For All Time Pt. 100a 1966 C. VANN WOODWARD was killed in a two car accident outside Harvard University in 1965. His works on civil rights, racial history in America, and the story of slavery remain legends in their respective fields, and some people on campus still wonder if there was something to his death. GLORIA STEINEM has bounced with increasing levels of frustration from one writing job to another for various magazines in New York, though at least she's always kept up a good income. The women's movement is less powerful than in OTL, with the various ethnic and religious movements of FaT taking that particular meme's place. There may be a time for it, but not yet, not yet. After being badly wounded in the Lafayette Square Incident, MALCOM X made the Hajj to Mecca and returned home a man of peace, making several long, moving speeches about all men united under God, whatever name they give him. He is egged more often than not, and no one even thinks about assasinating him. What would be the point? HARLAN ELLISON is one of the most hated (and loved) men in Toledo and the country. In the decade or so since the Toledo Blade published his first column at the age of 21, his angry, cynical iconoclasm has managed to offend every minority and every majority as he bounces between print and radio journalism. His title as "King of All Media" and image of a man master of all he tries isn't entirely accurate, though; he switches back and forth just before his current superiors get tired of his arrogance and bitter, bitter attitude, escaping the public humilation of being fired. Still, almost everyone wants him, if only for a little while. ROBERT X (formerly Bobby Seale) can remember a time when he wasn't a murderer and a fugitive, but it's increasingly distant. One of the most successful organizers of black "resistance" movements in the late 1950s and early 1960s, fate and circumstance led him to be responsible for a suicide bombing of a Chicago police station in 1961, and after someone talked...well, it's not the life he'd have chosen, but old friends and comrades still shelter him, even far across the countryside, following the network of black militia movements. ---- Poet, playwright, CHINUA ACHEBE is also the head of the BBC's Lagos office. Achebe, like a lot of Nigerian intellectuals, is dissatisfied with the British colonial government, but doesn't begrudge it its successes; intertribal conflict is low with everyone united with varying degrees of enthusiasm against the British, and while Nigeria isn't exactly prosperous, it's much better off than the independant states in West Africa. (Besides, everyone is worried about French imperialism.) Nigerians want independance, but not tomorrow. Sickened at the racial violence in America, MAYA ANGELOU has settled in Cairo, where she edits The Arab Observer, an English-language daily. Married into the Coptic Church, her visits home have actually become more frequent in the last few years as racial violence have declined slightly. As she looks about her dusty office some days, she thinks about moving back home. She's written a lot about Egypt, but there's so much more to write... DOROTHY DANDRIDGE found few real roles in the Hollywood of FaT, she became the first black woman to be nominated for Best Actress in 1954 for her role in _Carmen Jones_, but no roles were forthcoming after that. Forced to resume her night-club singing career, Dandringe slowly declined into booze and pills, addictions she started at the behest of studio heads, and finally died of an accidental overdose in 1961. She was just 38. ---- PIERRE TRUDEAU is one of the most interesting (especially to female students) literature professors at Columbia University. While Trudeau still visits home whenever he can, he is increasingly uncomfortable with Quebec. With provincial intellectual life dominated by dreamy seperatists of varying degrees of fanaticism, the place has just gotten dull. (Too, there are dark and unpleasant rumors of some impending revolution rising through the province.) Across the continent, MAGGIE SINCLAIR is a struggling young actress in Hollywood, known mostly for minor roles in various beach pictures and other cinematic achievements. Her marriage to character actor WILLIAM SHATNER is surprisingly worthwhile for both, he's helped her get several good parts on Richard Matheson's _Twilight Hour._ JACK KEROUAC smokes one of his many daily cigarettes as he reads D.C. Fontana's latest script. It's good, very good, and he only needs to make a few editing changes. He hadn't been the most popular of men when he'd first arrived at Desilu; Roddenberry had been popular, and many people involved in the show had joined him in his too-public feud and resignation from all things television. Kerouac himself had had reservations, but nearly 20 years writing for radio and television has made him accustomed to the whims and vagaries of the studio system, and