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...ESSAY, next page). "I don't think I did anything wrong," he says. "At least I did what I had to do. I don't think I have to be forgiven for what was morally right. That's not my impression of amnesty." Back home in Johnston, Pa., his mother, Mrs. Betty Frederick, goes along: "Some parents disown their sons for this, but I can't. If he feels that this is right...
...fits right in with the softening of rock's hard core that has brought composer-singers like Elton John and James Taylor to the fore. The Beach Boys themselves have matured considerably. Brian is now 29, brothers Dennis and Carl 27 and 25 respectively, Al Jardine 27, Bruce Johnston 27, and Mike Love 30. As men they have more to say (all those beaches are dirty, for one thing), and they do not mind at all if adults listen...
Wild Horse Annie. The cruel treatment of the mustangs has begun to draw protest from some Americans. The most noted of them is Mrs. Velma Johnston (alias "Wild Horse Annie"), a frail Nevadan who once owned a horse ranch and has been battling 21 years to save mustangs. Under her leadership horse enthusiasts have pushed through a number of state laws designed to protect the animals. The thousands of letters Annie has sent to legislators and other government officials also helped to promote the 1959 federal statute known popularly as the "Wild Horse Annie Law," which prohibits the hunting...
...billed as a "Dialogue on Women's Liberation," and Beat Poet Gregory Corso set the tone by storming out almost as soon as the festivities began. Then, as such literary luminaries as Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Philip Roth stared in silence from the audience, Village Voice Columnist Jill Johnston proclaimed that "all women are lesbians" and began an onstage group grope with two female companions. The remainder of the rambunctious encounter featured Novelist and "Prisoner of Sex" Norman Mailer battling a phalanx of feminists led by Australian Author Germaine Greer (The Female Eunuch). As the distinctively distaff heckling mounted...
...third-from-the-left blonde (Dorothy Collins) who didn't. The bolero-dancing couple (Victor Griffin and Jayne Turner) who bought a Fred Astaire franchise ("Styles change; you never can tell"), the wisecracking queen bee (Yvonne De Carlo) with her hive of young drones; the feathery Continental (Justine Johnston) who remembers Franz Lehar dedicating a waltz to her (" 'Liebchen, it's for you.' Or was it Oskar Straus? Facts never interest me. What matters is the song...