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Reddin is probably also one of the few chiefs who never thought of becoming a cop until he was 24, almost middle age for a rookie. The son of a flamboyant carnival tycoon who made more than $1,000,000 building amusement parks in Europe and Australia, Reddin was born in New York City. The family moved to Holdenville, Okla., when his father scented more money in petroleum than suckers-and suckered himself into penury. "While Indians were discovering oil under just about every campfire pit," observes Reddin, "Dad managed to drill more dry holes than anyone else...
...become a chemical engineer, finished the school's four-year chemistry curriculum before the end of his sophomore year. The couple plan to be married in September, then enter the University of Washington to begin their junior year. They have the complete approval of his father, an Alabama-born Seattle longshoreman, and her widowed mother, a Boeing Co. stenographer...
...give her no help because he had been taught nothing in medical school about breast feeding. Marian Tompson and Mary White mastered the technique, and when they nursed their babies publicly at a fashionable North Side picnic, so many admiring young mothers gathered around that La Leche League-was born. By now, the league has 635 groups all over the world, with 620 in the U.S., and a total of 20,000 members. This week, with a handful of sympathetic doctors on hand, the league is holding its annual convention in Denver...
Most moving to the churchmen was an address on Christianity and the Negro by Novelist James Baldwin. The Negro's freedom, Baldwin charged in an odd metaphorical mix, has been "frozen or strangled at the root" because "the Christ I was presented with, though he was born in Nazareth under a very hot sun, was presented to me with blue eyes and blond hair; and all the virtues to which I, as a black man, was expected to aspire had by definition to be white...
...People. Increasing concern over Israel among Reform Jews represents a change in their tradition. Born in Germany during the Enlightenment, Reform Judaism rejected many restrictions imposed by Halakah, the rigid code of Jewish religious law. Whereas Orthodoxy maintained that Halakah is divinely inspired and cannot be altered, Reform contended that Jews have the right to adapt their religious laws to changing conditions...