he's one of the most respected men there, and under Jack Kerouac, it's very probable that _The Lieutenant_ will remain on NBC for years to come. ADAM CLAYTON POWELL is something of an elder statesman of the civil rights movement; black moderates like HUEY NEWTON tend to follow his private statements of "violence only when necessary." In alliance with his post-war partner BENJAMIN O. DAVIS JR, Powell has helped make sure that blacks do have the training to defend themselves, publically encouraging many to join the military. JAMES EARL CARTER left the Navy after the death of his father as per OTL, but found Georgian agriculture an uncomfortable place to be in the turbulent, racially radicalized 1950s. He went back into nuclear engineering, working for first the federal government, then the state of Georgia, as manager of one of the big nuclear plants in Georgia. (The Macon facility.) He runs a clean, honest shop. HANK ZIMM (formerly Robert Zimmerman) is certainly a unique face of country music. Unpopular with "old-line" fans, who prefer new young men like MERLE HAGGARD or HENRY WALLACE GUTHRIE, Zimm brings in the young with a mix of old-style bluegrass used as a means of social protest. No one who has heard his rendition of the traditional "O, Death" will ever quite forget it.
As he tosses back another whiskey, DENNIS THATCHER listens to the rain fall in Georgetown and wonders what on Earth possessed him to enlist. The Guianan insurgency has been deeply unpleasant for Great Britain; diplomatic pressure from India has prevented the use of the kind of warfare that kept Malaysia, Burma, and East Africa non-Communist and in the Empire (at least for a while.), and Venezuelan assistance to the rebels is just covert and deniable enough that the war hasn't spread there. Back in the United Kingdom, junior Member of Parliment PEGGY THATCHER is one of the few Conservatives who opposes Prime Minister Powell's South American conflict. Some suggest it's sentimentality, but none quite have the nerve to say as much to her face. Still, she finds herself voting along with HAROLD WILSON's Labour Party more often than not, and it's not at all pleasant. In Liverpool, PAUL MCCARTNEY is a bartender at the Quarry, a moderately prosperous nightclub. Sometimes he listens with envy to the musical stylings of JOHN LENNON and his ethnic Indian music as the older man tries to meld all the styles of the vast sub-continent, but years of pulling Lennon off his various girlfriends when he gets drunk, angry, and violent has soured McCartney on music. STEPHEN HAWKING is a junior solictor in St. Albans, though he can't keep his nose out of science and science fiction publications. Despite his inclinations, science just isn't very profitable in the Great Britain of FaT, and the law helps keep body and soul together, so he stayed away from physics and the other sciences at Oxford under extreme pressure from his parents. JOE ORTON is a moderately successful satirical playwright and author living in London, most famous for his brilliantly biting attack on the American mental health system with _The Outsiders_, produced to rave reviews in 1965. SEAN CONNERY plays _Hamlet_ in Edinburgh to rave reviews, the thirty-something actor is one of the rising stars of British theater. Sometimes he goes to the movies to watch DAVID NIVEN as Agent John Gould, 007. --- MAHATHIR MOHAMMED is President of Malaysia, doing his level best to keep his country free of the Communists while deeply disliking the ties to London, which are more of an overt yoke than any sort of purse string. Still, if Malaysia is a puppet state, at least they're not a Communist puppet state. AUGUSTO PINOCHET is posted to Chile's long border with Argentina, where the two nations eye each other with fear and loathing. It's a hard life, the rigors of which have paradoxically kept his marriage to his wife, EVA DUARTE, in very stable shape. They've survived the winters of the high Andes, they can survive anything. But as the war begins in late summer, and cities rise into the sky to their backs and front, they wonder if they can quite survive this. MILES DAVIS lost a leg during the German raid on New York City in the last days of World War II. Propped up first by crutches and now by an artificial limb, Davis has managed to stay a bandleader, though he's been forced to do much more solo, studio work than in OTL. Jazz doesn't sell that well to white audiences, but enough people don't mind listening to "Negro music" that it's not just purely racial music. GENE VINCENT is one of the most successful composers in Hollywood. His work is usually limited to teen movies, especially beach or music-related pictures, but he doesn't feel at all limited; it's hard to be when you've got eleven cars. JOHN BIRKS GILLESPIE's Afro-Cuban jazz is one of the most important new things in the field of jazz itself; popularizing the new style (with the help of the many