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...supposed to be a quiet rally of Mexican Americans against the war in Viet Nam, but it ended in violence and tragedy. Shortly after noon, some 7,000 Chicanos started marching along Whittier Boulevard in East Los Angeles to Laguna Park, where the rally was to climax. But so many people jammed into a liquor store next to the park that soon the harassed clerks were unable to wait on them; some of the customers walked out without paying for their bottles. When sheriff's deputies began arresting the casual looters, rocks and bottles were tossed, and the riot...
...lost their legitimacy by dealing with the atheistic Soviet government. The leaders of the Church Outside Russia accordingly do not recognize the actions of other Russian Orthodox groups. Thus on the same weekend as the Kodiak ceremonies. New York's Metropolitan Philaret led a glittering procession down Geary Boulevard in San Francisco to the minareted Cathedral of the Holy Virgin, there to confirm with another solemn liturgy that Herman is really a saint...
...Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, a fiercely bearded hippie buttonholes a passerby: "If you ain't saved by the blood of Jesus, man, forget it. You're damned to the pits of hell." Along Broadway in San Francisco's honky-tonk North Beach, hirsute zealots plead with gawking conventioneers to bypass the topless-bottomless shows. Outside Atlanta, amid the acid rock, nude bathing and casual lovemaking of a rock festival, a young couple and their friends man two "Jesus tents" for the lost and lonely. In Boise, beaded and bell-bottomed converts wade into the river...
...Hollywood Boulevard, one gay led a fearsome white husky dog that wore a sign; NOT ALL OF us WALK POODLES. Another poster proclaimed: HOMOSEXUALS FOR REAGAN. Marching up Manhattan's Sixth Avenue, the phalanxes chanted: "Two-four-six-eight, gay is just as good as straight!" or "Ho-Ho-Homosexual!" With cause, the homosexuals were protesting police harassment, Mafia control of some gay bars and other injustices. Some sociologists reckon that the nation's homosexual population, open and secret, is about 4,000,000, and so the new aggressiveness has a large potential. One picket sign...
CLEVELAND, OHIO sprawls comfortably just south of polluted Lake Erie. The city does not appear crowded. The expensive Tudor mansions along Fairmont Boulevard give way gradually to the apartments in Shaker Heights, which in turn, lead to the ghetto. Hugh Calkins '45 is from Cleveland. Kent State is 50 miles away...