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...Hershey a few hours before, were a very different group from the people who had turned out to see Wallace shortly before in New York and Trenton. Those people were predominantly blue-collar workers and their children. But in Harrisburg Wallace's supporters were of the older right-wing breed--used-car salesmen, small businessmen and farmers who used to be Republicans, not Democrats...
...Giacometti and De Rivera, and its occupant takes particular pride in the company's futuristic new logo, which is emblazoned in 24-ft.-high letters near the top of the 70-floor building. Yet Sarnoff seems to be playing the merger game, a favorite pastime of new-breed executives, with an eye more for posterity than for the present. He dismisses St. Regis' problems as the result of "a temporary overcapacity in the paper industry." Adds Sarnoff: "We would rather have a company with a sound growth rate than one of the highflyers, some of which are showing...
...simple cashing-in on cliche; certainly Hollywood provides a hippie guaranteed to satisfy any Kansas housewife steeped in instinctive hatred of a human species more reprehensible than the red menace. But given the lasting power of the film image, we are perhaps witnessing the commercial creation of a breed of hippie at the expense of the real animal. Assuming that the hippie movement goes the way of the flappers and beatniks, we run the risk of seeing them in fifty years only as they were given us by the commercial American cinema. I think the whole thing is insidious...
Those who come to see Rednecks are a different breed. They are mainly kids, kids like the ones that protest and yell in the rest of the country. When they reach the South, they are in for a surprise. While their friends at home are protesting racism or complicity by one of the North's universities, the kids in the South are seeing racism stripped of its Northern subtleties. They have come to see the South's dirt, and the South rubs the dirt into their eyes. They ignore places like The Plantation House, concentrate on truck stops and corner...
...most visible young dissenters the recognizable types of 30 years ago-the trade unionists or the ideologues who peddled assorted versions of Marxism. They had specific programs and demands, many of which could be accommodated in relatively rational terms, and eventually were. With today's breed of kid revolutionaries, who would close...