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...Stones, the Animals-revitalized rock by closely imitating (and frankly crediting) such Negro originators of the style as Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley. Soon the Negro "soul sound" surged into the white mass market. The old-line blues merchants have enjoyed a revival, and a younger, slicker breed of rhythm-and-blues singers-notably Lou Rawls, Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross and the Supremes-have taken up commanding positions on the sales charts. "Until the Beatles exposed the origins, the white kids didn't know anything about the music," says Veteran Blues Shouter Waters, 52. "Now they...
...Geneen churns with the ambition of a man half his age. In the space of eight years, he has rejuggled ITT from top to bottom, transforming it from a stodgy, disjointed telecommunications invalid into one of the most successful of the highly diversified new-breed corporations known as "conglomerates...
...terrorizing towns. Even the police are afraid to touch the little-read riding hoods who swagger around California wearing swastikas and blaring "man," "cool" and "baby" in between crimes. As is only proper in a low-grade western, vigilante justice finally prevails when a rodeo-riding half-breed (Tom Laughlin) hunts them down and makes them cry into their beards...
America, America, how do you breed these mores? The adulteress would not "dirty" herself by accepting money; the whore would not stoop to sending her man off to work all day for wages she can earn in half an hour. A wonderful "market" for attorneys and orphanages and jailers. Corruption in Asia! Indeed...
Poverty may breed poverty, but it has also spawned a vast, ever-growing nexus of federal programs and agencies designed to help the poor. The Department of Health, Education and Welfare alone administers nearly 100 poverty-connected programs. More than 700 local projects concerned with citizens over 65 years of age are sponsored by HEW. Thousands of others across the country provide aid and advice to the needy, the handicapped and the undereducated. To better coordinate the programs, HEW Secretary John Gardner has gathered five major welfare agencies* under one office, named the Social and Rehabilitation Service (SRS). To Washington...