern Comfon ® 


aod 


і the “after-5” happy hour 
makes a long day's work 
worth working long for! 
Take an earned time-out . . join the late-day 
shift at your favorite bar. Then lift a toast 
in recognition to this after-work tradition ~ 
that’s what the Happy Hour's for! 


COMFORT" 
ON-THE-ROCKS 


Simple ‘n smooth es served at 
the Red Lion, Vail, Colorado 
1 jigger (1% oz.) 

Souther Comfort 
Pour over cracked ice in a short. 
glass: add a twist of lemon peel. 
Southern Comfort is one of the 
most popular on-the-rocks drinks, 
because it's smoother and more 
delicious than ordinary liquors. 


Hint . . . ice is important! 

To impe без dont, mists, highs, 
buy packaged ice. Professionally made ice is 
{ree of ал bubbles. chemicals, impurities. 
That's why ifs tasteless, crystal clear, slower 
melting, makes drinks taste-and look etter 


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MARGARITA 

1 jigger (1% oz.) tequila 

% oz. Triple Sec 

1 oz. fresh lime or lemon juice 
Moisten cocktail glass rim with 
fruit rind: spin rim in salt. Shake 


| ingredients with cracked ice: strain 
into glass. Sip over salted rim. 


COLD TODDY 


% tspn. sugar + 1 oz water 

2 oz. Scotch or Bourbon 

Stir sugar with water in short glass. 
Add ice cubes and pour in liquor. 
Serve with а twist of lemon peel. 

For a toddy with lul body, switch to Souther Condor. 


ordinary MANHATTAN 

1 jigger Bourbon or rye + Y oz. sweet vermouth 
Dash of Angostura bitters (optional) 

Stir with cracked ice: strain into glass. Add a 
cherry. Now use recipe below. See how a 
switch in basic liquor improves this drink. 


improved MANHATTAN 

1 jigger (1% oz.) Southern Comfort 

Y oz. dry vermouth 

Dash of Angostura bitters (optional) 

Mix it like the ordinary recipe. But you'll enjoy it 
far more. Southern Comfort gives your drink 

а superb flavor no other liquor can match, 


Comfort" Manhattan, as mixed at the Mayflower's 


Town and Country Room, Washington, D.C. 


"Southern Comfort 


DRY MARTINI - z 
4 parts gin or vodka 
1 part dry vermouth / 


Stir with cracked ice and strain into 

chilled cocktail glass. Serve with а 

green olive or twist of lemon peel. 1 

For a Gibson, use 5 parts gin 10 1 part vermouth, A 
serve най а рем onn. — 


Dash Angostura bitters 


Stir with cracked ice. Strain into 
cocktail glass: add twist of lemon pee. ®© 
(Often called a "Scotch Manhattan”) === 


ROB ROY 


1 jigger (1% oz.) Scotch 
% jigger (% ог.) sweet vermouth 


GIMLET 

4 parts gin or vodka 

part Rose's sweetened lime juice 
Shake with cracked ice and strain 

into a cocktail glass. (This drink is 
a distant cousin to the Martini.) 


COMFORT" "М BOURBON 
Playing it cool at Ambassador Hotel's 
Now Grove, in Los Angeles 

# jigger (% oz.) Southern Comfort 

# pager Bourbon - % jigger water 
Pour liquors over cracked ice in 
short glass: add water. Stir. Serve 
with a twist of lemon peel. Enjoy a 
deliciously smooth combination. 


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at-home happy hour: 
almost effortless way 

to entertain as you play 

Just gather a group. You don't need a reason, 

for Happy Hour time is always in season. 

Snacks can be simple. But drinks, short or tall, 
must be expertly made: use this guide, have a ball. 


GIN RICKEY 


Juice. rind % lime • sparkling water 
1 jigger (1% oz.) gin 


є Squeeze lime over ice cubes in 8-oz. 
T glass. Add rind and gin. Fill with 
sparkling water and stir. 

| To really “rev up" a rickey. usa S. C. instead of gin, 


we DAIQUIRI 
Juice % lime or % lemon • 1 tspn. sugar 

1 jigger (1% ог.) light rum. 

Shake with cracked ice until the shaker 

frosts. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. 

То give your Daiquiri e new accent, use Southern. 

Comfort instead ol rum. only J tspn. sugar. 


HOT BUTTERED COMFORT* 
Small stick cinnamon « slice lemon peel 

1 jigger Southern Comfort + pat butter 
Put cinnamon, lemon peel, S. C. in mug; fill 
with boiling water. Float butter: stir. (Leave 
spoon in glass when pouring hot water.) 


MINT JULEP 


4 sprigs fresh mint + 1 tspn. sugar 
Dash of water - 2 oz Bourbon 


Put water in tall glass; crush mint 
and sugar in water. Pack cracked. 
ice to top of glass. Pour in whiskey 
апа stir until the glass frosts. 


Make your пеп Happy Hour happier: Mix your julep 
with Southern Color, no sugar. 


LEMON COOLER 


Happy Hour happening at the 
ЕІ Mirador Hotel, Palm Springs 


1 jigger (1% oz.) Southern Comfort 
‘Schweppes Bitter Lemon 


Pour S. C. over ice cubes in tall glass. 
Fill with Bitter Lemon; stir. 


ordinary TOM COLLINS 
% jigger fresh lemon juice 
1 ерп. sugar = 1 jigger (1% oz.) gin 


f 


Use tall glass. Dissolve sugar in juice: add ice 
cubes and gin. Fill with sparkling water. Stir 
John Colins: Use Bourbon ог пе instead of gin. 


Smoother Collins that’s big 
at Hotel Fontainebleau, Miemi Beach 


COMFORT* COLLINS 


1 jigger (1% oz.) Southern Comfort 

Juice of % lime + 7UP 

Mix Southem Comfort and lime juice in tall glass. 
Add ice cubes: fill with 7UP. This is the best 
tasting — and eesiest to mix — Collins of ай! 


"Southern Comfon & 


GIN “м TONIC 

Juice and rind % lime 

1 jigger (1% ог.) gin 

‘Schweppes Quinine Water (tonic) 
Squeeze lime over ice cubes in tall 
glass and add rind. Pour in gin. 

Fill with tonic and stir. 

Switch toa smoother, bener-tasong dink. Skip the 
Gin and enjoy Southern Сопіт talent for toric. 


COMFORT", BABY! 

1 jigger (1% oz.) Southern Comfort 
2 jiggers cold milk + 1 tspn. sugar 
Dissolve sugar in milk in 8-oz. 
glass. Pour in Southern Comfort: 
add ice cubes and stir. (Optional: 
Dust lightly with nutmeg.) 


RUM N' COLA 

Juice and rind % lime 

1 jigger (1% oz.) light rum + cola. 
Squeeze lime over ice cubes in tall 
glass. Add rind and pour in rum. 
Fill with cola and stir. 


Instead of tum, see what a comfort S. C. 15 to cola. 


HONOLULU COOLER 

"In" drink with the surf set at 
Sheraton's Royal Hawaiian Hotel 

1 jigger (1% oz.) Southern Comfort 
Juice of % lime 

Hawaiian pineapple juice 

Pack a tall glass with crushed ice. 
Add lime juice and Southern Comfort. 
Fill with pineapple juice and stir. 


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Have a happy hour with a theme: 
Serve a drink to fit your scheme. 


Examples: Have a Luau Happy Hour. Greet guests with 
leis: serve Honolulu Coolers. island-type food. Or 

serve the Scarlett O'Hara at a Mardi Gras Happy Hour. 
A Derby Day Happy Hour is a sure winner — with Mint 
Juleps. Be creative, but keep it simple. This guide's 

full of drink recipes to inspire you. 


Invite guests to dress for a "Gay Nineties” 
Happy Hour! Have barbershop singing. serve the 
COMFORT* OLD-FASHIONED 
Gaslight Club favorite in Chicago. 
Washington, D.C., Beverly Hills, Paris 

Dash of Angostura bitters 

% tspn. sugar (optional) 

% oz. sparkling water 

1 jigger (1% oz.) Southern Comfort 

Stir bitters, sugar, and water in glass: add ісе 
cubas. Southern Comfort. Add twist of lemon 
peel, orange slice, and cherry. It's superb! 

Ordinary Old-fashioned 1 tspn. sugar, Bourbon о rye instead of S. С. 


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Happy Hour. reward them with a 


RUM SWIZZLE 


Juice % lime • 1 tspn. sugar 

2% oz. light rum + 2 dashes bitters 
Mix in glass pitcher with lots of crushed 
ice. Stir vigorously until mixture foams. 
Serve in double Old-Fashioned glass. 


‘Super swizde: Use Southern Comfort and % tspn. sugar. 


"Southern Comfort & 


GRASSHOPPER 

oz. fresh cream 

1 oz. white creme de cacao 
1 oz. green creme de menthe. 
Shake with cracked ice 

or mix in electric. 

blender: strain. 


2. 
e 


ALEXANDER 

1 part fresh cream 

1 part creme de cacao 
W 1 рап Southern Comfort 
or gin or brandy 

Shake with cracked ice: 
strain into glass. 


STINGER 


1 jigger (1% oz.) brandy 
% jigger 

white creme de menthe 
Shake with cracked ice 
and strain into glass. 
Southern Comfort instead of brandy 
makes а stinger that's a humdinger. 


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OPEN HOUSE PUNCH 
One fifth Southem Comfort 
З quarts 7UP > 6 oz. fresh lemon juice 
Опе 6-07. can frozen orange juice 
One 6-ог. can frozen lemonade 
Chill ingredients. Mix in punch bowl, 
adding 7UP last. Add drops of red food 
coloring as desired (optional): sti. 
Float block of ice or add ice cubes: add 
‘orange and lemon slices. Serves 32. 


Mix in advance! Add UP and ice when ready to serve. 


COMFORT’ EGGNOG 
1 quan dairy eggnog mix 
1 cup (B oz.) Southern Comfort 


Chill ingredients. Blend in punch 
bowl by beating; dust with nutmeg. 
Serves 10... and pleases them all. 


‘Single serving Add 4 perts eggnog max to 1 part 
S. C in short glass. Str dust with питер. 


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Send check or money order to: 

Dept. PS, Cocktail Hour Enterprises 
Р.О. Box 12428, St. Louis, Mo. 63132 
Price includes shipping charges, Offer void in 
Canada, Alabama, lows, Oklahoma, New 
Hampshire, Tennessee. Utah. Mississippi. 
Georgia, and other states where prohibited 


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Print your name and address. Order items desired by 
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they're expected to. A decisive contrib- 
uiing factor to the miscommunication 
between dates is the common use of а 
“line” The message seems to be: Act 
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of the veal you, perhaps she'll be willing 
10 gwe you a glimpse of the veal her; the 
discovery might be mutually rewarding. 


Cou you tell me how the term “the 
fourth estate —relerring to the pi 
Honolulu, Ha 

Thomas Carlyle, the Scottish essayist 
and historian, credited Sir Edmund Burke 
with first using the phrase while speak- 
ing in Parliament. Burke, according to 
Carlyle, had refered to the various es 
tates of the realm—the lords spiritual, 
the lords temporal and the commons 
(making up the British Establishment of 
that time}—and then pointed to the 
reporters gallery, saying: “And yonder 
шу а fourth. estate, move important than 
them all” As it happens, Carlyle appar- 
ently attributed the remark to the wrong 
person; the phrase appears in none of 
Burke's writings bul does show up in the 
works of Thomas Macaulay, the English 
writer and statesman o] ihe period. 


i ig through veporis of the first 
few months of operation of New York 
Sunes liberalized abortion law—which 
allows a woman to have an abortion for 
y reason up to the Hih week of preg 
тсу—Гуе rim across relerences to the 
"wiction method” ion, 1 had al 
ways understood ab 
particularly duri 
done by dilatation 
what is the “suction method 
A. Ta Omaha, Nebraska 

In abortion by vacuum aspiration, 
which its proponents claim is easier, 
quicker and safer than a D & C, consists 
of dilating the cewix and inserting a 
clear-plastic. tube, which is connected to 
a vacuum pump, into the uterine cav- 
ity. The lube is manipulated by the 
doctor aver the walls of the womb and 
the fetal matter removed by low suction 
Blood loss is usually minimal, operating 
lime is shori—usually ten minutes or 
les—damuge to surrounding tissues is 
slight and recovery i rapid. Although 
the operation is relatively painless, u 
usually done under some anesthesia. This 
method, incidentally, is seldom used after 
the 12th week of pregnancy. 


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“Н 
owan 
Accutron watch 


movement helps me 
trap air polluters. 


By Paul Rubenstein 

I'm a photographer and I've lived 
in New Jersey most of my life. 

It’s been a good place to live except 
for one thing. 

Sometimes polluted air would come 
down from the big industrial plants 
and you'd think you were going to die. 

My blood would boil. But I'd ask 
myself, “What can one guy do about 
it?” 

One day I decided it was time to 
find out. I began building a camera to 
trap air polluters. 


In New Jersey you trap an air pol- 
luter by proving that he has released 
pollutants into the air for longer than 
three consecutive minutes. 

To do that I gave my camera two 
lenses that worked simultaneously. 
One to take a picture of the place. One 
to take a picture of the time, on a 
built-in clock. 


I used an Accutron tuning fork 
movement to impress the judge. 


1 thought Га better have the right 
time if I wanted my pictures to hold 


The watch that's become 
an ecological instrument. 
Accutron by Bulova. 


up in court. So I used an Accutron 
clock. Like every Accutron watch, it 
tuning fork movement that was 

aranteed accurate to within a min- 
ute a month.* 

I figured that had to impress even a 
judge. 

And it did. 

For the past five year ictures 
have been accepted as legal evidence. 

Through rain, sleet, 112° in the 
shade, my camer: kept going to 
(Or to defend non- 


And through all that, the built-in 
Accutron clock has kept accurate time. 
Never giving me a moment's trouble. 

‘As a matter of fact, it’s on the job 
right now. 

But just where, I’m not at liberty 
to say. 


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band in 14k solid gold. Hand-applied black and 
gold markers on a linen d silver dial 
Date resets insta 
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THE PLAYBOY FORUM 


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


1500 YEARS FOR RAPE 
I have read about the black man who 
was sentenced to 1500 years for rape in 
Oklahoma City. What especially struck 
me were two facts mentioned in the 
Tallahassee Democrat account of the 
case: (1) No blacks were called as pro 
spective jurors in the case. (2) A group 
of whites who gang-raped a girl in Okla- 
City a few years ago received 
псех of three years cacl 
Ken Winker, Jr. 
"Tallahassce, Florida 


COMPASSION 

In Seattle, Washington. two young 
women were arrested, tried and convict- 
ed of unlawful possession of dangerous 
drugs, because they had received a quan- 
а from Tucson. The pros- 
à sentence of two years 
h, and the probation officers rccom- 
mended probation for both defendants, 
since this was their first conviction, Judge 
Frank Н. Roberts, Jr, however, sen- 
tenced the first defendant to a minimum. 
of five years in prison, alter giving her an 
angry lecture against “narcotics” (he evi 
dently believes marij is a narcotic). 
The Governors Commission for Youth 
Involvement publicly criticized the judge 
for using psychological terrorism to com- 
bat drugs, However, when the second de- 
Tendant came up for sentencing, the j 
again gave his angry lecturc—a 
posed a minimum five-yea 
g to The Seattle Daily Times, 
judge then said he had great compas- 
for the young women “but he also 
compassion for the 
who become victims of ma 

Jeanne Manon Roland. ‚ “O liber- 
ty! O liberty! What crimes are com- 
mitted in thy name.” I can only think, 
after reading of this cruel travesty, “O 
compassion! O compasion! What aimes 
are committed in thy name.” 
Thomas Johnson 
Tacoma, Washington 


© 


POT-LAW REFORM 
In The Greening of America, Charles 
A. Reich makes the following cogent 


observations: 


Surely the case of marijuana offers 
the most clear-cut example of a ri 
inyrepression. syndrome at its most 
self-defeating. Accept any prevailing 
theory of government and marijuana 
ought to be legalized: th 


= conservi 


tive docrine that the individual 
should be free of government re; 
ulation: the libeval-reformist doc- 
ine that controls are 10 be used 
only when science justifies them; the 
theory suggested by Marcuse that 
contemporary gov n buy 
off dissatisfaction by g pleas- 
ures thar pacily 
that is simply practical and realistic: 
the hws against marijuana arc 
inelfectual. unjust in their erratic 
enforcement, tend 10 break down 
respect for law, and at the s 
time radicalize those people, 
ularly young people, who are threat- 
ened with criminal penalties for 
what they regard as a perfectly ac- 
ceptable privare practice. Nothing so 
directly threatens the stability of 
the State. then. as the present mar 
juana Lows, yet the State persists in 
the suicidal course of trying to en- 
force them. Such a process may pro- 
duce a good many arrests in the 
short run. but in the long run it 
promises only self-destruction [or 
the State itself. 


ment 


This strikes me as а rational assess 
ment ol the situation. Reducing the pen- 
айу for marijuana possession fom a 

is often 
ted these days, is probably inade- 
е. Partial reform usually aggravates 
a conflict instead of solving it; this is the 
curse of liberalism. 

If we removet all. penalties for posses- 
sion, approximately 20,000,000 Ameri- 
cans who are now criminals might be 
brought back to the law-abiding commu- 
nity. Our judicial system might. regain 
the respect of the young. There could be 
ly 900.000 fewer arrests each year, 
ing the police and courts and correc- 
al institutions to devote more time 
tious criminal problems, Finally. 
this reform would change the overall 
political Climate and induce a greater 
respect for civil liberties in general. 

juana generates 
some harm. jail and. punishment are not 
the best or the only approaches i 
cases. Doctors. teachers, psychol 
cial workers and ministers are all better 
able to minimize such harm than is the 


felony to a misdem 
sugg 


Even if the use of ma 


n such 


1, therefore, propose to introduce a bill 
to the Ilinois legislature ing all 
iminal sanctions for mere possession of 
, by persons over 18, in amounts 


If your girl 
doesn't 

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aroma of 


Field & Stream... 


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of les than ten grams (enough for ten 
Cigarettes, usually) 
Representative Leland H. Rayson. 
Ulinois State. Legislature 
Tinley Pink, Ilinois 


LEGALIZED PROSTITUTION 

It is time the United States saw the 
light and joined the trend of legalizing 
prostitution, Many European countries 
zed the world’s oldest. proles 
ance being the most тес 


prostitution. 

The method proposed in France would 
not, I think, be entirely adequate for the 
U. S.: France plans to have houses oper- 
шей by government officials. It might be 
difficult to find qualified men in the U. S 
10 operate such establishments, and it's 
unlikely that U.S. women would want 
to work under Federally established con. 
ditions; no doubt they would prefer to 
set their own working hours and choose 
their own customers. And an American 
man might feel self-conscious walking 
into а state or Federally operated brothel 

An casier and better approach to legal- 
ized prostitution would be to require all 


prostitutes to тс the local 

hoard of health, to give each registered 
8 gi 

иїйсаїоп card aud to 


ly checkup by а board of 
health doctor, Mandatory. registration 
would allow the Government to control 
professional standards and an identifica- 
tion cud would give the customer certain 
health guarantees. The woman would be 
free 10 set her own prices, work her own 
hours «nd choose her own customers 
True, many Americans would oppose 
legal prostitution, but such opposition 
would derive from religious ideas, and 
those not wishing to patronize prosti 
tutes would not have to do so. The 
system would be of great benefit to socie- 
it would reduce venereal di 


ase and 


University P 

An instance of legalized prostitution in 
the United States is described in this 
month's “Forum News/ront” 


SEX-EDUCATION DEBATE 

My wife taught а sex-education course 
to filth grades for several years, and 
here are some of the questions that the 
pupils asked in class 

Why is a duck or chicken c; 
larger than a egg? My mother 
11 should t sour things during 
period —is this right? Why do pup- 
e sticky stuff and blood all over 
them when they are боги? Why does a 
baby get slapped on its back by the 
doctor? Does it hurt the baby to be 
upside down in the womb? What hap- 
pens if a baby dies while it is still inside 
the mothet? What if the mother dies be 
fore the baby is born? What should you 


g so much 


FORUM NEWSFRONT 


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


ILLINOIS ABORTIONS LEGALIZED 

cmeaco—A three-judge Federal court 
for the northern district of Illinois has 
forbidden the enjoreement of the state's 
abortion law against licensed physi- 
cians operating in accredited. medical 
Jacilities, provided they perform the op- 
eration during the fast 12 weeks of 
pregnancy. Ruling in an A. C. L. U. case 
supported by the Playboy Foundation, the 
court found the laze vague and infringing 
on the right of privacy. 


RAPE AND THE DEATH PENALTY 

WASHINGTON, D. с. Тһе Fourth U.S, 
Circuit. Court of Appeals has held that 
rape cannot be prosecuted as a capital 
crime when the victim's life has been 
neither “taken nor endangered” The 
panel of judges ruled unanimously that, 
except in the most serious instances of 
forcible таре, the death penalty would 
represent cruel and unusual. punishment 
in violation of the Eighth Amendment 
The decision, which ean be reversed only 
by the U.S Supreme Court, is binding on 
courts in Maryland, Virginia, West Vir 
ginia and the Carolinas, where 12 men 
are currently under sentence of death for 
таре. 

Abolition of the death penalty [or any 
crime has been urged. by the National 
Commission on Reform of Federal Crim- 
inal Laws, which also recommends that 
all firearms be registered, that private 
ownership of handguns be outlawed and 
that punishment for marijuana. posses- 
sion be limited to a fine of under 51000. 


JERSEY JUSTICE 
PATERSON, ХЕМ JERSEV—A United 
States citizen has been charged with sedi 
tion and insurrection for distributing a 
newspaper. In an escalating sequence of 
events, Marc Е. Jahr, a 2-year-old for- 
mer schoolteacher, was first arrested as a 
disorderly person for handing ont copies 
of a militant underground paper, Rising 
Up Angry, which weed “armed struggle” 
as a means of social change and referred 
to policemen as pigs. At a court hearing, 
municipal judge Ervan Kushner informed 
the prosecutor that New Jersey's disorder- 
Iy-person law had been ruled unconsti- 
tutional and told him to charge Jahr 
instead with criminally libeling the entiie 
Paterson police farce. A county grand 
jury went even further: Ignoring the li- 
bel charge, it indicted jahr оп three 
counts of sedition and insurrection un- 
der a state law passed in 1898 to fight 
labor organizers and last used in 1912, If 
convicted on all three counts, Jahr could 
be sentenced to 21 years in prison. First 
assistant prosecutor. John T. Niccollai 


told newsmen he intends to make ihe 
charges stick regardless of how high the 
сазе might be appealed, and added, 
“There's too much af this going on—too 
many people advocating wolence against 
the Government and against police of 
ficers, and 1 think it's about time some- 
onc took a stand оп law and order.” 

Judge Kushner earned. а measure of 
legal Jame in 1967 when he ordered for- 
nication charges filed against ап unmar- 
ried pregnant welfare applicant who was 
suing the father of her three children for 
support payments. Explamed the judge. 
“I saw a crime being committed when a 
single woman walked mto. my court 
pregnant.” The woman and her sexual 
accomplice were convicted of violating 
New Jersey's 1790 fornication law and 
the case is still under appeal. 


COLLEGIATE COERCION 
GENEVA. xew YoRK—Far probably the 
first time in legal history, a school has 
been indicted on criminal charges for 
failure to control students during а cam- 
pus disorder. A special state grand jury 
handed down a four-count  indiciment 
against Hobart and William Smith Col- 
leges—twin schools that shave the same 
campus—alleging that the president and 
the deans tolerated student behavior con- 
the crime of “first-degree coer 
А sheviff'sdepartment raid had 
sparked a demonstration by several hun 
dred students, who surrounded рита! cars 
and intimidated the officers into freeing 
five suspects arrested an drug charges. 


cion. 


FLORIDA SEX CRIMES 

CLEARWATER, FLORIDA—Cirenit pudge 
Robert Beach upheld the right of police 
lo spy on men's toilets through peep 
holes, in a сазе where an accused homo 
sexual asked for suppression of evidence 
on the ground that this spying was an 
invasion af privacy. The public defender 
also tried to have the case dismissed on 
the ground that such peepholes do nol 
exist in women’s toilets, thus violaling 
equabrights laws; but the police officer 
on the stand would say only that he 
wasn't sure whether or not women’s lava 
lorics were under such surveillance. When 
the public defender pressed for a definite 
answer, the prosecutor. objected, stating 
that the wines was “an intelligence 
officer, not a toilet detective.” The alleged 
homosexual will have 10 stand trial. 

In nearby St. Petersburg, two par- 
ents were arrested for answering their 
eight-year-old sons sex questions by 
giving him a live demonstration of sex- 
ual intercourse. The husband has been 
ordered to take a psychiatrie examina 


tion prior to standing Irial; the wife 
already has been tried and convicted of 
commilling а lewd and lascivious act in 
the presence of a child, and she faces а 
maximum af len years in prison. The 
child is in custody of juvenile authorities. 


AT ANY SPEED 

NEW LONDON, CONNECTICUT The state 
commissioner. of. motor vehicles has те 
Jused ta veissue a driver's license lo David 
E. Follett, an acknowledged homosexual 
who had spent four and a half years in 
prison оп а sex-law conviction. Stale at- 
torney general Robert К. Killian, who 
supported the action, told the Connecti- 
cul Civil Liberties Union that Folleti's 
request for reinstatement of his license 
was disapproved because he “is an ad- 
mitted homosexual and . . . his homo- 
sexuality makes hun an improper person 
to hold an operator's license” Compli- 
сайта the case is the fact that Follett has 
since been convicted of driving without a 
license, which gives the state additional 
grounds for denial. 


YAWNOGRAPHY 

SAN FRANCISCO—AI a conference on 
sexual problems, a group of psychiatrists, 
criminologists and other. specialists con- 
cluded that pornographic movies will 
rapidly decline in appeal as they become 
more available. Among those making the 
prediction was Dr. Alfred Anerback. pro- 
fessor of psychiatry at the University of 
California Medical Center in San Fran- 
cisco, who said, “If you have seen it a 
few limes, you have seen it all’ 

Di. W. Gody Wilson. executive direc- 
tor of the Commission on Obscenity and. 
Pornography, told the conference he op- 
posed restrictions оп pornography [ar 
adulis and said the commission "could 
not find апу social harm ov individual 
harın that could be directly attributed to 
the experience of pornography.” He sug- 
gested that President Nixon and the 
U. S. Senalors who rejected the commis- 
vion's report had been "reading тое of 
the headlines than the терот itself.” 


LICENSED BROTHEL 

VIRGINIA CITY, NeVADA—For the first 
fine, a Nevada county has taken advan- 
lage of the state's localoption law and 
has issued a business license 10 а brothel. 
According to U.P. L, the Mustang Bridger 
Ranch has been operating some 16 years 
under a “gentleman's agreement”: The 
proprietor paid Storey County 51000 а 
month and the county looked the other 
way. Under the new ordinance, the ranch 
will continue to pay the county its 
monthly $1000, but as а license fee. The 
only commissioner to oppose the action 
did so om the ground that legalization 
should “not be restricted to a limited area 
to benefit only a few people.” 


“MONKEY” LAWS EXTINCT 

JACKSON, MississrPPI— The last “mon 
key” law in the country—forbidding the 
teaching of Darwinian theory in public 
schools—has been struck down by the 
supreme court of Mississippi. The ruling 
cited the U.S. Supreme Court's decision 
in a simular case in Arkansas in 1968 and. 
held that the statute violates. constitu. 
tional guarantees, 


HOLY SMOKE 

SACRAMENTO, CALWORNIA—À. religion 
instructor al Sacramento State College 
has been suspended for conducting class- 
room experiments with marijuana, Asso- 
cate professor Clark Taylor and dus class 
in Evolution of Religious Consciousness 
wondered if marijuana can produce or 
enhance mystic. experiences, as has been 
claimed by various Oriental and Occi- 
dental writers: by a vote of 18 to 3, they 
decided to find out. Explaining that “If 
there ах по development of religions con- 
sciousness during the course, then the 
course is a flop." Professor Taylor says he 
is satisfied that marijuana, indeed, helped 
make the course a success. Unimpressed, 
the police have arrested him, and the 
college, in addition to suspending him, is 
considering fring him. 


REVENGE OF THE NARCS 

Los aNceLes—After it published the 
names, addresses and home telephone 
numbers of 80 stale narcotics agents as а 
jee feature (“Know Your Neighbor. 
hood Narc”), the Los Angeles Free Press 
vas convicted of receiving stolen proper 
ty—the confidential list of names—and 
was sued in two civil actions for a total 
of 825,000.000. One of the suits has been 
settled oul of court for $10,000, which 
must be paid to the state, A second suit 
alleging violation of the agents’ privacy 
is still to be tried. The paper is currently 
appealing the criminal conviction. 


FUSHING FOR POT 

SAN PRANCISCO—A California company 
ds marketing a new brand of cigaretie- 
rolling paper called Acapulco Gold and 
will use the profits for a nationwide 
campaign to legalize marijuana. Dr. Mi 
chael Aldrich, editor of The Mariju 
Review, and a business partner, Blair 
Newman, will distribute the paper 
through Amorphia, Inc—a nonprofit 
“Cannabis cooperative” that hopes to 
capture at least ten. percent of the cur- 
vent cigarette-paper market and earn 
about 5150.000 а year. Profits will finance 
а publicity and advertising campaign to 
persuade middle-class America that pres- 
eni pot laws are unnecessary, unwork- 
able, socially harmful and serve lo 
aggravale the real problem of opiate and 
amphetamine abuse. Amorphia, Ine., has 
the earliest. pending application to tradv- 
mark the name Acapulco Gold. 


do if your period staris while you're 
school? Where do you buy sanitary 
Kins and tampons? Why don't our parents 
answer our questions? 

These are only a few of the common 
queries. 1 think all of them. but especial 
ly the las one, demonstrate ihat the 
conservative prog g sex in 
the home” has been something less than 
rousing success, 


rheck 
ona 


Thomas L 
Phoenix, Ar 


THE LIVING DEAD 

А few months ago, I read Glori 
em in McCall's magazine 
braynoy for “heating away at the dead 
horse ol puritanism." After all, she said, 
the erotic revolution is won. and we even 
have sex-education courses in our schools, 

1 wish Gloria Steinem would come to 
а amd look around. A group of 90 
parents and grandparents in lowa City 
is suing the Stave Board of Public In- 
struction for introducing sex education, 
which these people object to as illegally 
using tax funds for the “promotion and 
sale of obscene literature" Aud the way 
public opinion is running, Fm afraid to 
let you print my п 


me. 

hat dead horse has quit 1y kick. 
(Name withheld bv request) 
Waukon, Тома 


PORNOGRAPHY AND CRIME 

In a statement quoted in Time, Charles 

H. Keating, Jr. d s with the Com- 
mision on Obscenity and Porno 
nd says that ev 
tively" that s 
pornography is legalize 
body knows anything 
tion merely gives hints 
might find if you in 
objectively. These hints are sometimes 
right, sometimes wrong. In Denmar 
crimes have decreased greatly since por 
nography was legalized, so it appems thar 
Keating's intuition is wrong. 

I freedom 10 publish pomography will 
decrease the chance of my wife or da 
ter being sexually 
despite Keating's bleatings—let 
the dammed мш 

Sp/6 Lybrand Sm 
FPO San. Fran 


ne knows 


bout what you 
ted the subject 


PORNOGRAPHY IN SWITZERLAND 

One of the strongest storms currently 
blowing on the horizon h 
been created by the released report of the 


American 


Commission on Obscenity and. Pornogra- 
phy. The $2,000,000 document, which 
calls for the repeal ol a against 


pornography for conser 
the launching of a * 
effort, 
Preside 
and а whole g 
Belore the 


sident Agnew 
Mors, 
mbers of the 


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Administration and the Senate denounced 
the findings, they might have vken a 


hard look at some facts at least one 
a a up 0 an other country. In Switzerland, where the 


over-all crime rate is generally regarded 


to be one of the lowest in Europe, the 

h h V incidence of sexual offenses is uncom- 

п monly high. Psychiatrists in that country 

feel hat the single most important. rea 

x ў son for this phenomenon is the tradi 

tional rigidity and conservatism of the 

Swiss 

Calvinism was first introduced to the 

world from the steps of a church in 

asel, Switzerland. in 0536. Since thar 

time, asceticism has been a major char 

acteristic of the Swiss personality. Тисі 

dents of sexual deviation as a reaction to 

this strictness have often assumed violent 

forms in the past. Today. advanced edu 

cation and a relaxing of the old attitudes 

regarding sex have slowed the frequency 
of sexual offenses 

Gordon C. Hai 

Grindelwald, Switzerland 


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a luxurious lather Congratulations on rLaYsoY's unique 
that helps protect status here at West Point. The academy 
you from today's has done what the Supreme Court has 
extra sharp blades. never accomplished: It has defined por 
Makes every shave Я | nography. According to Headqu. 


TY United States Corps of Cadets, por 
smooth sailing. phy is anything stronger than PLAYBOY 


It’s also worth noting that not too loi 
ago, it became unauthorized for a cade 
late to attend any West Point function 


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HAIL TO THE BLEEP 

President Nixon has resolved an 
old problem: He has calculated the value 
of obscenity. While delivering a speech 


all in just one oiled walnut cabinet. in Teterboro, New Jersey, during a barn- 
storming tour last fall. he was confronted 
We had to stop somewhere. by à group of hecklers, Suddenly, he 


pointed a finger at the demonstrators 
and dedared, "Опе vote is worth a hun 


M PIONEER ОЖ ОУ 


I опе 
vot ids worth 100 obscene slogans, then 
100 obscene slogans are worth one vote 
If you run out into the street right now 
and utter an obscene slogan, you will 
register 1/100 of a vote, on the Nixon 
scale. Utter а few more, get your friends 
to hurl a few and. before you know it, 
you may have cast the equivalent of onc 
whole vote, A few million obscene slo 
gans could decide an election 

David J. Graulich 

Morganville, New Jersey 


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latest of the outrages of the psychiatric 
profession against gay people, In Cal 
fornia, the Underground Press Syndicate 
reports, castration and lobotomy ate still 
used frequently. (There have been over 
19,000 sterilizations ordered by judges in 


recent years, though it is impossible 10 
tell whether these аге castrations. or 
vasectomies) Elsewhere, clectroconvul- 


sive therapy is popular, even though it 
occasionally obliterates memory. And, of 
course, there are the aversion therapies 
beloved by behaviorists. These Pavlovian 
tactics will suppress homosexuality (for 

while. at least)—but they cin also be 
used 10 suppress heterosexuality or any 
al activity or religious belief, as 


lilornia is 
vac 
bed in an article in 
the victim loses con- 
ichuling those needed 
s taken to the brink 
ive only by mech; 


fad in 


Clinical. Medicine 
tol of all muscles, 

for breathing. He 
of death and kept a 


Cal means, At least 90 patients have en- 
dured this therapy. Olten. homosexual 
behavior does cease ahewad, Some 
skeptics say this therapy works only Бе 


cause it Hightens the patient so much 
that he's willing to do anything to a 

a second mearmeni—bur. these are ihe 
same types who raise that objection 10 
clectroconvulsive therapy. Meanwhile. 
some evidence indicates that, because it 
cuts off the oxygen supply 10 the brain, 
this teament сап lead 10. permanent 
brain damage. Dr. Grant M. Morris, 
professor of law ar Wayne Stare Uni- 
versity, has commented. that this experi- 
mental therapy is in apparent violation 
of the Nuremberg Code, under. which 
German doctors were convicted of crimes 


Since psychi re doing these 
things only 10 faggots and not to other 
unorthodox types. though, there's noth- 


ing to worry about, right? Wrong. 
According to the U. P. S, а young man 
accused of an unnatural aet with his 


fiancée recently was sent to a 
where these dubious therapies ine prac 
ticed. A married man can he sent there, 
under California knw, for acts consen 
sually performed with his wife. 

Gay Liberation Front 

San Francisco, California 
“The Playboy Panel: Homosexual- 


See 
ity" on page 61 in this issue. 


CROSSTIANITY AND CHRISTIANITY 
ago. Bernard Shaw distinguished 
between crosstianity and Christianity. 
The former is the sadistic moralism of 
the Holy Inquisition and of our present 
day bluenoses and puritans: the lait 
the mue spirit of Jesus, who said, 
1 
first cast а stone. 
Crosstianity was illust 
the president of the Inter 


"He 
is without sin among you, let him 


ed recently by 


ference of Police Associations. when he 
announced а vendetta against legislators 
and judges who are wying to end legal 
persecution of homosexuals. Christianity 
was illustrated by а story in the San Fran- 
cisco Chronicle about the experience of a 
man who made his homosexuality public 
(after dor years) by je 


“My boss called me in." he said. 


“He told me: “We've found out 
something about you that shocks us. 
We'll give you the opportunity to 
resign.” 

“Then,” said [the man], “I tried to 
purge [the boss's] mind ol stereotypes 
about sexual identity. Two weeks 
he told me he'd talked to 
minister and others. And, he said, 
"Maybe this is what it's all about io 
be a Christ 

The man staye 


Alan. Johnson 
San. Francisco, California 


on the job. 


SOCIOLOGY OF SWAPPING 

Most of your readers who have ex- 
pressed themselves about mate swapping, 
pro or con. base their arguments on 
moral judgments. For contrast, | call 
cverybody's attention. to the follow 
objective ysis by two sociologi 
Duane Denfeld and Michael Gordo 
writing in The Journal of Sex Research: 


OF the alternatives to mate swap- 
ping. the one that comes to mind 
immediately is what might be called 
“bilateral prostitution.” . . . There 
are, however, economic problems as 
sociated with bilateral prostitution. 
Tr might place a greater drain on. 


the family’s financial resources than 
nd, more 

cene conflict over budgeting for 

ihe extramarital sexual expression 


of the husband and wile, i.c, how is 
the decision on allotment of funds 
to be made? Perhaps of greater con- 
cern is that it would separate the 
husband and wife for recreation at a 
time when a gr 1 of emphasis 
is placed on listic" activity. 
pecially of the recreational variety. 
cg. couples play bridge together, 
bowl together, boat together 
on... 


vantages of mate swa 
solution to the problem of 
sexual monotony become ob : 
To begin with, the cost is probably 
less than that of bilateral prostitu- 
tion and it is much more easily int 
grated into the normal rearcational 
or entertainment budget. Second, 
keeps the couple together, or at le 
in the same house. But further, it 
tivity that involves common 


па pro 
vides subject matter for conve: 
before and after, thus it could fu 
ther consolidate the n 
ly, the al act that 
place is, to a greater or lesser 
under the surveillance of 
means that each exercises 
over the extramarital 
othe: nd the danger that the sex- 
ual relationship will become a ro- 
mantic relationship is minimized 
This. of course, is also facili 
the brief and segmented па 
the relationship. 


takes 
stent, 
hi; this 
control 
y of the 


In short, the 
5 together. 


Fd Brown. 
Los eles, California 


ANOTHER ENDED AFFAIR 

My husband was always busy with his 
job: he worked long hours under a lot of 
pressure and was always 100 tired or too 
tense to pay attention to me. A verba 
irtation with a business colleague of his 
led, when the time and place were right, 


ative, con- 
‚ gentle and exciting. T felt like a 
feminine, desired woman again, a fecling 
T hadn't had for a long rime. But then T 
began to believe T had fallen in love 
h this man. One night, Т murmured 
the words “I love you." aud from that 
moment, our relationship changed. Sud- 
denly, there were significant silences, pet 
ty annoyances and fewer meetings, a 
one day, he announced he was quite 
his job and going out West. My whale 
world fell ro bits 
Many men think a married wom 
a relatively safe parmer in an ай 
because even though she strays, she still 
loves her husband amd children 
осма intend to make or seek other 
commitments, But а won 1 fall iu 
love in spite of what is prudent. If her 
lover is single, she will shr his 
singleness, he is married. she'll 
threaten his marriage. He usually beats a 
hasty re 
I ат lonelier than 1 was before. 1 
think a married woman is well advised to 
resolve her marital problems with her 
husband vather than to add to them by 
ing a lover 
(Name withheld by request) 
Cincinnati. Ohio 


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chikl and, in 1968, my hush: 
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apart. In 1969. my ex-husband moved 
back in with us and became my lover 


We are all happier. As far as the two of 
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TRIVIALIZING SEX 

What is happen 
in American societ 
most of us have been focusing on the 
question of what people may display. 
We've gotten uscd to the idea of nude 
photographs in magazines, even to por 
trayal of the genitalia. By the same proc 
es. we've come to accept incre: 
frankness in movies and iu the theater 
the point that actual sexual intercour 
is now being exhibited on stage in some 
cities. I don't oppose freedom оГ expres 
sion, but I wonder what effect all this 
will have on our daily lives. 

How much are people going ro have 
то see, whether they want t0 or no? 
How much will they be expected to 

not about to 
ag public nudity or pub- 
lic sex mandatory, but what about the 
powerful disc 
The day is coming when we won't be 
able to go to the beach without seeing 
nude bathers. One may feel like a creep 
if he's unwilling to go nude himself. 
Even if the nudity of others and ощ 
own nudity ble, ist this 
likely to take 
ment out of priv 
same question about movies and plays: 
the way we're going, almost. every show 
will have scenes in which the actors 
appear completely n: which 
they perform sexually. How much of this 
bclore we become jaded? Similarly, how 
much longer belore orgies become as com- 
monplace at private social gatherings as 
serving liquor is today? And then what 
will happen to the singular thrill of sex? 

Т don't believe Dim a puritan, but T 
do believe that certain restraints on sex- 
wal activity may help us enjoy sex and 
life more. T help but feel that а 
couple of kids furtively making love on 

i defiance of the 
йу are probably 


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having more fun than other kids ar 
xs party who are just doing what every 
body else is doing, At least in the fist 
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HUMANIZING SEX 
Women's libe 
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rLAYBOY has helped develop an authen- 
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public discussion 
issues of prem: 
tercoure, the legalization of abortion 
and homosexuality and the viability of 
mariage and cohabitation, With people 
seeking to develop new Tile styles, 
LAYbOY has aided by breaking down 
those traditional Timitations ihat have 
tyrannized the miman potential. 
The Rev. Dr. Daniel Ross 
Chandler, Ph.D. 
Iniversity College 
liz, New York 


MEN'S LIBERATION 
I agree 100 percent with George F. 


Form, January). А man who enters a 
legal marriage contract in America today 
consigns himself permanently to the sti- 
tus of chattel slave, even if the contract 
is voided by subsequent divorce. Marria 
has become a demasculinizi 


legally trapped by our pro-female courts, 
forced to labor endlessly to зир 
woman from whom he has been divorced 
for years and, now, during the past few 
yens. accused of every crime under the 
Sun by the women'sliberation movement 
а baflled, defeated. dis 


mal, Driven by guilt 
responsibilities on one side and by 
id desire t rebel on the other side, hi 


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tioning that prevents him from Ileei 
Tahiti or some other хае refuge beyo 
the reach of the a 
The women’ stiber 
here to stay. Now is the 
liberation movement. Anyone сап join 
by merely reading the divorce Taws of his 
state and meditating on them deeply 
when he is tempted to marry. Avoid that 
keep your freedom and be 
bond slave or a whipped cur. 
Мас Thurston 
Studio City, Ca 


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I've remarried and my new wife and 1 
have one child. I'm mot able (o get a 
well-paying job, and we barely make it 
from week to week. My first wile is 1€ 
married and is bener off financially than 1 


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am Wh 
tile? 
Now that I've been jailed, my second 
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DAY-CARE CENTERS 
The December 1970 Playboy Forum 
mentioned the Community Coordinated 
Child Care Program, or 4C. The 4C 
Program, sponsored by the Federal Gov- 
ernment, enables communities and states 
to plan for child care. Public officials, 
representatives of business and labor, 
parents and other publicspirited citizens 
band together to explore the communi- 
туз resources and needs and determine 
the priorities, which then become the 
1C Program. Such programs, often the 
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does it operate—child-care centers. The 
function of 4-C in Washington is to 
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needed children’s services. 
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Office of Child Development 
Washington, D. C. 


Chief 


WOMEN IN THE JUNGLE 

A schoolteacher from East Orange, New 
Jersey, wrote in the January Playboy 
“My experience with the bu: 
community has been so appall- 


Forum: 
ness 


ng—the discrimination against women 
angry as the 


so blatant—that 1 
most enraged extrem 
movement. It is virt 
climb ont of the cle 
kind of administrative pos 
my education and abilities qualify me." 
As a woman who has successfully 
dredged herself out of the steno pool 
into a responsible position as editor of 
two nationally circulated trade publici- 
tions, 1 am offended by the lady's self 
pitying attitude 

Our entire 
and, in addi 


am 


1 im the feminist 
ally impossible to 
cal staff into the 
ion for which 


editorial staff is female 
n to producing five maga- 


zines every month. we enjoy cooking for 
men, se itting, jelly making. 
ing child 
other traditional female 
short, we're normal. Among my female 
acquaintances are advertising managers. 
sales managers, office managers, person 
nel interviewers, physicists, biologists 
and even a company president. Who's 
stuck in the steno pool? Not us. 

I become increasingly disgusted listen- 
ing to the wailing of people who blame 
their failures on anything handy except 
themselves. There's plenty of opportu- 
nity out there in the business jungle if 
you're willing to work at it and have a 

al fortitude and patience. 
Marilyn Tobin 
Somerville, New Jersey 


ABORTION IN NEW YORK 

Possibly my personal experience with 
abor п New York would be informa- 
tive or reassuring to other women. L 
found out that I was pregnant on a 
Thurs nd was panicstricken, (I had 
been juggling my birth-control pills and 
had missed taking them a few days the 
previous month.) I called the Family 
Counseling Service in New York and they 
directed me to call the Park West Hospi 
tal, at which I was given an appointment 
for the following Tuesday. I flew to New 
York, underwent the operation and was 
released the next day. The speed of the 
whole procedure helped me to keep my 
sanity. The cost was 5375, plus pluie 

I felt fine the day after the opera 
and, with a little added Blush-on, was 
able to return to my normal officework, 
with no one the wiser. The people at the 
hospital couldn't have been nicer to me. 
I met only one woman there who was 
a resident of New York; the others 
were from Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta and 
Cincinnati. 


(Name withheld by reque 
Fredericksburg, Virg 


ABORTION AND ETHICS 

Last December, I made a proposal 
about abortion legislation, speaking 
priest and an instructor in medica 
and I have received quite a bit of mail 
a result, most of it pro. 1 thought you 
might be interested in the proposal, so I 
enclose the following account from The 
Marshfield News-Herald: 


New legal limits om abortion were 
proposed today by the Reverend 
The E. Langer, medicalethics 
ructor at St. Joseph's School of 
Nursing here. 

Spesking to the dass of junior 
studentnurses, Father Langer noted 
the fact that the EEG (clectroenceph- 

now employed 10 deter- 
gal death of an individual 
and proposed that the EEG be also 
employed in determining the legal 
moment of life's beginnings 


“This time limitation could be 
the new legal limits for а uniform. 
abortion Jaw in our country," Fathe 
Langer proposed. "While my pro- 
posal will still not allow Catholics to 
have abortions, it will place abortion 


ws on a good medical footing. 
“The present debate about abor- 
tion is not a struggle for an abstract 


principle," Father Langer noted. ” 
is a struggle to defend human Ше 
and that is what our laws must also 
defend. 

"In our pluralistic society that al- 
lows for difference of opinion and 
philosophical approaches to life and 
the meaning of life, legal limits 
must be based on sound medicine. If 
we are now using the ЕЕС to draw 
the legal line of death, then why not 
use it to draw the legal line for the 
beginning of human life as well? 
2. This would at least place our 
abortion laws on а sounder medical 
footing than what they are at present. 
At least we would be attempting to 
be consistent,” the priest concluded 

The Rev. Thomas E. Lange 
St. Joseph's Hospital 
Marshfield, Wisconsi 


THE ENLIGHTENMENT GAP 

In the November 1970 Fornm New: 
front, an item appeared stating, 
Department of Defense has d 
world-wide military hospitals to provide 
abortions and surgic i 
ices for all Armed Forces personnel and 
their dependents.” A similar story was 
published in Stars and Stripes. 
a friend of mine went to the 
er Annex in Germany to get 


an abortion. She is married to an Ameri- 
can СІ 


already has two small children 
very upset over having another 
t the hospital told her 
n't heard anything official about 
w abortion policy and, therefore, 
can't help her. It will soon be too late for 
this woman, but all Americans stationed 
overseas are affected by this sit 
and would be grateful for LAvsOY's 
help in finding ont whether or not the 
actually are entitled to abortions and 


ioi 


Kay Caplin 
APO New York, New York 

Your fiiend was apparently a victim о} 
obstructionism within the Атту hie 
archy. An official of the U.S. Department 
of Defense told eravnov that a series of 


directives on abortion and surgical steri 
lization policies were issued in July and 
August 1970. The Navy and Air Force 


promptly complied, issuing orders of 
their own to implement the new policy. 
The Army, however, displayed extreme 
reluctance to accede to the policy and 
did not issue [he necessary orders until 
January 1971. The official told us that 
complaints such as that of your frend 


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MIAMI BEACH (Speciel)— 
The press hailed it as "the 
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may be expected to cease now that the 
Army's orders have gone oul. Sadly, there 
may be a large number of women for 
whom it's too late. 


PEACE AND OTHER EVILS 

A brigade order posted in а 
the day at Сатр Pendleton 
Corps Base, in California, reads: 


plan of 
Marine 


allowed on 


No vehide will be 

dicton thi 
tings or wi 
suggestive ol association and/or 
membership with groups such as 
Hell's Angels. Nazism, comm 
and/or any other group org 
tion that does not conform to stand. 
ards of acceptable conduct. 


Marshal's office advises 
al is prohibited under 


The Provost 


ame withheld by request) 
mp Pendleton, Californi 


ANTI-FLOWER POWER 
ans not in the Service do 
shat extreme. power а com- 
manding gener the men under 
his jurisdiction. If he wants to ban the 
peace sign and flower stickers, he can. 
Who can stop him? Certainly not апу 
one who is his inferior nk. Life is 
made unbearable—legally—for anyone 
who rocks the boat. 

I'm out now and can speak my piece. 
What E want to know is this: How long 
ill the Armed Forces be allowed to 
ignore or to modify the Constitution to 
the whims of military commanders? 

Fredrick Luffman 
icramento, California 


ANTI-WAR OFFICERS 
As of January 1971, the total number 
of American dead im Vietnam reached 


over 44.000 Despite the tendency of 
many citizens to as an 
mfortunate fact the tragedies 
continue—the weekly increments of 


death, devastation of the countryside, the 
zuish of the prisoners of war, Setlc- 
ment of the war appears little closer 
than it did years ago. Disengagement is 
agonizingly slow. 

We of the Concerned Officers Move- 
ment feel the prosecution of the war to 
be a grave national blunder, National 
honor is upheld only in pursuing, legiti- 
te goals that 
moral ideals of this country 
is overlooked by many of the citizens 
who sanction continuation of the war in 
Vietnam. An examination of the Viet 
nam conllict raises provocative questions, 
such ay why we support a regime whose 
policies of internal order nifested 
by “tiger cage t cells aud 
other kinds of misireatment that parallel 
the acts of barbarism of the so-called 
enemy, or why we have destroyed а coun- 
try we ostensibly intend to protect 


m 


We believe that if more Ami 
independently exercised their minds and 
consciences on the issue of Vietnam, real- 
ration of the tragic folly of that conllict 
would bring about its quick end. Blind 
approval, rationalized by patriotic sym 
bols and rhetoric, evades individual 


responsibility and is in diametric opposi 
tion to this nation's proud heritage of 
democratic thought. 

(Signed by 19 officers) 

Conce 


ed Officers. Movement 


WAR TO END WARS 


A lewer in the January Playboy Forum 
compares a U.S. Army sergeant, who 
wrote, “In order to get rid of violence, 


its necessary to use violence," to Chair 
man Mao Tsetung, who wrote that the 
on iminate war “is to oppose 
war with war.” I find it hard to see the 
milarity. The Army sergeant is the type 
of violent pig who makes war in the first 
place. Mao’s philosophy is that since war 
exists already, onc can't. make the situa- 
tion amy worse by waging a war 
warmakers. If the right side win: 


mean the end of war altogethe 
Nadia Reed 
Woods 
Oh. 


ASTRONAUTS AND GLADIATORS 

1 agree with D. J. Romano's critique 
of the U.S. (The Playboy Forum, De- 
cember 1970) except for his putdown of 
space research, At the rate we are poison 
ng this workl—and with the slow and 
half-hearted attempts being made to save 
our environment—the stars may be the 
lat possible chance to save Homo 
piens. Romano's comparison of the gladi 
tors. of Rome, whose primary 
fighting and killing for the 
sement of the populace, to the scien- 
cally trained. astronauts, who explore 
other planets to bring back valuable in- 
formation, is absurd. It is the knowledge 


we gathered and are using that 
separates us from the Romans. Space 
research is an instance of ma 


brains and energies for something be- 
sides fighting and war. 
Mark S. Cvetko 
Bellflower, Calilornia 


ECOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGY 
_ Your replies to Gary Reed and Forres 
awkins (The Playboy Forum, Sep- 
tember 1970 and December 1970) were 
accurate insofar as you attributed our 

ironmental ills to. misapplic 
technology rather than to technology 
and your contention that only an 
acceleration of technology will wipe out 
poverty has some justification, But an 
extension of our present technology to 
the underdeveloped nations will most 
tainly bring about diswter, both for 
ind for us. Right now, for in- 
stance, when our own pollution prob- 


lems are critical 
our technologic 


we continue to export 
blunders and half meas 
ures to unsuspecting countries around 
the world, and, while laws against dan 
gerous pesticides are being drafted here, 
the sime poisons are being dumped on 
Indi. 
While Fm no horseand-buggy advo- 
І sometimes think we could use a 
0-year moratorium on progress, while 
we decide what progress т 
what kind of technology will help, not 
harm, humanity. 
John V. von Dohlen 
Fort Wainwright, Alaska 
Sir Charles Snow, in “The Two Cul- 
unes" R. Buckminster Fuller, in “Uto 
pia or Oblivion,” and John McHale, in 
“The Future of the Future," have all 
pointed out that—with a few exceptions 
—bachward nations do not retrace. the 
history of technology as they industrial- 
ier: They begin copying the very latest 
achievements of the advanced nations 
Each such nation also goes through the 
hransformation from craft industry to 
mass production more rapidly than all 
preceding nations, It is, therefore, almost 
certain that, if non polluting technology 
can be created in the industrial nations, 
the new nations will quickly reproduce it 
and will not repeat our errors of the past 
two centuries, Furthermore, ils loo late 
in the game to call a recess: Our present 
problems will destroy ws if we call a halt 
and do nothing for two decades. Ах 
McHale points out in his new book, 
“The Ecological Context”: 


c 


The nature of the crisis is such 
that no local measures can now, in 
themselves, be wholly effective or 
sufficient unless they are considered 
within the whole system. No piece- 
meal acts of emergency-pressured. po- 
litical legislation can, alone, do more 
than postpone catastrophe. . . . 

In this sense, there are то local 
ecological issues which may be decid- 
ed within wholly local and. appar- 
ently autonomous contexts, Ecology 
is about the entire web of intricate 
relationships that make life itself 
possible on eath. -~ 

Each separate “issue” must be sys 
tematically expanded lo explore its 
yelationships and ramifications with 
other ^ 


issue 


McHale and Fuller both agree thot, at 
a minimum, we need to push technology 
forward in nonpolluting exploitation of 
such energy sourees as solar, water, wind. 
tidal and nuclear power, while phasing 
out the traditional polluting oil, gas and 
other fossil fuels; and we must also set 
up international carlywarning systems lo 


alert all local governments to possible 
negative ecological effects of each techno 
logical project. All of this can be done 
only by bringing the backward nations 

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HOMOSEXUALITY 


a symposium on the causes and consequences—social and psychological—of sexual inversion 


PANELISTS 
IRVING BIEBER, M. D., 62, is clinical profes- 


sor of psych New York Medical 
College in п, chairman. of the 
тезата committee of the Society of Med- 


ysts and preside 
ican Academy of Psyche 
He is the senior author of Homosexual- 
ity: A Psychoanalytic Mudy 
other works on ps 
psychoanalytic pr n New York City. 
PAUL GOODMAN, 59, received his doctorate 
the University of Chicago and has 
since risen to prominence as an author 
and educator. А writer of social criticism 
(Growing Up Absurd), poetry (Hawk- 
4d). novels (The Empire City), auto 
biography (Five Years) and co-author of 
Gestalt Therapy, Goodman has long 
been known for the passion ol his at 
tacks on anachronistic social systems and 
lor the frankness with which he advo 
Gates the bisexual Ше style 
RICHARD H. KUH, 49, а uial lawyer prac 
ig in New York City, was graduated 
hom Harvard. Law Schoo! magna cum 
ише and served t district at- 
torney in New York rough 1964. 
He has taught Jaw and written and lec 
red widely on diverse aspects of crimi- 
al justice, His 1967 book Foolish 
Figleaves? Pornography In—And Out of 
Court. foreshadowed many ol the con- 
clusions ol last year’s Presidential, Com- 
mission on Obst raphy. 
DICK LEITSCH, 34 or of 
the New York Mattachine Society, a 
homophile referral and counseling ser 
ice. A columnist for Gay, а homosexual 
newspaper, he has also written ar 
‘on homosexuality for many major pub 
licuions and is a spokesman for the 
homophile movement on television talk 
shows and the college leciuie circuit. 
PHYLLIS LYON, 46, is onc of the founders 
of the Daughters of Bilitis, an interna 
tional Lesbian society founded an 
Francisco in 1955, and was the first ed 
ob its on we, The Ladder. 
currently as vice-president of The 
Council on. Religion and the Homosex 
wal. and is the assistant director of the 
National Sex and Di Forum. She and 
her partner of 18 years, Del N re 
coanthoring a book on the Lesbian in à 
changing world, scheduled for publica- 
tion lue this year. 
MARYA MANNES, 60, boin 
City, is а prolific essayist, jou 
ic 
w 


tor 
serv 


New York 
alise, crit- 
nd social commentator who has been 
prolessionally since the late 


Tw g World War Two. she 
was director of a research. bureau for the 
Office of War Information and, later. 
ntclligence analyst for the Office of St 
tegic Services. She consolidated her repu- 
jon ay a social critic and gadfly wi 
the 1958 publication of More in Anger, a 
collection of essays. In the sime year she 
was awarded the George Polk Memorial 
Award for magazine reporting. 

JUDD MARMOR, M. D., 60, а member of the 
National Institute of Mental He: 
Task Force on Homosexuality, 
editor of Modern. Psychoanalysis: New 
Directions and Perspectives and. also of 
Sexual Inversion: The Multiple Roots of 
Homosexuality. He is clinical professor 
of psychiatry at the school of medicine 
ol the University of California at Los 
and director ol the divisions of 
T E Medical. Cen- 
He received the Silver Medal for 
dd of 


ter 
Distinguished Service to the F 


Psychiatry from the Columbia Univ 
College of Physicians and Surgeons, 
TED McILVENNA, 30, was gr 
Willamette University 


Irom Pacific School 
. For Шпее years, he 
d social de 
nd abroad, th 
as senior minister of 
ist church and director of a n 
counseling service in Hayward, California. 
He was the organizer and first presi- 
dent of The Council on Religion and 
the Homosexual, and was the convener 
ol an international conference on Church, 
y and the Homosexual held in 
London before passige of Britain's homo- 
sexual daw 


died social theory. 
this country 
five y 


served for 
Method. 


cform act in 1967. He is also 
the cofounder and codirecror of the 
National Sex and Drug Forum and 
diredor of development ational 
education for Fra Glide 
Foundation, a churcherclated. institution 
involved in the design ob new methods 


for radically humanizing social problems. 
MORRIS PLOSCOWE, ( а former New York 
City magistrate, is à member of the N 


hatan law fum of Liuaucr Gordon 
Ый Rieman and Ploscowe, and 
fessor of n New York 


1 
mor. he was a member of the Nati 


w School Along with Dr. 


Institute of Mental Health Task Force 
on Homosexuality. Author of Sex and 


the Law and The Truth About Divorce. 
Judge Ploscowe has long been a leader 
in programs of law reform in the arcas 


of sex, Grime and m: 
WILLIAM SIMON, 10, received his Ph.D. from 


малкмок: 7n our culture, homosexuality 
is considered deviant from accepted. 
norms, but in other times and cultures, il 
wouldn't be regarded as pathological. 


TYNAN: With overpopulation an imminent 
threal to civilized life, ihe only walid 
reason for disapproving of queers has 
vanished. We ought to encowage them. 


cac 

туом: Many in women's lib are forming 
Lesbian relationships, because they view 
men as oppressors who wish to exploit 
them as sexual and household servants. 


-oscowr: Homosexual marriage is а 
damnation. If they want to live together, 
that's their business, but they don't have 


10 have the institituion of marriage. 


él 


the University of Chicago and spent three 
years at the Institue for Sex Research, 
аг Bloomington, Indiana, where he co- 
edited, with John H. Gagnon, Sexual 


Deviance. More recently, he co-edited, 
again with С 
The 


поп, The Sexual Scene. 
uthor of numerous papers and 
he is now program supervisor of 
sociology and anthropology at the Insti 
tute for Juvenile Research, in Chicago, 
and associate professorial lecturer at the 
ersity of Chicago. Dr. Simon's cur 
rent research, sponsored by the Public 
Health Service, focuses on youth and 
youth cultures. 

KENNETH TYNAN, 43, who is probably best 
known in this country as the deviser of 
the erotic revue Oh! Galcuttal, began 
his career as an iconoclast as а schoolboy 
in Birmingham, England, where, in a 
mock parliamentary election, he ran as 
п independent candidate advocating 
the repeal of laws governing homosexual 
ity and abortion. Asked to withdraw, 
Tynan handed the headmaster not only 
his own resignation but those of the other 
three candidates. He was graduated from 
Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1918 and 
quickly established himself as England's 
leading young drama critic. After writing 
for several months in that capacity for 
The New Yorker, he returned to Eng- 
d, where he became film critic of the 
London Observer and literary manager 
of Britain's National Theater. А dia 
pion of sexual frankness in his roles as 
both critic and theater administrator, 
often at the center of critical controversy, 
he is currently at work as co-scenarist, 
with Roman Polanski, on the latter's film 
version of Macbeth, being shot by Playboy 
Productions in Great Britain. He is also 
a pLaysoy Contributing Editor. 


PLAYBOY 


PLAYBOY: Until fairly recently in the U. S. 
homosexuality was something of a for- 
bidden subject, but in the past few years 
it has come into the open. Books about 
homosexuals have reached the bestseller 
ists; plays and movies have portrayed 
homosexual lile with relish, if not always 
with accuracy; radical gayactivist groups 


have sprung up and, in some areas, have 
dashed with police in street fighting. At 


least one homosexual church is flourish: 
ing in California and 
homosexual couples have attempted to 
obtain marriage licenses. Is all this the 


n some states, 


tensen: Сап you imagine a mother tell- 
ing her Lesbian daughter, “Do 1 have a 
girl for you!,” or Cardinal Cooke marry- 
g2 ing a gay couple in St. Patrick's Cathedral? 


mener Evidence of developing homo- 
sexuality in preadolescence and сапу 
adolescence is an urgent indicator that 
both the child and his parenis need help. 


siuos: If the Lesbian admits she's homo- 
sexual, she visks dismissal; if she doesn't, 
she gets passed over for promotions on the 
grounds that she may тату and leave. 


кон: The homosexuals sex lije is likely 
to be loveless one-night stands; his life, 
even filled with friends, is basically alone; 
longterm mutual commitment is тате. 


MANES: People are discovering the worth 
of being what you are, whether the norm 
or not. You have as much right to live 
and love as you like as the next person. 


GOODMAN: To get vid of the laws against 
homosexuality, homosexuals must get to- 
gether and join in blow-ins, You create the 
world you want by doing what you want. 


result of an increase in the number of 
homosexuals in America, or simply a sign 
of greater frankness in public discussion? 
lemscH: І think there are more overt 
homosexuals today than at any other 
time in history. And I think this is 
healthy. because there are correspond 
ly fewer closet queens—men who hide 
their homoscxuality—or latent and ie- 
pressed homosexuals. There are two rea- 
sons for this: First, the homosexual 
subculture has come to the surface; thanks 
to the larger sexual revolution, homosex- 
uality is more open and people аге 
better informed about it. Men and wom- 
en who think they may be homosexually 
inclined can find gay bars, clubs—and 
other homosexuals im them. They can 
experiment sexually and find their niches. 
The old isolation each homosexual used 
to decl is rarer today; every homo 
ually oriented person now. knows that 
he or she isn’t the only one in the world. 
Second, the social ast homo- 
sexuality have been relaxed just as those 
against freer and more open sexual e: 
pression of every kind have been. Psychia 
tists and clergymen aren't as likely as 
they used to be to recommend heterose: 
ual marriage as a "cure" for homosexu 
ity, nor is it as necessary as it used to be 
for homosexuals to put up а facade. 
Social pressure used to result in male 
homosexuals taking wives—or Lesbians 
taking husbands—as "fronts." One need 
only read a biography of Oscar. Wilde, or 
of André Gide, to understand what effect 
that had on the spouse. Not long ago, 
someone I know made the flip comment, 
“I have nothing against fags. but I 
wouldn't want my brother to marry 
one.” I told him, “Better your brother 
than your sister. 
MANNES: 1 think one of the reasons homo- 
sexuals are more visible nowadays is 
that they accept themselves much more 
freely. They've begun to take а pride in 
being different, where formerly they felt 
they shoukl probably be ashamed. It’s 
part of a general change in attitude 
toward nonconformity; difference fom 
the crowd. has become a thing of value 
rather than a deformity. People are di 
covering the worth of being what you hon- 
estly are, without concealment, whether 
you're the norm or not, whether you're 
the majority or the minority. You have a 


MCILVENNA: Young people are moving 
into group sex, and when you get more 
than two in bed, you have at least а tole 
ance Jor touching а body of the same sex. 


ch right to look as you like, to live 
s you like—and to love as you like—as 
the next person. 

KUH: My experience would lead me to 
avoid relying on court observations or 
police records to prove anything about 
the amount of homosexiu 
you have а shake-up in the plainelothes 
division, which makes most of the homo- 
sexual arrests, you're probably going to 
get more arrests; when police manpower 
is increased by some percent, you're going 
to get morc arrests; il you get а police 
drive against sex deviates, you're going 
to get more arrests, But that doesn't 
necessarily mean there is more active 
homosexuality. [t would seem to me, just 
а layman, that опе sces more homo- 
sexuality today because—especially in а 
city like New York—some of its manife: 
tations are more open than they were ten 
years ago, as some of the other panelists 
have su, titative- 
15. more homosex 1. | don't know. 
But 1 do know that police figures would 
be an extremely unveli; 
TYNAN: Well, there are certainly more 
admitted homosexuals than there used to 
be, because public attitudes have grown 
more permissive. And this may have con- 
tributed to a general but illusory notion 
thar there has been an overall im 
BIEBER: 1 agree that the gre 
of homosexuality, particularly 
urban areas, reflects a cl 
mores. There may also be an increase in 
the absolute of homosexuals 
with the incr 
whether there h 
percentage is simply not known, We can 
only speculate. 

MARMOR: I think that’s right. But evi- 
dence exists that when a society becomes 
progressively more urbanized and more 
complex technologically, as ours is doing, 
it becomes more difficult for men to d 
finc and fulfil the masculine role. Thus, 
in such. societies, this may be one of the 
conuibuting factors to an increase in the 
actual. percentage of homosexuals. 

BIEBER: 1 don't know what evidence Dr. 
Marmor. is relerring to, but in. Mexico 
the cultural, hypermasculine mystique 
called machismo has tended to water 
down as technology, education and gen 
eral sophistication continue to develop. 
This makes cultural concepts of mascu- 
linity easier to fulfill as society advances, 
According to Dr. Lionel Ovesey, conllicis 
over an inability to fulfill cultural expec 
tations of masculinity produce problems 
he has referred to as pseudo homosexu 
йу, not true homosexuality. These m 


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SIMON: Maybe social condi 
it dificult for young men to falfill th 
fathers idea of what a man should be; 
but they're not going to give up women 


just because of that, Straight and gay 
people are both being freed from sterco- 
typed notions of how to come on as men 
or women, but that doesn't mean there 
are more people doing homosexual things 
to one another. The proportion of the 
population that's homosexual probably 
remains static. 

PLAYBOY: Arc there reliable estimates of 
what that proportion i 
LETSCH: In Sexual Behavior in the Hu- 
man Male, Kinsey says that 37 percent 
of all Ame п males have had at least 
one homosexual experience leading to 
orgasm and that somewhere between 
two and ten percent of American males 
exclusively or primarily homosexual. 
There аге 100,000,000 males in America, 
so il only two percent are labeled homo- 
sexuals, then there are 2,000,000 male 
homosexuals in the United States today. 
Plus a lot of Lesbians. 

LYON: I've always placed the figur 
good deal higher. It’s impossible, wi 
the present attitudes of societ 
п accurate census, and I may be estimat- 
ing too high, but I've always figured that 
there is an equal number of male and 
female homosexuals and that the total 
figure probably comes to around cight to 
ten percent of ihe popul That 
makes nearly 20,000,000 people who are 
more committed. to homosexuality than 
to heterosexuality. 

BIEBER: The only statistics. in which I 
ha ny confidence were those pub- 
lished by the Armed Forces alter World. 
War Two, in which about 10,000,000 
Americans served. The Army reported 
that [our tenths of one percent were 
rejected at induction centers for homo- 
sexuality; another four tenths of one 
percent were separated. from the Services 
because of it and, perhaps, an additional 
опе percent- agant 
estimate—were undetected. This brings 
the total to about two percent, which 
accords with Mr. Leitsch’s lowest statistic. 
But he arrived at a figure of 2,000,000 
male homosexuals in the civilian pop- 
ulation by taking two percent of the 
100,000,000 males in the United States. 
Whar he didn't tal to account is the 
fact that a substantial percentage of that 
100,000,000 are children. Had he donc 
ше number of esi Led. 
s would be considerably lower, 
1 think all the figures we pres- 
ently have a When Kinsey 
defining male sexual experience, he 
drew up a heterosexual homosexual con- 
tinuum scale on which individuals who 
were exclusively heterosexual in fantasy 
and behavior were numbered zero, those 
who were exclusively homosexual were 
numbered „ and there were various 
gradations in between. According to Kin- 
sey's estimates, there are anywhere be 
tween 2,000,000 and 4,000,000 more or 


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and this is ап ext 


dubious. 


less exclusively homosexual men in 
merian sociery—that is. men who 
would be scored as five or six on thc 
le—and almost all the майы 
familiar with indicie a 
ncidence of homosexuality amoug 
es. When we include men who 
would be scored as three or four on the 
Kinsey scale—that is to sty, those who 
are more or less bisexual—the percent 
ages ae probably appreciably h 
but we simply do not have any reliable 
figures. Ki gures are open to ques- 
tion because of the looseness of his def- 
inition of homosexuality. For example, 1 
don't think that the exploratory homo- 
sexuality of adolescents—which he in- 
cluded in his estimates—has anything to 
do with the homosexuality that we're 
concerned with in this discussion. Most 
adolescents are desperately heterosexual. 
The only reason they fool around with 
members of their own sex is that our 
culture blocks them from doing the het 
erosexual fooling around they would 
prefer. They're not homosexual 

SIMON: Some new dita bears that 
The best part of the Kinsey male sample 
—those males interviewed while at college 
cently retabulated. About one 
third of the total group had had а homo- 
sexual experience in which cither the 
subject or a partner had an orgasm. But 
out of that number, about half had had 
the experience before they were 15. ОГ 
the rest, one ninth of the 10tal 
1 experiences confined 10 Iate 
mental homosexuality. Th 
leaves only one cighteenth—fve or six 
percent—ol the total who had any real 
dult homosexual experience. Half of 
these were exclusively homosexual and 
the other half had mixed of 
heterosexual and homosexual experience. 
MARMOR: Tabuliting experiences is the 
only clear statistical measure we have, 
but even if the figures were trustworthy, 
they wouldn't be a precise guide to the 
number of homosexuals now in exist- 
c. Since the spectrum of human sex- 
behavior ranges all the way from 
exclusive homosexuals who have nev 
1 any heterosexual relations to exclu- 
sive heterosexuals who have never had 
any homosexual relations, 1 think you 
could describe the homosexual only as 
an adult who is motivated by a definite 
preferential erotic attraction to members 
of the same sex. Such a preference usu- 
ally involves overt sexual relationships 
but not necessarily: A person can be 
homoscxual in his erotic motivations and 


out. 


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desires, yet be inhibited about actually 
engaging in overt homosexual acts. 
Th are homosexual virgins as well as 


heterose: ones. 

BIEBER: From а theoretical point of vie 
T conceive of two distinct. categories 
heterosexual and homosexual Hetero. 
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development, while homosexuality is 
always the result of a disordered sexual 
development. The two categories arc, 
therelore, mutually exclusive and cannot 
be placed on the same continuum. What 
can be placed on a linear continuum 
various types of homosexuality, ran} 
from exclusive homosexuality to bises- 
uality with a predominance of heterose 
uality and only occasional and sporadic 
homosexuality. 

Individuals who are consistently turned 
on by members of the same sex are cer- 
tainly homosexual; yet there are men who 
engage repetitively in homosexual 
but are mot consciously awa 
turned on, Young ma 
times deny sexual arousal and 
do it only for money. І would regi 
such young men as homosexuals, as I 
would regard any other individuals— 
includ Is—who engage repeti 
tively in homosexual acts. 

LETSCH: The key issue is, surely, whether a 
person thinks of himself as a homosexual. 
There are people who are heierosex. 
ually married and have lets of hetero 
sexual experience that they may or may 
not enjoy and who have only occasional 
homosexual experiences: but if they think 
of themselves as being homosexual, in my 
definition they are. You can't define a 
homosexual by counting acts. 

BIEBER: А man is homosexual if his behav- 
jor is homosexual. Selfidentification is 
not relevant, I have known men who are 
exclusively homosexual but who dont 
think of themselves as homosexual be- 
cause they always take what they consid- 
tr to be the masculine role. 1 agree that 
ne cannot define homosexuality by 
counting acts, yet one does have to do 
some counting. An isolated. homosexual 
experience doesn't define а man as homo- 
sexual; but if he has one such experience 
every year, he would have to be considered 


acts 


homosex 


tize homosexuals in this way, and talk of 
their “disordered sexual development.” 
More and more young people today are 
ying to teach themselves 10 love one 
another regardless of g ad they 
certainly not disordering their develop- 
ment. They're developing in ways that 
the uptight would never understand. 
Men who make love to men and women 
who make love to women ave far, far 
healthier than people who daren't accept 
sexuality at all. 
id of directing the terms 
pointless, destructive and narrow-minded 
at me personally, it would be more in 
keeping with the spirit of ап exchange 
of ideas to diop ad hominem remarks 


and instead pay attention to the sub- 
stance of the discussion. The terms 
loving and making love have widely 


different meanings. It is normal lor wom- 
en to love women and for men to love 


men. It is not normal for 
make love" to a man. It doesn’t disor 
der sexual development for two men to 
make love ıo each other. It is merely 
evidence that their sexuality has aheady 
been disordered. The question of which 
is hcalthieri—homosexuality or no sexual- 
y—is not a good question to begin 
with, since both situat 
ual difficult 
GOODMAN: Other things bei 
would expect people to engage mostly ir 
heterosexual activity, but also to 1 
some homosexual activity both for pleas- 
ure and to enrich friendship. 

BIEBER: Fully heterosexual adult males 
cannot be moused sexually by other men 
nd they have no desire lor homosexu 
activity. In what way homosexual activity 
would "enrich" a heterosexual friendship 
is quite beyond me, and Mr. Goodm: 
isn't told us. 

LETSCH: It would be hopelessly confusing 
to lump such people together with exch 
sive homosexuals and with people who 
have no homosexual experience but who 
have repressed homosexual fantasies, and 
all them all homosexuals. It seems to 
me a mistake to use the word homose 
а noun at all; it should probably 
be used only as an adjective to describe 
types of behavior: homosexual acts, homo- 
] orientation. If the word must. be 
d as à noun, it should be limited to 
include only those people who are pri- 
marily homosexually oriented. and who 
ink of themselves as homosexual. Per- 
haps it should be narrowed to include 
only those who live and function in the 
homosexual subculturc. 

PLAYBOY: What exactly is the homosexual 
subculture? What kind of lile style do 
most homosexuals adopt? 

PLOSCOWE: The homosexual way of life 
varies enormously from person to person 
When you're talking about those who 
have committed themselves to a definite 
preference—with no ifs, ands or buts— 
then you often find them congregated 
certain professions: acting, interior dec- 
oration, design, hairdressing, etc. Many 
of them will live together almost like 
husband and wile. They go to gai 
and socialize exclusively 
other homosexuals. 

SIMON: In its most visible form, the gay 
world is simply а sexual market place, 
with definite similarities to the single- 
swingersbar world that’s common now 
in ly every city. The homosexua 
world has more than bars, though. Steam 
baths, for example, have always been a 
congregating place. In these places, homo- 
sexuals cam negotiate their sexual е 
periences—but, of course, as in the 
singles bars, not everybody makes out all 
the time. So the gay scene is also а place 
where sexual frustrations focused. 
People go into it often desperately want- 
ing something they know th | very 
probably fail to find, and the scene can 


sent 


almost 


we 


seem lonely ning to many. To 
anyone familiar with the gay world, it 
won't come as a surpi 

tion is still the commonest sexual outlet 
for the homosexual and accounts for the 
largest part of his sexual experience. 
LEITSCH: The gay world is bound together 
by one thing: sexuality. It makes all 
homosexuals brothers and. sisters They 
have nothing in common other than this. 
You meet men in а bar, and the only 
common subject is homosexuality; it's 
the one thing we may go home together 
for. Take те, for example. As a kid I 
moved to New York—originally from 
Kentucky, cial hick country boy. 
ree. By being gay, 1 
able to move in circles 1 wouldn't 
have gotten into otherwise. All around 
the world there arc gay bars. It's always 
easy 10 be accepted. If you went to Eng 
land a» a suaighi person, you probably 
wouldn't meet many English people 
you'd spend most of your Ume in tourist 
places. A homosexual would immediately 
find his way into the English homosexual 
subculture. 

