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...many larger cities police community-relations programs and more sophisticated riot-control methods have helped ease trouble. Police have learned to avoid provocative confrontations; now they slip into the ghetto quietly instead of barging in with sirens wailing. If trouble does come, the cops tend to use tear gas instead of bullets...
Consider the sorry lot of Author Erich Segal (Love Story). Airline stewardesses slip him their apartment keys; eager ladies really believe that love means not having to say you're sorry; TV headliners plead for personal appearances. "I'm going into hiding," the beleaguered bachelor told reporters last week. "I want to be alone. I'm so overexposed it's unbelievable. My apartment is a fishbowl." Segal, 33, a classics professor at Yale, plans to take a leave of absence after this semester to devote himself to "scholarly research." Where? "I can't tell...
...launch what sounded very much like an UNCLE HO WANTS YOU campaign. U.S. defections, Thao proclaimed, would be encouraged by a just-issued V.C. "order of the day." The five-point order instructed the Viet Cong not to attack G.I. units that refrained from hostile action. G.I.s desiring to slip over to the other side would need only to flash some antiwar literature to secure safe conduct into V.C. territory. Defectors would be assured help in getting to a neutral country-or home to the U.S. if they wanted. But those who would stay and fight with the Viet Cong...
Some men who attend liberation meetings seem motivated more by fear of newly militant women than by conscience. "Man it's heavy," mourns one male liberationist. "Like you gotta build a whole new way of seeing her and yourself. You have to fight so you don't slip back the way you used to be, because if you do, man, if you say just one word, then wow, bam, it's over. That's living terror, man." Other male liberationists display anxiety by complaining about the inhuman roles assigned to males by society. In Brother...
...center. Everyone but plate umpire Bill Allard thought the ball bounced over the fence for a ground-rule double. Allard signaled home run which brought Harvard coach Loyal Park out of the dugout screaming. When the row died down. Hoag was on second base and the Bruins let victory slip away again...