immigrants from Prio's Cuba) has sparked a wave of imitators of bright young black men with a story to tell, including fresh-faced newcomer ISAAC HAYES. Meanwhile, LOUIS ARMSTRONG continues his insanely successful tour of Japan. THEODORE GILMORE BILBO died of mouth cancer in 1947, just after winning re-election without any public question in 1946. JERRY LEE LEWIS was arrested for corrupting a minor in 1955 and stabbed to death in prison a few weeks later. ERNEST HEMINGWAY was killed by a stray bullet in the 1960 overthrow of Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. President Carlos Prio was one of the very many occasional inhabitants of Cuba at the funeral, including DEAN MARTIN, RAUL CASTRO, and MEYER LANSKY. WILLIAM WESTMORELAND took the blame for the various scandals and disasters surrounding the Luzon War and commanded the US military posts in first the Territory, then the state of Alaska until his early retirement in 1962. ---- LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR was shot in the back of the head, next to the bodies of his wife and children, by a French paratrooper just outside Dakar in 1953. Senghor's death helped end one phase of the long colonial war in French West Africa and inaugurate another, his poet's soul just another death among many. ROBERT MUGABE may be dead, but his spirit lives on in the heart of blacks trapped under the South African yoke. Responsible for the assasination of several police commanders and a few highly-placed Army officers before his summary execution outside Salisbury in 1959, every young black man wants to be just him, and his name is used to invoke countless suicide bombings, usually by JOSHUA NKOMO, who has risen to head the resistance mostly on the grounds of his former alliance with Mugabe. IAN SMITH, former governor of South Africa's Rhodesia province, was assasinated in 1963 by a black nationalist in Mugabe's name. Subsquent reprisals killed several hundred people, very few of whom had anything to do with the assasination. Among the dead is author HELEN SUZMAN, who recieved a comparitively merciful death; a stray bullet during the raid on the house next door. Horrified, retired Rhodesian politician ROY WELENSKY left Africa altogether, emigrating to New Zealand in 1964. GAAFAR AL-NIMEIRY is dictator of the People's Arab Republic of Sudan. Never a man to shy away from massive corruption, he has persuaded his CPSD allies into fighting most of the "War of Expulsion" in the south, driving as many of Sudan's black population as "is unnecessary" into the rest of sub-Saharan Africa. Not long ago, he acquired the virus that causes SPID. MOISE TSHOMBE is a wealthy Belgian/Congolese businessman, and very active in Brussels for independence for the Belgian Congo. Most people consider him the most likely man to head the first government of the independant Republic in 1970, at least the first legal one.
JAMES GAIUS WATT has left his native Wyoming to serve as a staffer under South Dakota Senator J.J. FOSS, he writes most of the aggressive former World War II flying ace's enviromental policy. Fellow Republican and fellow Wyoming native DICK CHENEY is a very junior Deputy Undersecretary of State under Secretary of State WILLIAM MILLER. Handsome GERALD FORD was a successful male model and minor actor in the late 1940s and early 1950s before moving into politics; he's currently attorney general for the state of Michigan. ELDRIDGE CLEAVER's dark, brilliant "Souls Aflame" is _the_ book for young black militia and activists to read, especially the men. Written from San Quentin in 1957-62, the book lays out the oppressed life of a young black man, and the joys of striking back against the system and the white race in general. Cleaver isn't there to see it, though; the turbulence of the era spread to prisons, and in 1962 he was caught in the yard away from his allies and stabbed to death. HUEY NEWTON is the face of the "New Activist", a tough, aggressive brawler on one hand and an articulate, skilled speaker on the other. He practices law in Washington, D.C., and is rumored (accurately) to have killed a policeman during the brief surge of violence in the city in 1962. For the most part, he tries to keep violence to a minimum, especially violence that can be personally attributed to him, and does regret the blood on his hands. CHUCK BERRY dominates the jazz-folk scene, an interesting marriage of jazz and old-style bluegrass music. J-F is definitely on the fringe of modern music, but it's provided a tidy living for the Detriot musician, enough to make him a patriarch in the Motor City. Fresh-faced and with his first hit under his belt, RILEY KING was whisked from Memphis to New York to perform "3 O'Clock Blues" at the New Apollo Theater in 1951, just in time to get swept into the Barrio Riots and be stabbed to death. WALT DISNEY's health is declining, and he will die before the year is out. Still, Disney has