SIMON: Those homosexual men who don't 
find their way into this society—or who 
reject it—run grave risks in trying to act 
out their sexual impulses elsewhere. But 
the gay world сап be a trap. 100. People 
may spend too much time there, or com- 
mit themselves to it so much that they 
cut themselves off from important non 
sexual experiences common to the straight 
world. Unlike other subcultures, the 
homosexual community has very limited 
content. It may reduce the problems of 
access to sexual partners and reduce guilt 
by providing a structure of shared values, 


a provi 


but the shared-value structure is often 
far 


100 narrow 10 transcend other areas 
value disagreement. The college- 
ned professional and the bus boy, the 
WASP and the Negro slum dweller may 
ess, but the simil 
ity of sexual interests doesn 
the kager social and cultural barriers 
The subculture is such a small world, 
however, that it constrains most members 
to participate in it only on a 
reducing their anxiety 
the sexual sphere and 
quality of their performance in other 
ispects of social life. But the fact vem 
that the homosexual community is in 
itself an impoverished cultural 
PLAYBOY: Do Lesbians lead the 
of life? 

LYON: Well, there are now fow or 
female bars in my city, there 
"public" behavior among Lesbians than 
there used to be and there аге тоге 
women involved in the movement than 
ever before, Women's lib has b 
strengthening force, But most Lesbians 
still visit cach other's homes: that's 
where most of their social life is. Or they 
go away for weekends. T's а much more 
discreet, private life. 

PLAYBOY: If the Lesbian scene 


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more restrained rhan the male homosex: 
I scene, this must make it more dil 
ficult lor the young Lesbian to meet a 
partner or partners. Miss Lyon, how did 
you handle that phase of your 
homosexuals call coming out, when у 
first. identified. yourself as a homosexual 
and began to explore the homosexual 
community 

LYON: I think I was a strange, atypii 
case, I simply didn't know Lesh 
ed. АП my earlvlife experience was 
heterosexual—umtil I was about 24. АШ 
my life I had been interested in women 
I sought out women as friends, 1 used to 
fantasize about feeling and touching 
women. but somehow I don't remember 
this as а sexual awareness or experience. 
Then I met someone who explained my 
feelings id told me about Lesbianism, 
d thar was the first I knew of it. 
PLAYBOY. Dil the readjustment 
much strain? 

LYON: Well, not immediately. My friend 
and I knew each other three years before 
we finally got together; then the stress 
occurred. 1 felt when 1 walked down the 
street that everyone would know. After I 
worked through all this, the problems 
disappeared. I talked to my sister about 
it. and that was no problem. T wanted to 
talk about it with my father, too, but he 
refused to discuss it, although 1 felt he'd 
found out or suspected the truth. some- 
where along the line, 

PLAYBOY: Was com 
you too, Mr. Leitsch? 

LEITSCH: Yes. 1 Gime out was 
about 17 and assumed would 
understand, rhat people would be un- 
sympathetic. Then, when I was 19, my 
parents found out. They 
cousin who was a 
prison chaplain, I believe. He 
y parents he thought I was queer. 
ems went ont and learned about 
homosexuality. Surpris 
they knew for sure th: queer, 
they were very tolerant and undersrand- 
ing ancl interested and they demanded to 
meet my lriends. So there had been no 
reason for me to be panicked for the Iwo 
ilice years before they knew. 

SIMON. Many male homosexuals go 
through a crisis of femininity when they 
first identify themselves as gay. They "a 
ош” du rehuively public places in a 
somewhat effeminate icr; some, in it 
transitory fashion, wear female clothing. 
Alter all. they've abandoned one of the 
major supports of their masculinity—the 
nonsexual reinforcement females give to 
the masculine sti surpr 
that the very core identity 
should be seriously questioned. A few 
m this pseu e com 
mitment; a few others emerge masquer. 
ding as female impersonators. But t 
tendency is for this kind of behavior to 
ual experiment for most 


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male homosexuals, an experiment that 
leaves vestiges of camp behavior. 
PLAYBOY: Is this confusion about how to 
behave in public accompanied by any 
parallel confusion about how to behave 
in bed? 
SIMON: Most homosexuals probably make 
their sexual adjustments quite easily, 
but there are common exceptions. ‘There's 
the attitude, for example, that "You're 
not really queer until you've blown 
somebody.” A butch type may happi- 
ly go on letting himself be blown and 
ill think of himsell as perfectly straight. 
But this type usually ends up on thc 
other side of the counter А lot of homo- 
sexuals pass through the phase of only 
being pi inserers, but eventually 
they find themselves both giving and 
receiving, There's a typical сазе in Laud 
Humphrey’ book Tearoom Trade: Im- 
personal Sex in Public Places, a sociolog 
cab account. of homosexual. activity in 
public lavatories. Theres a man de- 
saibed there who at first will only be 
blown; he says he “wouldnt have been 
Gigin dead with one of the things in 
my mouth.” But he ends up the big 
gest cocksucker in town, Most lomo- 
sexuals have indulged in anal intercour 
100. but only infrequently; at N 
seems to be uue of the American. male 
homosexual, For some American gays. 
ol course, anal intercourse is their primary 
mode ol experience, but in general, 
lellatio is more common. In other cul 
tures it may well be different, We have 
only Iragmentary date for foreign coun- 
ics, but judging by the homosexual 
literature. buggery seems 10 be more 
common in the Middle East and on the 
Continent, particukaly in England. ] 
don’t know why. 
PLAYBOY: Dr. Bieber, vou said earlier th: 
homosexuality is “the result of а disor- 
dered sexual development.” Were you 
implying that homosexuality is a form of 
mental illness? 
BIEBER: No. 1 do not regad homosexuali 
y as a mental illness 1 эсш it as а 
psychologically rooted sexual disorder in 
the sime sense that 1 consider chronic 
[rigidity in а woman or impotence in a 
man to be a neurotically evolved cond 
tion. Frigidity and impotence 
abou! because of unconscious and 
realistic [cars that se ion, or 
gratification with certain parters, will 
invite punishment and injury. Homose 
uality comes about for similar reasons. 
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reprisal that they associate either with 
heterosexual intercourse itsel or with 
fears of having a sexually fulfilling. sus 


tained love relationship with a 


woman. 


Ju my view, homosexuality is maladap 
tive because it is based on fears that are 
not realistic, and not because of cultural 
unacceptability. It would be по less al 


normal if it were culturally accepted. In 
а sense, homosexuality is a type of hetero 
sexual inadequacy. Homosexuals whom 


I have examined and these number in 
the many hundreds, including пону 
tiem homosesuals—suller [rom a serious 
ly impaired sense of masculinity, whether 
or not they are aware of it, А colleague 
referred a homosexual to me to 
whether 1 could find evidence of any 
ig psychopathology. My col 
league was convinced he had found а 
so-called normal homosexual. The man 1 
met was about six feet tall, athletic 
looking and weighed about 190 pounds 
When 1 asked whether he siw himself as 
a well-built, strong man, which he ob 


viously was. he s had no such 
image of himself and. didn't think any 
homosexual thought of himself that way 
GOODMAN. lis meani 10 say tha 


homosexuality is sc 
True, itas рак to 
funcion heteroxexually: after ай. the 


heterosexuality of animals must be deeply 
ned: otherwise the species wouldn't 
survive. But one’s performance of homo 
sexual acts is of no significance if his 
heterosexual. activity is unimpaired. He 
would operate bisexually. and that's that, 
Homosexual activity under good. condi 
tions is obviously enjoyable, and some 
pelor geographical reasons, like 
being on a ship or in a barracks—its 
practical. too. Ш 1 а strong, 
block against engaging in homosex 
aas under such conditions, this in i 
would be newsotic 
BIEBER: Homoscsua 
to fears and 
hetcrosex 
ity ds exclusive or whether a 
bisexual. The dynamics of sexual behav 
ior center on fear of anack by me 
perceived. as powerful, competitive and 
dangerous. The bisexual takes flight into 
homosexual experience usually after be 
has experienced sex with а woman, In 
this way. he atiempis 1o act out his 
psychological problems with men. Ofte 
it is a submissive демиге. In part, he is 
saving unconsciously, "Look, guys, I 
don't really mean it. I'm with you and 
Fve given her up to you and for you 
Alier a good 1 expe 
bisexual will compelled 10 
lave sex with a masculine type who 
psychologically represenis. the men he 
and then croticizes as ot 
lizing the fear, In such a situation, 
the bisexual is motivated w please his 


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forestall the anticipated attack 

LEMSCH: 1 simply can’ accept thes 
theories. 1 don’t think homosexuality it 


self. is psychopathological or causes psv- 
chopathology: 1 think social atitudes 
toward it do. You hear very frequently 


that homosexuals are paranoid, that thes 
think everyone is after them, But if you 
read the newspape that the 
cops are after them; the government. is 
after them and everybody else is айе: 
them, Ws not paranoid to think someone 
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have everyone telling you that you're 
sick and you're criminal and you're a 
sinner. You obviously develop feelings of 
being inadequate and unwanted, 

BIEBER: Society and social attitudes nei- 
ther create nor тай idual's 
homosexuality, though a repressive so 
ety foments a gloomy, unpleasant at- 
mosphere as well as realistic problems 
connected with persecution, I've known a 
fair number of homosexuals who arc 
intellectual, for example, and could easi- 
ly seule into intellectual social circles, 
but most don't. There aren't many so- 
phisticated people around who concern 
themselves about the sexual preferences 
of their friends: most couldn't care les: 
Yet exclusive homos rule, live 
in a homosexual world. ] th 
isolate themselves because they're 
to mix on an intimate level with hetero- 
sexuals. They experience anxiety with 
ight” guys, They are afraid that, il 
their homosesuality is exposed, they will 
be humiliated and rejected. This, of 
course, does happen. Insecurity and igno- 
rance abound. so it's important that 
homosexuals choose heterosexual friends 
with care. Another important reason for 
their social isolation is the need not ouly 
to get away from straight men, who may 
represent the father figure, if you like, 
but they also must avoid the company of 
sexy women, who might arouse hetero- 
sexual feclings—which they wish to 
avoid. Consequently, many live an atypi 
cal social life. "They аге not necessarily 
completely unconnected to other circles, 
but in the sense that heterosexual friend- 
ship groups ar 1 of the fabric of 
their tence, a kind of self- 
imposed social ghetto existence is very 
common. The result of this separation 
is. of course, an accentuation of their 
differences as а group. 

MEISCH: T disagree that homosexuals are 
afraid to mix with heterosexuals, It's 
more boredom than fear that limits in- 
teraction. Heterosexuals are very пісе 
people, but they do tend to talk about 
what broads they're trying to screw ог 
which diaper services are most reliable. 
BIEBER: I can think of a very long roster 
of heterosexuals who are not boring, 
including members of this panel. 
MARMOR: I just can't agree that homosex: 
wal behavior is inherently pathological. 
Normaley is а culturally defined phe- 
nomenon. In our time and culture, homo- 
sexuality is considered 10 be deviant from 
accepted norms, but in different times and 
in other cultures, homosexuality hasn't 
always been so defined and therefore 
wouldn't be regarded as pathological, 
BIEBER: I believe Dr. Marmor is incorrect 
in his view that normalcy can only be 
culturally defined and that homosexuali- 
ty would not be pathological in a society 
that accepted it. He implies that il our 
ety accepted it, homosexuals wouldn't 
any more psychological problems 
than heterosexuals. During the Victori: 


cra, [rigidity was regarded as normal. 
Can we therefore assume that frigidity 
created no psychological problems for a 
woman or for her husband because it 
was culturally defined as normal? I think. 


nd pathology to mean 
ents an individual 
a society, that pre- 
ela- 
ps and that causes unhappiness. 
not most, homosexually oriented 
people are very happy, function well in 
society, make their livings, contribute to 
the community's well-being and are not 
"sick" in any way—except by definition 
BIEBER: An ual may function quite 
well in sociery and appear happy. yet be 
schizophrenic. There is a common mis- 
conception that if an individual is 
effective and gets along well, he is therc- 
fore "normal" and that serious. psycho- 
pathology is necessarily absent. Some 
notable world leaders, artists and scientists 
have had serious psychiatric disorders. 
So even if a homosexual is compar: 
welladjusted, this doesn't mean his homo- 
sexual adaptation, as such, is normal. 
Га like to add that criticism is often 
leveled at the clinician who views inver- 
sion as pathological because he presum- 
ably sees only the "troubled" homosexuals. 
1 had occasion during my п 
ine a sizable sample of noi 


a condition that p 
Пот functioning 


vents him from having meaningful 
tions! 


to exam 
patient homosexuals, and I didn't find 
any significant differences between patient 
and nonpatient homosexuals in regard to 
family history or the psychodynamics tha 
characterize homosexuality. 
цапэсн: Calling homosexuality sick is like 
calling it sinful. A value judgment is 
made that has no basis in objective crit 
ria. There are responsible psychiatrists 
who laugh at the notion of homosexual 
ty being a sickness. just as there are ver 
moral people who feel that homosexual 
acts between consenting adults in private 
aren't sinful. But 1 must admit that the 
gay world is as likely to label behavior 
sick as the straight world is. Many overt 
homosexuals are convinced that closet 
queens are sick and unhappy: middle-class 
monogamous homosexuals are sure that 
their promiscuous younger brothers arc 
unhappy: and ihe promiscuous ones 
are positive that the monogamous ones 
are miserable, Some homosexuals feel 
guilty about not being unhappy. They 
were taught that homosexuals must be 
unhappy and feel guilty if they aren't. 
SIMON: It may be the 20th Century's 
form of the puritan ethic to see all 
pleasuresecking behavior as pathologi 
cal In the purian's view. pleasure is 
something that must be paid for and the 
payment nowadays is supposed to be a 
disturbed psyche. Not only do we pathol- 
ogybunt among homosexuals, we look 
for and delight in finding pathology in 
others who are presumed to be enjoying 
themselves more than the rest of us 

Оп the other hand, there's no denying 


that homosexuals as а group are prol» 
ably in a higher-risk category than are 
heterosexuals. Because of their personali- 
ty developments, they run the risk of 
greater unhappiness: they're likelier to 
become mentally ill or alcoholic, or to 
act in ways that block full development. 
Homosexual Ше contains great poten- 
for demoralization, despair, scli-hatred 
and a significant escalation of individual 
psychopathology. This potential is sug- 
gested by some recently collected d 
from a group of 550 white homosexual 
males. About one half reported that 60 
percent or more of their sexual partners 
were pers h whom they had sex only 
one time. Between 10 and 20 percent re- 
ported that they often picked up thei 
sexual partners in public toilets. An even 
прег proportion reported similar con- 
«ts in other public or semipublic loca- 
tions. Between a quarter and а third 
reported having been robbed by a sexual 
parmer. Between 10 and 15 perc 
ported having been blackmailed be 
of their homosexuality. For two fifths of 
the respondents. the longest homosexual 
flair lasted less than one year, and for 
bout one quarter, kissing occurred in 
one third or less of their sexual contacts, 
About 30 percent reported never having 
had sex in their own homes. And two 
fifths of these men, finally, indicated seri- 
ings of regret about being homo: 
giving such reasons as fear of 
al or rejection, inability to 
<perience conventional family life, ícel- 
gS of guilt or shame, or fear of potential 
trouble with the law. These data suggest 
а depersonalized character. a compulsive 
quality about the sexual activity of many 
Homosexuals, which cannot be reckoned 
as anything but extremely costly to them 

In no society that I know of is homo- 
sexuality a desired or even anticipated 
outcome of the child-rearing process. The 
whole society is weighted toward pro- 
ducing and accommodating, heterosexuals. 
This doesn't mean that all. heterosexuals 
are automatically better off than homo- 
sexuals; we all know exclusive herero- 
sexuals who are sicker than many 
homosexuals. It may mean that lile must 
continually present more problems for 
the homosexual. It doesn’t automatic 
follow, of course, that a homose: 
сар: 1 i and pro- 
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PLAYBOY: What is the nature of the pa- 
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homosexuals rather than heterosexuals? 

BIEBER: In the researches my colleagues 
and 1 carried out. we found i the 


central. causative factors were located in 
the family. I would say that parents arc. 
the chief designers of the homosex 


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son relationship has a particular style. 
ppropriately inti 
overclose relationship between the 
son amd the mother, amd more often 
than not, she prefers him to her husband. 
She acts in quite a paradoxical Tashi 
we call it double-bind behavior. She 
often, on the хий 


There is usually an iv 
m 


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mate and seductive with 
ay share his bed far be 


yet 


she will be in 
her son. She п 
yond the time a boy snuggles in bed with 


his mother; she may appe: 


in various 
es of undiess and so forth, T 


E con 
t, the father communicates hostility 
ways. OF all his 


children, he is least fond of this boy. 


u 
openly or in hidde 


although he may have a pretty good 
relationship with his other sons. He 
plays a crucial role in the development 
of homosexuality. Most male homosex 
uals love their mother but will tell you: 
“1 haed my fath “He wasn't 
there”... “1 don't want any ран ol 
him" . . . Fm not at all dike him." 
There is also, almost always, a history of 
grossly defective ties wih childhood 
groups and troubled. relationships with 
larly b 


sibling thers. But one 
must keep in mind that. parents la 


determine а boy's e 


orio 


il prepara 


for peer-group par 
parent of а homosex 
their son's choice of friends a 


ipation. Many а 
I interfered with 


d chus ser 
the conditions for his lone-woll behavior 
MARMOR: Thats very nue. A great deal 
of evidence has accumulated. to show 


that peer experiences play a powerful 
role in normal sexual development, But 
often the mother of а male homosexual 
contributes to her son's homosexuality by 


on his relationship with his 


peers. Mothers instill fears in their sons ol 
the usual competitive peer experiences 


and make their sous overdependent 


fering with normal development of their 
1 masculinity. Its char 


acteristic of homosexuals in their carly life 


assertiveness ai 


that they tended то feel like outsiders 10 


their own peer groups 
LEITSCH: Everybody develops his sexual 
orientation the same way, no таце 
whether he’s gay, straigl 


al ow a 
compulsive masturbator. 1 don't think 
many people any longer accept the 
Fatuous theory of Dr. Bicber and his asso 


1, bisex 


cines that everyone is born to be hetero: 
sexual, and anythi 
from exclusive heterosexuality is sick. Dr 


g that diverts him 


Bieber has even said that bachelorhood is 
а мек state, that only heterosexual mar 
is healthy and “normal.” In light of 
lot 
evolved from. lower 
t of the 


is much too 


recent sex research, а 
simplistic. As m 
s. he developed the p: 
and condi- 


tioning, but at the same time, hc lost the 


am 
brain that controls leami 


directional iustincis of the lower ani 
mals, Hence, we have to learn our sex 
майу. Each of us is born with a sex 


drive that’s undirected. Parental exam- 
ple, the attitudes of our teachers, rela 
tives and peers toward sex, our whole 
environment, direct our sexual drive. 
We're programmed, much as a computer 
is, by the information that’s fed into us. 
"The system is designed to program hetero- 
sexuality and monogamy into us; but, 
for a variety of reasons, the program- 
ming process sometimes indicates that an 
alternative is beuer. There's nothing un 
healthy about this; it’s perfectly normal. 
BIEBER: I don't hold with this tabula rası 
view that one is born without апу sexual 
orientation and that culture and society 
intervene to direct sexualobject choice. 
"There is no animal species that doesn’t 
have inborn mechanisms to guarantee 
heterosexual arousal. In most mammals, 
smell is the determining mechanism. 
There is convincing evidence that smell 
is a heterosexual triggering mechanism 
n man. It's important in the early phases 
of childhood sexuality and even in later 
adult arousal. If social pressures alone 
facilitated the heterosexual response, man 
would be the only species without inborn 
programming for heterosexual arousal, 
and this is most unlikely. Morcover, il, 
Mr. Leitsch argues, society preaches 
ardently and thus di- 
с, the obvious question 
is Why would anyone then become 
homosexual? Incidentally, the research 
that produced the theories Mr. Leitsch 


thinks of as fatuou 1 award 
from the America Associa- 
tion in 1964. Quite contrary to 


opinion, our work has received wide 
acceptance, though not in the homosexual 
press, I'm sorry to say. It has been grati- 
fying to my associates and me to have 
made a contribution that is respected in 
scientific circles. 

MARMOR: The kind of family structure 
that Dr. Bieber and his colleagues have 
described certainly renders a child more 
ble to the possibility of becoming 
ual. But if one has this kind of 
ily structure, one is not inevitably go- 
ing to become homosexual, There arc 
heterosexuals who come from this kind of 
family background. On the other hand, 
there are many homosexuals who emerge 
from family structures quite diflerent from 
that described by Dr. Bieber. Morcover, 
1 think it's worth not 
ber's model family rel 
homosexuality and. not to female 
homosexuality. No single, specilic family 
background has been elicited for female 
homosexuality at this point in our inves 
ation; our studies indicate that m 
tiple causes are involved there also. No 
one family background can be a total 
tion. But all the answers а 
simply not yet in. My own clinical experi- 
ence suggests that the development of 


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homosexuality depends on a complicated 
conglomer. 
terms of qu 
their impact on the developing child. 
BIEBER: 1 can't think of any category of 
human behavior where we have all the 
answers. Homosexuality is no exception 
But we have to be willing to set forth 
hypotheses based upon clinical experi 
ence about what we think contributes to 
it. The data we systematically collect 
y or may not support our hunches, In 
our reseach, it did. To зау tha 
ty is complex and | 
terminants doesn't help us find answers 
In our study, we never said that only 
one type of parent-child relationship 
genders inversion, But we did find а 


representative type—the close-binding, 
overintimate mother and the hostile 
father. Some homosexuals had mothers 


who were rejecting. harsh and seemingly 
concerned. Some had n - 
. overbearing and very possessive [i 
Some саше from disadvantaged 
groups and broken families. In such 
Gases, causative factors have to do with 
underprotection. Such men usually wind 
up as effeminate, unassertive amd overly 
dependent on an man, But we 
never fou homosexual who had 
m and constructive re 
nship with both parents. Where hetero. 
sexuals family history similar to 
those found among homosexual, we й 
bly found homosexual problem 
1 though they may not be acted out. 
When parents of homosexuals are com- 
pared with parents of heterosex 
there is almost always a clear indi 
of differences in atitudes and beha 
In general, parents of homosexuals are 
much more demasculinizing. 
GOODMAN: The [amily as а whole is im- 
portant, but Т agree with Dr. Marmor 
that there seem to be many posible 
causes. One obvious, important one is 
resentment or hostility toward а mother 
ister in carly years. Disgust with a 
smell or a woman's taste be 
«omes au important block. But if you go 
behind this disgust, there is almost al 
ways some kind of weaning problem 
your mother starved you, so you do 
want to have anything to do with hei 
Another cause is probably incestuous 
fee Since the mother and sister are 
forbidden sex objects and 
strongly desired at an сапу ре 
ince you must have sexuality, you give 
up the more incestuons article. Fear of 
lment is anot portant. cune, 
in my case, 
t childhood, although 1 was 
great one to play ball games 
forth, I was also rather sexy in the 1 
sexual Ii pully pur 
Twas put grades in school. 
once for kissing a girl in the alley and 
another time for wı love note to a 
girl. Our society's y hits esp 
cially at heterosexuality while you're 


growing up, so that it becomes too god- 
damn much trouble and risk. At a later 
stage, homosexual practice has most of 
the social sanctions against. it, but at th 


earlier stage 
that has the s: 


LETSCH: A good friend of minc had simi- 
lar experiences. He attended Catholic 
schools and was taught at an carly age 
that boys de ve sex with girls—at 
least not until they're. married. He had 
five or six premarital experiences. with 
irls but he invariably felt guilty, dirty 
nd full of shame after each опе. The 
priests had neglected to progr: 
him the information that they cor 
ered homosexual acts just as bad as—or 
worse thai 1 sex. To this da 
my fri 
experiences bur feels no guilt or shame 
about his homosexual contacts. 

MANNES: Il like to suggest another fac- 
fier childhood. 17 
Moser: 


there is 
among men, it m 
result of the sexually ME acu 
don't mean here what is conventionally 
thought 10 be the 
that is, the wom: 


any 


wor 


ng on some sensitive male i 


attempt to trap, possess or marry him 
just to get m and 
m. ^ young man of 17 or 18 


ıt by nature, 
ple ego, would 
nother man in 


tender and w 
amomatically tum to 
fear of this kind of man-cater, In 
he would find a much deeper со 
ment to human equality with another 
than he would with this kind of 
predatory woman, who seeks to trap him 
into а house, a mortgage, а secure office 
job and all the consumer hang-ups that 
go with marriage. 

BIEBER: А homosexual personality would 
have tw be already developed for such a 
thing to take place. Boys who reach 
dolescence without a homosexual pat- 
tern do not become homosexual. Chil- 
dren who have reached adolescence with 
а homosexual patiern get a second c 
ard During this critical pes 
constructive experi i 
or with adults such as teachers and a 
mired figures may strengthen a masculi 
idenificuion and redirect a boy toward 
heterosexuality 
PLAYBOY: Whether or not predatory wom- 
en play a part in driving some men into 
homosexuality, the picture commonly 
drawn of homosexuals in many books, 
nd movies shows them as hostile 
nd homosexual literature of- 
ag mon- 
homosexuals really hate 


. Do n 


the opposite sex? 
LYON: | don't think there is ncarly as 
much hared across the homosexual- 


heterosexual line as people thi 


male homosexuals aren't fundamentally 
woman-haters. The most fundamentally 
man-hating group [ve ever run acros 
are heterosexual women who have just 
discovered how badly they've been op 
pressed by men. 1 once went to a meeting 
of the National Organization for Women 
ad ihe three Lesbians there all felt 
we had a violem 
ly fantas 


ing. A lot of women in 
movement 


women’s liberation 
ng together in 
support « 


the 
gather 
type groups do 
while they ty to find out wh 


are 


to be a won our society and to get 
their heads straight. But this kind of thing 
tends to lead to an anti-male bias. If you 
read and talk about how women have 
been degraded and put. down, you snarl 
at the next тап you see. There are some 
Lesbians who hate men and some male 
homosexuals who hate women, but in 
large measure, I find that people. really 
down existing barriers so they 
^t along better with one another. 

MANNES: 1 guess I've met and known far 
more male homosexuals than I have fe- 
male—unless Ive been awfully unper- 


ceptive, Many of them arc real friends 
and colleagues whom I respect for what 
they do and the way they live. I think 


there ds cer ease 
homosexuals which allows them to give 
more freely to women. One can be re: 
xed enough to know that they exist 
rst as human beings and then as homo 
sexuals. There are even times when 1 
think literary descriptions of women by 
homosexual men are in many ways more 
astute or ас n what totally hetero- 
e 
TYNAN: It's ir 
sexual playwrights have а special insight 
nto fe psychology that enables 
n to write superb roles for wome 
But they're nearly always portrai 
tragic, neurotically defeated wome 
Zed by a patriarchal society in 
ime way that queers аге. When it comes 
to acing nontagic female characters, 
queers аге по more skilled than heteros 
BIEBER: The idea that homosexuals hate 
women is a fictitious onc. When there is 


no threat of heterosexual involvement, 
homosexuals as a group tend, as Miss 
Mannes notes, to feel very much at 


an with 
y 
| they do men. 
d. After all, 
ге object 
ШП d olten а 
ized before, there is 
sually а history of h hated. and 
feared males, even though they may have 
mired them. In our study 
that most of the homosexu: 
depressed after a prolonged peri 
ime without the company of wom 
PLAYBOY: ЇЇ homosexuals have such а 


case with women—more so 0 
heterosexual men. And, frequent 
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close and comfortable relationship with 
women, why is it that when they imitate 
women, on stage or off. they often seem 
to copy—and sometimes caricature—the 
least likable and most grotesque cle- 
ments of the female stereotype? 
LESCH: I don't know why, but whenever 
homosexuals try to emulate the opposite 
sex, you're right that invariably they 
seem to choose the worst possible models. 
Drag queens usually dress themselves ир 
like 42nd Street prostitutes. Butch Lesbi- 
ans almost always mimic longshoremen, 
truck drivers and sometimes thugs. 
TYNAN: Waspish, spiteful, bitchy, mali- 
cious—these are some of the characteris- 
tics of a type of queer we've all met, and 
also, ак you point out, among the less 
admired characteristics of women. But 
these may be the common attributes of 
discontented. second-class citizens. Society 
victimizes queers, so it must expect them 
to develop antisocial udes. Some 
queers behave as if they were taking a 
longterm revenge on heterosexual socie 
ty for having rejected them. This may 
not be усту lovable of them, but it’s 
wholly understandable. 

LeriscH: It’s partly а “Fuck you, world" 
attitude, partly а gibe at society's rules. 
Society says that men should behave like 
a Wester ме, but the queen 
imitates Bette Davis. It’s the ultimate 
putdown of society's expectations, Why 
do you think Mae West is so popular in 
the gay world? Hell, she's been satirizing 
the female role longer than most of us 
have been alive. 


PLAYBOY: It’s a common heterosexual 
belief that all male homosexuals act 
effeminate—even when theyre nor. imi- 
tating specific wom d that all Les- 
bians are butch, Whats the truth? 

LETSCH: A male homosexual can be as 
masculine as any other mim. I value my 


masculinity as highly as my heterosexual 
brother values his, and I'm no more of a 
sissy than he is. And Lesbians don't have 
to be mannish, either. 

LYON: In the 1940s in San Francisco, the 
Lesbian bars were usually filled with 
women wearing butchy tweeds or men's 
clothes—and an opposite type wearing 
y feminine garb—but this isn't what's 
going on now. This whole pattern of 
breaking down into butch and fem has 
the years. At the 
inning of a relationship between two 
young women, often the only pattern 
they have on which to base their rela- 
tionship is the masculine feminine pat- 
tern of their father and mother. But 
pretty soon most Lesbians find out thats 
not what they want. Th 
happens with male homosexuals. They 
aren't playing out the husband-ind-wife 
thing, either. You end up v 
living together, sharing all the various 
tasks, each doing whatever he does best 
bout whether it fits 
into the conventional roles of husband or 


same th 


th two people 


wife, man or woman. I think this is part 
of a larger drift in the whole society. 
We're moving away from specific kinds of 
dress, behavior and roles that have been 
connected culturally with being a man 
ог a woman. 

LEITSCH: Male homosexuals are generally 
regarded as effeminate simply because 
most people can't spot а homosexual 
who doe't swish. And most of us don't. 
TYNAN: Yes, in general, you can't tell th: 
a man is queer unless he wants you to 
know. Lenny Bruce had a marvelous 
routine about a mother who never un- 
derstood why her grown-up son hadn't 
got married: "He's so good-natured,” she 
says. “A night doesn't go past he doesn’t 
bring home some poor Serviceman, some 
guy who ain't got a place to sleep.” Som 
queers do like to make а big production 
of their queerness, doing the full swish- 
ing and lisping bit, but many male homo- 
sexuals are as butch as John Wayne, 
nd Гуе known Lesbians as kittenish a 
Tiuman Capote. Conversely, don't be 
Tooled by voun 
Тасе shirts and wave thei 
them are as heterosesually 
bons. Many people have u 
h the oppe 


znglishmen who wi 


hair; most of 
andy as gib- 
is normally 
site sex, but thi 


п that they're homosexual. 
PLAYBOY: Conversely, again, it's widely 


believed that. homosexuals are randier— 
promiscuous—than heterosex- 
inother 
MARMOR: This i: 
ist with regard to all minorities. Mi 
nority groups arc considered inferior and 
therefore doser to "animals." In 

that thinks of sexuali 

it clearly follows that in the popular mind, 
minority groups are thought more sexual 
Tve scen many homosexuals as inhibited 
d moralistic about expressing themselves 
lomosexnally as some heterosexuals are 
bout heterosexual activity. But as а ge 
e able 10 be 
expressing their sexuality toward 
other because the sume kind of 
binding factors amd interpersonal com- 
generally exist between 
between meu and wom- 
danger of pregnancy and 
ation of marriage. One 
er degree of promis 
homosexuals than among 


cach 


en. There is n 


cuity mori 
heterosexuals. 

TYNAN: The belief that queers are sexier, 
more promiscuous and less capable of 
controlling themselves than other people 
is usually held by very hetero- 
sexuals, ОГ course, as Ion impris- 
on queers for their ac 
them to the constant thre 
and in these circumst 


сез. 


p. Considering the 
5 of the law, its amazing how many 

homosexual “marriages” there 
are, Amd—birarre as this may seem to 
sexual bigots—the binding factor in these 


liaisons is love. Plato thought that love 


per 
durable 


between men was the highest form of 
human affinity, and he certainly didn’t 
exclude sexual love. And Shakespeare's 
sonnets are unquestionably love poems, 
despite the fact that many of them are 
addressed to a young man whom he 
described as “the master-misucss of my 
passion. 
LEITSCH: To a degree, it is true that homo- 
sexuals are sexually hyperactive, though. 
I don't think we're basically any more 
sex-oriented than anyone che; but our 
sexuality is inflated all out of propor 
because society keeps screaming about 
our sex life, our sex life, our sex life— 
until it’s built up to the most important 
thing in our lives. It's the thing that can 
send us to can get us 
fired from our jobs, the thing that can 
turn our parents and friends against us. 
Naturally, we develop defensive attitudes 
toward it, and sex is built up in us as 
something more important than it should 
be. T's what makes us different from thi 
average man and binds us together as а 
group. The man next to me in a gay bar 
may be a black millionaire with five doc- 
toral degrees, politically conservative 
an orthodox Jew. I might be poor, wl 
uneducated, a political radical and strong- 
ly agnostic. If we develop any kind of 
relationship, it will probably start. with 
sex. С: jonships turn into more 
mean. relationships only if thc 
part ve more in common. than the 
homosexuality. ‘That's just the opposite 
of the traditional heterosexual relation- 
ship, where the two pariners usually find 
common ground, then progress to sex. 
GOODMAN: And homose: promiscuity 
a be a beautiful thing—if you're pru 
deat about V.D. Tt сап be profoundly 
democratizing, throwing together. every 
class and group more than heterosexuali- 
ty does. I've cruised vich and poor; mid- 
die class and petits bourgeois; black, 
white, yellow and brown: scholars, jocks 
and dropouts: farmers, seamen, railioad 
men: heavy industry. light manufactur- 
ing, communications and finance; civili 
soldiers and sailors: 
cops. Probably for Ocdip 
tend to be sexually inti Sem which is 
drag. But only gross stupidity, obses- 
mal cleanliness, racial prejudice, in 
йу and being habitually drunk or 
igh really puts me olf, There is a kind 
of political meaning iess. in the fact 
that there are so many types o£ atractive 
human beings. T have something to occu- 
py me on ual па buses and duri 


nd, once or twice, 
1 reasons, 1 


the increasingly Joug waits at airports. 7 
have something to do at peace demon- 
strations. No doubt the FBI with their 


нше s have innumerable pictures 


ng somebody, Saint Thon 


jd that the chief human use of ses 
in addiion to the namal law of 
to get to know other 


ately. That has been my 
experi А common criticism of homo- 
sexual promiscuity, of course, is that it 


An imaginative bag of 
right-on owes to wrap 
around a body. 


Colorful. Rebellious. 
Daring. 
And like that. 


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PLAYBOY 


78 


olves ап appalling superficiality of 
human contact, so that, rather than de- 
mocracy, it's a kind of archetype of the 
inanity of mass urban life. 1 doubt that 
generally the case. though I don't 
ence has been the op- 
posite. Many of my lifelong personal 
loyalties had sexual beginnings. But is 
ule or the except 
usual coldness and fragmentation of com- 
munity life at present, my hunch is that 
homosexual promiscuity enriches more 
lives than it desensitizes. Needless to say, 
if we had beuer community, we'd have 
better sexuality, too. 


MclLVENNA: I don't like the term promis- 
спо 


l think we give it bad connota- 
it doesn't deserve. The church has 
one of the causes of this hang-up on 
sex acts. One of the reasons churchmen 
can’t say that homosexuals should have 

al relations is because then they 
would have to say that heterosexuals, 
outside of marriage, could have sexual 
ionships, too. In fad, given the 
opportunity, heterosexual males would 
probably act out to the sume degree as 
homosexuals. And why shouldn't they? 
SIMON: Some homosexuals are undoubt- 
edly sexually hyperactive, bur I'm not 
sure that this remains a constant factor 
in most homosexuals’ lives after their 
initial entry into the gay world. Probably 
the greatest rate of sexual activity occurs 
when the homosexual first comes out. He 
has finally become fice of any inhibiting 
doubts he may have had about his sexual 
preferences and whether he should 
on them; he feels a new fieedor 
this frequently releases a great ¢ 
sexual energy. He often pursues sexual 


contacts nearly indiscriminately, with 
vigor than caution. It’s parallel to 
А life 


s first married, and coitus is 
mate and pursued with a subst 
tiai amount of energy. This high rate of 

ital coitus declines as demands arc 
made on the young couple to take their 
place in the framework of a larger social 
system, Perhaps the same casing off of sex- 
wal activity occurs im the homosexual's 
life when he adjusts to his new patte 
BIEBER: Promiscuity among homosexuals 
is not a myth. It is more the rule Шан 
the exception. A significantly higher per. 
centage of homosexuals than heterosex- 
uals are promiscuous. Promiscuity is an 
dicitor of sexual and personality 
ficulties, not of vigorous sexuality. Dur- 
ing lectures, when 1 have said that the 
female prostitute is mostly а se 
inhibiied woman, it draws а reaction of 
incredulity and amusement, Yet many 
prostitutes are frigid 
even nonprofe: 
counters. The Don Juan is not too dis- 


Juan 


tiful flower to an ever 


one because he can't resist. satisfaction 
rather, he takes flight from cach one 
because he is afraid of the gardener 
Promiscuous people are not primarily 
motivated by sexual pleasure secking. 
Like Don Juan, they harbor [eus as 
sociated with having close sexual reke 
tionsh one partner. Under the 
ation of boredom or of 
ble hunger for variegated experience, 
most homosexuals leave their relationship 
after а brief period. Or, if a closeness 
develops into а meaningful. friendship, 
sex usually disappears and the search [or 
sexual gratification continues elsewhere. 
Seriously pathological mechanisms may 
be acted out in homosexual promiscuity. 
For example, some men are compulsively 
driven to find the biggest cock in town. 
They spend their time in a never-ending 
ud they are 
ively unconcerned with the person 
to whom it is attached, Various psycho- 
dynamics may be delineated, such as a 
desire to get strength or masculinity mag: 
ically from a large penis. It is also а way 
of attempting to repair a defective sense 
ol masculinity, or а way of symbolically 
castrating the father figure so as for once 
id for all to destroy his threatening 
power. After sucking olf a big cock, one 
person dreamed that he had blood on his 
teeth. 1 have spoken 10 homosexuals who 
have had fellatio with 20 men in one 
„ but they experienced little gr 
fication themselves, Their reward was 
fatigue and disgust. Loneliness is com- 
mon among homosexuals and much 
eui motivated by the need for 
human contact, Та such encounters, the 
individual is oriented to pleasing his 
any way desired. Personal 
asure is but а second considera 


partner 


Another very important side of sexu 
ly compulsive behavior is the matter. of 
filling in time left open by an inability 
to get involved in meaningful tasks 
because of inhibitions in work and erea- 
tivity. This kind of screwing time awa 
also occurs among heterosexuals who for 
some reason cannot allow themselves to 
pursue fulfilling jobs. In psychoanalytic 
therapy, as such problems are resolved. 
obsessivecompulsive sexuality tends. 10 


of the purposes of psycho- 
therapy, as understood: by work-minded 
psychiatrists, seems to be to сапу out 
in the 20th Century the task school- 
teachers and moralists took upon them- 
selves in the 19th: the 
that could be devoted to pleasure so 
that it is penitentially dedicated to ear 
nest fort and gain. One can understand 
why, county so depende 
happy work force, certain psych 
hold that pleasure is some sort of aber 
tion to be qualified by such words as 
obsessive and The ide 
that there is a legitimate maximum time 


to divert 


ne 


lowed for sexual pursuits is monstrous 
and dismaying evidence of the durability 
of puritanism in our benighted culture. 
If homosexuals devote more of their 
time to sexual enjoyment than hetero- 
sexuals do, it's their gain and our loss. If 
I had to choose between а physically 
fulfilled homosexual life and a trium. 
phanuly successful but physi 
ing career as а nominally 
business executive, I hope 1 would have 
the humanity to choose the former. 
BIEBER: Мг. Tynan is confusing what wi 
term work inhibition, or work block, with 
compulsive working, which excludes oth- 
cr pleasures. | am speaking of people 
who can't do the things they want to 
who would get great pleasure ош ol 
doing them if they could. 1 ag 
to writers who cannot write because they 
are blocked, performers who cannot per- 
form because they suffer from stage 
hight, hine athletes who can't compete 
successfully because they tighten up in 
the dutch, As pleasurable as sex is. there 
are many other pleasures in the reper 
toire of а fulfilled person, Fortunately, 
Mr. Tynan has not had to choose be 
tween a fulfilling heterosexual life 
successful carcer 

PLAYBOY: In discussing sexual activity, we 
have focused almost exclusi on the 
male homosexual. Docs the female have 
an equally active sex 
McILVENNA: Well, we certainly don’t see 
any more promiscuity between female 
homosexuals than we do among other 
women, The male of the species in our 
society, heterosexual as well as homosex 
ual, acts out sexually much more than 
the female, 

LETSCH: 1 think things may be changi 
а lite bit, but as а group. male homo: 
sexuals, at least the ones I know, have 
fewer hang-ups and restrictions than Les- 
bians about what kind of sex they're 
willing to have, and with whom. But 
Lesbians have always had lots of restric 
tions about how much sex they were 
willing to have, Some time ago а L 
bim friend of mine told me she was 
breaking up her relationship, which had 
been going for two years. T had though 
they were very happy together, so I 
asked her what had happened, and she 
said, "After two years 1 finally put my 
foot down and said, ‘OK, we're going 
to have sex and tonight is the n 


es 


And her lover started crying and sa 
God, why does it 


"Oh. 
end in s 
LYON: Most of this is really explainable 
by the fact that Lesbians are brought up 
as women. They aren't tained to be 
aggressive in the pursuit of a partner in 
the way that young men are. It's very 
dificult for а young woman even if she 
gets up the nerve to go to а bar, Then 
she has to get up enough courage to take 
the second: step—to talk 10 somebody. 
Usually, how a woman gocs about meet- 
ing other Lesbians is to meet one person 


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who has several friends and they have 
more friends, and eventually you get 
into a circle of some sort. Many Lesbians 
live either in a pair relationship or in a 
cirde of friends for most of their lives 
without bra n any way, 
iEHSCH: Just as n "y are 
told they should be sex-oriemed and. 
promiscuous, females are taught to be 
romanti id ual This is eve 
more evident in the homosexual tha 
the heterosexual community. Males tend 
to have large numbers of se ners 
and a wide variety of sexual experience, 
and Lesbians tend to be more roma 
to d long time before ever goi 
bed together, to be monogamous when 
рап of а couple and to be sexually 
conservative, 
PLAYBOY: That doesn't gibe 
erotic books and movies depict. Lesbi: 
who are shown involved in wild se: 
activil that include the use of dildos 
and other penis substitutes. Are thes 
distortions? 
SIMON: Almost totally. The 
created to turn on the sual 
male, and are revolting t0 many Lesbia 
In general, penis substitutes aren't part of 
Lesbian practice аг all. Mutual masturba- 
tion and cunnilingus are much more 
common. 
LEITSCH: I would guess that female homo- 
sexuals are more uptight about sex and 
sex techniques tham female heterosex- 
uals, because, at least, female heteroses 
uals mix with males and have to be 
sexually creative and adventurous, if 
only to win and keep their men. The 
sexual revolution is finally being felt in 
the Lesbian world, though. I don’t know 
if Lesbians are actually practicing а bit 
of promiscuity, partner swapping, extra- 
ital” is and orgy-going, but 
out at th 
of such things anymore. 
LYON: Yes, there is a change going on, 
especially among young people. You find 
more young women saying, "I'm not 
going to be caught in the bag of settling 
down yet. I want to be free to go to bed 
with whatever girl 1 find." You didit 
find this five years ago, or even three 
years ago. Every Lesbian used to think 
she had to find a parmer and settle 
down, but many of them aren't worried 
about it anymore, This means there is 
going to be a great deal more direct 
sexual activity on the part of the Lesbian 
than there used to be. That's part of a 
whole new generation, 
PLAYBOY: Despite this new freed 
homose: те at- 
tempting to legalize homosexual mar- 
парез. Do you think that such legal 
contracts are either likely or desirable? 
MANNES: 1 think marriage is ui 
tant, and is becon ngly so, 
except where children are involved. If 
two people want to live together for as 
long as they love exch other—whether 


fantasies 


s 


many 


they're man and man, woman and wom- 
n or man and woman-—I personally sec 
no reason why such a union needs any 
external. sanct n by the state or the 
church, H the partners feel they need some 
sort of legal contract because of property 
i es or inh. е, there's no 
reason why they shouldu't have one, but 
1 frankly feel that marriage itself is very 
much on the way out over the next few 
decades—unless a couple bears children, 
that homosexua 


dying institution. 
PLOSCOWE Among my other virtues or 
vices, I teach family law, specifically sepa 
ation, pulment and divorce, And 1 
think the idea of homosexual marriage is 
а damnation. It’s an idiotic idea. M 
riage is primarily an institution for fami- 
uals want 
's their business, but 
nderstood why they have 
ive the institution of marriage, They 
cin own property jointly, they can si 
for loans jointly. The only thing they 
can't do is file joint income-tax returns, 
amd that’s certainly not just 
enough for w homosexual mar 
i: licenses. I thin 
fronting the heterosexual ev 
Many homosexuals are exl 
and to me this cry for a n 
is morc of their desire for cxli 
KUH: I agree. I think the idea is absurd, 
completely undesirable. I would indi 
te that society 

blessing to such unions. Although it may 
be that society should discontinue heap 
ing obloquy upon homosexuals, 1 don't 
think homosexuals should, by mockin 
marriage, hasten its demise—the rumors 
ol which I, for one, believe to be grossly 
exaggerated. 

GOODMAN; І don't think homosexual mar- 
riage is desirable either, but for different 
reasons. E don't think homosexual топор: 


it’s just а way of 
further 
i LS, 


amy is а healthy state. In a life that 
ollers very few opportunities to avoid 
loneliness, it’s probably better as a defen 


sive maneuver to hi permanent 
friend than по, but such a life style 
doesn’t get the full richness out of homo 
sexuality. The main advantage of homo- 
sexuality at the adult level is a cultural 
one: It’s a way of being dose to people. 
One way of getting to know people is to 
have sex with ad once you're real 
friends, normally the sexual tie would 
weaken very rapidly. But the friend. 
ly doseness would survive and you'd 
have а permanent friend. The same 
thing occurs iu the masterdisciple rek 
fionship, which I think is а very impor- 
tant part of the homosexual picture. The 
essence of а masterdisciple relationship 
is that the disciple grows up. Somethi 
is very wrong in that relationship if the 
disciple has taught to discard the 


е а 


"t bee 


Homosexual ааз and homosex: 
ns, when they're in a broad 
activity, have positive 
advantages that are very difficult 
to achieve otherwise. Homosexual mar- 
riage would cut oll these advantages. 

BIERER: 1 doubt if homosex 


master. 


heterosexual instit 

sexual relationships. I haven't observed a 
love relationship between homosexuals 
that has any analogue to such a re 
man and a woman. Um 
sure that there are homosexuals who. 
have very warm and loving feelings for 
other men, and when they get into the 
so-called love relationship, it tends to be 
very enthusiastic and supposedly passion- 
ate in the beginning, but that very rapid 
ly changes, Where the iwo men really 
like each other, sex often drops out and 
sex is had with other people, This is quite 
different from а heterosexual re 
ship. If а man and woman really 


ual relationship, it gets better in а w: 
that's not true among homosexuals. Of 
course, n there are no 
longstanding partnerships between two 
homosexuals, where they continue sex in 
the context of a warm, friendly and 
lovi tionship. But most of the rela 
tionships are far from loving: they're 
punctuated by all types of conflicts, and 
the large majority don't last long. If а 
homosexual relationship lasts two years, 
that’s a long time. 

MANNES: My experience is obviously lim- 
ited, but I can testify to the fact that I 
know, among my direct friends and ас 
quaintances, six allmale couples who 
have lived together for а long time and 
still do. Whether these are typical, 1 
ave no way of telling. 

MARMOR: It's true that one finds a greater 
number of people among homosexuals 
who have difficulty in making commit 
ments, whose relationships with one an 
other are relatively unstable and may 
even show a higher proportion of neu 
тос patterns than is true among hetero 
sexuals, But I disagree with Dr. Bieber 
assumption that being homosex 
ual, ipso facto, inevitably means diat such 


tisfactory human ships. Over the 
© known many homosexuals who 
have lived with partners in stable relation 
ships not particularly different from rela 
tively stable heterosexual relationships, 
and who lived lives of quiet dignity, re- 
spectability and responsibility within our 
social system. They have aho had good 
friendships with nonhomosexual individ 
uals of both sexes. Although 1 agree with 
Dr. Bieber 'oportion of 
homosexuals show evidence of emotional 
apair ment and instability, 1 object to the 
ll homosexuals in this 


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84 


written, said or indi 
als had a "massiv у lor satis- 
factory human relationships.” I wonder 


where Dr. Marmor got this notion from? 
ОГ course, homosexuals are capable of 
profound, warm and loving interperson- 
al relationships, The presence of psycho- 
logical problems doesnt preclude an 
bility to establish good human relation- 
ships. What I said was that they bre- 
quently are unable to combine a close 
interpersonal relationship with a sexual 
onc. In my expe I haven't found 
that there are many homosexuals wl 
as couples in а stable union that can be 
ared with heterosexual pairings. I 
t it's of any great impor- 
ice whether or not à homosexual part- 


nership endures, but the fact is, very few 
such relationships are lasting. 
MARMOR: 1 don't want to beat this 


to death, but all of Dr. Bieber’ writings 
about homosexuals emphasize the severi- 


ty of their psychopathology and are rela- 
tively silent about their personality 
sm ‚ he has expressed the 


conviction that homosexuality is ^ 
patible with bly happy life” 
consider the former to be a distortion of 
emphasis, and the later, an 
generalization, 

BIEBER: Dr. Marmor seems to be chiding 
me for not giving emphasis 10 the 
strengths of homosexuals. When 1, as а 
physician, point out a condition as path- 
ological, 1 am making a medical state- 
pent, not a pejorative value judgment 
ism of the individ- 
iow. 1 don't have 
to apologize or reassne when making a 
diagnosis or explicuing it. Besides. 1 
don't see that personality strengths ac 
company homosexuality per se; strengths 
exist where they do quite apart 
inversion and. despite it. Lo me, homo- 
sexuals are human beings, As such, I am 
for them as I Т humans. In my 
social amd professional relations with 


homosexuals, 1 am not aware of having 
any less respect or lion for 
them than for anyone else. 1t is not 1 on 
this panel who refers 10 them as 
“queers,” 10 which no other panelists 
scem 10 take umbrage--mot even the 


As for the condition itsell, 
Tam not for it any more than 1 
any physical or psychol 
As for the happiness angle, 1 admit that 
it is difficult to assay and quamify happi- 
ness Yet among the many men I have 
1 who are homosexuals, 1 have 
observed evidence of a sense of 
nit and satisfaction—happi 
. One might say th 
у homosexual patients and 
they would not likely be happy people. 
But I have seen а great number of 
heterosexuals who are patients, and I 
have not infrequently observed an w 
derlying sense of contenument despite 
discomforting anxiety or other symp- 


homosexuals. 


interviews 
never 


toms. Homosexuals ах a group have an 
underlying depression they often conceal 
under the gay facade. Mart Crowley, who 
wrote The Boys in the Band and is very 
sensitive to the problems of homosexuals, 
summarized the matter by the line, “You 
show me a happy homosexual amd Il 
show you a gay corpse. 
МӘІМЕММА: ] know many homosexuals 
who scem as happy as anyone else, and 
for their relationships not being Last 
їп Ги not sure Шаг so many normal 
males in our society would stay with one 
te if it weren't for the existence of 
imony and sanctions against the male 
who is divorced. 1 know many homosex- 
couples who have been together for a 
long period of time. I wonder what has 
contributed. to this durability? 
LEITSCH: I would guess that the best homo- 
sexual relationships involve two people 
with slightly dillerent characteristics, with 
one partner probably being a little older 
than the other, Гуе noticed that couples 
jı which both partners are of about the 
same age, economic bracket, educational 
level, degree of. attractiveness, etc, tend 
not to last long. Somehow, it seems casier 
for persons of different levels to interact 
ad communicate. Each brings to the re 
lationship something the other doesn’t 
have, and cm have only through his 
parner. But, on the whole, йз Lesbian 
relationships that tend to be long-lived. 
Male homosexual partnerships are most 
ойеп transitory. This is partly due to the 
kind of programming males a 
get in our society, and. party to the 
ob any equivalent of a marriage lie 
Тог homosexuals. heterosexual. mar- 
rige gocs on the rocks, maybe because 
the husband is sleeping around and de- 
cides he'd rather spend the rest of his life 
with his girlfriend than with his wile, 
society becomes involved. There's the 
hassle over the divorce and child support 


and alimony payments, and the 

pressure from family, fri 

partners, and maybe the church. Divorce 
also causes a loss of face. When a 


homosexual relationship goes on the 
rocks, по big deal: I there's 
joint property, it’s simply split up and 
one or both partners moves out, It's so 
eny to break up, its not surprising: that. 
y “marriages” usually don't last à long 
time. What's surprising is that so many 
last 20, 30 or more years. The record 


in my cirde of friends i ars 


there's 


LYON: You can share and do а lor of 
things together without a license; my 
friend and 1 have one bank account, 
one house and one car together. But 


we probably рау three times as much 
income tax. 1 would hope that this ki 
of inequity could be changed. So 
might well institute some kind of le 
binding together for any two people who 
wish it. If this happened, I suspect that 
the church would eventually consent to 
performing homos marriages, if the 


church is still aro 
still around. 

SIMON: Possibly we shouldn't be measuring 
heterosexual and homosexual life styles 
by the same standards. Heterosexual 
preferences fit in with a whole host of 


id —and if mani 


general social expectations about what 
someone should be at dillerent ages or 
stages of the Ше cycle. An additional 


number of expectations and social 
rangements exist to reinforce the patter 
ng of a lile predicated on a heterosexual 
preference. Homosexuals will. 
of them do—adapt as best they can 
for many this involves a denial of ma 
of ше experiences and opport 
available to rosexuals. Most 
homosexual 
experience the role of parent, and rel- 
atively few homosexuals—at least, male 


or the constraints of a long-term rel 
ship. 1 don't see why we cant just accept 
that as a hard fact of life. This doe: 
mean that all homosexual experiences 
are, by definition, more impoverished 
than those of heterosexuals. But it docs 
mean that they will be different 

кин: Lers face it: The overall picture 
s quite dearly is that, by and 
rge, the homosexual's life is а barren 
one; his sex life is likely w be loveless 
iglu stands, often with little o 
his lile, even wh 
with friends, is basici 
is there any longterm 
ment between two persons. His e 
parallels that of Ше overaged playboy, 
although there's a social shunning of the 
homosexual that the playboy doesnt е 
perience. Sure, there a 
riages between men and women 
the best marriage poses s 
nd I don't mean to т 


€ unhappy mar 
and even 


typical manowoman mi ist the 
potential for love, for wanquillity, [or 
communication, for substance in a rela- 


tionship, such that we sell short if we e 
courage anyone to forfeit his chances Lor 
it by choosing the lile of 
LEMTSCH: J think the argument goes in the 
opposite direction. With all the money 
training and effort that society puts into 
heterosexual marriages, it's prey terrible 
for them to fail a third of the time. The 
whole society is organized to make mar 
ge work—tares, schools, advertisi 

everything—and vet, look 1 of 
unhappily married. people. М 
kind is basically queer, and 
the efforts of society to get the sexes 
interested in cach other. With all the 
crap homosexuality puts up with, 
pretty well, and with all the help hetero- 
sexuality gets, it's doing pretty badly. 

PLAY&OY- Among the things homosexuals 
have to put up with are laws against 


homose: 


their sex lives. In most мшез of the 
Union, there are statutes—mauy of them 
now being challengd—tühat proscribe 


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homosexual acts even when performed 
in private by consenting adults. Do any 
of you feel th ws serve a useful 
purpose? 

TYNAN: It seems to me that Jaw reform is 
inevitable, and the formula adopted by 
many European countries appears the 
most sensible: Homosexual acts taking 
place in privare between consenting 
adults should be legalized, 

KUH: Were I a legislator, I guess I would 
somewhat reluctantly agree with Mr. 
Tynan, But | can see the arguments 
for keeping the laws against this devi 
ance on the statute books, and | don't 
k we can blithely write them off as 
nd's Lord Dewlin, 
commenting on the Wolfenden Report's 
recommendation to legalize private con- 
sensual adult homoscxual conduct, sug- 
gested that “We should ask ourselves in 
the first instance whether, looking at it 
calmly and dispassionately, we regard it 
as а vice so abominable that its mere 
presence is an offense. If that is the 
genuine fecling of the society in which 
‚ I do not sce how society can be 
denied the right to eradicate it.” One of 
the functions of lawmaking is line draw- 
ing. and with enough of the community 
revolted by homosexuality—and I think 
when you move from our major sophist 
cated cities to ow more old-fashioned 
rural areas. you will find homosexuality 
is a revolting concept to much of the 
citizenry—the law may soundly draw a 
line against it, whether or not you and 
Т may personally agree with that line 
drawin, 
simon: I partly agree that the law has to 
make sense to the population that must 
live with it, but I also think that most 
people's attitudes are more tolerant than 
you suggest or cven than many of us 
realize. Homosexuals aren't very impor- 
tant one way or the other to most peopl 
but our research shows that among college 
students, about half the boys and over 
half the girls said they would remain 
friends with someone they discovered to 
be homosexual, Over half of both boys 
and girls felt there was an clement of 
homosexuality in all of us. No more th 
ten percent felt that homosexuals should 
cluded from society. And studies of 
other segments of the young showed th: 
working-class youth have attitudes only 
slightly less liberal. In public discussions, 
most people probably come on with a 
tough line merely because they assume it 
to be the most socially acceptable or, at 
least, the safest atitude. 

TYNAN: Intolerance of homosexuality 
seems to be a wait of the older genera- 
tion. Ernest Hemingway, I'm sorry to 
typical of his time in taking an il- 
view of queers. Once, in the course 
of an anecdote about a famous theatrical 
queer, he stunned. me by saying, 
Mr. X came into the rest 
raised my glass and smashed it on the 
table, as any gentleman does when a 


homosexual enters the room.” I'm glad 
T never dined with him at a smart rom 
don restaurant [im i 


broke 
KUH: 


all sure that citizen 


Fm not at 
attitudes are becoming as tolerant as has 


been suggested. In New York—a state 
that has now legalized abortion—an able 
маке commission а few years ago recom- 
mended that sexual activities. between 
consenting adults, "privately and dis- 
crectly indulged in," not be considered 
criminal. But the state legislature. over- 
rode that recommendation, and in New 
York—as in most of the states—consen- 
sual sexual conduct among adults of the 
same sex remains criminal But if atti- 
tudes are changing, that change 
the good, and I join you in applauding 
it Our laws, however, in many areas— 
like it or not—still reflect what legislative 
judgment deems to be moral values. 
Hence, we have laws in a number of 
areas, many of them sexual, that most of 
our society seems content to keep, ak 
though it would be difficult to show that 
they protect society against any real dam- 
age. We have laws against bigamy, laws 
against public nudity, laws against ob 
scenity. laws against adultery and laws 
against abortion. We have our Sunday 
blue Jaws, laws against mercy killing, 
inst narcotics use and against gam- 
bling. In any one of these ar t deal 
mostly with conduct among willing adults, 
one would be hard put to show a con- 
crete harm that's being dealt with: these 
€ laws that enforce concepts of moral- 
ity Bur all is not sweet reason. Emotion, 
tradition, a sense of propricty, all have a 
hand in shaping our laws, Even the most 
primitive societies have their taboos, and. 
we have ours, When we substitute law for 
anarchy bly our lawmakers adopt 
the biases of our society. 
PLOSCOWE. I've heard that argument 
in and again and again. You always 
run into it when you talk of reform in 
sex laws or reform in the birth-control 
or abortion laws. The law doesn't set 
moral standards, Moral standards are set 
by our religious groups, by our philoso- 
phies, by the conscience of our people. 
"The law is supposed to set standards that 
‘lve damage to other. people or dam- 
ge to society generally. We have to 
distinguish between law and morality. 
Much of the trouble with the law has 
been the confusion of sin and crime. A 
m should not necessarily be a crime. 
They are not synonymous. HH the religi 
oupings want to consider homosexual 
acts as offenses, even as very serious of- 
fenses under the ecclesiastical law or 
under ecclesiastical standards, I cert: 
wouldn't interfere. "This i: еа 
the church can мер in, but the law really 
has по business there. 
kun: I believe there is some ship 
between Jaw and morality. Quite possi 
bly, the law has an obligation in some 


areas to legislate morality, This is an 
old-fashioned concept that а good many 
of my liberal friends attack. These same 
liberals will attack wire tapping as being 
inherently immoral, regardless of its use 
under close court supervision and its 
proven value against narcotic wholesalers 
and spies and others, Racial discrimina 
tion is outlawed because it, too, is im- 
moral, The death penalty is attacked as 


immoral—on the grounds that the state 
has по business taking а life under any 
n from the 


s for and against its usc. 
Were bullfighting to be introduced im 
Madison Square Garden, liberals—al 
though they eat meat that bellows and 
ghtered—would 
ad denounce bullfights 
ading and immoral. My pois 
imply that whether one believes 


here is 
that the law should enforce concepts of 
morality really seems to depend upon 


whose particular ox is being gored. 
BIEBER: I see no reason to have any laws 
that punish private homosexual bebavio 
between consenting adults, and this is 
actually the de facto situation. in most 
states, There is no reason to have such 
laws and I think removing them would 
be a constructive and realistic thing. 
KUH: I think we could agree that if a 
man with homosexual tendencies never 
meets a practicing homosexual, it's un- 
likely that he self will become onc. 
The law can assist in reducing the likeli. 
hood that he will mect onc. We have 
quarantines against scarlet fever, quaran- 
tines against other diseases—I know I 
overdraw the analogy—but I simply 
suggest that if open acceptance of homo 
sexuality may encourage the latent homo- 
sexual to become an active homosexual, 
then a law that declares public policy 
against homosexuality may conceivably 
serve some quarantining purpose. T don't 
think we. priding ourselves on our liber. 
айып, can simply write off such laws as 
wrongly interferi h the privare pur 
suits of practicing homosexuals. We must 
remain ready to recognize (hat argu- 
ments for retaining these laws are enti- 
i on, Entertaining 
ns on both sides, and 
lancing them. we may then rcach our 
conclusions. Although we аге becoming 
increasingly permissive, increasingly tol- 
erant of conduct that a few years ago was 
generally deemed abhorrent, psychiatric 


thinking isn’t unanimous in believing 
that homosexuality is simply another 
wary of being normal, one that homosex 


uals can and should. a 
thinking ten years hence may suggest 
that this era's permissiveness did more 
harm than good. None of us can be sure. 


cept. Psychiatric 


And the law, particularly the criminal 
Taw, often acts as a sort of sea 
society; it moves, but far more slowly 


than the seas of social change. Ti serves, 
and maybe serves desirably, to slow our 
acceptance at any one moment of wl 


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may, at that particular time in history, 
falsely scem the revealed truth. 

BIEBER: I want to comment on Mr. Kuh's 
point that if a homosexual never met 
another one, he would not become one. 
Some men who are brought up in rural 
communities where they never met or 
heard of homosexuals wntil well into late 
adolescence have reported to me that 
they believed they were the only men in 
the world who were aitracted to other 
men. These people became homosexuals 
without having had amy contact with 
homosexuals. If there were no overt 
homosexuals around to act as models, 
individuals with a homosexual pattern 
would soon find one another and discov- 
er it for themselves. 

words, the laws 
homosexuality have no deterrent effect 
whatsoever. But even if they did, I don't. 
think the state should have any right to 
interfere in what an individual male or 
female does with his or her own body. 
То me this is the next civil right we 
have to establish. Ir's really nobody's bus- 
iness but the consenting adult's, provided 
that none of these tastes or combinations 
volves a violation of another person's 
ights. 

SIMON: It's also important not to have 
laws that are impossible to enforce; 
otherwise, the structure of kaw enforce- 
ment is discredited. As Miss Mannes sug- 
gests, the present legal proscription of 
Homosexual behavior has done and can 
do little to curb homosexual. behavior. 
АШ it cin apparently do is create con- 
ditions under which the homosexual is 
compelled to rum greater risks in pur- 
suit of his sexual goals. It's like Pro- 
hibition, except that fewer people are 
involved. 


MARMOR: As x matter of f. 
© 


act, we have 
ncrete evidence that legal sanctions 
gainst homosexual behavior have not 
proved effective. Homosexuality is no 
more common in France, Sweden and 
the Netherlands, where it is not a crime, 
than in the United Stes, where it is. 

KUH- Our law, whether enforceable or 
not, provides precepts that may help to 
guide the impressionable. Legalizing adult 
homosexuality suggest social ap- 
proval of such conduct to youngsters, who 
tend to emulate their elders. The stigma 
of criminality, although it may intensify 
guilt feelings in some homosexuals, may 
at least help the А.С. / D.C. youngster 
to shape his actions in a heterosexual di- 
rection 
MeilVENNA: The most desirable thing the 
law can do is to do less. Whatever con- 
senting adults do in private, as Miss 
Mannes said, is their own affair, and 
should have nothing t0 do with the law 
as long as it doesn't involve coercion. 
But that doesn't deal with the problem 
of the police even when the 
changed. It doesn’t deal with some of 
the police and others who, after the law 


changes, will still think they should en- 
force God's law, whatever that is, upon 
homosexuals, who they feel must be 
punished, But I think we ought to move 
toward a liberalization of all about 
sexual activity in general. We need to do 
this in order to free not only homosexuals 
but all of us. 

KUH: But how far do we carry the idea of 
letting adults do. in private, whatever 
the spirit of the moment impels them to 
do? Suppose a play like Futz, in which 
the hero has intercoursc a pig. 
touches off а public wave of hitherto 
repressed or secretive bestial acts. Arc 
they, too, to be I 
get the 5. P. C. A's goat? 15 the standard 
concerning sex laws to be one of any 
thing goes, as long neither force nor 
children аге involved? Society has the 
right to be concerned in such matters. 
PLAYBOY: Surely, only if homosexuality 
represents a danger to society. Does it? 
LYON: I really can't think of any condi- 
tions under which the homosexual could 
possibly be dangerous to society, particu- 
larly in а time when procreation is no 
longer considered the justification for 
The real danger is the other way 
around: Society is dangerous to homosex: 
uals—and to heterosexuals, too, for Uwit 
matter, The danger is in sexual hang-ups 
and the wasted potential of human beings 
—homosexual and heterosexual—bccause 
of them. Sex should be a liberating ex 
perience allowing human beings to re- 
spond to one another openly, freely and 
reciprocally without rigid role definitions. 
MelLVENNA: I think one of the reasons 
people feel homosexuality is a threat is 
that many of us are fearful of our own 
sexuality, We've used the homosexual as 
а scapegoat, possibly because hc has been 
identified as a sexual offender. M 
people believe that, somehow, the homo- 
sexual is going to prey upon little boys 
and that he's much more sexual than he 
actually is. It’s a fear that springs out of 
insecurity about one's own sexual identi 
fication, wh їшїп results from our 
antise nd fear. 

MARMOR: Homosexual practices that vio- 
late public decency or involve the seduc- 
tion of min are a source of concem, 
but so is the equivalent kind of hetero- 
sexual activity. They should be treated 
equally by the law. Apart from this, 
homosexuality isn't dangerous to society. 
Moreover, homosexuals сап have just as 
strong a sense of moral responsibility as 
do welladjusted heterosexuals. Homos 
Kl be evaluated i 
should not be assumed that they 
have poor control over their s im 
pulses because they are homosexuals. 


BIEBER: I agrce. A study by a Dr. Doshay 


1013 demonstrated that of a series of 
108 boys between 7 and 16 years of ag 
who had been seduced by older mı 
none of the у lier became 
homosexual Am isolated homos 


Est 


схца 


event docs not produce it. Homosexual 
ty isn't a contagious disease, nor is 
dangerous in the sense that it's goin 
destroy society. 

KUH: I can sce some degree of danger to 
society in homosexuality—far slighter 
than that of murder, as an extreme, but 
nonetheless some degree—and apparent- 
ly the legislatures of most of our states 
agree, since they have 
making homosexual activities 
under certa 
dangers—maybe a pi 
end Mellve 


cin 


п circumstances. One of the 


nc one, as Rever- 
na suggested. —is the poten- 
al for the seduction of minors. Whether 
or not the minor who is seduced by an 
older man goes on to become a homo- 
sexual, 1 think you would agree that the 


experience may be traumatic and ulti- 
mately harmful A further danger to 
society that motivates legislators is а 


moral danger. Whether or not the law 
should legislate morality, this is an аге 
in which, traditionally, it has. And, tradi- 
tionally, homosexuality is clearly deemed 
a moral danger. 

LETSCH: I think your concern for minors 
is unwarranted. From my observation. 
pedophiles usually tend to be hetcrosex- 
uals. 1 once studied the pages of the 
Daily News, New York's catalog of sex 
crimes, for a one-year period. Ninety 
seven percent of all the reported sexual 
assaults on children--and seduction of 
minors is legally considered to be a 
sault—wcre by an adult man on a little 
girl. From that evidence, one could m: 
а bener cise for keeping het 


rosex uals 


away from children than for excluding 
homosexuals from contact with kids. 
BIEBER: 1 find that homosex: group 


are not sexually oriented toward childr 
Some individual men may be, but very 


few. In general, Mr. Leitsch is correct 
1 


that pedophilia is usually heterosexu 
try to get the point across to parents th 
they need not be afraid that their chi 
dren will be seduced or misled if they're 
in contact with a homosexual. I have 
nalyzed several men whose fathers were 
homosexual, but the sons didn't become 
homosexual The idea that homosexuals 
are dangerous and tl e to keep 
them away and worry about them doe: 
accord with my clinical experience: 
SIMON: It’s the dreadfully ignorant child 
who is most impaired by сапу homo: 
xual experiences. Frequently. such a 
ical. parents who make the 
act seem more significant than the child 
had felt it to be. There may be nothing 
going on in the child's mind until the 
parents put it there. Such а reaction can 
cripple chiklren. 

MANNES: I agree. Theres a great deal of 
evidence that many men, who later turn 
out to be good husbands, fathers and 
members of the Rotary, had—in the 
Army or in college or earlier—one or 
two homosexual experiences that in no 
way changed the ultimate course of their 


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lives. If a boy is so completely turned on 
by early homosexual experience that it 
knocks out any desire toward being het- 
crosexual, then he's probably on his way 
anyw 

BIEBER: A boy doesn't get turned on to 
homosexuality as one would turn on an 
electric light. A great deal has gone be- 
fore to prepare him to respond this way 
and even to invite seduction from an 
adult 

KUH: Putting aside the case of consensual 


car-old man, and talking 
between really young youngsters 
considerably older adults, 1 
men are fondling lite girls than they 
re Tittle boys. But I do think that there 
is some evidence of interest by adult 
homosexuals in youngsters and 
young men. 1 suspect it exists more t 
the permissive would choose to recognize, 
and les than the conservative would 
like to believe. There are some homo- 
sexuals who are happiest with adolescents 
or recent postadolescents, just as there are 
some heterosexual adults who think it 
heaven to have а beautiful young girl 
оп their arm rather than someone more 
in their age and maturity group. 
MARMOR: This may well be true, but what 
of it? I's no more abnormal for older 
homosexuals to be atwaded to young 
men than for older heterosexuals to be 
attracted to young women. And it 
would he rranted assumption to 
conclude older homosexuals are 
more apt to seduce young men than 
heterosexuals are to seduce young women, 
LEHISCH: Things сап often work the other 
way, too. Young people have their sexual 
needs, and masturbation gets tiresome and 
doesn't sate the curiosity they feel about 
sexual relationships with others. Young 
homosexuals want to get laid, just like 
young heterosexuals do. Being jailbait, 
they have difficulty in finding adult part- 
ners, but looking for partners in their 
peer group is dangerous, 100, because an 
advance to the wrong person can lead to 
ostracism or arrest. Older homosexuals 
aye more likely to be recognizable, they 
сап provide emmy to the gay world and 
they're less likely то reveal to anyone 
that the affair took place. I can tell you 
from experience that there are a hell of 
a lot more young men trying to get older 
men iu bed than there are older homo- 
als looking for schoolboy partners, In 
many cases, it may be more appropriate 
to talk about old-man molesters than to 
talk about child molesters. 

GOODMAN: In a healthy so 
see what harm there would be 
older man introducing а younger man to 
homosexual pleasures. But in their con- 
cern for the young, most people have 
overlooked advantage in the laws 
against homosexuality. А happy property 
of sexual acts, and. perhaps especially of 
homosexual acts, is that they are dirty, 
like lile: As Augustine said, “Inter urinas 


and 
think more 


et feces nascimur," "We're born amid piss 
and shit" [n a society as middle class, 
orderly and technological as ours, it's 
good to break down squeamishness, since 
it is our overfastidiousness that causes us 
to institutionalize our sick and aged, to 
repress our childr tural in- 
cts amd to disc nst people 
different from ourselves. And the illegal 
and catch-ascatch-can natwe of much 
homosexual life at present breaks down 
other conventional attitudes. Although 1 
wish I could have had my ties with 
less apprehension and more unhurriedly, 
it's been an advantage to learn that the 
ends of docks, the backs of trucks, back 
alleys behind the май», abandoned 
bunkers on the beach and the washrooms 
of uains all provide what Marlowe called 
“infinite riches in a little room,” 
PLAYBOY: You're talking about sex in 
public or semipublic places, Mr. Good 
man, where even heterosexuals could ex- 
pect some harassment from the law. Can 
the police really enforce the law against 
totally private sexual acts with any con- 
sistency unk they grossly violate the 
Jaws against privacy invasion? 

KUH: The likelihood of the police lea 
about such acts is microscopic, de- 
sirably so. I know of not a single arrest 
in New York City or New York Stute for 
such private acts over the past many, 
many years; there may have been some, 
but very, very few. For any one case th 
the police might find ош about—if 
they're interested in learning of it, and 
many, wisely, are not—there may be 
10,000 that they have no knowledge of, 
because there is no complaint and no 
public scene, If two people meet in 
places other than. public. the opportuni. 
ty for police to observe them meeting 
and to know that they are about to 
engage or have already engaged in homo- 
sexual acts is ni 
PLOSCOWE: Occasionally, of course, the 
police will come into contact with ado- 
descent boys who are somehow involved 
in sodomistic acts. Aud when they arrest 
prostitute, they may start 
inquiring who his customers were. And 
this may wind up with the arrest of a lot 
of people, many of them quite respect- 
able in the communi 
KUH: With due respect, Morris, 1 think. 
you overstate it, Even if police wanted to 
osecute in such circumstances—and, 
there is no reason to be 
Tieve that the police or courts in America 
today have any interest in private con- 
duct among consenting adults—they'd 
have no case legally in most jurisdictions 
if all they 1 was the statement of a 
male prostitute as to who his customers 
were. Neither as a prosecutor nor а de 
dense lawyer have I heard of a single 
arot being made on a prostitute’s 
statement—inale or female—as to wl 
customers he or she had. I'm afraid we 
have enough antipolice feeling 
among homosexuals and others, wi 


ni 


ng 


1 homosexu: 


now, 
hout 


intensifying it by painting the police as 
bogeymen in a field in which they have 
not been such, Yes, they do arrest homo. 
sexuals for hustling, just as heterosexuals 
are arrested for hustling professionally, 
but equally dearly, they rarely arrest 
people for private homosexual acts not 
publicly solicited, and they don't arres 
lists of people whose names may turn up 
on the tongue or in the address book of 
а hustler. Enforcement even against pub- 
lic acts is often dificul, and therefore 
spasmodic, Obviously, the police would 
become known very quickly in gay bars 
where homosexuals solicit one another. 
‘They might make one arrest in a gay 


bar, but the sane policeman isn't going 
to be able to make another: so the © 
forcement is quite diferem from the 


letter of the law. 

McILVENNA: You clearly associate with a 
better class of policeman than I do, Mr. 
Kuh. Гуе had experience with the fall- 
out of homosexual witeh-hunts in а 
number of communities. 1 specifi 
remember а training film from an Ohio 
municipal police department that had 
made movies of men having sex in a 
public toilet. They reported the success 
of followup. prosecutions against other 
men whom these men confessed to hav- 
ing had sex with. The voice boomed out 
“This man is now serving 10 to 20 years 
for ast like Dragnet. This 
may not be typical of the police, but your 
characterization is а litle too much on 
the side of swe ad light. 

