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...recently quit an insurance job in New Jersey to join the love-Haight mission. "We have a farm in Mendocino given to us by a friend where we'll grow food," he explains, "and other Diggers will go to Chile or Mexico to grow marijuana in the backyard...
...starred in soccer, set an Academy record in the 400-meter hurdles, just barely missed qualifying for the 1952 U.S. Olympic team. Zealous when it came to physical fitness, White jogged a couple of miles every morning to keep in shape, shinnied a 40-foot rope in his backyard on weekends, usually bicycled the three miles between his Houston home and the NASA Space Center. To his fellow astronauts, it came as no surprise when White took along a gold cross, a St. Christopher medal and a Star of David on his 62-orbit Gemini 4 flight, explaining afterward that...
Weekends, he walks or sits in the backyard, always shifting to stay in the sun, and puts down his thoughts in a clear hand on the ever-present yellow...
...seemed in print, to the level-headed men charged with running China on a day-to-day basis-from factory managers to government bureaucrats to party officials like Liu and Teng-it looked like the Great Leap Forward of 1958 writ large in madness. By its do-it-yourself backyard-foundry mania, Mao's Great Leap had cost China several years of economic growth. The new revolution was to be far more encompassing, and it also threatened the technocrats' jobs. In a factory run by Mao-think, who needs a manager or even an engineer...
...nudist is not guilty of "lewd exposure" in her own backyard. In East Moss Point, Miss., Baptist Preacher Dennis McDonald paid a sudden, proselytizing visit to Mrs. Laura Pendergrass, a member of the American Sunbathing Association. She was partly naked; he was wholly shocked. All of which earned Mrs. Pendergrass a $50 fine and a suspended sentence of 20 days in jail. Equally shocked, the Mississippi Supreme Court unanimously voided her conviction. Not only did the puritanical preacher ignore a "no trespassing" sign, bristled the court, but he also stayed to gawk for 45 minutes despite his self-proclaimed "purity...