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...Trail. From this promise, possibly more exciting-and more dangerous-than any adventure offered by travel agents, was born the cult of hippiedom. Its disciples, who have little use for definitions, are mostly young and generally thoughtful Americans who are unable to reconcile themselves to the stated values and implicit contradictions of contemporary Western society, and have become internal emigres, seeking individual liberation through means as various as drug use, total withdrawal from the economy and the quest for individual identity...
Voiceprints have also received implicit recognition by the State Department, which sent a Middle East expert to help Kersta examine the Israeli tape. But Washington had good reason to believe that the tape was authentic even before Kersta's analysis: neither Nasser nor Hussein ever denied that the recorded voices were theirs...
...Argentine contingent, made up entirely of girls, will be the first arrivals of some 100 "Volunteers to America" recruited from Asia, Africa and Latin America. They are coming to the U.S. in response to an invitation implicit in a 1966 message to Congress by Lyndon Johnson: "Our nation has no better ambassadors than the young volunteers who serve in the Peace Corps. I propose that we welcome similar ambassadors to our shores." With domestic poverty programs already showing signs of anemia, the transfusion should be beneficial...
...course relies heavily on cautionary tales about venereal disease and the consequences of unwanted pregnancies. A typical deterrent story concerns a boy who could not go to college and had to become a garage mechanic instead to support his baby. Says an observer of the Anaheim program: "The implicit moral is 'If you play, you'll pay.' There is no talk of hell fire and damnation, of course, only of the various kinds of social hell that can happen if you are not careful...
Though Johnson's statement included an implicit threat of U.S. intervention, it was heartily applauded by many of those who have most stridently and steadfastly castigated U.S. intervention in Viet Nam. Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse urged the maritime nations to test the Egyptian blockade by sending ships into the gulf "with their flags flying." Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who knows where the votes come from in New York, proposed that the U.N. send a naval patrol into the gulf. If the U.N. failed to act, he said, the U.S. should step in with other interested nations...