PLOSCOWE: The kind of witch-hunt en- 
forcement you're talking about is ex 


ness 


nemely sporadic in large cities. Even 
enforcement of solicitation is 
mostly directed toward. ging 


homosexuals from mecting in particu 
locations such as comfort stations or 
public parks, and enforcement. is simply 
a temporary activity. As soon as the police 
heat is taken off, things 
to normal. 


Jaws 


the 
activity is rare and 


a enforcement. of. 


enforcement of the laws against solicita- 
tion sporadic, it could be argued that the 
Jaws should be rescinded rather than 
disregarded, since they ate obviously out 
of touch with practice and 
affect only those involved. 

KUH: It would seem to me that laws 
against publie soligitation—whether by 
males or females—are desirable. WI 
we get into public conduct, we | 
the problem of appearances; with som. 
thing as public as solicitation, the com 
munity has ап even greater right 10 
be concerned. If certain areas of town 
те known as homosexual or heterosex 
pickup districts, a honky-tonk qu 
velops that a community might sooner 
avoid. Abo, the unwary visitor can be 
embarrassed if he goes to a public toilet 
and is solicited. Not only may he be 
embarrassed but, if he's queer and if h 
reaction is too ambivalent, he may find 


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the bath is so soothing and I can relax апа... 


This...is the EM moment. 


The time to take things easy and 
really enjoy the rich flavor of L&M. 
See for yourseli. When you're 
ready to unwind, light up an L&M. 
Any place. 


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19 mg. “tar 1.3 mg ricotine 
av. per cigarette by FTC method. (Jan. I). 


PLAYBOY 


92 


himsell involved y common sha 
down ion, with con men posing as 
plainclothes cops. I think there are very 
valid and compellin tons for laws 
against public solicitation of one male 
by another. 

TYNAN: Bur what reason could there pos- 
sibly be for laws against solicitation if 
there were no laws against homosexuali- 
ty? The shakedown would become im- 
possible and the embarrassment a vestige 
of ancient prejudice. In any case, I 
would suggest that a certain. amount of 
embarrassment is good for people, 
that it forces them to re-examine the 
nature of their sexual roles. The man 
who first discovered that he had an Oedi- 
pus complex was no doubt extremely 
embarrassed. but his discovery was a 
boon to his fellow human beings. 
цытесн: There's a very simple test possi- 
bie that would show whether or not 
people are morally offended by homosex- 
ual solicitation: The police should initi- 
ate no prosecutions for solicitation. Let 
private citizens initiate all complaints. 
"That would be a fairly good baromet 
of how the public feels, and of how much 
homosexuals impinge on straights. It 
would also remove the police fom a 
possible source of corruption—the easy 
shakedown of the cruising gay. 
PLOSCOWE, Young street hoods 


с- 


е also 


frequently involved in assaulting and 
robbing homosexuals, T suspect there 
may be some gangs that specialize in 


robbing the more affluent. homosexuals. 
кин: Many of these young males regard 
themselves as, and may be, heterosexual; 
but they see an easy buck, either by 
being paid for engaging in an act with a 
homosexual or going to his hotel room, 
pounding the daylighis out of him and 
taking his moncy and his watch, In most 
such cases, the homosexual won't report 
the incident, whether or not he beli 
his own conduct is unlawful, because of 
the social obloquy involved. Law en- 
forcement is powerless because it hasn't 
n notified; consequently, you get an. 
archisic situation in which the homo- 
sexual lives at the mercy of the young 
hood who likes to beat up homosexuals 
for fun as well as profi 

LETSCH: But this situation isn't. created 
by homosexuals, who are unlikely to get 
involved in criminal behavior, except as 
victims: the victims of blackmail, the 
victims of gangs of hoods looking for 
someone to beat up. They pick the 
igliborhood queer as the most likely 
person not to hit hack too hard. Homo- 
sexuals get involved in criminal behavior 
simply because most states disapprove of 
their meeting and getting together, The 
authorities disapprove of bars, restau- 
rants and clubs that cater to homosex- 
uals, so these places usually become very 
shady and fall into the hands of ging- 
sters. The church isn’t going to give 
Saturday-night dances for homosexuals, 


bur the Mafia will give you 
homosexuals get mixed up with crim 


nals, But they don't tend to be murder- 
с degree 


ers or bank robbers in any great 
than heterosexuals. 

BIEBER: Homosexuals, by 
law-abiding, But crimes are committed 
xuals against other homosex- 
uising d up in 


dei 


homosexuals against rhe heterosexual 
"unity are rare. 

Attempts to control homosexual 
behavior have produced a whole series 
of crimes that present police enforcement 
can’t handle. The data colleaed by Kin- 
sey and his asso cate that more 
than one out of every four homosexuals 
gets robbed and rolled ar least once. 
That’s an awful lot of crimes. And some 
s we all know, a would-be robber 
hits his victim harder than he intended 
and then the police have a murder on 
their hands—a murder that’s frequently 
hard to solve because most homosexus 
as Dick Kuh pointed out, can't ri 
sure. This strikes me as a very exp 
price to pay for a program of police 
suppression of public forms of homosex- 
uality, particularly when the programs 
themselves don't work. It must also be 
demoralizing for the police to implement 
laws they know they can't consistently 
enforce. 

KUH: Bill, I don't disagree. You and Dick 
Leitch have emphasized that homosei 
Is are preyed upon without any realis- 
redress. But I think it would be 
improper to conclude that this is the 
fault of our laws in any but the most 
marginal respects, Homosexuals don't 
com^ forward when victimized not be- 
cause the law punishes their homo: 
conduct but because of the public con- 
demnation they fear might follow thei 
sell-exposure. That condemnation is not 
the result of Jaws; the laws are the result 
of the same strong anti-homosexual public 
feeling. The typical prosecutor is fa 
more interested in convicting extortion 
ists or thieves than im prosecuting the 
homosexual victim. Гуе scen prosecutors 
and the press—and this is typical, not the 
exception—join forces time after time to 
keep such victims clear of public identi 
fication in pursuing the goal of convicting 
the serious criminal who has victimized 


homosexuals 
MelILVENNA: If it's true that the police are 
willing to protect homosexuals in black 

il and murder cases, then I think the 


1 communi 
[his discussion of the laws and 
their enforcement seems to have be 
in, exclusively male-oriented. Why? 
PLOSCOWE: Well, the laws themselves tra 
ditionally reflect this orientation. In 
English law, the statutes against sodomy 


have always been directed only against 
men. In America, the states’ laws are 
more all-encompassing. Crimes aj 
are variously defined 


whether heterosexual or 
Only Hlinois Connecticut 
по longer have such laws, 
though the Texas sodomy law 
recently declared unconstitutional and 
the state is appealing the case to the 
Supreme Court. In New York, married 
people are exempted from the provisions 
of the sodomy laws. But male homosex 
uals have definitely borne the brunt of 
law enforcement in this arca. The sod- 
omy statutes are only rarely enforced 
against heterosexual couples and never 
against Lesbians The Kinsey team 
couldnt find one case sustaining the 
conviction of a female for homosex 
activity in the hundreds of sodomy opi 
ions they scarched through, and those 
opinions dated from 1696 10 1952. 
MARMOR: In rabbinical law, male homo- 
sexuality is a serious crime, but female 
homosexuality is a disqualification for 
marriage only to On a deeper 
level. however. these nees reflect 
the autinudes that. exist toward male and 
female sexuality. In our society, women 
are considered less sexual creatures tl 
men. Consequently, what they do to each 
other isn't as disturbing. Moreover, laws 
are made by men, so they tend to reflect 
the faa that female homosexuali 
doesn’t threaten the heterosexual male as 
ich as male homosexuality does 

LYON: | think this relationship to the law 
is one of the primary differences betwee 
the life styles of the male homosex 
and the Lesbian, Male homosexuals hav 
much more trouble with the law, but the 
Lesbian really doesn’t get arrested much 
at all. Part of this may be related to the 
different values that society puts on men 
and women. but it’s also related to the 
kind of sexual life style that the male 
homosexual leads. He tends to do mor 
open soliciting than Lesbians do, and in 
more public places. 

PLAYBOY. If the laws were changed, do 
you think there would be more or fewer 
homosexual acts performed? 

кин: Does the law against murder deter 
potential murders? T don't know, 
one theory of criminal law is th 
Under that theory, it se 
reasonable for legislators to tl 
n of th. 


was 


bur 


does. 


eralizati 


der а 
crime may not deter the wife who, after 
a dozen years of being kicked and beaten 
by her drunken husband, finally plung 
а kitchen. Кайе into him; but when we're 
talking abour deterring the acting out of 
а latent drive that otherwise law-abiding 
people may harbor, the arguments for 
deterrence are strony 
LEITSCH: If social Jaws and attitudes were 

(continued on page 161) 


WHAT SORT OF MAN READS PLAYBOY? 


A young man riding the crest of the good life. A traveler whose sense of adventure knows no bound- 
aries. Fact: PLAYBOY is read by one of every two men under 35 (more than any other magazine) 
who had the time and the money to take a trip to the Caribbean, Bermuda or the Bahamas in the 
past five years. Want this man to go vacationing with you? Make sure your itinerary includes an 
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New York + Chicago - Detroit . Los Angeles - San Francisco + Atlanta + London + Tokyo 


fiction 
By RICHARD MATHESON 


AT 11:32 AM, Mann passed the truck. 
He was heading west, en route to 
Francisco. It was Thursday and unsea 
sonably hot for April. He had his suit 
coat oll, his tie removed and shirt collar 
opened, his sleeve cuffs folded baci 
"There was sunlight on his left arm and 
on part of his lap. He could feel the heat 
of it through his dark trousers as he 
drove along the two-lane highway. For 
the past 90 minutes, he had not seen 
another vehicle going in either direction. 

Then he saw the truck ahead, moving 
up а curving grade between two high 
green hills, He heard the grinding strain 
oL its motor and saw a double shadow on 
the road. The truck was pulling a trailer. 

He paid no attention to the details of 
the truck. As he drew behind it on the 
grade, he cdged his car toward the op- 
posite lane. The road ahead had blind 
curves and he didn’t wy to pass until the 
truck had crossed the ridge. He waited 
until it started around a left curve on 
the downgrade, then, sceing that the wa 
was clear, pressed clown on the acceler 
tor pedal and steered his car imo the 
eastbound lane. He waited until he 
could see the truck front in his rearview 
mirror before he turned back into the 
proper lane. 

Mann looked across the countryside 
ahead. "There were ranges of mountains 

far as he could sec and, all around. 
him, rolling green hills. He whistled soft- 
ly as the car sped down the winding 
grade, its tires making crisp sounds on 
the pavement. 

At the bottom of the hill, he crossed a 
concrete bridge and, glancing to the 
right, saw a dry stream bed strewn with 
rocks and gravel. As the саг moved off 
the bridge, he saw a trailer park set back 
from the highway to his right. How can 

уопе live out here? he thought. His 
shifting gaze caught sight of a pet ceme- 
tery ahead and he smiled. Maybe those 
people in the trailers wanted to be clos 
to the graves of their dogs and cats. 

The highway ahead was straight now, 
Mann drifted imo a reverie, the sun 
light on his arm and lap. He wondered 
what Ruth was doing. The kids, of 
course, were in school and would be for 
hours yet. Maybe Ruth was shoppi 
Thursday was the day she usually went. 
Mann visualized her in the supermarket, 
putting various items into the basket 
cart. He wished he were with her instead 


in broad daylight on a 


iblic highway, that crazy 


son-of-a-bitch truck driver 


was trying to kill him 


PHOTOGRAPHY BY BILL ARSENAULT 


PLAYBOY 


96 


ting on another sales trip. Hours 
ing yet before he'd reach San 
о. Three days of hotel sleeping 
and restaurant eating, hoped-for contacts 
and likely disappointments, He sighed; 
then, reaching out impulsively, he switch- 
ed on the radio. He revolved the tuning 
nob until he found a station playing 
soft, innocuous music. He hummed 
along with it, eyes almost out of focus on 
the road ahead. 

He started as the truck roared past 
him on the left, causing his car to shud- 
der slightly. He watched the truck and 
trailer cut in abruptly for the westbound 
Jane and frowned as he had to brake to 
mainta safe distance behind it. What's 
with you? he thought. 

He eyed the truck with cursory disap- 
proval It was a huge gasoline tanker 
pulling a tank trailer, cach of them hav- 
ing six. pairs of wheels. He could see that 
it was not a new rig but was dented and 
in need of renovation, its tanks painted 
a cheap-looking silvery color. Mann won- 
dered if the dr 1 done the paint- 
ing himself. His gaze shifted from the 
word FLAMMABLE printed across the back 


ol the trailer tank, red letters on a white 
background, to 
lines pai 
Ше 


the parallel reflector 
ted in red across the bottom of 
tank to the massive rubber flaps 


up again. The reflector lines looked as 
though they'd been clumsily applied 
with a stencil, The driver must be an 
dependent trucker, he decided, and 
not tco affluent a one, from the looks of 
his outfit. He glanced at the trailers 
license plate. It was a California issue, 

Mann checked his speedometer. 
was holding steady at 1 hour, 
as he invariably did when he drove with- 
out thinking on the open highway. The 
truck driver must have done a good 70 
to pass him so quickly, That seemed a 
little odd. Weren't truck drivers supposed 
to be а cautious lot? 

He grimaced at the smell of the truck's 
exhaust and looked at the vertical pipe 
to the left of the cab. It was spewing 
smoke, which clouded darkly back across 
the trailer. Christ, he thought. With all 
the furor about air pollution, why do 
they keep allowing that sort of thing on 
the highways? 

He scowled at the constant fumes. 
‘They'd make him nauseated in а little 
while, he knew. He couldn't lag back 
here like this, Either he slowed down or 
he passed the truck again, He didn't 
have the time to slow down, He'd gotten 
a late start. Keeping it at 55 all the way, 
he'd just about make his afternoon ap- 
pointment. No, he'd have to pass. 

Depressing the gas pedal, he eased his 
car toward the opposite lane, No sign of 

mything ahead. Traffic on this route 
seemed almost nonexistent today. He 
pushed down harder on the accelerator 


and steered all the ж 
bound lane. 

As he passed the truck, he glanced at 
it. The cab was too high for him to see 
into. All he caught sight of was the back 
of the truck. driver's left hand on the 
steering wheel. It was darkly tanned and 
squarelooking, with large veins knot- 
ted on its surface. 

When Mann could see the truck re- 
flected in the rearview mirror, he pulled 
back over to the proper lane and looked 
ahead again. 

He glanced at the rearview mirror in 
surprise as the truck driver gave him an 
extended horn blast. What was that? he 
wondered; a greeting or a curse? He 
grunted with amusement, glancing at the 
mirror as he drove. The front fenders of 
the truck were a dingy purple color, the 
paint faded and chipped; another ama- 
icurish job. АШ he could see was the 
lower portion of the truck; the rest was 
cut off by the top of his rear window. 

To Mann's right, now, was а slope of 
shalelike earth with patches of scrub 
grass growing on it. His gaze jumped to 
the clapboard house on top of the slope. 
‘The television aerial on its roof was sig- 
ging at an angle of less th 
Must give great reception, he thought. 

He looked to the front again, Б 
aside abruptly at а sign print 


y into the east- 


in jag 
ged block letters on a piece of m 


зисит CRAWLERS—arr. What the hell is 
a night crawler? he wondered. Jt sound- 
ed like some monster in a low-grade 
Hollywood thriller. 

The unexpected rear of the truck mo- 
tor made his gaze jump to the rearview 
minor. Instantly, his startled look 
jumped to the side mirror. By Cod, the 
guy was passing him again. Mann turned 
his head to scowl at the leviathan form 
as it drifted by. He tried to sce into the 
ab but couldn't because of its height. 
What's with him, anyway? he wondered. 
What the hell are we having here, a 
contest? See which vehicle can stay 
ahead the longer? 

He thought of speeding up to stay 
ahead but changed his mind. When the 
truck and trailer started back into the 
westbound lane, he let up on the pedal, 
vaicing a newly incredulous sound as he 
saw that if he hadn't slowed down, he 


would have been prematurely cut off 


Jesus Christ, he thought. What's 
with this guy? 

His scowl deepened as the odor of the 
ack’s exhaust reached his nostrils again. 
itably, he cranked up the window on 
his left. Damn it, was he going to have 
to breathe that crap all the way to San 
Francisco? He couldn't allord to slow 
down. He had to meet Forbes at a quar- 
ter after three and that was that. 

He looked ahead. At least there was 
no traffic complicating matters, Mann 
pressed down on the accelerator pedal, 
drawing close behind the tuck. When 


the highway curved enough to the left to 
give him a completely open view of the 
route ahead, he jarred down on the 
pedal, steering out into the opposite lane. 
The truck edged over, blocking his w 
For several moments, all Mann could 
do was st blank confusion 
"Then, wii led noise, he braked 
returning to the proper lane, The truck 
moved back in front of him. 
Mann could not allow himself to ac 
cept what apparently had taken place. It 
had to be a coincidence. The truck driv- 
er couldn't have blocked his way on 
purpose. He waited for more than a 
minute, then flicked down the tum 
indicator lever to make his intention 
perfectly clear and, depressing the accele 
ator pedal, steered a into the cast- 
bound lai 
Immediately, 
ring his w 
“Jesus Christ" Mann was astounded. 
This was unbelievable, He'd never seen 
such a thing in 26 years of driving. He 
returned to the westbound lane, shaking 
his head as the truck swung back in 
front of him. 
He eased up on tl 


the truck shifted, bar- 


gas pedal, fall 


back to avoid the truck's exhaust. Now 
what? he wondered. Не still had to 


make San Francisco on schedule. Why i 
God's name hadn't he gone a little out 
of his way in the beginning, so he could 
have traveled by freeway? This damned 
highway was two lane all the way. 
Impulsively, he sped into the cast 
bound lane again. To his surprise, the 
truck driver did not pull over. Instead, 
the driver stuck his lelt arm out and 
waved him on. Mann started pushing 
down on the accelerator. Suddenly, he 
let up on the pedal with a gasp and 
jerked the steering wheel around, raking 
back behind the truck so quickly that his 
car began to fishtail. He was fighting to 
control its zigzag whipping when a blue 
convertible shot by him in the opposite 
Jane. Mann caught a momentary vision 
of the man in: E 
‘The car came under his control aga 
Mann was sucking breath in through his 
mouth, His heart was pounding almost 
painfully. My God! he thought. He want- 
to hit that car head on, The 
realization stunned him. Truc, he should 
ve seen to it himself that the road 
ahead was clear; that was his failure, But 
to him on. .. . Mann felt ap 
palled and sickened. Boy, oh, boy. oh, 
hoy, he thought. This was really one for 
the books. That son of a bitch had 
meant for not only him to be killed but 
a totally uninvolved passe 
"The idea seemed beyond his comprehen- 
sion. On. 


by as well. 


elt and ra- 
tionalize the incident, Maybe it’s the 
heat, he thought. Maybe the truck driver 

(continued on page 108) 


"One more thing. Take yon Cassin. 


s oul an 


d get him laid." 


THE DEATH 


a radical journalist contends 
that the old-line liberals— 
obsessed with cold-war 
anti-communism, big 
government and unworkable 
social programs—have misled 
and misgoverned america 


opinion By JACK NEWFIELD 


ILLUSTRATION BY BILL UTTERBACK, 


He not busy being born is busy 
dying. -BOR DYLAN 


THE OLD LIBERALISM is busy dying. As а 
theory, as a tradition, as а set of institu- 
tions, as a group of leaders, liberal anti- 
communism has become a God that failed. 
Liberals such as Hubert Humphrey and 
Nelson Rockefeller have become part of 
the problem—worn-out fig leaves cover- 
ing the naked emperor's private parts. 
The New Deal has become the status 
quo; the old solution has become the 
new problem. 

Let me be precise about who the liber- 
als and the liberal center are: I'm talk- 
ing about the Peace Corps, the Alsop 
brothers, the A.D. А. (Americans for 
Democratic Action), Bayard Ru: the 
A.F. L.C. I.O., The New York Times. 
Fm also talking about the Ford Foun- 
dation, the Office of Economic Op- 
portunity and the Ripon Society—all 
self-proclaimed pillars of liberalism. There 
is also the liberalism of those “tough- 
minded” professors such as McGeorge 
Bundy, Walt Rostow, John Roche and 
Henry Kissinger, which has become 
inguishable from the kill-ratio logic 
of the Defense Department computers 
that predicted the last Viet Cong guerrilla 
would die 20 months ago. The liberalism 
of respectable institutions such as Com- 
mentary magazine, Freedom House and 
New York's Liberal Party has become a 
barrier to social change, a dead hand on 
the present, preventing the liberation of 
new ideas, new programs, new move- 
ments, new myths. After zigzagging am- 
biguously through the Thirties and 
Forties, the American electoral left fell off 
the track entirely about 1950, and we are 
still paying the backbreaking price. 

We are paying that price in Vietnam, 
the war that began in Harvard Yard. 
where Bundy, Rostow, Kissinger, Pat 
Moynihan and John Kennedy all spent 
so many fine, formative hours. We are 
paying that price in a trade-union lead- 
ership that stands to the right of The 
Wall Street Journal and the Catholic 
Church on most public issues. (One can- 
not help but notice how much the C. 
deteriorated after it cleansed 
purging Reds and radicals in the late For- 
ties.) And we are paying that pi the 
unnatural isolation of the student, black 
and war movements of the $i 
which were forced to start from scratch, 
bereft of immediate historical fathers. 

The crucial point is that during the 
ism lost its will to fight 
and accepted the basic economic and 
n-policy assumptions of the right. 
And this pulled the center of gravity of 
American politics decisively away from 
the left, What has happened these past 20 
years is not that the country has grown 
€ but tat liberalism 
has grown. more conservative. By failing 
uc F. D. R.'s "one third of a na- 
housed, ill-clad, il-nourished,” by 


tion 


remaining silent during Joe McCarthy's 
attack on the Bill of Rights and by getting 
us into Vietnam, liberalism did the work 
of the right while claiming to represent 
the left 

Now we must move beyond and 
transcend the Cold War liberalism of 
military intervention (Bay of Pigs, Do 
minican Republic, Vietnam) by becoming 
peaceful internationalists once ара 
And as historians such as Howard Zinn, 
Christopher Lasch and Staughton Lynd 
have pointed out, we must go back and 
rediscover the deeper roots of the indig- 
cnous American left in fragments of the 
Popu and 
Progressive movements of the late 19th 
and early 20th Centuries. 

No insurgent movement has ever suc- 
ceeded that was rooted in hatred of its 
own country—a fatal mistake of which 
parts of the New Left (Weathermen, 
Vippies) are guilty. By retrieving the 
banner of the left as it was before it was 
corrupted by the Cold War, we offer the 
post-linear kids something inside their 
own nation with which to identify, so 
they won't have to import exotic fantasy 
notions of revolution from North Korea 
or Bolivia. By restoring the old dignity 
to the Populist attack on monopolies and 
abusive corporations and banks, we can 
e liberalism out of the soft suburban 
living rooms and place it on the side of the 
workingman- the unskilled factory work- 
er, the waitress, the разы 
ant, the dishwasher, the taxi driver, the 
small farmer. And by reconnecting with 
the old Populist passion for participation 
and decentralization, we can begin to end 
the liberal’s romance with bigness and 
centraliza 


abandoned by liberalism 
that all human problems can be solved in 
Washington if you hire enough experts 
and bureaucrats and pay for enough Rand 
Corporation studies, 

If something lasting went out of liber- 
alism during the Fifties, then there had 
to be a deeper reason than just the Cold 
War, or McCarthyism, or that the unions 
purged all their rebels, That reason was 
that the central intellectual formulations 
of liberal anti-communism were mistaken. 
I don't say that the liberal leaders of the 
Fifties were badly motivated or uncom- 
monly corrupt, or that any large numbers 
were caught in the web of conspiracy 
woven by the CIA spider. All I ue 
is that their judgment was bad, and their 
mistakes have had grievous historical 
consequences. 

They were wrong, first, in their total, 
fanatical anti-communism, which permit- 
ted no possibility for change in the Sovi. 
et bloc and blinded them to terrible 
injustices within their own society and 
will the so-called Free World. Philos- 
opher Sidney (continued on page 122) 


100 


The 
Well -Versed 
Lana Wood 


natalie’s kid sister 
—an accomplished 
actress—adds poetry 
to her bag 


AT THE AGE OF NINE, when most 
young girls are playing with dolls 
and exploring the neighborhood 
on bicycles, Lana Wood was а 
professional movie actress—filling 
juvenile roles in films that starred 
her older sister Natalie. Following 
in her famous sibling's footsteps 
began to pall as Lana reached 
her mid-teens and she went to 
work at sales and secretarial jobs 
—until one day in 1964 when 
Lana, then 18, was offered a sup- 
porting role in a television episode 
of Dr. Kildare. "After the first 
day's shooting, I realized that act- 
ing was what 1 really wanted," 
Lana recalls. So she chucked her 
steno pad and plunged into TV 
full time, landing a succession of 
meaty parts, including 14 months 
as a resident of Peyton Place. De- 
spite her ongoing record of inde- 
pendent achievement—she'll guest 
on a David Janssen-series pilot 
film this fall—Lana is still more 
often than not referred to as "Nat- 
alie Wood's little sister." Sister 
she is, but Lana's a big girl now 
and a versatile one as well. Her 
newest interest is writing highly 
personal and stylized poems—five 
of which we publish here for the 
first time, accompanied by photos 
of their bountifully gifted author. 


You either do not really know 
Or you just do not want to know 
or 

You know 

And don't want to tell me. 


Revelation 

and 

Revolution 

at a quick glance 

are often mistaken for each other. 


Feeling down 
and 

Falling down 
are also 

quite the same. 


101 


102 


As you raise your head 
to look out 

to the treetops 

you see 

feathery 

light 

branches 


The white unfinished of life waiting 
wall that stands fingerprints for the man 
marked only with of a jew with a full mind 


patches 

of time 

cobwebs 

of short experiences 


breaking up the gray sky 
into 

liny pieces 

and your thoughts 

are being lifted 


up 


and out 


who have tried to 


touch 


but still empty 
and waiting 


scatlering in the breeze 
invesligating 

the clouds 

and then 

are brought back down 
by the vain 

and the monotony 


of pictures 
who will bring 
with him 


his colored ideas 


of noise 

will pacify 

till your fingers hurt 
from squeezing 

the arm of the chair 
and you'll stop 

and you'll go inside again. 


and slowly 

with soft hands 

and deliberate strokes 
will draw the warmth 
of freedom 

and love 

upon my mind. 


a really dynamite q 


TRUE OR FALSE? 


f 


The gentleman below 
has been inspiration 
and solace for millions 


of people. Who is he? 

a FDR. 

b. A prominent Cleve- 
land narc. 

c. Monsieur Zig Zag. 

d. Oral Roberts. 


- 


rA. 


What is the significance of 

this house? 

a. Following the 1957 home- 
coming game, Wanda Kos- 
nisky and the entire varsity 
football team of Leaning 
Grace, Montana, herein set 
a world record that still 
stands. 

b. The Band recorded its first. 
album here. 

с It was Owsley's first acid 
shop. 

d. Tim Leary, Rap Brown, El- 
dridge Cleaver and Hitler 

are all alive and well here. 


3. Which of these is the greatest 


contradiction in terms? 
2. A hip Nebraskan. 

b. А Rod McKuen poem. 
c. Radical chic. 

d. Simon & Garfunkel. 


b. Phil Spector's mother. 
с. Two of the Supremes. 
d. Wawy Gravy. 

е. Some of the above. 


YOKO ONO IS HEAVIER THAN 
ROD McKUEN. 


33. 


14 


This is the trademark of: 
a. The Lone Ranger. 

b. Peter Townshend. 

c. Bill Graham. 

d. Billy Graham. 


You're a rock star who 
is emotionally incapa- 
ble of singing in public 
unless your genitals are 
exposed. Who are you? 


15. 


16. 


Which one of these men is 
currently serving time in a 
penitentiary for criminal ac- 
tivity? 


To which part of the body 

does the word “hip” refer? 

a. A place on the side be- 
tween the ribs and leg. 

b.Any part covered by tie- 
dyed threads. 

c. The part between the soul 
and the nose. 

d. The ripened false fruit of a 
rose that consists of a fleshy 
receptacle enclosing nu- 
merous achenes. 


17. These gentlemen have a name. 


Do you know what it is? 
a. No, | don't 
b. Yes, ! do. 


18. True or false? (choose one) 
a. T. 


b. F. 
c. Neither of the above. 


19. Easy Rider is to reality as: 


а. Peter Fonda is to acting. 

b. Richard Brautigan is to 
poetry. 

c. Tim Leary is to insight 

d. Icarus is to flight. 


guaranteed to unzip the hip facade from even the spaciest of freaks 


5. What is a “stone bum- 

mer? 

a. Someone who keeps 
borrowing your rocks. 

b. Being a perch in Lake 
Erie. 

c.Being a person in 
Washington, D. C. 

d.Anyone who cares 
what "on the cusp" 
means. 


6. The man with the pool 
cue is: 
a. Probably not a billiard 
player at all 
b. Probably off the beat. 
c. Making history. 
d. Making a movie. 


20. You grew up with talking 
cereals. Now you're faced 
with talking dope. What 


does amyl nitrite say? 

a, "Snap." 

"Crackle." 

с. "Pop." 

d."This is а recordi 
you're under arrest. 


z 


2 


- M you had a farm in far 
Bethel, New York, and 
found that in the middle 
years of your life you 
were just plain lonely, 
what desperate step 
would you take? 


humor By DAVID STANDISH and CRAIG VETTER 


DEEP DOWN you know that being hip is the most important and most difficult thing in the world. And, like all deli- 


cate Aquarian children, you secretly fear that in moments of stress the 1957 һер 


crewcut lurking beneath your 


carefully shaggy hair and sideburns will creep into view. To help prepare you for this most terrible of all possible 
moments, we offer this hip quiz, which you may take in the nonprivacy of your own commune—and find out once 
and for all how straight and short your spiritual hair really is. (Answers arc on Ше following pages.) 


7. What are "reds" and "yel- 
lows? 
a. Communists and China- 
men. 
b. Chinamen and downers. 
с. Downers and cowards. 
d. Communists and cowards. 


8. Who is shorter, Norman 
Mailer or Dick Cavett? 


ja корстон FOUNDATION 
е 17o нт 209 


22. Here is ће Cincinnati Jun- 
ior Chamber of Commerce 
Pick Hit of 1956. It was into. 
all sorts of constructive ac- 
tivities like student council 
and sports writing for the 
Walnut Hills High School 
newspaper. It was voted the 
men most likely to succeed 
—but what did it succeed at 
and who is it? 


2 


РЧ 


. In California, which carries 
the stiffest penalty? 
а. Possession of grass. 
b. Possession of heroin. 
с. Possession of LSD. 
d Possession of Wayne 
Newton records. 


9. All right, culture vultures, here's. 
alist of heavy dudes and sisters: 
Ahmet Ertegun, Jennie Dean, 
“Bumps” Blackwell, Ry Cooder, 
Ruben Salazar, Ken Babs, Don 
Van Vliet, Ishmael Reed, Jay 
Lynch, Archie Manning, Bernie 
Taupin, Cynthia Plastercaster. 
We won't insult you by ask- 
ing who they are; well be 
happy if you'll just tell us what 
popular word you get when you 
combine their middle initials. 


10. What plant is this? 
à. Corn. 
b. Oregano. 
c. Marijuana. 


24.This was the entire publi 
transportation fleet for Edge 
City. Who was mayor of this 
perambulating little town? 
а. Irving Edge. 
b. Captain Trips. 
с. General Motors 
d. Jimmy Breslin. 


25.1f you were a press-shy rock 
superstar and wanted to go 
back to being а pimple-faced 
unknown in Hibbing, Minne- 
sota, to what would you change 
your name? 


26. What comes next in this se- 
quence: Fort Dix 2, Chicago 7, 
Presidio 27, New Haven 8? 


11. The age of “dooby ah ba ba bop bop bop baby" rock lyrics 
is long dead; today, the lyrics speak sensitively and poeti- 
cally for a turned-on generation. To prove you're listening, 
identify the following lines from classic rock poems. 

a. “Found my coat and grabbed my hat.” 

b. "Call any vegetable, call it by name | Call one today, when 
you get off the train.” 

c. "Talking ‘bout my g-g-g-g...." 

d. "That big fat moon is gonna shine like a spoon." 

е. “Honey, doggone it, І depend upon it, so lay a little 
lovin’ on me." 


12.1 Ching 
а, Mao's brother-in-law. 
b. Three dozen unnamable vegetables 
simmering in lobster sauce. 
с. Confucius’ greatest hit. 
d. The heaviest laundry head 
in the East Village. 


27. Who was the first person on 
earth to do 194 mph on a 
chopped, retooled Harley-Da- 
vidson 74? 

a. Eddie “Gristle Mouth” Spod- 
niak of Weeping Belly, Iowa, 
оп March 23, 1954 

b. Sam "Killer Grease" Zahursky 
of Moon Cleats, Ohio. on 
July 12, 1956. 

с. Gaylord "Twinkle Toes” Mc- 
Guire of Taco Bell, Califomia, 
on April 6, 1955. 


28. You thought it was hip to know the names and canons of 
fashionable film directors like Truffaut, Godard, Fellini 
Resnais. But look again. that was last week. Now, it's the 
film editors, so now you have to know which one of the 
following films was edited by Ann Kindberg. 

a. Gun Fight at the Walgreen Lunch Counter. 
b. /, a Lizard. 

с. Sexual Freedom in Philadelphia. 

d. Guess What We Learned in School Today? 


105 


ANSWERS: 


5 
b. п. 
а, b, c, d. 

d and e. 

а, b, с, d. 

c and d. 

Half of b and half of c. 


U Thant. 12 


юморлор z= 


23. 


. Its name is Jerry Rubin and 
it didn't succeed at anything. 
It participated in the only 
revolution that was cleaned 

up for late-night TV talk shows. 


. None of these; it's an artificial 


ETAOINSHRDLU. 


pot plant manufactured 
for doctors’ offices, etc., by 
a California firm. 

a. Beatles, A Day in the Life. 
b. Zappa / Mothers, Cell Any 13. All of these 


Vegetable. except the 

c. The Who, My Generation. weird 

d. Dylan, /1/ Be Your Baby masked man, 
Tonight. who left before 

e. Robin McNamara, Lay а we could thank him. 
BEB UOT и, 14. You're little 

c Jimmy Morrison. 


. Heroin will get you the most 24. b. Captain Trips —alias 


time in the slammer, but Ken Kesey. 
several concerned groups are n 
аар 25. Robert Zimmerman. 
possession of Newton records 26. The Indianapolis 500, 
in the same category. 


15. The inmate in the center 
is Father Daniel Berrigan, 
now doing time for 
destroying draft records. 

16. None of these. It's that 
part which old ladies 
who walk slowly in 
print dresses break 
when they fall. 

17. b. 

1B. d. 

19. Peter Fonda is to Richard. 
Brautigan as Tim Leary ү 


is to insight. 


20. с. 


21. Launch the 
Woodstock Nation. 


27. None of those guys. SCORING: 
It was the late LaVerne Everybody knows it's not hip 
Foss PUE NAYE to be into the competitive- 
of Finger, New Jersey, - А s 
on March 11, 1952, achievement trip, so if 
at 6:43 AM you bothered to take the test. 
28 d. at all, you can't possibly 


be hip. One consolation, 
though: If you answered 
most of the questions 
correctly, at least you have 
the satisfaction of knowing 
that you possess a remarkably 
extensive body of useless 
information. Can you 

dig it? 


PLAYBOY 


108 


duel (continued from page 96) 


had a tension headache or an upset 
stomach; maybe both. Maybe he'd had a 
light with his wile. Maybe she'd failed to 
put out last night. Mann tried in vain to 
smile. There could be any number of 
reasons. Reaching out, he twisted off the 
radio. The cheerful music irritated him. 

He drove behind the truck for several 
minutes, his face а m posit. 
As the exhaust fumes started putting 
stomach on edge, he suddenly forced 
down the heel of his right hand on the 
horn bar and held it there. Seeing that 
the route ahead was clear, he pushed in 
the accelerator pedal all the way and 
steered into the opposite Jane. 

‘The movement of his car was paral 
leled immediately by the truck. Mann 
stayed in place, right hand jammed 
down on the horn bar. Get out of the 
way, you son of a bitch! he thought. He 
felt the muscles of his jaw hardening 
until they ached. There was a twisting in 
s stomach. 

Damn!" He pulled back 
the proper lane, shuddering with fury. 
You miserable son of a bitch," he mut- 
tered, glaring at the truck as it was 
ted back in front of him. What the 
hell is wrong with you? I pass your 
goddamn rig a couple of times and you 
go flying off the deep end? Are you nuts 
or something? Mann nodded tensely. Yes, 
he thought; he is. No other explanation. 

He wondered what Ruth would think 
of all this, how she'd react. Probably, 
she'd start to honk the horn and would 
keep on honking it, assuming that, even- 
tually, it would attract the attention of а 
policeman. He looked around with a 
scowl. Just where in hell were the police 
men ont here, anyway? He made a scolf- 
ing noise. What policemen? Here in the 
boondocks? They probably had a sheriff 
on horseback, for Christ's sake. 

He wondered suddenly if he could 
fool the truck driver by passing on the 
right. Edging his car toward the shoul- 
der, he peered ahead. No chance. ‘There 
wasn't room enough. The truck driver 
could shove him through that wire fence 
if he wanted to. Mann shivered. And 
he'd want to, sure as hell, he thought. 

Driving where he was, he grew con- 
scious of the debris lying beside the 
highway: beer cans, candy wrappers, ice- 
Ts newspaper sections 
browned and rotted by the weather, a 
FOR SALE sign torn in half. Keep America 
beautiful, he thought sardonically He 
passed a boulder with the name WILL 
JASPER painted on it in white, Who the 


quickly to 


Unexpectedly, the car began to bounce. 


For several anxious moments, Mann 
thought that one of his tires had gone 
flat. Then he noticed that the pav 
ing along this section of highway consist 
ed of pitted slabs with gaps between 


them. He saw the truck and trailer jolt- 
ing up and down and thought: I hope 
it shakes your brains loose. As the truck 
veered into a sharp left curve, he caught 
a fleeting glimpse of the driver's face 


the cab's side mirror. There was not 


id. A long, steep hill 
ad. The truck wo 
slowly. There would 
doubtless be an opportunity to pass 
somewhere on the grade. Mann pressed 
down on the accelerator pedal, drawing 
as close behind the truck as safety would 
allow. 

Halfway up the slope, Mann saw a 
turnout. for the eastbound lane with no 
oncoming trafic anywhere in sight. 
Flooring the accelerator pedal, he shot 
into the opposite lane. The slow-moving 
truck began to angle out in front of him. 
Face stiffening, Mann steered his speed- 
ing car across the highway edge and 
curved it sharply on the turnout. Clouds 
of dust went billowing up behind his 
car, making him lose sight of the truck. 
His tires buzzed and crackled on the 
dirt, then, suddenly, were humming on 
the pavement once again. 

He glanced at the rearview mirror and 
a barking laugh erupted from his throat. 
He'd only meant to pass. The dust had 
been an unexpected bonus. Let the bas- 
tard get a sniff of something тоц; 
smelling in his nose for a change! he 
thought. He honked the horn elatedly, a 
mocking rhythm of bleats. Screw you, 
Jack! 

He swept across the summit of the hill. 
A striking vista lay ahead: sunlit hills 
and flatland, a corridor of dark trees, 
quadrangles of cleared-off acreage and 
bright-green vegetable patches; far off, in 
the distance, a mammoth water tower. 
Mann felt stirred by the panoramic 
sight. Lovely, he thought, Reaching out, 
he turned the radio back on and started 
humming cheerfully with the music. 

Seven minutes later, he passed a bill- 
board advertising Сниск'з caré. No 
thanks, Chuck, he thought. He glanced 
at a gray house nestled in a hollow. Was 
that a cemetery in its front yard or a 
group of plaster statuary for sale? 
ing the noise behind him, Mann 
the view mirror and felt 
clf go cold with fear. The truck was 
hurtling down the hill, pursuing him. 

His mouth fell open and he threw a 
glance at the speedometer. He was doing 
more than 60! On a curving down- 
grade, that was not at all a safe speed to 
be driving. Yet the truck must be exceed- 
ig that by а considerable margin, it was 
closing the distance between them so 
rapidly. Mann swallowed, leaning to the 
right as he steered his car around a sharp 
curve. Is the man insane? he thought. 

His gaze jumped forward searchingly. 
He saw a turnoff half a mile ahead and 


decided that he'd use it. In the rearview 
mirror, the huge square radiator grille 
was all he could see now. He stamped 
down on the gas pedal and his tires 
screeched unnervingly as he wheeled 
around another curve, thinking thar 
surely, the truck, would have to slow 
down here. 

He groaned as it rounded the сигу 
with ease, only the sway of its tanks 
revealing the outward pressure of the 

arn. Mann bit trembling lips together 
as he whipped his car around another 
curve. A straight’ descent now. He 
depressed the pedal farther, glanced at 
the speedometer. Almost 70 miles an 
hour! Hle wasn't used to driving this 
fast! 

In agony, he saw the turnoff shoot by 
on his right. He couldn't have left the 
hway at this speed, anyway; he'd hav 
overturned. Goddamn it, what 
wrong with that son of a bitch? Mann 
honked his horn in frightened rage. 
с g down the window suddenly, he 
shoved his left arm out to wave the truck 


as 


back. "Back!" he yelled. He honked 
the horn again. "Get back, you crazy 
bastard!” 


The truck was almost on him now. 
He's going to kill me! Mann thought, 
horrified. He honked the horn repeated- 
ly. then had to use both hands to grip 
the steering wheel as he swept around 
another curve. He flashed a look at the 
rearview mirror. He could see only the 
bottom portion of the truck's radiator 
grille. He was going to lose control! He 
felt the rear wheels start to drift and let 
up on the pedal quickly. The tire treads 
bit in, the car leaped on, regaining its 
momentum. 

Mann saw the bottom of the grade 
ahead, and in the distance there was a 
building with a sign that read cuuck's 

The truck was gaining ground 
again. This is insane! he thought, en 
raged and terrified at once. The highway 
straightened out. He floored the pedal 
74 now—75. Mann braced himself, 
g to ease the car as far to the right 
as possible. 

Abruptly, he began to brake, then 
swerved to the right, raking his car into 
the open area in front of the café. Не 
cried out as the car began to fishtail, 
then careened into a skid. Steer with it! 
screamed a voice in his mind. The rear 
of the car was lashing from side to side, 
tires spewing dirt and raising clouds of 
dust. M pressed harder on the brake 
pedal, turning further into the skid. The 
car began to straighten out and he braked 
arder yet, conscious, on the sides of his 
vision, of the truck and trailer roaring 
by on the highway. He nearly sideswiped 
опе of the cats parked in front of the 
fé, bounced and skidded by it. going 
almost straight now. He jammed in the 
brake pedal as hard as he could. The 

(continued on page 168) 


TH MISSMALAWI CONTEST 


fiction By PAULTHEROUX in a jungle beauty pageant, you better believe that black is beautiful 


IN THE LAST WEEK of April, on a Saturday night in Blantyre, the Miss Malawi Contest was held. Sponsored 
by Ambi Creams, Ltd, a Rhodesian skin-lightener manufacturer, it was an annual affair: Every year, Miss 
Malawi won a cash prize and several cases of Ambi and was flown to London in June to compete against Miss 
Gambia, Miss Pakistan and the others for the Miss Commonwealth crown. There was always the possibility 
of bcing sent later to the Miss Universe Contest in Miami. But that eventuality was so remote it was not 
spoken about, and locally the contest was seen as a political struggle. It was invested with all the authority 
of folk tradition: “What will happen when the old man goes?” was answered with, “Who was Miss Malawi 


last year?" Before anyone had heard of 
Hastings Osbong, the girl who was 
crowned Mis Nyasaland Protectorate 
was seen being squired around Blantyre 
by a talkative littie man with a facial 
tic and 2 па natty suit. The w 
they had their 
own beauty queens, elected at the sports 
clubs and agricultural shows, Miss Rug- 
ger and Miss Groundnut, But most 
Africans guessed that, at independence, 
Dr. Osbong, the homburg-wearing com- 
panion of Miss Nyasaland Protectorate, 
would be the first president. This augury 
confirmed, a tradition was born and 
many of the cabinet ministers used the 
Miss Malawi competition to test thei 
fluence. Entering their girlfriends in 
it was regarded as something like fight- 
ing a by-election in a stubbornly mute 
constituency. 

"That was the talk. It was what Major 
Beaglehole, the retired British army 
officer, told Calvin Mullet, Major Beagle- 
hole went on to say that three former 
Miss Malawis worked at the eating 
house. To look at them was to be certain 
the contest was rigged. But Calvin was 
bored by the thought of beauty contests; 
Homemakers Mutual, the insurance 
company he served in this remote land, 
had had one at its annual outing at 
Nantasket Beach, and Calvin told Bea- 
glehole, “1 didn't come nine thousand 
miles to watch a beauty contest" He 
would haye ignored the Miss Malawi 
Contest altogether, had Mira, his wife, 
not brought him an application form 
and asked him to fill it out for her, 

“Come off it" said Calvin. "What do 
you want to enter that thing for?” 
fiss Malawi," Mira pouted. 

It was wrong, There was not the faint- 
est bit of African culture in it. It was а 
reversal, offensive to Calvin. Africans 
were a proud race: Why should they let 
themselves get involved in the publicity 
nunick of a Rhodesian skin-lightener 
compan 

“What's the point? African countries 
shouldn't have beauty contests. It’s not 
right. It's not"—not traditional, he 
thought. She didn't know the word. He 
said, “No good. 
I godl Paid Mira 
Calvin, 


PLAYBOY 


‘You don't want to 


be Miss № 
“Do.” said Mira. 
lullet, you're talking like a black,” 
said Major Beaglehole. "Of course, it's a 
fiddle, everyone knows that. Osbong's 
tarty little chit won it back in Sixty- 
three. I's always the same, but that's no 
reason to talk like a black. 
“I'll talk the way L want,” said Calvin. 
“I won't have my wife entering any 
beauty contests, and that’s that.” 
“Don't you listen to him,” said Bailey 
10 Mira. “I always say. just having them 
up there with their bums showing in 
110 their cute little frocks is good for trade.” 


Bailey was the manageress of the com- 
bined boardinghouse-whorehouse where 
they lived 

"It's a waste of time,” said Calvin. 

“You're a fine one to talk about t- 
ng time," said Bailey. "Stop. nattering 
and fill up the form. There's a love.” 

Grumbling, Calvin filled in the appli 
cation and pinned a 50-osbong note to it 
as а deposit. Only then, delaying and 
snapping the bill, did he notice thar 
the dark face in the watermark was 
Osbong' 

Calvin was angry, because in spite of 
what everyone said about the contest, he 
was sure Mira could win. The winners of 
beauty contests were driven foolish and 
they always seemed to end badly, as 
whorish starlets or hostesses in night 
clubs. In Malawi, their pictures were 
used on the Ambi posters. 

Mira received the application with а 
smile. She flung her arms around Cal. 
уйш neck and kissed him. She was wear- 
ing one of her flowered head scarves and 
а toga of a silken sari drawn close to her 
body. One ngled with a whole 
sleeve of gold bracelets. In her, jungle 
genes were threaded on black necklaces 
of Central African chromosomes. She was 
hard and slim, her mouse ears were 
slighdy larger than most women's cars, 
or perhaps seemed so because they were 
ot hidden by hair. She had a long 
graceful neck and hooded slanting eyes; 
she was not black but a deep brown. 
From the waist up, she was gently mold- 
ed, like the handle of a dagger; her 
breasts were small. Her legs were long 
for her size and straight as two stiletto 
blades, She was Calvin's blackbird, 
cat; she had sharp little teeth. 

When she was dressed smooth 
the soft fabric slipping over her curves, 
Calvin desired her. He tantalized himself 
by sliding his hand under the silk sheath 
and caressing the flesh of her gloriously 
firm edges, so many angles and surprises. 
It verged on the perverse. She obliged 
Calvin by dressing this way, baited him 
by draping her bareness, which, masked, 
provoked him. drove him wild. He 
groped up her thigh. She showed her 
teeth and helped his hand. 

She was pretty, and though he had not 
married her for that (he would have 
settled for the company of her simple 
presence). it was welcome. She had her 
secrets, but her loveliness was unhidden, 
Of this, Calvin was positive. A week 
alter their marriage, they had had a little 
quarrel about washing. She washed а 
great deal; Calvin did not. He had 
washed and shaved for the wedding and 
had glucd his hair down, but after that, 
he lost interest. He was not trying to 
impress anyone. He that like an 
African, he was happy dirty: Filth re- 
laxed him. There was something cozy 
and familiar in an undershirt that had 
been worn for a week or two. Mira told 


him to keep clean; she gave him soap. 
Calvin was hurt. And scared: Obsessive 
washing reminded him unpleasantly of 
his first wife. Now Mira, black Mira, 
whom he had brought from a little dorp 
in Central Africa, was starting the 
same business, Galvin said it was stupid 
to spend so much time under a dripping 
barrel suspended in the air while Jarvis 
Moore lugged buckets of hot water up a 
ladder. attempting to keep the punctured 
barrel filled, Mira caught at the word 
stupid and cried. But this was not the 
end of it. That night, she lay flat on the 
bed; Calvin bent over and spread his 
hands on her, one hand on the full bone- 
les dumpling of a breast, the other fish- 
ing in the fuzzy nave of her thighs. He 
was first a blind man lightly translating 
the body's braille; then, with desire, an 
organist feeling for chords. Calvin 
crouched to pick her open with a kiss. 
“Реер!" 
She jackknifed and slapped his face, 
Calvin fled from the room, tumescent, 
and walked the streets, searching for a 
girl to pick up. The eatinghouse bar 
was empty. Calvin walked down St. An- 
drews Street to Osbong, where he found 
the bars closed and shuttered. A girl in 
an alley off Henderson Street clicked her 
teeth at him. Calvin stopped and went 
closer to her. She was drunk, she held his 
sleeve and pursed her lips, trying to kiss. 
Calvin pulled away and ran up to Victo- 
ria Street, where at Barclays Bank and 
Kandodo Supermarket, night watchmen 
huddled around fires or were slung in 
charpoys in the doorways with bed- 
clothes of newspapers. Two blocks up 
Victoria, a pack of Youth Wingers ap- 
peared, armed with truncheons and knob- 
kerries, and started toward Calvin. Calvin 
ducked down Fotheringham Road and 
saw several girls dispersing. Не fol- 
lowed onc. then another, back down to 
Osbong. avoiding the Youth Wingers, 
and had almost reached — Agnello's 
building and the junction when he saw a 
figure he first took to be a lithe, young 
Sikh boy in a sarong. It was a girl. Calvin 
followed, led on by the busy bobbing of 
her likely bum. In Chinyanja, there was 
a specific word of eight thumping sylla- 
bles for the rotating movement of a 
woman's bottom when she walked. The 
girl moved swiftly, 16 syllables to a step, 
and had almost reached the clock tower 
when Calvin, drawing close to her and 
on the point of making a kissing sound 
—the way one calls a cat: All the girls 
responded to it—and saying muli 
ji, saw the girl's face in the help- 
ful blaze of a watchman’s fir 
So pretty, even from the back, 
dark, late at night, as a stranger. They 
hugged and brushed lips; jungle lovers. 
Mira plunged her hand down the top of 
his trousers and held his quickening 
shaft. She steered him back to the board- 
imghouse and, much later, she bathed 


^I like it—it makes you look sexy.” 


n 


PLAYBOY 


12 


him, soaping him by lantern light in 
Beaglehole's claw-foot bathtub. 

“Lays and german!" called the mas- 
ter of ceremonies on the stage of the 
Rainbow Theater, in a slurring attempt 
at an American accent. “Wid yer permis- 
sion, lays and german, Jemme interduce 
dese luflly, luffly chicks!” 

They were under the Ambi banner 
LOOK LOVELIER, LOOK LIGHTER—AMBI 15 
For vou. The Ismailian brothel had sent 
а very thin one; the Groundnut Market- 
ing Board had sent two; the Malawi 
News, one ol its girl reporters; the League 
of Malawi Women, one; and two cach 
from the Good-morning Panwallah, the 
Zambesi Bar, the New Safari Drink 
House, the Victoria Club and the High 
Life. There were three (Grace, Abby, 
Ameena) from Auntie Zceba's Eating 
House. Five in special finery (feathered 
hats, trim dresses and long white gloves) 
were unsponsored: These were assumed 
to be the cabinet ministers girlfriends. 
There was Mira in silk. And there was 
another. 

“Look at tha 
"A ruddy Hottentot.” 

She was a fat black woman with str 
of red ocher on her face. She wore 
leopardskin. a necklace of yellow lion 
fangs and а civetcat peruke. Strings of 
little bells were tied around her ankles 
and wrists. She stamped and made swim- 
ming movements with her arms, sounding 
these bells. She was armed, a quiver of 
arrows at her back, a bow slung over 
her shoulder. In her hand was а limber 
spear, a uident, popular with the lake- 
shore tribes, А carving knife with a 
beaded handle and a stone hatchet were 
crammed into her belt, She was inro 
duced as Zanama. 

Each girl, on being presented by the 
master of ceremonies, had winked or 
salaciously adjusted her dress. Mira had 
smiled toward Calvin. апата had 
called out im a coarse village voice; а 
whole section of the audience had re- 
plied. Encouraged, Zanama hopped to 
the center of the stage, shook her bells 


or Beaglehole said. 


might nock an arrow and zing it into the 
audience: He slumped down in his seat. 


But no arrow was shot. The master of 
ceremonies persuaded Zanama to return 
to her place in line, She did so. scowling. 

Only Mira and Zanama appeared to 
be their natural color; Mira was choco- 
late, Zanama, molasses. “The rest, rubbed 


with Ambi, were shiny-faced in hues of 
glowing blue, the difference in shade due 
to the strength of lightening cream each 


Ambi Special. All the girls arms were 
brown and all their mouths were clowny 
with lipstick. 

“Les give da judges time to look dese 
lufy chicks over and pick da nex Miss 
Ma said the master of ceremonies. 


“Now a little music to brighten things 
up!” 

A penny-whistle band from Johannes 
burg, led by a man named Spokes (a 
short tsotsi in a porkpie hat, played 
1wo numbers. Spokes danced an extrava 
gant kwela. 

Elvis Masooka followed with Jailhouse 
Rock and Oobie Doobie, accompanying 
himself on a cracked guitar. 

Jim Malinki sang a pious rendition of 
This World Is Not My Home. 

The girls’ choir from the Stella Mai 
Mission harmonized, to the tune of San- 
ia Lucia, the Hastings Osbong song; they 
finished up with Zonse Zimene Za H. K. 
Osbong—Everything Belongs to Н. К. 
Osbong. Dr. Оз picture was right 
above the Ambi sign and tinted blue, 
giving credence to [arvis Moore's charge 
that the pre: 

A judge in a white smock went among 
the girls at the back of the stage with a 
tape measure. He shouted numbers to a 
scriousfaced judge, who jotted them 
down in a notebook. Another judge ex 
amined the girls with a magnifying glass 
ng the girls’ choir) when the 
ring judge was finished. 

Calvin sat between Major Bcaglchole 
and Bailey. Jack Mavity had also come 
along; he sat next to Bailey with two of 
his children. Mavity said, "You sce that 
magnifying glass? Well, the Africans like 
shiny objects like that.” 

Major Beaglehole looked at Zanama 
and said, "Makes me think of a rogue 
elephant.” Bailey coughed and ate from 
a parcel in her lap, and coughed. Calvin 
chain-smoked. He was embarrassed on 
behalf of every performer and contest- 
ant; he tried to avert his eyes. There was 
something unnatural about it. It was 
wrong: Me had known that as soon 
as Mira had shown him the application 
aded AMBI BEAUTY SEARCH. Не felt dis- 
comfort; he wanted to leave. 

One perception held him. It dawned 
on him that he was watching a minstrel 
show in reverse, a negative rather than a 
photograph. Instead of Al Jolson in 
blackface, popping his eyes and croon- 
ing, "Mandy, is there a minister handy?," 
black people wearing skin lightener were 
cavorting around, Iampooning huanas, 
memsahibs and white showgirl. "They 
weren't making asses of themselves: They 
were reacting against years of mockery 
and insult. Calvin had never seen Al Jol- 
son, but he had seen the Hudson Baptist 
Men's Club dressed as darkies—that was 
their word, darkies—balling the jack in 
1951 at a church gala. It made his flesh 
creep to recall that sorry decade, when 
dreary people tried to strut and middle- 
aged men in striped polliwogg jackets 
tipped paper derbies and said, “Hello, 
Mistah Bones! Who was dat lady I seen 
you wid last night?" 

“That was no bloody lady—that was 
my wile!” was the reply by Spokes, 15 


years later on the stage of the Rainbow 
‘Theater in Blantyre, Malawi, Central 
Africa. Time had stood still. There were 
the Ambi-whitened girls instead of the 
burnt-cork-blackened men; there were El 
vis Masooka, Jim Malinki and even his 
own wife, and it was still the Fifties. 
‘That other era sputtered back in gray 


warming up: the Andrews Sisters, Perry 
Ed Sullivan's 
Dave Garroway. 


Como, Julius La Ro 
“Toast of the Town, 
all the cool hepeats 
arfing on a six-pack of Car. 
g to Symphony Sid. It 
was the Miss Malawi Contest in Blan 
tyre; but it was also the Sundayafter- 
noon variety show on a Boston TV: 
Community Opticians, with your genial 
host, Gene Jones, singing, "Star of the 
day, who will it һе...” 
snow flurries on a 12-inch Munt. 

Fond memories at the age of 30, 
effortless reminiscences. Africa permitted 
such insights. No one could be nostalgic 
in America; the country was not de- 
ned for it With gusto, the past was 
erased. But here in Malawi, the world 
had not turned. Here for Calvin were 
ghostly voices and signature tunes: The 
Green Horner; Mr. Keene, Tracer of 
Lost Persons; Mr. and Mrs. North; The 
Shadow, Lamont Cranston; The Quiz 
Kids, 20 Mule Team Borax; Quaker 
Oats Shot from Guns; Jack Armstrong 
the All-American Boy: Tonto: the Gold- 
bergs; and The Great Gilderslecve. For 
12 cents at the Hudson Roxy, you could 
see Jane Russell (a torn blouse, а hay- 
stack) in The Outlaw, Edmond O'Brien 
in The Barefoot Contessa, Jane Wyman 
(whatever happened to her?); Lex Bark 
ег was Tarzan. Those queer gray years, 
you were a liberal if you had scen The 
Jackie Robinson Story. and there were 
strel shows, millions and millior 
(‘Toot-Toot-Tootsie, Goodbye . . 
minstrel shows. 

“Here is another musical sandwich to 
munch on. So gird up your loins and let 
this squeeze box knock you off your 
fee 

Onstage, out of the К 
a nervous accord 
with a bad haircut. His black face 
neutralized with Ambi-Extra, On 
Community Opticians, he would have 
said, “I'm а bus hoy at the Chelsea 
Waldorf, Gene—been playing this here 
thing since | was ten-cleven years old L 
guess you might say I'm waiting for my 
big break" But the gangling man with 
the bad haircut, when asked, "What are 
you gonna play for us?," said nothing in 
reply. He shook his bulky instrume: 
felt for the keys and chords and. swaying 
in the way all the accordionists used to. 
played Лу God! thought Calvin, ат / 
dreaming this? —Lady of Spain. 

Singing Old Black Joe and Swaner 

(continued on page 206) 


nbow wings, 
gangling 


was 


PIAYBOY'S 
SIRING & 
SUMMER 
FASHION 
FORECAST 


attire By ROBERT L. GREEN 


the definitive statement on coming trends in warm-weather wearwithal 
NOW THAT THE SNOW hai all but left the slopes, and skis and parkas have been stashed 
until next winter, it's time for our anhual prognostication on the spring and sum- 
mer styles that will soon be appearing in men's stores and boutiques. As PLAYBOY 
readers already know; the word fashion no longer denotes a rigidly regimented ‘ap- 
proach to attire. Today's males are enjoying an unprecedented sartorial freedom, 
creating a total look that's right for—and unique to—each individual. Cases in 
point: a tight-ribbed knit sweater worn with velvet jeans, a dark-blue knit-suit tucked 
into lace-up boots or а zip-front suit worn with a scarf loosely knotted at the neck. 
The trick, of course, is to wear your selections with an air of studied informality. 
The majority of this summer's suits, we predict, will have a familiar cut: shaped, 
wide-lapelled and two-button. The look is reminiscent of the Thirties, but with an 
intangible contemporary touch imparted by the way colors are combined with fab- 
rics: near-whité in linens and cottons, and pastel (text continued on page 119) 


Left to right: a polyester-knit single- 
breasted two-button suit with flap potch 
pleoted pockets and deep center vent, by 
Clubman, $110, worn with a poisley 
rayon-and-cotton shirt with snop closures, 

by Gant, $18, and high loce-up 

boots, by Renegodes, $70; о lambskin- 

suede shirt suit with medium-spread 

collar, plocket front ond slosh pockets, 

by Jon Stephone for 8idermonn of Poris, 
$200, and patchwork leother boots, by 
Horbor Imports Ltd., $60; o polyester-knit 
herringbone-weove belted sofari suit with 
four button-flop patch pockets and flored-leg 
trousers, by Tiger of Sweden, $110, 

ond kidskin lace-up boots, by Verde, $50. 


“ЧАС 
* ates 


-odd 
па) e 


shades in tropical weights and denims. Each year, men’s-clothing designers seem to "discover" a specific fab- 
ric and then spin off a variety of wearables from it. In the months ahead, you'll see an increasing number ofl 
items made from three materials: linen, canvas and denim. All three, you'll notice, have two things in common: a 
look of frontier simplicity and bleached earthy tones. When buying, pay particular attention to such details as con- 
tasting stitching and suede, corduroy or polished-leather trim. Knit flared-leg slacks with matching jackets have 
been featured in men’s stores over the past two years, more as a novelty item than as a serious consideration for your 
wardrobe. During the coming months, you'll note a profusion of well-tailored knits featuring а variety of jacket treat- 
ments that range from long tunics to waist-length Eisenhowers. Depending on the weather—and your build—they 
can be worn open at the neck, sans shirt, perhaps with a silk scarf or a piece of jewelry. Leather togs are now year- 
round favorites, with emphasis during the warm months, of course, on lighter skins. Hides and styles to look for 


des T Pm 

pui 

i Wut 91), ond; ve 
ioe print Norad leg ult ton jeans, 
'forer, $8.90; Bantron 


Left to right: a geametric-weave waol-and- 
polyestor suit with peaked lapels, by 

Linett, $130, floral-print Kodel-and-cattan 
shirt, by Career Club, $8, silk tie, 

by Resilio, $20, and calfskin demiboots, 

by Renegades, $30; a linen-Terylene-and 
wacl suit with extension waistband, by 
Grashire, $150, herringbone-and-stripe 
cotton broadcloth shirt, $25, 

silk tie, $15, all by Bert Pulitzer, and 
leather demiboots, by Nunn-Bush, $35; a 
geometric-weave cottan suit with 

flared-leg trausers, by Hardy Amies, USA, 
$185, Fortrel-ond-cottan shirt, by 
Creighton, $10, silk tie, by R 
and patent-leather slip-ons, 


$12.50, 


y Tree Mark, $23, 


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122 


DEATH OF LIBERALISM („ше from poge 99) 


sok, the archetypal liberal anti-Commu 
nist, was able to write in the Partisan Re- 
view in 1952; “I cannot understand why 
American intellectuals should be apolo- 
getic about the fact they are limited in 
their effective historical choice between 
endorsing a system of total error and 
critically supporting our own imperfect 
democratic culture. . . ." That was never 
the stark either/or choice intellectuals 
faced, There were always the independent 
alternatives of democratic radicalism, or 
neutralism in the Cold War, or support 
for the great movements against colo- 
nialism then being spawned in the womb 
of the Third World from Cuba to Alget 
to Vietnam—movements almost all the 
NATO intellectuals ignored in their 
elitist preoccupation with white Western 
arope. And one does not make this case 
now with the cheap wisdom of hindsight. 
In fact, there were American intellectuals 
at the time—men such as С. Wright Mills, 
Dwight MacDonald, Paul Goodman and 
Norman Mailer—who did resist the tide 
of fashion and held onto a saving rem- 
nant of independent radicalism. 

The second conceptual mistake the 
Fifties’ liberals made was "the end of 
ideology” mischief, popularized by Dan 
iel Bell's book bearing that unfortunate 
axiom. Bell's theory expressed the 1e 
markable idea that all the great structur- 
al problems of America had been solved, 
and all that was required now were small 
adjustments, some minor technological 
tinkering with the soft machine at the 
top. 

The foolishness of this notion has 
been proved many times by the mass 
movements and social dislocations of the 
Sixties. But the same problems were all 
there during the Fifties, too: between 
30,000,000 and 40,000,000 poor people, 
the growth of the arms budget, Mc- 
Carthyism, the oppression of women, im- 
perialism, migrant farm workers, slums, 
the destruction of the environment and, 
most clearly, the systematic racism of the 
South. But the intellectuals didn't care to 
look. Professor Bell's book was published 
1960, five years after Martin Luther 
King’s bus boycott in Montgomery bap- 
tized the Southern freedom movement. 
Yet in Bell's large index, there are only 
four passing references to blacks, the 
longest one dealing with aime statistics. 
And none referred to the civil rights 
movement 

“The end of ideology" now seems to 
have been merely an autobiographical 
epitaph for a generation of weary sociol- 
ogists who lost the capacity to imagine 
new insurgent movements taking root 
America. It was 
an elitist generalization totally inapplica- 
ble to blacks, to the Third World or even 


to the generation of Americans in high 
school in 1960. 

The third false premise of the Fifties 
was that—since only “pockets of pov- 
erty” remained—the next great question 
facing liberals was the “quality of 
tion.” They argued that the new issu 
confronting liberalism was identity and 
fulfillment in an affluent. mass society. 
But the issue that faced liberalism їп 
1956, and still faces it today, is rhe 
ancient one of unequal distribution of 
wealth, power and land within Ameri 
Liberals have become absolute geniuses 
at inventing fads and fashions to evade 
this fundamental question of wealth and 
poverty. They have made ecology, the 
abolition of the House Un-American 
Activities Committee, the admission of 
mainland China to the United Nations, 
busing to achieve school integration, bet- 
ter TV programing—almost anything 
else—their central concern in their 
efforts to avoid facing up to the eco- 
nomic question the Populists had put 
first on the agenda of justice. The direct 
conditions of poverty—unemployment, 
rotting housing, inadequate health care, 
no land, no education, debts, foul sanita- 
tion—remain the heart of the problem. 
The pop sociologists might call it а 
"spiritual crisis” or a “crisis of confi 
dence," but what it all boils down to is 
too many poor people. 

Тһе last false pillar of Cold War liber- 
айып was the idea put forward by Sidney 
Hook, Irving Kristol and many others 
that the urgent need for a united front 
against Stalinism had made all the tra- 
ditional distinctions among left, right 


and center obsolete. Again, I think this 


was an overreaction to the undeniable 
evil of Stalinism. One could oppose the 
Soviet Union without surrendering all 
sense of proportion, without equating 
America with nirvana and without 
equating the Soviet Union with all other 
varieties of socialism. But the fact is that 
certain distinctions between left and 
right endured through the Fifties, and 
endure today. The left has always 
sense of outrage against poverty and in- 
justice, and the right has always defend- 
ed order and property out of а sense of 
uadition. 
During the 


ad a 


ties, many liberals (who 
ed 


called themselves socialists) became coi 


servatives out of guilt for having once 
been Marxists. They went straight from 
one failed God to a bright new religion 
led anı 
est flirtation with doubt or agnosticism. 
Major intellectual figures such as Hook 
and Reinhold Nicbuhr became no less 
dogmatic as anti-Communist liberals than 
they had been as socialists. 

The most dramatic measure of the 
liberals’ neartotal capitulation during 


the Fifties can be seen in their response 
to the witch-hums of Joe McCarthy. 
Here is a controversy h the liberals 
should have appeared at their best: Lib- 
erty and reason were under assault by a 
anti intellectu og, But the record 
of the liberal intellectuals during this 
stormy period is scandalous, Some, such a 
journalist James Wechsler and literary 
critic Granville Hicks, gave the names of 
former Communists to McCarthy's com. 
mitice. Others wrote articles in liber 
al magazines ing with McCarthy's 
goals and questioning only his methods, 
while attacking his victims; they viewed 
McCarthyism as a necessary e 
ag Kristol could write in the 
1052 iue of Commentary 
one thing the American 
about Senator McCarthy; 
them, is unequivocally ant 
- About the spokesmen for 
ism, they feel they know 

ie." As late as July of 1954, 


"There is 
people know 
he, 


like 


American 
no such 1 


Alm Westin wrote an essay in Com 
mentary 
were explo 
and 


ning that the Communists 
ng the issue of McCarth: 
ism, the following month critic 
Lol dler wrote an essay for En- 
counter mocking “the loud fears of the 
imellectuals” and then swinging into an 
allout attack on the radicals. 

If the intellectuals defaulted so shame- 
lessly, how much resistance to Мс 
Carthyism could reasonably be expected 
from the professional politician Not 
very much. It seems almost unnecessary 
at this late date to document the default 
once again, but reading the faded yellow 
newspaper clippings of the early Fifties, 
one aches for a chance to replay history 
with a few pinch hitters. 

When “the greatest deliberative body 
in the world”—the Senate of the United 
States—passed the historic bill making it 
a crime to be a member of the Commu- 
nist Party (the Communist Control Act 
of 1954), one Senator voted in the neg. 
ative: Estes Kefauver of Tennessee. All 
the heavy liberals—Humphrey, Morse, 
Douglas—voted yes. 

In February of 1954, the Senate voted. 
to appropriate an annual subsidy of 
$214,000 for Senator McCarthy's investi 
Bative committee. This was two years 
after tail gunner Joe had accused the 
Democrats of "20 years of treason” 
and called Adlai Stevenson a "Commu 
nist dupe.” But only one lone vote was 
cast against the appropriation—by J. Wil 
m Fulbright of Ark 

In July of 1953, the Senate passed a 
new McCarran Bill, which in effect cir 
cumvented the Fifth Amendment to the 
Constitution. The bill compelled wit 
nesses before investigative committees 
surrender their constitutional right against 
sel-incrimination, to testify on the basis 
of immunity from prosecution; in other 
words, to inform, Only ten Senators voted 
(continued on page 246) 


sas. 


TheHarry Hastings Method 


when а smart burglar matches wits with a smarter television writer, the contest is bound to be bizarre 


SUSIE PLIMSON says 1 should keep on 
practicing my writing. She's been my 
teacher at Hollywood High Adult Educa- 
tion in the Professional Writing course 
and says 1 am still hi trouble with 
my syntixes and my tenses and very 
kindly gave me private lessons at her 
place, and she is dark-haired and very 
pretty and about my age (which is 25) 
and, in addition, she has preat big boobs. 


fiction By WARNER LAW 


Susie says if I really want to be a 
professional writer, I should write about 
what I really know about—if it is inter- 
csting—end while I did do a hitch in the 
Navy some time back, I was on a destroy- 
er tender and never heard a shot fired 
except in р ‚ which I don't think is 
a highly interesting matter to describe, 

But one thing 1 know a lot about is 
working the houses in the Hollywood 


ILUSTFATION BY ALEX EBEL 


hills. The people who live up there are 
not particularly stinking but then, 
I've never been interested in valuable 
paintings or diamond necklaces, anyway, 
because what do you do with them? 

But there are usually portable radios 
and TV sets and auto tape decks and now 
and then there is some cash lying around 
or а fur, or a few pices of fairly good 
jewelry, or (continued on page 228) 


123 


TURNING 
OVER 

A 

NEW 

LIFE 


chris cranston 
is forsaking 
a chance at 
movie stardom 
Sor hawaii’s 
sun and sand 


is THE Fim Funny Girl, it was abund 
ly apparent that Florenz Ziegfeld’s formu- 
la for the Follies—in addition to an array 
of big-name stars—included а queensized 
regiment of chorus girls to complement 
the songand.dance offerings of Fanny 
Brice, et al. One of the stunning chorines 
in chat movie was 24-year-old Chris Cran 
ston, who herewith makes a repeat appear- 
ance in PLAYBOY; she debuted in our 
September 1968 Girls of “Funny Girl” fea- 
ture. Soon after that first full-page expo- 
sure, she was signed as a regular on the 
Playboy After Dark ТУ show and her 
second career—modeling—began to take 
off meteorically in the Southern California 
area, where she was born and raised. Then 
came commercials and bit movie parts, 
plus an invitation to appear on a local Los 
Angeles TV talk show. It was in the course 
of that televised conversation that Chris 


e particularly,” she explains, "was that 
wasn't the usual entertainers’ whistle- 
stopping trip. Instead. the idea was to 
have us travel into isolated areas of the 
country, meet the guys stationed there and 
talk with them at length." For two and a 
half weeks, Chris and her group made 
helicopter forays into 
remote bases, where 
they entertained and 
chatted informally 
with CIs who were 
unaccustomed to any 
kind of friendly visita- 
tion. “Needless to say, 
they were delighted to 
see us" For Chris, 
however, the most in- 
delible impressions of 
the journey resulted 
from her nonverbal 
hly communi- 
сийе exchanges with 
Vietnamese natives. 
“Through gestures, 
we were able to speak 
with one another 
quite easily. It was 
gratifying for me to 
be accepted by them. 
One old woman gave 
me a bracelet that 
nifies everlasting 
ince it fits snugly and can't 
It’s now one of my proudest 
Although her troupe was 
never actually fired upon, Chris does have 
onc close call to relate. “After landing at 
a spot near Cao Lanh, we learned from 
the men that a helicopter trying to land 


just a few minutes before we arrived had 
been shot down. I’m really glad I didn't 
know that until we were on the ground.” 
Wholly dovish in her opinions about the 
war when she signed up for the tour, Chris 
substantiated that assessment during her 
brief cour of duty. "I'm still against the 
war, but the troops I saw really helped the 
Vietnamese, who, consequently, loved the 
During her return trip to California, 
Chris landed in Hawaii for an R&R 
visit with former Los Angeles friends, who 
eloquently urged her to join them as a 
resident of the Islands. "But," she says, 
“my first impressions were negative. The 
parts I saw were quite commercialized 
recent return visit, at her friends in 
sistence, turned Chris around, however— 
particularly when she was introduced to 
the uniquely bohemian life style of Hono- 
lulu's North Shore, a mélange of canvas 
tents and psychedelically painted vans 
occupied by growing numbers of young 
people, mostly mainland. emigrants, who 
j inuous diet of sun, sea and 
eing the informality of 
everything over there made me realize 
what a silly ratrace existence Гуе been 
leading. The North Shore way of life 
isn't like a commune. Most of the people 
work in Honolulu 
But it's communal in 
the sense that many 
of them share their 
possessions: clothing, 
food, practically any- 
thing. T just can't 
wait to get back there 
to мау. D talked it 
over with my folks 
and they approve of 
the idea. Thats im 
portant to me because 
l value their opin 
ions." Chris is now in 
the midst of 
ing her Stateside as 
sets, since she feels 
they would only clut- 
ter the simple life 
shell soon be adopt- 
ing. “Besides,” she 
reasons pragmatically, 
ith the money 1 
can get for my things, 
plus the amount I've 
already saved, | can buy а van and not 
have to work for a while. I'll stay in Ha 
waii for as long as the cash holds out.” We 
predict her stay will be a long one, for the 
best things that await Chris in her new life 
—an idyllic environment and beachcomb 
ing camaraderie—are unconditionally free. 


"For as long as | can remember,” says Californian Chris Cranston, “I’ve wanted to became 
ап actress.” But a recently completed and eventful expedition—beginning with a trip to 


Vietnam—caused her to change that ambition. "Success i 
more,” says Chris. Currently, she's making plans to abandon her native state for Howe 


films doesn't matter to me any- 


where she’s going to “lake life easy and simply find my head.” On these pages, we invite 
readers to discaver nat only her pretty head but the rest of her attractive anatomy as well. 


Chris's stint as а regular on the Playboy After Dork television show was, in her words, "one of the mos! enjoyoble experiences in my 
brief show-business career. Each taping was exciting and unpredictable becouse | never knew who I might get a chance to meet. It wos 


око foscinating to watch os guests performed before one another. | discovered how true it is that people in show business make the 
most responsive audiences.” Above: Chris, together 


Hefner ond Lough-In's Dick Martin and Dan Rowo 


other cast members and performers, listens in on conversotion among host Hugh 
then, during © break, she rehearses the line she'll deliver when taping resumes. Op- 
posite page, top: On onother P. A. D. show, Chris assumes the role of “lovely assistant” to actor Hugh O'Brian as he performs o magic trick. 


Opposite page, bottom: Since she'll scon be leoving California, Chris is spending cs much time as she con with her closest friends. Here, 
she and her roommotes while away an afterncon on the pier at Redondo Beoch. Cameras in hand, the girls snop a few shots for their 
scrapbooks and then venture into one of the area's novelty stores, where Chris tries on some wire glass frames. Below left: Chris shows her 
sense of bolonce—not to mention daring—as she makes her way carefully along the pier's guardrail. Loter, below right, the girls spot o new 
clothes shop and, after a few minutes inside, Chris decides to buy c new bikini, de rigueur for anything under the sun. She hopes to wear 
such micro-apparel almost exclusively in Hawaii, "since 1 won't be working for some time and plan to spend every day on the beach.“ 


MISS APRIL parsoy's pravmare оғ тне MONTH 


Taking time off from her many moving chores, Chris drives with a dote to nearby Hermosa Beach far a Surday evening at the 
motorcycle races. "1 really dig them,” she says. “I've been to auto races, too, end although they're а lot of fun to see, | think cycle 
races cre more exciting because the riders are totally visible, giving you c chance to watch them react. I've heard some say there's 
а greater risk to the rider, toa, although | don’t think that's what makes the sport thrilling.” At the track they spot а friend, 
Nick, who's riding in the evening's events, ond (below, left and center) later cheer for their favorite. “Our being there must have 
brought him good luck, because he won all three races he entered." Below right, between races, Chris affers Nick encouragement. 


