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...radicals protested, Alameda County sheriff's deputies-dubbed by students the "Blue Meanies"-sprayed them with birdshot and buckshot. One bystander, James Rector, 25, died last week of buckshot wounds. Rector, a drifter and probation violator, had been watching the fracas from a rooftop. Police fired at his perch after bricks were thrown from an adjacent building...
...leadership of the Arabs is probably the world's most precarious perch. "The presidency is a painful position to hold in present circumstances," he says. "Even now my wife is against...
Once formidable enough to blast Bonanza from its No. 1 Sunday perch, the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour has recently drifted as low as 47th on the Neilsen charts. Though NBC's front-running Laugh-In continues to get out spoken and risque material past its own censors, the Smothers say that often they are required to snip even the mildest material. On the disputed program, for example, Folk Singer Joan Baez dedicated a song to her husband, a convicted draft resister, with the preface: "He is going to prison for three years. The reason is that he resisted selective...
Just after Christmas we went on a picnic. It was raining and grey and a perfect day for Volkswagens. I drove through Tomoka Park, down narrow roads with Spanish moss above, hiding the sky. We stopped and watched a silent group of pure white egrets perch high in some palm trees on an island in the marsh. Then we rode down a twisting, red clay road to the Bulow Sugar Mill Plantation ruins. Once there, we got out, and I jumped around for a while. Gayle followed, but she was always conscious of the fact that she was getting...
Occasionally Brautigan fails, tumbling from his poetic perch, but the dare is worth every one of the falls...