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...businessmen switch jobs as drastically as Austin R. Zender, 63, who describes himself as "a metal man by profession and a candy man by design." Ending a long and successful career as president of Bridgeport Brass Co. and later as head of National Distillers & Chemical Corp. when the two merged, Zender postponed retirement to become head of a confectionary company on whose board he had sat since 1954. Under his aggressive leadership, Peter Paul Inc. has taken over a position among the leaders of the nation's $1.4 billion candy business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Candy: Mounds of Joy | 8/18/1967 | See Source »

...crime rate keeps rising, or seems to, especially in senseless killings and wanton attacks. Fear of the darkened city streets has become a fact of urban life. The memories of bizarre multiple murders linger in the mind-13 people dead in Austin from a sniper's rifle, eight nurses in Chicago killed by a demented drifter. The recollection of the Kennedy assassination remains part of the scene. A burgeoning, largely uncontrolled traffic in guns has put firearms into some 50 million American homes, many of their owners insisting that the weapons are needed for self-defense. In the movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: VIOLENCE IN AMERICA | 7/28/1967 | See Source »

Reverend Richard Fernandez, co-director of Vietnam Summer, flew to Texas last night after demanding "an open and exhaustive investigation" into the shooting death of Austin peace worker George Vizard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Anti-War Activist Felled in Texas | 7/25/1967 | See Source »

Vizard was shot and killed at the Austin grocery store where he worked Monday morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Anti-War Activist Felled in Texas | 7/25/1967 | See Source »

...every major U.S. city from Boston to Seattle, from Detroit to New Orleans; there is a 50-member cabal in, of all places, Austin, Texas. There are outposts in Paris and London, New Delhi and Katmandu, where American hippies trek the "hashish trail" to get cheap but potent hallucinogens and lessons in Buddhist love. Though hippies*consider any sort of arithmetic a "down trip," or boring, their own estimate of their nationwide number runs to some 300,000. Disinterested officials generally reduce that figure, but even the most skeptical admit that there are countless thousands of part-time, or "plastic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Youth: The Hippies | 7/7/1967 | See Source »

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