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...Bennett Johnston Jr., 42, a conservative Democrat from northern Louisiana, began his climb in his state's house of representatives a decade ago. Though he failed to win the Democratic nomination for Governor in 1971, the following year he captured the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the death of Allen Ellender. A racial moderate, Johnston is an exceptionally effective television candidate. He has co-sponsored an extension of national wage-price controls and, for his oil-rich home state, has proposed building a port for supertankers...
...problems of the underdog. Unremittingly quarrelsome, wordy and underedited, the Voice also captures the funky, ingrown perspective of Greenwich Village. Its reviewers, including such first-rate critics as Nat Hentoff and Andrew Sarris, dig up underground entertainment far from Broadway or first-run moviehouses. Columns by Militant Lesbian Jill Johnston flow endlessly, devoid of all punctuation, capitalization and-usually-sense...
KATHERINE JOHNSTON...
...sharp contrast are the images of Frances Benjamin Johnston. She was an aggressive, energetic woman with a journalistic bent. Her photographs are exacting records of late 19th century American life, and her method--detached observation--refutes the notion that feminine perception is intuitive and spiritual instead of rational. Contemporaries were rather taken aback because she "drank beer, smoked and daringly showed her ankles"--a spirited soul indeed...
...Allyson, Novelist Nelson Algren, Psychologist Erich Fromm, Automation Millionaire John Diebold, Folk Singer Burl Ives and Mr. America himself, Bert Parks? Scrubbed out of the 1973 Celebrity Register, for one thing. Instead, publiciety's decennial Almanach de Gotha includes for the first time Rapist Eldridge Cleaver, Lesbian Jill Johnston, Red Black Angela Davis, Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, and Senator Thomas Eagleton. For readers anxious to achieve such status, Microsociologist Cleveland Amory, in a foreword to the new edition, passes on some advice. The way to become a celebrity, said Aristotle Onassis, who ought to know...