lived long enough to open a theme park to please the children of the world and make himself immortally famous. Disneyland, located in the coastal town of Long Beach, California, promises to be a truly magical place to be. ROBERT DOLE was Kansas' junior Senator in 1965, when President Barry Goldwater appointed him Secretary of Agriculture. Dole is a good man and a competent administrator, though he feels deeply overshadowed by his wife, NANCY LANDON DOLE, the daughter of the former Presidential candidate and the long-serving, popular governor of Kansas. ---- KWAME NKRUMAH, naturally paranoid after being surrounded by French West Africa for decades, stayed in Ghana at several key junctures, foiling many coup attemps, before finally being arrested, deposed, and exiled to Ethiopia in 1964. His successor is nearly as clever, but far less competent. MUAMMAR AL-QADDAFI is currently taking a training course at the Egyptian military academy, where he is truly fascinated by the life of his hero, GAMAL NASSER. Nasser's life story really speaks to him, and he dreams sometimes of returning home and making King Idris his pawn, instead of the other way around. HAILE SELASSIE is playing an increasingly reluctant role as host to Kwame Nkrumah and Idi Amin, the former leaders of Ghana and the East African Federation, respectively. They're mostly useful as a lesson of what _not_ to do, a lesson he has learned (at least he hopes) very well by now. Ethiopia's economy is doing pretty well, actually, thanks to a beneficial trade treaty with Canada, and the opening of Canada's first and only extra-national military base on the Red Sea. ---- YURI ANDROPOV, a close comrade and friend of General Secretary Suslov, is an efficient and moderately reforming Director of the KGB. With the full backing of his boss, Andropov has cleaned up Soviet intelligence, removing incompetent and corrupt agents from important positions, and making sure particularly brutal agents are either put in places where brutality is needed or quietly imprisoned. MIKHAIL GORBACHEV is Mayor of Stavropol, his hometown between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, a rising star in the Communist Party of southeastern Russia. BORIS YELTSIN is a very successful civil engineer in Sapporo, one of the Soviet Union's many representatives in their client state of North Japan. After several unpleasant brushes with the censor in Lazar Kaganovich's time, BORIS PASTERNAK was allowed to leave the Soviet Union in 1962. He lives in the small Russian-American community in Minnesota, enjoying the winters and working on an epic to fit his new land. ALEXANDER DUBCHEK was taken prisoner by Soviet troops in the last days of the summer uprisings of 1954. He spent five years in Kaganovich's gulags, returning to Prague a broken man in 1959. He died of a combination of alcoholism and lung cancer in 1962, a forgotten, despised man. --- Life is, to say the least, interesting for the long-time autocrat of Malawi, HASTING KAMUZU BANDU, as he walks a very careful balancing act between South Africa on one hand and Obote's East African Federation on the other. He's not a stupid man, though, and knows he'll eventually fall off that tightrope...so he quietly encourages pro-EAF movements in Malawi while making plans to either die in office or flee with a portion of the national treasury. JEAN-BEDEL BOKASSA is commander of all French forces stationed in Corsica. With no interest in returning to his homeland after it was thoroughly trashed and depopulated during the failed war for independence, he is instead frying different fish; reporting to Paris that the Corsican rebels are quiet except for assasinations, he has at the same time quietly contacted them, ensuring they knock off officers and civilian government officials not loyal to him or the rebellion. In that order. Meanwhile, he blames the deaths of important rebel leaders on uncontrolled elements of the police. FELIX HOUPHOUET-BOIGNY is Mayor of Abidjan, one of the highest-ranking Africans in the French colonial government of West Africa. He did strongly consider joining the rebels during the war for independance, but decided life and staying in a position of power was more important than some murky goal of freedom. Things haven't gone so well for the Mayor, resistance against the "quisling" has begun a cycle of violence that may never really end, and after a hospital he built was blown up, he has stopped building them altogether. He spends most of his time counting his money, dreaming of what might have been. KENNETH KAUDA is currently leading a South African Special Forces unit in a merry chase near the border of the Belgian Congo. With a virtually all-black, well-armed population to hide in and recruit from, Kauda is the popular leader of most of the former Northern Rhodesia, the South Africans control only the ground they stand on. The war is long, and the war is bloody. ---- HELMUT KOHL is the highest-ranking non-Venezuelan in the government of that nation, serving in the high-profile post of Minister for Industry. Sometimes he misses home, but grey, decaying Palatinate just isn't for the young men of his generation. Venezuela, along with a variety of other countries, is where the new hope is for a generation of young Germans. WERNER HEISENBERG, the grey eminence of Venezuelan nuclear physics, has returned to Germany, heading the Westphalian nuclear program. Work is slow, but promising, limited mostly by the small budget of the German state.
