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Attempts to get close to East European youngsters have varying results. In Prague, contacts are relatively simple to make as long as they are kept discreet; young Czechoslovaks are still allowed to wear their hair long and dress in approximations of hippie styles. Elsewhere, the hip gap is far wider. In Rumania, some young Americans have to endure official haircuts before being admitted. "In Rumania, in Bulgaria, do you know who the native hippies are?" said Mark Altschuler, 23, of New York. "Rich kids, very correct, with G.I. cuts and Oxford blazers. They turn up The Who a little loud...
Life would be richer, students of aging agree, if a wider repertory of activities were encouraged throughout life. Almost everyone now marches together in a sort of lockstep. They spend years in school, years at work and years in retirement. Youth might well work more, the middle-aged play more, and the older person go back to school. Former HEW Secretary John Gardner wants to see "midcareer clinics to which men and women can go to re-examine the goals of their working lives and consider changes of direction. I would like to see people visit such clinics with...
...skin is different from white skin," explains former Actress Barbara Walden, now in the beauty business. For one thing, there is a wider variety of skin colors among blacks. "Do you know," she asks, "that we have undertones of browns, oranges, reds and golds-and even purple-in our skin? But never pink, which is the most common undertone in white skins and white makeup." Accordingly, makeup designed for white women is unflattering for blacks; it tends to make darker-toned skin look gray. Lips pose questions too. Many black women find it necessary to use two shades of lipstick...
...incursions was to push the war into relatively undefended areas. That could saddle Washington with ever wider responsibilities in the long run-or with the blame for evading them...
...surprising" one radical leader who was fired this Spring, said. Upper middle class students from private schools are exposed to a wider variety of experiences, he explained, and tend to discard the dogma of Americanism more easily. Their training has favored objectivity and therefore they are the first to question accepted American values...