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...Cover) When the school bells rang this fall, they called more than 54 million young people - better than one-fourth of the U.S. population - to the pursuit of learning. This volcanic eruption of pupils -from the post-diaper toddlers and the blue-jeaned teen-agers to the bearded or button-down collegians - dramatizes a remarkable phenomenon in U.S. life...
...pedigreed Greenville was at that party, and Hodding Carter, by anyone's estimation, was best in the show. Dressed in the dark suit, conservative tie, button-down shirt, and easy smile that every gentile Southern male puts on before breakfast and takes off in bed, Carter floated about, a bit taller than the others, laughing louder, slapping harder, and drinking faster. He could have pinched any skirt in the place (and did pinch a few). He danced tricky dance steps. He harmonized with the calypso band. Never looking, he plucked a bourbon-on-the-rocks from a silver tray...
Premier Ky has his own kill-or-cure answer. Wearing wrap-around sunglasses and a button-down choler, he flew through the country last week in his purple Aerocommander, counselling the crowds: "Blindfold all the rice merchants, attach them to a pole, and ask them whether or not they agree to lower their prices." The cocky little air force general had even tougher words for a U.S. correspondent on his plane. Said he: "I'll govern this country like a military command. If I say the price of rice should drop, what I want to see is a price...
...distinguished by the color of their eyes (redder going out than coming in) and whether or not they wore beards. One notable exception: Painter Larry Rivers, no opster with a brush, who blurred the vision by wearing two neckties-one red, one blue-and-white-striped-on a button-down shirt covered with dime-size green polka dots...
...enlisted in the Air Force in 1953, was appointed to West Point in 1955. After two years, he decided that the military life was not for him, left to take a job as a data processor with International Business Machines Corp. in Manhattan. A mere ten months of button-down hustle and bustle made Donlon decide that he really wanted to be a soldier. He enlisted in the Army, graduated in 1959 from Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning...