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This time it was a three-day frolic billed as the world's largest love-in, admission $2.80 per day, hot dogs 250 each. More than 12,000 tinkling hippies and mods made the sad scene, went away unloved (boy-girl ratio: 5 to 1), unstoned (200 constables prowled the premises in search of pot), and unmoved by the 15 jangling psychedelic bands. Though the flower children wilted, the duke got a large charge ($14,000 net) out of the love-in, and the duchess was pretty jolted herself. "I was away from Woburn," she said. "I thought these...
...Phillips Brooks House hospitals committee who decided that their efforts would be most useful with mental patients. The students moved from the psvchiatric division of Massachusetts General Hospital to the mammoth wasteland of the Metropolitan State Hospital for the Mentally Ill, where in all but a few wards the ratio of patients to psychiatrists is about 600 to 1. The volunteers discovered that patients' responses to individual attention were only sporadically encouraging, and, puzzled, ten of them decided to find out why. They got permission to live on the wards for ten days. Convinced by the bleak despair that human...
...despite the Supreme Court's reapportionment rulings, the U.S. Congress is still a predominantly rural body, unlikely to be too sympathetic to the needs of the central cities. In the House, 225 of the 435 members hail from towns of 50,000 or less; in the Senate, the ratio...
...still hideously expensive for the Communists in terms of their own dead, but from Hanoi's point of view it is also a war of attrition against the Marines. "It isn't great sport any more," says a Marine veteran. "You know-a 7-to-l ratio of Communist casualties to the U.S.'s. It is now about 3 to 1, and in some places 2 to 1, and even occasionally...
Nonetheless, Miami Beach voters last week rejected Elliott by a vote of 10,692 to 8,455 in a nonpartisan runoff, electing in his place a political novice, Attorney Jay Dermer, 37. Roosevelt (whose losing margin roughly equaled his winning ratio in 1965) may have been a remote casualty of the Middle East war, which had a galvanic effect on Miami Beach residents, a substantial majority of whom are Jewish. While the last of F.D.R.'s sons still in public office used his father's old campaign song, Happy Days Are Here Again, Dermer alternated speeches in Yiddish...