Books: Will THEY Never Come?

LOOKING FOR THE GENERAL by Warren Miller. 203 pages. McGraw-Hill. $4.95.

"Has Hubert Humphrey ever raised anyone from the dead? Who are these people down in Washington that we should place our lives in their care?" The speaker is Billy Brown, a dissident space-project physicist, and not since Humbert Humbert toured America with Lolita, strewing outrageous verbal brickbats along the way, has a zany voice like Billy's been heard in the land.

Of course, he is quite mad. With a heart torn by Angst for the decadence of the age, and a head full of...

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