JOSEPH MOBUTU is de facto ruler of a remote area of the Belgian Congo, the area roughly two hundred miles around the town of Isirio. Grown rich off the trade and troops slipping between French Africa, Red Sudan, and the East African Federation, Mobutu is the closest thing the Belgian Congo has to a leader. GAMAL ABDEL NASSER is _the_ driving force behind the Jerusalem League, as well as the de facto ruler of Egypt. With a combination of bully and bluster, craftsmanship and diplomacy, he has kept a coalition as diverse as Iraq and Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and Egypt, unified behind a common goal of neutrality in general and anti-Communisn in specific. He is the proud father of the great "Nasser Dam" along the Nile, and the uncle of several similiar (if smaller) projects in Iraq. He is godfather to the children of HOSNI MUBARAK, commander of Egypt's part of the Jerusalem League's nuclear program, located in the remote western desert of the nation, fifty miles south of Siwa, and a long-time friend of ANWAR SADAT, commander of Egypt's armed forces. YASSIR ARAFAT is a politician in Jordan; by carefully orchestrating the bloody political demises of his opponents in intercine conflicts, he has risen to Deputy Minister of State, and with the Minister himself elderly and ill, Arafat is one of the most powerful men in Jordan. MOSHE DAYAN's long and merry career continues apace, hiding out in the truncated Jewish communities in Jordanian Palestine, slipping back and forth out of the country; to the United States or British Cyprus when things get too hot to hold him in the Holy Land. The length of the on-again, off-again insurrections have seriously radicalized the already radicalized "Liberation Army of Palestine", and the man who began his career by assasinating Herman Goering is now responsibile for men driving trucks loaded with explosives into crowded stores. Only dire threats of sanctions or worse from the United States has kept the Jerusalem League's government from fixing the "Jewish problem", fixing it good. INDIRA GANDI is a member of the seventeen-person Council of State that governs India, one of the relatively few civilians and the only woman. Recognizing the threat posed by the overtly expansionist governments of the Soviet Union and China was equaled only by the threat of a military coup if Something Wasn't Done, India's civilian government quietly dissolved itself in 1955. India is a unitary state, with at least an attempt at no more provincial boundaries than France does at this point. India's Sikhs, Muslims, Christians and other minorities are about as happy about this as one might expect, but that's what the army and secret police are for. India is poorer than OTL, but with a substantially larger military, especially ground troops. ---- ROCKY MARCIANO retired from boxing in 1956, the only undefeated world heavyweight champion in the history of the sport. He still makes public appearances as a sportscaster for ABC, though it's more a sinecure than anything else. His last public appearance was announcing the 1962 bout between "SUGAR RAY" ROBINSON and JOE FRAZIER, when Robinson took Frazier in four rounds. JOE LOUIS wasn't there, having died in 1955, his health damaged beyond repair by his years as a German POW in World War II. ROY COHN is out of office, thoroughly enjoying the way his successors at the FBI failed to do much about the Stonewall Riots. Cohn makes occasional public speechs, quietly criticizing the Goldwater administration and its policies without overtly saying anything of the kind. He is, perhaps surprisingly, not a member of the pretty overtly anti-Semitic John Birch Society. KATHARINE GRAHAM's Washington Post is losing more readers every year, she has nobly stuck to her guns on a variety of issues, but with much traditional liberalism discredited by both parties and with a flawlessly honest President (whatever his other problems) in the White House, there's little for them to do. A sharp businesswoman, she's already quietly accumulating funds for an investment to keep the Post afloat; a variety of inexpensive television stations, and the Washington Senators... ROBERT MCNAMARA is one of the most successful Chief Executive Officers in the history of General Motors, and one of the wealthiest men in America. His donation to the University of Michigan