PLAYBOY'S PARTY JOKES 


The attractive young thing was about to go to 
bed with her blind date for the evening when 
she burst into tears. “I'm afraid you'll get the 
wrong idea about me,” she sobbed. "I'm really 
not that kind of girl’ И 

Don't worry," he comforted he 


“I believe 


she gulped. 
“The first one to make love to you 
"No. The first one to believe me." 


A waggish psychiatrist friend tells of а patient. 
psych palysis who swore off LSD because he 
was afraid to expand his mind while having his 
head shrunk. 


Aiter downing а few drinks, the ad salesman 
complained to the bartender, “My wife has this 
bad habit of staying up all night and there 
seems to be no way I can break her of it. 
“What's she doing all that time?” the bar- 
keep asked. 
“Waiting for me,” replied the man, 


A diplomat we met at a party not long ago 
commented that sex is die ultimate peacemaker, 
as it eventually softens all hard feelings. 


Our Unabashed Dictionary defines puberty 
that time life when one is too old for doll- 
houses and too young for penthouses. 


Saint Peter challenged God to a heavenly golf 
match and, after Peter hit his tee shot close to 
the pin and God sliced badly into the rough, 
the twosome started hiking down the f: 
Suddenly, a squirrel picked up the Lord's golf 
ball and darted away, only to be grasped by a 
huge eagle, which carried the little anima 

into the sky. Dark clouds then filled the 
a thunderbolt struck the bird, causing it to 
release the squirrel, which, in turn, dropped the 
ball omo the green, where it bounced several 
times and rolled into the cup. "Damn it!” cried 
the exasperated saint. “Are You going to screw 
around or play golf?” 


heard about the careless 


Ana, of course, you'y 
cidentally swallowed his 


contortionist who 
pride 


Having listened. 10 the appeal of an elderly 
streetwalker, the newly elected magistrate was 
reluctant to sentence her, He ordered a short 
recess, then went to the chambers of an older 
judge and asked, “What would you give 
year-old prostitut 

The learned jurist thought for a moment and 
replied, "Oh, no more than a buck and а half. 


Two bachelors competed constantly for the af- 
fections of a shapely secre but the rivalry 
ended when the girl finally agreed 10 wed one of 
them. Both men attended a stag party in honor 
of the lucky groom and cach of them was asked 
to tell a story about the bride-to-be. "I was 
dreaming the other night,” her betrothed be- 
gan. "and I saw a field of flowers. As I walked 
through the meadow. a covey of doves darted 
up and I captured the most beautiful bird and 
it was my lovely future. wife.” 

“What a coincidence,” exclaimed the second 
suitor. “I dreamed about the same field and the 
very same doves, but when J reached up, all 
1 got were а few pieces of tail. 


Our Unabashed Dictionary defines quickic as 
no sooner spread than done. 


A few moments after his daughter announced 
her engagement, the father questioned, 
this fellow have any money? 

“Oh, you men are all alike,” the girl replied. 
“That's just what he asked about you 


Our Unabashed Dictionary defines sexual ab- 
stinence as a nocturnal omission. 


The high school cheerleader confessed to the 
kindly old priest that she'd been ha 1 
intercourse with her boyfriend in the front seat 
of his car every night for the past two months 
“Don't you think you've been doing something 
wrong?” admonished the deric gently. 

“I guess you're right.” she mumbled thought- 
fully. “Maybe it would be more comfortable in 
the back seat.” 


We know an inexperienced stenographer who 
discovered she could lose а lot more than letters 
behind the files. 


When the man and wife got into bed for some 
lovemaking one night, instead of responding, 
she began complaining about economic condi 
tions in the world. 

Everything is going up," she whined. “The 
price of food; the cost of clothes, the beauty 
shop. I'd be so happy if just one thing would go 
down. 

Came the sleepy reply, 
wish.” 


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"Mrs. Moore, let me assure you my conduct 
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article By JULES SIEGEL 


embraced by spiritualists, 
pursued by parapsychologists 
and debunked by most 
scientists, extrasensory 
perception remains a 
fascinating enigma 


"c, уолу? Is C. Jolly here?" 

Eyes sealed beneath a double thickness 
of white surgical tape and three layers of 
black-cotton blindfold, Dr. Richard Ire- 
land, founder and minister of the 1400- 
member University of Life Church of 
Phoenix, Arizona, was demonstrating his 
telepathic gifts to a group of skeptical 
New York City newsmen. With his head 
thrown back like a blind street singer, he 
was answering questions written on slips 
of note paper collected earlier from the 
audience while a bearded volunteer, 


M. B. Shestack, then producer of CBS 
Radios The World of Religion, had 
supervised the application of the blind- 
fold. 

“Are you fully convinced that I cannot 
see now?" Ireland asked Shestack. 

“Absolutely.” 

“Are you willing to risk a dollar? 
Take a dollar bill out of your pocket. If 
I guess the serial number on it, will you 
let me keep it?" As Shestack fished in his 
pocket for a single, Ireland, a puckith 
smile in his voice, said to the audience, 


“This is the part I like best every time. 

“Hold it straight out in front of you," 
he ordered. "Is the serial number 
B90992655B?'* 

"Tt is, indeed," said an astonished 
Shestack. 

"Of course it is," said Ireland trium- 
phantly, snatching the bill and tucking it 
into the breast pocket of his dark coat, as 
the audience applauded and laughed. 

Now Ireland was shuffling the slips of 
paper, calling out the names on them 
and answering the questions in a rapid, 


almost singsong flow of words. 

"C. Jolly," Ireland said to a blonde 
girl, perhaps 20 years old, who had 
chirped a happy "Here" when he 
called her name. “You've asked me to tell 
you about the future, is that right? I see 
an amazing six months ahead for you. 
Why, you just won't believe all the 
things that are going to happen to you! 
It's going to be like a roller-coaster ride 
for these six months. And I sec money 
arriving, but it’s not money that you're 
expecting or working for; it's just going 


to come unexpectedly. It's not a check, 
either, but green bills. I see these green 
moneys fluttering down on you and I also 
see a man in a uniform. I don't know if 
the two are connected, but I think I want 
to tell you about this man in a uniform. 
That's what I see for you—six months in 
which all kinds of strange things happen, 
green moneys and a man in a uniform.” 

Feeling the slips of paper, pressing 
some of them against his face, shuffling 
them over and over again in his hands, 
Ireland worked through the questions 


SCULPTURES BY PARVIZ SADIGHIAN 


PLAYBOY 


136 


sing rapidity, calling out the 
nd answering the queries with 


ms, advice and, occasionally, 
specific facts. 
1?" Ireland called out. "Ah, 


there you аге. Its Miss Childs, isn't it? 
You haven't written that down, but 1 
seem to feel that you've recently been 
divorced. Am 1 right about that? Ves, of 
course ] am. I seem to feel also that 
you've been thinking of suicide. Is that 
tight, too? Ves. Well, I want to tell you 
not to think about that anymore, that 
you've been through a dark year but that 
the light is not far away. I see you 
passing from а dark room into a beauti 
light, and 1 want to tell you to 
Ic while longer. Things are 
tely going to go better for you 

Ireland crumpled the last piece of pa- 
per and pulled the three blick-cotton 
blindfolds off his face. His eyes were still 
securely sealed beneath the layers of 
white tape. As the audience stood and 
applauded, he carefully removed the 
strips of tape one by one and, rubbing 
away the sticky white lines of adhesive 
that remained after the tape was gone, 
accepted the congratulations of the chat 
tering, wondering crowd of newsmen 

Dr. Richard Ireland is either а cred- 
ibly cunning fraud or living proof of 
the psi phenomena. Psi, if it exists at all, 
plies a force of nature so rare, elusive 
and inexplicable within the framework 
of modern scientific theory and knowl- 
edge rhat most conventional scientists 
would rather not look for it. Yet psi does 
have adherents in the scientific commu- 
nity. The science of psi is parapsychol 
ogy. and parapsychologists recognize at 
least four categories of psi 

Telepathy: Commonly called 
reading, telepathy is the process of being 
aware of another person's thoughts wit- 
out any communication through the usu- 
nyory channels. 

Clairvoyance: Knowledge of an object 
or event without the use of the five 
s 

Precognition: Extasensory knowledge 
of another person's future thoughts (р 
cognitive telepathy) or of future events 
(precognitive clairvoyance), 

Psychokinesis: The ability to influence 
a physical object or ап event, such as the 
fall of dice, purely by thinking about it. 

Parapsychology is a young and strug- 
gling science, a victim, like the young 
ad struggling everywhere, of social dis 
crimination. In the main store of Kroch's 
& Brentano's, Chicago's largest 
dealer, parapsychology books ате not dis- 
playe the science section downstairs 
but hustled with the religion, metaph y 
and occult books up on a baleo 

Lately, however, the parapsychologists 
have been getting some recognition from 
the F y Posts of the scientific establish- 
ment. The Parapsychological Association, 


book- 


founded in the United States in 1957, 
was admitted to the American Associa 
tion for the Advancement of Science in 
December 1969. A year later, the A.A.AS. 
included a panel on the techniques and 

parapsychology at its 
Chicago. 


137th convas 

"The symposium was held in Parlor B 
of the Conrad Hilton Hotel. In the 
room next door, there was a meeting on 
"Some Mathematical Questions in Biol- 
ogy.” Loud laughter could be heard 
through the partition. There were no 
jokes in Parlor B. The parapsychologists 
were too insecure for humor. Their pres 
entation was so uptight in its dignity 
that their most fascinating material tend- 
ed to become bo 
ing it was, nonetheless. OF the 
several papers, the one that was most 
compelling in making a cse lor the 
existence of psi was read by Douglas 
Dean, a big, sandy-haired man whose 
home base is the Industrial and Manage 


ment Engineering Department of the 
Newark College of Engineering, Newark, 
New Jersey. 


“Many scientists reject ESP because 
they can't эсе how it might work,” he 
began. “It seems a better approach to 
apply ESP. to use it and not to bc 
concemed with "how." 

Dean used an instrument called 
plethysmograph to test for ESP. This 
is a device that measures the blood vol 
ume in the finger. The blood volume, 
which is different from the blood pres- 
sure, increases and decreases with the 
pulse—about 70 times а minut 

“Doing mental arithmetic or thinking 
of an emotion-laden name produces а 
pid decrease in the volume of ıl 
finger capillary cells" Dean said. "This 
is called а vasoconstriction. In 1959, a 
physiologist named Siépán Figar found 
thar someone doing mental arithmetic 
seemed to be able to produce a vasocon 
striction i ting as a 
receiver. 

"We have confirmed this with sender 

nil receiver separated in different rooms. 
different buildings, 1200 miles apart— 
even 4000 miles apart with the sender 
35 feet underwater.” 

The sender would look at 3" x 5^ 
dex cards. Some were blank, Others 
names with emotional significance to the 
receiver. The receiver did not know 
which card was being looked at. The pen 
of the plethysmograph recorded а wavy 
line which was measured by some 
who did not know whether the sender 


was looking at a card with а name on it, 
a blank card or no card at all. 
‘The engineer showed a slide of the 


plethysmograph tracing. There was a lit- 
tle dip in the wavy line when the send 
was looking at a blank card—and, on the 
ge, a significantly larger dip when 
the sender was looking at a card with an 
Шу significant name on it 


The only way to argue with this dent 
onstration of ESP was to call Douglas 
Dean a faker and a liar. But Dean is 
not a faker or a liar, he's the archetypal 
engincer. The only other explanation wa 
coincidence. It would have to have been 
some hell of a coincidence. 

Dean then briskly went on to describe 
another experiment: Sixty-seven highly 
placed executives, most of them corpor 
tion presidents, were asked to choose any 
number from zero to nine. They had to 
make the choice 100 times, each tim 
punching the appropriate slot on an ІВМ 
cad 

After the executives were finished, an 
ІВМ computer, programmed to operate 
at random, selected 100 digits, against 
which each exccutive's card was matched, 
score would be ten percent 


right. 
The men who had doubled their com- 
any's profits in the past five years had 
a mean score of 12.3 percent—well above 
the average for the entire group. Those 
ho garnered lasses or low profits for 
their companies scored only 8.3 percent. 
The results were confirmed in а sub- 
sequent series three years later by Pro- 
fessor Joh lasky 

“The probability of identifying a supe- 
rior profit maker on the basis of the ESP 
better than two out of three,” 
Dean said. “It should be noted that this 
test cannot be faked as can many other 
tests used. 

AIL of these experiments were double- 
blind: None of the people involved i 
the actual operations knew the signif- 
ance of his role. Thus, there could be 
по conscious or unconscious bias. 

‘This is impressive stuff. but not every- 
one is impressed. Most ph 
would probably agree with Dr. George 
R. Price, formerly of the University of 
who wrote; "My opinion 
g parapsychologists is that m: 
of them are dependent on clerical and 
statistical errors and unintentional 
sory clues and that all ext 
nce results not so explicable are de- 
on deliberate fraud or mildy 
mental conditions." 

Which one coukl take to mı 
psychologists or their subjects are 
petent, fraudulent or crazy. 

Until the middle of the 17th Century, 
all of the phenomena we now group 
under the umbrella of psi were pretty 
much accepted as fact not only among 
the masses but also among the educated 


use 


para- 
incom. 


As the strength of scientific rationalism 
grew, however, the witches, sorcerers, 
Ichemists and oracles of the old order 


sed. There was no room for 
the elegantly precise and me 


were dis 
them in 


by scientists such - 
day, who believed that everything thar 
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bedeviled by an urgent sense of mission, 
superbly gifted actor george c. scott 
Keeps searching for his own identity 


personality By SAUL BRAUN іп the film Patton, there is a mysterious, 
beautifully photographed scene in which the monomaniacal and supreme- 
ly individualistic World War Two general, standing with an aide in a 
graveyard of war in North Africa, delivers this moving and evocative 
selfsummation: “I fought and strove and perished countless times. ` 
As through a glass darkly the age-old strife 1 see... . For I fought in many 
guises. ... Had many names, . .. But always me. 

This does nicely as an epigraph for George Campbell Scott, whose 
towering performance as Patton is only the most recent, though certainly 
among the most successful, of the pitched battles hc has fought on stage 
and sound set to uncover the many names of George C. Scott: from Richard 
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PLAYBOY 


140 


Turgidson in Dr. Strangelove, from the 
maniac who tore off the head of a bird in 
Comes a Day to the relentless prosecutor 
of Andersonville Trial, who stood alone 
for an unyielding and wrathful integrity 
and for the moral principle that ulti 
mately every man is responsible for his 
own ads and cannot entrust his soul to 
some duly constituted authority. The 
special quality that Scott. brings to each of 
hiis performances is a commitment and a 
dedication that hespeak his identification 
with his roles. His intensity inspires fear 
and awe in about equal proportions. 

In Boston, during the rehearsals of 
Plaza Suite, his costar Maurcen Stapleton 
went up to the director, Mike Nichols, 
and said, "I feel I have to tell you, Mike, 
that George scares me half to death.” 

“But don't you know, Maureen?” Nich- 
ols replied. “George scares the whole 
world half to death.” 

Miss Stapleton also expresses the other 
view: “When George comes onstage, 
like a force of nature. When he walks in 
and stands there quietly, it’s like an 
earthquake.” 

A young Broadway actor with a small 
role in the soonto-be-released They 
Might Be Giants says it even more suc- 
Gnedly: "Scot? Scott is like . . . а holy 
actor. He acts from a place inside him- 
self Here the young actor shook 
his head mutely and expressively. 

George C. Scott does not believe him- 
self to be, as Patton did, one of the uni- 
verse's vital forces, destined, or doomed, 
to recreate himself through the ages for 
some dimly sensed but inevitable master 

urpose. And while Patton was a religious 
fanatic, Scott (who once was deeply re- 
ligious) is an unruflled atheist. Yet there 
is something in his body of work, and in 
his often tortured private life, that sug- 
gests some comparable unraveling of fate- 
ful strands, Patton, the archetypal 
Warrior, Scott, the archetypal Actor 
Each, in his own way, bedeviled by some 
urgent sense of mission. Both peculiarly 
haunted 

“I studied General Patton as compre- 
hensively as humanly posible," says 
Scott. "He was a very complicated human 

ion 


being and 1 never came to any conclu 
about what I wanted the character to say, 
though everybody thought 1 did. One 
guy said to me, I know that General 
Patton couldn't have been the foul- 
mouthed, swaggering bully you made him 
out to be. Then somebody else says, Why 
have you humanized this brute, this 
wretched fascist? But you cannot do that: 
When you editorialize in any way, you're 
getting into a function that's not the 
tors. You just try to be as fair аз pos 
sible, as reflecting as possible, as mirror- 
like. It happens by osmosis, really, over a 
long period of time. What c 
to decide what to use and wh: 
is instinct, a sixth scnse—either the fast 
ball hops or it doesn’t 


“One has to use one’s own body, after 
all, to try to get the most penetrating 
habits and characteristics. In the case of 
General Patton, it was his carriage. 1 
have never scen him slouched. He was an 
erea human being. I'm sure he slept 
straight. 1 can't picture him in a fetal 
position, even as a child. And there was 
a problem about the voice. General Pat- 
ton had a high, squeaky voice. 1 felt it 
would have been a mistake to emulate 
that. People would have missed half of 
the rest of what I was trying to do, so I 
threw that out early. The facial thing, the 
make-up: 1 shaved my head daily and 
wore an extremely good halfbald piece. 
He had a longer face than mine, a longer 
jaw than mine, I have a kind of beaky 
nose and a crumped-up chin. We tried to 
straighten the nose by drawing it upward 
with a piece of plastic and nct. And the 
teeth were especially good, I thought. 1 
had my dentist make false teeth that fit 
over my own. They lengthened my jaw, 
which got away from the crumpy look 
І have look like an ok! man chew- 
ing tobacco—and gave me a consider- 
ably more patrician jawline. And they 
helped with the speech, too, because 1 
had to whistle through them. All those 
things helped, even little things like ihe 
mole under the left eye. Patton also 
had a very large mole on his left ear, 
and we used that even though it didn't 
show, it got lost in the crinkling of the 
cartilage of the ear. 

“What else? He was a publicly emotion- 
al person. He would cry at the sight of 
green grass, his emotions were so close 
to the surface, He was not known to have 
any sort of sexual perversion of any kind, 
and wasn't a dirty-joke teller. He wouldn't 
low sexual storics to be told at his mess. 
He was not a philanderer of any kind: 
he didn't drink to excess. Certainly any 
other kind of excess would have bee 
alien to his character. Talk about dedica- 
tion. He really tuned to this one 
thing, soldiering. Now 1 happen to abhor 
war, but I couldn't for a moment let that 
interfere with my profession. As an actor 
my job is to obliterate George C. Fink," 
Scott condudes, "and present only the 
Characters emotions. Now this is very 
destructive. Very destructive. Actors сап- 
not and should not live lon 

Actors dic and are rcborn, and many 
suffer plenty for it. Many drink too much. 
“My well-known alcoholic binges,” Scott 
says. "Well, coming off one of these is a 
terrible, horrible experience. A kind of 
annihilation. You don't know where 
you've been or what you've done or 
where you are. It’s just the nearest thing 
to dying. You're . . . nothing. It’s like 
dying and being born agai 

With his complex, ambiguous, thickly 
textured portrayal of Patton—whid won 
for him the New York Film Critics’ Best 
Actor Award and may well bring him his 
first Academy Award—Scott has been 
bom again somewhere very near the 


pinnacle of his profession. Some people, 
including Scott, think Laurence Olivier 
is the world’s first actor. Others, including 
John Huston and three or four other 
ranking film directors, think Scott is. 

Otto Preminger says, “The strength of 
performance, like Scott's 
is that you cannot imagine any 
body else playing it. He does things with 
perfectly ordinary Jines that give them 
something special. It's really amazing." 

People he has worked with credit this 
skill not only to superb natural. equip- 
ment but also to an unceasing intellec- 
tual curiosity. They speak of his constant 
searching, his willingness to experiment. 
Robert Rossen tells of Scott's “builtin 
batteries.” In Plaza Suite, he had the 
idea of playing large stretches of the 
second act in the hall—which was off- 
stage. That device was shortly dropped. 
but many of his ideas do eventually work 
their way into the finished product. Art 
Carncy says, simply, “He puts everything 
into it. 

Unsurprisingly, one of his pet pceves 
is the highly skilled actor who, he says, 
“pulls back at the end and lets himself 
be used by the system, Lee Marvin is 
one. Richard Burton is the epitome of 
what we're talking about.” Жоп is the 
epitome of what he himself calls the 
“risk” actor, willing to go into unknown 
territory and risk the sudden arrow out 
of the still jungle, or the unexpected 
deposit of manure underfoot 

He leaps off prepared positions." says 

Saul Levitt, the author of Andersonville 
Trial. "He thrashes about in the dark 
An orgasmic kind of thing. There are 
very few who have that quality. The risk 
is the thing.” 
А few years back Scott was collabo! 
g on a book and told his co-author. 
Tom Leith, “I think all the courage that 
I may lack personally | have as an 
ador. 


As one who has seen the films and 
plays and read all the reviews, 1 ех 
pected George C. Scott to be: "mon 
strous and disruptive” (Richard Watts, 
Jr). "a case from а Freudi 
(Waher Кеп), "the devil 
(Bosley Crowther) and “either smiling 
like a bloodstained shark or croaking 
like a gangster sea lion" (Clive Barnes). 
At any rate, he would certainly be ^ 
mun who could have done with some 
restraint” (Jack Gould) 
Disappointingly, he proved to be none 
of these. "I suppose I am known as an 
aggressive man,” he said. “1 am пос an 
aggressive man and never have been. 
He flashed a quick shy smile. “Except 
when I drink, 
He was not drinking and was decided- 
ly not aggressive. His wile, the actress 
Colleen Dewhurst, was present, it 
was she who dominated the conversa- 
tion. Scott was mellow and deferential, 
(continued on page 192) 


BIUA- THE OTHER CALIFORNIA 


the splendor and solitude of this primitive mexican peninsula make it an 
excitingly off beat retreat for the man who wants to get away to it all 


travel By REG PBTTERTSM т, 


years ago, when John Steinbeck returned home from 
а пір to the Baja peninsula in a Monterey fishing 
boat, he predicted that before very long this pri- 
meval finger of isolated Mexican territory would 
be transformed into another Florida resortland. It 
seemed a fairly safe prophecy, given the talent 
and prociivities of man for "improving" his 
natural environment, but Steinbeck's forecast 
proved unduly dire. Mercifully, this pristine 
land was regarded as irrcdcemable desert, and 

most of it has been almost completely neg- 
lected by developers. As far as the tourist 


Above: From their woter's-edge terrace at the luxurious Hotel Cabo Son Lucas—located neor 
the southernmost tip of the Baja peninsula—a pair of guests toast the rugged natural splendors 
surrounding them. Below left: The view is equally grond from the resort's poolside vantage. 


Above right: With a stork Baja mountoinscape behind them, our Sol searchers enjoy their 
Privote place in the sun. Below: They room the beaches along the Gulf of California 
coast line, south of La Paz, where seclusion can be found ох easily os seo shells. 


ess is concerned, the only centers 
of commercial hustle on the entire pen 
are Tijuana, Ensenada and Mexi- 
all in northern Baja. 
outhern Baja, however, is still of an- 
other world. It is а land of sun, sca, sky 
and silence—an unaltered landscape of 
huge and haunting splendor, a place 
miraculously spared both the grime and 
the grind of city life. At the bottom of 
the peninsula, around Cabo San Lucas, 
people have been known to forget where 
they came from and who they are—or to 
wish they could; lovers run naked into 
the surf on golden beaches that im all 
probability are deserted for 50 or 100 
miles in either direction. Above the 
beaches are steep, bare hills and beyond 
these are uninhabited mountains whos 
endlessly repeated patterns of spines a 
ridges soften in the 
one of the last great wildernesses on the 
North American continent 

The peninsula extends nearly 800 
miles south of the border it shares with 
American California. Bounded on the 
west by the Pacific and separated from 
the Mexican mainland to the east by the 
Colorado River and the Gulf of Califor 
ia, it measures about 150 miles at its 
widest and is divided near the halfway 
mark into Baja California del Norte and 
Raja California del Sur—respectively, 
state and a territory. The best-known 
resorts at the top of northem Baja are 
within a couple of hours drive from San 
Dicgo; but to get to the southern half, 
which has no paved highway connection 
to the north, the journcy must be made 
by or sea (unless you want to attempt 
it in an open dune buggy, as Associate 
Editor David Stevens did in а bump-by 
bump report beginning on the next page). 

La Paz, the territorial capital, is where 
the planes touch down from Los Ange- 
les. Formalitics in the terminal are mini 
mal (some days there are none at all). 
and if the baggage crew is taking its time 
(as it often is), passengers can repair to 
the upstairs bar and acclimatize them 
selves with a bracing jolt of tequila and 
a chaser of ice-cold Carta Blanca beer 
before taking a cab to their hotels 


From the airport, the town is about 20 
minutes’ drive through a wild desolation 
of shrub and cactus plains that stretch 


away on both sides of the road, on one 
hand to the Gulf and on the other to the 
mountains inland. Evidence of habita 
tion appears only as the outskirts of L 
Paz are reached. А heavy-headed b 
1015 in the shade of a mango tree 
farther on, a sailor with a carbine slung 
over one shoulder stands mysterious 
guard over the battered hulk of a 1950 
Ford. A murmur of wind stirs from the 
south and, when the breeze drifts across 
the roofs of the drowsy town, the tops of 
palms rustle idly and a spiral of dust 
rises in the comer of an abandoned 
cattle pen. Out in the harbor, an old 
white schooner (continued on page 236) 


TUUANA 
« 


5 ENSENADA 


PLAYBOY 


donated by various companies, among 
them Sears, to entrants equipped with 
thew products who finish in the money, 
but the chances of winning any of this 
additional loot are slim, what with all the 
competition. Why, then, would anyone 
want to run the Baja? Obviously, because 
it’s there. A land whose fame rests pri- 
marily on its impassable terrain must be 
challenged. There's a certain breed of тир- 
ged, possibly demented, individualist who 
can't think of all those enticing ruts and 
potholes without itching to get out and 
drive over them, preferably as fast as 
possible. PLavnov's Associate Editor Da- 
vid Stevens is such a man. Not only has 
Stevens’ face often been compared to five 
miles of bad road but his kamikaze driv- 
ing style and uncanny ability to read 
a highway map turned upside down have 
carned him an unenviable reputation for 
machismo among fellow staffers. So when 
В. F. Goodrich invited а PLAYBOY editor 
to compete in last November's Mexican 
100U—riding in a dune buggy equipped 
with its radial-ply passenger-car tires and 
driven by one of the up-and-coming 
young hot dogs of off-road vacing—Sic- 
vens was obviously the man for the job. 
His account of the assignment follows. 


Ensenada is a quiet Mexican tow 
located 67 miles south of the California 
border. But today, race day, the mom- 
ing stillness is shattered by the lion- 
house roar of 261 entries performing 
lastminute tune-ups. I'm im the huge 
compound where the cars and motorcy 
cles are kept before the start. Around me 
are the greats, near greats and would-be 
greats of racing. Parnelli Jones, Mickey 
Thompson and actor James Garner wan- 
der by to check out some of the machines 
they'll be competing against. They have 
only a quizzical glance for the onc I'm to 
ride ina meanlooking little Volks 
wagen powered Burro dune buggy with 
LES AUTO SALVAGE emblazoned across the 
front, just below where the windshield 
ought to be. (Nobody wants a face full of 
glass when running the Baja.) Shy Mexi 
can children pull at my wallet pocket and 
ask for my autograph. I sign and pass the 
papers back. (Is Parnelli spelled with an 
"i" or ап “e"2) 1 suspect that Wes 
Cleaver, the owner/driver of the Burro, 
is still a little concerned about my nav 
gational abilities, since he keeps taking 
nervous pulls on а tequila boule filled, 
1 hope, with water 

At exactly 8:01 A.M., the first motorcycle 
leaves the sta е, heading for Ca- 
malu, 93 miles down the road—the first 
of eight check points through which all 
racers must pass on their way to La Paz. 
Contestants leave Ensenada at one-minute 
intervals and have 48 hours to reach 
Paz (if we ever get there). The one 
with the best time wins. Our car, num- 
ber 295, is scheduled to take off at precise- 


144 ly 12:55 р.м. For а high adventure such 


as this, one can't he too prepared, so 1 
kill time by going over the gear I've 
packed: a sleeping bag, a GI parka, five 
red bandannas, a dozen dust masks, а 
complete change of clothes for La Paz, 
Pepto-Bismol tablets, Prell shampoo, 
Comeback and No Doz, carplugs, [oot 
powder, а bota filled with water, cans of 
Sego diet drink, quickenergy cookies, 
candy bars, a plastic gallon jug filled with 
a bilious mixture of Gatorade and honey, 
d three American Airlines barf bags. 

АП too soon, a ТОККА official moves 
toward our end of the compound and we 
join the cars around us in a slow numeri. 
cal procession toward the starting line. 1 
attempt to untangle the mass of web 
snakes that comprise my seat belt and 
shoulder harness. Let's see: The right 
seat-belt catch slips through the right 
shoulder-harness strap slot, then through 
the slot of an alligator strap that comes 
up between my legs to keep me from 
sliding into the buggy's foot well on a 
quick stop, then through the left shoul- 
derharnessstrap slot and into the left 
seat-belt mechanism that clamps the 
whole thing shut, like an overloaded 
multiple socket, at just about my waist. 

While inching along toward the start- 
ing line, I take out my copy of Fados у 
Vacas (Dips and Cows), а 97-page note 
book describing almost every mile of 
the course, which was being sold i 
the compound for $50 by a seasoned 
Baja racer. Presumably, the navigator 
will recite it to the driver during the 
ordeal ahead. The book falls open to 
page nine and 1 read: “M118: Come to 
а store on right, dark-brown wood, road 
90 degrees off to right goes back to m: 
road, don't take it! go straight—bear 
left, mind telephone poles—thick deep 
dust on left, hard bumpy ground on 
right; take your choice—smooths out a 
bit, out of trees, barbed wire and stick 
fence on left hand, mountains have 
dropped back away on left—heading is 
due south—fence turns to left 90 degrees 
— heads slightly off to left (east) about 20 
degrees from fence corner—come to an- 
other Y, take right—in middle of brown 
barren field with houses here and there 
all over the field—very smooth DAN- 
GER LOOK OUT!!! There is a huge 
isible sharp ditch right across road 
(appears to have been dug deliberately to 
destroy someone's cu)—there may be 
more of these around." 

I close my copy of Vados y Vacas and 
shove it down beside the bucket seat. As 
the navigator, it’s my job to watch for 
that ditch at mile 118, but first. things 
first. We're three cars away from the 
starting line and the crowd is pressing 
around us. Cleaver tells me to get ready 
and I snap on my Graham Hill driving 
gloves with the perforated-leather fingers, 
buckle up my metallic-bluc Bell crash 
helmet with the word pave scrawled in 
vermilion fingernail polish across one 


side and adjust my fogproof West 
man goggles with the wrap-around lei 
over my regular glasses. By the time I've 
finished, we're at the starting line and the 
attendant hands us а small card that we 
must have punched at each check point. 
"Don't lose it," he says, and then, "Five 
seconds to go." and then we're off in a 
flurry of waving flag, down a corridor of 
smiling brown faces and flashing white 
teeth and onto the highway that leads 
through Ensenada and out of town. 

Holy Pancho Villa! There's traffic on 
this highway: old Mexican farmers in 
their trucks going 12 miles an hour and 
tourists in their campers out to get a 
race-driver'seye view of the course. We 
weave in and out among them at about 
60 mph, but with no windshield, it seems 
more like 120. Cleaver’s on the horn, 
honking like crazy, but no one is paying 
any attention; then, at last, we're clear of 
traffic and into the wide-open spaces of 
northern Baja, passing an occasional 
shanty with a smiling Ме family 
standing in front of it, waving and won 
dering at the crazy gringos and the 
noisy machine. By now, I have my wave 
down pat—its a combination of Wi 
ston Churchill's famous victory sign and 
the two-fingered Hick that Stirling Moss 
used to give. The kids love it 

Soon we're in the mountains, still on 
pavement, fishtailing our dune buggy on 
tight hairpin turns with no guardrails 
and 500-foot drop-offs. Several cars have 
already overtaken us and we've passed a 
ndful of contestants out of the race 


with blown engines and the like. Tough 
luck, you 


bastards. Sud- 
my poor saintly 
least she'd be 
in 
church praying for me. Will I ever sce 
her again? Or my father? Or my wile? 
Or Hef? A tear wells in the corner of 
one eye and 1 brush at it but succeed 
only in smearing the dust on my fog- 
proof goggles 
Ahead are two sigus reading PRE- 
caucion and TERMINO PAVIMENTO, and 
then were off the highway with a 
whump and onto a heavily rutted road 
pock-marked with  craterous potholes. 
Cleaver manages to dodge most of them, 
but the ones he doesn't rattle my back 
teeth. This goes on—at what I believe is 
called breakneck speed—antil 2:25 rt, 
when we pull into Camalu, the first 
check point. We've covered 93 miles in 
90 minutes. Not bad. We have the card 
punched, get gas, climb out, stretch our 
legs and then take off agai 
minutes, On to El Rosario, 59 n 
Now we're flying along a two 
el road—superhighway by Ba 
—over the flat farmland that rolls south- 
west to the ocean and beautiful 
Quintin Вау. With the road getting 
progressively rougher, we gradually 
(continued on page 210) 


incompetent 


“But darling, it was only foreplay!” 


THE 
LONG 
WEEKEND 


food and drink to see you 
splendidly through an extended 
stay-at-home session à deux 


By THOMAS MARIO 


ONCE YOU'VE ARRANGED for the prime ingredient in a stay-at-home week- 
end for two—a partner with whom you are as compatible as a chateau- 
briand with Chateau Margaux—its time to start thinking about the 
food and drink that will sce you and your lady through the Friday- 
evening-to-Monday-morning activities with a minimum at bother and a 
maximum of flair. From the entertaining standpoint, your astutcly chosen 
guest list of one means you're freed from the Job of trying to match the 
disparate temperaments of the usual weekend-house-party guests, from 
thinking about your inventory of pillows and towels, the quantity of your 


PHOTOGRAPHY BY POMPEO POSAR 


PLAYBOY 


ers and Times, the crosebedroom traffic 
patterns, the no-shows for Sunday break 
and all the othe 

end hosts are normally heir 
though your party is Ti 
ate twosome, it will requ 
preparation to set the stage. 

Mainly, the care and feeding of your 
very special guest involves the art of put 
ting her at her ease. Before you go into 
ny detailed menu plans, get a line on the 
foods that she digs and those that she 
doesn't. The way to a girl's heart may 
not be through her stomach (we know a 
better route). but why strike any discord- 
nt note when you're trying for a har- 
monious duet? 

"The goal at which you're aiming is to 
provide sumptuous food and drink with- 
ош working your fingers to anywhere 
near the bone. To begin with, you'll 
benefit from the fact that the most suc- 
cessful capsule commune known to man 
is the weekend party for two. Normally. 
you'll find that the sharer of your apart- 
ment will want to share your labors and 
you may offend her if you keep her from 
stirring the chafing dish while you toss 
the salad or if you restrain her from 
grilling the link sausages while you tend 
the French toast, After dinner, any girl 
suffused with the glow of a mocha me- 
ringue glacée will insist upon sharing for 
sharing's sake and undoubtedly will take 
оп most of the cleanup detail. For Satur- 
day and Sunday, it’s wise ıo plan on 
a two-meal brunchand-dinner arrange- 
ment. At least one of your meals during 
the weekend holiday should be supplied 
by an outside kitchen—your own club or 
a restaurant catering service—so that you 
may more fully devote your attention to 
other matters. If the meal is to include a 
classic feast dish such as Peking duck or 
ny other item involving lengthy prepa- 
ration, it should be ordered at least a 
day in advance. 

In addition to the regular meals, there 
will be those moments, usually late at 
night, when the two of you will feel 
hungers darts and stage am assault on 
arder. Late-night snackinanship also 
upon a certain. amount. of ad- 
vance planning. It’s both rewarding and 
rewarded. Many has risen im 
the esteem of his chosen companion o 
the basis of the ready availability of a jar 
of Suasbourg páté de foie gras with truf- 
fles. Some of rhe biggest favorites late at 
night are little fishes. It’s а good idea to 
have three or four cans in the refrigerator 
at all times for impulse snacking. While 
the oldest and best-known seafood items, 
such as boneless and skinless sardines in 
olive oil or French mackerel in white 
wine, are almost always apropos, the 
variety of delicious canned fish and shell- 
fish is getting larger all the time. The 
in countries arc properly famed 


ls to which week- 
However, 


eve 


148 for their herring fillets in wine, dill, curry, 


tomato, cherry—you name the sauce. 
Smoked baby clams, mussels and oysters 
re now augmented by smoked frogs’ legs, 
abalone and octopus, all mouth-watering 
pleasures. Remember that any food of 
this genre, once opened, should be eaten 
ight away. It won't spoil for a day or 
two, but it will become dry and lose the 
bloom of its flavor. For any carnivorously 
minded couple, meats such as ham, morta- 
della and tongue are best eaten the same 
day they're sliced, unless they're purchased 
їп vacuumescaled packages. Otherwise, 
they're best bought in chunks for slicing 
at the witching hour. The same goes for 
firm meats—German cervelat sausage or 
the pepperstudded Genoa salami—wh 
re not only sturdy enough to last from 
one weekend to the next but often seem 
to improve with age. All hard meats 
should be sliced as thin as paper and 
should enjoy the comradeship of both 
mild and hot mustard, pepper salad 
in cil and olives or olive salad. While 
crock cheeses such as roquefort in port 
ог cheddar in sherry are easily stored, 
their smooth, at times almost velvety, 
texture may be a bit too bland to pique 
night taste buds. Better bets are the 
straight natural cheeses. A wedge of aged 
provolone or a soft, ripe Brie will bring 
bravos from cheese buffs. A bowl of fresh 
fruit should be within easy reach at any 
time of day or night. 

It goes without saying that one's liquid 
assets should be carefully inventoried be- 
fore the weekend begins, so that any 
potable gaps can be promptly filled. 
Setting out to make a rob roy and dis- 
covering that you're out of sweet ver- 
mouth may not be one of j 
disappointments, but the irri 
easily be avoided. Be sure that your 
fridge holds a frosty complement of beers 
and ales—the perfect supporting cast for 
а snacking Late, Late Show. Your wine 
cellar should be in good shape as well. 

Following are menus and recipes to 
help make your weekend away from the 
madding throng a success in—and for— 
every sense. 


Friday Dinner 
Cocktails of your choice 
Scotch Salmon, Marinated Mushrooms 
Fresh Maine Lobster in Cream 
Fresh Asparagus, Black Walnuts 
Bibb Lettuce and Watercress Salad 
Black-Chervy Tart 
Demitasse 

SCOTCH SAT MON, MARINATED MUSHROOMS 


4 ors. sliced Scotch smoked salmon 
834-02. jar cocktail mushrooms mari- 
nated in oil 
14 cup shredded white radishes 
3 tablespoons minced green pepper 
Y cup mayonnaise 
2 teaspoons fincly minced fresh chi 
Salt, pepper 
2 large thick slices fresh tomato 
The texture of smoked salmon from 
Scotland differs from American salmon, 


but the salmon is lightly salted like our 
Nova Scotia, which can be used as a 
substitute, if necessary. АШ main ingredi 
ents should be chilled. Cut salmon into 
strips about 1 in. long and 16 in. wide. 
Drain mushrooms; oil may be saved 
used for salads. Peel radishes 
through large holes of metal grater. Mix 
salmon, mushrooms, radishes, green рер. 
per, mayonnaise and cl 
salt and pepper. Spoon a mound on top 
of each tomato slice. Serve well chilled. 


FRESH MAINE LOBSTER IN CREA} 


2 Lyf Ab. freshly boiled Maine lobsters 

34 cup sliced celery 

3 tablespoons butter 

2 tablespoons shallots or scallions, very 
finely minced 

Salt, celery salt, white pepper 

1 split brut champagne 

¥ cup light cream 

2 tablespoons butter at room tempera- 


ture 

2 tablespoons flour 

1 teaspoon fresh parsley, very finely 
minced 


1 teaspoon fresh dill, very finely minced 

In advance, order lobster boiled or 
steamed by seafood dealer. Have him 
remove lobster me 
clude tomalley and roe, if any. 

Peel celery, cut into Ye 
boil until just barely tender. Dı 
lobster into ygin. chunks. Мей 3 table 
spoons butter over very low flame 
saucepan. (Keep flame very low through 
emire cooking) Add shallots. Sauté | 
minute. Add lobster and celery. Season 
with salt, celery salt and pepper. Stir 
well Sauté a few minutes. Add cham- 
pagne. Simmer 2 to 3 minutes. Add 
cream and bring up to a boi 
tablespoons butter and flour to 
paste. Add to pan. Stir unt 
ture dissolves 
Add parsley 
ing, if necessary. Serve on tou 
chilled brut champagne or Chabl 


FRESH ASPARAGUS, BLACK WALNUTS, 


1 Ib. fresh, large C. 
3 tablespoons butter 
2 tablespoons blackewalnut meat (ob- 
able at nut specialty shops) 

Salt, pepper 

With vegetable peeler, sc 
asparagus to remove scales. Cut off thick 
tough ends of asparagus. Boil asparagus 
slightly salted water until just tender 
son with salt and pepper. 

and walnuts ший butter 


fornia aspar 


pe sides of 


it bune 
turns nut brown. Pour over asparagus 
Toss Bibb lettuce and watercress (both 


well drained and dried after washing) 
with olive oil-wine vinegar dressing. 
Cherry tart may be served cither warmed 


in oven for a few minutes or else well 
chilled. 
(continued on page 201) 


lj your children ever find out 
how lame you are, they'll murder. 
you in your sleep. 
FRANK ZAPPA'S CLOSING MESSAGE 
TO TOURISTS AT THE HOLLYWOOD 
WHISKY-A-GO-GO, DECEMBER 1963 


Mehla knows his group. He says 
they're really good, that they can 
really pick things up fast and that 
he's good at conducting and rehears- 
ing and all that stuff. I should say 
he's full of it? 
— ZAPPA TO A REPORTER, MAY 1970 
These Mothers is crazy. You can 
tell by their clothes. One guy wears 
beads and they all smell bad, We 
were gonna get them for a dance aft- 
er the basketball game but my best 
pal warned me you can never tell 
how many will show up. . .. None of 
the kids at my school like these 
Mothers . . . specially since my teach- 
er told us whal the words to their 
songs meant, 
—SUZY CREAMCHEESE. 


TE WAS a Nice California-daylight evening, 
and outside UCLA's Pauley Pavilion 
(the house they built for Alcindor), the 
crowd milling about and quening at the 
wickets looked to be about the size of 
any good sell-out crowd for the champi- 
onship Bruin five, Except that its con- 
stituents were different. There were lots 
of lank-haired chicks with nice barefoot 
dirty feet (dirty bare feet always 
look cleaner than clean feet that have 
just been in shoes), lots of fringed buck- 
skin and denim everywhere. Especially 
denim. Denim cutoffs with tailored leath- 
er seams, denim jackets with embroidery, 
with red reflectors, denim Levis for boys, 
for girls. Denim must be the one indus- 
try that is bullish these days. Because the 
latest scream is the poor look. Some of 
the holes at the knees even look as though 
they've been premeditatedly abraded with 
a nail file. And, in order to get the 
washed-out look, dumped into Mom's 
automatic five or six times in succession. 
And, to fit like that around the ass, 
soaked in salt and put on wet. 

There had been trouble the week be- 
fore at UCLA and the school was still 
in semistrike, so the screams and suf- 
fling from the multitudes outside Pauley 
did not come as а surprise, though, hap- 
pily, it turned out to be a little sidewalk 
cabaret by the local guerrilla theater. 
‘There were straights here, too, with chi 
dren, and wearing suits from Silverwood's 
that probably didn’t really cost much 
more than a Levi bike jacket with leather 
lining, and maybe a hell of a lot less 
than a suede frontier job from Hell-Bent 
for Leather on Hollywood Boulevard. 
(We may need a new definition of who 
the establishment is and who the people 
are) The straight Johns were here be- 
cause Zubin Mehta was going to conduct 
the Los Angeles Philharmonic. This was 
the third concert in a series by the Music 


ZUBIN AND 
THE MOTHERS 


article Ву F. P. TULLIUS being a chronicle of the 
curious musical carryings-on between the los angeles 
phitharmonic and frank zappa’s freaky band of minstrels 


ILLUSTRATION BY WARREN LINN 149 


PLAYBOY 


180 pre-eminent 


Center, kno 
Century music: How it was, how it i 
The denim, nostalgie de la boue crowd 
was here because Frank Zappa had re- 
assembled his Mothers of Invention 
(disbanded in late 1969) and was going to 
play. Some other misfits were here, no 
doubt, because Frank was going to play 
in concert with the Philharmonic—the 
world premiere of a two-and-one-half- 
hour composition for Mothers and or- 
chestra (cut to about an hour for this 
performance), entitled 200 Motels. (Such 
morganatic marriages are not entirely 
new to music. Some others: The Deep 
Purple and the Royal Philharmonic, the 
Stones and the London Bach Choir— 
remember that drugsaturated master- 
piece You Can't Always Get What You 
Want?—and the “Switched-On Sympho- 
ny” series on TV.) 

Inside, the L, A. Phils could be seen 
seated at one end of the basketball court 
and, behind and above them, two elec- 
tric pianos, Hammond organ, drums, 
amps and other esoterica of the Mothers, 
who were to come on later. The cl 
on the basketball floor seemed to be 
risoned by Dorothy Chandler Pavi 
season-ticket holders (hereafter known as 
Dorothy Chandlers), while the many 
more “bleacher” seats surrounding the 
court seemed to belong to the Zappa 
cheering section. 

Things were late, and at about ten till 
nine, Zubin Mehta, born in Bombay, 
India, strode to stage center—facing a 
crowd, incidentally, that seemed more 
empathetic in its life style to indigenous 
Indians than to Hindus. Seeing that con- 
siderable of the eventual capacity of more 
than 14,000 was still looking for its 
seats, he gave the aud 
gniappe of Stravinsky. Finished with 
that, Zubin approached the microphone, 
found it dead and so repeated the 
sky, Then, finding the mike still 
dead, he borrowed another from a mem- 
her of the orchestra. This acoustic boost 
was to prove futile, however, for the 
Phils were up a 
ventors and developers—one of the Ur- 
pcople—of electrically zapped sound in 
Frank Zappa, of Lancaster, California, 
five ten, 154 pounds, 

Using the auxiliary mike, Mehta—who. 
looks like a mature Sabu—gave a little 
caveat to the people: “I want to correct 
one misconception. Anyone who thinks 
he's come to hear a rock concert is mis- 
taken. You are all trapped here under 
the pretext of hearing rock 'n' roll. I 
don't want any misconceptions—especial- 
ly with our older patrons. [Laughter] 200 
Motels will be a little rock ‘n’ roll but it's 
absolutely contemporary music.” Zubin 
then introduced the first selection, Zm- 
mobiles 1-4 for tape recorder and/or 
orchestra, by Mel Powell, who was de- 
scribed in the program as “one of the 
figures in contemporary 


nst one of the in- \ 


music.” Powell was seated on the basket- 
ball floor. 

Mehta struck up Immobiles I-f and 
was concluding the second of the four 
immobiles when there came a deep, ur- 
gent voice from the floor: “Zubin! Zu- 
bin!" Music stopped and the voice was 
handed a mike and it was Powell with a 
bulletin from the front that the tape- 
recorder of his composition hadn't 
been playing since the beginning: After 
a brief consultation, Mehta announced 
that he would skip the Powell piece and 
go into Varése’s Intégrales. Edgar Varèse 
(1885-1965) has been called the “grand 
old man of the perpetual avantgarde.” 
He is опе of Zappa's models and it was 
Frank himself who suggested Intégrales 
be performed. (The general view of music 
lovers was that the rendition was flashy 
and hopelessly distorted.) 

Now the Mothers entered and climbed 
to their secondstory stage. Fight of 
them, counting Frank. Tan Underwood 
on electric piano, doubling on sax. (Pro- 
gram: “An М.А. in music and child 
prodigy at the piano.") Ray Collins (an 
original Mother, going back to Freak 
Out days) with wild titian hair, playing 
the tambourine and singing. James Mo- 
torhead Sherwood, “sax and other 
things.” Zappa—slim, but mesomorphi- 
cally muscled—resplendent (for him) in 
lime and yellow horizontally striped hip- 
huggers that ft his impudent buttocks 
like wool jersey, topped with a purple 
long-sleeved T-shirt. Mother Motorhead 
(who has “teen appeal,” according to 
Frank) was attired in a white letterman 
sweater with three varsity stripes, and 
beneath that a kelly-green Fillmore East 
T-shirt—his lengthy hair tied with a rib- 
bon in the back, giving him the effect of 
а rather prognathous member of the 
Girls Athletic Association field-hockey 
team, Zappa's golliwogg hair was similarly 
tied and he displayed the trademark 
Zappata facial hair, which somew 
resembles the silhouette of an explos 
over Eniwetok, beneath that splendid 
banana nose. 

A little speech by Zappa: "We're kind 
of tense . . . the tape recorder breaks 
down. When you play music in a hall 
designed for basketball, you take your 
chances. Maybe some day, if music be- 
comes competitive and violent, they'll 
have halls this big designed for music. 

. Will Don Preston, our organist, 
please stop vomiting and come up on the 
stage?” (Program: “Don Dewild Preston 
—all keyboard instruments and weird- 
ness—joined the group in the summer of 
1966. He plays the Monster in the forth- 
coming Mothers movie, Uncle Меш.") 

Тһе Mothers opened with an old 
Angels nifty (Ooh-lah-dee-lah), My Boy 
Friend's Back and then, without intro, 
segued into their version of Intégrales— 
which, well . . . sounded like Varese's 
work in some spots. 


Then Zappa, putting it to the Dorothy 
directly beneath him, launched 
to an original recitative, which em- 
broidered on an Oedipal refrain (Father, 
I want to kill уош") sung by Jim Mor- 
rison in The Doors’ The End: 


You're uptight. Sitting all alone 
in your teenage bedroom, You're 
tense. And you 00...10... go 

. . Bet... your cookies! Around 
the wall are little cutout decals of 
sailing boats, donkeys and Little 
Bopeep. You're lying in your flan- 
nel pajamas in your teenage sheets 
—all you mothers out there know 
what teenage sheets are; they're the 
ones with the yellow and brown 
stains. You tiptoe through the living 
room to the kitchen to find the 
cookie jar—your favorite oral grati- 
fication: oatmeal raisin cookies! 
They're in the Aunt Jemima cookie 
jar. You rip her head off and stuff 
your sweaty teenage hand into her 
body. You grab 2 cookie—tempting 
raisins, a fascinating tactile sensation 
—you know you're gonna get off on 
it. You go to the icebox, open the 
door, take out a box of milk and 
pour it into your drinking hole. 

But he still hasn't quite got it 
off. He then goes into his mother's 
room and cries, "Mother, I want to 
kill youl,” but she ignores him, be- 
ing too busy putting silver and 
green and blue stuff around her 
eyes. And anyway, she knows where 
he's at. She's washed his sheets. He 
goes into his fathers room and 
makes a similar death threat, but his 
father, busy masturbating, ignores 
him, too. 


"The Dorothy Chandlers seemed unper- 
turbed by how near the knuckle this 
struck, and then the Phils below, in a 
litle arch-Happening, walked off, blow- 
ing discordant sounds. In rebuttal, Frank 
directed the band to hit different notes, 
and on about the fourth one, came up 
with his middle finger extended, while 
the Mothers screamed "Aaaahl" as if 
they'd been goosed. The Battle of the 
Bands was on. 

INTERMISSION 

It was an anonymous Roman who first 
recognized that the mother of invention 
is necessity. It is not known if Frank 
Zappa acted on this pearl when he formed 
the Mothers on Mother's Day, 1965, but 
some sort of felt need must have been 
met, because they soon became the leading 
underground rock group in the United 
States. Born in Baltimore on December 
21, 1940, Frank grew up in Lancaster, 
California, a Mojave Desert town. Towns 
such as Lancaster always have American 
Legion Posts, where in the Fifties they 
held dances that they hyped over the 


“You'll not get a proper trophy that way, Bassington!” 


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radio: "Come and mect old friends and 
make new ones. No Levis or capris, 
please." And then the next day, the news 


оп the same station would say there were 
с knifings at the dance. Guys got high 
on white port and lemon juice and wore 
leather jackets, peggers and hair in а 
duck js wore full skirts with five 
petticoats. 
he Mothers became regulars at the 
Whisky on Sunset Strip and were fea- 
tured regularly in the Zeidler & Zeidler 
full-page freak-out ads which appeared 
in the Freep (Los Angeles Free Press to 
non-Calilornians) and were the forerun 
ners of all the freaky ads you see now. 
The term freak out (the title of his first 
album) was popularized by Frank, who 
described it almost pedantically back then 
as “a process whereby an individual casts 
off outmoded and restricting standards of 
thinking, dress and social etiquette in 
order to express creatively his relationship 
mmediate environment and the 
structure as a whole." He formed 
a society called the United Mutations, to 
accept freaks—that is, anyone who wanted 
to make a decision Гог freakiness. Groups 
of unpaid dancers in the carly days always 
vied to appear at the Mothers per 
formances. Vito and His Dancers became 
a frequent attraction. Vito, a sculptor, 
middle-aged hippie and charter member 
of U. M., has now left the country. Freak 
Out also introduced. to the world Suzy 
Creamcheese, a fulsome embodiment of 
teenage Middle Americ: 
The songs in Frank's albums—almost 
all written. by him—have such titles as 
America Drinks and Goes Home, Who 
Are the Brain Police?, Hungry Freaks 
Daddy and Cheap Thrills (In the Back 
ој my Car) А aritic once said that 
Frank’s songs and his renditions of them 
are “conglomerates of humor, satire, 
chance nonfiction and the grotesque, 
punctuated with snorts, oinks а 
boings, sprinkled with bits of Motown, 
Sacco and Vanzetti, r&b, Rosemary De 
Camp р" F of hi 
own mi ‘We're presenting a chemical 
monstrosity, not really a panacea. But it 
is a useful household preparation, some- 
thing like ammonia." If Frank Zappa is 
mot a household word to you (like am. 
monia), it may have something to do 
with the fact that most amplitude modu- 
lated ns can't stand his freaky-porno- 
sacrilegious thumb-in-the-cye and they 
would be more likely to say "shit" over 
the air than “Zappa.” Few know it, but 
Frank was a pioneer in the use of 
amplified and electronically modified 
struments, being credited with laying 
the groundwork that influenced the de- 
sign of many commercially manufactured 
electromusical devices. Probably most 
importantly, Zappa was the first to rea 
ids didn't want “pretty note: 
is. amplifiers that play mellow 
“That's for the abby, mart 
ng generation, Kids want sound, 


. "And if your ears hear it as а 
le, fuzr—the feedback 
scream that NBC pays engineers millions 
to get rid of—that’s music to us today. 
And the kids love it, if you hate it. You 
go to one of their concerts. You want to 
find out what your daughter is up to. So 
you go. and you walk in. and you say, 
hat damn amp is up so loud I can’t 
make out the words.’ "The kids love that 
because they already know the words, and 
they know you don't. The amplifier 
their Weapon of Destruction.” Zappa 
once suggested giving that name to an 
amplifier built by a company for which he 
acted as technical advisor. “Or maybe just 
Death,” he added. Among the Mothers’ 
other albums are Ruben & the Jets, а 
quasi-nostalgic revisitation to the Fifties 
high school r&b, Uncle Meat, Lumpy 
Gravy and Burnt Weeny Sandwich. Hot 
Rats is Frank without the Mothers. 
Weasels Ripped My Flesh is the first 
"live" Mothers’ album and Chunga's Re- 
venge, the latest. His album titles read 
like the menu in some infernal, Мер 
tophelean restaurant. Freudian scholars 
will notice a certain addiction to unsavory 
food items. 

Onstage, the Mothers are by far the 
most demonstrative of rock groups. It's 
multimedia from the word go, and you 
can expect to sec bits of business such 
а doll mutilated, a gas mask put 
bag of vegetables unpacked and exam- 
ined, a variety of “obscene” sign lan 
guage and a performance of what Frank 
calls "dead air." This is forewarned by 
spaced intervals of sound (honks)—then 
silence. Mother Motorhead may then give 
rank a shoeshine. This maddening in 
souciance is maintained until the audience 
begins to crack. Then Frank strolls to 
the mike: “It brings out hostilities in you, 
doesn't i?” 

Today, Frank Zappa holds such estab- 
lishmentarian tiles as leader and mu- 
sical director of the Mothers of Invention 
amd president of Bizarre, Inc., ап under- 
ground rock conglomerate located оп Wil- 
shire Boulevard, which includes Bizarre 
Records and Straight Records (he is 
fond of little put-ons in his Bizarre liner 
notes, such as “Captain Beefheart vocal, 
courtesy Straight Records”), a manage 
ment firm, a publicrelations agency, 
several music-publishing companies, a 
filmproduction company and а book 
division that will start off with publica 
tion of The Groupie Papers. (He тау 
be on the way to becoming the first 
underground tycoon—the Daddy War 
bucks of Freakdom.) Frank lives in Lau. 
rel Canyon, a pass between Hollywood 
and the San Fernando Valley, where he 
works in the basement of his how 
which he shares with his wife, G: 
daughter Moon Unit, one and a half, and 
an infant son they call Dweerle. His first 
film, Burnt Weeny Sandwich, а docu 
mentary about the Mothers, is being pre- 
viewed at this writing. His next, Capt. 


Beefheart vs. the Grunt People, 
production, 

He is musically knowledgeable; his in. 

structions to his group may go like this: 
"Play 4/4 for ten bars then 17/8 lor 
three bars, then 22/8 for one bar, all 
played so fast and tight you don't know 
what time it is" He fancies himself а 
serious musician and once said: “I got 
tired of playing for people who clap for 
all the wrong reasons. Those kids 
wouldn't know music if it came up and 
bit "em on the аз” He is, he said, “a 
composer who works with rock, rather 
than a simple rock musician with no 
consciously artistic pretensions.” 
"he Phils and Mothers returned and 
Frank took the mike to say, "Mr. Powell 
has left and he took the tape with 
him.” (Martin Bernheimet, Los Angeles 
Times: “{Powell] later explained his 
action in terms of ‘revulsion at the 
wretched debasement of new music . . . 
exploitation of pop mobs . . , mockery 
of art . . . cynical attitude of the Phi 
harmonic management. Powell insisted 
his displeasure had little to do with the 
musical mishap. He also claimed that 
Frnest Fleischmann, executive director 
of the Philharmonic, attempted to bar 
is exit, threatening never to schedule 
his compositions again. Fleischmann dis- 
missed Powell's behavior as ‘ridiculously 
unprofessional.’ ") 

Zappa then gave a brief preamble to 
200 Motels: "| wrote this a while ago 
when 1 thought symphonic mus 
where it’s at, and when we rehearsed 
this week, 1 heard all the errors I made, 
but we left them in—so you're gonna hear 
them too. Its not really a great piece of 
music, but I think we can get off а few 
imes” (200 Motels represents strains 
and snatches written by Zappa in motels 
and hotels here and in Europe on his road 
trips. The whole mother is two and one 
half hours Jong, but one sequence, which 
required, among other things, a soprano 
soloist, three dancers, a chorus, a narrator, 
an industrial vacuum cleaner, a 
16mm projector and a dental-h 
was deleted, cutting this performance to 
about an hour.) 

“All right, Zubin, hit it 
pa, 
Motels, What re ppened, as it de- 
veloped. was not two bands playing to- 
gether but two playing арата battle 
of the bands. And here, the Mothers’ 
superior decibel energy gave them the 
edge. A good eight-picce hard-rock group 
with their Fender Stratocasters peaked 
and their fuzztones stomped into action 
make a 100-picce symphony sound 
positively puerile. As to the flavor of 200 
Motels, it was eclectic, to say the least. It 
began with a good, harddriving rock 
passage and then segued into a leitmotil 

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was 


VADIMS PRETTY MA\IDS’ 


pictorial essay By ROGER VADIM the celebrated and controversial french director tells about 
the women in his life, from bardot to the young movie hopefuls who appear in his first american film 
SITTING HERE IN CALIFORNIA editing my first American film—Pretty Maids All in a Row—I find myself reflecting on 
my 12 preceding pictures and the women who have risen to stardom through them. Most of my films have been at- 
tacked or censored for their supposedly provoc: content; but there has actually been less nudity in them 
than in many other films. Usually, however, their ambiance and their atmosphere are very erotic, even though people 


“I hate old-style publicity photographs, with all the girls smiling around the director. But to be completely 
dressed and surrounded by naked girls, 1 have nothing against that. It’s so fake that it’s almost surrealistic.” 


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are dressed from neck to toe. If possible, 1 preler 
to show an actress either completely naked or 
completely dressed; I always try to avoid that 
vulgar situation in which a woman is scen wearing 
only bra and panties. That's cheating the audience. 
Beiter 10 let the imagination work: An actress 
wearing a Tshirt with nothing underneath or 
moving under а sheet or outlined in shadow can 
be infinitely more suggestive. 

Many times, I've discovered, viewers see my 
actresses as naked when they really aren't, And 
God cated Woman а good example. Bardot 
was nude only in the opening sequences. Yet one 
of the French censors insisted that she was fla 
granu naked in а later scene. We ran the film 
again to demonstrate that she was enveloped from 
neck to thigh in a turtleneck pullover. But the 
censor had honestly visualized her as undressed 
That sort of mental striptease happens all thc 
time. But it was not because of nudity that And 


"Gretchen Burrell (left) has the best 
figure in the cast; her breasts are just 
right, like a happy compromise between 
Jane Russell and Twiggy. In the scene 
above, I’m directing Margaret Markov to 
cry for her mysteriously deceased girl- 
friends while she does a striptease in Rock 
Hudson’s office. Brenda Sykes (right) is 
terribly shy; if half of American actresses 
were black, she might be more confident.” 


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God Created Woman was banned all over France. What the 
censors reacted to was my refusal to attach the ideas of sin 
and culpability to sex. At that time, it was understood 
that when you dealt with sex or 
to be an excuse for it: The girl w у 
phomaniac or а whore or had been raped by her father as 
a child. And shi s felt guilty. Now here was Bardot 
as a normal girl from a lower-middle-class family, a girl with 
а bright litle mind and no problems. She was as fre 
the hippies of today. The censors felt that and didn't like it 

In one sequence, this girl has just gotten married. On 
the way home from church, a boy, who apparently has 
fucked her earlier. taunts her as a little whore. Her bride- 
groom, who is much smaller than the heckler, fights for her 
honor—but not terribly well. She takes her husband to her 
100m to remove the blood from his face—and gets turned 
on by his demonstration of courage. She makes love to him 
while keeping the family waiting to begin the traditional 
wedding feast downstairs. After the lovemaking, she goes to 
the dinner table and, saying nothing to the family, picks up 


“The first of eight girls who make love with 
Hudson (left) in the film is Gretchen, the girl 
with the perfect body. Angie Dickinson and 
John David Carson (below) demonstrate how 
an attractive, mature woman can help a virgin 
male get rid of his inhibitions. I like to call Joy 
Bang (right) my intellectual sex kitten. In ‘Pretty 
Maids,’ a murder satire full of nudity and sex, 
the word bang has a double meaning; she’d 

be more aptly referred to as Joy Bang Bang.” 


some food, puts it on a plate and returns to her husband. This 
was the scene that most irritated the French censors, because it 
attacked the base of society by making light of the tradition of 
marriage. In comparison with today's films, of coursc, And God 
Created Woman is suitable for children: it’s even been shown 
on television. But at the time it was released in 1956, Woman 
was really a miracle. It was the film that changed the movie 
industry in France; it was the first French production to be a 
completely international success; and in two or three months 
after its release, Bardot was known throughout the world 
Brigitte was the first free, insolent international star, in the 
manner later to be adopted by the Beatles. She was also the 
first to be—physically as well as psychologically—half mascu 
line, half feminine. If you look at Brigitte very closely, you will 
sce that she has the ass of an adolescent male. The first time 1 
met Brigitte, I was struck by her walk—like that of a princess, 
aristocratic and free at the same time. And completely spon 
taneous, ‘There elegance to her body. I love 
women who have their own way of moving their arms, of 
walking, sleeping, eating, washing. I was morc impressed with 
this than sexually aroused by her in the beginning. For me, sex 


a class and 


“When I first met Barbara Leigh (left), I wasn't very 
impressed. A few months later, I saw her walking on 
the beach—a divine creature. I thought anyone who 
could change so drastically must have acting 
potential. Joanna Cameron (above) has a beautiful 
face. All she needs is a little more vulnerability. 1 
felt it would be nice to cast someone in the film with 
really huge breasts, as the Americans like them, so 1 
picked Joyce Williams (right), who is also a Bumper- 
Pool Bunny at the Los Angeles Playboy Club.” 


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is very intellectual and takes time. I cannot walk along a 
street and see a woman and think: My God! 1 must have her 

But from the outset, 1 told Bardot she would become a 
star. She couldn't believe it. She was happy just being a 
ballet dancer. It's not generally known that Bardot was 
and is—terribly insecure about her appearance. 1 like this 
sort of insecurity in a woman. I think it’s very feminine. I 
imagine Marilyn Monroe was very insecure, and God knows 
she was feminine. I love women who are vulnerable in this 
way. Not someone like Raquel Welch; to me, she is a com. 
putcrized star, not feminine at all She conveys the idea 
that she can seduce anyone she wishes. That frightens me. 
She doesn't give you anything to look forward to. 1 would 
be completely impotent with such a wom: 

Гуе often been compared to Svengali, the fictional mes 
merise who set out to transform a simple bourgeois girl into 
a star—and succeeded. Although that seems terribly ex 
gered, J have noticed that certain changes do occur in 
a woman when Im living with her. You know, a woman 
sees herself in the eyes of a man, as if he were a mirror, and 
instinctively she does things (text continued on page 212) 


“June Fairchild (left) came into my office wearing 
a transparent dress with nothing underneath. I 
was enchanted; sex without vulgarity delights me. 
I wanted one of the ‘Pretty Maids’ to be an 
Oriental, and I needed empty-headed types. Aimee 
Eccles (below) is Chinese with a remarkably 

silly giggle. And I chose Margaret Markov (right) 
for the crying-striptease scene because she’s of 
Yugoslavian extraction. A nude Slavic woman 
weeping, to me, is irresistibly sexy. 


VARGAS GIRL 


“Of course, there 
are certain kinds 
of inflation that 
.. 1 don't mind at all.” 


fair judgment trom the Dictionnaire De L'Amour, 1811 


ENT НЕ saw her shoulders, 

the young Chevalier de Langevi 
forgot his habitual boredom. They were 
bare and incredibly white, the blane de 
blancs of shoulders, with one butterlly- 
shaped beauty spot resting on the firm 
slope that descended to her décollerage- 
Her dress was the color of bright pop- 
pics, except for the band of gold at her 
bosom that held two crystal peepholes on 
cither side. And gazing through the peep- 
holes with a look of innocent curiosity 
were two pink nipples, De Langevi 
could not see her whole face, because of 
the black fan she was holding up, but the 
сус» above it were sea green, He sudden- 
ly realized that all the other women he 
lad loved were nothing but tones of 
brown or gray. 

Every time the Marquise de Fénelon 
took à new lover, she used that as am 
excuse to give a masked ball. Like the 
lovers, the balls were large and dull. 
Thus, the Comte d'Orpesson. was 
ished to sce his friend Raimond de 
Langevin approach with a wild look in 
his eyes. "Who is that rainbow, who 
is that who is that creation of 
whipped cream with two strawberries 


HE MO: 


standing over there by Ше doorway 


gasped De Langevin. "I love her madly 

The comte lowered his puce-colored 
half mask and looked around coolly. 
ood Lord, is Florabelle here? 1 must 
c missed her. But down, dear boy, lay 
T strongly advise you to 


1 
down your spe: 
Tall out of love.” 
“She has a gigantic husband who is 
very jealous? 
“1 never heard of him, no." 
he is a warm friend of the king?" 
"Not at all. [t's rather more а matter 
lue. Do you remember that Holy 
tells us that a virtuous woman has 
a price bove rubies? Well, that 
unvirtuous lady over there has а price 
far above diamonds. One smile would 
сом you half your income; one kiss and 
you'd be putting up your household. for 
action.” 
D'Orpesson, 
jokes.” 
"Well, then, ask the р 
tied it, Monsieur Filon was once one of 
the richest and crookedest tax collectors 
in all France. Now he is a poor clerk in 
the war office—still crooked, no doubt. 
Lord Avesham inherited а noble man 
sion and hall the Lind in Worcestershire, 
bur now he owns nothing more than a 
kitchen garden. And the Grand Duke 
Viadimir—but, poor Vladya. That story 
is too sad to tell. Each of these brave 
fellows made a noble attempt to fill that 
bottomless hole with his treasure. 
De Langevin took this as the usual 
kind of scindalmongering and, during 
the next few days, schemed to get him- 


you do make stupid 


пешеп who 


ILLUSTRATION EY BRAD HOLLAND 


self an invitation to the lady's fine town 
house in dic ruc Vaugirurd. He 

received by а solemn and stately ma 
domo, who said that madame would be 
delighted to sce him, but first—this in а 
very confidential tone—there was a small 


formality, а deposit of 5000 livres. 
don’t wish to buy the whole 
street!” exclaimed De Langevin. “I just 


desire а half hour of madame's compa’ 
“The first half hour costs five thou 
sand, 1 the majordomo, "but each 
subsequent hour is only two thousand 
ivres” De Langevin then tried to offer 
him a bribe, but found himself cured 
out into the street with some rudeness. 
De Langevin's annual income was a 
modest but enabling sum of 3000 livres 
—not bad for a young man at court. He 
calculated that one night with Florabelle 
would leave him dining on wind for the 
next seven years, That evening, he sat at 
home, very depressed, and finished off a 
whole bottle of win 
He fell asleep and soon he began to 
dream splendidly. He saw Florabclle 
again- ће fine red lips, the velvety skin, 
the tender pink of her nipples, the sea 
depths of her green eyes. She approached 
him with a perlectly charming smile and, 
without hesitation, she began to unlace 
unbutton—bodice camisole, 
skirts, petticoats, caleçons descended. to 
the floor, one by one. At last she stood in 


and and 


rosy nakedness, the most b il female 
creature possible to imagine. Then she 
quickly slipped into his bed and put 


her arms around him. И was а long, 
nd it was per- 


hout costing De 


long, passionate dream 


mated 


fectly cons 
Langevin a son, 
The next day, he happened across 


Ribald Classic 


D'Orpesson idling under the trees at the 
Palais Royal and, feeling cheerful, Rai 
mond couldn't resist telling him about 
his bargain night with  Florabelle. 
I'Orpeson laughed heartily and con- 
gratulated him. De Langevin asked his 
friend to keep this а secret and 
D'Orpesson swore to do so. Of course, 
within the hour, D'Orpesson had related. 
the anecdote to six different people. 

Naturally, by five o'clock that evening, 
it had been told to Florabelle. At first, 
she was amused. She reflected. Then she 
felt a bit flattered. She reflected some 
more. Then she became angry. There- 
ipon, she sent immediately for her law- 
yer, Maitre Duplessis. When he had 
come, she told him the tale and ordered 
him to institute a legal process. against 
De Langevin for trespass and theft. 

Justice, being blind, crawls along slow- 
ly, and it was six months before 
Sieur Follain, the learned judge, could 
hear the case. Duplessis opened. with an 
cloquent plea. “It is patent," he said. 
‘that the unscrupulous defendant did 
most illicitly trespass upon the most per- 
sonal property of my client; to wit, her 
body. Furthermore, said property also 
represents her capital, which she has nev- 
er sold bu leased for certain def- 
inite periods with full reservation of all 
rights of ownership. In consequence of 
which we demand [ull payment of the 
usual fcc charged by my clicnt, as an 
amend for her loss and. mental anguish 
Plus compound interest and. court. costs.” 

Florabelle was wearing her most de- 
mure dress. She succeeded in looking ex- 
pensive, though nothing could make her 
look innocent. The judge paid her a 
good deal of attention. 

The advocate for the delense tried 
hard, but liis case was weak. After all, he 
said with a shrug, it was only am 
and what greater compliment can а man 
рау а woman? The judge looked unim- 
pressed. Finally, he delivered his verdict: 

"The court finds that the defendant 
has committed us upon 
the body of the plaintiff, compor 
his making said trespass public 
edge. We therefore decree that the de- 
fendant must compensate the plaintiff by 
produci diately fificen thousand 
gold livres, the sum demanded as dam- 
ages.” De Langevin turned pale and be- 
gan to feel dizz: 

The defendant will then count out 
the coins, picce by piece. P 
listen carefully to e: 
that she is receiving payment. As 
Chevalier de Langevin wronged her in 
the world of shadow and sleep, let her 
compensation be in the «oim of that 
m. However, she must pay the actual 
costs of this trial. 


—Retold by Paul Tabori KB. үз 


changed, more people would probably 
im homosexual acts, but fewer 
ify themselves as homosexuals. 
BIEBER: 1 see no reason to believe Irom 
what we already know that there's going 
10 be an outcropping of many people 
just 
ing, as with Prohibition, for repeal 
to come and all the saloons will open. 
mo reason to believe anything 
1 at all. 
I agree with Dr. Bieber, I 
don't think Jaw reform will have much 
ol an effect on the frequency ot homo 
sexual incidents one way or the other. 
“The percentage of homosexuals who are 
anested for acs done seaetly by œn- 
sent is very, very low, and 1 don't think 
the fear of arrest can interfere їп any 


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who have repressed homosexuatit 


TYNAN: If the laws were repealed, there 
might even be fewer people engaging in 
Homosexual acts. A certain kind of pa 
sonality, which feeds on a sense 
ng ostracized and persecuted, is 
fien. attracted. by the homosexual sub- 
world in countries where queers are out- 
side the law. It's like belonging to à secret 
society. Remove the clement of persecu 
tion and you remove the attraction 
Again, people often drift into membership 
ol oppressed minorities to compensate for 
Ише in other spheres. "Look at me," 
they say. "Em viaimized because Pm 
queer.” I've known a good many border- 
Tine queers who wanted martyrdom more 
than they wanted boylriends. By liberal 
izing the laws, society could help them 


Lace their real problem. 
Matvenna: Even without law iclom, 1 
think a permissive situation has had а 


very positive effect on the San. Francisco 
homosexual, because he doesn't have to 
be as fearful. San F о is only rel 
tively permissive, though. There are still 
many persons who, if they were found 
ош 10 be homosexuals, would be fired 
from tl We've 
where the police, when they've made an 
arrest. even though the person was found 
not guilty of certain sex charges, have 
called the employer amd sail, “Do you 
know that this person was arrested on 
such and such a sex charge?” There is 
still а bias on the part of the police 
and others against homosexuals, 
homosexual is pretty vulnerable. 
marmor: You're right. Even with 
reform, little would change to begin with. 
except that it would be an indication 
that our society was becoming more tol- 
erant toward the private ways in which 
people choose to express their sexual 
needs, Discreet homosexuals would no 
longer be subjected 1o legal sanctions; 
but in actual practice even now, 
police do not arrest such people. They 
164 would, of course, still be subjected to 


had si 


jobs 


most 


PLAYBOY PANEL (continued оп page 92) 


moral sanctions and possibly to blackmail 
because of moral opprobrium. N 
Jess, law reform would be a healthy thing, 
as an indication of growing tolerance on 
the part of society, and it would pave 
the way for other constructive evolution- 
ary char 
PLOSCOWE: Homosexuality must be social- 
Jy accepted as a fact of lile; a k 
attitude toward the homosexual must de- 
velop. But we will be far from that even 
if the Jaw is changed. This is still a 
heterosexual world, The homosexual is 
still a deviant whatever the law may be 
and despite the socalled sexual revolu- 
tion. Its tough for a homosexual to live 
in a heterosexual world. 

KUH: Exactly. I'm not sure by changing 
the law that you suddenly create a vast 


area of understanding, unless the 
public is so educated thar it’s really 


ready for that change. And as the great 
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said, 
"phe first requirement of а sound body 
of law is that it should correspond with 
the actual feelings and demands of the 
community, whether right or wrong 
PLAYBOY: Some of those who draw the 
line at repealing the laws against “ш 
ural crimes” have suggested that instea 
of imposing prison sentences on hor 
sexuals, they should be given some sort 
of psychotherapy. How effective would 
such a solution be? 

LYON: How much does therapy do in 
changing a person's object orientation, 
nd how many good therapists are there 
to work with homosexuals? You really 
find very few. If someone wants treat- 
ment, it’s extremely difficult to find the 
right kind of help. I cannot im good 
conscience reler homosexuals with prob- 
lems to their family doctors or clergy- 
men. like “Dear Abby" does. There's too 
much ignorance, even among profes 
sionals. l've sent women to psychiatrists 
whose attitude was, “AIL you really need 
sa good man, sweetie, and here 1 


am. 


Thats not particularly helpful. 
BIEBER: Obviously, Miss Lyo doesn't 
know any competent psychiatrists. But 


even an incompetent опе wouldn't be 
likely to make a pass at a Lesbian patient 
in an initial interview. 

