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...million pro-control letters to Congress, also got 400 pickets to march around the N.R.A.'s gleaming, $3,500,000 Washington headquarters, where an armed guard is posted at the door. Thousands of brown paper bags, lettered with the words "Ban all guns" were sent to Senators. They also bore the message: "Pop one of these in the Senate. The surprise might get to the Senators...
...Ethel and Rose displayed yet again the steely grace that seems to sustain all women born to or married to Kennedys. Children were a big part of Bobby's life, and played a part in the service. Four sons served as acolytes. Eight of their brothers, sisters and cousins bore the bread, the wine and the sacred vessels to the high altar...
...droll scene shows a pea-jacketed lesbian sneeringly turning down the tomcat antihero. Playing the lesbian in that film was Val Solanas, 28, who last year formed the Society for Cutting Up Men. Her S.C.U.M. manifesto begins: "Life in this society being at best an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and eliminate the male...
...book, play, movie, song or magazine. It cannot be a famous racing name (Man o' War, Citation), no matter how long that name has been out of use. With all those restrictions, it was hardly surprising that the horses in this year's Triple Crown competition bore such undistinguished sobriquets as T.V. Commercial, Draft Card, Call Me Prince, Sir Beau and Forward Pass. The horse that captured the Belmont Stakes was Greentree Stable's Stage Door Johnny, whose name reflected rare wit and imagination on the part of its owners-John Hay Whitney and his sister Joan...
...Greentree owners have done themselves proud before: they once had a colt named Night Vision, who was the offspring of Eight Thirty and Knothole. But long acknowledged as the most adroit namesman in racing is Millionaire Sportsman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 55, whose past coups include Crashing Bore (by Social Climber, out of Stumbling Block), Age of Consent (by My Request-Novice) and Social Outcast (by Shut Out-Pansy). And when Vanderbilt in 1949 bred a stallion named Polynesian to a mare named Geisha, he came up with a name that will be remembered as long as horse races...