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...teenagers, South End House has a special job program. The House creates jobs for the boys, like house-painting, moving families for the Boston Redevelopment Agency, and poster hanging for political candidates. Then the boys must decide themselves about time schedules, salary levels, and equipment rental, if necessary. Last summer, eighty boys, led by several Vista voluteers and work-study students, earned more than...
Next day, up in the rugged mountains of the interior, I walk into a coffee-shop for a shot of raki, the local brandy. A huge poster on the wall extols the "National Revolution" of the colonels. But above it, illuminated by a devotional oil lamp, like the holy icons, I see three photographs: E. Venizelos, the fiery Cretan liberal of the 1900's, John F. Kennedy, and George Papandreou! Gingerly, I steer the conversation into politics...
...then, I ask, why the poster? He laughs. "The police captain came here himself, and ordered me to put it up. Well, it does no harm, we all know how we feel. But then he asked me to take down the pictures of the politicians. Look here, I said, I did you a favor, putting up that poster, now scram. These pictures are not coming down, as long as I am alive. He left--up here they respect up old fighters. Elsewhere I would have been arrested, I guess...
Fred Leavitt is not the type of man one would ordinarily take for a war criminal. But he works as a job recruiter for the Dow Chemical Corporation, the manufacturer of napalm. One of the demonstrators last Wednesday pushed in front of Leavitt's face a poster with pictures of naked children whose skin had been burned off by napalm. "Aren't you embarrassed? Don't you feel guilty?" the protester asked...
...Pentagon was not so much a symbol of America's aggressive Far Eastern policy as a religio-esthetic abomination. "Everybody knows that a five-sided figure is evil," said one New York hippie named Abbie. "The way to exorcise it is with a circle."* Abbie and a hippie poster painter, Martin Carey, last month "measured" the Pentagon to determine how many hippies would be needed to encircle it (answer...