MciLVENNA: 1 don't think this problem of 
therapists seducing patients is a trivial 
опе, nor exclusive to homosexuals. In the 
new Masters and Johnson book, Human 
Sexual Inadequacy. they make quite a 
thing of the whole problem of therapists 
seducing their patients and causing, con- 
siderable problems for them. 

MARMOR: Leaving aside the question of 
the individual psychiatrist's competence, 
it’s doubtful if compulsory psychother- 
apy would be at all useful. Treatment 
shonld be given only il people seek it. It 
shouldn't be imposed upon them against 
their will. It's nobody's business il men 


ог women choose to indulge in homosex- 
1 activity with a consent lul in 
private. If people are unable to coul 
their sexual behavior in public places or 
they're involved in the seduction of mi- 
nois, they're in need of help, but this is 
true whether they're heterosexual or 
homosexual, 


kJ 


The matter of consent would be 
ely important even if we had a 
c technique. I can accept laws 


directed. generally against public homo: 
sexual acts—solicitation. in public—and, 
though 1 don't agree with them, laws 
directed against private acts; yet to com- 
pel X to unde ge in his per 
E y because the. commun around. 
him doesn't feel comfortable with that 
personality is pushing too far. OF course, 
making пе vailable on а volun- 


tary basis is t matter. 
LETSCH: 1 don't think psychotherapy 
would make a bit of difference, because 1 


ity cam be € 
ve it 
cured, if by а cure you mean turning а 
al into a heterosexual, You can 
Homosexual to engage in hetero- 
acts, just as you can teach a hetero- 
sexual to engage in homosexual acts, 
but he docsn't lose what he started with; 
he just gets something else as well. H's 
something like becoming à monk and 
king а vow of silence: just because you 
stop talking doesn't mean you've lost 
your voice. You сап teach people 10 
become broader or to give up what 
they're doing, But you can’t change them 
from what they arc into something else. 
These cures that you hear about, most of 
them sound so barbarous. 1 re 
ing in The Washington. Post, about wo 
years ago, ol who was da 
behavior 0 which he pur a 
homosexual in а room and flashed homo- 
sexual stimuli on a saeen. The guy 
had X number of seconds to remove the 


nk homosexu: 


homosesi 
teach 
sexua 


a doctor 


py, in 


stimulus by pushing a burton. If he 
didn't, he got an electric shock. The 
they fished a heterosexua 
the screen and he 
sensation of some ki 
that he had cured 7 
patients, When he wa 
meant, he said. “The therapy stopped 


| stimulus оп 
got а pleasurable 
L The doctor suid 
or 85 percent of his 
sked w 


cure 


them from having homosexual experi- 
ences,” Then the reporter said, “I 
get them to the point where they wanted 


kl you 


n heterosexual acts?" He said. 
- ошу done that with about 
ar. The rest 
This guy was ру 


to engagi 
No, we 
live of the peop 
no sex activity at all. 


so 


chologically castrating his patients, 
BIEBER. If you've never heard of a cured 
case, Mr. Leitsch, you're dearly not tuning 


nc 


what you don't want to hear. Many 
mosexuals become exclusively hetero- 
sexual. Homosexual behavior fantasies 
4 dreams disappear. These men 
(continued on page 178) 


MISTER 
NOXON'S 
LOCKETS 


what with everyone at 1600 
pennsylvania busy as hell 
explaining the recession and 
vietnam, its just possible that 
they've turned over the hot line 
10 an answering service 


humor Ву ПАМ GREENBURE 


“080 

“Oh, hello. I didn't think you were 
going to answer. Have there b 
message 

“Just a moment, ГЇ check. Uh. . . . 
No, nothing here. Oh, wait, here's onc. 
1% hom a Mr, Kozy—a Mr. Korygram. 


“Kozygram? Are you sure its" 

"Kozygram, right. The message is" 

“1 don't know апу Mr. Kozygram. Is it 
perhaps a Mr. Kosygin? K-O SY. C-LN?" 

"No, it's Kozygram. K-O-Z-Y-C-R-A-M. 
Do you want the mesage or don't yo 
I've got other calls here and I'm all alone 
on the board because two of the girls are 
out sick.” 

"What is the message?” 

"It says you are to remove your lockets 
from Manchuria by. 

“Lockets? Are you su 

“I don't know, dear, 
the message. Wh: 
lockets in. Manchuri 

“Is it possible it says rockets?” 

"No, I'm sorry, it's lockers, He wants 
you to remove your lockets by . . . by . 
it’s either a three or an сїрїн, I can't make 
it out. Another girl took the message. Any- 
way, he wants you to remove them by 
either three or eight something or other, 
otherwise he’s going to——" 
"Yes? Otherwise he's going to rehat?” 
“Hold on, I've got another call.” 
“Hello? Operator? Hello? Hello? 


says lockets 
nother girl took 
don't you have any 


. Could you please read me the 
г message?" 
- - Oh, for goodness 


“Wha” 

“This message isn't for you, anyway. It's 
for Mr. Jensen.” 

“For Mr, Johnson, you mean?" 

“It says Jensen is all I know, dear. I 
didn’t take it myself, I guess it just got 
in your box Бу mistake. Sorry. No 
messages today, Mr. Noxo 


Corne ree 


By TOMI UNGERER 


comes the vernal equinox 
and a budding superbowls 
Jano lightly turns to 
pipe dreams of love 


PLAYBOY 


duel мез) 


rear cnd broke to the right and the car 
spun half around, sheering sideways to a 
neckawenching halt 30 yards beyond the 
café. 

Mann sat in pulsing silence, eyes 
closed. His heartbeats felt like club 
blows in his chest. He couldn't seem to 
catch his breath. H he were ever going to 
have а heart attack, it would be now. 
After a while, he opened his eyes and 


No wonder, he thought. It isn’t every day 
I'm almost murdered by a truck. 

He raised the handle and. pushed out 
the door, then started forward, grunting 
in surpr the safety belt held him in 
place. Reaching down with shaking 
fingers, he depressed the release button 
and pulled the ends of the belt apart 
He glanced at the café, What had 
patrons thought of his breakneck appear- 
ance? he wondered, 

He stumbled as he walked to the front 
door of the café. TRUCKERS WELCOME, 
read а sign in the window. It gave Mann 
a queasy feeling to see it, Shivering, he 
pulled open the door and went inside, 
avoiding the sight of its customers. He 
felt certain they were watching, him, but 
he didn’t have the strength to face their 
x his gare fixed straight 
ahead, he moved to the rear of the calé 
and opened the door marked сезаз. 

Moving to the sink, he twisted the 
right-hand faucet and leaned over lo cup 
cold water in his palms and splash it 
on his face, There was a fluttering of his 
stomach muscles he could not control. 

Straightening up, he tugged down sev- 
eral towels from their dispenser and ра 

ed them against his face, grimacing at 
the smell of the paper. Dropping the 
soggy towels into a wastebasket beside 
the sink, he regarded himself in the wall 
mirror, Still with us, Mann, he thought. 
He nodded, swallowing. Drawing out his 
metal comb, he neatened his hair. You 
never know, he thought. You just never 
know. You drift along, ycar after yea 
presuming certain values to be fixed; 
like being able ıo drive on a public 
thoroughfare without somebody trying to 
murder you. You come to depend on 
that sort of thing, Then something occurs 
nd all bets аге off, One shocking in 
dent and all the years of logic and ac- 


animal, part angel. Where had he come 
across that phrase? He shivered, 
It was entirely an animal in that truck 


out there. 

His breath was almost back to normal 
now. Mann forced a smile at his re 
flection, All right, boy, he told himself. 
It's over now. It was a goddamned night- 
mare, but it's over on your way 


age to San Francisco. You'll get yourself а 


nice hotel room, order a bottle of expen- 
sive Scotch, soak your body in a hot bath 
and forget. Damn right, he thought. He 
tumed and walked out of the washroom, 

He jolred to a halt, his breath cut olf. 
Standing rooted, heartbeat hammering at 
his chest, he gaped through the front 
window of the calé, 

The truck and triler were parked 
outside. 

Ма 
shock. It 


stared at them in unbelieving 
n't possible. He'd seen them 
roaring by at top speed. The driver had 
won; he'd wou! Hed had the whole 
mn highway to himself! Why had he 
tumed back? 
Mann looked around with sudden 
dread. There were five men eating, three 
long the counter, two in booths. He 
cursed himself for having faited to look 
t faces when he'd entered, Now there 
no way of knowing who it was. Mann 
felt his legs begin to shak 
Abruptly, he walked to the nearest 
booth and s clumsily behind the 
table. Now wait, he told himself; just 
wait. Surely, he could tell which one it 
was. Masking his face with the menu, he 
сей across its top. Was it that one in 
the khaki work shirt? Mann tried to see 
the man’s hands but couldn't. His gaze 
flicked nervously across the room, Not 
that one in the suit, of course. Three 
remaining. That one in the front booth, 
squaredaced, black-haired? If only he 
could sce the man's hands, it might help. 
One ol the two other at the counter? 
Mann studied them uneasily. Why hadn't 
he looked at faces when he'd come in? 
Now wait, he thought. Goddamn it, 
шай! All right, the truck driver wai 
here. That didn't automatically signify 
that he meant to continue the insane 
duel. Chuck’s Café might be the only 
place to cat for miles around. И was 
lunchtime, wasn't it? The tuck diver 
d probably intended to eat here all 
the time. He'd just been moving too fast 
to pull into the parking lot before. So 
he'd slowed down, turned around and 
driven back, that was all. Mann forced 
himself to read thc Right, he 
thought. No point in getting so ratiled. 
Perhaps а beer would help relax him. 
The woman behind the counter came 
over and Mann ordered а ham sandwich 
on rye toast and a bottle of Coors, As the 
woman turned away, he wondered, with 
a sudden twinge of scl-reproach, why he 
hadn't simply left the café, jumped into 
his car and sped away. He would have 


ws 


known immediately, then, if the truck 
driver was still out to get him. As it was, 
he'd have to suffer through an entire 


meal to find out. He almost groaned at 
his stupidi 

Still, what if the truck driver had 
followed him out and started after him 
again? He'd have been right back where 


he'd started. Even if he'd managed to get 
a good lead, the truck driver would have 
overtaken him eventually. Tt just wasn't 
in him to drive at 80 and 90 miles an 
hour in order to si 1. Truc, he 
might have been intercepted by a Cali- 
fornia Highway Patrol car. What il hc 
weren't, though 

Mann repressed the plaguing thoughts. 
He tried to calm himself, He looked 
deliberately at the four men. Either of 
two seemed a likely possibility as the 
ol the wuck: the square-faced one 
n the front booth and the chunky one 
in the jump suit siting at the count 
Mann had an impulse to walk over to 
them and ask which one it was, tell the 
man he was sorry he'd initated him, tell 
him апу. 10 calm him, since, ob- 
n't rational, was а manic 
c, probably. Maybe buy the man 
ad sit with him awhile to try to 
settle things. 

He could: 
driver 


ya 


t move. What if the truck 
were Jetting the whole thing 
drop? Mighurt his approach rile the 
man all over а Ma felt drained 
by indecision. He nodded weakly as the 
set the sandwich and the bottle 
n front of him. He took a swallow of 
the beer, which made him cough. Was 
the truck driver amused by the sound? 
Mann felt a stirring of resentment deep 
inside himself. What right did that lı 
tard have to impose this torment on 
another human being? lt was a free 
country Damn it, he had 
every right to pass the son of a bitch on 
а highway if he wanted to! 

“Oh, hell" he mumbled. He tried to 
fecl amused. He was making entirely too 
much of this. Wasn't he? He glanced a 
the pay telephone on the [ront wall. 
What was to prevent him йош calling 
the Jocal police and telling them the 
situation? But, then, he'd have to stay 
here, lose time, make Forbes angry. 
probably lose the sale. And what if the 
truck driver stayed to face them? Nat 
rally, he'd deny the whole thing. What 
if the police believed him and didn't do 
After they'd gone, the 
truck driver would undoubtedly take it 
ош on him п, only worse. God! 
igony. 
ndwich tasted flat, the beer un- 
pleasantly sour. Mann stared at the table 
as he ate. For God's sake, why was he 
just silting here like this? He 
grown man, wasn't he? Why didn't he 
settle this damn thing once and for all? 

His left hand twitched so unexpect- 
edly, he spilled beer on his trousers, The 

n the jump sui i 
ter and wasstrolling toward the front 
ofthecalé, Mann felt his heartbeat thump- 
ingas the man gave money to the waitress, 
took his change and a toothpick from 
the dispenser and wen: outside. Mann 


waitres 


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was а 


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watched in anxious silence. 

‘The man did not get into the cab of 
the tanker truck. 

Tt had to be the one the front 
booth, then, His face took form in 
Mann's remembrance: square, with dark 
eves, dark hair; the man who'd tried to 
kill him. 

Mann stood abruptly, letting impulse 
conquer fear, Eyes fixed ahead, he start- 
cd toward the entrance. Anything was 
preferable to sitting in that booth. He 
stopped by the cash register, conscious of 
the hitching of his chest as he gulped 
a Was the man observing him? he 
wondered. He swallowed, pulling out the 
clip of dollar bills in his righthand 
trouser pocket, He glanced toward. the 
waitress. Come on, he thought. He 
Jooked at his check and, seeing the 
amount, reached shakily into his trouser 
pocket for change. He heard а coin fall 
onto the floor 1 roll away. Ignoring it, 
he dropped a dollar and а quarter onto 
the counter and thrust the clip of bills 
into his trouser pocket. 

As he did. he heard the man in the 
font booth get up. An icy shudder 
spasmed up his back. Turning quickly to 
the door, he shoved it open, seeing, on 
the edges of his vision, the squa 
man approach the cash register. Lurching 
from the café, he started toward his car 
with long strides. His mouth was dry 


PLAYBOY 


painful in his chest. 

Suddenly, he started running. He 
heard the café door bang shut and 
fought away the urge to look across his 
shoulder. Was that a sound of other 
running footsteps now? Reaching his 
п, Mann yanked open the door and 
jarred in awkwardly behind the steering 
wheel. He 
et for the keys and sn: 
almost dropping them. His hand was 
shaking so badly he couldn't get the 
tion key into its slot. He whined with 
he thought. 

The key slid in, he twisted it con- 
vulsively. The motor started and he raced 
it momentarily before jerking the trans- 
mission shift to drive. Depressing the 
celerator pedal quickly, he raked the саг 
nd and steered it toward the hi 
From the corners of his eyes, he 
saw the truck and trailer being backed 
away from the café, 

Reaction burst inside him. "No!" he 
wed and slammed his foot down on the 
brake pedal. This was idiotic! Why the 
hell should he run away? His car slid 
sideways to a rocking halt and, shoulder- 
ing out the door, he lurched 10 his feet 
nd started toward the truck with angry 
strides. AIL right, Jack, he thought. He 
glared at the man inside the truck. You 
t to punch my nose, OK, but no more 
goddamn tournament on the highway. 

The tuck began to pick up speed. 

n raised his right arm. “Heyl” he 


im 
mounting dread. Come or 


w 


yo M: 


yelled. He knew the driver saw him. 
“Hey!” He started running as the truck 
kept moving, engine grinding loudly. It 
was on the highway now. He sprinted 
toward it with a sense of martyred out- 
тарс. The driver shifted gears, the truck 
moved faster. "Stop!" Mann shouted. 
“Damn it, stop! 

He thudded то а panting halt, staring 
at the truck as it receded down the high- 
way, moved around a hill and disappear- 
ed, “You son of a bitch," he muttered. 
"You goddamn, miserable son of a bitch 

He trudged back slowly to his car, try- 
ing to believe that the truck. driver had 
fled the hazard of a fistfight. It was pos- 
sible, of course, but, somehow, he could 
not believe it. 

He got into his car and was about to 
drive onto the highway when he changed 
lis mind and switched the motor olf 
That crazy bastard might just be tooling 
along at 15 miles an hour, waiting for 
him to catch up. Nuts to that, he 
thought. So he blew his schedule; screw 
it, Forbes would have to wait, that was 
all And if Forbes didn't care to wait, 
that was all right, too, Hc'd sit here for 
nd let the nut get out of range, let 
ak he'd won the day. He grinned, 
re the bloody Red Baron, Jack; 
you've shot me down. Now go to hell 
with my sincerest compliments, He shook 
his head. Beyond belief, he thought. 

He really should have done this ear- 
lier, pulled over, waited. Th the truck 
driver would have had to Jet it pass. Or 
picked on someone else, the startling 
thought occured to bim. Jesus. maybe 
that was how the crazy bastard whiled 
y his work hours! Jesus Christ Al- 
mighty! was it possible? 

He looked at the dashboard clock. It 
жаз just past 12:30. Wow, he thought. 
AM «( in less than an hour. He shifted 
on the seat and stretched his legs out. 
Leaning back against the door, he closed 
his eyes and mentally perused the things 
he had to do tomorrow and the following 
day. ‘Today was shot to hell, as far as he 
could see. 

When he oj 
drift 


E 


opened his eyes, afraid of 
ш into sleep and losing too much 
time, passed. The 
тш must be an ample distance off by 
now, he thought; at least 11 miles and 
likely more, the way he drove. Good 
enough. He wasn't going to try to make 
San Francisco on schedule now, 
He'd take it real casy. 

Mann adjusted his safety belt, switched 
on the motor, tapped the transmission 
pointer into drive position and pulled 
onto the highway, glancing back across 
his shoulder. Not a car in sight. Gr 
lor driving. Everybody 
home. That nut must have a. reputation 
und here. When Crazy Jack is on the 
highway, lock your car in the garage. 
Mann. chuckled at the notion as his car 
began to turn. the curve ahead. 


Mindless reflex drove his 
down against the brake pedal. Suddenly, 
his car had skidded to a halt and he was 
staring down the highway. The truck and 
trailer were parked on the shoulder less 
than 90 yards away. 

Mann couldn't seem to function. He 
knew his car was blocking the westbound 
; knew that he should either make a 
U-turn or pull off the highway, but all 
hc could do was gape at the truck. 

He cried out, legs retracting, as à hom. 
blast sounded behind him. Snapping up 
his head, he looked at the rearview mir- 
Tor, gasping as he saw a yellow station 
wagon bearing down on him 
speed. Suddenly, it veered off towa 
eastbound lane, disappearing from the 
mirror. Mann jerked around and saw it 
hurting past his car, its rear end snap- 
ping back and forth, its back tires 
screeching. He saw the twisted features 
of the man inside, saw his lips move 
rapidly with cursing 

‘Then the station wagon had swerved 
back into the westbound lane and was 
speeding off. It gave Mann ап odd sen 
ation to see it pass the truck, The man 
in that station wagon could drive om 
unthreatened. Only he'd been singled 
out. What happened was demented. Yet 
it was happening. 

drove his car onto the highway 
shoulder and braked. Putting the trans- 
mission into neutral, he leaned back, 
staring at the truck. His head was aching 
n. There was a pulsing at his temples 

ike the ticking of a muffled clock. 

What was he to do? He knew very 
well that if he left his car to walk to the 
truck, the driver would pull away and re- 
park farther down the highway. He may 
as well face the fact that he was dealing 
with a madman. He felt the tremor E 
his stomach muscles starting ир а 
His heartbeat thudded slowly, striking at 
his chest wall. Now what? 

With a sudden, angry impulse, Mann 
snapped the transmission into gear and 
stepped down hard on the accelerator 
pedal. The tires of the car spun sizzlingly 
before they gripped; the car shot out 
onto the highway. Instantly, the truck. 
began to move. He even had the motor 
on! Mann thought in raging fear. He 
floored the pedal, then, abruptly, realized 
he couldn't make it, that the truck would 
block his way and he'd collide with its 
e vision ns hed across hiis mind, 
sheet of flame 
m. He started braking fast, 
ме evenly, so he wouldn't 


trying to decel 
lose contiol. 
he'd slowed down enough to 
safe, he steered the car 
onto the shoulder and stopped it again, 
throwing the transmission into neutral. 
Approximately 80 yards ahead, the 
truck. pulled off the highway and stopped. 
Mann tapped his fingers on the stccr- 
ing wheel. Now what? he thought. Tum 


Whe 


“I can always tell when you're enjoying my lovemaking— 
you start losing your place.” 


around and head cast until he reached а 
но that would take him to San Fra 
cisco by another route? How did he know 
the truck driver wouldn't follow him 
even then? His cheeks twitched as he bit 
his lips together angrily. No! He wasn't 
going to turn around! 

His expression hardened suddenly. 
Well, he wasn't going to sit here all dit 
that was certain, Reaching out, he tapped 
the gearshift imo drive and steered his 
саг onto the highway once again. He 
saw the massive truck and trailer start to 
move but made no effort 10 speed up. 
pped at the brakes, taking а posi- 
pout 30 yards behind the trailer. 
need at his speedometer. Forty 
hour. The truck driver had his 
m out the cab window and was 
waving him on. What did that me: 
Had he changed his mind? Decided, 
Шу, that this thing had gone too far? 
Mann couldn't let himsell believe it, 

He looked ahead. Despite the moun- 
all around, the 
as he could se 
fingernail against the hor 
ke up his mind. Presumably, he could 
continue all the way to Francisco. 
at this speed, hanging back jus far 
enough to avoid the worst of the exhaust 
fumes. It didn’t seem likely that the truck 
driver would stop directly on the high- 
way to block his way. And if the truck 
driver pulled omo the shoulder to let 
him pass, he could pull off the highway, 


PLAYBOY 


bar, trying to 


100. hi would be a draining afternoon 
but a safe one 
On the other hand, outracing the 


truck might be worth just one more try. 
This was obviously what that son of a 


bitch wanted. Yet, surely, a vehicle of 
such size couldn't be driven with the 
same daring as, potentially, his own. The 
laws of mechanics were against it, if 
nothing else. Whatever advantage ie 
truck had in mass, it had to lose in 
stability, particularly that of its trailer. If 


Mann were to drive at, say, 80 miles an 
hour and there were a few steep grades 
ау he felt sure there were—the truck 
would ha 1 behind. 

The question was, of couse, whether 
he had the nerve to maintain such a 
speed over а long distance. He'd nc 
done it before, Still, the more he thought 
. the more it appealed to him 


pout 


far more than the alicrnative did. 
Abrupry, he decided. Right, he 
thought. He checked ahead, then pressed 


down hard on the accelerator. pedal and 
pulled into the eastbound lane, As he 
neared the truck, he tensed, anticipating 
that the driver might block his way. But 
the truck did not shift from the wet- 
bound lane. Mann's car moved along its 
mammoth side, He glanced at the cab 
and saw the name KELLER printed on its 
door. For a shocking instant, he thought 
it read KILLER and started to slow down. 
372 Then, gl me again, he 


пе, 


(ing at the n 


at it really was and depressed the 
pedal sharply. When he saw the truck 
reflected in the rearview mirror, he 
steered his car into the westbound 

He shuddered, dread and кан 
as he saw that the truck 
s speeding up. It was strangely 
10 know the man's intentions 
in. That plus the knowl 
c seemed, some- 
to reduce his stature. Before, he 

1 been faceless, nameless, ап embodi- 
ment of unknown terror. Now, at least, 
he was wal. All right, Keller, 
1 his mind, let's sce you beat me with 
t purplesilver relic now. He pressed 
down harder on the pedal, Here we go, 
he thought. 

He looked at the speedometer, scowl- 
ng as he saw that he was doin 
miles an. hour. Delibera 


down on the pedal, alternating. his g 
hetween the highway ahead and the 
specdometer until the needle turned past 


S0. He Ген a flickering of satisfaction 
with himself. All right, Keller, you son 
p that, he thought. 
al moments, he glanced into 
w mirror again. Was the truck 
geiting closer? Stunned, he checked the 
speedometer. Damn it! He was down to 
76! He forced in the accelerator. pedal 
He mustn't go less than SO! 
Mann's chest shuddered with convulsive 
breath. 

He glanced aside as he hurtled past а 
beige sedan parked on the shoulder un- 
derneath а tree. A young couple sat 
inside it, g- Alrcady they were far 
world removed from his 
glanced aside when he'd 
passed? He doubted it 
He started as the shadow of an over- 
ad bridge whipped across the hood and 


h 


wbhiedl. — Inhaling edly, he 
glanced at the speedometer a He 
was holding at 81. He checked the rear- 
view mirror. Was it his imagination that 
the tuck was gaining grou 


looked forwind with anxious eyes. There 
had to be some kind of town ahead. То 
: he'd stop at the police 
nd tell them what had hap- 
pened. They'd have to believe him. Why 
would he stop to tell them such a story if 
it weren't truc? For all he knew, Keller 
had a police record in these parts. Oh, 
sure, we're оп lo him, he heard a faceless 
officer remark. Thal cra 
jer it before und now he 

Mann shook himself and looked at the 
mirror, The truck was getting closer. 
Wincing, he glanced at the speedometer. 
Goddamn it, pay attention! raged his 
ir Whi 
ing with frustration, he depressed the 
pedal. Eighty!—80! he demanded of him- 
self. There w murderer behind bi 

His car began to pass a field of Пом 
ers; lilacs, Mann saw, white and purple, 
stretching out in endless rows. There was 


zy bustard’s asked 


in 


1o get it. 


mind. He was down to 74 aga 


k near the highway, the 
Words FIELD FRESH FLOWERS painted on 
it. A brown-cardboard square was 
propped a the shack, the word 
TUNE it. Mana 
saw himself, abruptly, lying in a casket, 
painted like some grotesque mannequin. 
The overpowering smell of flowers 
seemed to fill his nostrils. Ruth and the 
childre the first row, heads 
bowed. All his es—— 

Suddenly, ihe t roughened 
and the and. shud- 
der. driving bolts of pain into his head. 
He felt the steering wheel resisting him 
and clamped his hands around it tightly 
harsh vibrations running up his arms. 
He didn't dare look at the mirror now. 


inst 


He had to force himself to keep the 
speed unchanged. Keller wasn't going to 
slow down: he was sure of that. What if 


he got a flat tire, though? All contol 
would vanish in He visual- 
" an its 
ig tumble, the explo 
ion of its gas tank, his body crushed and 
burned and 

"The broken span of pavement ended 
and his gaze jumped quickly 10 the rear- 
view miror. The truck was no closer, 
but it hadn't lost ground, either. Mann's 
eyes shifted. Up ahead were hills and 
mountains. He tried to reassure himself 
that upgrades were on his side, that he 
cou'd climb them at the same speed he 


was going now. Yet all he could imagine 


were the downgrades, th 
] 


mimense truck. 
violently 


close behind him, stamming 
into his car and knocking it across some 
cliff edge. He had a horrifying vision of 
dozens of broken, rusted cars 1 
seen in the canyons ahead, corpses in 
every one of them, all flung to shattering 
deaths by Keller. 

Mani went rocketing into a cor 
ridor of trees. On each side of the high 
way was a eucilyptus windbreak, each 
funk three feet from the ne 
like speeding thro 
yon. Mann gasped, iw 


ш. as a |, 
hearing dusty leaves dropped down 


across the windshield, then sid out of 
God! he thought, He was 
g near the edge himself. If he 
should lose his nerve at this speed, it was 
over. Jesus! That would be 
Keller! he realized suddenly. He visu 
ized the square faced. driver laughing as 
he passed the burning wreckage, know- 
ing that he'd killed his prey without so 
mich as touching him. 


Mann started as his car shot 


for 


те 


ош into 


the open. The route ahead was not 
straight now but winding up into the 
foothills. Mann willed himself to. press 


down on the pedal even more. Eighty- 
three now, almost 8: 
left w 
green hills blending into mountains. He 
saw a black car on a dirt road, moving 
id the highway. Was its side painted 


a broad terrain of 


$1918* That's our story. The 
samc old low-price story you'll 
get with every Corolla. Starting 
with our $1798* sedan. And 
although you can't go wrong 
with cither Corolla, the fastback 
is the sportier of the two. 

It has a fancier outside as 
well as a fancier inside. With 
a woodgrain steering wheel, 
dash and console usually 
reserved for more expensive cars. 

Like every Corolla, the 
fastback is loaded with standard 
things usually extra on more 
expensive cars. White sidewall 


tires. Tinted glass. Thick snap- 
down nylon carpets. Fully 
reclining bucket seats. All-vinyl 
interior. Glove box. And a 
recessed parcel shelf for more 
storage area. 

Like every Corolla, the 
fastback is put together to stay 
together. It has an engine with 
five main bearings. An 
undersealed chassis to keep out 
rust and corrosion. And a frame 
and body welded into one piece. 

Like every Corolla, the 
fastback is tight with your 
money. It gets about 28 miles a 
gallon. And has a sealed 
lubrication system. So you won't 
spend a cent on chassis lubes. 

Like every Corolla (and 
unlike most cars in this price 
range), the fastback is big 


enough for even six footers to 
stretch out. This year it's wider 
and almost ten inches longer 
than last year. 

So you see, whichever Toyota 
Corolla you pick, you get a good 
looking, dependable car. 

The inexpensive one for $1798. 

Or the expensive one for $1918. 


TOYOTA 


Were quality oriented 


The Corolla Fastback. 
It may make our story harder to believe. 


4 


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174 


white? Матт heartbeat lurched. Impul- 
sively, he jammed the heel of his right 
hand down against the horn bar and held 
it there. The blast of the horn was shi 
and racking to his ears. His heart began 
10 pound. Was it a police car? Was it? 

He let the horn bar up abruptly. No, 
it wasn’t, Damn! his mind raged. Kell 
must have been amused by his pathetic 
efforts. Doubtless, he was chuckling to 
himself right now. He heard the truck 
driver's voice in his mind, coarse and sly. 
You think you gonna gel a cop to 
swe you, boy? Sheet. You gonna dic. 
ппу heart contorted with savage 
hatred. You son of а bitch! he thought. 
Jerking his 
drove it do 
you. Keller! 
the 

The 


hills 
would be slopes directly. long steep 


were closer now. There 


grades, Mann felt a burst of hope within 
himself. He was sure to gain a lot of 
distance on the truck. No matter how he 
ийе, that bastard Keller couldn't man- 
age 80 miles an hour on a hill. But Z 
cant cried his mind with fierce elation 
He worked up а in his mouth and 
swallowed it. The back of his shirt 
drenched. He could fecl sweat trickli 
down his sides. А bath 
order of the day on т 
cisco. A long, hot bath, a long, cold 
drink. Cutty Sark. He'd sphuge, by 
Christ. He rated и. 

The car swept up a shallow rise. Not 
steep enough, goddamn it! The truck's 
momentum would prevent its losing 
speed. Mann felt mindless hatred for the 
landscape. Already, he had topped the 


SENTER MOTIRS 


rise and tilted over 10 a shallow down- 
grade. He looked at the rearview mirror. 
Square, he thought, everything about the 
truck was square: the radiator grille, the 
fender shapes, the bumper ends, the 
outline of the cab, even the shape of 
Keller's hands and face. He visualized 
suing 
ag him with 


the truck as some great entity pu 
hi 


a, insentient, brutish, ch 
nstinct only. 

Mann cried out, honorsstricken, as he 
saw the ROAD RErAIKS sign up ahead. His 
frantic gare leaped down the highway. 
Both lanes blocked, a huge black arrow 
pointing toward the alternate rowe! 
He groaned in anguish, seeing it was 
dirt. His foot jumped automatically to 
the brake pedal and started pumping it. 
He threw a dazed look at the rearview 
miror. The truck was moving as fast as 


ever! It couldn't, though! Mann's ¢ 
pression froze in terror as he started 
turning to the right. 


He stiffened as the front wheels hit the 
dirt road. For an instant, he was certain 
that the back part of the Gir was going 
10 spin: he felt it breaking to the left. 
"No. don't!” he cried. Abruptly, he was 
down the dirt road, elbows 
g to keep 
from losing control. His tires battered at 
ruts, almost tearing the wheel from 
grip. The windows rattled noisily. 
His neck snapped back and forth with 
painful jerks. His jolting body surged 
the binding of the safety belt 
nd slammed down violently on the seat. 
He felt the bouncing of the car drive up 
his spine. His clenching teeth slipped 

ad he cried out hoarsely as his upper 
teeth gouged deep into his lip. 


JN S» 
== 


"I mean, if you've got to pollute the air, this 
is the baby to do it in!” 


_ shoved 


He gasped as the rear end of the car 
began suging to the right. He started to 
jerk the steering wheel to the left, then, 
wrenched it 
direction, crying out 
fender cracked into a fence pole, knock- 
ing it down, He started pumping at the 
brakes, struggling to regain control. The 
car rear yawed sharply to the left, tires 
Iann felt a 
э throat, He 


hissing 


shooting out a spray of dirt. 


scream tear upward in 
twisted wildly at the steering wheel. The 
car began cuecning to the right. He 
hitched the wheel around until the car 
was on course again. His head was 
pounding like his heart now, with. gigan- 
tic. throbbing spasms. He started cough- 
ing as he gagged on dripping blood, 

"The dirt road ended suddenly, the car 
regained momentum on the pavement 
and he dared to look at the rearview 


nd him, rocking like a 
freighter on а storm-ossed sca, its huge 
tires sowing up a pall of dust. Mann 
з the accelerator. pedal and his 
ar surged forward. A good, steep grade 
just ahead; he'd gain that distance 
ow. He swallowed blood, grimacing at 
the taste, then fumbled in his touse 
pocket and tugged out his handkerchief. 
He pressed it to his bleeding lip, eyes 
fixed on the slope ahead. Another 50 
yards or so. He writhed his back. His 
undershirt was soaking wet, adhering to 
He glinced at the rearview 
The truck had just regained the 

Tough! he thought with ven- 
om. Didn't get me, did you, Keller? 

His car was on the first yards of the 
upgrade when steam began to issue from 
h its hood. Mann stiffened sud- 
eyes widening with shock. The 
steam increased, became a smoking mist. 
Mann's gare jumped down. The red 
light hadn't flashed on yet but had to in 
а moment. How could this be happen- 
ing? Just as he was set to get away! 
The slope ahead was long and gradual, 
w curves. He knew he couldn't 
stop. Could he Оли unexpectedly and 
go back down? the sudden thought oc- 
curred. He looked ahead. The highway 
was too marrow, bound by hills on both 
‘There wasn't room enough to 
make an uninterrupted turn and there 


sides. 


wasn't time enough to ease around. If he 
tried that, Keller would shift direction 
and hit him head on, “Oh, my God!” 


M 


nn murmured suddenly 
He was going lo die. 
He st head with 
w increasingly obscured by steam. 
Abruptly, he recalled the afternoon he'd 
1 the engine steam-cleaned at the local 
car wash. The man who'd done it had 
suggested he replace the water hoses 
because steamcleaning had a tendency 
10 make them crack. He'd nodded, think- 
g that he'd do it when he had more 
me. More time! The phr: 


ed 


ken eyes, his 


Ive 
yo sib ot 


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sporting life off the turf and 
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Danfield eases you about 
your business. Strapped 

and buckled. Kingston is taller 
with plaid knit back lining and 
leather as soft as driving 
gloves. Bastille is the demi- 
boot, dressy enough to suit 
Louis XVI, if he were an 
accountant. 

All have the push and polish 
to do a suit up proud, 
anywhere. Anywhere at all. 

Most Roblee styles $18 to 
$28. 

For your nearest Roblee 
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PLAYBOY 


176 


gr in his mind. Неа failed to 
change the hoses and, for that failure, he 
жаз now about to die. 

He sobbed in terror as the dashboard 
light flashed on. He glanced at it invol- 
untarily and read the word нот, black 
on red. With a breathless gasp, he jerked 
the transmission into low. Why hadn't 
he done that right away! He looked 
ahead. The slope seemed endless. Al 
ready, he could hear a boiling throb 

side the radiator. How much coolant 
was there left? Steam was clouding fast- 
er, hazing up the windshield. Reaching 
he twisted at а dashboard knob. 
ted flicking back and 


The 
forth in fan-shaped sweeps. There had to 
be enough coolant in the radiator to get 


wipes st 


п to the top. Then what? cried his 
mind. He couldn't drive without coolant, 
even downhill, He glanced at the rcar- 
The truck was falling be- 
hind. Mann snarled with maddened fury- 
If it weren't for that goddamned hos 
hed be escaping now! 

The sudden lurching of the car 
snatched him back to temor. If he 
braked now, he could jump out, run and 
scrabble up that slope. Later, he might 
not have the time. He couldn't make 
himself stop the car, though. As long as 
it kept on running, he felt bound to it, 
less vulnerable. God knows what would 
happen if he left it 

Mann stared up the slope with haunt- 


view minor 


ed eyes, trying not to sce the red light on 
the edges of his vision, Yard by yad, his 
car was slowing down. Make it, make it, 
pleaded his mind, even though he 
thought that it was futile. The car 
running more and more unevenly. 
thumping percolation of its 
filed his ears. Any moment now, the 
motor would be choked off and the car 
would shudder to a stop, leaving him a 
sitting target. No, he thought. He tried 
to blank his mind. 

He was almost to the top, but in the 
mirror he could sec the truck drawing 
up on him. He jammed down on the 
pedal and the motor made a grinding 
noise. He groaned. It had to make the 
top! Please, God, help me! screamed 
his mind. The ridge was just ahead 
Closer. Closer. Make it. "Make it" The 
r was shuddering and clanking, slow- 
g down—oil, smoke and steam gushing 
from beneath the hood. The windshield 


The 
radiator 


wipers swept from side to side. Mann's 
head throbbed. Both his hands felt 
numb, His heartbeat pounded as Пе 


stared ahead. Make it, please, God, make 
it. Make it, Make it! 

Over! Mann's lips opened іп a cry of 
triumph as the car began descending. 
Hand shaking uncontrollably, he shoved 
the transmission into neutral and let the 
car go into a glide. The triumph stran- 
pled in his throat as he saw that there 
was nothing in sight but hills and more 


hills. Never mind! He was on a down- 
grade now, a long one. He passed a sign 


that read, TRUCKS USE LOW GEARS NEXT 
12 mites, Twelve milest Something 


would come up. It had to. 

The car began to pick up speed. Mann 
glanced at the speedometer. Forty-seven 
miles an hour. The red light still 
burned. He'd save the motor for a long 
time, too, though: let it cool for 12 
if ihe truck was far enough behind. 

His speed increased 


51 
Mann watched the needle turning slowly 


toward the right. He glanced at the renr 
view mirror, The truck had not appeared 
yet. With а litle luck, he т still 
t a good lead. Not as good as he might 
we if the motor hadn't overheated but 
ugh to work with. There had to be 
someplace along the way 10 stop. The 
needle edged past 55 and started toward 
the 60 mark. 

Again, he looked at the rearview mir 
ror, jolting as he saw that the truck had 
topped the ridge and was on its way 
down. He felt his lips begin to shake and 
crimped them together. His gaze jumped 
fitfully between the steam-obsemed high 
way and the mirror. The wack was accel- 
erating rapidly. Keller doubtless had the 
as pedal floored. Tr wouldn't be long 
before the truck caught up to 
Mann's right hand twitched unconscious 
ly toward the gearshift. Noticing, he 
jerked it back, grimacing, glanced at the 


er 


him. 


speedometer. The car's velocity had just 
passed 60. Not enough! He had to use the 
motor now! He reached out desperately. 

His right hand froze in midair as 
the motor stalled; then, shooting out 
the hand, he twisted the ignition key. 
The motor made a grinding noise but 
wouldn't start, Mann glanced up, saw 
that he was almost the shoulder, 
jerked the steering wheel around. Again, 
he turned the key, but there was no 
response. He looked up at the rearview 
mirror. The truck was gaining on him 
swiftly. He glanced at the spccdomcter. 
The cars speed w m 
felt himself crushed in a vise of panic. 
He stared ahead with haunted eyes. 

Then he saw it, several hundred yards 
ahead: an escape route for trucks w 
burned-out brakes, There was no alterna- 
tive now. Either he took the turnout or 
his car would be rammed from behind. 
The truck was frighteningly close. He 
heard the high-pitched wailing of its 
motor. Unconsciously, he started casing 
to the right, then jerked the wheel back 
suddenly. He mustn't give the move 
! He until the last 
possible Keller 
would follow him in. 

Just before he reached the escape 
route, Mann wrendwed the steering 
wheel around. The car rear started 


on 


s fixed at 62. M. 


awa had to wait 


moment. Otherwise, 


breaking to the left, tires shricking on 
the pavement, Mann steered with the 
skid, braking just enough to keep from 
losing all control. The rear tires grabbed 
and, at 60 miles an hour, the car shot up 
the dirt trail, tires slinging up a cloud of 
dust. Mann began to hit die brakes. The 
rear wheels sideslipped and the car 
slammed hard against the dirt bank to 
the right. Mann gasped as the car 
bounced off and started to fishtail with 
violent whipping motions, angling to 
ward the trail edge. He drove his foot 
down on the brake pedal with all his 
might. The car rear skidded to the right 
and slammed against the bank again. 
Mann heard a grinding rend of metal 
and felt himself heaved downward sud 
denly, his neck snapped, as the car 
plowed to a violent halt. 

As in a dream, Mann turned to sce the 
truck and trailer swerving off the high- 
way. Paralyzed, he watched the massive 
vehicle hurtle toward him, staring at it 
with a blank detachment, knowing he 
was going to die but so stupefied by the 
sight of the looming truck that he 
couldn't react. The nuan shape 
roared closer, blotting out the sky. Mann 
felt a strange sensation in his throat, 
unaware that he was screaming, 

Suddenly, the truck began to tilt. 
Mann stared at it in choked-off silence as 
it started tipping over like some ponder- 


ous beast toppling in slow motion, Be- 
fore it reached his car, it vanished from 
his rear window. 

Hands palsied, Mann undid the safety 
belt and opened the door. Struggling 
from the car, he stumbled to the trail 
edge, staring downward. He was just in 
time to sce the truck capsize like a 
foundering ship. The tanker followed. 
huge wheels spinning as it overturned. 
‘he storage tank on the truck explod 
ed first, the violence of its detonation 
causing Mann to stagger back and sit 
down dumsily on the dir. A second 
explosion roared below, its shock wave 
bulleting across him hotly, mak 
cus hurt. His glazed eyes saw a fiery 
column shoot up toward the sky in front 
of him, then another, 

Mann crawled slowly to the trail edge 
and peered down at the canyon. Enor 
mous gouts of Пате were towering up- 
ward, topped by thick, black, oily smoke. 
Не couldn't sce the truck or tailer, only 
flames. He gaped at them in shock, all 
feeling drained from him. 

Then, unexpectedly, came. 
Not dread, at first, and not regret; not 
the nausea that followed soon. It was a 
primey 
some ancestral beast above the body of 
its vanquished foe. 


ag his 


emotion 


tumult in his mind: the ay of 


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177 


able to marry and enjoy a sexually grati- 
fying love relationship. 105 now well 
established that about one third to one 
half the number of male homosexuals 
treated by psychoanalysis or psychouna 
lytically oriented therapy become exclu 
sively heterosexual and remain so. In 
our study, my colleagues and I found 
that 27 percent of 106 homosexuals in 
treatment became heterosexual. А follow- 
up study conducted five years later re- 
this group had remained 
heterosexual and that ап additional nine 
patients became heterosexual in the course 
of time, bringing the final total to ap- 
proximately 37 percent who had success- 
fully changed. I have personally followed 
up on some patients for 20 years, and 
they have remained heterosexual, Dis. 
Toby Bicber, Samuel Hadden, Lawrence 
Hatterer, Harold Lie Lionel Ovesey, 
Charles Socarides and others have report- 
ed similar results. 
MARMOR: I agree with Dr. Bieber. A 
great deal of incontrovertible evidence 
has accumulated by now that where a 
high level of motivation to change exists, 
between 95 and 50 percent of young 
homosexuals can be helped to change to 
а complete heterosexual pattern. T's 
more than likely that, as our therapeutic 
per 


PLAYBOY 


centage will increase in the future. 
MeILVENNA: People in the helping profes- 
sions, whether it be the ministry, coun- 
seling or psychotherapy, all take the 
approach of how to make homosexuals 
heterosexuals. I've given that up. I've 
estimated that all the psychiatrists in the 
world, working 24 hours a day in San 
Francisco, using every conceivable tedi- 
nique—induding aversion — therapy— 
wouldn't have any effect on ten percent 
of them. We might make them be able 
to have heterosexual experiences, but 
that wouldn't mean that they weren't 
still primarily homosexual. 
TYNAN: We may invite homosexuals to 
try making love to women, but it would 
be impolite to insist. No purpose is 
served by forcing a poker player to play 
bridge. Indeed, perhaps we should have 
по more ucamment. Society hates queers 
for reasons that have deep historical 
roots but arc nowadays totally inval- 
id. When the tribe necded offspring to 
work in the fields and bear arms against 
its enemies, it was natural to call down 
the wrath of gods on males who weren't 
inclined ıo propagate the species. Sod- 
omy—to mc a morally neural aci—was 
ferociously condemned because it didn't 
lead to procreation, In an underpopulated 
world, it's understandable that homosex- 
uality should be denounced as antisocial. 
But today, when overpopulation is an 
mminent threat to the continuation of 
ed life on this planet, the only 
id reason for disapproving of queers 


M8 v 


PLAYBOY PANEL (continued from page 164) 


has vanished. In fact, the logic of self- 
preservation suggests that we ought to 
encourage them. 

BIEBER: | can't believe that Mr. Tynan is 
seriously suggesting that society should 
encourage homosexuality as a method of 
birth control. Even if he's kidding, 1 will 
ume for the sake of exposition that he 
means what he says. First of all. society 
would have to increase the percentage of 
exclusive homosexuals, because bisexuals 
cam make babies just as anyone else. 
Secondly. if the percentage of exclusive 
homosexuals increases 10 20 percent, 
fantastic rise, that would sill Icave 80 
percent of males who would be propagat- 
ing. Thar's quite а suficient percentage 
to continue the population explosion. 
Apart from the obvious ineffectiveness of 
the solution, the idea of socicty fostering 
sexual disorder is anti-human and anti- 
social. 1 certainly opt for contraceptive 
measures. Contraception has the poten- 


tial for а realistic solution and it cas- 
trates no on 

PLAYBOY: As we've discussed, homosexual. 
ity is discouraged not only by legal sanc- 


tions but by many social factors. One of 
these factors is job discrimination. Many 
homosexuals feel they must keep their 
private lives a secret or face firing by 


their employers. Are such fears really 
justified? 
GOODMAN: In general in America, being 


queer is economically 
not such a disadvantage as being black, 
except for a few areas, like 
service, where there is considerable fear 
and furtiveness. In more puritanical т 
gimes, like present-day Ci 
queer is professionally and civilly а bad 
deal. Totalitarian regimes, whether Com- 
munist or fascist, seem to be inherently 
puritanical. But my own experience has 
been very mixed. I've been fired three 
times because of my queer behavior or 
my claim to the right to it, and these are 
the only times I've been fired. I was fired 
from three highly liberal and progressive 
institutions, two of which prided them- 
selves on being "commu 
my experience of radici 
that it doesn't tolerate my kind of free 
dam. I'm all for community, because it's 
а human thing, but I seem doomed to be 
left out. I have been told that my sexual 
behavior used to do me damage in the 
New York literary world. It kept me from 
being invited to advantageous parties 
and making contacts t0 get published. 

On the other hand, my homosexual 
cts and my overt chaim to them have 
never disadvantaged me much in more 
square institutions, so far as 1 know. Гус 
ight at half a dozen stare universities, 
and I'm continually invited, often as chief 
speaker, to conferences of junior high 
school superintendents, boards of re- 
gems, guidance counselors, task forces 


1 professionally 


on delinquency, etc. When I go, I sav 
what I think is true—often on sexual 
topics. And I make passes if there is 
occasie I have even sometimes made 
out—which is more than I can say for 
conferences of SDS or the Resistance. 
In any case, I seem to get invited back. 
Maybe the company is so square that it 
doesn't believe, or dare to notice. my 
behavior. More likely, such professional 
square people are more worldly—this is 
our elderly word for "cool ’—and couldn't 
care less what you do as long as they 
don't have to face anxious parents and 
the yellow press. On the whole, though 
Т was desperately poor up to a dozen 
years ago—I brought up а family on the 
income of а sharecropper—1 don't at- 
tribute this to being queer but to my 
ive ineptitude, truculence and bad 
luck. In 1944. even the Army rejected me 
аз NOT MILITARY MATERIAL—they had 
such a stamp—not because 1 was queer 
but because I made а nuisance of myself 
with pacifist action at the examin: 
and also had bad eyes and piles. 
LESCH: But your own experience, 
many ways, isn't representative, As а 
general rule, homosexuals аге very much 
discriminated against. by employers. Re 
cently, the University of Minnesota tried 
to renege on а contract with a librarian 
when they discovered that the man 
question was a homosexual. А Feder 
court ordered the school to hire the man. 
Тт proud of my part in helping change 
New York City’s employment practices, so 
that homosexuals may obtain city jobs. 
Formerly, homosexuals were barred from 
any city job, including that of working 
on garbage trucks or keeping books in 
the controller's office. Like Jews and Ne- 
groes, homosexuals are too often judged 
by their membership in a minority group 
rather than by their ability to perform 
the job in question. 

BIEBER: 1 don't like that analogy. In a 
sense, homosexuals arc ап American m 
nority group. bur in the other cases— 
Jews, hulians. Negroes—ihe minority 
group is not based on pathology. I thi 
the analogy is 100 simplistically made. 


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LETSCH: Jews arc discriminated against 
because of their religion, and Negroes 
because of their skin color. Homosexuals 
are also victims of «ст jon be- 
cause of something they can't help: their 


1 orici ity, black 
skin or Jewish background doesn't make 
one incapable of keeping books, operat- 
ing a typewriter or steam roller or making 
executive decisions. What really worries 
people is that once they're in good jobs 
the fags are going to use their power to 
get them into bed. But it’s the heterosex: 
ual community that docs all the prosclyt- 
izing and recruiting. The society is set 
up to preach heterosexuality: The church 
preaches it, the law preaches it, every- 
thing preaches heterosexuality 

TYNAN: In any case, sexual exploitation, 


sexu ion. Homosex 


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of course, isn’t limited to quecrs. Hetero- 
sexual men have a terrible habit of em- 
ploying attractive heterosexual girls 
SIMON: And queers hire other queers, 
but preferential hiring is profoundly 
ess than the amount of outright. discrim- 
ination against homosexuals by heterosex- 
uals, many of them prospective employers. 
In addition, many homosexuals express 
a great deal of scl-hatred. by focusing it 
on other homosexuals—who are seen as 
unstable, irresponsible, malicious. Th 
bas always been onc of the most distinc- 
and least attractive aspects of homo- 
al subcultures. 
интѕсн. The Mauachine Society ran into 
that sort of reverse discrimination a few 
years ago when we tricd to sct up an 
employment service. Many gay men 
hiring positions said, “I'm the only homo- 
sexual im my company. If 1 bring in 
another one, hc might start camping or 
otherwise give me away. I can't take 
chances." 

McILVENNA: The antsevual person is 
much more dangerous than the sexual 
person, who views his or her sexuality 
a positive way. Ive seen in church 
health agencies and Federal bureaus what 
an emasculating female or an antiscxual 
person can do. Their attitude about sex 
is negative and fearful, and they wa 
other people to exhibit the same d 
teristics. They сап make their office a 
grim place where people don't produce 
and are afraid every step they take. That's 
a scary thing. 

SIMON: The Lesbian is in 


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double bind. 


‚. If she admits 
ual, she risks dismissal; and 
she doesn't, she gets passed over for 
promotions she's qualified for on the 
grounds that she's likely to get married, 
get pregnant and leave, 
LYON: Unless heterosexual society wants 
to support homosexuals on welfare, it 
needs to rethink the whole employment 
thing through. Suppose the Lesbian could 
apply for a job and tell her employer 
about her orientation. It doesn't mean 
thar anybody else has to know. If word 
did get around, the situation could be 
smoothed over by management. They 
could do a lot to change these attitudes 
if they would. Under present. circum- 
stances, it’s still possible to manage very 
well even if it's known that you're a 
Lesbian. I worked in an office for nearly 
s and, as far as 1 know, I ercated 
on. Uhimately, my co-workers 
ed out that I was probably а Lesbi- 
Finally, they asked me, I said yes, and 
we're still friends, even though I haven't 
been working with them for six yeas. 
When people get to know you and like 
you as a person, they're not going to flip 
out because your sexual orientation is 
different from theirs. You have to keep 
trying to change people's basic attitudes. 
180 PLAYBOY: Many luge companies may be 


changing their attitudes about cmploy 
homosexuals, but how about jobs— 
such as teaching or social work—that in 
volve working with children? Isn't that 
more difficult for employers to accept? 
BIEBER: If 1 were choosing people to work 
with children, I would individualize- 
whether they were heterosexual or homo- 
sexual. The fact that a person is homo- 
sexual would certainly not mean to me 
that he should be categorically excluded 
from work with children—particularly if 
there is no reason to believe there are 
ny pedophilic tendencies or desires 
That can be established without any 
difficulty. 

MANNES: We would certainly lose а tre- 
mendous amount of teaching talent if we 
excluded homosexuals from close contact 
with young people. The possibility of 
physical molestation troubles me, but 1 
think that if you can explain to your 
children the variations of sexual expres 


sion, then there's no need to fear. 


PLOSCOWE: The notion of a homo: ral 
ng with or teaching youngsters 
ic a little pause, despite the fact 
that I know, as I've said, that most of 
them aren't interested in children, If it 
were possible to distinguish with abso- 
lute certainty—psychiatrically or psycho- 
logically or any other way—those who 
h: no sexual interest in children from 
those who do, then maybe I would feel 
easier. But as long as there are no fool- 
proof safeguards, the public will probably 
want to go easy before known homosex- 
uals are employed in dealing with young 
people. 
KUH: A further caution. Conceding, as we 
discussed earlier, 0 male homosexuals 
may pose no greater danger to little boys 
than do some heterosexuals to little girls, 
this doesn't mean that homosexuality, if 
open and accepted, is harmless to the 
Youngsters arc shaped by what 
d them. If the image 
growing boy has before him—whether 
i's а parent, or an unde, or a teacher, 
or a clergyman, or a movie star, or а TV 
hero, anyone the youngster may emulate 
—is one of an overt homosexual, the 
vyoungster's wholesome maturing may well 
be set back, If some young boys м 
some latent homosexuality in the 
ups both figuratively and literally 
sure which way to turn, there is 
to be a danger if the men around 
them, whom they may emulate, are 
homosexuals, 
LYON: Опсе again, everybody is worrying 
about the boys rather than the girls 
There are all kinds of homosexuals in 
teaching and in administrative school 
positions, from the elementary schools to 
the universities—both men and women— 
who are working hard and contributing 
enormously to the educational process. IF 
we eliminated them, I suspect a substan- 
tial number of schools would have a 
great deal of difüculty continuing many 


of th 


ir classes. These people are not 
And what's more, I 
think ii g positive can be said 
about the ability of a Lesbian to be an 
effective female-role model for girl stu- 
dents. There is a large number of wom- 
cn who are currently questioning what 
an effective female role is and a large 
number of them who have very little to 
do with organized women’s liberation. 
Very often, the conventional woman 
teacher presents to the girl who's grow- 
ing up only the desire to find a husband 
nd get ma wl, consequently, teach- 
cs only cooking and sewing, A Lesbian 
could be more effective in giving a young 
girl a greater range of possibilities to 
follow; and I'm not talking about sex. 
n show young girls that they can 
become doctors, lawyers ог merchants 
and that even if they get married, they 
don't have to restrict themselves to the 
wife and mother rol 
BIEBER: I think Miss Lyon's implication 
that a heterosexual woman teacher will 
teach girls only to be wives and mothers, 
and will neither stimulate nor develop 
intellectual aspirations, is not only pre- 
posterous but an attack on straight wom- 
єп, There may be no disadvantage to 
children being taught hy a Lesbian, but 
neither is it an advantage. 
GOODMAN: In a very specific way, the ban 
on homosexuality damages and deper- 
sonalizes the educational system, The 
teacherstudent relationship is almost 
always erotic. If there is fear that this 
necessary erotic feeling might turn imo 
overt sex, the teacherstudent relationship 
pses or, worse, becomes cold and cruel. 
Our culture surely kuks the 
gogic sexual [riendships—homosexual 
heterosexual—that have been a feature 
of other cultures. To be sure, functional 
sexuality is probably incompatible with 
our mass school system. This is one among 
many reasons why the school systems 
should be dismantled 

I recall when my book Growing Up 
Absurd had had a number of glowing 
reviews; finally, one irritated critic darkly 
hinted that 1 wrote about my Puerto 
Rican delinquents—and called them 
ds’—beciuse 1 was queer for them. 
News! How could I write a perceptive 
book if I didn't pay attention, and wh; 
should I pay auention to something un 
less, for some reason, it interested me? I 
doubt that anybody would say that my 
observations of delinquent adolescents or 
of collegians in the student movement 
have been betrayed by i 
PlAYBOY: The Committce to Fight Ex- 
clusion of Homosexuals from the Armed 
Forces was established on the 
Coast to combat another ar 


warping children. 
at somet 


сер 
TYNAN: I can't imagine why anyone 
would want to join the Army, but if a 


The Datsun 240-Z is not exactly what 
you'd call a common sight. 

Those who've been able to get their 
hands on one are a fortunate few. They report 
being the center of attention wherever they 
park. Their biggest problem is keeping the 
fingerprints wiped up. 

Atfirst we figured it was a combination 
of a new car and glowing reviews in car maga- 
zines. But now the car has been out a few 
months. The car books have used all their ad- 


jectives. And the Z-Car is still drawing crowds. 

There's only one explanation left. Our 
sexy GT car with its 150-horsepower overhead 
cam engine and four-wheel independent sus- 
pension just plain turns people on. And with a 
price of $3.596* (complete!) we've boggled 
some minds that could never afford to be 
boggled by a GT car before. 

So join our minority group. If you're 
thinking of a GT, do yourself a favor. 

Drive a Datsun...then decide. 


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homosexual has his heart set on it, I 
don't see why we should stop him. After 
all, we don't prevent queers from going 
to monasteries. If fellow monks or 
comrades in arms resent a queer's ad 
ances, there are obvious ways of letting 
him know it. 

PLOSCOWE. ‘The military restriction is 
The fact that a man is a homosexual 
doesn't necessarily mean that he's going 
to make а lousy soldier. If you look into 
the records of history, you'll find that 
many armies included homosexuals, and 
they were perfectly good. soldiers. 
LYON: This is equally true of homose 
women who go into military service. 
Very often, they are among the best 
personnel. They go into the military with 
ver. They're not 


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the idea of making a 
going to get pregnant and they're not 
going to get married and drop out. The 


Ser 
serious 


e fills them with dream of a 
nd consequential occupation and 
a desire 10 do а good job umil they 
retire. There seems to be a lot of exces- 
sive worry about the homosexual in the 
ilitary. 1 don't care if someone is hetero- 
sexual or homosex пете will be some 
who can adjust to military living and 
some who can't But very few homo- 
sexuals ger thrown out of the Service, 
and when it happens, it's usually not 
because of anything they've done sexual- 
ly. Somer t rhe Services act 
as 
get а cert Lesbians in 
every military station, and every once in 
а while, they have periodic witch-hunts 
to search them out. They don't get them 
all mostly they get young people who 
don't know their rights and haven't been 
around long enough to know all the 
tules and regulations. These are the ones 
they scire to death and drive out 
BIEBER: А categori kind of exclusion is 
mot а good solution. There were many 
homosexuals in the Armed Forces dur- 
ing World War Two, and quite a few 
did notable work and service. If it were 
up to me, Fd leave the decision up to 
the man пеН. 1 would, however, ex- 
dude certain types—5uch as those who 
might offend the sensibilities of the men 
they'd have to live with. And if homo- 
sexuals were accepted for mili 
and later had ıo be separated be 
their inversion, they should be honorably 
discharged. 
кин: Excuse me, but I must dilter. I, 100. 
was in World War Two, рап of it in 
the Infantry, overseas, as an enlisted man 
It may well be that on a nine-tofive 
Army desk job, the military 
like ci n life and can absorb a modest 
quota of queers. But waspish homosexual 
behavior could only add to the tensions 
of crowded, impersonal barracks living, 
and intolerant square males—wheiher se 
слепу nursing homosexual feurs or noi 
—couldn't be expected to keep the 
182 peace when quartered with homosexuals. 


ary service 


ause of 


much 


Whether the military would wi 
plaudits of the folks back home for 
ng sexually inexperienced IB-ye 
with military fairies is extremely dubious 
I think it would be very unwise for the 
military to take literally that old Army 


expresion, "Every week is fuckyoui 
buddy week; 
BIEBER: In World War Two, when I 


served as a psychiatrist in a general hos 
pital in Calcutta, all soldiers in the area 
who were apprehended by the MPs or 
CID for homosexu ity were re 
ferred 10 me for psychiatric examination 
In my extensive military psychiatric ex- 
perience. 1 never encountered anyone 
whose homosexual behavior begun in the 
Aimy, including men who had been sep 
aed from women for long periods. | 
had occasion to discuss this matt 
Dr. John Reese, who was brigad 
charge of psychiatry for the British 
nd his experience was the same 
The fear that the presence of he 
uals in the Armed Forces will result in 
the seduction of sexually immar 
diers is unsupported. 

MALVENNA: Anyone who's had anything 
to do with the military knows that ус 


хі 


get about the same number of homose 
uab in the Sevice as vou get in any 
other occupation, whether or nor you 


иу to screen them out. 1 think the mi 
s fooling itself when it tri 
exclude homosexuals. And disc 
people for homosexual acts is disastrou 
in its effects. Sometimes 1 come across а 
erviceman who's had some fleeting homo- 
sexual contact. The military finds out 
and it brands him as a 1. 
making him think he is one, and they 
put him in a terrible situation, At the 
lide Foundation, we sce them as they're 
cashiered out of the Service, drilting into 
San Francisco—guys who aren't homosex 
ual but who have been at a gay party or 
had one homosexual contact. They got 
caught or maybe felt guilty 
tioned it to a military doctor or dhap- 


omosexua 


lain, or somebody blew the whistle on 
them for some other reason. These 
guys are really hung up. The military 


says they're 
be homosexual 


so they 
sequently, they 


must 


sweep into the gay community in San 
Francisco or other parts of the counuy 
and uy to be homox 


. despite the 
ct that they're basically straight, There 
е many homosex contacts in the 
Services between people who aren't homo- 
sexual, just as there are in prison, because 
of the dloseness of the men. Fortunately, 
there are many sensitive people in the gay 
world who learn to catdi these guys and 
very helpful t0 the y wo 
what many people think, the gay world 
isn’t nearly as missionary as might be sup- 
posed. They're not out to make converts. 
PLAYBOY: Late last year, it was reported 
that the Weathermen were. planning to 
blackmail а homosexual lieutenant at a 


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ch center to make 
isters of. germs, 
ight he one 
i wary of 


This sort of vulnera 
reason why the 
employing homosexual. 

PLOSCOWE; Security Clearances are anoth- 
er matter altogether. Homosexuals are 
subjected 10 pressure in a way that the 
ordinary heterosexual is not. 1 would 
certainly go easy in employing homosex- 
uals in a high-security area. That doesn't 
mean they should be barred from all 
s of Government. Most of. Govern 
ment has nothing to do with security. I 


think the elimination of homosexuals 
from all positions in Government. would 
be a very bad mistake. Many of them are 


intelligent, talented people and undoubt- 
edly very «сіст public serv: 
MelLVENNA: T don't see why a homosexi 
would be any riore vulnerable to black 
mail than a heterosexual who's engaged in 
au affair on the side, especially when the 
heterosexual has а family and children, 
KUH: Perhaps in theory the homosexual 
should be по more vulnerable than the 
heterosexual who's cheating on his wife 
Bur we're dealing with the world as it is, 
not as it possibly should be. And speak- 
ing n illy, the stigma of homosex- 
lity today is far greater than that of 
adultery. Moreover, other things being 
ıl, hou dicate а de- 
of instability that. 
would show the homosexual may 
wor be а р trusted with а 
high-security. matter. 


that 
son 


wisel 


from Government posts. they 
believed to have а strong 
the arts, Ave they inclined 1 
ive than heterosexuals 
are an awful lot of homo- 
tists, writers, actors, directors 
and painters, but 1 don't think this has 
much to do with homosexuality itself. 1 
number of very active homose: 
Is who are terribly uncreative and in- 
artistic. Гїл not very artistic or creative 
mysell But around puberty, а boy 
y realize that he has homosexual tend- 
s and he then starts thinking of hi 
L As a result, he feels 
isolated and becomes. very innospective. 
Introspection is what makes а good art- 
ist, You examine yourself and you exam- 
ine the world, 1 think the introspection 
anil isolation the homosexual feels can 
lead t0 cremivity in kuer life. 

BIEBER: 1 don't think it’s the hı 
ty that makes them artists or contributes 
10 it, 1 think many homosexuals are 
artists, but they would be whether they 
were homosexual or not, Thi 
sexuality may color the content of what 
they do, but it isnt going 10. determine 


rc widely 
fluence on 
he more 


their talents. We don't know what goes 
into determining these talents, but 1 
't think ir's homosexuality or any 


other kind of neurosis 
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184 


liberation movement, young homosexuals 
are showing that they're no longer con 


tent to accept relegation 10 (he arts. 
Marching and demonsuating to demand 


that the laws and social practices directed 
ast homosexuals be changed in every 
held, they are sometimes ап embirrass- 
ment to the older al reform. 
groups, which work in more traditional 
ways Do you think the activists’ tech- 
niques will work? 

PLOSCOWE. | think gay-liberation 
front is as effective or ineffective as some 
of the othe nts. But, to 
me, they are more of a joke than any- 
thing really serious. Change can be gen- 
erated only by the usual techniques of 
influencing public opinion and i 
fluencing legislators. The homosexual or- 
ganizations throughout the country that 
continually beat the drums about 
reform are beginning to influence new 
papers and | people of 
some standing. Conceivably, over the 


homose: 


the 


radical movem 


nonhomosexu 


ators may get away from the 
notion that they've always got to be 
ast sin. Then they may vote a little 
more intelligently on these issues, and 
the pace of law reform will be a great 
deal faster than it has been. 

GOODMAN: Best of alb techniques for 
achieving reform is the ordinary kind of 
civil disobed The way to change 
the sexual kus is to act out what you 
think is sensible and desirable for your- 
sell, and join with others who do it—en 
If you want to get rid of dormito- 
ou have 
to get rid of the 
you get homosestt 
g the Spocks and Colli 
homosexual world, whoever they may be, 
wl you all join in blow-ins, or whatever 
you choose to do. After a while, you 
world you want by doing what 


you want. 
MALVENNA: Yes. The gay movement is 
ready to confront straights rather than 
ask their permission for change. 


“If God had intended us to be nude, He 
wouldn't have given us clothes.” 


LYON: It's pint of the whole youth explo 
sion, the whole new mood of militancy 
mong young people, In many ways, the 
young homosexual is very similar to the 
young heterosexual, He shares many of 
the same political, social and. moral con- 
cerns, The climate is open for 
militance now, and the ге sud. 
denly decided they're not going to tike 
second place а . So they say, "I'm 
ге fighting 
very hard for their pride, even though 
they're still a small minority within the 
nt. This militance is 
а lot of difference in the older 
homophile organizations, too. They're 
being challenged to move a Tittle faster, 
10 engage in more activist programs and 
not simply content themselves with pass- 
ing resolutions 

штзсн: But, Phyllis, 1 believe we have to 
be careful not to get hung up a; 
fighting someone else's battles, The so- 
1 dynamics ibat сање pr 
inst homoses re different 
those that lead to racial, rel 


пот 
ous, ethnic 
and other forms of prejudice and dis 


ils 


crimination, and the solutions are dit- 
ferent, 100. We need an alternative. to 
the heterosexual middle-class system, not 
necessarily a place wi 

come right dow 
the ў 


in it. When you 
to it, the student mov 
rights the 
women'sliberation movement ae all 
basically heterosexual and middle class, 
admirable though they may bc. Our 
movement has always copied other move- 
ments, But 1 [ecl very strongly that the 
homosexual movement is dilferent fom 
I other movements, and 1 don't believe 
them. Our problems are as 


ment, movement, 


. and they aren't shared by 
heterosexual groups. 
МЕЦУЕММА: It seems to me that you're 


pushing toward an 
tion, focusing as vou do on the unique- 
ness of the problems of the homosexual 
rather than on the problems he has in 
common with other minorities in soci 
ety, Don't you think this may produce 
а form of ghettoism among homosexuals? 
tesch: Yes, buc 1 don't sce much chance 
of homosexuals hav place, at least 
during my lifetime, in heterosexual socie 
ty. Con you imagi other telling her 
hier, "Do 1 have а girl for 
Cardin; Cool 
Рап 


yout," or 

gay couple 
Het 
tures serve 
Homosexi 


G 
xual ins struc 
the needs of heterosexuals, 
Is should have the right to 
build in ons and structures that. fit 
our particular needs, I don't want us 
segregated, but Tm afraid well have to 
remain nonintegr 
‘The traditional minorities 
veligious—have found it difficult to bè- 
come homogenized. I suspect the erotic 


ed for a loug time 


ethnic, rac 


minorities will find that 
more difficult. 

MARMOR: The extreme ior exhibited 
by some members of the gay-liberation 
movement may casily backfire and have a 


negative elec. 1 have the impression 


process even 


that die members of gay lib do not 
represent a genuine cross section of the 
homosexual community, either among 


males or females. They reflect the more 
deviant groups in the homosexual com- 
y, in terms of overt behavior, ap- 
arance and social adjustment. 
Lesch: 1 would suspect that the most 
extreme groups are composed of homosex- 
uals with the least commitment to homo- 
sexuality. They get hung up on women's 
rights, black rights and other issues their 
erosexual peers are involved. with; 
they just want to be revolutionaries. But 


those who have broken with their hetero- 
sexual 


pecr groups and made a real 
ment to homosexuality recognize 
from reading Soul on Ice that Eldridge 
Cleave pout as liberal as Spiro Ag 
new on the issue of homosexuality. They 
see homosexuals oppressed even worse in 
Cuba and Russia than in America, so they 
have no interes in a Marxist revolu 
The loyalties of this group are to 
other homosexuals, not primarily to other 
Causes or to апу political philosophy. 

GOODMAN: I've been in dose touch with 
material hunger all my life, so Т can't 


is 


take ideological liberation move 
very seriously. But gay society can 


fantastically apolitical or reactionary. 
When I give talks to the M е 
Society, my sermon invariably embrace: 


all other libertari 
tion 
prety apathe 


н groups and Jibera- 
is and the reponse is 
ic. But 1 feel that freedom 
my experience 
the left wing doesn’t lead me to 
pect acceptance of that proposition 
from them, cither. Allen Ginsberg and I 
once pointed out to Stokely Carmichael 
that we were niggers, тоо, but he blindly 
put us down by saying that we could 
al our disposition and pass. 
We didn’t really exist for him. But since 
then, Huey Newton welcomed gay-libera- 
oups to the Revolutionary People's 
wid Convention in Philadel 
and admitted that they were a 
proper part of the revolution, since they 
were equally oppressed, 
PLAYBOY: There scems to be à 
ble amount of bisexual experimenting 
within the radical movement and the 
youth culture. Could this be part of the 
atiraction of the social Tor 
homosexuals? 

LEHSCH: Мапу of our younger people are, 
fraid, using the New Left and the 
movement as а new closet. In the 
old days, closet queens pretended not to 
be gay. Either they married and pro- 


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on 


ppreci- 


revolution 


duced a couple of kids as a front, or they 
pretended bachelorhood or celibacy. To 
day, they use the pansesuality of the 
hippies as a cover, telling the world, 
Fm not really gay, I just swing with 
whoever tums me on.” But you'll notice 
that members of the opposite sex never 
turn them on. 

МСИМЕММА: 1 think Il 
does scem to me to be а definite drift in 
the direction of private bisexuality. 
Many young people and some older ones 


s untrue, There 


are moving into the groupsex scene, and 
when you get more than a couple in bed, 
you have to have at least a tolerance for 


touching a body of the same sex. A man 
may not have sex alone with another 
man, but stimulated by a female who's 
present, he's far more likely to do i 
LYON: Yes. Being turned on homosexually 
in a group situation can lead to having 
sex with someone of the same sex outside 
of the group scene later, If homosexuali- 
ty isn't a problem in the group, then 
you can admit to yourself that you might 
like it at other times. 

PLAYBOY: Do you think bisexuality is a 
realistic option for most people? 
MARMOR: For the majority, probably not. 
Nevertheless, it’s important to recognize 
that all animals it both heterosexual 
nd homosex ц w. Heterosexuality 
tends to be preferred, and obviously this 
has survival value for the propagation 


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of the species, As one ascends the evo 
lutonary ladder, however, patterns of 
institutional behavior become more and 
more modifiable by N g and 
ence, This is particularly tri 
beings. In mankind. most of the biologi 
cal drives are capable of being cond 
tioned and adapted to a multiplicity of 
different circumstances and а wide variety 
of objects. Human sexuality 
by experience in almost any d 
BIEBER; Homosexuality hum 
tion. We are anthropomorphizing when 
we speak of it in animals. Ev 
biologists who loosely 
when they are actually ref 
mounting behavior, don't state tl 
anima both homo- and hetero- 
sexual behavior. | agree that biological 
drives, sexual and. otherwise, 
ditioned in hun nd 
Pavlov demonstrated this a long time ago. 
but 1 should like to underscore the point 
that it isn't casy to sidetrack a male from a 
heterosexual destiny. It takes a lot of 
trauma, such as the continuity of specific 
types of destructive parental attitudes, 
operating over many of the formative 
years of childhood, 1 have never been 
able to find a shred of reliable evidence 
10 support the notion of an innate ambi- 
sexualit 
TYNAN: This scems right to me. Some 
men are bisexual, but 1 doubt whether 
mankind is. W's comparatively rare for 
people to be bisexual im their erotic 
habits. Of course, it's virtually compulso- 
ry for queer wr ix that we're 
all bisexual below the navel. They get 
quite evangelical about it. To coin а 
phrase, there are no atheists in assholes. 
Many queers take a sort of. ideological 
pride in boasting of their heterosexual 
conquests, Much of this is propaganda, 
If, like myself, you're a hetero who goes 
for femalé bottoms, you're apt to be told 
by queers that this penchant indicates 
the presence of what Mel Brooks calls “a 
hint of mint.” Bottoms, they point. out, 
are common to both sexes. | usually 
i. while this is undoubtedly true, 
me only when they belong to 
girls. Similuly, male and female lips аге 
often identical, but hereros get no kicks 
out of kissing mcn 
LYON: Your те 


xperi- 


PLAYBOY 


ers to” 


ks are typical of the 
dehumanized attitude so many men have 
toward women. It’s precisely because of 
this male attitude toward women as 
piece of ass, an object for sexual gratifica- 


tion or propagation and never to be 
considered as a whole person, that many 
voung women in women's liber 


around the country today regard Lesh 
ism us а po 

consciously and. deliberately 
bian relationships, where otherwise they 
use they view men 


might never have, be 
as oppressors who wish merely to explo 
them ais sexual and household servants. 
185 Many of these women, who are both 


fighting and switching, are learning that. 
women n И Tynan 
thinks men aren't, They сап and do 


respond erotically to either sex, and they 
сап relate t0 one another emotionally 
and physically 
SIMON: It might be easier 
us—homosexual and heterosexual alike 
if we began learning to elaborate our 
ideas of masculinity and femininity along 
less narrow lines, particularly along less 
rowly sexual lines. We can see, 1 
think, a slight movement toward this 
among the youth of today, who seem to 
low for a much wider amount of overt- 
lap of male-female distinctions in many 
aspects of Ii 
MANNES: I'm for anything that will break 
down the arbitrary stereotyp 
man is and what a wom: 
people do a great deal of ducking ov 


on all of 


unisex clothes, lor instance. No ра 
of pants is going to n lu 
feminine, and no fri or blue 


velvet evening coat is goi ny 
man less masculine. I'm all for this emt- 
ting across barriers; 1 think it’s not only 
decorative but it strips away this eternal 
nonsense that starts ar birth dn the 
verage household. Pink for girls, blue 
for boys, frills for the baby gitls, pants 
for the baby boys, baby dolls lor the 


the kinds of people our children 
ny of these rigid gende 
tivities we get into may, in 
mong the causes of homosexual 
adjusumer © only one model 
for man and one model for woman, any 
young person who falls outside of those 
limis ike dhe quiet, comemplati 


who hates the Little League, or 

tive, i girl who finds 

hold gosip and dolls imole 
alienated from many important socie 
experiences. 

TYNAN: These stereotypes are hangovers 


nitive conditioning. Man һа 
take wife, make children, М. 


spea 


bad juju, throw him out of wibe. People 
who nowad e that are appall- 
ingly bad juju. 1 wouldn't throw them 
out of the tribe, but encourage. them to 
come out of their shells. attend some 
social functions, meet a few nice queers. 
Of course, the hypermascaline male has 
ako been maligned as latently homoses 
ual. When psychoanalysis first swept the 
States, anyone who led an open-air life 
was prone to be written off as crypto- 
queer. It used 10 be thought chic among 
people who didn't know him to hint that 
Hemingway was latently homosexual. In- 
credibly enough, some people are still 


aunted by ihat legend. It badly needs 


laying, and so, in ma 
people who believe i 


MARMOR: The assumption that hyperms 


y cases, do the 


culine behavior necessarily reflects latent 
homosexual impulses makes no sense to 
me, I don’t think the term latent homo- 
sexuality is a useful onc. More often 
than not, hypermasculine behavior is a 
compensation for unconscious feelings of 
masculine inadequacy, Such individuals 
ave driven to prove their masculinity 
precisely because they have inner doubts 
about ir. It’s characteristic of our cultural- 
value system that when а man [eels in- 
adequate, he often expresses this fecling 
as a fear of being homosexual. In the 
vast majority of instances, however, this 
doesn't mean that he has any genuine 
erotic preference for members of the 
same sex. 

