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...ever. The President rattled off proposals to reorganize existing programs, extend Social Security, reduce pollution control firearms, halt invasions of privacy, modernize the draft and fight crime. But Johnson left the two great domestic issues before the Congress--civil rights and the War on Poverty--disturbingly grey, despite brave talk of continuing progress. Negro leaders in particular must have bristled at hearing fair housing plugged into the address directly following "regional airsheds...
That was written 15 years ago when we were examining the "silent" generation. Today the young are anything but silent. Americans under 25, who will soon outnumber their elders, exhibit many features, make many statements, suggest many pictures, often conflicting-they are well-educated, affluent, rebellious, responsible, pragmatic, idealistic, brave, "alienated," and hopeful. Who they are and what they stand for are the subjects under study...
...deed to do all over again, would he attempt it? "Yes! And how!" bellowed Prince Felix Youssoupoff, 79, the man who murdered czarist Russia's lecherous holy man Rasputin. Brave talk. The prince was nearly dead on his feet after he had dispatched the wild monk by feeding him enough cyanide to kill a regiment of Cossacks, blasting him with a revolver, beating him with a rubber truncheon, and dumping him into the Neva River. Now, 50 years after the murder, the prince will have the pleasure of watching someone else do the job. His recent book...
...barony that is said to go with the name. It is fortunate, too, for the reader, that Kerouac lost his own bearings so often: amusingly drunken cafe brawls, busted suitcases tied up with neckties, lost planes, overcharging tarts and mercenary French petite bourgeoisie. Kerouac is an engaging fellow. Brave, too. At one point, he undertook to explain to goggle-eyed Parisians that he speaks purer French than they, because "I roll my r's on my tongue and not in my throat." For that coup alone he deserves a barony...
...SPECIAL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Visiting Acapulco during Mexico's film festival, Bob runs into a star shower that includes Michael Caine, Cantinflas, Dolores Del Rio, Glenn Ford, Gina Lollobrigida, Lynn Redgrave, James Mason and Rita Tushingham. ABC STAGE 67 (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Arthur Kennedy narrates "The Brave Rifles," a documentary celebrating the 22nd anniversary of World War II's harrowing Battle of the Bulge...