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Dukakis is one of the new breed of liberal pols, like Jerry Brown of California and Pete Flaherty of Pennsylvania, who have discovered they can be liberal without the poor. They have to be environmentalist, consumerists, and support women's issues as long as it doesn't cost money, and keep up an obnoxiously honest and austere lifestyle. And they keep getting elected...
...punishment were in itself a vestigial barbarity. But if progress implies a steady mitigation of punishment, then at some point "punishment" must logically lose its meaning, crossing over to become something else. Besides, not many people are pitilessly marched to jail today for stealing loaves of bread. Poverty may breed crime, but few thieves steal because they are starving in a society of food stamps and welfare...
...where talent is concerned, Christine should have the contest pretty well sewed up. Her rendering of Bartok's Hungarian Peasant Songs on the flute is professional, pure and austere when compared with the frothier offerings of other contestants. But in many ways she is like a whole new breed of Miss America aspirants, far from a beauty-queen type. Tall and girl-next-door pretty, she is a pale brunette who in no way resembles the blonde, golden-bronzed California beauties of imagination. Says a friend: "She'd look ridiculous beside a surfboard." She hates makeup...
Despite the emphasis on ideology, however, the kids sent to the camps are not necessarily a breed apart from contemporaries who spend their summers catching poison ivy and frogs instead of lectures on solar heating and Big Brother. When the Hayden/Fonda campers drew up their own bill of rights, the first item was one that might appeal to the Birchers-or any other kids-as well: peace from parents...
With air travel on the rise because of the profusion of cheaper fares, FAA Chief Langhorne Bond speculates that the industry may be seeing a "new breed" of gentler, friendlier mass air traveler. Nonetheless, the bad old kind is still a problem. Worldwide, there were 31 skyjacking attempts last year, vs. only 15 in 1976. This year the number of such incidents has remained high, with 14 attempts so far, including three in the U.S.-all of which were unsuccessful. New breed or no, the FAA has extended its requirement for the screening of air travelers from just scheduled flights...