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...Puerto Rican Socialist Party's chief is Juan Mari Bras, 48, an avowed Communist who announced his gubernatorial candidacy last week. He takes Castro's Cuba as his model and gets both rhetorical and material help from Havana. Mari Bras formed alliances with several unions, though most of organized labor remains antiCommunist. Some radicals are now in the leadership of unions representing firemen and telephone and power-plant workers. A number of strikes in 1974 and early 1975 grew violent, and industrial sabotage became a nagging problem. So did random explosions at the Puerto Rican offices of mainland...
...Swissair have kept up their hopes. The airline has supplied food and clothes, and Mills acts as the group's personal legal counsel, moral overseer and English teacher. He has also spent nearly $2,000 for clothing, food and toys. Says Mills, "I've been buying bras, baby clothes, milk and bread -playing mama for them...
Next-door neighbors of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house at the University of Miami were dumbfounded recently at the sight of the fraternity's flagpole. There, billowing in the breeze, was a frilly assortment of coeds' panties and bras. Such pranks, common to college life of the '50s and early '60s, had pretty much died out in recent years with the advent of student protests, a more serious campus mood and the near demise of fraternities. But now, fraternities-and their high jinks-are back in full force on campus...
Once this gambit has broken the ice, the volunteers get down to business, telling patients about their own experience, assuring them that their femininity is undiminished, and offering practical advice on where to buy bras and breast prostheses. "I think that we help patients because we understand the feeling that something has been taken away -the sense of loss," explains Mrs. Renee Levine, 45, coordinator of the Reach to Recovery program in Brooklyn. "We can also help them to understand that breasts do not make a woman...
Such passages are rare in this generally amiable book. Collins has a gift for clearly describing complicated machinery, and he also has an amusing imagination. He concludes that bras will not be necessary in space: "Imagine a spacecraft of the future, with a crew of a thousand ladies, off for Alpha Centauri, with 2,000 breasts bobbing beautifully and quivering delightfully in response to every weightless movement . . . and I am the commander of the craft, and it is Saturday morning and time for inspection, naturally." ·Robert Sherrod