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...Fleming [of the University of Michigan, who acceded to black students' demands for the enrollment of 900 black students by 1971] buckled under to a few squads of kid extortionists. As for the vigor of my criticism of President Fleming, it was conscious-based on the old Cub Scout theory that the best way to put a tough coat on a marshmallow is to roast...
...scout came by and presented me with a leaflet all about the clenched fist- "The Communist Salute." It was covered with pictures of Lee Harvey Oswald, Communist workers, Jesie Jackson, Fred Evans, etc., all with one thing in common: in the pictures they are raising clenched fists. The argument goes that they are all, therefore. Communists, therefore, evil: Q.E.D. There's a picture of a Panther demonstration in Oakland. Part of the caption reads: "Mao Tse Tung's 'Red Guard Manual' protrudes from girl's pocket...
...well over double the 3.2% rate of a year earlier. Reason: severe layoffs by Boeing (TIME, March 9). The electric utility Seattle City Light reports that its annual rate of cancellations and shutoffs has been double the usual 5%, indicating that many people are fleeing the area to scout for work elsewhere. For the jobless who remain, the Washington state legislature has voted to raise unemployment compensation from a maximum of $40 a week...
Such things must not be. If Merilee gets lost, that's OK. She has survival capabilities, tribal knowledge. But poor Sam. She wonders how she could affix at least a Boy Scout handbook to him. Especially difficult since in the wilds he is always shucking off his clothes. Maybe we could tattoo the vital information to his white body...
...hardly the all-American childhood, full of Girl Scout meetings and slumber parties. "To other people, being Judy Garland's daughter meant that either I led the glamorous, spoiled life of a movie star's child or that I was a poor little waif, a vagabond gypsy kid." Neither was true. Or both. "I may have been reared strangely compared with other kids, but I had a swell time growing up. Really." Childhood was visiting movie sets where Judy was filming or where Liza's father, Vincente Minnelli, was directing. It was enormous birthday parties, "all with...