PLAYBOY: If a young person came to you 
and confided that he or she was strug 
gling with homosexual impulses and 
didn't know what to do, what advice 
would you give? 

TYNAN: If anyone young c: 


е to me, Td 


lvise him to gain a little more sexual 


experience and then decide for himself, 
without feeling guilty about it. 
SIMON: One has to accept certain hard 
No matter how much we all 
се on the need for kw reform in 
nging public attitudes toward homo- 
sexuals. there really appear to be no 
dramatic breakthroughs on the immedi- 
ate horizon. With this in mind, I would 
mge trying out heterosexuality, il it's 
possible without having to perjure your- 
sel constantly to others and to yourself. 
IF heterosexuality isn’t possible, then one 
must learn 10 accept one’s homosexuality 
agerating or minimizing its 
importance, The major consideration is 
learning to be at сазе with yourself; 
someone who can't learn to accept him- 
self, whether he's а perfect conformist or 
a professional revolutionary, is im trou 
ble. But the idea of preferring to be a 
happy homosexual than a nervous, self 
battling heterosexual m 100 one- 
dimen 
overriding religious commitment, for ex- 
ample—might actually find a more 
effective road 10 self-acceptance by opt- 
i out of sex altogether. 
MARNOR: Although I'n 
liberalizing des toward adult 
homosexuals, there are cogent reasons 
for regarding the child who seems to be 
becoming a homosexual as someone who 
should be helped to move in a hetero- 
sexual direction whenever possible, И a 
young person is developing homosexual 
tendencies, it's unquestionably desirable 
to do something about ithe earlier the 
better. The fact is that an individual in 
our society is more likely to have a 
better sell-image and a better chance for 
a happy and fulfilling life as а heterosex- 
ual than as a homosexual. 
TYNAN: Except for having a family, there 
s many valid reasons for being homo- 
sexual If you're an uncompromising 


without е 


be 


ional. Some people—those with an 


all in favor of 


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queer, you're condemned to be childless. 
This means that you rob yourself of an 
enormous emotional experience. But it 
also you aren't plagued by 
visions of founding а dynasty, that you 
can't work out your own frustrated ambi 
tions through your children, and that 
you're probably capable of living mote 
fully in the present than a married hetero, 
who must always be thinking of his 
family’s future. It could even be argued 
that à que ship is purer and 
more emotionally honest than the “nor 
mal" marriage, which is often held to- 
gether only by children or economic 
necessity, Two queers cin make only 
cach other unhappy. 

MeILVENNA: When anyone asks me if he 
should be homosexual, I usually ask him. 
why he's concerned about it, what he 
feels about it. Is he asking for endorse- 
ment of his already established homosex- 
or is he looking for help because 
y have had some fleeting homo 
ual feelings? There would be no tailor- 


y a homosexual who has 
come out and is quite happy about 
not very much could be done to change 
him into a heterosexual. Most people 
across our country. would agree with the 
view some of you have expressed—that 
it’s better to be heterosexual than homo- 
sexual. But I have homosexual friends 
who "s better to be a homosexual 
than a heterosexual, and their experi- 
ence must be taken into account, In ten 
or fifteen years, the gay lile may be a very 
viable life style. Already irs certainly 
much better than it was five years ago. 
GOODMAN: Getting back to the boy who 
came to me for adv If he's cute, I'd 
ату to make out with him. If I couldn't, 
Га wy to build up his heterosexual life, 
ourage him to have а homo- 
sexual life, if that’s what he seems to 
want. I dont believe in encou 
mindless conformity. 


do is sit down 
mber when I 


time I found someone I could talk with 
homosexuality. I'd help him get 
inted with the gay scene and an- 
swcr his questions about й. I wouldn't 
try to sway him toward homosexuali 
heterosexuality or bisexualit 
decisions that decide another 
Ше is more of a responsibility than T 
саге to shoulder. If he couldn't make his 
own decision, I'd probably refer him to 
one of the psychiatrists on Mattachine's 
referral list. These doctors are carefully 
screened to eliminate those who feel that 
Homosexuality must be stamped out at 
whatever cost to the ual. І know 
the doctors on our list would help the 
boy make his own decision and help him 
to be a heterosexual, if that’s what he 
nts, or to be the best-adjusted and 


about 


acqu 


person's 


w; 


happiest homosexual possibl 
what the boy decided upon. 
BIEBER: Evidence of developing homose 
uality in preadolescence and early ado 
а urgent 
dicator that both the child and his 
parents need help. The consultant should 
preferably be one well grounded in psy 
chodynamics. As for young adults, the 
earlier weatmenc is attempted the berte 
1 would advise psychiatric treatment in 
all cases. This does not mean, of course, 
that a young man should be forced into 
therapy if he doesn't want it. And well- 
wained therapists who work with homo- 
sexuals don’t set themselves the specific 
goal of converting them into heterosex. 
мау. The goal of treatment is to work 
through as many psychological problems 
as one caa. Hopefully, the resolution of 
psychopathology creates the conditions 
for а shift in sexual adaptation. At least 
half who attempt treatment don't. be 
come heterosexual, yet a great deal can 
be done for those who remain homosex- 
wal by alleviating anxiety, depression, 
feelings of emptiness, loneliness and 
work diflicultics. In any civilized society, 
adult's sexual life is his own business 
d sexual behavior between consenting 
adults should be a private matter. Yet 1 


lescence should be viewed a 


don't think that society can pride itsell 
on its emancipated attitudes toward 
homosexuality if it allows defeatist and 
pessimistic attitudes toward prevention 
and treatment to go unchalleaged. Physi- 
cians, t and others 


who work with youngsters and are in а 
position 10 observe them should be 
taught how homosexuality is engendered 
and how to recognize its manifestation: 


Therapeutic facilities should be made 
available for such children and thei 
parents 


KUH: Don't almost all our answers here, 
10 some extent, belie much of the earlier 
carefree talk? Here, after all the discu: 
sion, almost all of us sayin varvi 
ways—get him some sensitive help. 


year-old who came to 
heterosexual feelings 
vice, we might suggest а doctor, 
because we couldn't fathom why in hell, 
these being his feelings, he felt the need 
for advice. 

LYON: In some ways, PLAYBOY'S questio 
is really kind of unrealistic. It doesn't 
happen thar way. My experience is that 
most people have already made а deci- 
sion. I think all you can do with some 
one who's uncertain is to tell him or her 
everything there is to know—the advan- 
tages and the disadvantages. The idea is 
10 try to help people see for themselves, 
but you can never really make the deci- 
sion for them. We've tended to push too 
many people one way or the other, as- 
suming that either homosexuality w: 
better or heterosexuality was better. I 


know people living the homosexual life 
who I doubt seriously are homosexuals 
They were pushed into the gay life 
ither they were thrown out by their 
ty or, through sheer ignorance, they 
homosexual because th 
had committed a homosexual act. On the 
other hand, we all know many, m 
homosexuals who get pushed into ma 
riage for one reason or another and end 
up involving a wile or husband and 
children with their problems. 

PLAYBOY: Do you think a healthier view 
of heterosexuality in our society would 
diminish the number of people who 
make the homosexual commitmei 
TYNAN: A healthier view of sex, by my 
standards, would be one that permitted 
ny kind of erotic enjoyment that didn’t 
involve coercion or the recruitment of 
minors. This would probably lead to 
more sexual activity in general, but 
whether this would swell the proportion 
of homo to hetero, 1 couldn't predict. 
PLOSCOWE- Conceivably, if it were ca 
to obtain satisfaction through heterosex- 
ual relationships. people who have both 
hetero and homosexual feelings might 
not be pushed over into homosexuality 
I's much easier. for example, for two 
to room together than for a boy 
nd girl to do so without being married 
LETSCH: In а healthier soci 
there was more sexual experiment 


ier 


where 
Б 
and less sexual labeling, we'd probably 
all use labels less often. There might be 
morc homosexual acts going 
healthier society. but Tm sure 


on in a 
there 


ges in а homosexual act or relation- 
risks being 1. 
Even boys who sportsoriented, 
who have hormon ces that give 
them an effemii mance, e 
labeled homosexual. When а person is 
called something often enough, he begins 
k of himself in terms of the label 


enga 


sh labeled а homosexi 


are 


and а layman, T think 
this last question makes a dubious as 
sumption, and some of this discussion is, 
I think, equally illfounded. The ques 
tion suggests th ng more p 
sive is the same as our having a “healthier 
view of heterosexuality.” Tm all 
greater permissiveness, and I concede 
that it may lead to healthier sexuality, 
but when it results in one's screwing 
shi—and doing so with 


нэт not 


our bei 


for 


all sure that it can be eq 
healthy heterosexuality. Mor 
soci haven't been repressive of 
male heterosexuality, Aside from. the 
preachings of a handful of overprotec- 
tve parents, its been OK—indeed, 
properly gamy—for men, including young 
men, to get laid early and often. Equally 
clearly, it has been strongly tabooed for 


189 


PLAYBOY 


men to engage im homosexual acts. 1 
therefore have trouble believing that, 
stically examined, our so-called tr 


al repressiveness has driven men in 
ny numbers into homosexuality. 

MelLVENNA: Сату sex can also be guilty 
sex. Mr. Kuh. It’s not at all apparent to 
me that young men are presented with 
such an easy set of alternatives as you 
picture, Copulation is restricted, or at 
least used to be, to bad girls or to 
marriage, so that premavital heterosex- 
vality, even when surreptitiously encour- 


ged, was still a seamy, dirty affair. For 
girls, this seaminess amd dirtiness was 
even more profoundly emphasized—so 


nuch so that I wonder why most females 
didn't give up sex entirely. 

SIMON: Some men might claim that most. 
of them have. 

MARMOR: 1 agree with Judge Ploscowe 
that if society had a healthier ati 
le toward heterosexual behavior, there 
wouldn't be as much exclusive homosex- 
y. There might be шшс ос 
casional, incidental, relatively. guilt-free 
homosexual contacts, but exclusive homo- 
sexuality is often related to guilt abo 
heterosexuality. Significantly often, homo- 
sexuals have to feel, 
children, that heterosexual ac 
something dirty and bad. Same-sex те 
Tutionships aren't discouraged. so clearly 


been made 


and. openly among Фаг 


cents, however, In this way, in some 
the path to a homo- 
facilitated. 


very hard to mike а опело 
one correlation between a puritanical 
ethos and homosexuality. We don't know 
whether the Victorians produced more 
homosexuals than modern England. On 
the other hand, anthropologists such as 
Bronislaw Malinowski, in his descriptions 
of the Trobriand Islanders—a warm, gen. 
ial people—tell us that apart from the in- 
cest taboo, no sexual repression existed 
and homosexuality was not reported, I 
te hetero- 
sexuality with detrimental. consequences 
may be damaging to normal sexual de- 
velopment and may contribute to many 
types of sexual disorders, one of which is 
homosexuality. Every homosexual 5 а 
latent heterosexual: the converse 1 don't 
find true. 

TYNAN: Frankly, Dr. Bieber, you could 
just as well argue that heterosexuality, in 
many people, is the result. of repressed 
homosexuality. According to one school 
of psychoanalysis, queers are men who 
hated their mothers in infancy, were 
consumed by guilt and have ever since 
overcompensared by identifying them- 
selves with the maternal image. If their 
guilt prevents them from functioning, 
then there may be a case for treating 


them. 
with 


But if 
their gu 
my tot 
tos? 
BIEBER: Our experience doesn't. support 
your formulation, Mr. Tynan. Мом 
homosexuals I have studied loved thei 
mothers. T hey were often the only hum 
man ever loved, Tt is the 
father who emerges as the one who is 
hated, held contempt and often 
wed. Guilt isn’t the central problem at 
all. 
ипвсн. Tynan’s point of view is а good 
опе. People who funcion as homosex 
uals find more satisfaction in homosex- 
uality than in heterosexuality. They're 
not repressing heterosexual desires, be- 
cause they don’t have any. You know. i 
the dark it doesn't matter what you 
having sex with. The mt thing is 
friction. You can enjoy bation 
homosexual acts or heterosexual acts 
equally, except for the degree of guilt 
you feel about each one 
кин: Haven't you placed your finger 
squarely on the trouble: to suggest that 
ic doesn't matter what you're having sex 
with, and to equate sex with friction and 
simply minimizing guilt feelings? М. in 
saying that, you're a spokesman for homo- 
sexuals, you're painting a duller, bleaker, 
more hopeless picture of your buddies 
and of what sex is to them—than I 


they've come 10 terms 
|, why on carth should 
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LETSCH: The customs. emotions and lile 
styles of exclusive heterosexuals look 
pretty dull and bleak to the homosexual, 
Mr. Kuh. I know some homosexuals for 
whom heterosexual acts are as repugnant 
as homosexual acts are supposed to be 
for a normal red-blooded American m 
l once got а book out and show 
friend а picture of the female У 
Me was horrified and said, "How can 
people stick their penis into a thing like 
that" He sounded just like some of the 
heterosexuals Гуе heard saying, "How 
сав homosexuals do th ike that?” T 
believe man is csent 
There are апу numl 
that he can do and enjoy h 
think people have a right to look over 
and experience all the things that are 
possible for them. then make а decision 
and say, “I like this best.” 

SIMON: However much disigreement there 
may be on the pleasures, p or 
potential value of the homosexual life 
style, 1 think we can all agree that for 
the homosexual in today’s society, happi- 
ness is more difficult to achieve than it is 
for the heterosexual, There is profound 
difference of opinion among us on 
whether or not homosexuality should be 
called pathological, but if all the homo- 
the counvy—and ат the very 


пе past 


sexuals 


lowest estimate put forward by the p 
el, we must count them in the hundreds 
of thousands—were to accept the label 


and seek professional help, the existing 
mental-health structure in the United 


States would be incapable of car 
load. Until such time as psychi 
сап be provided on a much larger scale 
and at much less expense, it would seem 
wise for us to focus attention on the 1 
nd mores that make the homosexual's 
social adjustment so dificult 

In this context, we have to deal with 
the cost to society of productivity lost 
and pote lamaged by repre 
e and discriminatory practices. There 
disagreement among us about 
how far society should condone the homo- 
sexual life style, and even deeper dis- 
agreement on how ready the community 
is to be tolerant. In sexual attitudes, 
probably more than in any other are 
social attitudes а 


ying the 
trie aid 


most profoundly i 


fluenced by the changing values of 
society. There have been fundamental 
changes in our view of sexuality since 


World War Two, and the laws on such 
issues as abortion, birth control and sex- 
ual privacy are still in the process of 
cuching up with our new attitudes. It 
Р that community feelings to 
ward homosexuals have altered as much 
as they have in these other arcas. But 
even if, as some of the panelisis suggest. 


ange residue of a 
in the country at larg: 
own researches and other sociological 
studies indicate that acceptance of homo- 
growing markedly among the 
пегацоп 
‘The future treatment of homosexuals 
clearly depends on what the future holds 
for all of us, and here there seem to be 
two main possibilities. Some feel th 
the present trend toward greater permis 
siveness will not continue. I and possibly 
the majority of the panelists believe that. 
on the contrary, society will continue 10 
evolve in ways that will provide greater 
lom for everyone, If we're right. 

^s ice that we will live to see 
tion our whole 
proach to gender defi 
stereotypes. The meaning of masculine 
and fe Il be redefined so 
substantially that the whole i 
homosexuality will have to be rethought 
from scratch. A more immediate prospect 


iomo- 


is that changing attitudes will pern 
heterosexuals and homosexuals alike to 
unashamedly devote themselves—in р 


vate as well as 


public—to the pursuit 
of their own personal happiness. So the 
futures of homosexual and heterosexual 
ave inextricably linked—and we all stand 


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exhibiting an almost paternal pride in her 
stories and anecdotes, some of which are 
alfectionately derisive. "I showed up here 
in Philadelphia and 1 thought, he's a big 
star, we'll have a car or a cab; well, I had. 
to walk over here. And in high heels, 
righ? Look at the way he's dresse 
Scout was wearing nondescript brown 
trousers and а yellow knit short-sleeved 
sport shirt, which is his habitual attire. 
"Beautiful, ch?” she snorted. "Tried to 
dress him this morning. Look at him. 
Н'ш. H'm. OK, мат.” 

Scott laughed immoderately at this ti 
rade, and a few moments later—on The 
Mike Douglas Show, which he was co- 
hosting for a week—acknowledged that 
wife were married and them 
and then, in 1967, remarried. 
we remarry?” he mused. 
often ask myself that.” 

“There are some people who are stuck 
with cach other,” she explained. "And 
G.C. and 1 are more or less stuck with 
ît.” (She calls him С.С. He calls her 
Moms) "Even when we were divorced 
we somehow couldn't let go that last 
little string. At school onc little boy 
his mom and dad were divorced 
was sad about it, and our te 
Alex, said, ‘Oh, that's all right, my mom 
and dad are divorced, but whenever he 
gets off work he comes to our house, he 
lives there, they're very good friends." I 
could sec all the teachers sitting around 


PLAYBOY 


saying, ‘You know what happens at the 
Scouts? Sin. Sin! '* 

Scot reared his head back and 
laughed. After the show, the Scotts and 


some friends and playwright Levitt went 


oll to have the 
meal С.С. ife aired their dis 
agreement film M. A. S. H.. 


which she loved. 

"Half the budget was raw meat,” Scott 
ery time he got im mouble he 
flushed back to the operating room with 
the blood. Cheap tricks. To me, the worst 
sin of all is cheapness and shoddiness." 

“He was offended by the mike-in-the- 
sack thing,” Colleen explained. “George 
is the biggest prude underneath. He 
tears your earrings off, pulls your skirt 
down, covers up your cleavage. Loves to 
see all the other girls, right? But he goes 
to the movies and secs something, he 
vs, terrible taste, terrible taste 
Scott had begun grinning. He w 
arguing. but hallheartedly: "You 
dear. Fm totally wrong and 
right"—recopnizing them to he 
impasse. 

She has a rapid delivery, forming the 
words into little hard balls back in her 
throat and sending them out, pop, pop. 
like solid objects till. they fill the air i 
front of her, and she gets excited as sh 
talks and builds volume and power as 
she goes. He, on the other hand, is gentle, 

192 gentlemanly, restrained. Ther 


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right, 
you're 
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thing shy and tentative about him, He is 

easily interrupted. Like a uuckload of 

gravel backing slowly into traffic. 
Scott directed her recently, for the 


time, in a short-lived Broadway pla 
cach agreed the experience was good for 
both of them. "She's an enormously pow- 


erful actress," he said, “a powerful per- 
sonality on the stage, and T got her to 
pull most of that back and let it ooze out 


a little bit at a time, That's something 
most directors have used too much in 
her, forced her to go to too much, and 


consequently she usually wipes up the 
stage with any male that she works with. 


There are very few actors that can stand 
I got her to pull back 


with hi 
маз а most restr 
ful performance." 

She laughed. nervously. “I don’t know 
who we're complimenting here.” 

Once again Scott smiled. ‘That familiar 
quick flicker that spreads out across hi 
face like a stain and then just as swiftly 
distppeats. An invitation, and a booby 
trap. 


nd it 


ied and a most beaut 


The next time 1 saw 
directing Anderson 
project for producer Lewis. Freedman’s 
new drama series for educational televi- 
sion. The rehearsals were in studio B at 
KCET in Los Angeles and the cast was 
the sort invariably referred to as s 
studded. It was heavily weighted with 
high-priced talent, most of them refugees 
from  commercialtelevision series, 
for a chance to do some real 
Without exception, they all 
of the reasons they were willing to 
cept minimum scale at NET was the 
chance to work with George Scott. Frecd- 
man admits that when he approached 
the actors he lured them with Scotts 
name. “I have rarely seen a rehearsal 
Iall that’s so full of interest," Freedman 
said. “I mean, I've almost never scen a 
fulllength play rehearsed where 
ihe entire cast says in the ha 
ested, hard- ng, challenged, 
enjoy 

Watching Scott work is a little bi 
watching а surgeon's scalpel hov 
over a recumbent form. He 
poised, alert, motionle 


соп he was 
ille Trial as the pilot 


ing 
stands 
nd then 
argegh . . , he swoops, In the end you 
know the tumor will have been nicked 


out with skill and precision, but in the 
meantime you fear for the delicate flesh: 
There is all that intensity in his hefty, 
highshouldered slab of a body—inten- 
sity and pursuit. He is a bird of prey 
and the victim is . . . weakness... 
human error? . . . chance itself? 

1 wonder, Willy,” Scott says to Bill 
Shatner, lately of Star Trek. "That's a 
sarcastic dine. Lean on him some. 
Hmmm?" Smoke from а Lucky Strike 
wreathes his fingers. He is wearing blue 
nd a blue knit sport shirt. His 


arms are crossed on his 
strokes repeatedly at his cheek in 
Hlown motion. "Jack," he says to Jack 
ssidy, “I had a thought, I don't know, 
you might hate it. But see if you can play 
le homey thing with Dr. Bates. You 
know. a little shit kicking.” The 
grin spreads on his face, a look of de- 
light. He actually brightens. He is very 
decisive, he knows exactly what he wants. 

Richard Basehart has a long, moving 
speech, Scott is poised breathless 
tured, his lips moving slowly, mouthing 
the words, his head thrown back. His 
teeth are clenched and the corners of his 
mouth are drawn back. The speech ends, 
the rehearsal goes on, Scott darts forward 
and on his face is that familiar smile 


that is а way station to released anger. 
He begins to instruct Shatner in а speech 
that he himself once spoke onstage. Shat- 


ner has the part he played in the Broad- 


way version. As he offers Shatner a 
thought, he begins to enact the part. “At 
this poi here, Chipman goes a 


little bit . . . insane,” he says, the whis- 
per of his voice beginning to catch and 
develop traction and come out a hoarse 
growl. His Lace brightens with malicious 
glee. His cyes widen, His nose and chin 


(а profile Kenneth T once de- 
scribed as a “victorious boule opener”) 
seem to strain for cach other as his 


mouth spreads across his [ace like a tam- 
ily curse. His large bony bulged forc- 
head glistens. His jaw, which normally is 
rippled and indistinct, goes stift and firm. 


The entire set comes to a stillness. “A 
lite bit insane, a little bit . . . patho- 
logical. See if you can go . . . just a little 
bit... apeshit. You know? Enjoy it. 


is advancing on Shatner as he 
Shatner in the witness seat, Shat- 
г sees something in Scott's сус. He lifts 
his fect and kicks them, mimicking fe: 
Shatner is himself a baby bull, all n 
and chest. He has gotten some message 
from Scott's neural system. He has ma 

joke of it, but for a moment there he 
was afraid. 

Scot once went drinking with Lewis 
Freedman and remarked, "You know, 
they used to burn actors and. they were 
right. Because actors constantly are show- 
ing them things they don’t want to see.” 
Scott is a man who sets very high stand- 
Ч for himself and then tries to beat 
his own best time, This is a lonely, and 
lienating, way to go in a profession that 
makes very great demands оп a person's 
power to resist collapse and disi 
Like Scott,” Freedman said, 
actors have that in them to be; 
But unlike Scott, they soon learn to shut 
up about it. And we have а wonderful 
machine for shutting them up called 
money. We buy out our talent. But Scott 
won't be bought ou s been 
more than an actor, He's been а man of 
the theater.” 

After rehearsals, Scom went out for 
lunch and talked directly to this point: 


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don't light it. 


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if you'd like to taste 
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"This is one of the most compet 
usinesses. but nor im a direct w: 
nst actor, The compe 
the stress and the strain come from with- 
in, in assaulting the goal. Not only sci 
ous actors, in a sense all actors. Ever 
those who fall by the wayside. The un- 
sung and unmarked graves. Those who 
didn't have what it takes to hang around 
long enough to sce whether anybody 
gives a shit about them one way or 
another. And it's very personal, It’s not 
like writing or painting. At least they 
don't have to be there breathing when 
the guy says you're shit to your face. The 
actor has to De there. So the nervous 
pressure, the actual tension on the nerv- 
ous system, is constant. An opening 
night is а trauma unrivaled in the expe 
тсе of man. You're a smashed milk 
boule of 10,000 jagged pieces stuck to- 
gether with Elmer's Glue. As my friend 
han the makeup man used 
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Iwo Jima. Juan Hill. Outclassed, 
ourmanned, outgunned. With nobody on 
your side, And vet, somebody often docs 


ounds horr 

"Yes, it is. Horrible. Why do 1 do it? 
I could be simple masochism, but I 
don't think so. Из some sort ol . . 
compulsion.” 


on. 
“Мапу are called but few are chosen,” 
Im 


Тапу are chosen but few accepi 


He sighed, “If you really have it you 
t get it off your back. It's like . . . it's 
€ being . . , professional. Its the best 
word | Know. I don't know of a better 
word." 

“Weil, you seem very professional as a 
direcior.” 

He laughed and sai 
rvous, feeling himself way over 
1. Yet he never showed it during 
He flashed his devil-boy smile: 
hat's acting, too." 

Scott came by his professionalism natu- 
rally. He was born in Wise, Virginia, on 
October 18, 1997, where his father was 
first a miner and then a mine foreman. 
The elder Scott, now retired, is described 
as a charming and handsome man with 
lots of energy and a competitive style 
dedicated to victory. He was born to 
unrelenting poverty in а mountain cabin 
in southwest Virginia, educated himself 
(on the way acquiring, it is said, ап 
astonishing accumulation of information) 
and wound up as the vice-president for 
sales of a firm in Dewoit. The Scotts 
are an old American family of Scotch- 
irish blood dating back to before the 
American Revolution, Virginia artisans 
rather than aristocrats. This perhaps ac- 
counts for Scott's sense of responsibility 
to the job itself. He has a strong sense of 
y and history and tradition, and 
in casual conversation he exp 
а stern moral code, His stubborn integr 
and perhaps 


he was extremely 
his 


ses 


"I smoked pot, once. И made me want to rape and kill!” 


—have much to do with the Protestant 
work ethic and а welldisciplined. child- 
hood. Friends say that “George thinks a 
great deal of his dad and admires him 
tremendously. In his memory he was a 
strong father who provided well for his 
family, not a shillyshallver, а man who 
knew right [rom wrong. 

“It always bothered me,” Scott told an 
his career, “that 
н the casy life 1 had, compared to my 
father's, I couldn't get 

Scott. descr “total. 
ly average, totally undistinguishable, ex 
cept for the death of my mother at th 
age of eight. My age of eight, not hers 
She died of blood poisoning. This 
prior to penicillin and sulfa. The kind 
of thing that would be cured with a [ew 
pills or one shot—even only ten years 
Tater. That kind of trauma is profound. 

Following four unremarkable ycars at 
Redford High in Detroit, Scott enlisted 

the Ма Corps in 1945 for a 
ear hitch. His father had 
when George was 12 and the boy left 
home at 17 partly just 10 leave home (he 
was not dose to his stepmother) and 
partly becuse he was à gungho 
‘very anxious to fight." Instead he bur- 
ied people at Arlington National Ceme- 
tery and learned how to drink. He says 
he “haunted sleazy bars in Washington,” 
commencing a slide that was to land him 
within ten years i 
parendy ines 
himself into 


interviewer carly in 


приме 10 drink 
rage and stupor. 

In 1949, Scott entered the University 
of Missouri School of Journalism and 
discovered acting. He began a collegcand- 
stock-theater carcer that was to encompass 
125 roles, an apprenticeship that Scott. 
who otherwise had no training, calls 
terrific education." But he left school 
with only two credit hours to go. He was 
self-evidently in the wrong career, since 
“even E somebody's address was of- 
fensive to me." Out of school, he worked 
s an actor at a nearby girls school, 
Stephens College, where he found his 
first wife, Carolyn. Hughes, and with the 
Mad Anthony Players in Toledo, Ol 

John O'Leary, an actor and playwrigh 
who remembers Scott. from those days, 
recalls that he had not yet broken his 
nose and was “like а handsome Holly 
wood leading man." Since then the nose 
has been broken several times, proving, 
Scott says, that he can't be all that good 
with his fists, Even in those days, he was 
undependable. He disappeared from a 
dress rehearsal of à show in which he had 
the lead, and returned only just before 
the opening curtain. "There is some possi- 
bility Шш if director Stuart. Vaughan's 
memory were better, Scott's career might 
have taken Jonger to flower: In the sum- 
mer of 1952 Vaughan heard from friends 
about this very talented but wildly erratic 
fellow, and he remembers thinking, Well, 
there’s one actor І want to be sure to 
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together 1 never would have hired him 
for Richard TIL" Vaughan recollecis. 


In the interim, Seon had been to New 
York without success and then in 1954 to 
Los Angeles, where he lived for six 
months with a friend and his wife, who 
supported him. He was, he says, totally 
unemployable. He would go off in the 
morning and sit on а park bench all day. 
Subsequently he bummed around the 


country (the birth of a daughter had 
only aggravated his drinking and soon 
he and his wile had separated and di- 


vorced) and finally landed in Washing- 
ton, D.C., penniless and defeated. He 
took off а year to recover himself, work- 
ing for his older sister's husband. a con- 
tractor, as а laborer, “I gave it my all,” 
he remembers. “I was having the pleas 
ure of working with people who can do 
something better than you and se 
you Gin make the grade.” 

One day he wandered into a 
fessional theater in his laborer's clothes 
and asked for a job, "When I read, they 
knew 1 was an actor.” he told meat if 
to say that he had always been an actor, 
as if to say that, whatever else, he could 
ays go behind the proscenium and 
arch out his secret names. Here he 
found his second wile, Pat Reed, and 
commenced his second family. He moved 
to New York and took a job as an IBM 
operator in a bank. 

When he read for Stuart Vaughan and 
Joseph Papp for the New York Shake- 
s 1957 production of Rich- 
ard TH, Vaughan failed to connect him 
з the young man he had heard about 
five years earlier. Scott read twice, badly 
and then tied one on, He woke up the 
next morning in the garden of a friend's 
house. After drying out amd preparing 
n, he read a third time 

“With Shakespeare,” Vaughan says, 
“you look for vocal skill and range and а 
feel for the language. And energy. And 
of course Scott had all these in abun- 
dance. Also, with an actor you don't 
know, someone who can respond to your 
direction. Scott was very responsive, he 
was never troublesome, even though, like 
most young actor, he was brandishing 
his masculinity about as а protective de- 
vice against homosexual advances, which 
all actors get. | understand this was а 
troubled time for him, but I no 
evidence of it. Most people you work 
with in this business who are especially 
talented are in great turmoil or much 
ad T expect the working part 
т lives is the healthiest.” 

This was certainly true of Scott. He 
was appearing i ion of pl 
both off and on Br for which 
he was received with the same sort of 
praise that greeted the young Brando, and 
he won all sorts of awards. He was hired 
for a Western called The Hanging Tree 
and then for Anatomy of а Murder, for 
which he received an Academy Award 


saw 


nomination. Yet for all that, 
Scott was not what you would 
tented man, “The more successful I got, 
the worse the drinking became.” The dis 
Gpline he maintained when he worked 
in the Shakespearean plays for Ули) 
was disintegrating. One day he destroyed 
а set on Hanging Tree. While he was 
appearing in his first Broadway play, in 
November 1958, he woke up in a Ne 
York City jail and learned that on the 
previous evening, while drunk, he had 
beaten up а man. He had no memory of 
the fight. (It was not the first time, nor 
would it be the last. In the summer of 
. a suit for $100,000 in damages was 
against him by an acor who 
claimed Scott had assaulted. him.) 
Vaughan remembers that "George had 
this switch he could turn on for Richard 
ШІ, a device, а sound, when he wanted 
10 show a rage thing. He had an abso- 
lutely convincing way of doing it. But 
technically he was under сотої... 1 
suppose this quality was at his finger tips.” 
Onstage he was portraying 
whom some gnawing p: 
just barely contained (and therefore te 
rifying) or released in a climactic mo- 
ment. The New York Times's Walter 
Kerr described one of his roles as "a 
clear, alarming. brilliantly convincing. 
сас from a m textbook.” The 
New York Post's Richard Watts, Jr., said 
of the same part (in Comes a Day) that 
i anaged with such monstrous 
power and shocking credibility that the 
sadist becomes not just a villain of melo- 
drama but a terrifyingly veal hum. 
ing." Offstage his second marriage 


men in 


п be- 


as 


collapsing and the pressures were such 
that Scott was undergoing his fits of 
drunken violence more and more fre- 


mly. Every e months. Every 
th. Every week 


purge once said to me, "There's no 


man in the world who fears and hates 
violence more than 1 do, " says Colleen 
Dewhurst. “He doesn't think he has 
courage because he has so many fears 


He's а bad dreamer. He'll be asleep and 
call out, "You bastards, you bastards, get 
away, get awa 

Scott tried. Alcoholics Anonymous and 
he wied therapy. He even tried what Art 
Carney calls ten-cent therapy. “One day 
he called me up because Гуе had trouble 
with the booze on occasion," C 
“One drinker understands another. He 
was in bum shape, so he called and we 
had а long ch: 
1 who Considers seli-liscipline 
tue, the рий» are considerable. 
7 Scott told me. "Oh. the 
ЮША; y easy dodge to say, look, 
I'm gifted, I'm talented, so you have to 
put up with my foibles, my litle . . . ab- 
ions. Гуе been guilty of that all 
ife," he said slowly, deliberately, pain- 


fully. "E always knew I had something 
—way before anybody else knew it. And 
the minute you шу to make people 


accept the ugliness of you because of tf 
you've done an un . . . an unfair thing, 
And something indecent, actually. So one 
person in ten million has something 
special, fine, but that’s no license to kill.” 

Whom have you killed?" I asked. 
“It’s not even a license to fish x 
what 1 mean? Well I've done it ten 
thousand t nd every time I did it 
Т knew Т was going to do it before I did 
it and was ashamed of doing it all along 
and was ashamed after Fd done it. These 
feelings come out when I drink because 
one loses one’s inhibitions, And one's 
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ROBERT ALTMAN /;/m-flam man 


"p LEARNED TO ВЕ VERY COMFORTABLE with my failures: 1 
can do it with success, too—but it’s tougher." Director Rob. 
ert Altman, 46—a veteran of eight years of industrial-film 
making in his native. Kansas City and of six behind tele 
vision cameras, comaker of 1957's wail-blazing documentary 
The James Dean Story and free-lance author-scenarist 


has had plenty of failures to be comlortable about. “One 
of my pictures, Countdown, made in. 1966, was, аз ar as 1 
know, never shown except on TWA flights from Los An- 


geles to New York,” he claims. Then, in 1970, came 
M. A. S. Н, and suddenly its director was one of the movie 
ndustry’s honest properties. Altman's outlook is опе of 
repressible irreverence—the quality that made M. 4. S. H. 
а smash, but was less universally applauded in. his Latest 
offering, Brewster McCloud. Brewster, the story of a lad 
with an Icarus hang-up who constructs a set of wings in an 
unlikely hideout—the. fallout shelter of Houston's Astro- 
Чоте мах intended by Aliman to be “a contemporary 
cartoon. esey”; some critics found its humor bam-handed, 
Aliman himvell, though staunchly defending his Brewster 
concept, believes his forthcoming work, The Presbylerian 
Church Wager, will be his best to date. “This film will 
make the other pictures I've been associated with look like 
ic movies" he predicts. Wager, filmed in Canada, stars 

ty as а tinhorn gambler and his olfscreen 

Julie Christie, as a Cockney whore in a decrepit 
Ашин» next project may be one of his own 
plays. He's been writing since World War Two, 
excep) for one period in New York when he had to 
take a job tattooing canine I. Ds, We doubt Altman will 
need to use that skill again 
it the protagonis’s profession 


ess he decides to make 
onc of his far-our films, 


IKE AND TINA TURNER soul mates 


SOULSHOUTING TOGETHER has been Ike and Tina Turners bag 
since 1956, when Tina mounted the stage from the audience 
one night in St. Louis, took the microphone despite Ike's pro- 
tests g lead for his Kings of Rhythm. Ike liked what he 
heard and took Tina on as a regular, changing her first name 
from Ann and altering her surname, Bullock, by marrying her 
а year later. Born in Clarksdale, Mississippi, Ike had organized 
his first band at the age of 11 and later put together the Kings, 
recording a rhyihm-and-blucs hit, Rocket 85. “It was а big 
financial score,” says Ike, "but some dude at the record com- 
pany beat me and I only got $40 for writing. producing and 
recording it, and so 1 took the Kings on the road." And so he 
met Tina, who was living with her sister in St. Louis. Born in 
Brownsville, Tennessee, Tina grew up in Knoxville, where 
she sang in Gospel choirs and talent shows. Today, Ike and 
Tina Turner play Las Vegas hotels and rock festivals as well 
as soul-cicuit auditoriums and live—when they're home—in а 
$100,000 house in View Park, a hilly section of Los Angeles. 
Maintaining their prosperity by touring, they earn as much as 
$15,000 per appearance with an act that is solid, Gospel 
drenched rhythm and blues, ribbed with a rock beat and a 
galvanic sexuality belted out by Tina. The Ike and Tina Tur- 
ner Revue includes a proficient eighi-man band led by Ike on 
guitar and a black go-go-gitl uio choreographed by Tina, wh 
also dances—springing onstage like a lioness in heat, writhing 
and twisting sensuously, caramel legs flashing, tawny mane 
flying. Although Ike and Tina have run practically the gamut 
ol major record labels in recording their 15 albums—the latest 
is Working Together—and 60 singles, live shows arc their forte 
and what they take greatest pride їп, Says Ike: “We're just 
doing our best to give the people their money's worth of 
what they came to see—entertainment, man, entertainment.” 


FATHER ROBERT DRINAN ccclesiaclivist 


THE 1970 MIDTERM ELECTIONS were notable mostly for the 
candidates’ mind-boggling advertising expenditures aud the 
Administration’s frencuic—and largely futile—ellorts in behalf 
of its favorites. One race, however, the campaign for Massi- 
chusetis’ Third Congressional District, was widely followed for 
а special and singuli reason: the ultimately successful cin- 
didacy of a Jesuit priest, Father Robert Drinan, dean of the 
Boston College Iaw school, who sought public office because, he 
said, “As a person, as a lawyer, as a Christian, 1 feel compelled 


to speak out” Clearly, the districts predominantly suburban 
constituency liked what he had to say, especially his firm views 
ge 


on Vienam (he wants out), He was ably assisted by a la 
group of highly organized young volunteers, whose fec 
about their cimdidate were best expressed in a jubilant election- 
night victory placard: OUR FATHER WHO AKT IN CONGRESS. 
Father Drinan was an indelatigable campaigner—witich hardly 

as а surprise то those familiar with his many activities in 
academic and clerical communities, He has wiitten numer- 
Land religions essays, served as editor of Family Law 
Quarterly, was appointed to а team, sponsored by the pacifist 
Fellowship of Reconciliation, that is studying South Vietnam's 
controversial treatment of anti-government prisoners and has 
authored such seminal books as Democracy, Dissent and Dis- 
order and Vietnam and Armageddon, Father Drinan will be 
the first priest ever to hold voting status in Congres. (A 
priest from. Michigan Territory served as a nonvoting House 
member in 1823) But if the number of deris who ran for 
office in 1970—two dozen—indicates a significant wend, he 
will doubtless be followed by others who view politics as an 
opportunity to turn pious pulpit homilics into effective 
| legislation, an estimable goal toward which he has 
been working—religiousiy—since last September's primary 


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control, Control is self-discipline and ma- 
turity, And too much control is awful, is 
selfrepression, But discipline is great. 
Self-discipline is one of the greatest 
things in the world. 1 wish I had more of 
it In many ways I am disciplined, partic- 
ularly when I see a job to do, or am 
committed to a task. I'm almost unstop- 
pable, But there are а lot of things 1 
should do that I don't do. And I'm 
weak, luzy, stupid, or indifferent. 

I said it was my impression that. his 
reputation was altogether different. 

“I know I do it,” he said with passion. 
"P know I do it and that's all that's 
necessary." After a pause he flashed that 
hooby-trap smile, which is not a smile at 
1 bur a nervous reflex that is meant to 
ask pain too weighty to bear ofte 
Phantoms crowding in on his night of 
rest, ап unpitying judgment forming in 
his dreams as the many names of George 
C. Scott flash by. "T know a lot of other 
people do it too. Thank God I'm not 
alone in this mire." 
^ role that Scout has played in sever- 
guises, each time well and convincing- 
ly, is the bearded patriarch, or mythic 
Father. Or, as Saul Levitt says, "his motif 
is virility.” In The Bible, he played 


“I feel sorry Jor my new secrelary .. . 


Abraham with stern faced. intensity and 
liule warmth. He enacted another ver- 
ion of this in Desire Under the Elms, an- 
other as the eponymous General Seeger, 
and yet another as Proctor in The Cruci- 
ble. He played a comic veision of the role 
in the third аа of Plaza Suite, as the 
father of the bride, A very dose friend, 
who has lived with С. C. and Moms, says 
that this last role is doser to the George 
C. Scott she knows than any other. Му 
own vore would be for The Crucible, 
which 1 had screened. just before visiting 
Scott at his 32acre farm in South Salem, 
New York, Certain images were vivid and 
tain lines buzzed in my head. Proctor 
saying, simply, "I may speak my heart, 1 
think.” A mam of stubborn integrity re- 
sisting the wave of witch-hunt foolishness 
sweeping over Salem (Massachusetts, not 
New York). A skeptical, anguished man 
laboring under a heavy burden of guilt 
for having failed to resist his sexual feel 
ings. Proctors wile, played by Colleen 
Dewhurst, telling him, "I do not judge 
you. The magistrate sits in your h 
ıdges you." Proctor, in a mome: 
т, crying out, "Who will judge me? 
God in heaven, what is John Proctor? 
What is John Proctor?” And, finally, Proc 
tor tearing up his confession of witchcraft 


а 
Ум, 


she's had five 


unhappy marriages, all to former bosses." 


with а rending cry from that place inside 
George Scott, from beyond the door that 
George Scot has opened and cannot 
close, from where John Proctor. knows 
what he is, from that place of ultimate 
loneliness that no one who has not been 
red to visit it сап know: “Because 
is my пате. Because Т will never 
have another in my life. How may I live 
without my name? 

Scott was wearing a full saltand.pep- 
per beard the day T visited. "| hate 
sideburns and I'm doing Rochester in 
Jane Eyre, so when I get to England ГИ 
shave the beard off and leave the side- 
burns,” he explained. “Th у 
а film for David Susskind and after that 
I direct Colleen on Broadway. Economi- 
cally, Fd like to do one more picture this 
summer, І make 15 times more а: actor 
than Т ca director." He. displaved 


m as а 


that an abundance of a character 
trait that is immediately apparent in him 
and that few actors possess. Call it hu- 


manity, warmth, reality; call it the ability 
to distinguish between a performance and 
alog, between the carefully constructed 
self-image that lights up the silver screen 
and the vulnerable, real human being 
who has on occasion to buy groceries, 
feel loneliness. and stop at red lights. 
Martin Buber the philosopher calls it 
presentness.” Scott can be rude and 
boorish (I am told, never having seen it 
myself), but that is out of his vast impa- 
tience with stupidity and tastclessness, 
and is not too high a price to pay if you 
are neither stupid nor tasteless. 

He sauntered across the grounds of his 


farm, which h improved with a 
1 

guesthouse that also holds the Scous' 

Mercedeses, and a pool and a gazebo 


under Construction, pausing to point out 
the magnolia and the flowering apple 
and the meadow where he means to do 
some pl pausing a moment with 
strength and gentleness to pull a tick out 
of the ear of one of a half-dozen German 
shepherds that scr ound in the 
4l, and then coming into the old farm- 
house past the den where his sons Alex- 
nder, ten, and Campbell, nine, sat glued 
to the TV sacen (“They're very unim 
pressed with their movie-star father. Now 
if I could get booked on Hee Hai. . . ."), 
and on into the living room, which is 
casually furnished with a few inelegant 
but comfortable. couches and has books 
lying about in profusion 
my sanity,” Scott said. "Out 
business doesn’t touch us 
for the business to get to 


the 
There's no war 


here 


stand 
marked. “He'd rather die 


Alex can't to lose” he re 
than be heat- 
en. At tiddlywinks, at anything. Th 
competitive person I've ever known. 
He grinned sweetly, not his fake smile. 
“He's got a lot of my father in him,” he 
said. "Now Campbell, nothing apparent- 
ly bothers him. It's all i He twisted 
his mouth м eyebrows, 


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rst atlracted to you by 


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sending off generational echoes. "You 
know whats going on in there. 
Everybody says we're very much alik 

“The bronders,” Colleen said, wander- 
ing in. "Now Alex and 1 go at each 
other like George and Campbell do. You 
have to watch yourself, thats when you 
come in too hard. The things you hate 
in youself, the characteristics you want 
to beat out.” 

Colleen wandered away and а moment 
later Alex wandered in, а cocky, self- 
assured youngster. He began telling Scott 
that he'd been playing ball but not get- 
ting any hits because he didn’t have his 
glasses on. Scott pursed his lips and said, 

T scece. Hmmm. No see-um ball with- 
out goggles. eh?" Alex asked him to 
show up at the ball fiekl the next morn- 
ing at eight А.М. and Scott said, "Well ГЇ 
see you there, dear, but I can’t promise 
TI be there at eight o'dock. But I'l def- 
кеу be there. 

Scotts friends agree that he is very 
domestic. Pat Zurica, a former New York 
City cop who travels with him as a coni- 
panion, says that “George is a very quiet 
man, very shy, really a home-type person 
Hed rather stay home and play cards 
and have а few beers, and he doesn't go 
for the glamor bit, When he finishes а 
film, he goes back to his farm.” 

"There is survival only in art and in 
children,” Scot said. Somebody had 
brought some drinks in and in the slow, 
quiet afternoon he had become pensive. 
But now, with chi you get the 
tension of cicating a Frankenstein. The 
Tittle bunny rabbit—the child—is so cute 
at first. But when it starts to do its bit, to 
become a person, you resist it. Because 
you are poing down and it is coming up. 
The role is a bit of immortality. But the 
little bunny rabbit implies your death. 

Alex came back in and said. "Dad, 
didn’t you say we could watch TV two 
hours on Friday and ©; 

Scott frowned and said. "Are you going 
to put me up against your mother now? 


“Yeah.” Alex giggled. "Ah, but no, 
Momma wanted 10 Know." 
‘Momma wanted to know?" Alex gig- 


gled. Scott pointed and raised his chin. 
“What are you eating, jelly beans? Be- 
fore dinner?” 


ah." They both giggled together, 
and then laughed. Alex turned his body 
and flung an imaginary ball sidearm. 
“Well” Scott said judiciously, "you 
can watch more on Saliaday night but 
not on Sunday 1 And Alex" he 
added sternly, ^E don't want a repeat of 
the homework thing that happened this 


morning, you know what 1 mean?" Ales 
grinned, nodded his head and ran off. 
"E can't stand badly behaved c 


dren,” Scott said vehemently. "I can't 
stand them around. I can't stand other 
people's children who are badly behaved. 
I won't have them. Not in my house. I 
simply tell the parents: Take the boy's 
ass out of the house.” He took a sip of 


“But also I don't believe in 
а child's spirit. 1 don't believe 
in hurting him. Not to destroy what is so 
... valuable . . . and so . . . personal. 
‘That's the toughest thing. One of the big 
problems of our country is that there 
simply aren't enough fathers. Too many 
fuckers and not enough fathers. In this 
ness you see morc and more homo- 
sexuals, and that's a sadnes. There's 
some basic . . . irresponsibility there. 1 
mean, God knows, nobody knows what 
goes on inside women. But why give up 
the research? That's half the fun in life. 
And you see more and more ballsy wom- 
en and fewer ballsy men. And the thing 
1 can't understand is that they have such 
contempt for women. Really. You know 

It was the bite spring of last year and 
conversation veered easily to polities and 
war, “Now this expression—mike love 
not war. A terrible meaningless catch 
phrase. 1 believe in pacifism. Î really do. 
p stretched and pushed 
t ol endurance to try not 
to make waves. And the awful thing 
about this Cambodian venture is that 
Nixon has let the Presidency in for a 
wave of . . „ hideous . . . contempt. Mr. 
Johnson was reputed to be а master 

acician and he fell flat on his face 
repeatedly as President. Mr. Nixon has 
the reputation for being one of the great 
machinators of all time and he may be 
going the same way. It’s all kind of 
different once your ass hits that particu. 
lar seat. He's the man. And all bets are 
oll. It either makes you or breaks you." 

The conversation tamed in а still nat 
ural flow to directors with whom Scott 
worked. Preminger, “one of the most 
charming, well-educated, sweet-mannered 
persons. rather shy. but he goes apeshit 
ot times.” Mike Nichols, who "creates an 
atmosphere with his own personality 
which is conducive to the actors being so 
relaxed, and the actor is so free. In 
Boston I had had it and I said, "Mike, 1 
can't get it up one more time, and he 
said. ‘Fine. George. ГЇЇ fire you if you 
tell me who I can get to replace you. 

T asked him who his favorite was, and 
he said. “John Huston is possibly the 
greatest film director alive. It’s à pleasure 
to lose an argument with him. He makes 
you feel not put down but simply that you 
understind what he means. And the in 
nd the—1I have to 
approaches a subject 
And the way he makes people feel" 
Was Huston what he would call a father 
figure, 1 asked. "Yes," he said, ^I would 
sty so. Amd I behaved badly with him, 
лету badly.” Scott was speaking slowly 
and thoughtfully, “fe was ай my fault. 
That was in Rome. 1 was going through 
а crisis in my own life at the time.” 

At the time his name was being linked 
by columnists with Ava Gardner's—his 
пате, exploited—which helps to account 
for the virulence of his feelings toward 
columnists, He calls them parasite 


sty it—the beauty he 


had a troubled look on his face, 
. “1 think and 


He 
and death was on his mind. 
have thought about death," he said. Not 
only because of Cambodia and Kent 
State and Jackson State but also because 
Inger Stevens had recently killed herself 
"Every actor alive has had that impulse. 
And some of us say, No, / won't do that 
to myself. Some of us are joked out of it, 
some of us arc dever enough to fake 
ourselves out of it. I don't think M 
Stevens learned anything about herself 
she didn't know years before. I's those 
terrible little flukes. Of chance. Caught 
in those bad three hours. Next week she 
could laughed at it. But nobody 
was there, or she couldn't get somebody 
on the phone. Marilyn, Lupe Velez, Car- 
ole Landis—Christ, they go back. Pedro 
Armendariz, tt Sloane. Its been 
going on in our profession for hundreds 
of years. We аге a suicidal people. Be- 
е we have to... get that... man 
... tight" 

Alex сате bı 
‚ "Dad, wha 
for us?” 

Scott had а very long distance to come 
back, He sumed at his son for a moment 
as though he were looking at а complete 
stranger, and only gradually did the frost 
iness of his fixed gaze melt. “Uh... 
that a cake?” 


k in bearing a cake and 
t shall I put on the cake 


“Yeah,” Alex s; 
“Uhhh 


and сате th 
‘ou а cake.” 
Its for the week 


ad with the 


sec. 

Alex giggled and ran off. Scott gave him 
а long fond look as he left the room. 
and then shook his head and grinned 
from ear to ear. He was beaming, 

"Some kid, ch?" he asked, He was as 
proud as could be. "No, I've come to the 
conclu: 
it that very few of us а 1 of death. 
Because we dont know what it is. I 
think we 1 of being embar- 
sed or caught up in an awkward sinia- 
1 know that's what frightens me. 
ls like . -| you don't want 10 cause a 
scene, you know what I mean? And if 
you've caused a number of scenes in your 
life you don't ever want to cause another 
onc. And death to me is very much like 
that. I would hate to put people out. T 
know it sounds absurd, but that's exactly 
what really bothers те, I would hate 10 
puta lot of people out.” 


m after years of thinking about 


After a very small pause, he fi 
thar instant smile of his, the invitation 
and the booby пар, 


gone as rapidly as it I А mo 
ment later, we went in to dinner and 
Scott sat at the head of the table, in the 
father’s place, and he appeared very re- 
laxed, he appeared to be enjoying him- 


self immensely. 


PLAYBOY 


204 


THE LONG WEEKEND (continued from poge 118) 


Saturday Brunch 
Up 


Orange Wal 


Scrambled Eggs on Toast 

Grilled Ganudian Bacon, Curried Onion 
Brioche, Вале Рис, Cream Cheese 
Coffee 


ich. oran 
rocks 4 ozs. cold fresh 
juice, % oz cognac, } light rum 
wb 84 oz sweet vermouth. Garnish 
with a slice of orange. Prepare. curried 
onion before scrambling eggs and gr 
ing bacon. 


wake-up, pour over 
у squeezed orange 


(CURRIED ONION 


1 Imge Spanish onion 
2 tablespoons butter 
1 teaspoon curry powder 
14 teaspoon meat extract 
1⁄4 teaspoon lemon juice 
14 teaspoon sugar 
Salt, pepper 

Cut onion in half though stem end. 
Cut into thinnest possible 
slices. Break slices apart to make strips. 
Melt butter over low flame. Sauté onion, 
stirring constantly, until strips are just 
limp; do not brown. Stir in curry powder, 
meat extract, lemon juice and sugar. 
Season with salt and pepper. S; min- 
ute or two longer. Set aside 

To prepare bacon, place it in 
sed pan over a moderate flame 
until edges are browned. 
Remove bacon from pan. Do not wash 
Melt butter in same pan and scram- 
. Reheat onions, Place bacon and 
onions alongside eggs on serving. dishes. 
Warm brioche in ovem a few minutes 
before serving. Barle-Duc, the French 


crosswise 


n 


“There's no sense looking. 


whole-currant preserve, may be either 
red or white. Serve it chilled with cream 
cheese. 
Saturday Dinner 

Martinis 

Chateaubriand with Oysters au Poivre 

Baked Stuffed Potato, Grilled Tomato 

Escarale and Arugula Salad 

Mocha Menngur Glacée. 

Espresso 


ATEAURRIAND 


cut from filler of beef 


Salad oil 

Salt. pepper 

1⁄4 cup dry red wine 

1 teaspoon meat 

1 teaspoon parsley 

1⁄4 teaspoon lemon juice 

4 tablespoons butter at room tempe 

ture 

Chateaubriand is а thick double- or 
uiplesized portion of steak cut from the 
thickest. part of the fillet of beef. It 
should be trimmed of all fat and should 
stand at room temperature about a half 
hour before it is broiled. Oysters and 
steak are а sumptuous classical combina- 


tract 


very fin minced 


tion served on the same platter; often 
the oysters are dipped in the steak’s 


ide 


em 
ste: oysters, tomatoes and 
ty be handled in one oven 
for reheating, A borde of Chateau Mar 
злих or Chiem Haut-Brion should be 
uncorked about an hour before dinner. 

Preheat broiler, Brush steak with oil. 
Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Flatten 


course of 
po 


toes n 


. Harry doesn't drink either.” 


meat on cut side with meat mallet or 
cleaver until it is 3 to 4 ins. thick. Broil 
о 8 minutes on each side or to desired 
«loneness. In а small pan, heat wine and 
meat extract, stirring well, until wine 
reduced to about 2 tablespoons. Remove 
рап from fire. Stir in parsley, lemon juice 
and butter. Butter should be very soft 
but not completely melted. Do not re- 
heat butter mixture. When steak is done, 
cut it into diagonal slices. Spoon butter 
mixture on top. 


STERS AU POIVRE 


8 Imge or 12 
shucked oysters 
jj cup melted buter 
alt. celery salt. рар 
Freshly ground black pepper 


medium-sized freshly 


well on paper 
i. Dip them in burier. Sprinkle 
with salt and celery salt. Sprinkle very 
generously with freshly ground black 
pepper; don't be timid about it. Dip 
oysters in bread crumbs. Sprinkle lightly 
with salad oil and paprika. Place under 
preheated boiler and broil on both sides 
only until стт are light brown; avoid 
overcooking. 

To prepare potatoes, ci cap off 
two large baked Idaho potatocs, remove. 
pulp carefully to keep potato shells in- 
fact. mash potatoes with potato ricer, 
mix with butter and season to taste with 
salt. pepper and chives. Pile potatoes 
back into shells, smooth tops, sprinkle 
with grated parmesan cheese and pa 
pr nd bake 20 to 30 minutes longer 
in а moderate (3507) oven. Grilled toma- 
toes аге Euge, fresh, firm. ripe tomatoes 
cat in ball Gosswise, sprinkled with sal 
pepper. brown sugar and butter, and 
broiled until tender. Toss escarole and 
a salad with Frendi dressing or 
ich dressing 10 which a finely 
chopped hard-boiled egg has been added 
(iE arugula is not available, watercress may 
be substituted). Mocha meringue glacée is 
a large dip of rich coffee ice cream flanked 
on serving dish with two meringue shells; 
icc cream is topped with whipped cream 
d 2 or 5 marrons. 


Fre 


Sunday Brunch 


Bloody Marys 

Butiei-Fried. French 
Maple Syrup 

Grilled Small-Link 
Compote 

Danish Almond Strip 

Colle 


BATIERER 


Toast with Hot 


Sausages, Apple 


FRENCH. TOAST. 


4 slices white bread, 34 in, thick 
14 cnp milk 

14 cup flour 

1 tablespoon melted butter or s 
2 eges 

1 teaspoon brandy 

JA, teaspoon ground cinnamon 


4 teaspoon salt 
24 cup light cream 


Bread should be cut from an unsticed 
Luge white loal, preferably a day old 
Pour milk. flour. melted butter, eggs 
brandy, cinnamon and salt into blender 


Blend at low speed only. until smooth. 
Tour hatter into mixing bowl. Pou 
cream imo another bowl Н 


salad oil in skillet preheated a 
With two hands. carefully dip а 


bread into cream; hold bread 
only until it is moistened thro 


cream 
igh; avoid 


bres bread. Dip bread briefly into 
baner. Lower bread into skillet. Handle 
remaining three slices of bread in sa 


mani 1 place in skillet. Fry br 
umil medium brown on both sides. 
Sprinkle with confectioners’ sugar put 
through sieve or flour sifter. 


APPLE COMPOTE, 


mediunesized Delicious apples, peeled 
and cored 

1 cup water 

yj cup sugar 

1 piece stick cinnamon 

1 teaspoon. lemon. juice 

Pour water and sugar into saucepan 
Add stick cinnamon and lemon juice 

ring well. Simmer 5 minutes. Cut ap 
nto thin slices, Add to syrup. Sim 


mer until tender. about 5 minutes. Cool 
at room temperature. Chill in refrigera~ 
tor, preferably overnight. Serve cold or 
slightly warmed. 

Heat maple syrup slowly 
spoon or two of butter. only until butter 
melts. Grill sausages. following directions 
pack cooking so 


with a table- 


that 


uly to serve, The best so-called Danish. 
ish bakery 


pastry is usually [rom a D. 
The Danes have а way with butter-rich 
doughs and alm that's u 
matched by other pastry bakes. W 
the almond strip slightly before serving. 


db piste 
m 


Sunday Dinner 


Vodka Gimlets 

Shark'sFin Soup 

Peking Duck 

Honeyed Bananas, Pincapple Sherbet 
Jasmine Tea 


Excluding the gimlets, the entire 
ner should be ordered from a Chinese 
restaurant, Although the Chinese cuisine 
is one of the most exquisit 
Chinese restaurants vary tremendously in 
the cooking and presentation of their 
food. Shark'sfin soup is delicious wh 
gamished with Gab meat, Choose, if 
possible, a restaurant that is known for 

ally roasted 


its Peki 
id dipping 


din 


п the world, 


g duck. ls a <| 


duck served with scallions 


sauces. The crisp golden skin is emen 
with delicate Chinese crepes, called Pe- 


king doilies: the meat may be combined 
with Chinese vegetables or with fried 
rice 10 make additional courses, Ask 


what the procedures are for reheating 
the duck and steaming the thin crepes 
ог. if possible, have a waiter from the 
restaurant reheat and serve the meal. 
Ask also about handling the dessert, A 
chilled, slightly sweet white wine—a sut 
1eme, for example, which is not cloying 
—would fit in perfectly with such a memu 


Monday Breakfast 


Chilled, Freshly Squ 

Gouda or Edam Cheese 

Holland Rusk, Hard Roll, Heather 
Honey 

Coffee 


The Ca 
Holland always includes Gouda or Edam 
desse which ave delightful 
when they're somewhat aged. The pot of 
coffee should be freshly brewed and 
strong. as in the Dutch manner—a brief 
but pleasant moment. for. drinking up 
the glow of the holiday 

Now that you have the how for your 
paccbased weekend, all that remains. is 
finding the right who—and Шак where 
you're on your own, Good hunting 


d Orange Juice 


pental breakfast as served in 


both of 


This mani 


his man wouldn't run through life for anything. 
here's too much to see- To do. To experience. 


Life is his 


land he's going to make the most of it. 


For this man 


С 
there's only one kind of shoe. Our kind Verde, 


Stoughton, Mass. 02072 


Part of a brand new Establishment. 


s walking. 


PLAYBOY 


206 


MISS MALAWI CONTEST 


River, the Hudson Baptist Men's Clu 
must have known how ludicrous a spec 
tacle they were, and so, probably, had 


Amos n’ Andy known: "Let's unlix, 
Brother Andy. Get dose feet up on de 
desk and unlax yo'sell till Kingfish come 


from de Mystic Knights of de Se: 
Lodge.” But did they kuow, up on the 
Rainbow  stage—Elvis, Jim, the Ambi 


girls, the Lady of Spain accordion р 
his wife . . . his wife? For thei 
d his own peace of n al 
vently hoped they did that theirs 
was mockery in the same manner, getting 


er, 
sakes, 
fer- 


even with their whitefaced minstrel 
show, a form of revol, It was 

to consider that other thought, th: 
they believed in the mimicry of their 


names and masks, it was 
dereliction. 

А dereliction. 
except no business 
there. She stuck out li sore thumb. 
She was not trying to be white, she was 
not mocking: Her black integrity did not 
permit her to play along with the others. 
If she had a counterpart at home i 
Hudson, it was the white soprano hom 
the church choir who every year sang 
In My Sweet Little Alice Blue Gown 
and led those present that there 
existed under all that war paint a Jew- 
less master race, Вис what 
Zanama? 
The music stopped. 


a sad, terrible 


Tor everyone 


(continued from page 112) 
What in bloody hell 


ng on up 


udges were at a small table, 
doing arithmetic and comp 
Most of the giris smiled through running 
Ambi. Zanama beetled her ocher brows 
and looked fierce. 

“Will they announce the winner 
here?" Calvin ask d. 

“Always do,” said Bailey. She ate from 
the parcel in her lap, licked her fing 
ad said, "But they take their time 
about 


“T don't know why I came here,” stid 
sichole. 
"You could have stayed back at the 


bar,” said Calvin. "No onc forced you 10 
соте.” 
“What's that?” Major — Beaglehole 
А Calvi 


lowed his lips to be read 
“I meant to Айна” said Major Bea- 
glehole. 
Ain't it beastly,” said Bailey. 
They wear bandages on their legs, 
said Mavity. “And there айп а thi 
wrong with them. 
“The sods.” said B. 
“I'm the on 
ages" said Ma 
“This place,” Major Beaglehole looked 
around and winced, “ponks.” 
bleeding rubbish dump,” 


iley. She coughed. 
who should wear band- 


said 


Bailey. 
"Tt" Calvin looked at Bailey. 
'Stinks," said Bai:ey. 


*None of us is happy all the time, Farley! 


The doors of the theater we 
there were no fans, every scat was taken. 
The body odor was overpowering, an 
acidic old fruit smell, which, taken in a 
Whiff, groped into the nose and burned: 


humid and dark, the noxious air su on 
them, But Calvin was sure that it was 
the fact that he sitting between 


ıd Beagiehole that occasioned 
the comment. He knew he smelled worse 
than anyone in the place. 


“Then you shouldn't have come,” 
said Cal He meant to Africa. 
The audience was in milling disarray. 


People had left their seats. T 
gencral hubbub, some were singing 
Oobie Doobie: others, This World Is Not 


те was а 


My Home. At Calvin's feet, а woman in 
a Knitted stoc › suckled a kicking 
infant: other babies, bound up and 
slung like haversacks on their mothers 
yowled. Groups of angry boys slouched 

ound the theater, blowing through 
paper cones. 

"lag m 


"The drone of voices, the shullling of 
feet, the yip-yip of laughter, the stray 
shouts, all these mob noises drowned out 
the master of ceremonies. 

“Lays and germa 

The woman huddled on the floor at 
Calvin's fect stopped suckling her child. 
ned him over her knee and clapped 
him on the back 

“Your attention, please. 

But most of the atten 
on Zanama, who. mi 


ion. was focused 


кеа on her heck ng forward 
k. expected a war whoop, some 
But hers was а sullen 
y for the 
suspense it created. At first, Calvin had 
thought she was smiling; now he knew 
it was a si never been any- 
thing else. 

“Great to announce da 
winner of dis years Mis Malawi Con- 
س‎ 

The master of ceremoni 
down at the picce of paper in his hand. 
His expression was that of the man who, 
after z his nose, examines the 
wadded contents of his hanky before 
fol t and putting it into his pocket 
—satished but slightly apprehensive, He 
took a breath aud spoke. The name 
was not heard. 

An arrow thwacked а roof beam, An- 
other, Another, 

With the first ar 
fled оп wobbly 1 wb the second 
sent Elvis Masooka the accordion 
player scurrying for their instruments. 


b; 
kind of scream. 


menace and all the more sc 


s glanced 


blowi 


ow, l 
ls, 
and 


I a dozen girls 


Others pushed toward the exit. The 
third arrow stopped the master of 
ceremonies. 

nama threw down her bow and, 


with her spear tip jabbing at the mcs 
bow tie, snatched the hand mike from 


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him and cried. "Black! Black! Black! 


lam the winner?" 
Calvin gnawed his thumbs. 


Call the police,” said Bailey, gather- 
ing up her parcel of fried potatoes. "Get 
a constable!” 
vs the Houemot,” muttered Major 
slehole. Even with the plug of his 
ng aid torn out, he heard the moan 
of the mob tickling the dead drums in 
his ears. He winced. 

Why doesn't Mira” Calvin be- 
gan. He was drowned out by Zana 
shouting into the mike. 

"Bloody nonsense! This is all Jub- 
bis! I am an African. I am fat and 
strong! I have spaces between my 
teeth! 1 am black, black! 

For seconds, while Zanama shouted, 
Calvin was on her side. It was only right. 
She was black, she should win. He had 
been wrong about the others They 
weren't. mocking: they believed in Ambi 
amd Elvis amd pale hourglass loveliness 
with ironed hair and big boobs. They 
needed to be prodded into sense with a 


spear. Calvin would have sat in his se 
except that Zanama was beginning to te 
rorize the contestants, one of whom was 
his ama slashed with her knife. 
vaulted onto the stage and took 
Mira’s hand and led her out of the 
At the same time, Mavity passed 
yellow children to Major 
net, holding the other in his 
all, retreated through 
the crowd with his head down. 

The rest of the contestants, the master 
of ceremonies and all the performers 
left. Zanama had the stage to herself. She 
continued speaking. She proclaimed her- 
sell winner in the name of Brother Jaja 
and all that was black. She said, in a 
loud voice, that Africans were here to 
stay. The disruption was enjoyed by 
everyone, as if, after being deprived of 
such pleasure for so long, at last they 
were allowed it, the quaint activity of 
furious hollerings. It went on much long- 
er than anyone expected. The police, it 
turned out, were somewhere else. 


as 


“What a cheap trick! Is it any wonder I’m anti-Semitic?” 


PLAYBOY FORUM 


(continued from page 


into world-wide technological-ccological 
Planning, which includes outgrowing the 
nationalism that has not only provoked 
our present environmental contamina- 
tion but still threatens us with nuclear 
war, 


HEDONISTIC AND MATERIALISTIC 
In the December 1970 Playboy Forum, 
there appeared another installment i 
your debate with people who accuse 
PLAYBOY of being on the wrong side in 
ihe bawle for a healthier environment. 
You published a group of letters from 
people who proposed various political 
and economic solutions to our environ- 
mental. problems, solutions ranging from 
anarchism to socialism. You replied that 
politicians and idcologists “ 
bate the most just system lor distribut- 
g the commodities already in existence: 
ing new commodities to ra 
body's standard of living is the rask of 
the technologist.” 


You overlook the accomplishme 
of such men as Robesp 
Trotsky, Castro and Ché 


keeping with the hedonistic and mater 

alistic character of your magazine, you 
glorify the technologist for his ability to 
create new commodities. But our polit 
cal and economic systems cant. provide 
the necessities of life то all the people 
in this countiy—let alone provide 
them with new commodities—because 
the profit system requires manufacturers 
to price goods higher than people cin 
айо. 

Men who think of th 
tical have been operating machines for 
decades, but it t made the world a 
beter place for them. All that the work- 
ing people have gotten from this indus- 
is war, mays killing, depression 
and degradation, An elite that controls 
political power uses the creations of sci- 
emists and engineers for its personal 
i d for the destruction of mankind. 
umil the m who bandle the ma 
es become masters of their own desti- 
s by taking power for themselves will 
we begin to build а better world. 

Cal O Dell 
Hazel Park, Michigan 

Your apparent notion that the revolu- 
tionaries you list tangibly improved 
slandards of living, as opposed to merely 
rearranging them, is as accurate. as your 
belief that the lot of working people has 
nol improved during the industrial ста. 


mselves as prac- 


PSYCHOLOGY AND POLITICS 
Most people think of psychologists and 
psychiatrists as impartial scientists who 
describe in neutral terms precisely w 
ally exists. As psychiatrist Thos 
pointed out, this is often not 


Szasz 
the case. Much literature in this field 
simply rellects the moral or political 


prejudices of the author dressed up in 
the garb of scientific objectivity. Here is 
а particularly glaring example from а 
book called Handbook for the Hip 
Anti-Radical, by Professor Hunter Shir- 
Icy of Stout Stare University 


The cause of the radical's inner 
torment Без much too deep for any 
sympathy you feel to be of any help 
to him. His incapacity to love is not 
usually caused from never having 
been loved. 1t comes rather from an 
extremely harmful. mishandling of 
his own. emotiona 
radical is а person. who w 
self-pity, then arouses himself to a 
frenzy of aggressivity against the 
world, which he blames for 
everything he can think of which 
might provide reason why he сап" 
help but feel so sorry for himself. . 

To his friends and your. fr 
refer to him as “that guy ıl 
ways feeling sory for himself 
is your first step. After tha 
Л find that he is afraid of yo 
nd will give you the cold irca- 
ment. Perfect, A radical with а 
closed mouth is the very best kind of 
radical, if the 
а good radical. 


The issues tha Is from 
the silent majority are and spe- 
cific nce: Ts the war in Vietnam 
an imperialistic invasion by the United 
States or do the people of Vietnam really 


want us there? Is the government 
5 pre: the people of t 
Is the U. S. Government representing its 
citizens or is it merely a rubber stamp 


tions em be decl only by canini; | JACK Nicklaus Golden Bear Clubs 


the Facts of the objective world. By turn. 


ing all attention to the alleged subjective k 
defects of the radical. Professor Shirley by 
tansforms political. issues s 


lor the major corporations? The: 


logical issues and d 
tion while pretending to describe the 
issues scient 

Professor. Sl 


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recognize 
such a claim, it was ma 
tor Robert le Bug 
recognize a he 
moved. 

Incide: 


ary іне 

ast t 
le by the inquisi- 
who said he could 
міс by the way he 


ally, the same techniques arc 
olien used by 
Ralph Gi 
psychiatr 


e other side. as when 
nzburg published a survey of 
s who decided Barry Gold 
water was mentally incompetent or whei 
Dick Gregory announced that the U 
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Im white and have seen a bit of this 
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it—everybody is prejudiced. Further- 
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Well let black militants speak jor 
themselves. However, we'll volunteer the 
opinion that if blacks were the majority, 
they might oppress whites: and if Jews 
had been the majority in Germany, th 
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witches had been the majority. Christian- 
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historical table insning is no more rele- 
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your grandmother might actually have a 
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BY POPLAR DEMAND 

A friend of mine, who is a National 
Merit scholar amd the son of a Baptist 
minister, recently had a silly runin 
with the forces of benightedness in Pop 
. Montana, According to а newspaper 
dipping | received, my friend lost his 
job for refusing to shave when the school 
superintendent ruled his beard would be 
а “disruptive influence.” The superin 
tendent said the issue had nothing to do 
with the right to or right not to wear 
а beard" but was “the effect this [the 
bead] would have on the educational 
well-being of the students in Poplar 
h School." 

Опе can only hope Poplars sheltered 
youth ате not exposed to disruptive pic 
tures of Abraham Lincoln. Jesus Christ 
or William Shakespeare, who w 


pre than. 
d 


He that hath a beard is 
a youth, and he that hath no b 
is less than a man, 


Charles С. Jett 
Cambridge, Massachusetts 


JUDGE OF THE MONTH 

lawyer fiend of m 
showed me a decision rend 
Washington sine judge whe 


e recently 
d by a 
students 


sued their high school because its dress 
code forbids long hair on males. Unfor 
tmately, the young men lost—a setback 
for individual freedom, However, the сах 
gives us one of the wildest judicial pro- 
nouncements since the days of Judge 
Roy Be irness to the 


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informally rendered oral 
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essence of the de d is priceless 
(as indicated by the partial quote from 
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Now it was the school district's 
opinion here, or the opinion of the 
faculty, and apparently the student 


senate and the school board, that 
long hair beyond the collar or side- 
burns beyond the bottom of the car 
lobe is disrupt the | g 
process. 1 am convinced they arc 
ight. | don't think that the plain 
tiffs have a constitutional right to 
have hair longer than. the majority 
has decided. In this day and age of 
the Chicago Seven. where all of 
those fellows had beards and long 
hair: Manson on trial has the long 
I can't recall in this recent 
1 where the criminals blew the 
s head off in the courtroom, 1 
"t remember whether they were 
апей or not, but. most ol the 
fellows involved in drugs have long 
hair, and most ol the revolutioi 

that you read about 1 
(d 1 think that the т 


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Mis, J. Ad. 
Seattle, W 


MRS. HICKEY'S MESSAGE 


Mrs, Thomas Hickey stated in the Jan 
wary Playboy Forum that il she were 
Communist, she would tke 


teaching out of the schools, “be 
country was built on the Word of Gad.” 
Many people such as Мах, Hickey de 
cried the U.S. Supreme Court decision 
banning compulsory prayer public 
schools: they branded the Cour û tool of 
athe and Communists, Bur I wonder 
how Mis. Hickey would телес if the 
situation were «ирей the U.S. had 
а Modem majority and. children: wer 
expected to bow toward. Меса and. pray 
to Allah five times a day. Doubtless, Mrs. 
Hickey would complam about the loss 
ol her children’s religious freedom and 
would seek relief through the very couris 
she now accuses of corrupting America 
David R. Mosley 
Pasadena, Californi 


This is an answer to Mrs. Thomas 
Hickey and to all people of the older 
generation who share her lear of modem 
youth. 

We are your children. We grew up in 
your homes, We do not condemn your 


generation; rather, we try to understand 
it. We know that most of our parents 
were born during the Depression—they 
experienced. poverty, knew. bunger and 
lived with economic anxiety- These are 
experiences that we have not had, but 
we understand why those of you who 
lived through them set such a high value 
on Economic security now. 

Our experiences have been different. 
We have never known financial insecuri- 
ty and, hence, we are less afraid of it. 
Meanwhile, we are acutely aware of 
problems that your generation, in its 
concentration on monetary solvency, has 
managed to ignore—such as the danger 
that we will all be killed by an ecological 
disaster caused by air and water pollu- 
tion or by senseless political wars. 

People of your generation want to 
have [our coats, We are satisfied. with 
опе coat, if it keeps us warm. Besides, wc 
don't like being reminded of class dil- 
ferences, When we all wear old clothes 
and no make-up, w together: None 
of us knows who is richer or poorer. Us- 
ing status symbols to keep us apart, to 
emphasize our dillerences, while impor- 
tant to your gencration, secms immoral to 
ours. You see, most of us have not re- 
jected God, as you think we have; we 
take religion more seriously, not less se- 
riously, than your age group does. 

Even if all this still seems like “the 
creeping, crawling cancer ol communism” 
10 you, Mis. Hickey, please remember 
that, as America have the ri 
think thoughts different from. yours. 

Pam Southers 
Marietta, Georgia 


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RIGHTS OF YOUTH 
In the December 1970 Playboy Forum, 
rry E Sullivan wrote on the need for 
teenage liberation, commenting on the 
lick of legal and civil rights accorded 
10 teenagers, "There's а new book that 
should be helpful to u is in knowing 
what their rights are. H's called Up 
Against the Law: The Legal Righls of 
People Under 21 (New American Librar 
Signet Books, 1970), by Jean Strouse. 
Publisher Weekly poinied ош tha 
“Minors can be punished for many more 
offenses than first-class citizens... this 
book fills a long-felt need. It covers . . . 
students’ rights, including dress code. 
custody and divorce cases; drug use; 
abortions; the draft" Ir also has a эсс 
tion on sexual offenses. SIECUS believes 
that not only students but parents, youth 
workers, teachers, pediatricians, lawyers 
and clergymen should be awae of this 
excellent and timely book. 

Mary S. Calderone, M.D., Director 

Sex Information and Education 

Council of the United States 
New York, New York 


THE LIMITS OF LOVE 
The New York Times published “A 
Doctor's Letter to His Son," in which 


a physician offers some p 
boy departs for coll 
ticular gem: 


ilosophy as the 
Here is a par- 


Of course, you know that your 
mother and T love you deeply. 
There are limits to that love, Let me 
discuss one with you today 

Let us take, for example, the 
sweet little girl in Kent, Ohio. I feel 
nothing but sorrow that a beautiful 
young girl of great mental attain- 
ments be killed. Yet, Snap, if she 
had been studying—doing what he 
parents were paying for her to ac 
complish— would she have died? 

