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Student’s debate work
makes him an author
By SUSAN REU
Stall writer
After seven years of doing
research for his high school
debate team, Matt Towery
realized he had accumulated
enough information to write a
book.
So he did.
Now this just-tumed-20-year-
old University student is waiting
for his book's release in early
January.
In The Road TakeniA Factual
Clamination of the United
States’ Military and F.conomlc
Power in the World Today,
Towery combined the opinions
of experts with facts he has
collected from about 50,000
documents.
“1 tried to keep it from being
boring," he said.
In his book Towery discusses
the United States' military capa-
b-.ity, and looks at the interna
tional trade imbalance from
several countries' viewpoints,
trying to present a "coherent
look at the different sides of the
issue.”
One section of the book
discusses the historical trends
the U.S. has taken in these
'Profiles
Towery feels The Road Taken
is good reading for the average
person who wants to learn
something about these issues
but doesn't have time for
in-depth research.
His interest in military and
economic issues stems from
participating on the Pace Aca
demy (Atlanta) debate team. He
actually began debating when
he was about 12, and each year
the topic was about the same-
military and economics. Over
the years he accumulated a lot
of research about these topics.
"I'm not an expert on this
subject. I'm a good researcher,
organizer and presenter of
facts." Towery said.
Although Towery refuses to
conform to the stereotyped
image of the intellectual which
he says many debaters do
indeed fit well, he is certainly
not lacking in the intelligence
department. As a senior in high
school, he and his debating
partner won two of the three
national debating champion
ships—the Bicentennial De
bates in Williamsburg, Va. and
the National Debate League in
Milwaukee. Wis.
And this is a person who
claims not to take anything
seriously, especially anything
intellectual. He doesn't even
play backgammon.
Towery started working on his
book in April and continued
throughout the summer. Work
ing about six hours a day. he
finished just before fall quarter
began. He spent most of the
summer at Amelia Island. Fla.,
and the rest at his home in
Atlanta.
"1 enjoyed the actual writing
more than anything else, but
writing a book is more difficult
than most people think," he
said. He wrote seven drafts,
working on one right after
another.
Towery had some editing help
from two people. "A well-known
professor at the Rusk Center,
Gary Burch, went over it for me
as a favor," he said. A Harvard
professor also looked at the
manuscript for him.
He described his book as
"small, about 90 or 100 pages,
with 200 or 300 footnotes and
lots of facts." He tried to use a
lot of recent information. bu»
"the concepts, theories and
ideas are old," he said.
Towery's friends were not too
surprised to learn he was really
writing a book. "I do some ex
travagant things sometimes, so
they’re used to it," he said.
A political science and pre
law student. Towery is "some
where between a sophomore
and a junior," in his second year
at the University. He intended
to go to Georgetown University
in Washington, he said, but
when he got there last fall he
found the people "too snooty,"
so he returned to the South.
Having no interest in his
family’s advertising business or
in writing as a profession.
Towery plans either to be a
lawyer or to go into public
service—also known as polices.
"1 think I could do a good job
in politics. I'd be sincere and
honest and realistic." he said.
He described many politicians
as "power-hungry Nixon types
who don’t understand how
people feel" and added many
people in office are too ideal
istic.
Although Towery did not
draw conclusions in The Road
Taken, writing the book helped
him develop some ideas about
the United States and today s
international situation.
"The average American
doesn’t realize the constant
threat of nuclear war we live
under. A series of events could
force us to use the bomb
whether we want to or not," he
said.
"We need the SALT treaty
passed, and we need to main
tain negotiations so we can keep
up with where the Soviets
stand." Towery added.
He said The Road Taken is
being printed in a limited
edition until the publisher sees
how it sells.
"I’ll probably give away more
than I sell, and 1 probably won’t
make any money on it." he said.
"It's a thrill anyway. The point
is to write it for the heck of it."
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Towery completed his book after seven drafts
FEAR IN A PACKAfiF
‘Nightmares’ a
By SCOTT JACOBS
Assiftlant features editor
If you appreciate the finer
side of horror, you will drool
over .Nightmares, a new collec
tion of short stories published
by the Playboy Press.
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Editor Charles L. Grant has
assembled the talents of some of
the world's finest masters of
fear in-a-package and he deli
vers them bound, gagged and
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SI.95 paperback. It's an excep
tionally strong montage of the
macabre, birthed from such
notables as Richard Matheson.
Stephen King. Avram Davidson
and William Nolan.
With one exception, there is
not a weak story among the 19
selections. Each story intrudes
on the reader in the proper.
The stranger stirred . He shuffled
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“Oi...um. dud...Oi...am...dud...”
—from “The Ghouls” by R. Chetwynd-
Hayes
carefully calculated manner ot
the well-written horror tale,
either with the impact of a
clutching claw or the insidious
chill of an ice-cold needle.
