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...conflict over the flag, however, many advertising directors are beginning to shy away from the national colors. Says Charles Overholser of Young & Rubicam: "Overuse could easily offend consumers." The aesthetics of the flag as high fashion are also somewhat in dispute. "I just dig the colors," says a Berkeley coed with a flag knee patch. "And I love stars. The flag's groovy from an aesthetic viewpoint." Marget Larsen, a San Francisco graphic designer, does not agree: "The idea of stars and stripes is awfully self-conscious and precise. It's a little too busy, with too many stars crammed...
...geniuses as Abbie Hoffman. Some, of course, costume themselves in the Stars and Stripes with no overt political intent. But however faddish the flag fashions are, they implicitly contain a put-on or a flare of adolescent rebellion. "Desecrating the flag is just fun," explains Beth Spencer, 21, of Berkeley. "It's burned, torn or worn for the sheer joy of doing something naughty and getting away with it." Says Carl Boockholdt, a boutique operator in Indianapolis: "It could be a parody type of feeling, to signify that the red, white and blue shouldn't be such a heavy symbol...
Died. Hortense Powdermaker, 69, a noted anthropologist whose studies ranged from Stone Age Melanesians and Rhodesian copper miners to Mississippi blacks and whites and Hollywood moviemakers; of a heart attack; in Berkeley, Calif. "Hollywood shouts to be satirized-I want to understand it," she said before heading West in 1947; three years of research produced The Dream Factory, that depicted a totalitarian society in which people were property, and power an end in itself...
...brother is now a freshman at Berkeley. In his last year in high school, he invested the $500 he had inherited from my grandmother and made a couple thousand dollars in the stock market...
...order became more annoyed. He finally stood up and kept shouting that he wanted to be heard. The chairman, unable to continue, said he would have a vote by the body to see if they wanted to hear the point of order. Dan Siegal, former president of the Berkeley Association of Students, then took over the chair. "The ruling of the chair as I understand it," he said, "is to go on with the agenda and not stop for all this procedural bullshit all the time." This was greeted with cries of rage, and so he was forced to take...