She was helping contest the 
ground with duly constituted U, S. 
authorities. In this case, I back the 
U.S. 1 think it rather remarkable 
that they didn’t shoot 200 more. In 
this case, the girl was a revolution- 
ary and she got exactly what а revo- 
lutionary should expect 

The same, Snap. would be true of 
you. If you cue to challenge the 
U.S. Govermnent, this is your alla 
If you get killed doing it, this is 
your affair. You see, there are consti- 
tutional ways to change the U.S. 
Government and 1 agree that it des- 
peuely needy changing. However, 
if you choose to uy to change it by 
revolution, expect to get shot. Moth- 
cr amd I will grieve but we will 
gladly buy a dinner for the National 
Guardsman who shot you, 


So now we know the limits of love 
modern America. We are d a 
cherish and rear ош children, but, like 
the citizens of Hitler's Germany or Sta 
lin's Russia, we must draw the line if 
they exercise their constitutional right to 
assemble, Thar is now revolutionary. 
Guided by the mindless chauvinism of 
“my country right or wong” (or is it 
"mein Führer righ or wrong"), w 
must not protest if they are killed; we 
must take their murderers to dinner to 
show our wholehearted support of the 
state, 


to fe 


HT hadn't seen this nauseating bit of 
totalitarian. ethics in print, I wouldn't 
have believed a citizen of this once or 
nery and rebellious nation could have 
written it. 
James J. Owens, U.S. N. (Ret) 
Naugatuck, Connecticut 


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VADIMS "PRETTY MADS 


to create a favorable reaction. I'm not the 
type of man who will say: “Cut your 
һай” or "I want you blonde,” but maybe 
unconsciously, like a painter, I have this 
vision of a certain woman inside me. 
Invariably, the girl I live with—through 
the mirror of my peronality—takes on 
something of my image of the idea 
woman. Perhaps what 1 brought most to 
dot was to help her liberate what һай 
just à. potenti 

Bardot and I are still good friends, 
But her career has not flourished since I 
left. In is been a disaster. She has 
such bad taste in choosing scripts. And 
she has surrounded herself with yesmen 
and yes-avomen, with no one strong 
enough to tell her not to make these 
nice little stupid, silly films, She's 36 
зу old and she can't play little girl 
roles anymore. It's always sad when you 
see such à. potential destroyed. I'm really 
nticipating her renaissance, D hope to 
help that occur by doing another film 
with her in the near future. 

I never thought my second wife—An- 
nette Stroyberg—had any future as an 
actress. She was happy just being a 
housewife. But it’s very difficult for a 
1 to stay home when her husband 
il die time on the set or in 
a he feels frustrated; after a 
while. she wants to participate in the 
same sort of life. So T gave her a part in 
Les Liaisons Dangereuses, as а wife who 


bei 


| 


{continued [rom page 160) 
goes insane ing on her hus 
band. Jt w; ry sort of charac- 
ter, not nperamental woman, and 
Annette was just fine in the role. But she 
meant much more to me—and had much 
more to olfer personal relation- 
ship. She had. че of humor; she 
could laugh with my [riends; she had the 
anarchistic sore of mind that I like. She 
represented. joy and beauty at a time 
when 1 felt that joy and beauty were 
dying im the world. I experienced the 
happiest 
living with Anm 
the mountains 
But, like 
beautiful in life 

Mier Annette and I were divorced, 1 
began living with Catherine Deneuve. 
Like Annette, Catherine didn't expect 
to become an aerress; in fac, 1 was first 
anraded 10 her becuse she was the 
ithesis of a Hollywood. product. She's 
very square, and she’s not sexy in most 
peoples terms. But she's openly and 
completely romantic, and in a world 
where romanticism is so often disguised, 
this very 
When Т say she's romantic, I mean she 
conveys a sense of purity and vulnerabil- 
ity. She's not really vulnerable, I found, 
but she gives that impression. In a sex 
film such as Belle de Jour, she portrays 


ements ol my life while 1 was 
te and my friends in 
ad in southern France. 
that is joyful and 
it was not to last. 


so much 


is a rare 


purity 
this alwa 
audiences. 

Seven. years ago, Catherine gave birth 
to our son, Christian. Having a child out 
of wedlock, especially nce, helped 
her career a great deal. French people 
love the und attacked as a 
monster, but it was very good publicity 
for Catherine, because it created this 
image of the poor, pure girl, a sort of 
Gallic Litle Orphan anie. She didn't 
want to get married unless it would last 
and since I knew, and she felt, 
that our relationship was mot strong 
enough to last. she decided it was better 
to remain single. Ironically, many doc 
tors had informed. her that, physiologi- 
cally, she couldn't have a child, so I sent 
her to a doctor for special treatment. I 
knew that she needed to have а baby. 
Many women find their own identity 
through some experiment in life. Some 
want to be Catherii wanted. 
a child. With J 

Thinking back 
having once told 


nd romanticism destroyed, and 
ys has a fantastic impact on 


n interviewer that I 
would prefer jail to marriage with the 
typical American woman: someone who 
drives а car—and waits for the man to 
open the door. I hate the typical Ameri- 
can woman's lack of imagination, her 
tendency to see everything as either 
black or white—and I can't stand her 
toughness. It's a man's society in the 
United States; you're respected. when 
you're powerful, when you make a lot of 
money, for what you do that is tangible. 
In order to be respected by men, котен 
must be just as tough. Consequently 
there's а noticeable tendency lor Ше 
American male to want to love а strong 
woman, Too many American men seek 
to perpetuate the mother image in their 
wives. They are fishing for the trouble 
they get when they marry 
nda, of course, is not the typi- 
ican woman. When I met her, Í 
s going through à period in which Î 
thought T would nev in be in love 
which is rather childish. I spent an 
evening with her at her agent's apart- 
ment. She had. this huge birthday cake, 
because the agent thought it was Jane's 
birthday, bur it was a month premature 
—November 21 instead of December 21. 
"Though it was the wrong day, something, 
happened that evening with Jane. Only 
once before in my lile cin T remember. 
being so immediately attracted by 
зип, The other occasion was when X 
was 18 and really fell in love for the fas: 
th a lite girl of 16. More than. 
1 recall her attitude, the 


wo 


We were married in 1965, а 
its very cle 


1 today 
to me what I brought to 


estimated her potential, She always 
thought that she would do beu as a 


stage actress, in character parts. Never 
could she accept, on a conscious level, 
the idea that she could become a true 
star—someone who brings her personali- 
ty to the screen. Anne Bancroft is а 
fantastic actress, but she is just that. She 
will go from one role to another without 
stealing the part, Because she was a stat, 
Marilyn Monroe stole any part she 
played. So did Marlon Brando. Though 
he's a perfect actor, Sir Laurence Olivier 

i take over a role and make it 
his own. Jane was really on the verge of 
becoming a star, of lening her personality 
explode and giving a trademark 10 any 
part she might play. What I gave her was 
the ability 10 let hersell go. to respect 
herself, not only as an actress but also as 
а wo 

Jane was in search of her identity 
when we were together. Now that we are 
ıt, she has found it in dedication to 
social and political causes, It's so rare for 
people to find exactly what it is they 
want to do—and then to get to do i 
For this reason, Tm happy for her. But 
Im a dite fightencd sometimes, be- 
cause I don't know where it will end. On 


several levels, what she's doing is danger 
But since she has chosen to be a 
revolutionary and accepts the risks, what 
jı I to say? At this w we have not 
п cach other for months, and this lias 
been dificul for me. All my life, I've 
needed someone close beside me, wheth 


ous. 


se 


it be dog, wife, friend, mi 
I don't like to sleep alone. 


tress or child. 


bei 
Nor does she hold the typical American 
which I so abhor 
and which were dramatized just recently 
by one of the actresses in Pretty Maids 
All in a Row—a 19-year-old girl who had 
been semioficially engaged lor over a 
year. She arrived on the set one day with 
а big smile and shos 
m 


sed me an engage- 
at ring on her finger. “I finally got 
my ring." she told me. “And you know 
why? Yesterday, for the first time, 1 had 
this terrible fight with my boyfriend. I 
screamed at him and walked out He 
called me later and said that he had my 
ring. Га been trying to get it for six 
months.” And I thought: My God! This 
marriage will really be terrible. Imagine 
the weakness of this boy, The first time 
the girl shows that she can really bite, he 
gives her a present, demonstrat 
he's impressed. She'll do it 
course. just to show that she's strong, 
when she wants to get something els 

Maybe Im sounding unusually 
but special situ: 
which 1 found myself on Preity Maids, Т 


we 


functioned as а sort of father to the 
performers. For the first time in many 
years, I wasn't living with the star of the 


film 1 was directing, (That was rather 


fortunate, since the star of this film is 
Rock Hudson.) So 1 had to work a lite 
harder to create real intimacy on the set, 
Physical contact is an integral part of 
that sort of relationship, and throughout 
the film, I found myself. unconsciously 
holding а hand or caressing the nape of 
a neck or patting а back. Before a scene 
begins, | always hug am actress, just to 
comfort her. Often FI give her a fleeting 
iss. With men, it’s a little different, I'll 
put an arm d an actor's shoulder 
instead. You must remember, of course, 
that 1 am French. 

Actors and aciresses 
to the director, give more of themselves. 
This was essential to the story of Pretty 
Maids, which is a black comedy about a 
high school athletic coach (Hudson) 
who seduces eight coeds and then mur 
ders three of them. In casting these eight 
roles, I tried 10 get girls like those you 


то 


if they relate well 


cm find anyphie, but a Jite above 
average in sex appeal, I didn't want to 
fall imo the nap of making a typical 


Hollywood movie, like a Dean Martin- 
or Frank Sinatratype comedy featuring 
а covey of glamorous girls who are very 
beautiful but have no personality and are 
just like soap. 
Despite the m 


lüple murders, Pretty 
satire than serious drama. 
rent concern of the com 
ng the murders is whether 


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ancellation of next 
weeks football game. Our point: How 
Jittle importance is placed on an 
lives today. From my own experience, I 
feel that sex and violence are very close, 
The most striking example I can recall is 
ime I lost my virginity. The girl was 
le older than me and. not very be 
sort of flat, with a big nose and dark 


they'll force th 


hair. It was during the War, in June of 
1944. and we were staying at a little 
farmhouse in Normandy for a couple of 


days. The first night, we cooked a very 
ice rabbit à la cême for dinner, and 
then repaired to the barn, where the 
farmer had offered us a place to sleep on 
the hay. Just before dawn, I made love 
for the first time in my life. Alka for the 
first time, I came—which is logical. A 
few seconds after—perhaps а few seconds 
befare—the walls began to shake, The 
roof falling on us. The wl 
nh trembling. The sound 

credible. It was like the creation or the 


was 


was 


end of the world. My first fecling w 
My God! Tha's great! Have 1 de 

iha? Th sumed out that this was the 
shelling from the D-day invasion. 1 must 


admit thar it's never been the same since, 

Т also feel that sex and death are very 
close—a point that is emphatically made 
in Pretty Maids. During times of war, 
people make love more often than when 
everything is fme. In disorganized times, 
such as the present, when сусту nation is 
going through a fantastic metamorpho- 
sis, people are a little lost. The only 
thing that brings them back 10 earth, to 
а form of stability, is ses—ihe one level 
on which everyone talks the same lan- 
age. The puritans of this world think 
100 much sex is a sign of decadence. 
nk it’s a sign of something very 
healthy—that society is changing. When 
And God Created Woman was veleased 
in this country, sex still was taboo. Since 
thea, something has happened. to liber- 
ate people's minds, The American fear 
of sex is gradually diminishing—in. mo- 
tion pictures, in periodicals, on the stage, 
in privare. lile. Thar's one of the most 
refreshing developments I've noticed on 
my curent visit. By going through: this 
experience, perhaps one day Americas 
1 finally become adults. 


“Gol that? Smoldering sibling jealousy suddenly 


erupts into violence. Action! 


sixth sense 

(continued from page 136) 
happened could be known and expl 
by the Newtonian physics. 

Telepathy. prophecy 
forces seemed to be so unlikely 
of existing knowledge that there was no 
point in bothering about them. Toward 
the end of the 19th Cc . Hermann 
Ludwig von Helmholtz. then the greatest 
living expert on sensory communication, 
expressed the scientific attitude. of his 
time toward ESP 

“Neither the testimony of 
Fellows of the Royal Society 
the evidence of my own sense 
lead me to be he transmission. of 
thought from one person to another in- 
dependently of the recognized channels 
of sense.” 

In the years since Helmholtz, made 
that statement, classically oriented scien- 
Lists have remained. a ally skep- 
tical. As late ах 1951. McGill. University 
psychology profesor D. О. Hebb, writ- 
ing in the Jounal of Personality, echoed 
Helmholtz: 

“Personally, I do noc accept ESP for 
it does not make sensi 
e the beha 


ll of the 
nor even 
would 


ve 


moment. because. 
2. ESP is not a fact, despi 


ioral evidence that has been reported. 
‚ My rejection , „ . isin a literal seme 
prejudice, 
In a 1954 Lifemagarine article, Al- 
dous Huxley commented on Нер 


stitement: 

“That а m: 
prejudice to. omweigh 
E enough. Ir is even 
st rejecting 


1 of science should allow 


evidence 
stranger 10 
psychologi 


seems 


ind à psyc 


cal discovery simply bec mot be 
explained. Psi is inni no more 
inexplicable than. say, perception or 
memory: it is merely less common.” 
There is nothing unusual about ihe 
fanatical resistance to pi Almost all new 
ideas are rejected at first. No опе wants 
to be a fool, least of all the scientist. 
Lavoisier and Laplace both refused. 10 


nce of 
ET 


believe in the exist mees. As 
Lamarck ssid recognition for a 
truth is often much more. difficult 
10 discover it.” 


ло 


new 
tha 


in psi is not a new Ie is a very 
old idea. And that may be the main 
reason why the modem scientist 
so much 
days when the world w nge and 
unp ad filled with the terror 
rd Vhe scientist would like 
to believe (hat those days are gone, con- 
d by technol 
. the 
been тєрї; 
bar the scien 


Psi is a surv itive 


сае 


unknown. 


ed by 


quant 
"s habit of thought has 
not adjusted. accordingly. He sees the 
universe Kind of windup lock 
very e ted clock, of course, but ot 
whose п be prediced if you 


know the rules of the system. The trouble 
with psi is that it doesn't seem to obey 
any of the rules of physics. Therefore it is 
dismissed—not because the evidence for 
its existence is any less compelling than 
the evidence for the existence of other 
forces of nature, but because it doesnt 
make any sense. 

The main effort of parapsychology is 
to make psi make seme. This has not 
been an easy job. The inclusion of the 
parapsychology panel at the A.A.A.S. con- 
vention was а major victory. The battle 
is far from over, but at least the parapsy- 
chologists are being heard. 

To understand why it took so long, we 
have to look at the nature of the evi- 
dence. The data on which psi rests falls 
into two categories—anecdotal and ex- 
perimental. Throughout history, stories 
of mysterious supernatural events have 
fascinated adults and children alike. Even 
today, collections of ESP tales occasionally 
find their way onto the bestseller lists; 
but however good reading they may 
make, they rarely provide the kind of 
objective evidence that will convince a 
reasonably sophisticated reader. 

An example from a recent book by 
Ruth Montgomery illustrates the prob- 
lem. Miss Montgomery tells the follow- 
ing story in A Search for the Truth: 


On a rainy January night in 1943, 
the wile of General Nathan F. 
Twining [lormer chairman of the 
Joint Chiefs of Staff] was asleep at 
her home in Charlotte, North Caro- 
lina, when a soun c a dap of 
thunder" awakened her. Opening 
her eves, she "saw" her husband 
standing at the foot of the bed, al- 
though she knew that he was half- 
way around the world, commanding 
the 18th Air Force in the Pacific 
Theater of w 

"p saw Nate's face and hands 
clearly, even to his West Point ring,” 
Maude Tw ‘Then, 
I watched, his fingers lost their grip 
on the footboard, and he gradually 
disappeared. The experience was so 
eerie that the hair literally stood up 
on the nape of my neck, 

The next day Mrs. Twini 
ceived a long-distance call from а 
friend, whose husband also an 
officer in the South Pacific, asking if 
she could come down to visit for a 
few days. 

“I had difficulty suppressing my 
alarm, because 1 felt that she was 
being sent to me for some reason 


connected with Nate,” [Mrs. Twin- 
ing] confesses, "but her three day 
stay was uneventful. Then, two hours 


after she left, I received official no 
fication that Nate had been missing 
for over three days at sea, Although 
she and 1 had not known it at the 
time, her husband was in charge of 
the widespread search for Nate's 


plane, which had gone down the 
Ё B 


An 
plane in which G 
and 14 others 


ces of the 
neral Twining 
ad been 


airbase, had 
day that Mis. Twining, was notified. 
The following day, searchers spot 
two Ше rafts lashed together, and a 
navy hydroplane managed to rescue 
the severely sunburned, ravenous 
men alter four days on the storm- 
tossed seas, 

General Twining knew nothing of 
his wife's strange vision on the night 
that his plane went down, but in 
his first letter to her after the ordeal, 
he wrote that just before the p 
crash-landed in the angry Pacific dui 
ing a raging typhoon, he clearly 
her looking in at him through 
the rain. 


Mw" 


Undoubtedly, this happened exactly 


the way 
Twining tell it; but before accep 


Mis Montgomery and Mrs. 


as evidence, a skeptical investigator 
11 to ask а Lew questions. Did 
ning tell anyone about her 
sion before she was notified of her hus- 
Or, perhaps, did 
he noted the 
event while it was fresh. in her n 
Had she ever had other similar v 
that had no such dramatically my 
sequels? Had General Twining seen her 
pear before him at other times? 
words, given the authenti 
Twinings’ simultaneous. vision, 
was there anything about the incident 
that could nor be explained by coinci 
dence? And was it so u y à сой 
dence for а woman separated. from her 
husband by war to dream about him 2t 
ight? That on one of those nights, her 
husband, an Air Force ge 
an air war, should go down д 
what might have been his List thoughts 
оп earth should include his wife's face? 
Until the end of the 19th Cemury, the 
evidence supporting ESP consisted. en- 
tirely of such raw, unverified stories of 


“As he opened the top button of her 
blouse and exposed more of her lovely skin, 
Rodric’s heart pounded even more fiercely. His 
hands quivered as he reached to complete his 


task. 


"Stop" commanded Father 


Antonio.” 


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inexplicable events that, if truc, required 
an enormously painful faith in c 
dence or, worse yet, ran counter to the 
known principles of physics, chemistry 
and biology. 

Some British scientists, however, sus- 
pected that there might be something of 
value in the irritatingly persistent reports 
of mysterious happenings. In 1889, a 
number of them founded the Society for 
Psychical Research to rigorously examine 
the events taking place beyond the bor 
ders of orthodox science. 

Three years later, a similar society was 
formed in the U.S. Today, there are 
Psychicalresearch groups im at least a 
dozen countries, Parapsvchology research, 
as it is now known, is conducted in a 
number of universities and, in some 
schools, higher degrees are awarded. 

With the declared purpose of study- 
ing all psychic phenomena without 
offering any opinion on their nature, the 
psychicalresearch societies winnowi 
the obviously fraudulent case 
a reputation for integrity. 

“Were I asked to point to a scientific 
journal where hardheadedness and nev- 
ersleeping suspicion of sources of error 
might be seen in their full bloom, F 
think I should have to fall back on the 
proceedings of the Society lor Psychical 
Research,” said psychologist William 
James. 

In addition to investigaion of ESP 
cases, the English society undertook a 
certain amount of statistical research, In 
fact, its first project was а survey of 
17.000 persons to determine how many 
had received sensory impressions while 
awake that could not be explained: by 
any apparent physical cause. About ten 
percent answered yes, and similar surveys 
have produced approximately the same 
response over the years. 

Until the arrival of J. B. Rhine on the 
parapsychology scene, there was little rig- 
orous laboratory experimentation to de- 
termine ESP. Psi has always heen difficult 
to pin down: it happens when it hap- 
pens which may or may not be in a 
laboratory. Rhine's great contribution 
was the creation of the first series of 
experiments designed to detect and meas- 
ure psi. 

Rhine was a Chicago botanist who, 
with his wife, Louisa, had become inter- 
ested in parapsychology afier hearing Sir 
Arthur Conan Doyle lecture on spiritu: 
ism. In 1996, he joined the Harvard 
University psychology department as а 
research assistant. The chairman of the 
department was William McDougall, а 
former president of the British Soci 
for Psychical Research. McDou; 
Harvard and went ro Duke Un 
1927 and Rhine followed. 

In 1931, Rhine published Extra Senso- 
ry Perception, in which 
research at Duke and claimed to have 


aig found overwhelming evidence of the 


existence of ESP, In 1940, the Duke 
Parapsychology Laboratory was estab- 
lished, with Rhine as director, Until 1965, 
when Rhine retired and left the Univer- 
sity, Duke was the most important. para- 
psychology cemter in the world. The 
labs work is continued by Rhine's Foun- 
dation for Research on the Nature of 
Man, which has headquarters in Durham, 
North Carolina, a 52.000.000 endowment 


and ESP research projets in Ind 
Sweden and Czechoslovakia, among otl 
places. 

In a typical experiment at Duke, the 


percipient—the person being tested— 
would guess the symbol on a card that 
lay face down in front of him. There 
were 25 cards in the specially designed 
deck, each carrying one of five different 
symbols, According to the laws of prob- 
ability, the percipient would be expected 
to guess five cards correctly by chance 
alone, In any particular run through the 
deck, he might guess as many as eight 
correctly and still be within the reason 
ble limits of chance. If he were to guess 
15 correctly. we would be surprised, since 
as à chance occurrence, this would be 
expected only about once in 70,000 runs. 

If he were to guess consistently above 
five in а long series of runs, we would 
begin to suspect fraud or recording error 
presence of ESP. To test for 
Rhine theorized, all you had 
to do was eliminate the possibility of 
fraud or recording error. 

Most of the subjects Rhine tested 
scored at the level of chance, but some 
individuals scored consistently higher 
than others, averaging eight or nine cor 
rect guesses over а large number of runs. 
And one percipient, Hubert E. Pearce, а 
student in the Duke School of Religion. 
averaged eight correct guesses per run 
in over 600 runs, The probability of this 
occurring naturally is astronomic 

The publication of Extra Sensory Per- 
ception made ESP а household word, but 
psychologists elsewhere found that they 
could not duplicate Rhine's results when 
they repeated. his experiments. In. the 
following years, Rhine was criticized for 
sloppy technique. It was found that the 
P candy symbols could be read from 
their backs in a certain light because the 
printing showed through. In some high- 
scoring series, there were errors in re 
cording. As the objections were raised, 
1иепей his procedures; with 
ag. the ESP factor declined. 
wd more trials were under 
taken with the same subjects, scores fell 
closer and closer to the chance level, an 
effect Rhine attributed to monotony, but 
which his critics claimed was the inexora- 
ble working of probability. 

Although Rhine and others continued 
the card experiments for а number of 
years under varying conditions, scientists 
outside the field of parapsychology began 
to take the results less serious! 

The rational criticisms of Rhine and 


his followers fell 
ri 


no four main catego- 


The statistical principles 
used to demonstrate the existence of ESP 
re technically wrong. Or, granted that 
results deviate from chance to а sign 
icant extent in isolated eases, unusual 
sometimes occur, without any 
эп, despite statistical im 
ty—perlect hands at bridge, lor 


Statistical: 


Theoretical: No phy hypotheses 
ve been adequately developed to ac- 
count for events that, if true, violate all 
the laws of modern physics and that 
usually can be explained by other means. 

Psychological: Psi phenomena are prob- 
ably the reuh of cooperative hallu- 
cination between researcher and subject, 
псе the Most successful exper 
ve admittedly involved situations 
n which either or both have shown a 
predisposition to believe in psi. 
raud: In instances where fraud-detec- 
tion devices such as motion-picture cam- 
and tape recorders have been either 
covert or overt observers of statistically 
iented psi experiments, the results 
ve been shown to be cither conscious 
aud or unconscious fraud in which 
errors in observation or record keeping 
favored the bias of investigator and/or 
subject. 

In 1966, С. Е М. professor 
of psychology, Un of Wales, 
published а detailed review of the exper 
mental evidence, ESP: A Scientific Eval- 
uation, amd observed: "In the case of 
each of these conclusive experiments, the 
result could have arisen through a trick on 
the part of one or more of those taking 
rt... A great deal of time, effort and 
money has been expended, but am ac- 
ceptable demonstration of the existence 
of extrasensory perception has not been 
given. 

One extensive recent ment tends 
to support the critics of ESP. In а yea 
long study undertaken by the United 
States Air Force, subjects were asked to 
guess numbers generated by а random- 
number device called VERTTAC. Tt was 
а completely mechanized experiment in 
which the possibility of fraud or human 
error appears to have been eliminated. 
No one was able to demonstrate a sign 
icandy better than chance abilit 

Despite the disappointing results from 
the stati approach to ESP, а num- 
ber of scientists believe that а case can 
be made for telepathy on an exper 
tal basis. They may not be convinced 
that such a case has yet been made, but 
they do not entirely reject the work that 
has been done so far 

Bernard Berelson and the late Gary A. 
Steiner, authors of Human Behavior: An 
Inventory of Scientific Findings, a book 
that auempts “to present as fully and 
accurately as possible what the behav 
ioral sciences now know about the be 
havior of human beings,” had these 


Hansel, 


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comments about the psi debat 
wdged by the scientific s 
ordinarily applied in other areas 
psychology, the evidence is often. persua- 
sive, although at the same time it is not 
as reproducible as one would wish in a 
scientific discipline, . . . There ha 
been some allegation of trickery or fr 

п the conduct or reporting of FSP studies. 
But it is fair to say that there is no sub- 
stantiating evidence for suc! i 

At the A.A.A.S. symposium, one of the 
speakers, Dr. Montague Ullman, direc- 
tor of the department of psychiatry at 
Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, 
N. Y., said, “To my mind, the charges of 
fraud will eventually redound to the sup- 
port of parapsychological research. The 
idea that over a 100-year period, in 
so many different countries, men with the 
same credentials as their colleagues in 
other sciences have engaged in а world- 
wide international conspiracy risking their 
reputations and devoting their lives to 
wicking their colleagues, is а less tenable 
hypothesis than psi itself.” 

Dr. Robert Van de le, of the 
versity of Virginia School of Medicine, 
pointed out that the statistical argument 
would seem to have been seed 1937 
when the annual meeting of the Ame 
can Institute of Mathematical. Statisti- 


of 


e's investigations have two 
aspects: experimental and statistical. On 


the experimental 
course, have поп 
ical side, however 
work has established the fact that, assum- 
ing that the experiments have been 
properly performed, the statistical analysis 
is essentially valid. I she Rhine investi 
gation is to be fairly attacked it must be 
on other than mathematical grounds.” 

The pinapsychologists believe that their 
experiments reached the point 
where they can no longer be attacked on 
procedural grounds either. The best of 
their research, like the hest experiments 
of the physical scientists, is now subject 
to strict controls designed to eliminate 
the kind of errors that used to occur 
They want to be judged on the basis of 
their results. 

Those results have been slender and 
marginal, but consistent. They have had 
a slender and marginal effect on sd 
tific opinion. Berelson and Steiner report 
thar the majority of psychologists are 
not convinced, but they alio point out 
that most psychologists have not studied 
the subject, They summarize four sur 
veys of members of the American. Psy- 
chological Association, "showing some 
increase. over the years, in the willingness 
to accept ESP as a possibility, but very 
itle acceptance of the concept as 
lished fact! " 

As might be expected, youngi 
chologists showed the greatest incl 


хет mathematical 


‘es 


pý 


to believe in the possibility of ESP. Only 
four percent thought it was an established 
fact, but 27.8 percent felt it was a likely 
possibility. In each survey, the majority 
thought that ESP was either a remote 
possibility or merely an unknow 

Scientific arguments аге as tedious as 
most legal arguments and just as difficult 
to fallow. The scientists. like the lawye 
seem to prefer it that way. Tt keeps the 
teurs out of the game. In attempting 
10 make mathematical sense out of psi, 
the statisticians reduced a miracle of 
nature to an accountant's nightmare. It 
may have made no more sense in this 
translation, but at least it wasn't enter- 
ining any moi 
This was a great contribution to the 
future of parapsychology. The work of 
Rhine and his followers did not do 


much to help the scientific community 


to understand psi, but it did begin to 
make the subject respectable. Anything 
that dull had to be respectable, By cast- 
ing psi in the obscure symbolism of the 
scientific equation. Rhine engaged the 
attention of the scientist and forced. a 
new level of debate. 

At this new level, the parapsycholo- 
gists have been able at last to present 
their resulis to a jury of their peers, 
rather than ta a kangaroo court of 
ademic bigots. The outcome of the 
trial is still in doubt. There is too much 
research still to be donc. But it is no 


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longer an act of heresy to speak pos 
ly about psi 

Maybe heresy seems too medieval a 
word to use in this context, but a litle 
story should help establish its appro 
In 1992, und Freud had 
п to explore ESP in "Dreams and 
Telepathy,” an article published in the 
International Journal of Psychoanalysis. 
He planned to read а full-length essay, 
Psychoanalysis and Telepathy, to the 1 
ternational Psychoanalytic Congress that 
year. It never happened. Ern 
Freud's biographer and a. pioneer in the 


psychoanalytic movement, convinced him. 
that it was too dangerous 

In a leuer to an те. 
searcher, Freud wrote, y life 


to live over ag; 
to psychic 


rather. than. 


py 


choanaly . he wrote Jones 
thar recent telepathic experiments had 
persuaded him “to lend the support of 
psyclioa n, 


Jones conv 

It is perhaps possible to exi 
what the attitude of science was to ESP 
if Sigmund Freud, who was not afraid to 
speak freely about che darkest urges of 
human sexuality, could not reveal his de- 
finitive thoughts about psi. Psychoanalysis 
and Telepathy unpublished 
until after his death. 

Today, the atmosphere has changed. 
"There arc reputable scientists outside the 


ned. 


feld of parapsychology who con- 
vinced that the strange abilities of people 
such as Richard Ireland are not necessarily 
conjuror’s fakery but possible evidence of 
wal forces as yet unknown but not 
unknowable. 

Among them is Dr. Henry Ма 
professor of physics and natural philoso- 
phy at Yale, who told a meeting of the 
American Society for Psychical. Rescarc 
t would seem just as unreasor 
me to doubt what . . . psycholog 
high repute tell me about parapsychology 
it would be to doubt the reports of 
highly esteemed astronomers such as Dr. 
Allan Sandage about quasars. As a 
matter of fact, T am as disturbed in my 
own mind, and at the sime time fasci 
nated, by the things I read about quasars 
as I am by clairvoyance, telepathy and 
precognition. 


Although Ama 
have com 
from the 


parapsychologists 
very far with very little help 
evidence, it may be that they 
still if they had 
nxious to be more scientific 
ists. In order to provide 
that the orthodox scien- 
tist might be more inclined to accept as 
fact, they restricted themselves almost 
completely to the quantitative, statistical 
method. 

According to Russian psi expert Dr. 
Lutsia Pavlova, who has used ihe electro- 


could have gone furth 
not been so 


encephalograph to study brain-wave pat- 
terns associated with psi. Rhine's tech 
que; which is the basis of most American 
research, may be the most difficult way of 
gen and examining ESP. 

"We found it best not to send tele 
pathic signals too quickly,” she reported 
in a scientific paper published in Mos. 
cow in 1967. "If different telepathic bits 


come too rapidly, the changes in the 
brain associated with telepathy begin to 
blur and finally disappear. The ESP card 


tests аге built on the idea of transmitting 
a great many telepathic bits of informa 
tion im а very short time to build up 
statistical evidence.” 

For a long while, Americans were main- 
ly concerned with proving the existence 
of psi. They did not bother themselves 
very much about how it worked. Rhine 

¢ claimed 10 offer any theories ex. 
Even today, there is a kind 


plaining 
ol stud 


nocence, 


work to claim 
t they are 


too unsure of thei 
they understand wh 


But in order to make sense out 
of psi, parapsychologist has to do 
more than prove йз existence, more 


than translate behavioral observations 
into mathematical equations, Where psi 
threatens to destroy existing scientific 
structure, new structure must be created 
Wherever possible, the concepts of psi 


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ought to be integrated into the existing 
structure. It would seem to be the re- 
sponsibility of the creative parapsycholo- 
gist lo make it casier for the scientist to 
accept the facts of psi. 

To date, little such help is available. 
As a result, it's easier to find excuses for 
rejecting psi than it is to find excuses for 
accepting it. Yet there seems to be 
enough information available to begin 
to acme a theoretical framework on 
which the facts of psi may be hung. 

For example, Karlis Osis, of the Ameri 
can Society [or Psychical Research, de 
scribed an experiment to test the strength 
of telepathy over a distance. The results 
indicated. that psi does weaken with dis 
tance, but not in the same way as other 
forms of energy. 

This is an extremely significant discov- 
ery. One of the main scientific objections 
10 psi is that it does not appear to obey 
any of the laws of physics. Does it obey 
ny laws ob ils own? Osis experiment 
hints that it may. It may be that the laws 
of psi will be found to have no relation- 
ship at all to the Liws of physics. But if a 
consistent logic of psi can be demonstrat- 
ed. the physical scientist will at least 
have something that he can begin to 
understand, if not accept. 
archers ате unwilling 
vain any guesses on the nature of 
SP, some believe that the future may 
show that psi is an electromagnetic proc- 
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telepathy have been Russian. "We must 
understand telepathy in the light of 
materialism,” one Russian scientist told. 
Chicago Tribune reponer Norma Lee 
Browning, “The brain is the en 
radiations with various wave lengths and 
thus the source of electromagnetic fields. 
The best-known experts in Russia were 
Dr. Bernard Kazhinski, an electrical 
gineer whose book Biological Radio Com- 
munisation was published in 1962 by the 
nian Academy of Sciences, and Leo- 
iliev, former head of the L 
ity physiology depart 
In 1963, Vasiliev claimed to have con 
ducted successful. long-distance telepathy 
experiments between Leningrad and Se- 
vastopol a distance of 1200 miles, with 
the aid of an uluashorewave radio 
transmitter, Vasiliev was convinced. thi 
his experiments and those he conducted 
jointly with the Bechterev Brain Insti 
tute offered scientific proof of telepathic 
communication, His next goal was to 
idemify the nature of brain energy that 
prod 


cs it. 
ıe discovery of such 
ount to the 


hc 


1 energy. 


said, "would be tma 
covery of nuclear energy. Long-distance 
suggenion could be of gigantic signil 
icance for science and life.” Unfortu- 
mutely, death intervened, 


Recently, the Russians reported in 
220 some detail the results of other, newer 


telepathy experiments, Messages have 
been sent over distances of 1860 miles, 
said Dr. 1. М. Kogan, head of the proj- 
eat. Yury Kamensky, the transmitter, sat 
in а Moscow office thinking hard 
pictures of six objects on a table in front 
of him, staring at each for 15 minutes. In 
Novosibirsk, the receiver, Karl Nikolayev, 
concentrated on receiving, the bros 
According to Dr. Kogan, Nikolayev then 
sketched objects almost identical with 
those wansmiticd by Kamensky, includ- 
ing such distinctive shapes as а coil 
spring and a colfcepot. 

The status of parapsychology in the 
Soviet sphere of influence is not clear, In 
the summer of 1968, two young women 
writers, Sheila Ostrander, а Canadian, 
and Lynn Schroeder, an. American, visit- 
ed Soviet Russia, Bulgaria and Caccho- 
ia to explore psychic research in 
socialist countries. When they re- 
turned they wrote а book, Psychic Dis 
cowries Behind the Iron Curtain. This is 
one of those girlishly breathless pieces of 
jomnalism in which lots of exclamation 
points and enthusiastic descriptions of 
chattering computers do not quite hide 
the authors almost total ignorance of 
science. As a result, it is difhcult most of 
the time to figure out what the girls siw 
behind the Iron Curtain. Craig Vetter, 
PLavnoy Staff Writer, spoke to them when 


bout 


the 


the book was published. 
"They said ev 
Vetter reported. 


jones got an aura 
You know. like a halo. 
Only it isn’t a halo, exactly. И has these 
prongs, Everyone has them, they said. 
AL youre sick, it's because one of your 


prongs is bent, and what you have 
to do is go to see this lady who special- 
izes in straightening prongs. She straight- 


ens your pre 1 you're just fine.” 
The closest thing in the book to what 
ет is talking about is Kirlian photog. 
ically, photography with high 
Irequency electrical fields,” the authors 
explain in а notveryhelplul descriptio 
Nowhere in their published account 
there а lady who stiaightens prongs. 

Kirlian photography sounds wond 
ful. So does everything else in the hook 
But it is difficult to avoid the suspicion 
that this book is about as credible as the 
stories the girls are telling about prong 
straightening, 

Despite this, it is possible to pick up. 
some interesting insights. One Soviet sci- 
cnüst suggests that telepathic impulses 
are radiated along the lines of bits of 
information in а cybernetic system, An- 
other is working on the idea of time as 
eneigy, speculating that psi may be prop- 
gated through а supposed tine-ener 
system rather than the electromagnetic 
field. 

It is gospel among Western pi 
s that the Soviets are 
in psi research, backing 


chologi 
heavily 


it with 


comp'ete academic and fin sup 
port. That may indeed be true, but one 
experience reported by Ostrander and 
Schroeder tends 10 cast а distinct fog of 
doubt on this: The girls had gone all the 


way to Moscow for what was billed as an 
international conference on. parapsychol- 
ogy. The star attraction was to be Nelya 


Mikhailova. a woman whose ability to 
move small objects by staring at them 
has been studied and filmed repeatedly 
by Soviet scientists. The day the cor 
ference opened, an attack on Nely: 
Mikhailova appeared in Pravda, She was 
forbidden to mend the meeting. The 
conference was thrown out of the House 
of Friendship and the second day was 
canceled. 

Most of tie reliable evidence indicates 
thar there ате as many skeptical Russian 
scientists as there are American. Amon; 
them is Dr. N. P. Bechtereva, grand- 
daughter of V. M. Bechterev, the phys- 
iologiw. who confirmed the success of 
telepathic experiments performed with 
inimals in the Thirties by Durov and 
Kazhinski. 

We have had no proof of telepathy 
yet,” she told Miss Browning. "But ther 
is no doubt that the riddles of the brain 
are going to be solved by physics, mathe 
matics, engineering. cybernetics. The ap- 
proach has до be physiological, not 
psychological." 

Miss Bechtereva is undoubtedly right 
about this, but at the moment the closest 
we have come to any understanding of 
the way in which psi works has been 
psychological. The physical mechanism 
may yet be hopelessly unclear, but a 
general theory of psi and. personality is 
not far away 
At the ААА, Dr. Geraude Sim. 

prolesor of psychology at the € 
ollege of the City University of New 
X wellesablished theory of 


ler, 
G 


York. said 
ESP is that it functions like other psy 
chological abilities. A person is more like- 


ly to succeed either at ESP or ar other 
tasks when his attitude is favorable, his 
motivation is high, but not too high, and 
his mood is r 

Dr. Schmeidier exphined that her 
work wits based on two ideas. One is that 
| responses to an ESP test 
ful. A low score is just ay signific 
an unusually high score. The second is 
that everyone is ambivalent about ESP. 
15 implications of being able to 


know distant events, and of being able 
to scc directly into others? 
айг; 


minds or into 
tive bur [righte 
iven all these mixed 
prediction about any subject's 
ands information about his 
ard the particular ESP tesi 
ing, snd also about his feelings or 


the ШИП ге 


scores de 
auitude tow 
he is ta 
mood. 
Dozens of experiments have exam- 
ned this general issue and by and large 
ve gi ilyingly consistent. data, 
For example, years ago 1 asked subjects 


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people: So what if l'm closed-in 
right now. 

And you think: My Yamaha's 
right outside there, ready to do just 
what | want. Go as far as | want. 

Now, maybe you've got to 
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you know it's there. 

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You've got to ride, and feel, and 
live it. 

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whether it was possible for ESP to occur 
in the particular experiment they were 
doing. I found first at Harvard and later 
at CCNY that those who gave а flat, 
unmodified "No! tended to have lower 
ESP scores than the others. T called it 
separating the sheep from the goats.” 

Dr. Schmeidler described а number of 
studies that produced similar results: 
Withdrawn chikhen, defensive subjects, 
those who habitually set up strong barri- 
ers between themselves and. the мона 
all showed lower ESP scores than their 
opposite personality types. Therapy ses- 
ons that showed good progress were 


followed by higher scores than sessions 
where progress was poor. Pupils who 
liked ihe ches and the teacher had 
higher scores than those who did not. 
When pairs of friends were tested in ап 
ESP game, the dominant member usually 
won, When subjects went tough two 


different ESP they made higher 
scores on the one they preferred. 

“Correlational studies indicate that 
confidence, good social adjustment. and 
an outgoing attitude tic in with higher 
scores," she reported. “Depressive drugs 
like sodium amytal tend to lower ESP 
scores. 

“Two years ago.” Dr. Schmeidler sa 
swami visited my experimental 
psychology class. The class made a set of 
ESP calls, mi then gave them an 
inspirational talk and a short breathing 
exercise. Immediately after, the class 
made а second set of FSP calls. Scores on 
the first set w 


tests, 


The sw 


t CCNY 
d personality 


"In short, wh 
these days is wying to fi 


we 


re doing 


concomitants of ESP success and failure. 
ve been 
be 


Our hope is that when they һа 
sulisfied in adequate detail, we w 
ble to predict with considerable 
cy when ESP success will occur 

The great significance of Dr. Schmeid- 
ler's findings is mot that they demon 
strate the existence of ESP, but that they 


сс 


ppear to demonstrate an order and pat- 
term that fit in with what we already 
know. 


But how does it work? The only ех 
plunations that ring truc sound uncom- 
fortably mystical. They are involved in 
riddles about the nature of individuality- 
Individuality seems to be a modern i 
vention, something, that has to do with 
names and mirrors and picunes. You 
cannot discuss that with a scientist. He 
does not want to [ecl for even опе mo- 
that the 
from 


on of one per- 
sonality one mind from 
another, is only an illusion, And neither 
do we. We love our special identities too 


ment separa 


another 


much ro part with them for even a 
moment. 
It may be that, in becoming civilized, 


we have lost the ability то understand 


how we really communicate with each 
other. Among the primitive peoples who 
exist without birth certificates and. pho- 
1ouncements 

ge, death, there is no 
hy. It is accepted as 
fact of life, Many Americ 
Plains Indians have told researchers that 
smoke signals were used merely to attract 
the attention of those they wished to con- 
ict. The rest of the communication took 
place by telepath 
The aborigines of Australia, probably 
the least talkative people on earth, are 


said to be able to stay in touch with 
tribe and family members no matter how 
иг the distance, They, too, use smoke 


signals to announce their whe 
but communicate with one 
adepily by more mysteri 

Australian government officials, police 


ollicers and anthropologists. are con- 
vinced the aborigines have telepathic 
powers. 

‘The ndard explanation 


back ıo the 
" of the past in which the 
wth Mother Goddess" and the "Rain- 
bow Serpent" were created. The Rain- 
bow Serpent made “the road" and the 
Euth Mother brought everything else 
imo existence. The Dre, me seems 
imilar to Carl Jung's collective uncon- 
scious, a stare of mind in which p: 
prevent a 

potentiali 


min’ "—refers 


itis 
not surprising that the drugs most closely 
associated with telepathy should he those 
that produce psychedelic 
The shamans of American Indian tribes 
of the Southwest regularly used. Datura 


or Jimson weed, which con aro 
pine, hyoscyamine and scopolamine, to 
produce telepathic, clairvoyant and 


prophetic states of consciousness. They 
Med it “grass thar talks,” and daimed 
it helped them find the locition and 
number of their enemies du 
of their quarry when hunting. Dalura 
was used abo 10 find lost property, diag- 
ad recommend ther 
The deadly nightshade, henbane and 
other plants containing these alkaloids 
have been used by witches throughout 
the world since prehistoric times 

Some of the South American. Amazon 
tribes believe they find telepathic powers 
in Banisteriopsis Саар, a jungle vine 
ng a drug sometimes called tele- 
pathine, found also in the seeds of Syrian 
Peganum Harmala. Others add ло 
this the extract of another liana, Banister- 
iopsis Rusbyana, 10 prepare а brew they 
dining dimethyltrspramine. 
the seeds of a plant of the 
amily, Nivea corymbosa, 
als теше to LSD, 
divine food by the 


nose sickness 


сотай 


' considered 


ancient Aztecs because of their ability 
to produce extrasensory perceptions. The 
Zapotec Indians of Mitla, who call the 
plant. bador or ^liule childr y that 
onc who drinks an infusion of the leaves 
аг cats 13 seeds will fall asleep and be 
visited in his dreams by the plant. chil- 
dren, who will tell him about lost prop. 
erty, future events and other important 
matters. 

In addition to peyote, which contains 
mescaline, the Indians of Mexico use 
ieonanacall, the sacred mushrooms, for 
divination. Among the Mazatec Indians, 


there are professional seers who cam 
their living by eating teonanacatl to 
locate stolen property, unlock secrets 


nd give advic 
‘The prophetic power of teomanacatl 


when used by the curandero has not 
been easy for scientific investigators to 
reproduce in the laboratory or in the 
jungles, but most experts оп the psy- 
chedelic drugs tend to believe in telep- 

nd other psi effects—as а strong 

lity, if not as a proven fact. Dr. 


Cohen, а Los Angeles psychiatrist. 
and pioneer in the study of the hallucino- 
gens, who has maintained a genera 
cautious and conservative attitude 
written: “It is hardly necessary to invoke 
supernatural explanations for the mind's 
more exceptional activities. Intui- 
tion, creativity, telepathic experiences, 
prophecy—all can be understood as s 
perior activities of brain-mind function.” 
And some studies indicate that drugs 
such as LSD do, in fact, enhance ESP. 
R. Е. L. Masters and Jean Houston re- 
port that, in a picture-match test, "Out 
of 62 subjects [who had taken LSD], 
approximated the ... image two 
more times out of ten. Five subjects 
approximated . . . seven and eight times 
out of ten." In a paper read before a 
meeting of the Western Division of the 
American Psychiatric Association and lat- 
er reprinted in The Psychedelic Review, 
Los Angeles psychiatrist’ Margaret A. 
Paul described an experience with a psy. 
chedelic drug in which some of her 
patients, hundreds of miles away, exper 
enced emotional disorientation at the 
time that she had affected a similar dis 
turbance in herself with a dose of a 
broth made from the mushroom Amanita 
pantherina. 

Dr. Paul and her ү, and, Dr. 
Fantl, also a psychiatrist, participated in 
an experiment in Carmel. California, de 
signed to test the ability of a hallucino- 
gen to enhance telepathic sensitivity. It 
took place on а Friday. For three hours 
at the peak of the drug's effect, Di. 
completely lost touch with re 
through a death and rebirth hallucination 
before finally revarn- 
ing to normal consciousness. On the fol- 
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told her he had heen depressed and un 
able to work or think straight after an 
episode of am isting three hours— 
at just about the same time the psy- 
chiatrist had her psychedelic experience. 

On Tuesday, the doctor reported, an- 
year-old unhappily 
п, complained of having a 
three-hour spell of amnesia the previous 
Friday Imost the same time 
as the psychiatrist's haluci Пасей 
m 


ice. 
hese incidents." Di 
€ of no great impor 
of parapsychology, beca 
ic events ше being reported daily; nor 
are they important in the ficld of psy- 
chedelic research, since almost every sub. 
ject feels he has great daitvoyant powers, 
But the be important in the field 
of psychiatry, since they suggest the pos 
sibility that one mind may inlluence 
another at a distance even to the extent 
of producing temporary psychotielike 


ul concluded. 
the field 


symptoms. Perhaps many  unaccount- 
able moods and impulses stem from 
telepathic communications, and they m: 


ause we 1 
to look for 
some. This sounds uncomlort- 
ably like witchcraft but may, indeed, be 
a phenomenon which must be incorpo 
ed into our diagnostic system. Ger- 
tainly 1 never expected to be involved 
in witeheralt, even less to be a witch 
and, least of all. an 

Dr. Montague ОШ 
work that appears to be 


remain пасс ble be 


тог learned where or how 


the 


unwil 


Paul's experience. With psychologist 
Stanley Krippner, he has been searching 
for evidence of telepathy in the dream 


g mind, exploring Freud's speculation 
that telepathic messages might be re 
ceived by the unconscious, but distorted 
by the conscious, waking mind. 

Using techniques of dream investiga 
tion discovered by Dr. Nathaniel Kleit 
man and others at the University of 
Chicago. Ullman set up the dream Hab- 
oratory at Maimonides. Volunteers. were 
put to bed in an isokued room with 


clecroencephalograph — electrodes at- 
tached to their heads and sensors to their 
eyes. Through characteristic EEG. read- 


ings and rapid eye movements (REMS), 
the researchers were able to determine 
when the sleeping volunteers were dream- 
At the end of each dream sequence, 
the subjects were awakened to dictate 
their dreams into a recorder. 

other person fixed 


In a nearby room, 


his attention target object, such 
painting, and attempted to transmit an 
impression of the target to the sleeping 


subjec 
in which 


by telepathy. In one experiment 
the target object was José 


Clemente Orozco's Zapatistas, а painting 
ol Mesic olutionaries marching 
along a road with mountains in the 


ckground. the volunte d he 
med about New Mexiko, where 
he once lived. He mentioned the moun- 
s the landscape and the Ind 
coming into Sante Fe for the fiesta. 
In another case, а Gi 
The Moon and the Earth, which showed 
а nude, dark Tahitian girl, 
young secretary's dream of we 
thing suit and, subsequently, her 
skinned girl who wanted 
10 get a tan. When Gauguin's Stil Life 
with Three Puppies was used, the volun- 
teer dreamed of dogs and saw dark-blu 
bottles. The goblets in the Gauguin 
ting are blu 
Salvador Dali's The Last Supper was 


associated with a dream of "a glass of 
wine, very unusual wine,” and of a 
group of people of whom "one was not 


good." When Van Gogh's Boats on the 
Beach was used as the target, the subject 
d his dream “had something to do 
inter, It makes me think of Van 


Gogh, perhaps.” 

“We're encouraged," Doctor Ullman 
told Science News writer Patricia Me- 
Broom, “but we don't feel we have 
proved. a The correlations be- 
tween the dream material and the target 
objects, Ullman, significant 


enough to warrant further 
experimentation by serious scie 
“The important thing.” he said, 
take the mysticism out of telepathy and 
study it on basis.” 

The dream laboratory is facing se- 

rious financial difliculty and may have 
to close for lack of funds, but there are 
some people already involved in the poy 
sible practical aspects of clairvoyance 
and telepathy. Dr. ard Ireland, fo 
example. claims he made $1,000,000 1 
е he was 30—through ESP. 
"E would be walking by а vacant cor- 
Ireland says, "and | would have 
this vision of a nice brand-new зирек 
ket rising from the bare ground. If T 
happened to buy that lot and then some 
company came along and told me they 
were going to put a supermarket on it, 1 
wouldn't tell them T already knew thar. E 
would just say thank you and take their 
money." 

Nowhere, of course, does the ESP phe- 
nomenon have greater credence than 
among gamblers: nowhere also does ESP 
provide more ambiguous results than at 
the dice table. In the psychedelic world, 
is a widespread but as-yet-unauthen- 
ticated belief that “LSD-induced telep- 
ашу and/or psychokinesis has been used 
successfully by gamblers. In a case re- 
ported by Masters and Houston, an am 
teur gambler felt a strong urge to p 
blackjack halfway through 
sion. Severi 


га 


y 
n LSD ses- 


friends accommodated. him 
and while the game was in. progress, he 


realized that the other p 
nsmitting “all kinds of sublimin 
als” and that he, too, was telegraphing 


ds. By correcting his own psycho 
game and picking up the oth 


h 


had a considerably 
er history of practical application in 
modern times, from the use of the dowsing 
rod by early prospectors and well diggers 
to the periodic efforts af police по solve 
crimes with information produced by 
daivoyants. A notable example of the 
use of clairvoyance in police 


as the work of Dutch psychic Peter 
Hunkos in the Boston Strangler man- 
hunt. According to Gerold Frank, au- 


Hurkos 


gev 


or of The Boston Strangler, 
was brought into the case at the sug 
tion of a local industrialist after all onho 
dox police measures had failed to locate 
the killer 

Frank describes one displ 


At [one] poim— ow lue 
afternoon—i detective arrived, apol- 
ogetic for being late. His car had 
broken down on the way from Bos- 


was 


ton, he sid. Peter perked up. He 
rose from his chair, cigar in hand, 
walked up to the newcomer and 


pointed а deliberate finger at him. 
His voice was strong again. 
not late because of cai 
late because you get fucked!” 
"The detective’s jaw dropped. 
“You think T kid you, eh?" Perer 
addressed himself to the entire 
room. “I tell you what happened. 
you laugh. His boss tell him two. 
three hours ago. "You go to Lexing- 
ton, work with this fellow, this nut, 
this Hurkos” He say, ‘Gee, boss, T 
got date, I don't want t0 work.” Boss 
say, "You got to work.’ So. what you 
do?" He stared accusingly at the 
detective. “You call girlfriend and 
say, “Honey. I got to work tonight, I 
can't sce you,’ and she say, ‘Aw, why 
you not come over on way to work? 
so you go to her house, she very 
pretty girl, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, 
she divorce her husband, he give hi 
house, you say, ‘I got to work with 
П mind r ker, thar 
Hurkos guy 
The other's mouth hung open 
‘She say, ‘Before you leave, honey, 
you have cup of coffee." You go into 
kitchen with her, she bend down to 
get colleepot in net, you grab 
her, you push her on kitchen table 
d you fuck her. The 
here. That why you Right?” 
There was absolute silence. Every 
man іп the room seemed frozen in 
his place, the detective. 
If only he would laugh in Peter's 
face and walk away. so that all 
things would be as they were before. 
But he was like a man in shock. His 
eyes widened, and continued to 
widen until the whites showed al! 


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around, as if somcone had piaced 
toothpicks between his lids. He man- 
ged to close his mouth, then open 
it again to wer a choked, “Abbhhh. 
АВЫ: 

Peter looked at bim. “That girl 
pretty damn good, ch? You sce, 1 no 

nd walked back to his cha 

an hour belore 
the detcciive could recover. He sat 
in one corner, surrounded by fellow 
detectives, repeating t0 every ques- 
tion dazedly, “That's right! That's 
right!” He would not—or could 
nol—sity morc. 


Without prior knowledge of the de- 
tails of the case, writes Gerold Frank, 
Hurkos repeatedly identified and de- 
scribed. evidence taken from the murder 
scenes—espite the fact that it was con- 
cealed in scaled envelopes, He also т 
enacted. some of the murders, sometimes 
providing information unknown to the 
police at the time but later revealed by the 
gler in his confession, His desc 
ons led 10 two men, both of whom he 
id apparently never seen, even though 
he was able to give almost perfect. physi- 
cal and psychological portraits of them. 
Neither of them. however, proved to be 
the man on whom the murders w 
eventually. pinned. Ye some impor- 
tant respects, the man who finally con- 
essed ft the description Peter Hurkos 
gave the detectives many months before 
the case was solved. 

The Boston Strangler, Hurkos said, 
would have а long, pointed nose, a scar 


p 


on his left arm from an y and 
would work with diesel engines. Early in 
1965. Albert DeSalvo, an inmate. being 
held at Bridgewater mental hospi 
connection with a series of hundreds of 
sex offenses, confessed t0 the 11 murders 
and to two more the police had not 
ected with the Strangler, He hits a 
med nose and on his left 
m an injury, and he had worked 
h diesel engines. 


Ubimately, this is what everyone is 
really afraid of. There are all these dirty 
litle secrets. Who wants to be naked ай 
the time? Even if it should turu out that 
personal privacy is an illusion. many of 
us would prefer to retain the illusion 

Back in 1953, Alfred. Bester published 
The Demolished Man, a line science- 
fiction novel about the 24th Century, 
when ESP become ап established 
force in society. The telepaths have the 
own guikl They have their own games, 
their own ethics, their own satisficrion 
They call themselves Espers and they have 
made crime imposible. They are the 
perfect detectives. 

Then there anhunt 
begin. The criminal isn't a lovable 
person, but by the end of the book it’s 
lard to rooting for him and it's 


ne 


4 to avoid hating the smug mind 
cops. 

Recently, Alfred Bester was asked if he 
believed in ESP. 

‘Of course not," he said. 


Internal Revenue $ 
ШШ; : 


“Say 


you're pretly sharp. How about quitting old 


Uncle Sam and coming to work for me?” 


ZUBN ANDTHE MOTHERS 


(continued from раве 152) 


that soon began to be identified, cach 
it came round, as “Brigitte Bardot 
Then the Phils came in with an 


atonal passage, during which the Mothers 
—having a 75 Бар rest, or so—inson 
ly lit up Winstons, Other echoc: 
could be caught thoughout the | 
Dvorik’s New World. Symphony, Victory 
at Sea (Guadalcanal March and Beneath 
the Southern Cross), Debussy's Prelude to 
The Afternoon of a Faun, Copland's 
Appalachian Spring, Thomson's The Plow 
thal Broke the Plains and honky-tonk 
jazz АЙ this was punctuated by Zappa 
tellin ughing is very 
tav. all you have to do is go “Hahaha! " 
followed by nearly 14,000 risible patrons 
d 


к just that: Mother Motorhead mak- 
sounds; 
Mother 


a lithe softshoe in 
а voice from the 
upper deck intoning а mighty “Оооо 
nah!" followed by Zappa yelling, 
ши up, you idiot; 
symphony brass tearing his 
shreds and throwing it into the a 
lowed by the 


ag vodelir 
unison by th 


a member of the 
musie to 
г, fol- 


suing seciion 
"Par" (Could this be the pro 
bodily nois"?; the Phils the 
Mothers exchanging friendly insults, 


topped off by Zappa crying, “Horse 
shit!”; the Phils goofing a lew b; 
Mehta apologizing with a big ope 
shrug to Zappa; Mother Ray holding up 
a toy giralfe, which then gave birth to a 
rubber chicken; some flickering blu 
flash bulbs on the jungle gym that held 
the stage lights (a sort of dime-store 
ıt show): а UFO gliding down from 
way up above—turning out to be 
glow-in-thedlark Frisbee; a sequence 
which only one Mother played and the 

icis 

During all this, the aud 
attentive but. not really turned on 
aly the kind of concert e you 
need 500 rentacops to keep things in 
onder, At the end of 200 Motels, there 
а minute or two standi 
akhougl one cynical critic 
ovation n 


whe 


was ovation— 
gested the 


ht have been prompted by 


the audience wanting to hear the Mothers 
з encoi 
So they announced to the 


Hows who di 
us—you'll wot get 


Phils: "Any of you € to 
play rock, joi Y 
ove xl we'll play our version of 
King Kong” Eight or ten Phils (all of 
them young) brought thei 
mainly bra reeds. including one 
awkward bassoon. Zappa: "When 1 go 
like this, horn players pick any note at 
andom, attack it and swell it up. We 
need a cello. [An obliging cellis; walks 
np] Irs а very simple melody. Key of E. 
Hat minor for as long as you can ta 

"The session began with the bassoonist 
starting off a little badly by bumping 
Mother Motorhead with the swan's neck 


ب 


axes up— 
Ss and 


of his instrument—but then, in li 
passages, coming on so strong that there 
is по doubt that, if they ever get this on 
LP. you'll hear one of the great bassoon 
rilis in rock.symphony history. The beau- 
ty of the bassoon is that it is a double- 
instrument. with bass and tenor 
registers. This affords it tremendous flex. 
ibility. so it сап come in on the low 
shots and then suddenly space you out 
on the high stulf—olten before you can 
even realize it is the same instrument. 
Also, bissoons have а very small solo 
music literature—and so you can bet your 
as if you invite a bassoonist into а session, 
you're gonna ger wiped—he's hungry. 
200 Motch will not break. upon an 
unsuspecting world with the cultural 
shock of Handels Messiah, but it seems 
beyond belief that a figure of the virtuos 
ity and energy of F been 
so long neglected by the medi 
His eye 


reed 


ample, television 
Southern Cal schlock-pop detail are fault- 
The boy in You Didn't Try to Gall 
Me (Freak Oui!) tells a girl who rejected 
him: “I reprimered the right-front fender, 
man... and you didn't try to call me. I 
thought you were my teen angel. man.” 
Then there's Ruben Sano himself, who 


Nineteen when he quit the group 
10 work on his car There were 
already 11 other guys in the band 


so when he quit nobody missed him 
except. for his car when they had to 
go ta rehearsal or play for a battle 
ol the bands at the American Legion 


and unblendable as the rock 
and scissors of the pantomime game (Con 
sciousness I vs. Consciousness П). For 
dassical is a product of Western Christian 


unmisable 


Post in Chino. ... Ruben has three 
dogs, Benny, Baby and Martha. 


Probably Won. 


sublimation (meaning to repress the sex 
ual impulses and to "sublime" them), 
while rock is amisublimation. “The big 
beat matches the body's: rhythm, 
Frank. And then, in another place, "To 
deny rock music its place in the society 
was to deny sexuality. Any parent who 
tied to keep his child from listening to 
or participating in this musical ritual was, 


e the Pimp (Hot Rats): in the eyes of the child, trying to cas 
ware him 


Man in a suit with а bow-tie neck Getting Your shih together” ааай 
Wanna buy a grunt with a thiid- руха now. It's what everyone really is 

party check. trying to do—even Nixon and Agnew, 
though they wouldn't use the phrase, 
Frank seems to think that the Big Beat 
can be successfully Osterized with the E 
Bands (symphony), satisfying a lowcranid 
dleclass yearniu 


Or the boy in Уон, 
dering Why 4 Am Here: 


You tore a big hole in your con- 
vertible top 

What will you tell your Mom and 
Pop? 


Or W 


Or the bopper in Mother Mania, who 
is “only 13 and she knows how to nasty." 
Or the guy in the song Later That Night: 


Don't go, baby, don't put me out on 
the stre 
You thy 


he seems ло have loi 
had for the technical expertise and pre 
cision of symphonic music. But getting it 
together may not be that easy. We may 


have to do it alone 
It may be, of comme, that Frank has См, 


been upstaged by the Hoffmans and the 
Rubins who have purloined his cheer- 
fully mad, саму Motherness hom the 
underground and the bandstand and 
brought it imo the sweets and the papers. 
What is certain, though—after the con. 
cert—is that Classical and rock are as 


my best sharkskin suit out 


on the lawn, vight on top of some 
dog 


waste. 


any rate, whatever Frank Zappa 
docs, you know it will be up front, what 
ever else The blacks have a nice 
portmanteau phrase: “Goheadon!" Mean. 
ing. keep doing what you're doing. 


Goheadon, Frank! 


it is. 


With all the leather that 

bounced off me I never thought 

I'd say a good word about it. 

But Speidel's leather band has 

gota style all its own. The Gilt-Edge 
really makes the difference. 

The Speidel leather band I’m wearing 
is lizard. You're not going to 

catch me wearing no diamonds. 


(fo^ AD 


The Speidel 
Gilt-Edge Collection. 


а Texiron Company 
227 


FLA Ys 0 ¥ 


228 


Harry Hastings Method (continued from page 123) 


maybe а new leather jacket—all things 
asv to dispose ol. 

This is an area of winding streets and a 
Jot of trees and bushes, and the houses are 
mostly ser back from the suet and are 
some distance from their neighbors, and 
so it asy vicinity ro work, There's 
no bus service up there at all, so every- 
body needs a cir or two, and if thee is 
no auto in the carport, you сап be pretty 
sure that no one is home. 

There are ruraltvpe mailboxes on the 
dways stuffing 


street and people аге 
them with business cards and circulars, 
like ads for house cleaning and Jandscap- 
ing and such, so I had a lot of cards 


primed for various things, like for à 
house-painting firm, and some for the 


“Bulldog Burglar 
which say we will 


Protection Agency,” 
tall all kinds of silent 
ul bells will ring in our 
осе and we will have radio cars there 
w minutes. I also have some Pest 
Control and House Repair xs. None 
of these firms exists, of course. but neither 


do the phone numbers on my cards. 

bur while I drive slowly around the 
hills in my little VW bus апа put my 
ards in the boxes. I ean get a prety 
good idea of who is home and who isn't, 
and who is gone all day. and so forth 

By the way. my truck is lettered with: 
AL SUSSMAN ING. GENERAL HOUSE REPAIRS 
on one side and FERGUSON PEST CONTROL. 
EVERYBODY LOVES US BUT YOUR PESIS! on 
the other side. I make these up myself. 
My theory is that nobody сап ever sce 
both sides of my truck at the same ti 


which will really confuse witnesses, if 
there ате any, OF course D change the 
truck signs every week, and every month 
1 paint the truck a dillerent color. 

When 1 decide that a certain house is 
$ 1 go and ring the door- 
bell. IE 1 am wrong amd someone is 
home—this is sddom—I wk them if 
their house happens to be swarming with 
disease-infested rats. Since there are no 
vats at all in these hills, they always say 
no and 1 leave. 


ripe for hit 


I nobody answers the doorbell, it is. 
of comse another matter. Most of these 
houses have locks rhat could be opened 
bv blindfolded monkeys. Not one of 
them has any kind of burglar alam. 
There are watchdogs in some houses, but 
these 1 avoid. because yon never know a 
friendly dog from а vicious onc until 
you've been chewed up. And, of course, 1 
would nor hurt any dog if you paid me. 

What | etting te is about one 
panicular house up there, Its a fairly 
new one story ı style, up a drive 
мау, but you can see the Carport from 
the surect below. In casing the place for 
ne, [figured that а man probably 
lived. there alone. There was only onc 
t big new Mercedes, 
drove oll every weekday mon 
Г saw bim a few nes amd he was. 
a nice-looking gentleman of. about 
He was always gone all day. so I gt 
he had ап ойне job. 

So onc day. 1 drove my truck. up the 
driveway and got out and saw а sign: 
EVARE or THE bond, at the за 
time, this little pooch comes c 
dog door and up to me. and he 
bundle of hair and the wizzlicst. happ 
little puppy you ever saw. 1. picke 
up and let him liek my face and 
he had a tag on his collar th 
CUDDLES, MY OWNER IS HARRY HASTINGS, 
е was abo a phone number 
g the doorbell. bur и 


ode 


y “е1 


body came, 


‘The frontdoor lock was so stupid that 1 
opened it with a plastic card. 
Insidc—well, you have never seen such 


а sloppy-kept house. Not diry— just 
sloppy. There was five days’ worth of 
dishes in the sink, 1 found out later that 
this Harry Hastings B айй who 
comes and cleans ance a week, but mean 
time, this character just throws his dirty 
shirts and socks on the Hoor. What a slob. 
1 turned out to be right about his 
living alone. ‘There was only one single 
bed in use—which, of course, w 
made, and 1 doubt if he makes it from 
one year to the next. There was no sign 
of any female presence, which 1 do 
wonder, the way this Hastings tives. 
One of his а office, and this 
was really pers all over the 
desk and abso all over the floor. This 
room stank of old cigarette bui 
which smell I am very conscious si 
vc up smoking. 
Fram what I fou 


юг 


ns ds а 


mess, 


s of 
nee l 


d on his desk, 1 
leamed that this Hany Hastings is a TV 
writer. He writes kind of spooky stuff, 
like this Rodney Serling. I took one of 
his scripts, to study. From his income-tax 
returns, which were lying around for all 
the work! to sec, Posew he made nearly 
000 gross the year before. 

But most of the furniture in the house 
is preuy grubby and the drapes need 

ng. which made me wonder wha 
racier spent all his money on. 


Never hot. Never dry. Always cool. 
Come all the way up to KGDL. 


PLAYBOY 


230 


besides the Mercedes. He had а new 
electric typewriter and a great big color 
TV set, which would take four men to 
move, and a hifi, but no art objects or 
inks or things 


decent silver or gold cull 
like that 

и wasn't 
clothes clos 
of his bread went 


аш I went though his 
t har E found out that most 
into his wardrobe 
There was $5000 worth of 
apparel in there. most of it hand 


pout 


and from places like where Si 
and De Martin get their outfits, Ver 
Mod and up t0 date. I tried on a couple 


of jackets and it tinis ош that this Has 
s amd. :oexacdy the same size! 
I mean exactly. These clothes looked like 
they had been tailored for me alone, 
alter six fittings. Only his shoes didn't fit 
me, sad to say. 

I was very pleased, indeed, J can tell 
you, as 1 have always bad trouble getting 
fitted off the rack, Also. I like to dress in 
the latest fashion when I take Susie to 


с а 


So 1 took the emire wardrobe, includ- 
ing shirts and ties. 1 decided to 
typewriter, which I 


needed for 


writing-cliss homework, The machine 1 
һай kept skipping. 

But I wanted to ay out the typewriter 
before 1 took it, amd also, I thought I 
would leave a note for this Hastings, so 
he wouldnt think J was some kind of 
crude thug. So I type 


Dear Mr. Hastings: 1 am typing 
this to sce if your typewriter works 
ОК. 1 see that it docs. I am not 
taking it to sell it, but I need it 
because I trying to become а 
professional writer like you, which J 
know because 1 saw your scripts on 
your desk. and 1 am taking one to 
help me with my work. for studying. 

1 wish to make you a compliment 
anent your fine wardrobe of clothes. 
As it happened, they are like they 
have been made for me only. 
not g them to sell them but 
beciuse I need some good clothes to 
wear. Your shoes do not fit me, so 1 
am leaving them. 

I am also not taking your hifi 
because there is a terrible screech in 
the пее. E like your dog and I will 
give him a biskit. 


A Friend. 


“You've really been with us quite a 
while, haven't you, Hepburn?” 


Well, some three months or so now 
pissed, because there was no sense in 
hiuing Нач house until he 


had time to get a new bunch of clothes 
together. 

But when 1 thought the time was ri 
1 drove by there again and saw a little 
VW in the Guport, and abo, there was а 
big blonde woman shaking rugs. 

I drove up and asked her il I 
was swarming with disease infested vats 
and she said she didn’t think so but thi 
sh the опаа 
lady led Sendin 
note th a Wednesday 

I went back the next Mond: No car 
in the сироп. Bur on the way to the 
house, there was w sign, hand. 
lettered on а bond, and it read: ne- 
WARE! VICIOUS WATCHDOG ON DUTY! THIS 
DOG HAS BEEN IRAINED 10 GO FOR THE VES 
NCLES! YoU HAVE BEEN WARNED PROCEED 
xo FARTHER! 

Well, this gives me pause, as you can 
well imagine. But then I remember that 
this Hastings is a writer with an ingen 
ious and inventive mind, and I do not 
believe this sign for one moment. Cuddles 
is my friend, So I start for the house and 
suddenly, this enormous Alsatian jumps 
through the dog door and runs st 
at me, growling and sı 
he leaps and knocks me dow 
enough, stats chewing around my «токе. 
But then out comes Cuddles, and I am 
sure there is a dog |: e, for he woofed 
this monster dog 2s il in reproach, as 
if to say, "Knock it oll. This is a friend. 
Leave him alone.” So pretty soon, bath 
dogs are Ticking me. 

But when T get to the front door, I 
find that this Hastings has installed a 
new, burglarproof lock, 1 walk round 
the house and find that there are new 
locks on both the kitchen door and the 
laundry10om door. They must have sct 
gs back about 75 bucks. 
also a dot of sliding-glass 
but 1 don't like 


т house 


ian. P took 


ıd the house, 


it is to replace. But T finally 
locate a Tittle louvered window by the 
Janndty-room door and 1 find tha 
Ineaking only onc louver and cut 
screen, I can reach through and around 
and open the door. 

Tuside, I find that the house is just as 
messy as before. guy will die a slob. 

But when Т get to his bedroom, here is 
this note, Scotch-taped to his closet door. 
It is dusty and looks like it has been 
there for months. It. says: 


Dear Burglar: Just in case you are 
the same young man who was in 
here a few month T think T 
must tell you that you have a long 
to go before you will be a 


go, 


ic and should be 


avoided, А "wardrobe of clothes" 
redundant. It is "biscuit 
kit” Use your dictionary! 

І know you are a young man, 
because both my cleaning wom 
and a 19-year-old neighbor have s 
you and your truck. If you have 
gotten this far into my house, you 
cannot be stupid. Have you ever 


thought of devoting your 

someth le higher th 

Ling people such as me? 
Hans Hz 


Inside his closet are two fibulous new 
its. plus a really great red-and blue- 
cashmere sports coat T take these 
1 about ıo leave when I remember 


ШЕ 
there is something I want to tell Hastings. 


In his office, there is а new electric 
typewriter, on which I rype: 


Dear Mr. Hastings: Thank you 
for your help. In return, T want to 
tell you that 1 read the script of 
yours 1 took and T think it is pretty 
good, except that | don't believe 
that the man should go back to his 
wile. T mean, after she tried to poi- 
son him three times, This is just my 
opinion, of course. 

1 do not have a dictionary, so I 
am taking yours. Thank you. 

A Friend. 


1, of course, do not take this new 
typewriter. partly because Т already have 
onc amd aho because I боше he will 
need it to make money with so he can 
replace his wardrobe 
months go by before I figure it is 
е to hit his house again. By this time, 
my clothes are getting kind of tired, and 
© changed, some 

n T drive up to 
fiernoon, there is a 


the 
new 


house опе 


метей sig 


nus 


HOUSE 15 PROTECTED BY THE 
[T û BURGLAR PROTECTION AGI 
CY! THERE ARE SILENT ALARMS 
EVERYWHERE: IF THEY ARE TRIPPED, 
RAMIO CARS WILL CONVERGE AT ONCE! 
PROCEED NO FARTHER! YOU HAVE 
BEEN WARNED! 


Come on, now! 1 and T alone am the 
stent Bulldog Burglar Protection 
Agency! Td put my card in his mail 
This i ly опе cheapskate 
s bastard, this Harry Hastings. 
1 get near the house, the dogs 
come out and I give them a little loving, 
1 then T see a note on the front doo: 


Dear Jack: Welcome! Hope you 
had a nice trip. The key is hidden 
where it always has been. I didn't 
have to go t0 work today. I've run 
down the hill to get some Scotch 
and some steaks, Be back in a few 
minutes. The gals arc coming at six. 
Harry 


Well, ih 


s gives me pause. D finally 
decide ıl s is not the right day to 
hit the house. This could, of course, be 
another of Hastings’ wicks, bur I can't 
be sure. So T1 

But а few days later, 1 come back and 
this same goddamn note to Jack is still 
оп the door, only now it is all yellowed. 
You would think that this Iame-brain 
would at least write a new note every 
day, welcoming Bert or 5 
v. The truth 
tings is so damn smart, when you 
k about it, that he is actually stupid. 

The broken louver and the sere 
have by now been replaced, but when I 
break the glass and cut the sacen and 


h around to open the laundry deor. 
1 find that this bastard has installed 
chains and bolts on the inside. 


Well. as any idiot knows, you can't 
bolt all your doors from the inside when 
you go out, so one door has to be opena- 
ble, and 1 figure it has to be the front 
door; but the only way I can get in is to 
break а big fiosted-plaregkiss window to 
the left of it and reach through and 
open the door. As I said, I'm not happy 
to break plate glass, but this Hastings 
has left me no choice, so I knock out a 
hole just big enough for me to reach 
through and open the door and go in. 

‘This time, there is another note on his 
closet door: 


Dear Burglar: Are you incapable 
? By now, you must be the 


besdressed. binglar in Hollywood. 
But how many clothes can you wear? 
ight like to know that my bur- 
glary insurance has been canceled. 
My new watchdog cost me S100 and 
1 have spent а small fortu! 

locks and. bolts 
lear you are going to start smashing 
my рімен» windows, which сап 
cost as much as 590 to replace, There 
is only one new suit in this closet. All 
my other clothes I keep now either 
i my car or at шу office, Take the 


You m 


suit, if you must, but never return, 
for, by God, you will be sorry, 
deed. if you do. T have a te 
rev 


ible 


Harry Hastings 


P.S. You still have time to reform: 
yourself 
P. P.S. 1 don't like his going back 


10 his poisoning wife, either. But 
the network insisted on a "Happy 


Ending. 


HH 


Well, I am not about to fall for all 
this noise about pity. Any man who has 
a dog trained to go for my testicles and 
who uses my own Bulldog Agency a 
me is not, in my mind, deserving of too 
much sympathy. 

So I take the suit 
beautiful Edwardian 


› which is a just 
eight-button, in 


231 


PLAYBOY 


232 


gray sharkskin, 
Now quite а few months pass and 1 

begin 10 feel a little sony for this charac 

ter, amd 1 decide to let him alone, forever. 
But then. one day. 


own pad, which ms over 
private garage in Hollywood. This son of 
a bitch takes every stitch of clothing 1 
own. 

By this time. 1 
Plimson, and У 
while I am not too happy about 


m heavily dating Susie 
likes good dressers. So, 
1 


decide I have to pay Hastings another 
visit. 
No dogs come out this time when 1 


walk to the front door. But on it is à 
typed note, which says: 


HELCAL DO XOT OPEN THIS POOR! 
Since you were here last week, I 
bought a тома, Гог burglar protec- 
tion. This is а huge cat, a cougar 
ог а mountain lion, about four feet 
long, not including the tail. The 
man T bought it from told me it was 
fairly tame, but it is Nove It has tried 
to attack both dogs, who are OK 
wd are locked in the guest room. I 
myself have just gone down to my 
doctor's to have stitches taken in my 
isce and neck and arms. This fero- 
cious puma is wandering loose inside 
the house. The S.P.C.A. people 
ave coming soon to capture it and 
take it away. 1 mied to call you and 
tell you not to come today, but you 
had already left, Whatever you do, 
if the S. P. C. A. has not come before 
you, no NOF UNDER ANY CIRCUM- 
FANCES OPEN This DOOR! 


s 


Well, naturally, this gave me consider- 
able pause. Helga was obviously the 
blonde cleaning woman. Bur this was a 
Tuesday and she came on Wednesdays. 
Or she used to. But she could have 
changed her days. 