has got him one of the largest academic buildings in America, all of it named after him. 18 year-old JIM HENSON was killed by a sniper's bullet two days before the final Huk surrender at the end of the Luzon War in 1954. MARLON BRANDO's lead role in Otto Preminger's _Heart of Darkness_, the story of an American officer hunting an rogue Japanese agent (Laurence Oliver) who set himself up as a petty king in the heart of Taiwan after the Second World War, helped catapault him to even greater fame. He's currently starring in Broadway's revival of "Titus Andronicus." Always an iconoclast, ABBIE HOFFMAN has formed for himself a Jewish activist group in Chicago, most of them veteran street brawlers of the troubles of the last decade or so. Shockingly to their conservative parents, they are openly Stalinist, and (less shockingly) equally hostile to groups of any makeup that don't share their ideological outlook on life. CARL SAGAN is one of the least popular scientists working at the Dactyl project in Nevada. Without his marriage to ANN DRUYAN, Sagan's personality quirks have never been moderated, and while he is certainly one of the most brilliant scientists working on America's space program, he's never been promoted and probably never will be. HENRY KISSINGER is Barry Goldwater's Ambassador to the Court of St. James, and one of the very few men who can out-talk Prime Minister Enoch Powell. Perhaps fortunately, there is very little the two have to say to one another, now that the furor over the alliance with Venezuela has passed. ---- SERETSE KHAMA, President of Botswana, runs the most militarized state in southern Africa. Completely surrounded by the overtly racist South African empire, cut off from much world trade, Khama's government depends on substantial military aid from Great Britain and the knowledge that civil war might bring...peacekeepers. HISSENE HIBRE is one of the more successful guerilla (bandit, really) leaders in French Equatorial Africa, robbing, killing, and looting anyone with ties to the French government and money, or sometimes just money. Well, mostly money. PATRICE LUMUMBA is dead in 1962, one of the many casualties of the long-running wars in the Belgian Congo. With most of the native intelligentsia killed off or fled, the Belgian government is only now making plans to finally give their colony independance in 1970, now that most of the potential (anti-Belgian) leadership is dead. ALBERT LUTHULI was hanged for sedition on Robbins Island in 1959. The isolated prison is a useful place for the South African government to hold and then execute black opponents of the central government. Not all of them make it that far; NELSON MANDELA was shot to death in a Pietersburg alley in 1963, allegedly while attempting to escape. To the north, JOE SLOVO is slipping across the border to the East African Federation. There's a new shipment of munitions coming in, and he needs to ferry back home and to men and women who can make _very_ good use of it indeed.
ZULFIKAR ALI BHUTTO was an active figure in the political opposition to Pakistan's military government before his execution in 1958. Wedged between a hostile, militaristic India on one hand and a hostile, Communist Iran, Pakistan's government started out as authoritarian and went downhill from there, especially after the assasination of AYUB KHAN in 1954. By 1966, the only thing stable in Pakistan is the brutality and paranoia of the ever-changing row of generals and colonels running the show. Perhaps fortunately for that unhappy region, East Pakistan and its governor MUJIBUR RAHMAN have been relatively free to go their own way with the Islamabad government distracted, such as it is. URHO KEKKONEN was killed by a Soviet B-19 raid in Karelia in 1945, not long before Finland and the USSR made a seperate peace in the earliest part of the year. Finland never has had a President of the Nordic League, and tends to follow the lead of the rest of Scandanavia in major foriegn policy matters, especially the defense of Greenland. FERDINARD MARCOS died in prison in 1961, convicted of truly massive amounts of graft while serving as a supply officer in the Luzon War against the Huk in the early 1950s. His former wife Imelda runs, of course, a shoe shop in Manila. SUHARTO and SUKARNO are both among the many, many dead, both prominent and minor, commonr and general, killed in the decades of bloody fighting in the former Dutch East Indies; the former during Java's last attempt to retake Bali in 1952, the latter during a major purge of the Jakarta government in 1958. ---- ALLEN GINSBERG has moved out into his own for the very first time, and he's happy. Years of working writing pamphlets and propaganda (his recruitment posters for rebuilding the Statue of Liberty are still classics) for the federal government came to a messy end a few years ago when he dared publish a volume of poetry criticizing his superiors and the