Once released, two stories in
particular grasp the reader with
fiendish glee. Stephen King,
creator of Carrie and The
Shining, has capitalized on the
mystery of the child's world
with "Suffer the Little Chil
dren," a tingling tale of evil
possession confronting the for
midable control of an old maid
school teacher.
An Englishman by the name
of R. Chetwynd-Hayes makes
his first appearance on this
continent with a masterful mix
ture of horror and humor. "The
Ghouls" inspires in turn gasps
and chuckles in the often
macabre English style, but
signs off with an appropriately
chilling transition of humor
turning-vicious.
The one dull spot in the darkly
glittering collection is a long and
meandering tale of a malevolent
Indian spirit and a girl who
attempts to escape her Ind : an
heritage. JC Green and
George W. Proctor produce
their own brand of horror in this
tale, a horror of bewilderment
and boredom.
"Nightmares is a journey."
Grant writes in his introduction,
"It is a return to those mid
nights we feared and were
drawn to...(and we) remember
what it was like when frightened
meant fun."
Remembering will be no
problem with these stories. Like
vengeful spirits, they will haunt
the reader long after the book is
closed.
Nightmares; edited by Charles
L. Grant; Playboy Press; S1.9S,
256 pages.
Books—a great gift for friends who can read
By INGRID SCHORR
Features editor
The holiday gift-buying fren
zy is officially under way
(witness the tinsel-strewn
streets of Athens) and once
again, the mighty publishing
houses have provided gift-hun
ters with a multitude of holiday
gift ideas.
Bantam Books offers boxed
sets of Doonesbury paper
backs—five titles for $7.50—
and Agatha Christie myster
ies—five paperbacks for $10.35.
Bantam has the Muppet craze
covered with The Muppet Mov
ie—the true story, they claim—
by the Muppet People ($7.95)
and The Muppet Show Book—
episodes from the television
series—by the Muppet People
again ($9.95).
University graduates go
places—sometimes they even
write books. Lewis Grizzard did
Kathy Sue Loudermilk, I Love
You, ($7.95). a collection >>t
Grizzard s best Constitution col
umns. has been released this
week by Peachtree Publishers.
Grizzard will be in Athens this
afternoon, signing autographs
at Barnett’s Ncw-stand down
town.
Margot Fonteyn’s The Magic
of Dance, released this w eek by
Knopf, makes a beautiful, if
extravagantly costly, gift. Dame
Margot's book, at $17.95. is
glossy, richly illustrated and
guaranteed to please any ballet
omane.
Another book promoting the
body beautiful. Arnold "Pump
ing Iron" Schwarzenegger's
Arnold's Pody shaping for Wom
en from Simon and Schuster
($10.95) is an introduction to the
joys of weight lifting. Schwar
zenegger promises to "relieve
harmful stress, and anxieties...
increase your overall energy...
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and increase the brain's speed
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The eternally popular Sher
lock Holmes stories have been
reassembled into The Complete
Sherlock Holmes (Doubledav.
$9.95). All four of Sir Arthur
Canon Doyle's full-length
Holmes' novels and all 56 short
stories, with an introduction by
Christopher Morley, are in
cluded.
The 1980 Summer Employ
ment Directory of the United
States (Writer's Digest Books.
$6.95) lists 50,000 summer jobs,
from resort work on the Borscht
circuit to rafting trip guides in
Colorado. Seems the idea is to
get the Christmas shopping out
of the way and then start job
shopping.
Now then, for the semi-liter
ates who have always "seen the
movie." Pocket Books has pa
perback versions of four holiday
season movies: The Rose
($6.95), a large format, illus
trated edition of the Bette Mid
ler film; Cuba ($1.95). a soon-to-
be-released Richard Lester film
starring Sean Connery and
Brooke Adorns) The Electric
Horseman ($1.95), a print
adaotation of Robert Redford’s
return to the screen; and 1941;
The Illustrated Story ($3.95).
from Steven Speilberg’s up
coming film starring John
Belushi. The book version is
produced by those fine folks at
Heavy Metal magazine.
The virtual plethora of books
available for holiday gift buying
also includes such earlier fall
releases as The Great Shark
Hunt, 'jy Hunter S. Thompson
(required reading for journalism
students and other heavy drug
users); Jailbird, the newest by
Kurt Vonnegut; The Harvard
Lampoon Book of College and
The Monty Python Scrapbook
(including the script to The Life
of Brian; makes a great gift for
Valdosta residents who missed
the movie).
So buy books. They’re easy to
wrap, easy to exchange, and
very useful for pressing wild-
flowers.
Tomorrow: terrific gifts fot
less than $50.
The Red and Black is looking for a
production manager to work four
nights a week beginning winter
quarter. For more information,
contact Bill Krueger or Gary Fouts
at 542-3441
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