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...office had surveyed 900 employers in the Monterey Peninsula area; 81% of those who responded would not hire anyone with hair that was not neatly trimmed at neck and ear. Said James E. Hammond, director of the Monterey office: "We feel that if a man has shoulder-length hair and his type of work is such that it requires public contact and the employers will not hire him, he has voluntarily restricted his chances of finding work." Hence the longhair is not entitled to unemployment insurance. The state office in Sacramento is backing Hammond. Only 3% of the employers surveyed...
...during which time he published a dozen volumes of literary biography and theatrical history. In 1950 he left New York for Tucson, where he fashioned a new career out of his love of nature; his writings celebrated the land and its creatures (The Desert Year, The Forgotten Peninsula, The Great Chain of Life), and expressed a yearning for a simpler, more contemplative life. "If you drive a car at 70 m.p.h.," he once wrote, "you can't do anything but keep the monster under control...
After the angry Moratorium last month, TIME Contributing Editor Mayo Mods wrote in disenchantment about the evident shift away from pacifism among antiwar dissenters toward a "fresh new hate." He received a rejoinder from Linda Eldredge, 19, a student at California's Monterey Peninsula College. Many will disagree with her and consider some of her points exaggerated and unfair, but her letter well conveys the passion and anguish of the youthful protesters in America and helps explain their actions...
Bazooka Pegs. There were no maybes as far as the Reds were concerned. They drafted Bench at 17 and put him right into their farm system. At Peninsula in the Carolina League, his uniform was retired after he broke the club's home-run record with 22 in 98 games. Moving up to Buffalo in 1967, he was named Minor League Player of the Year. The next season he became Cincinnati's No. 1 receiver and predicted that he would be the first catcher to win Rookie-of-the-Year honors. He did just that. Last year...
Little besides geography links the four countries that make up modern-day Indochina-Cambodia, Laos, North and South Viet Nam. For 20 centuries, neither foreign conquerors nor home-grown dynasts have ever managed to persuade the peoples of the verdant, fertile peninsula to collect themselves into a single nation. Indeed, long before the present struggle engulfed them, their differences had led to a history of prolonged and tangled conflicts...