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Enter the Fugs, Greenwich Village folk-rock preacher-lovers who have sprung full grown and screaming from Allen Ginsberg's beard. Champions of moral disarmament, they sing out for the people who, according to Ginsberg's liner notes on their second album, "make love with their eyes open, maybe smoke pot & maybe take LSD & look inside their heads to find the Self-God Walt Whitman prophesied for America...
...Harvey Oswald. Why had he changed his story? Simple. The "Leon" Oswald he met had a fouror five-day stubble. He had not connected "Leon" with "Lee Harvey" Oswald, he said, until the D.A.'s office spent several hours drawing whiskers on photographs of Oswald. "We tried beard after beard," Russo said...
Close to Absolute. Haile Selassie's beard may be flecked with grey, but his back is still straight and his command over Ethiopia as firm as ever. He has put down three coup attempts in the past six years (for one of which four army officers are now on trial in Addis Ababa). He is, in fact, as close to an absolute ruler as the century will allow. Although he has permitted a Parliament to function for the past twelve years, he alone has the power to choose his Prime Minister. He regularly plays shum-shir-the Ethiopian equivalent...
...School was created by a group of former Columbia University professors-including Historian Charles Beard, Philosopher James Harvey Robinson and Economists Wesley Mitchell and Alvin Johnson-who felt that Columbia limited their freedom to teach unconventional courses and express unpopular views. By the early '30s, the New School had gained a certain vogue as a center of night-school uplift for left-wing intellectuals. It acquired new academic respectability in the mid-'30s by creating a "University in Exile" on the talents of about 50 European scholars who had fled fascism in Germany and Italy and formed...
...only Negro head coach of a major professional team would have a hard time staying out of the spotlight-even if he did not stand 6 ft. 10 in., sport a beard, and wear an opera cape instead of an overcoat. The glare is especially bright for Bill Russell, 33, because he is in his first season as player-coach of the Boston Celtics, whose eight straight National Basketball Association championships make them the most successful team in U.S. pro sport. The only change he can make in the Celtics is a change for the worse. So when people...