BROCK BROWER is a writer and journalist and has contributed to The New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, Esquire, Civilization, Life, and Harper's. His books include Other Loyalties: A Politics of Personality (1968), as well as two novels, and on television, he has written for 20/20 and 3-2-1 Contact. Mr. Brower, a graduate of Dartmouth College and Oxford University, is currently a resident of Hanover, New Hampshire.