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...they collide. In Pittsburgh, 40 people were injured in clashes between police and black and white demonstrators. At one site Nate Smith, a former professional boxer and at that time head of a self-help organization called Operation Dig, dragged a superintendent to the edge of a fifth-floor framework and told him, as Ebony magazine reported, "Look, m.f., if you don't hire my men, I'm gonna drop you." The superintendent hired eleven...
...grasslands study fits into a larger framework: the International Biological Program. Organized by the International Council of Scientific Unions in 1964, I.B.P. involves 57 nations, most of which are concentrating on such problems as how to increase food production or control population. The U.S. has even bigger ambitions: 2,000 scientists are developing an entirely new approach to studying ecological problems, including human adaptability to different environments...
...Synanon, where success with adult addicts who stay within the supportive framework of the house is high but sadly lower with those who leave completely, Synanon Official Bill Ullman contends: "There is no cure for heroin." Dr. Densen-Gerber believes that teen-agers will be easier to help than adult addicts, if only because they are more resilient physically and emotionally and highly responsive to peer group influence inside a treatment center. But she is at a loss to deal with the Ralphies, the pre-teen junkies who are unable to comprehend that the alternatives to treatment are jail...
Vulgarian's Feast. The true Satyricon is shot through with fragments of poetry. The Fellini Satyricon finds visual equivalents-but often at the price of coherence. Scenes are shifted, new ones are added, characters are blunted or sharpened. Still, Fellini has left the Petronian framework intact. Like almost all his social satire, Satyricon is a picaresque journey through the beds and banquet hails of Rome. Now Encolpius skirmishes for the affections of the young invert Giton (Max Born); now impotent, he whimpers about his "blunted sword"; now he overstuffs his gullet at a vulgarian's feast...
...means the transformation of agriculture, industrialization, the opening of frontiers, scientific and technical research. It also means an intellectual-I might almost say moral -transformation in the university and in relations between people at a time when it is plainly evident that former society, with its definitely established framework, has been swept away by events...