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...seats to 243 for the Democrats (there are four vacancies). More than 90% of House incumbents who seek reelection, following recent patterns, can be expected to win; traditionally the President's party loses seats in the House in off-year elections. So as G.O.P. National Chairman Rogers C.B. Morton says: "This year the name of the game is the Senate...
...want to look like a walking gunny sack," says Los Angeles Advertising Executive Adrienne Hall. The Women's Liberation movement presented a rationale for the midi's downfall. "I see resistance to the midi as part and parcel of the whole rebellion thing," says C.C.N.Y. Psychology Professor Morton Bard. "The fashion industry may be ruled by fat cats pulling strings, but now women are saying, 'We're going to resist...
...spring of 1627, the Pilgrim settlement at Plymouth was scandalized when a rather different American named Thomas Morton decided to show the New World how to celebrate. At Merry Mount, which may have been America's first counterculture community, Morton erected a Maypole-80 feet of priapic pine-and by his own account "brewed a barrel! of excellent beare" to be distributed with "other good cheare, for all commers of that day." Other good cheare included Indian girls, according to "a song fitting to the time and present occasion" written by the host himself...
Myles Standish, that well-known non-womanizer, accompanied by America's first vice squad, interrupted the revels, which were subsequently described by Plymouth Governor William Bradford as "the beastly practices of the mad Bacchinalians." Morton eventually was busted, placed in the stocks and returned to England in a state of mortifying near starvation...
...older and what have we accomplished?) the children of Myles Standish are condemned to gather with noisemakers, paper hats and lamp shades, and out of sheer embarrassment get smashed. The stocks could not hurt worse than such gross incompetence at ritual gaiety. Every New Year's Eve, Thomas Morton is avenged...