government in general. With Greenwich Village riot-torn, he's settled in Washington, finding haunts like his old ones, working on his poetry. Now he's finally free to _Roar_... RALPH NADER is a professor of political science at Princeton. His writings and lectures on the rise of corporate power have struck a chord, given the powerful, mostly oversight-free, quasi-monopolistic corporate culture that dominates much of American economic life. Unfortunately, (at least from his perspective) that same dominance means it will be a very long time before anyone who matters will listen. At least he has his young people. RAY CHARLES' fourth piano sonata is being performed to rave reviews at Carniege Hall; the blind late-30s pianist has been called, accurately, one of the best classical pianists and composers in of the late 20th century. No one who's heard him will ever quite forget. ALBERT GORE SR. is a retired United States Senator. Southern moderates haven't fared well in the turbulent climate of the last few years; and Gore's liberalism has made him something of a fossil, along with former Alabama Senator JIM FOLSOM and Louisiana Governor EARL LONG. Southern politics is dominated by such stalwart young men as ASA CARTER and HERMAN TALMADGE, with the occasional careful moderate like GLEN CAMPBELL. ERSKINE CALDWELL won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1960, just defeating fellow Southerner WILLIAM FAULKNER. He is one of the titans of Southern literature, though he is losing readers in the last few years as Southern public schools shift to more pro-South writers, like Senator Asa Carter. TRUMAN CAPOTE is a freaky, freaky little man. He has moved into politics recently, leading one of the public opinion battles against the Federal Mental Health Association. Dr. MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE died a frustrated, if successful doctor and civil rights leader in 1954. RALPH BUNCHE, President of Howard University, helped found a scholarship in her memory that has sent dozens of young black women through medical school.
Englishman PETER EDWARD BAKER is one of the more successful racing cyclists in the last few years, with a bronze medal at Cairo in 1960 and a silver at Sydney in 1964, and one non-Olympic championship in 1962. Something of a teen hearthrob, he's a good friend of musical superstar CLIFF RICHARDS. JOHN LEE HOOKER is starring in a revival of the classic Broadway musical: "Planet of the Apes." Hooker is a powerful actor and singer, though some say he is occasionally surpassed by his understudy, JAMES EARL JONES. IKE TURNER combines musical talent with ready fists; the R&B band leader is also one of the most notorious street brawlers of St. Louis riots of the last few years. He's never been more than a regional talent in either, though, especially with his saxophone player's recent divorce from the former ANNA MAE BULLOCK. ---- The great southpaw pitcher WARREN SPAHN is a year retired, and disappointed at the performance of his beloved Boston Braves in 1966. Always a struggling team, they wound up in the cellar in 1966 as WILLIE MAYS' Cleveland Indians and MICKEY MANTLE's New York Yankees went to the World Series; Mantle's underdog Bronx Bombers won the series 4-3, but Mays retained his home run record. (He owns many, no one who saw will ever forget his close, close war with STAN MUSIAL to break Babe's Ruth's record in 1963.) (Spahn, who has moved somewhat into management, will be crucial in persuading reluctant owners in the American League to admit Havana's Azucareros and Venezuela's Navigators, beginning in the 1967 season. The World Series may be more than just a name someday, especially with the growth of independant Japanese baseball...) ---- E. AARON PRESLEY has made a good life for himself in Southern California with his wife Elizabeth, nee Montgomery. Turning the profits from his career as a B-movie actor and a few minor song hits into business, Presley owns a profitable regional chain of donut shops. He's often heard to muse about if he'd stayed in partnership with his friend EDWARD D. WOOD, a darling of the less clever segment of the student left at Berkley. "I could have stayed with Ed. I could have been King. But in my own way, I am King. King Donut." GRACE MURRAY HOPPER retired from the US Navy in 1961 after repeated efforts to enhance the Navy's funding for computers failed. She remains one of the most dedicated workers in the (very) infant field of computers, which is at a level akin to OTL's 1960 and getting better only very slowly. After his father died on Omaha Beach in 1943 and his mother drank himself to death, GARY GYGAX was passed around from foster home to foster home before winding up with a family of Deepwater Baptists in downstate Illinois. By 1966, he runs a small shop in Cairo catering to chess aficionados, selling speciality boards and rule books. In his spare time, he works on something very