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...somewhat different. Just as 1970 was hailed as the year of the quarterback on college gridirons, so 1971 is rapidly shaping up as the year of the rookie quarterback in the National Football League. In the opening games of the season, a number of confident young post-grads have gotten off the bench and gone into the lineup to show how well they can do. One reason for their precocious success is that more and more colleges are turning to pro-type offense with an emphasis on drop-back passing. Another is, simply, that the new boys have an abundant...
...people, as we have noted, are not impressed: thousands have rallied to his defense, and many who haven't--those who do not support the proto-fascist pro war movement led by Carl MacIntyre and George Wallace--still feel that Calley has gotten a raw deal, and that his courtmartial was not a good idea. It is the children of the poor and of the lower middle class who fight the war, die in it, and bear its scars; the people who sympathize with Calley do so, in large part, because they have known men who have been faced with...
...what had delivered those votes was not money--he spent only about $6000 on the primary campaign--or publicity--the mayoralty election had over-shadowed the Council race, and DiCara, like most of the other new candidates, had received little notice from the Boston papers. He had gotten this for on the strength of his organization and the contacts he had made over a 22-year lifetime of meeting people, remembering names, and doing favors...
...what had delivered those voters was not money--he spent only about $6000 on the primary campaign--or publicity--the mayoralty election had over-shadowed the Council race, and DiCara, like most of the other new candidates, had received little notice from the Boston papers. He had gotten this far on the strength of his organization and the contacts he had made over a 22-year lifetime of meeting people, remembering names, and doing favors...
...that the machinery of Corporate America is destroying flesh and that we should all await with him the inevitable emergence-like grass through the cracks in the side-walk-of a new Consciousness of love, blue jeans and rock music, a Consciousness III. Says the Times: "Youth culture has gotten its very own Norman Vincent Peale." They were not referring to William Sloan Coffin, Yale's famous Radical Chaplain...