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Inside, the blanketed black bodies lie strewn about the carpet and couches of Derek Bok's office. It is 2:30 in the morning on Monday. The occupation is 93 hours old. The bodies sleep without sound. The fear that their sleep might be interrupted by a club in the head or a police boot in the groin has long since died within them. In the hallway outside, a girl in a pink blanket informs the few still awake downstairs that it's after curfew and everyone but the Night Crew should be sleeping. In the timelessness inside this occupied...
Back in the Hollywood dream factory, AIP, the company responsible for all those beach-blanket movies, motorcycle epics and Vincent Price horror shows, is cashing in on the trend in its own way. Black Director William Crain recently completed shooting the first all-black vampire movie: Blacula...
...fact, newborn girls do show different responses in some situations. They react more strongly to the removal of a blanket and more quickly to touch and pain. Moreover, experiments demonstrate that twelve-week-old girls gaze longer at photographs of faces than at geometric figures. Boys show no preference then, though eventually they pay more attention to figures. Kagan acknowledges the effect of environment, but he has found that it exerts a greater influence on girls than on boys. The female infants who experienced the most "face-to-face interaction" with their mothers were more attentive to faces than girls...
...increasingly popular form of revenue for states. Abortion, considered by many to be sinful as murder, has been legalized by some legislatures and is winning increasing acceptance. The venerable ideal of rearing a large family is suddenly seen as a threat to the survival of civilization. The blanket condemnation of drugs has been swiftly undermined by the widespread acceptance of marijuana, especially among the young...
Charles U. Daly, vice president for Government and Community Affairs, said yesterday that he did not lobby on the University's behalf to insure the bill would not apply to Harvard. Bayh's office said, however, that several other private universities, including Dartmouth, had lobbied against a blanket anti-sex discrimination proposal that would have affected undergraduate admissions...