Word: antiwar
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Once a radical always a radical? Not, certainly, in the case of Rennie Davis, 37. Once he was a tough-minded tactician of the antiwar movement and the Chicago Seven, who were tried for disrupting the 1968 Democratic Convention. In 1973, the year after his Chicago conviction was overturned, Davis hooked up with a teen-age guru called Maharaj Ji. Now he is connected with an even more unlikely name: John Hancock. Yes, Davis is a trainee at the insurance company's Denver office. Says he of his new constituency: "We have to get the business to the level...
...wound in American society has been painfully reopened. The scene: Ohio's Kent State University, where National Guardsmen killed four students and injured nine others during an antiwar protest seven years ago. Last week about 100 activists stepped up their demonstrations against the ground breaking for a $6 million gymnasium annex to be built only 40 to 60 yards from the area where the shootings took place. Said one protester: "This site should not be desecrated...
...retired people as probers. James Millstone, an assistant managing editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, was refused auto insurance by Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. of San Francisco because of phony information obtained from an elderly neighbor, who was mad at Millstone because he put up antiwar demonstrators at his home. The neighbot falsely told an investigator for O'Hanlon Reports Inc. of New York that the editor was a long-haired, bearded hippie who let his children run wild, had been evicted from three previous residences and was suspected of using drugs. Because the investigating agency...
...marked by lots of exhibitionism, gay leaders this time asked for-and, almost without exception, got-restraint in clothes and behavior. With record gay participation in Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Diego and Seattle as well, the weekend marked the biggest nationwide protest demonstration since the days of the antiwar movement...
...Bomb. Always Berlin: facing down the Russkies--who, with Stalin as Dreamer-in-Chief, were surely well-caught in their own ghastly dream. Our dream led right into the '60s, helped create the '60s, created or helped create the shell through which the blacks and chicanos and antiwar protesters had to break--in fact, still have to break: an eggshell dream...