special of his own creation: "Angels and Crusaders." ---- Vaguely disappointed at no particular enemies left to fight, CURTIS LEMAY retired in 1964 after the nation finally "elected the right kind of man." He lives in upstate New York, where he is an occasional guest speaker at West Point. LeMay is a close friend of South Dakota Senator Foss, who he commanded during World War II. G. GORDON LIDDY is a low-level aide in the Department of Defense. While he seriously freaks out his coworkers, his superiors like him a lot; he's a man who knows what he has to do for the Department and for America, and he does it. EARL WARREN is a retired beloved former Governor, Senator, and Attorney General of the United States. Several scholarships at various California universities already bear his name, and multiple new aw schools have asked his permission to name themselves after him. WILLIAM BRENNAN is Governor of New Jersey. A strong candidate for the 1964 nomination, people are already talking about running the articulate, liberal former judge for the Democratic nomination again in 1968, his popularity second (if that) only to Pennsylvania Governor JIM JONES. WARREN BURGER is Barry Goldwater's latest appointment to the Supreme Court of ESTES KEFAUVER. The conservative D.C. judge and Minnesota native has a fair chance of taking the Chief Justice's position when and if Kefauver ever gets around to retiring. WILLIAM REHNQUIST is a genial, likeable Deputy Attorney General, and a close friend of the Goldwater family. Republican Party insiders say he may well be Goldwater's Attorney General if the President does run for a second term in 1968. ---- JOE NAMATH is one of the most beloved men in America in the summer of 1966 when he wins America's very first World Cup in a 2-0 sweep over the Palatinate's stalwart young fighters. American "football" is, for better or for worse, here to stay, at home and abroad. DON ADAMS is one of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's top agents, with a drawer full of commendations and newspaper articles in his desk in Buffalo. (Adams is SAC at the Buffalo office.) Occasionally, he and his Canadian opposite number across the border, LESLIE NIELSEN, visit. Nielsen is nostalgic for the region, where he once did summer stock with _Lieutenant_ star JAMES DOOHAN. ROCK HUDSON is elected Governor of California in 1966 on a stout family values and law and order platform. As a favor to an old friend, he makes sure there's a cushy job in place for former Congressman and gubernatorial candidate RONALD REAGAN, and is very glad that former state Attorney General CHARLES MANSON moved safely into the federal service. ---- Horror strikes Chile on December 2, 1966 when war begins. Border disputes between the People's Republic of Argentina and the authoritarian government of Chile pretty much were a ruse; Ernesto Guevara has his trained People's Army, and he has his independant nuclear arsenal. No one ever does prove that it was, in fact, a PLA pilot who delivered a 50 kiloton blast to Santiago on the early hours of the 2nd, even as the Argentine military rolled or charged across the border, killing most of the city's several million denizens in a few hours. (Lin Biao's cards are close to his chest today, China will aid Argentina, but not as publically as war.) Lots of people in the Americas and the move quickly, moblizing and counter-mobilizing, but Barry Goldwater moves the quickest of all, or at least the most decisively. Diverting two aircraft carriers to the South Atlantic and evacuating the embassy, he orders the Guevara government to "withdraw immediately and totally from all your unlawfully seized territory, demolish your nuclear arsenal, and submit to American occupation and the trial of your leaders." Barry Goldwater is a tolerant man, but expansionist Reds in his hemisphere are bad news. On December 5, Valapriso becomes a 36 kiloton hell, centered around the city's harbor, and Goldwater acts yet again. Argentina has one day to surrender their armies, and Ernesto Guevara himself, before "they shall face a rain of destruction from the sky." Guevara, a canny man, slips out of Buenos Aires as the people cheer his name. It's a great pity, he did love the city and its people...but the World Revolution is a stern mistress. With Argentine armies slowly, bloodily driving back the fanatically resisting Chilean Army (who know exactly the fate that awaits them), the Argentine Navy heading for the carrier groups of U.S.S. PERRY and U.S.S. DEWEY, and Dr. Guevara still on the loose, Barry Goldwater, to his horror, has no other choice but to protect South America the only way he really can. On December 8, 1966, Colonel ROBERT DORNAN, orbiting high, high above Argentina, follows Presidential orders and inaugurates the "Space Nuclear Age" when he happily pushes a button aboard his Dactyl bomber and drops a 500 kiloton bomb from space on downtown Buenos Aires.