I stroll around the outside of the 
house. But all of the Curtains and drapes: 
ave drawn and I cant see їп. As I 


piss the guestroom windows, the two 
dogs bark inside, So this much of the note 
on the door is true 

So 1 wander back 10 the front door 
d I think and I ponder. Is there really 


а puma in there or is this just another 
onc of Hastingy big fat dirty lies? 
After all, it is one hell of a lot of 


trouble to buy and keep a puma just to 
protect a few clothes. And it is also 
expensive, and this Hastings 1 know by 
now is a cheap skate. It costs him not 
thin dime to put this stupid note to 
Helga on his front door and, God knows, 
it would terrify most anybody who want- 
ed to walk in. 

Susie told us in class that in every 
story, there is like a moment of decision. 
1 figured this was mine. 


After about five minutes of solid 
thought, 1 finally my decision. 
There is no puma in there. It's just that 
his smartass bastard wants me to think 


that there is а puma in there. 
So I decide to emer the house, by 
breaking another hole in the now 


replaced frosted-plate-gliss window to the 
left of the front door. So 1 break out a 
mall portion of this glass. 

And 1 peer through this little hole I've 
made and I see nothing. No puma. 1 
listen. I don't hear any snarling cit or 

i Just the same, there 


could be a puma in there amd it could 
be crouching, silently just inside the 
door, waitin: nd bite my 
hand oll wh Very carefully, 


1 put some fing nd wiggle them. 
No puma. And so 1 put my arm in and 
reach and tum the doorknob hom the 
inside and open the door a crack. No 
snarl hom a puma—whatever pumas 
snarl like. 1 open the door a little wider 


and ] call, "Here, pussy-puss Here, 
puma-puma! Nice puma!” No response. 
1 «теср in very cautiously, looking 


around, ready to jump back and out md 
slam the door on this beast, if necessary. 


But there is no pum; 
And then 1 
of course 


realize 0 
жаз, right and there 
gode this godd: 
But will, I am sweating like a p 
breathing heavily, and T suddenly figure 
out what Susie means when she talks 
pout “the power of the written word.” 
With just a piece of writing, this bastard 


my decision 
is no 


Hastings transferred an idea fom his 
crazy imagination into my mind. and 1 


was willing to believe it 

So 1 walk down the hall to his bed- 
room door, which is shut, and there 
another typed note on it 


Dear Burglar: OK. So there is no 
puma. Did you really think I'd let a 
huge «at mess up my nice m 
house? 

However, I am now going to give 
you a serious warning. Do NOT OPES 


Ts DOOR! One of the engineers at 
our studio hı 
sophisticated security device and I've 
borrowed one of his models. It’s 
hidden in the bedroom and it works 
by means of ultrasonic waves. The 
are soundless and they have a fan 
tically destructive and permanent 
effect on brain tissue, Tt takes less 
than a minute of exposure. You will 
not notice any brain-mumbing effects 
at once, but in a few days, your 
memory will start to go, and then 
your reasoning powers, and so, for 
jour own sake, bo xor ENTER THIS 
коом 


Harry Hast 


us 

Well, J really had to hand it to this 
loony character. No wonder he made 
lot of money as а writer. I, of course, do 
not believe one word of this, at all, 


therefore, 1 go imo the bedroom and 
hurry around to see if there is any h 
den electronic device, but, of course, 
there is not. Naturally 

Then 1 see another n 
door, and it says: 


on the closet 


Dear Burglar: I don't suppose I 
should have expected vou to believe 
that one, with ted imag 
ation and your onet 
By the way, where do you go 
my Clothes? You must be quite а 
swinger. 
here ave only a few new things 
iu the doser. But before you take 
them. I suggest. vou sniff them. You 
will notice а kind of cologne smell, 
but this is only to disguise anothe 
odor. 1 have a pal who was in Chem- 
ical Warfare and he has given me a 
iquid that can be sprayed inside 
Clothing. No amount of dry cleaning 
сап ever entirely remove it. Whe 
the dothes are worn, the heat of the 
body converts this substance into а 
heavy gas that attacks the skin and 
produces the most frightful and 
Mul blisters, from 
the ankles i0 the neck. Never forget 
that you have been warned. 
Harry Hastins 


ew 


Well, 1 don't believe this for one mo- 
meni, and so E open the closet door. АП 
there is is one pair of slacks and a sports 
coat. But this coat looks like the very 
me plaid cashmere 1 took before and 
the son of a bitch stole from me! But 
then T realize this could not be so, but it 
was just that Hastings liked this coat se 
much he went out and bought another 
just like it 

Anyway, I find myself sniffing these. 
They smell of cologne, all right, but 
nothing else, and T know, of course, that 
this kind оГ: ИЕ does not exist at all 
except in Hastings’ wild imagination 
which 1 am coming to admire by now. 

M I drive back to my pad, 1 start to 
laugh when E think of all ihe stupid a 
famastic thingy that Hastings has tried 
to put into my mind today by the power 
of suggestion, and I realize that he ak 
most succeeded, Almost, but not quite. 

When I get home and climb the out- 
side stairs то my front door, there are 
three envelopes taped to it. one above 
another. There ате no names on them, 
but they are numbered, 1, 2, 3. 1 do not 
know what in hell all this could be 
about, but I open 1 and I read: 


as SU 


Dear Burglar: The plaid cashmere 
coat you have over your arm right 
now is not a replacement for thc 
me you stole. It is the same identi- 
cal coat. Think about this before 
you open envelope 


Harry Hastings 


Well, of course 1 think 
І stand there with my 


bout this as 
mouth sort of 


“My dad thinks Рт jitterbugging at the malt shop.” 


233 


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234 


hanging open. АЙ of a sudden, it hits me! 
Нату Hastings was the son of a bitch 
who stole all his clothes back! But how 
did he know where I live? How could 
he know I was going 10 hit his house 
today? My I 1 fumbles as I 
open 2. Inside, it says: 


ands are 


Dear Burgh; To answer your 
questions: On your Ша visit to my 
house, my young neighbor saw you 


and followed you home in his car, 


ad so found out just where you 
in my own good time, 1 
cred this place with a bent 


nd retrieved my own 
clothes. Today, my neighbor called 
me at my office and you were 
wide my house again. Later, I 
phoned him and he said you had 
come out, with my coat. So Гус 
had time to come here and write 


anl leave these nores. D also have 
had time to do something else, which 
you will rad about in з, 


Harry H: 


1 open this third envelope very fast, 
deed. because E figure thar if Hasi 
knows all this, the fuzz will be along 
minute. In it, 1 read: 


Dear Bur I got the puma 
idea Irom a friend out in the Valley 
who has one in a Luc cage in his 
yard. Long ago. I asked him if [ 
might borrow this huge cat for a day 
sometime, and he sid yes and that 
he didn’t like burglars, either. He 
а large «шуй for the pur 
1 called him this morning the mo- 
ment | heard you were inside my 
house and he drove the puma right 


over here 


nd we rek 


‘Another outburst like that and. ГЇЇ clear the 


at inside your place. She is now in 
there, wandering around loose. 1 
have done this partly because T am 
vengeful and vindictive by nature 
nd partly because Tve made my liv- 
ig for years as а verisimilitudin us 
(look it up later) writer, and I deep 
ly resent anyone 1 connor. lool. The 
puma that is now inside is my child- 
ish way of getting even. This is no 
trick this time! If you have any 
brains at all, no xor OPEN ms 
poor! Just set out of town before 
the police arrive, which will be in 
about half an hour. Goodbye 
Hany Hastings 

P. S. The pumas name is Carrie—as 
iI that мота help you any. 


Well. I read in а story once where 
somebody was called a “quivering mass 
of indecisive jelly.” and that is what I 
was right then, Í simply did not know 
what to think or believe. If this was any 
door but mine, T could walk away. But 
all my cash was hidden inside and 1 kad 
to get it before I could leave town. 

So I wand there and I sweat and I 
think and I think and alter а long time, 
it comes to me that this time, this bas- 
I Hastings is finally telling the ruth. 
Besides. D Can hear Tittle noises from 
imide. There is a puma in there! I 
know it! But I have to get in there, just 
the same! 

I finally figure that if I open the door 
ast and step back, Carrie might just 
scoot past me and away. But maybe she 
will atack me. But then J figure if 1 
wiap the sports coat around am 
nd the slacks around the other. maybe 1 
сап fend off Carrie long enough 10 grab 
а chair and then fore her into my 
bathroom, the way lion tuners do, and 
then slam the door on her, and then 


one 


court.” 


grab my cash and run out of there, and 
the police com worry about her when 
they come. 

So this is what I decide to do, only it 
time before I can get up the 
nave to unlock the door and push it 
open. 1 unlock the door and | stand 
there. But finally, I think. “Oh, hell. you 
got to do й. sooner or later" and so I 
push my door open and stand back. 

No p jumps at me. Nothing h 
pens at all. But then T look around the 
corner of my door aud Hany Hastings is 
sitting inside, Not with a gun or апу. 
thing. He is sitting very calmly behind 
the old card table T use as a desk, with a 
ene in his mouth and а pencil 
is hand, and I sec onc of 
front of | 

I walk in and just stand there with my 
face оп and cannot think of any clever 
remark to make, when he says: “Tell me 
one thing, Did you or did you not really 
believe there was а puma in here? 

I I remember sight —t preuy 
shook up then—I nodded and I said. 
"Yes, sir. Yes. I really d 

Then he smiled a big smile and said, 


“Well, thank heaven for that. 1 was 
beginning to think I was losing my grip. 
I feel a little better now. Sit down, I 


want lo talk to you. By the way, your 
syntax is terrible and your grammar is 
worse. I've been making some corrections 
while waiting for you. However, that's 
not what 1 want to talk to you about. Sit 
Stop trembling, will you, and sit 


ind 


As T write now, I am the co-owner 


Agency. Harry Hastings is my silent part- 
ner and he put up 52000 for financir 
Susie helps me with my accounts, 1 have 
130 clients now, s a mouth 
each. The r 
we the Hany Hast 
s. we don't bothe 
ort 


nd keep putting up and а 
nd notices and notes on front doors. 
Already, the burglary rate in my arca has 
been cut by two thirds. 

This very morning, I got a little letter 
from Harry Hasti 
for front-door note 
VE ALREADY CALI 


with two new ideas 
One CLARA! E 
ED THE POLICE AND 
EY WILL BE MERE IN MINUTES! DO NOT 
CALL THEM AGAIN! GEORGE 15 LOCKED IN 
THE BATHROOM AND CAN'T GET OUT, SO WE 


WILL BE SAFE TILL THEY GEY TERED 
The second one is: NOTICE! BECAUSE 
OF A FRIGHTPULLY CONTAGIOUS pis 
HOUSE HAS BEEN EVACUATE 


їт Mus! 
озш. IF 


ABSOLUTELY 


AND QUARANTINED. 
BE ENTERE 


мис 

Hany Hastings says that I should be 
sure to warn the houscholder to remove 
this notice belore any large parties. 


CANADIAN MIST. 


VOTED MOST LIKELY 
TO SUCCEED IN ITS 
CLASS. 


For years America has 
been bordering on a 
great thing without 
knowing it. Now, it 
looks like Americans 
are coming around. f 
They've discovered 
Canadian whisky. 

Some start with Aste d B. | 
the most expensive brands. But every day more 
and more of them make the ultimate whisky 
discovery: Imported Canadian 3 
Mist. Canadian Mist is now the fastest growing brandin = 
America. And there are a couple of good reasons behind dit 
our success. s 

Canadian Mist tastes like the big brands. Smooth, light 
and mellow. Only Canadian Mist doesn't cost like 
the big brands. Because we distill and blend Canadian 
Mist in Canada but we bottle it here. Which saves us 
tax money. Which saves you money. Usually about 
two dollars a bottle. 

So you can take the time, trouble and money to dis- 
cover all this for yourself. Or you can learn your lesson 
the easy way. And start with Canadian Mist. It won't 
take you long to realize there's nothing quite like it in 


its class. CANADIAN MIST. 


Canadian Whisky —А Blend * 80-86.8 Proof + Barton Distillers Import Co. * N.Y. 


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236 


rides at anchor, canvas furled loosely оп 
her booms, her hull str id with rust. 


La Paz means peace, which is the 
predominant flavor of this soothing little 
town. It is built in Sp: Colonial 
style with Mexican. ove mong a 


profusion of tropical blooms that fes 
toon the patios amd court A few 
café tables are set on shaded sidew: 
there îs а scattering of hotels, banks, 
restaurants and stores; and in the narrow 
streets that lead from. the 
waterfront are а couple of windowless 
adobe cantinas with radios blaring news 
of the outside world from behind their 
bawing doors. In the middle of the 
time, the sun is the only 
spectator, the town а set without actors. 

Whit does a visitor do in La Paz? Not 
much. Once he has checked into a hotel 
(La Рохи the Cominental, which 
have private beaches, or La Репа or Los 
Arcos, on the front), he has accom- 
plished 90 percent of the purpose of his 


side 


way 


afternoon, sie: 


or 


nd ош. You 


or out of stock), sir at La Pe 
Bar and sample the local pe 


(continued from page 142) 


а dip in the Continental's pool or find 
table somewhere and eng 
ding Mexican art of watching 
people and wondering what it all means, 

As a place to wind down the w 
metabolism, La Paz is a. perfect. decom- 
pression. chamber. "This pleasant. process 
should take a couple of 
which is long enough to explore the 
possibilities of finding some company— 
or to take in the raunchy scene at El 
Ranchito, the local whorchouse—and 
then it will be time to think about 
moving south toward the tip of the pen- 
sula and the resorts dotted around the 
сар 

If you fly from La Paz to Cabo San 
Lucas, the journey is completed in about 
1 hour and southern Baja’s spectacular 
scenery has been reduced to a rumpled 
brown blanket. You can get a lot more 
ош of ıl from one 
of the three 1 ın agencies 
presented in town and drive yourself. 
Before checking out of your hotel, ask 
someone to pack a picnic lunch. There 
e a dew restaurants en route to the 
pe, but if you have your own food— 
ith а bottle of wine and fresh 
you can 


enhanced w 
mangoes collected on the way 


“Hey! What's with you two?” 


stop and dine on an empty beach and 
watch pelicans glide along the crest of 
breaking rollers. 

The dive to the cape takes about 
three hours and, except for а short 
stretch of gravel at the end, the highway 
is paved. Apart from the road itself and 
the occasional hamlet that straggles 
along its verge for a couple of hundred 
ards, there is little to be 
is appurtenances—not even a sign 10 
record the Lict that, not too far outside 
La Paz, you have aosed the Tropic of 
Cancer. Now and then, the highw: 
across а boulderstrewn valley and climbs 
into the mountain: 
sight—a ribbon of road that wi 
the face of the sock and unravels 
reappens far below as а thin. straigl 
silvery gleam on the desert floor. Beyond 
that, it runs parallel to the sca 
the crest. of steep cliffs overlooking wide 
beaches and thundering surf. 

At the end of the paved road is the 
town of San José del Cabo; the gravel 
road branches olf to the west, leading to 
the hotels along the cape. The first of 
these is Las Cruces Palmil stately 
Colonial inn that stands in a thicket of 
date palms at the water's edge. Like all 
the best hotels in southern Baja, it is 

luxurious aud discreet resort, dist 
guished by the excellence of its service 
rather thant by the opulence of its facile. 
Guests who [cel energetic can. play te 
nis, go waterskiing, game fishing, scuba 
diving and horseback riding, or they 
тем a jeep and explore the coast line 

Not too far рам Las Cruces is the 
Hotel Cabo San Lucas, perched on à 
rocky promontory over the beach of a 
v once used as а stash by Chilean 
es. The suites here are cool and 
antly furnished, with wide balconics 
that overlook tropical gardens lead 
down to the beach. 
h a large. frosty marga 
al and, hom then on. 

ге no tour 


p 


e : 
buses, excursions. to 


ized "fun" to fill the v 
there is good food perhaps л sweci 
fresh dora nother fish Gught that 
day by one of the guests—and a pleni 
tude of amiable company, In. the. eve- 
ning, one can take dinner on a terrace 
high above the crashing waves while the 
sun dies in a sky full of bleeding clouds. 
and a solitary wampeter—believe it or 
not—wails plaintive culogies to heroic 
bulls and jilted: señoritas. 

When the new Finisterra Hotel, ter 
miles to the west, is in. full operation 
(this spr [ ай goes according 10 
schedule), travelers t0 the cape will find 
other novelties for their daytime diver- 
sion: Horses and dune buggies will be 
ble for rent, plus an assortment of 
the usual aquatic recreations one expects 
t а seaside resort. Until the hotel 
opens, visitors must seek their pleasures in 


lo or 


sinple fashion—on the beach, within a 
tun and a jump of the sca. The same 
сап be said ol any oceanside resort, but in 
Cabo San Lucas, where the existing hotels 
e only a few hundred 


accommod, 
guests among them, no madding crowds 
intrude. Furthermore, many of the 
people who pass this way occupy them- 
selves with the region's. principal tourist 
industry: They get up carly and go to 
ses qo hunt big fish. 

In La Paz everybody swears the 
fishi re than anywhere clse 
in Baja; rhe some chim, of comse, is 
made up north for Ensenada and San 
Felipe and, aco» the Gull, for Ма 
Ман, Ty follows that in Cabo. San Luc 
they insist that fishing there is the best 
of all. In fact. fish are to be found in 
ah псе all these waters—over 650 
species, according to one estimate—and 
half of these arc considered game. Find 
ing them depends on currents, season 
weather, feeding habits and all the other 
which fish respond. For marlin 
amd sailfish. February to June is regarded 
as the best time, but even this can. vary, 
so its usually best to rely on your 
skipper's expertise: it’s 
interest to make sure the guests. catch 
fish. If anyone knows where they are; he 
will 


his 


bo San Lucas fishing fleet leaves 
y around seven in the morning, cach 
boat stocked with bait, tickle and an ice 
chest full of food and beer or whatey 
other liquid refreshment the passeng 
may request. Once the mate has thr 
the outrigger lines and baited them with 
mullet or fi ish, guests cin take it 
tay in the boars fighting chars and 
wait for a strike. Perhaps an hour or more 
will pass before the 
Schools of porpoise Пази through Ше зв 
surfacing every now amd then to race 
alongside the boat, snor К? 

iE rolling sideways to leer crazil 
occupants. Sometimes а 1 breaks the 
still sin Ч kinds with а great. crash 
to dislodge its parasites, but the skipper 
shakes his head if you point to one of 
them and tells you that а leaping marlin 
The fish he seeks 
scarcely moving, one 


never goes after | 
lie on the surface 
g to the sky. When one 
the skipper throttles 
ару the bait 
around the qu lin or a saill 
which will or di 
most cases, nobody sees the fish before it 
strikes. There is а shrill scream from the 
reel, the hook is set and the fight begins. 

To have experienced the excitement 
1 satisfaction of doing honorable battle 
with а worthy opponent is the single 
greatest rewind in game fishing. Along 
with the sweat. There is no reason why 
every such encounter should end with the 
death of the fish, and anybody who feels 


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bout this can ask that his prey, 
once captured. be tagged (to allow its 
ements to be traced by marine biolo- 
s) and released. Some charter crews, 
aware of the food and monetary value of 
the catch, may not go along with this 
peculiar gringo notion. Quite frequently, 
one of the crew, unfazed by ecological 
proprieties, will run up and club а mar- 
lin to death at the moment it's brought 
side the boat. To avoid this, state 
your wishes firmly in advance and, if the 
skipper points out thi 
pound fighting fish is an impossible feat 
(which is not too far from the truth), 
tell him you want the line cut close to 
the hook, so that the fish cam escape, 
seed or not. A couple of small bills 
y help arouse his compassion. 

About three in the afternoon, the flect 
returns to the bay, the boats bedecked 
with pennants to signify the day's catch 
—blue for marlin, red for sailfish, The 
sight of a vessel skulking back to anchor- 
we Without any pennants із rare, but 
when it happens, the faces of the local 
people who go down to the beach to see 
what the gringos locos have caught are a 
study in restrained scorn—with perhaps 
a trace of disappointment. In most parts 
of the world, the fishing industry is 
manned by those who are not noted for 
their great wealth and most of their 
catch finds its way to the tibles of the 
more fortunate citizens; but in Cabo San 
Lucas, the process is reversed. There, it is 
the rich (or comparatively so) who go to 
sca—and pay for the privilege. The con- 
sumers look cheated if a boat comes back 
without pennants flying; but if the reds 
nd blues flutter from the outriggers, 
everybody's happy—the guests because 
they've hooked а fighting giant, the locals 
because they're going to eat the proceeds. 
"Ehe middlemen who profit from the spoils 
—the crews, trophy makers and assorted 
beneficiavies—are ecstatic because they're 
making money on the deal without uhi 
inconvenience of investment. It's а sys 
tem that appears to work to the detri- 
ment of nobody. 

If there is a threat to this arrange- 
ment, it’s one posed by foreign commer- 
cial fleets, whose numerous vessels are 
equipped with sophisticated fish-finding 
gear and whose incursions have in recent 
years led to some lively skirmishes with 
Mexican nationals. One vici 
ny years ago was the Inari Maru, a 
Japanese fishing boat that now lies 
stranded on the beach a couple of miles 
west of the Hotel Cabo San Lucas. Ac 
cording to the local story, the skipper of 
the Inari Maru was trying to locate a 
radiodirection-finder buoy that had 
been dropped the previous day to m: 
the position of a net, The skipper finally 
homed on the R.D. Е. signal, bu 
unknown to him, the buoy had bcen 
removed from the sea and carricd ashore, 


uneasy 


ип not too 


where it continued to emit its signal. In 
the darkness, the Inari Maru ran onto 
the rocks, fortunately without loss of life. 
Since then, the foreign fleets have kept 
а respectable distance offshore. It is a 
yarn related with great relish by cape 
residents. 

hing and doing nothing in particu- 
amid surroundings of perpetual mag- 
nificence are the main preoccupations in 
Cabo San Lucas, They are leisurely pur- 
suits that will appeal to some visitors 
but not to others—who may, after a 
week or so, feel the urge to expend the 
s sort of lazy schedule 
сап generate. The best and nearest reme- 
dy is to be found on the mainland in 
Mazatlán. And to get there, опе must 
return to La Paz to catch a plane or, 
preferably, to book a first-class cabin on 
the uluamoderm ferry La Paz, which 
crosses the Gulf from the territorial capi- 
tal in an overnight journey of about 16 
hours and arrives soon after breakfast in 
M 


‘The temptations of this attractive City 
are bountiful after a sojourn in Baja. It's 
far enough from the border to have 
retained an authentic flavor of old Mex- 
ico and, while it's not overwhelming in 
size (the population is around 100,000), 
something is always going on: bullfights 
on Sundays in the winter season, parties 
and fiestas at the larger hotels, cabarets, 
discothèques, sights to sec, things to buy. 
In the center of town is a noisy, smelly, 
colorful market and, around it, streets 
full of shops stacked with bargains in 
leatherware, carvings in wood and bone, 
Taxco silver, pottery from Pueblo and 
all the other ingenious handicrafts at 
which Mexican artis: excel. North of 
the center of town, where the best beaches 
and hotels are located, is the Balboa 
Club, which provides the finest accoi 
modations in Mazatlán, a ble only to 
members of private dubs that are 
affiliated with this exclusive establishment. 
The nextbest lodgings are in the Hotel 
Playa Mazatlán, which is favored by un- 
attached visitors of both sexes because it 
big and blasé and stands on its own beach. 
Specify an ocean-front suite here, not the 
viewless rooms at the rear of the building. 

To explore the town, you can pick up 


a jeep from the Aviles brothers; one of 
them ako rents fishing boats whose 
crews refuse to quit until their guests 


have made a decent catch. The mate will 
cut off a couple of choice fillets if you 
wish, and your hotel can prepare them 
for your dinner—if you're not eating 
out. Restaurant food in Mazatlán is, in 
general, very good and remarkably 
pensive especially seafood. Local shrimp, 
which are exported to every corner of the 
globe, arc served all over town—by the 
handful, by the plate and in buckets. It's 
also an ideal place to sample fre 

hich has the color and texture of 


nex- 


fine veal and tastes like a rare species 
of game. The turtle 
at Матиса, one of M 
and smaller restaurants, where the mari 
time fare consists of everything fom 
oysters ta octopus and smoked marlin, 

Ebewhere, you'll find the Було 
universal fast-food joints for hamburgers 
and milk shakes, steakhouses, Chinese 
and, of course, Mexican restaurants. At 
La Cascada, which is also a popular 
biso after dark, the specialties are Ital 
ian dishes and what may be the hottest, 
spic 
fine wine plays an important part in your 
Jife, don't order imported vintages here or 
anywhere else in Mazatlán (nor, for that 
matter, anywhere in Mexico). because 
even the poorest years are priced exorbi 
tantly and the best of them are often 
inferior to native labels. Try Alamo, а 
servic illo, ог $ 
Marcos, from. Aguascalientes. 

After dinner. you'll find plenty of 
unescorted Jadies in local hangouts such 
as the Moana Loa disco, the bar of the 
Hotel La Siesta, La Joya in the Copa 
de Leche, El Coral Club, La Cascada and 
all the other nocturnal roosts where 
the lights are low and the music insistent 
Tt might also be instructive to wander over 
to Campo Siete, the Mazatlán red-light 
district: but don’t expect. any ravishing 
beauties, and go with a k 
Spanish. 

As a change of pace after a week 
of relative solitude in Baja, Mazatlán 
offers many such obvious attrac 
fs a town in which a stranger 
any and no end of 
¢ away the hours. It is 
a popular resort, and rightly so, for it 
has an. abundance of bright lights and 
things to do, and its setting could hardly 
be improved upon. But after a few days 
in the big city (which is what Mazatlán. 
scems like alter Cabo San Lucas) the 
quality of life there tends to take on a 
slightly frenzied and somehow familiar 
air. Perhaps it is because nearly all cities, 
whatever their virtues, have become too 
crowded and too noisy. If you've already 
experienced the quicter pleasures of the 
otherworldly peninsula across the Gulf, 
you may begin to feel that the glitter of 


Mazatlán is, in some way, less enduring 
—and les fulilling—than the lure of 
mountains, sum and sca. It is a line of 


thought that can provoke another bout 
of restlessness—the urge to return to Baja 
and spend the final days of your уа 
rediscovering the secrets of this lonely 
and majestic land. It is, after all, one of 
the few beautiful places on the map that 
has not yet been covered with concrete 
and garnished with neon; and once cx- 
perienced, it's difficult to stay away. John 
Steinbeck would have been relieved. 


“1 don’t care what the Government is payin’ for pork, 
I feel like a damn fool!” 


233 


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begin descending a rocky, ni wonder is listed in Pados у Vacas, мор. Do they know something we don't 
yon пай into the town of El Rosario Бесике it's not on our map. know? Better back up and turn around. 
check point number two. The Auto Out of the corner of my right eye 1 Two miles down the road, we sec them 
mobile Club of Southern i I think I sce a tire, then a chrome head coming back. They pass us, smiling. In а 
ecall, notes in its Guide to Baja Califor- light rim. There's a Wampuskitty dune minute, we find out why: The road 
nia del Моне th: Rosario is "the buggy thundering along about iwo feet dead-ends at а tumble-down rancho. As 
Hast outpost before entering the wilds of from us, uying te pas on the right, 1 We slow down to turn around. here comes 
. >- Most important, the yell at Cleaver, but he can't hear a thing А pa ч xum МЫ don пы, in 
is the terminus of telephone com- over the roar of the Burro’s engine. BETES Ges m iE ps LE S 
munication. Then it passes and he sees it and we're PSY. Г OT. RAM Ad Li ann xd 

We drive into El Ro 50 par, ahead again, and then it’s ahead and PRU vir n^ ОЕА 
and put on our СІ parkas. At this time then we. Now irs really ahead, because "® ae saat pe fe aa 
year, the sun sets сапу in the Baja we're sliding backward out of control De aN ыраак Bie 
nd desert nights rroyo. We stop, we're OK and 


"d We turn on our headlights and a pair of 
. check point number we pull back onto the road, following Notez елар cae, sacred Ж. 


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rio at 


те long and cold. down an 


We're off the Wampuskinty’s dust. There's nothing the font of our buggy* rollbar cage. 
es, making tracks in quite like Mexi The hot desert has turned cold and 
the dust. Si cleaver turns off the it to believe As we hurde along, strange 


road and 


ris shagging ass crosecountry Ten miles farther on, we overta behind every: cactus, My 
along a one-lane track that looks as s in а somped-up Chevy sedan jounc- nd I recall some 
though it had last been used by a sun- along from тш to rut. We pas them оГ the stories friends have told me about 
struck iguana. This is the Old Mine Road, at 50 mph. Coming up is a fork in the 


my ear. IT road. Which way? We take it to the left 


the bandidos!” some- 
id. “Theyre after not only your 
Fritos but your boots, too. And if the 
bandidos don't get you, the cholla cactus 
will. That's the kind with little prickly 
balls that jump on you if you get too 
close, And they're a bitch to pull off.” 
Keep 10 the center of the road, Wes 
The Old Mine Roid rejoins the 
route and we accelerate into the 
ness, our detour having enabled us to 
bypass an even nastier stretch called the 
Stair Steps. God knows what 1 missed. The 
one- (sometimes two) lane road we're 


а short cut, he shouts 


on twists like а snake, carving down into 
canyons а 


T 


d around the sides of hills. 
acherous rocks the size of your head 
ger loom up ahead, some of hem 
the dust with just a point 


d 
buried 
sticking up. The drivers aptly call them 


m cracke 


Trying to make myself 
useful—and to keep from thinking wl 
might happen ack a rim—I be; 
giving wigwag signals with my hands to 
show Wes which way the road curves 
ahead. This works pretty well. He can 
watch. for rocks and then, with a glance 
at my curved fingers, dusandy know 
where the road goes next. On soft turns. 
I anve my fingers slightly, on hard unns 
more sharply and on U-shaped mothers 1 
cup them—and cover my eyes with the 
other hand, 

Lights are co wp behind u 
Bright lights, There's something big b 
there and it's gaining Гам. There 
Tights all over it. What the hell is it? A 
semi? A Greyhound bus? We move over 
to let it by and а Ford Bronco truck 
st, throwing dust and loose 
our faces, Remind me to buy 
ks for those guys wh 
Paz The dust cle; 


[v 


^ we get to La 
ars and Wes floors the 
accelerator ound a sharp turn. 
Е ‘Too sharp а turn. We skid off the road, 
240 “IU never make it . . . I suffer [rom acrophobia." swerve то miss a big rock and hit a 


bigger one. We get out and take a look. 
Scratch one Goodrich and one badly 
dented tire rim, Caramba? Nothing to do 
but chink along God knows how many 
miles at ten mph into Randio Santa 
Ynez on what's left of the rim. On go 
the dust masks. Will this desert never 
end? We must be on the backside of the 
moon 

An hour later, we're still limping 
when—lights, bonfires. humans—Rancho 
Жина Ynez is dead ahead, all lit up like 
a Christmas tree. We thumpety-thump in 
and leap out of the buggy. There are 
cer 


everywhere in various stiges of dise 

People in clean clothes with cle 
aces wander by to ask us how it’s going 
They've flown down in small private 
planes and Landed at the nearby airstrip. 
1 resist the temptation to punch them in 
the mouth 


1 


Wes changes the tire and vim while I 
hold the flashlight. When we climb back 
into the buggy, it’s eight rr. Stecling 
ourselves, we turn our backs ou the 


warmth and companionship of Rancho 
Santa Ynez and take olf in our Iron 
Maiden. Seventy-six miles down the road 
is check point number four. Punta Pri 
а, and to т 
dreaded Laguna Seca Chapakt, a dry lake 


adh it, we must cross the 


bed partially covered with sili. There's no 
real road across it, just hundreds of tracks 
goin: 
predecessors who undoubtedly wandered 
about the dusty lake bed for hours, seek 
ing the opposite shore. 

Even by Baja standards, the road is 
rough out of Santa Ynez. We pass a large 
nd елуу 


п all directions, made by dozens of 


rock with co wm 
scrawled on it in huge letters, then a 
ign that reads ENSENAD\—211 MILES, 


pointi 
585 miles to go. Dust masks in place, we 
reach L nd a wall 
of silt rolls in through the open wind- 
shield frame. and we're stone blind. (If 
you'd like to experience what this thrill 
is like, go outdoors some might, put 
on a pair ol 
sit down in а chair and then have some- 
опе hit you in the face with a bushel 
basket of Hour—50 times.) 

We're on the Jake bed, wandering 
ind, stopping every two minutes for 
the dust to sele and then going on 
again, when we sec the Ford ruck 
stalled directly ahead of us. Wes tries to 
I it, throws up a tremendous 


g back from where we came. Only 


ma Seca Chapala 


gles and a crash helmet, 


sw 
cloud of dust and smashes into the 
drivers door, which has carelessly been 
left open. Two very dirty, very angry. 
very large men come round from in front 
of the truck, where they've been work 
ing on the engine, amd one kicks the 
dented door shut 

“Whydon yousonsofbitcheswatch where- 
thefuckyergoin’ 

“Sorry,” we yell throug 
masks and bandannas, һам 


то 


r dust 
ing up 


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into the darkness. "Can we give you a 
han 

“No!” 

“Well. good night." 

The dust is everywhere, In our eyes, 
up our noses, down our throats, in our 
cars, down our boots. up our pants legs. 
из inescapable. We pass several cars 
with the dust-covered drivers curled up 
asleep, probably awaiting dawn's early 
to deam where in hell they are 
and then continue the race, Then, by 
some miraculous piece of luck, we sec 
the silhouette of Rancho Laguna Chapa- 
la against the starry night sky and know 
we've made it across. 1 celebrate by 
breaking out two dean bandannas and а 
fresh pair of dust masks. Onward, nonstop. 
The то ast and T resume my 

i s. God help us if I 
when I should wag. At mile 300. we 
pass a tiny road sign, skid to a halt, back 
wp amd read PUNTA PRIDYA—10 MILES. 
Sure you don’t want me to 
c, Wes? 


is a dinky little village 


that, in its heyday, served as a stopping 
place for gold miners venturing into the 
nearby hills, Саше ranchers have long 
since replaced the prospectors. We arrive 
at 10:35 rar, get the card punched, get 
gas and check the oil. We've lost nary a 
drop. El Burro is serving us well. Only 
102 miles to El Arco, check point numbe 
five, hallway point of the race. Halfy 
Mamma mia! 

The road becomes one dark blur, mile 
alter mile of endlessness. Cactus. Rocks. 
Dips. Sharp turns. Dust. An occasional 
car out of the race. About an hour out 
of Punta Prieta, we come to a junction 
and three parked dune buggies, the d 


1 clustered around, checking a map. 
“Which way to El Arco?” Wes yells. 
‘They point and we've off in that dire 


tion. Five miles later, we deadend into 
another rancho. The sons of bitches sent 
us the wrong way. Heading back, we 
meet two guys from the Saab team who 
have made the same mistake, We tell 
them and they swing around. It doesn't 
pty to give wrong information when 


“Arnold, why must you always be Dracula? Why 
can't you occasionally be Wolf Man?” 


running ihe Baja. The car you send to а 
dead end may be the first one along just 
after you've stalled and are begging for a 
push. 

Wes is beginning to tire. I сап tell by 
the way we're skimming around sharp 
turns and taking sweeping curves with 
too much hts are coming 
d a minute 
Tater an official in a ruck pulls up. 

“Did you guys see a Revmaster that 
flipped three times and ran over a cou- 
ple of Mezzzicans 

“No, but we did see 
parked about ten miles ba 
looked like he was asleep. 

See you in La Paz." 
At mile 353. T promise myself a treat. 


swe Li 


а Revmaster 
k. "The driver 


When we get to El Arco, I'm going to 
ward 


us both by breaking open the 
zed box of Mason spiced berries I 
ht along. Visions of spiced 
icc in my head. The orange 
. The green ones 
spearmint. 1 can taste them right down to 
ihe tips of my dustencrusted cowboy 
boots. We round a turn in time 10 see a 
coyote slink olf into the desert. Tes eyes 
glow in the dune buggy's h 
They're not eyes at all, They're Mason 
spiced berries, Clove. 

By mile 387. my kidneys are beginning 
10 Kill me 

“Wes, do you think we could stop for 
a second... 27 

“We're almost to El Arco,” he says, 
lying. 

My kidneys begin to feel like two 
cannon balls. A fellow could injure him- 
self this way. 

El Arco at last! I spring from the 
buggy and race for the bushes, hoping 
one of those jumping cacti doesn't zap 
me. Oh, yess! Fin a new man. Now 
for those spiced berries. I dig into my 
duffel bag and come up with а jumbo 
sized box, just like the kind you buy at 

с 
Jujubes, no less h pebbles and 
covered with dust and grime. We woll 
them down, anyway, by the handful, along 
with our Gatorade ioney (IL really 


uzes the ole honey imo your blood 
stream,” according to Wes), and top it all 
oft with two or three q y candy 


bars. Neither of us says much. I think Wes 
had been looking forward to those Mason 
spiced berries, too. "The time is 1:55 AM. 
nel Wes reminds me that it’s time we g 
movil 

The road out of El 
and fast. This is the territory of В. 
Sur, a beautiful, prin 
that very few па 
nough to sce, I sure wish I could sec it 
instead of nothing but dust and inky 


Arco is st 


blackness, Then, 20 miles on, I discover 
that P have a problem. 
“Wes, sop!" “There's no mistaking 


the hysterical note of aut in my 
voice. Our to the bushes again. Monte- 
zuma, belatedly, takes his revenge. Back 


to the buggy on wobbly legs. Just 55 more 
miles to San їо, check point num 
ber six, Adrenaline and dextrose are surg 
ing through us. We've over the hump 
imo the second half of the race, 
making great time, We could be in La 
Paz by noon. 

San Ignacio іу a beautiful little city 
with a population of 1400. The dates 


and 


grown there are still processed the same 
way the Jesuit padre settlers taught the 
Indians to do it in 1728. We roar into 
town at 433 aM, fishtail past the majes 
tic San Ignacio de Kadataman mission, 
considered the finest example of hand-cut 


stonework in this hemisphere, and skid 
sideways into the check point, throwing 
up and gravel. Beautiful place. 
Wes asks me for the map. 


stones 


"Here's what we're gonna do,” he says, 
squinting in the beam of our flashlight 
“The regular route from San Ignacio to 
La Purisima, our next check point, is one 
hundred thirty miles, but 
gonna take a short cur and go by way of 
Santa Rosalia and Mulege over on the 
Gull coast 


four we're 


1 look at the map. Santa Rosalia is 
almost due east of San Ignacio. not far 


ther south, And Mulege is below it, way 
over on the Gulf coast side of Baja 
We're going to be driving all over Baja 
making rightangle turns, instead of fol 


NORRA'5 well-marked route 


straight south. "How longs the short 
cut?" ] ask 

7A hundred eighty-six miles." 

1 search for Wes, ivs four 
forty-five in the morning, I've just ridden 
shotgun over five hundred miles of the 
world’s worst roads, my beard feels like a 
Brillo pad, my ass is aching, my feet are 
beginning to swell, Montezuma 
stage another sneak attack at any min- 
ute, my head feels like it's about to burst 
inside this goddamn brain bucket and 
to die fifty-two more miles 
to and call it a short cut? 


words. 


you want 


than we 
Why?" 
Trust me.” 

We're off on the world’s longest short 
cut, heading back through San Ignacio 
and up into the hills, jounciug in and 
out of huge potholes and around. giant 
boulders big 
ten mph. Twenty-four miles later 
seriously considerin 
person in history to stage a mutiny aboard. 


s houses, averaging а brisk 


m 


becoming the. first 


а dune buggy, when we come 10 the sum 
mit of a divide called the Cuesta de las 
Virgenes amd begin descending а series 


switchbacks with 
drop-olls and 


light and the air is fresh and 


of 
1000001 
I's gettin 


onelane hairpin 


mo guardrails 


cool. Then, over in the east. 1 see it. The 
sea! Santa Rosalia cunt be far, As 1 
watch, an orange sum peeps over the 


horizon, se 


ng is wonderful. warming 


P 


rays over our cramped, cold bodies, c 
ing the last shadows of that long, chi 


ag 


Wes slams on the brakes. There it is. 
The inevitable Mexican standoff. A soda 
pop truck filled with empties is chugging 
up the hill in first gear directly toward 
us. The road is one lane and he's got it 
To our left is an 800-foot drop-ofl. "To 
our right is sheer rock with no place to 
hide. Somebody's got to give. ls us We 
back up. up, up. Can he make it? No. 
Back up some more. At a wide spot, the 
truck creeps pasian inch away—while 


we hug the side of the mountain, curs 


ing. Then we take off downhill again 
amd begin another series of hairpin 


switchbacks that meander down the edge 
of a huge canyon, the bottom of which, I 
is doned with the rusting hulks 
of cars and trucks that never made it 
Santa Rosalia, Whoopee! The town's 
just waking up. Let's stop lor a cold beer 
No We keep going on a flat. 
gravel, fog-shrouded h 


notice 


answer 


hway that paral 
lels the calm blue sea a few hundred fe 
below us to our left. The scene is tian 
quillity itself. 

Ahead, there's a car coming out of an 
carlyamorning fog b ht for us. 

"Watch out, Wes!” 

There's no 


т. Nothing but more fog 


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miles later, I see another car, Nothing 
j. P must be halhucinating—some 
thing that happens to almost all Baja 
cers, usually about two thirds of the 
way through the run. Before the race, I'd 
heard dozens of stories: 

Yeah. so my buddy all of a sudden 
slams on the brakes and we're sittin’ in 
the middle of this friggin’ desert, so 1 ask 
him whats the matter and he says, Ah 
ain't movin’ until that friggin’ freight 
train up there goes by- 

“That's nothin! Ty 1 was driv- 
in’ with one year thought a cirdon cactus 
tall booth, so the sucker pulls up, 
quarter on the ground, thanks 
the cicus and drives on, Funny th 
is, I loaned him the quarter.” 

Were in 
forget to look for the f prison 
there, Each day, all the prisonei let 
out to work in the fields on their own 
ance, knowing that if one tries 


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was 


throws 


mous 


punished. Then, at 
blows a conch shell and they re 
their cells. Man, that's poetic, my punchy 
mind keeps repeating over and over to 
the rhythm of our tires. 

We're getting low on 
low. 


. Dangerously 
Ahead is El Coyote, a few adobe 
buildings that look as ramshackle as the 
name implics. We buy gas bom а farm- 
er, the oll through desert 
again, leaving the sea behind us, driving 
on what the Automobile Club of South 
California ingenuonsly calls th 
worst road in Baja. Compared with wha 
we've been through, i Wes 
ells me to keep looking for a rock with 
a big red arrow painted on it. Sure, We 
jounce along at 20 mph lor about seven 
miles and then turn back, Must have 
missed it. Back seven miles with me bent 


the 


em 


around. looking back to see where the 
iow we been. Nothing. Let's 
sunt in. We go М miles this 


lime and there it is, а big red arrow 
painted on а tock near а Y in the road. 
“Га swear that arrow should be pointing 
10 the right and not the lett,” says Wes, 
We sit amd think and then decide to p 
it like the arrow says. 

Twenty-two miles later comes the 
truth; somebody had turned the rock 
around and we should have gone to the 
right, Forked again, We'd turn around 
and go back, but we're not sure where 
we are. “Stop and ask that Mexic 
yell. We stop. The Mesican’s a са 
Two miles Tater, 1 see a little child 
kneeling in prayer, her head pressed 

i actus. She's a pile of rocks. 

In the distance is an adobe rancho. If 

this is another hallucination, ГИ reti 

a rubber room. We pull up and an old 
Mexican woman comes out accompanied 

by what seems to be a pack of wolves 
Which way to La Purisima? That way, 

оаа she signals. Hs back over the mountain 


we just crossed. Thanks a lot, lady. Car 


295, where the fuck are you? We turn 
toward the mountain and take off. the 
desert stretching out ahead flat as the 


bottom of an oven. Twi 
miles. We're not getting any clos 
doesn't this road take us back over 
mountain? 7 is the way thi 
woman said to go. H she's lying. . . 

Ahead is а junction with а road sign. 
We stop. Im almost afraid to look. 
Thank God! И we take this right turn, 
in jux 41 Kilometers well be in La 
Purisima. A bit late, perhaps, but still in 
La Purisima, check point number seven, 
But Wes says no. Keep going, he says. 
He knows another short cut, Of cour г 
should have known, OK, Wes, you're the 
driver. 

One hems stories about what happens 
10 guys who race together in the Baja. Ic 
scems one t 


ity miles. Thirty 
Why 
the 
old 


Hew. The Пу jumped Irom their 
buggy amd bx shit out of each 
other [or several minutes, then. climbed 
shed the race 
We come to a rise în the road and 
sop. There's no short cut, There's no 
highway. Thi ; but millions of 
miles of desert running on forever, ‘The 
things Wes mistook for highway poles 
marking his short cut are really cacti, 
their cell Hunks extending skywa 
ture giving us the finger. Adiós, Vados у 
Vacas, 1 say, tlnowing our copy to the 
wind. You're no help now. Back we go to 
the junction and then up and over the 
mountain 41 kilometers to La Purisima. 
Finally, we see it across the desert—an 
oasis tent city set up outside the main 
town just for drivers in the Mexican 
1000. We stop—but not to get a better 
look at our destination. We've тип out 
ol gas. In the middle of the desert. At 
lı noon. Out of the dune buggy. olf 
with the helmet and on with an old knit 
ا‎ to protect my throbbing head 
from the brain-boiling rays of the Baja 
sun. One hour and five minutes later, my 
tongue turned to pumice, we limp into 
la Purisima like drun 10nettes, 
Dazed bur undaunted, Wes gets E 
gas and has somebody drive him back to 
the buggy while 1 collapse in the shadow 
of a wnt and prop my leet up, waiting 
for the blood ta flaw back 
I'm just beginning to breathe again when 
Wes arrives with the buggy all gassed up 
and ready to go. Two miles out of La 
Purisima, on the other side of town, we 
pull op beside a motorcyclist fixing 4 flat 
tire. He's about 45, slightly balding and 
hades. 
“Need 
"No, thanks. 


м the 


nd 


y help?" 
Listen, 


you pot amy wa- 


ter? E could sure use a dvi 
"How about some — Gatoradeand- 
honey?" 
“Waterll be fine, th you 


make it to La Paz, would you tell my son 
that Dad is OK and ГИ be in sometime 
late tonight? He's at the Hotel Los Ar- 
cos, room twenty-five.” 

“Sure, Anything else you пес? Quick- 
energy cookies, Sego, No Do’ 

"No, thanks.” 

At 2:15 р.м. 
доп, check | 


we're into Villa Constitu- 
t number eight, driving 
on pavement again. The last 129 miles ol 
the race are over good old asphalt, a 
beautiful, modern Mexican highway just 
like the ones we gringos build. Kids arc 
l| over the buggy. asking for our awto- 
graphs. Somebody shoves а cold Pepsi 
into my hand. 1 almost faint. from the 


We're back onto the pavement, on the 
homestretch. heading for La Paz, The 
road is straight, we're chugging along 
65 and there's nothing to break the mo- 
notony except the occasional carcass ol 
cow. The wind rushing through the open 
windshield [rame gives my helmet a slight 
ift and the strap begins to cut deeper 
ito my chin, I look at Cleaver. His eyes 
resemble maraschino cherriec: face is 
of warm mud and his fingers 
th grip on the steering wheel. 
The floor of our dune buggy is covered 
with two inches of dust. Absurd thoughts 
ricochet in my head. What if Гус lost our 
SJeaverll kill me. PI 
have to hide out in the Baja forever, liv- 
ng off rattlesnakes and buzzards, He'll 
track me like Javert tracked. Jean Valjean. 
The last iles: If Cleaver cracks 
ws up now, PI track Mim forever; but 1 
think we're going ro make it, What's 
n the distance? An Indian doing 
iy wing to diy his wet 
Tshirt by Happing it in the breeze? No, 
irs a man with а blackandwhite check- 
cred flag and hes waving it for us. 
Yahooo! We beat the Baja: 27 hours, 
15 minutes, 34 seconds. Arrival time: 
боюм. E wane those figures chiseled 
omo the face of Mount Rushmore. 
Twelve hours later. when I wake up. 
the parties have already begun—twee 
days of unabashed hellraising, with ev 
eryone swapping stories about what hap- 
pened out thar in the wilderness, OF the 
261 entries, 145 finished; we came in 
хаш. Not bad for a first try, especially 
with one guy doing all the driving. In 
cur category, Production ‘Two-Wheel- 
Drive Bugyies, we were 20th out of 28. 


few 


Wes Cleaver is definitely driver to 
watch, 
On Sunday, the festivities start 10 


ik up. And here comes the kicker: 
Unless you've arranged to have your car 
flown or shipped out of La Paz. you have 
e it back up the Baja. And chat’ 


s 
ver is going to do. Will I go 
along for the ride? Gee, Wes, I'd love to. 
but T have to get back home and tunc 
up my unicycle for next year's 1000. Then 
you enjoyed. the trip? Baja, humbugt 


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246 


DEATH OF LIBERALISM „аон page 122) 


bill, most of them conserva 
tives such as Stennis of Mississippi, Kerr 
of Oklahoma and McClellan of Arkansa: 
Only two liberals joined them: Herbert 
Lehman of New York and John Sher- 
man Cooper of Kentucky. The others, 
such as Humphrey and Douglas, all went 
along, still trying to prove their own 
anti-communism. 

In foreign policy, most of the liberals 
were mute аз the CIA helped over- 
throw the leftist government in Gi 
mute at the CIA's intervention 
; mute about the support for 
Kaishek, Batista, Diem, Trujillo 
“free world" dictators; 
ms budget grew geomet 
“the imellectuals to 
hour sus- 


the liberal Democrats enlisted as privates 
in the Cold War to prove themselves 
as tough-minded. and "as John 
Foster Dulles. But they were too clever 
by half. 

When they woke up. the permanent 
war economy and the military-industrial 
plex were an impregnable reality. 
Their own anti-Communist rhetoric be- 
cme the official justification and sane 
tion for Vietnam and the Bay of Pigs 
And a new generation wanted to hold 
them accountable for their actions. 

What I've tried to say here is not that 
the liberals should have acted like radi- 
cals during the Fifties but that they 
didn't even act like liberals. They 
weren't tue to their own tradition of 
Jefferson, Holmes. d Br They 
didn't take any risks in defense of free- 
dom and reason once the McCarthy ju 
gernaut got rolling. They informed а 
compromised and voted freedoms 
just like the moderates and the reaction- 


cm 


aries. And chats what all the jabber 
about “the end of ideology" and "new 
consensus" was rcally all about. 

Something else, something much less 
obvious. also happened to liberalism du 
ilties. Ге wasn’t just that the Big 
s of the old liberalism were wrong. 
vt just that tlie politicians flunked 
the test of McCarthyism and that the 
intellectuals fought the Cold War as 
mindlessly as the generals. But the Di 
Party, the essential instrument 
of liberalism, began to abandon the 
working masses and became suburban 
and elitist. And it did this during a time 
when the grinding cycle of poverty still 
persisted beneath the surface of affluence, 
during a time of a flagging economic 
growth and two minirecessions, 

The Populists had attacked the bank- 
сїз and special interests with a holy 
passion. The Progressives had assailed the 
onopolies and the big wuss. F, D. R. 
had stacked the “economic royalists.” 
Нату Truman had made the “pluto- 
ral issue in 1948. But Adl 
enson kept himself aloof from the 

and after him Lyndon Johnson 
and Hubert Humphrey bent over back- 
ward to show they weren't the slightest 
bit antagonistic to big business. And this 
trend hom the blue-collar worker, 
way hom the people who worked with 
their hands, began in tlie early Fifties. 

On the issues of the Cold War and 
civil liberties, Adlai Stevenson conducted 
himself better than most public figures 
of his time. He wa 
personal таме and 
speeches. often drafted by John 
aneth Galbraith and Arthur $ 
ger, danced with wit and elegant phrases. 
He was a magnificent Tory. But begin- 


issue 


way 


“I asked Jor the Peking duck!” 


ning with Stevenson's two Presidential 
ampaigns, the Democrats the 
slow process of disengaging from the 
needs and hopes of the white lower n 
dle class. Part of it was Stevenson's pat 
cian style, the impression he gave of not 
really liking people or politics. And part 
of it was programmatic. Stevenson didn't 
talk much about economic problems— 
what the pols like to call "bread-and- 
butter issues.” He was very good defend- 
ing the United Nations or proposi 
nudeartestban пешу: but oi 
his old speeches, looking in 


sustained. passion over raising the mini- 
ium wage, or aracking price-fixing by 
giant corporations, or building more low- 


income housing, or pushing tax reform 
to help families earning under $10,000 


а year. 

In 1954, Irving Howe wrote an excel- 
lent essay in Dissent that tried to dellate 
ihe Stevenson culi. then so powerful 
among literary and liberal intellectuals. 
Stevenson.” Howe wrote, the first 
of the liberal candidates in the post- 
Wilson era who made no effort to align 
himself with the plebeian trad or 
plebeian sentiments... . Just as Steven- 
son bewitched the intellectuals by mim- 
ing, from on high. their political impul 
so did he fail ro attract very much en- 
thusiasm among the workers, By and 
large, they voted for him, but with litle 
of the fervor they felt for Roosevelt and 
Truman, . . . Truman was one of the 
plebes. and after his triumph over Dew- 
еу, there was а rem on in the 
Detroit auto plants. . . . ing char- 
cteristic of Stevenson's саз 
tinct from Roosevelt's or 
th 


Truman's, was 
the did not speak in the name of the 


poor or the workers. The conserva- 
tive press was always delighted to praise 
him for mor їп ‘Truman's 
dem nor emplo 


Trun 

Howe correctly poin 
man was, if anything, slightly to the left 
of Stevenson.” But the intellectuals fell 
in Jove with Stevenson for reasons that I 
cannot fully understand even now, Part 
of it might have been Stevenson's world- 


` vocabulary." 
ed out that “Tru- 


weariness, his civilized stance of being 
above politics—beyond ideology—that the 
inellectuals identified with, Part of it was 
surely Stevenson’s personality, a compel 


ling mixture of reason and wit. What is 
so hard ro understand is why the liber- 
als and intellectuals didn't 
affection on Stevenson's gr 
Kefauver, a. better. libe 
Kefauver. 


al, Estes 
l and a better 
who stood in the 


ion of Southern Populism, did talk 
about the things the workers cared 
about, and if he had been nominated in 


1952 or | I think 
Party might not have be proces 
of alienating the white workers who now 
vote for Wallace and cheer for Agnew. 

Kefauver, bereft ol polish or style, 


he Democratic 
the 


or 


the tragic quality the intellectuals saw in 
Stevenson, fought hard for the people 
Dos Passos liked to call "the working 
stills.” Kefauver led the fight to prevent 
the “private power crowd” from taking 
over the Tennessee Valley Au ty. He 
attacked the steel industry and the auto 
industry for overpricing, He beat the 
giant drug lobby and made the big com 
panies lower the prices of medicines for 
the sick and the aged. In 1950, Congress 
passed the Celler-Kefauver Act, 
trust law, and, in 1962, Kefauver got Con- 
gress to tighten the pure-food-and-drug 
laws, In the Senate, he opposed the sen- 
jority system and, in what was perhaps 
his most famous crusade, he went after 
the Mafia in 1950, even though it emb 
rased a dot of big-city Democrats and 
helped retire Mayor O'Dwyer of New 
York City. 

But Kefauver was poor, and his cu- 
sades antagonized all the powerful i 
ests that share control of the Demoa 
Party. His crime-busti 
the bigcity machines. His ma 
ing record frightened the party regulars. 
His folksy, coonskin-hat style turned. off 
the intellectuals, So he was neve 
nated for President, even thou 
he went directly to the people a 
13 primaries and lost one, and 
the conve 
delegates. He had run that spring in the 
New Hampshire primary and. defeated 
President Troman. who had not yet an- 
nounced his decision not to run. But 
at the convention, the bigcity leaders, 
the unions and President Truman and the 
party establishment helped nominate the 
man who had nor entered a single pri- 
Adlai Stevenson 

From 1950 ıo 1968, the liberal Demo 
crats had а chance to govern again. But 
throughout that whole time, they were 
mmable to think up a single Lüge pro- 
gramı 
formulas of the New Deal. It req 
d Nixon to propose the F 
nce Program. Liberalism became a 
set of bureau routines to defend, 
rather than а new vision to fight for. In 
fact, the blucsuited army of bu 
wd technocrats found ways to 
ags Even worse for the wor 


10 
tion with the largest bloc of 


tic idea that ventured beyond the 


ed 
y 


make th 
stills 

They made things worse, first. by 
building up ghetto hopes with a sym 
phony of speeches promising an end to 
poverty. But when the poverty program 
turned out to be just another patronage 
hustle (which is precisely what hap- 
pened—the money went to bureaucrats, 
sociologists and contractors), the disap: 
pointed h pes fell back into rage d 
the aroused expectations of a better to 
morrow exploded in the sticets. 

Iin August of 1970. Congresswoman 
Edith Green of Oregon finally blew the 
whistle on the poverty hucksters, She 
said that billions of dollars intended for 
the poor had been diverted into private 


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‘They saw those liberal professors draft- 
ing pkins that would make the sons of 
steelworkers and the daughters of secre- 
s bear the brunt of school inte 
while the professors’ own kids were 


going to exclusive private schools or all- 
white public schools in the suburbs. 
They saw the liberal bureaucrats con- 
struct all those anti-poverty programs for 
Watts and Harlem but none for the 
white sections of Akron or Utica 
Gary. They heard the Kerner Сопи 
sion tell them the nimber-one. problem 
in America was “white racism," while 
their children couldn't get into college, 
and they owed money on the house, and 
there were layoffs at the plant. They saw 


or 


the laddish media romanticize the Wood- 
stock Nation while ignoring their own 
culture of Бокій Merle Haggard 


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‘The elitisn Is 
reached its apotheosis with Eugene Mc- 
Carthy's campaign in the spring of 1968. 
Not since the frst campaign of Adla 
Stevenson did the liberal cggheads so 
ado living politician. Everyone. it 
seemed, hom George Kennan and Mur- 
ray Kempton to Simon © Garfunkel, 
was on the hustings stumping for Clea 
Gene. 

1 campaigned hard for Robert Kenne- 
dy that spring for several reasons, the 
most important being that he under- 
stood that poverty was the heart of the 
matter. He communicated his passion to 
the white working masses, and this made 
it posible to forge а new m 
the victimized. Kennedy. like Ke 
offered liberalism a second cha 
stand again with Rooseve 
of a nation.” ironworkers as well as Indi- 
ans, cops as well as chicanos, McCarthy, 
on the other hand, wasn't comfortable in 
the company of the poor—black or white. 
He twice told audiences in Oregon that 
he educated people vote for me. and 
the less educated people vote for my 
opponent, and I think you ought to bear 
ШЕ (Î as you go to the polls here 
on Tuesday.” 

Shordy after Robert Kennedy was 
murdered. Paul Cowan wrote a piece for 


icing. 
of the liberal intellectu 


The Village Voice describing George Wal- 
lice campaigning in the small textile 


towns around Boston, He quoted several 
of the Trish Catholic workers who had 
come to cheer Wallace as siying that they 
Шу preferred Robert Ki 
He quoted one Wallace ; 
ing of Kennedy, “He wasnt like the other 
jaws. P had the feeling he really 
ed about people like us." Cowan. who 

not supported Kennedy, concluded. 
۲ m. “I realized for the first time 
how important Robert Kennedy's cand 
dacy had been. He was the last liber 
politicia 
white wor 

The conventional wisdom, from The 
New Republic to the National Review, 
now hay it thar the ethnic workers h 
moved to the right in 
student demonstrators, hippies and blacks. 
Although that, of course, 
actor, 1 don't believe it's be 


been a 
the major 


has 


factor. The workers have 
right because the old liberalism ide 
their lite worse—worse with inflation, 
worse with bureaucracy, worse with Viet- 
nam, worse by ignoring th | maki 


gone to Il 


promises to the blacks. And quietly kugli- 
ing at their Ше style (“greasers, hicks, 


Philistines") all the whik 

Yet the record shows that when new- 
style Populists have attempted to talk 
directly to the bluecoliar dass, they'y 
been remarkably successful. The white 
workers are open io а fresh alterna 
tive to Wallace, but old-fashioned Hber- 
als can't provide that alternative because 
their past record of mistakes robs them 
of credibility. 

In 1968, | watched Robert Kennedy 

i iana and Nebraska prim 
€ пог liberal states. He won by 
g up and shouting in places such ay 
New Albany and South Bend. Indiana, 
g up in the town squares with his 


Û hanging out and his hair flop- 

and shouting about 

taxes and war and priorities and. local 
control. And he won every backlash 


county in Indian 
George Wallace 1964. 

In 1969, 44-year-old. Pere Flaherty was 
elected the new mayor of Pittsburgh, a 
h steel town that is not known as a 
п of reform. He won in a cam 
paign that forged a coalition of blacks, 
students and low-income whites behind 
h cks on the “Melons and 
Carnegies." the “union bosses” and the 
"corrupt political machine.” The day aft- 
er Flaherty was elected, with 59 percent 


that had gone for 


of the vote. The Pritsburgh Pre 
this description of his headquarters: “At 
one sage in the night, the oldest per 
found in a Flaherty vote- 
s old. Typical 
ty followers was 
Lembersky, 19, a Pitt student 
from Squirrel Hill. She had been typing, 
stuffing envelopes and talking up her 
man for months. '[ like the way hı 
responds to people’ was the reason she 
ve for her loyalty. And then there was 
е 55-year-old man who voted for Wal- 
lace for President, and then threw his 
1 to Pete for mayor. ‘I just wante 
to rock the boat,” he explained 

In November of 1970, despite all the 
predictions of a national rightwing 
trend. economic liberals William Prox: 
mire and Philip Hart were тет 
the Senate and John Gilligan was elected 
governor of Ohio. Bella Abzug, Fathe 
Robert Drinan and Ron Dellums were 
elected to the House, Those candidates 
who sounded most like they were run 
ning Гог sheriff of Tombstone—Calilor 
nias George Murphy and Illinois! Ralph 
Tyler Smith, for example—were soundly 
defeated. 

Let me пу to be more concrete 
what 1 mean by а new Populist program 
‘The enormous wealth of America is un- 
equally distributed. among its citizens: 
Twenty percent. of American. families 
eam between 51000 and $ 


son (0 be 


d to 


bout 


1000 a year, 
and 75 percent of these families are 
c. Our laws and instivutions—from 


expense accounts to bail and the cost of 
lawyers and doctors to the influence of 


249 


lobbyists to the tax structure—all favor 
the rich. We have an economic system 
les Abrams has 
described. as "socialism. for the rich and 
fice enterprise for the poor.” This is how 
preme Court Justice William О. Doug- 
las put it in his book Points of Rebellion: 
"The great welfare scandal of the age 
concerns the dole we give rich people 
Percentage depletion for oil interests is, 
of comse, the most notorious. . .. When 
we get deeply into the subject we learn 
that the cost of public housing for the 
poorest 20 percent of the people is pica 
yune compared to the Federal subsidy of 
the housing costs of the wealthiest 20 
percent. . , . The 1968 Report of the Na- 
tional Commission on Civil Disorders 
tells us that during a 30-year period 
when the Federal Govermnent was subsi- 
dizing 650.000 units of low-income hoi 
ing. it provided invisible supports, such 
as cheap credit and тах deductions, for 
the construction of more than 10.000.000 
s of middle- and upper-class housing, 
-.. Like examples are numerous in our 
tax laws each marking a victory for 
some powerful lobby. The upside-down 
welfare state helps the rich get richer 
1 the poor, poorer. 

The litany of tax injustices is endless 
As we know, there are millionaires who 
pay no taxes at all, while poor people 
sometimes go into debt to pay their tives 
Yet this tax system grew more unequal 
when liberal Democra ıs Kennedy 
Johnson were in power. It would 
seem to me that the first plank in а new 
Populist platforn radical 
restructuring of our an end 
to Government subsidies for giant corpo- 

i ad industries: ап inerease in 

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— 
ng less than 510.000 a усаг, The beni 
ficiarics of such reforms would be mostly 
blue-collar families, whose lives now can 
be wrecked by sudden illness, death, un 
employment or divorce, Recently, such 
nilies have voted their fears because so 
few politicians have offered the counter 
vailing incentive of a Inger share of 
America's aflluence. The only possible 
to compete with a Nixon or a Wak 
c, who appeals to their racism 
paranoia, is to appeal directly to тей 
pocketbooks, to their self-interest 

In this bewildering time 

neous inflation and recession, 1 it 
incomprehensible that no Democratic 
Presidential candidate has mounted. a 
Gunpatign to raise the national n 
wage to 82.75 or $3.00 am hour. (Th 
Louis Haris publicopinion. survey of 
August 27, 1970, showed that “21 percent 

of the nation’s households have experi 
enced a layoff, or a cut in overtime, or 
reduction of the regular work 
250 Coupled with rises in the cost of living, 


imum 


we 


this сш in take-home pay has led 30 per- 
cent of the American people to conclude 
that their standard of living today is lower 
than it was a year ago. . . . Young people 
in the $5000 10 $10,000 income bracket 
report having been hardest hit.") 

Let me suggest two more forgotten 
eas where a Populist movement. might 
Чо some good. One is the alphabet soup 
of Federal regulatory agencies. Many of 
them were started during the New Deal 
to protect the ordinary consumer from 
price fixing, inferior products, misleading 
advertising and other corporate abuses. 
ers have now 


and they contain all the evidence 
cold facts—anyone needs 10 provi 
these bureaucracies have all been failures. 

А book on the Interstate. Commerce 
Commission (ICC), by Robert Fellmeth. 
documents how the ICG has become “an 
clephant’s graveyard for political hacks; 
how the public is excluded from the 
decision-making process, how important 
studies of transportation problems have 
been suppressed. how railroad mergers are 
rubbcrstamped. how conglomerates cheat. 
the cer, how truck«diriving 
regulations go unentorced, how 
bureaus encourage monopolistic price fi 
A report by Nader Raiders Fellmeth, 
Edward Сох and John Schulz asserted, 
There is Tittle doubt that tooth pastes, 
momhwashes, deodorants, cleansers, soaps 
and so on ате priced between five and 
twenty times their cost of production 
The Amaian people must eventually 
grow tired of paying one dollar for a tube 
tooth раме that costs no more than 
15 cents to make.” 


lei's associate John Esposito has 
revealed that Consolidated E 
New York pays its bond c 
more in siwy in a single year than 


it spent on pollution-control research in 
ast five years; and another associate, 
ner, has Claimed that Calte 
paid a fine of S6000 when it was 
charged with adulteating and watering 
juice. Estimated company 
profits us а result of this practice were 
51,000,000. 

The point seems dear. Many huge cor- 
porations are cheating consumers, mostly 
low-income people, and the Feder 
aren't doing 


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agencies 
about it, though such protection is sup- 
to be thei 
liberal politi 
these facis, would go to the white work- 
Gay, Indiana, ог Muskegon, 
I think he would find a recep- 
dience. But instead, most liberals 
peat the stale slogans of the New Fron- 
tier and the New Deal, and pander to 
the backlash by promising to "stop cod- 
dling criminals." Meanwhile, they coddle 
the corporations, which are stealing mudi 
more—and getting away with it. 
Another problem arca the unions and 


the traditional politicians have ignored 
is industrial safety. According to the De- 
partment of Labor, 2.000.000 injuries 
and 14,000 deaths occur every year in the 
workplace, And according to Nader, who 
is preparing а book on the subject, many 
companies suppress or Jerestimiate 
their accident statistics. Nader says, for ex- 
that a large beryllium producer 
warned а company doctor that he would 
be fired if he published a report on 
beryllium poisoning among  cmplo: 
of the factory 

Many of the deaths and diseases that 
strike industrial workers are caused by 
the they work in. Steel- 
workers get silicosis, a condition that 
Causes paroxysms of coughing. Моге 


than 100,000 of the country's 1,000,000 
textile workers h; contracted. byssino- 
sis. or brown lung disease, caused by ii 


haling cotton dust, And many thousands 
of coal miners suffer from pneumoconio- 
sis, or black lung. 

Unions such as the United Mine 
Workers (U. M. W.) have been as much 
accessories to this slow murder as the mine- 
owners and the politicians. According to 
the August 17. 1970, Ne The 
generally unimpressive industrial record 
in the U, S. has а good many causes, none 
of them reflecting much credit on those 
responsible, Union leaders тоо often are 
willing to barter safety for a wage hike. 
Employers tend to wy to coax а little 
and unsafe 


more lile hom worn-out 

machinery. State safery standards are too 
often amiquated and ineffective, and 
there aren't enough inspectors to enforce 


the ones on the books." 

A tax system that favors the 
punishes the poor. gulatory 
agencies dominated by rich corpor 
and factories and mines that killed more 
n 1969 than the war 
se are a sorry bunch of monu- 
mems то be left by the liberal Democrats, 
who have governed us for so much of the 
past 10 y 

The remedies are as obvious as they 
are radical. In Galbraith’s concise and 
precise words, the cures lie in “ising 
the rich. regulating private enterprise 
and redeeming and policy fom 


notes. ] used to be a eral anti 


nist myself My first vote. at the 
22, went to John Kennedy in 1960, 
and my first enrollment was in New 


Yor 


"s Liberal 
an to learn the 
politics. Liber 


ry, But I quickly be- 
nits of that school of 
pundits have often at 
tributed the alienation of my generation 
to а variety of causes, Irom the bomb 10 
the murder of John Kennedy. But, in 
fact, it was Kennedy's policies that began 
10 make me a radical. 

On the mill April night on which 
Cuba was invaded in 1961, I was а copy 


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New York Бану Mirror. 
I was in the wire room when the first 
bulletins about the landing at the Bay of 
Pigs arrived. heralded by jiugling bells 
on the A. P, machine. 1 couldn't believe 
idel was a hero to me. How could 
J.F. K. do it? I felt so enraged, so be- 
yed, that I burned the first five takes 
and. was, of course, fired on the 
next few days, 1 stayed ho 


boy on the | 


America’s role in the inva- 
to learn what 


head oll about 
sion. 
liberalism w 
In the next. ve; 
ng at Folk City in the Vil 
met Tom Hayden 
ember of. SDS. 


about. 

. I heard Bob Dylan 
ge. Then I 
nd became a charter 
1 began to read the 
books and pamphlets of C, Weight Mills 
1 met Bob Moses and Chuck McDew and 
the rest of the first generation of SNC 
organizers. And 1 got the Hash that there 
was something our there, beyond the 
frontiers of the New Frontier, thar was 


more humane, more gutsy and more 
caeativ 

I spent the vest of the Sixties getting 
disappointed by established — liberals. 


n 


When we officially launched SDS in Ji 
of 1962, Michael Harrington and the old- 


time socialists in the League for Indus 
tial Democracy Red-baited us, changed 
the lock on our offices on Кам 19h 


ted us from Фіма Йи 
nifesto, the “Port 
hardly much 


Sweet and probit 
ing our founding m 
Huron Statement," We weri 
more tha itant liberals then, and 
the Port Huron document didn't even 
mention socialism, or imperialism, or 
violence, Bur anti Communist paranoia 


strikes deep in the Old Left. We called 
only for “nonviolence 
ment of the рой 
ticipatory democracy," and echo:d МКУ 
idea of the university as the new catalyst 
of social change. But the oldtime sx 
on the L 1. D. bazd treated us the way 
the sweatshop owners treated. union or- 
nizers in the Twenties—they locked us 
out and called us Reds. 

In August of 1964, I stood on the 
honkytouk boardwalk at Atantic City 
im a vigil for the domestics and poor 
farmers of the Misisippi Freedom Dem- 
оста (М.Е. D. P), who asked to 


be seated instead of the. racist. regulars, 
who were really for Barry Goldwater any 
. at the Democratic National Con- 
vention, We held of the 
yed Andrew James 
and Mickey Schwerner ad sang 
freedom songs all day and all night. For 


a few heady hows, it seemed that the 
M. F. D. P. had enough votes inside the 
credentials committee to force an open 
floor fight in front of the television cam 
cras. But then the liberals were informed 
by LB. J- that Humphrey might nor get 
the nomination for Vice-President if they 
didn't quell the M. Е, D. P. rebellion. 
The was clear—stand with the 
poor, semiliterae blacks of rural. Misis 
sippi or stand by Hubert Horatio Hum- 


choice 


phrey. "Ehe liberals chose Humphrey. 
by опе, they came before the 
FD. P. caucus in an old church, 


the delegation to accept a symbolic 
compromise of two voting seats at the 
convention. Bayard Rustin, Walter Reu- 
ther, Roy Wilkins, Wayne Morse, Joe 
Rauth, they all made this spineless pitch. 


"Lel's see the liltle stinker try to steal this scene!" 


There was no Moor fight. The 11 votes on 
the credentials committee melted away 
under the pressure, And Fannie Lou Hà 
mer went home to Ruleville, Mississippi. 

Then came the invasion of the Do- 
minican Republic, black power, student 
power, the escalation of the war in Viet- 
nam and, finally, the 1968 Democra 
Convention in Chicago. Huber Hum- 
phrey and George Meany always seemed 
to be playing tackle for the other side. 
The 1968 convention was the clearest 
example of the corruption of the old 
lib: There was Hubert, finally be- 
ing nominated for President on the votes 
of union delegates, and on а pro-war 
platform, There was Hubert, being ad- 
vised by Bayard Rustin, and being court 
cd for the Vice-Prcsidential nomination 
by Muskie, Fred Harris and Shriver. And 
there were the police, beating up kids, 
medics, reporters, anything that moved, 
on the streets, There was Hubert, naking 
а Morid speech that dirt 
even ment о police, maki 
iers and barbed 


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n the Ch 
it behind weapons c 
wire; and a few hours later, there were 
the police, beating up Eugene McCarthy's 
staff. inside their hotel rooms. Ir. was | 
а phony apocalyptic ending to a bad | 
budget movie. 

But there was to be а crazy coda—the 
Chicago conspiracy trial. In. February of 
1970, five of the Chicago Fight, later 
called. Seven, were convicted i 
promise verdict,” and all eight were put 
in jail by Judge Julius Hoffman on con- 
tempt charges. We didn't know then if 
they would be released. on bail. Alon 
with my friends Paul Cowan and Paul 
Gorman, I dropped everything L was 
working on aud began to visit and tel 
phone any liberal I knew who had sx 
"uence, in an effort to organize public 
pressure. for the defendants rete: 
the eight. 1 regarded only Hayden 
close friend, while of the others. | con- 
sidered Jerry Rubin, for example, per- 
sonally and politically obnoxious. But I 
thought it was a question of civil liberties, 
that influential liberals would respond 
on that basis 

I phoned Ted Kennedy twic 

couldn't interest 1 
kind of statement. су 
te о: on ihe narrow 
Gorman got the brush 
McCarthy, for whom he wrote speeches 
during the 1968 campaign. Cowan called 
columnist James Wechsler a 
a каше on how the defendants 
their lawyers had behaved so misc 
how they “wanted to lose,” 
ntics were disgusting.” 
Tt was like watching u replay 
of the Fifties, when the collapse of the 
vital center made McCarthyism possible. 
Now the liberal center was caving in 
again, as soon as things began to get a 
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In the months immediately after the 
conspiracy trial, the m 
disintegrate under the energetic attack of 
the right. The television networks were 
intimidated by Agnew's speeches into de- 
fensive banality. Commentary published 
an artide by Walter Goodman implying 
that Agnew's demagoguery in the 1970 
campaign marked the harmless outer 
limit of Nixonian repression. Tom Wolle 
published an influential article that, in 
Pete Нап apt words, "made it 
fashionable to sneer at the oppressed.” 
And Hubert Humphrey. repudiated his 
former support for gun-control legislation 

When black and chomo and Indian 
militants get jailed and shot. i's an in- 
visible event. and the center doesn't even 
feel obliged to organize a defense com 
mittee anymore. Can anyone remember 
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Jackson State? Or even the white ми 
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1 am not an ideologue. ‘There is no 
single system of thought that seems n 
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fortable dealing with the concrete than 
with the abstract. I cau define myself only 
as a radical and as а demoman, as an 
a skeptic, I have tried to argue 
here that the old orthodoxy of Cold War 
Liberalism is uséd up. that it is a dvir 
hand on the present. 1 have also suggest 
ed diat we need. to rediscover а usable 
past within America to help chart 
radical future: 

JE I have leamed anything these years 
since the night T burned the first 
the Bay of Pigs, it is that movements 
make hi 


mov h ordinary 


ens. and not organizations or per- 


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ѕопаїйісу, People in mation generating 
energy move time forward. There 
variety of such movements in the 
American experience that we might iden- 
tify with and learn from: The Ameri 
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Paine and Sam Adams. The abolitionists, 
the Populists and the socialism of Eugene 
Debs Susan Anthony and the feminist 
movement that won the vote. The black 
radicalism of W. E. B. Du Bois, Malcolm 
X ond Martin Luther King. The literary 
radicalism of Henry Thoreau, Walt 
Whitman, Mark Twain, Lincoln Stell 
wood Broun, And an older lib 
polized by Fiorello LaGuardia 
and Louis Brandeis, committed to liberty 
ind equality, before it became spoiled by 
McCarthyism and the petty compromises 
of power. And a tradition not recently 
much in fashion—the wobblies of Joe 
Hill. Perhaps we should confront. Nixon 
and his band of Babbitts from behind the 
mer the 1. W, W. displayed du the 
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