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This, the taking of the equipment to the people, has been the means and content of much of the programming to come out of these three groups. Using a common technological base-the porta-pak of the Sony AV series with half-inch black and white rapes-as almost all people who are active in the alternate television movement do, the People's Video Theatre has been loading their equipment in mobile vans and going out in the streets to fulfill the six objectives they cite in Radical Software...
...parcels a day. Its members demanded a 15% increase in their pay, which now ranges from $36 to $66 a week. The post office, $72 million in the red last year, offered only 8%. U.P.W. Leader Tom Jackson, a barrel-shaped ex-sailor with a formidable ten-inch mustache, called...
...fluids, that produces vertigo, nausea and ringing noises. An able, no-nonsense administrator, Shepard was made chief of the Astronaut Office in Houston. But his longing for the launch pad remained. In 1968, on his own insistence, he underwent a complex ear operation (involving implantation of a thin, one-inch-long drain tube). When his ear improved, Shepard reapplied for active status and spent countless hours in the gym and Apollo flight simulators. Finally, in August 1969, he was designated, along with Navy Commander Edgar D. Mitchell, 40, and Air Force Major Stuart A. Roosa, 37, for Apollo...
...course, are not for everybody. Even Designer Rudi Gernreich, who likes the look, admits that "it is great, but only for great bodies." London's Daily Mirror is more explicit: "Shorts should sell," it warned last week, "only to those fashion enthusiasts under, say, 25, and under 36-inch-we hope-hips. The rest-and that's the most-should regard them with the kind of distaste reserved for the measles...
...Inch Knife. Many did not. Young members of the J.D.L. tagged along as Russian women from the mission shopped in supermarkets, then heckled them at check-out counters. Others stayed on the heels of a tall diplomat, shouting in Russian: "Poshli domoi!" (Go home) and "Svoboda yevreyam!" (Freedom for Jews). The victim stared ahead, stalked into a Woolworth's and bought a soft drink. They followed, tossing out such juvenile insults as: "You can always tell a Russian by the yellow streak down his back." Some Russians tried a mild response. One told his tormentor: "This...