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...both Newark and Detroit Guardsmen lacked bulletproof vests and proper riot helmets. It should be said that the record is not all negative: in Milwaukee, a curfew and quick action by Guardsmen, who flooded the streets at the first sign of serious trouble, nipped a riot in the bud...
Four years ago, when Chief Petty Officer Bud Cowsill retired from a 20-year stint in the Navy, he decided that his four singing, drumming and guitar-playing sons were ready for more than charity shows and family concerts. He teamed the boys up with their pert "mini-Mom," Barbara, took on the other two Cowsill sons as road managers and sound engineers, and along with a four-year-old baby sister set off into the professional music world. Bud enforced taut Navy discipline: the kids had to keep up with their studies, practice two hours daily to build...
...Newport, R.I., became Bleak House. During the winter, they left their driveway unshoveled to discourage bill collectors. When their credit ran out on heating oil, they chopped up furniture to build a fire. One weekend they ended up with nothing in the house to eat except chocolate and marshmallows. Bud figured that promotion, transportation and the cost of musical instruments had put him $100,000 in debt. Just before panic set in, a New York talent management firm lined them up with MGM Records. Now their first single, The Rain, the Park and Other Things, has passed...
...they find their own style and endure, or will this hit be their last? Last week, as the family worked their way down the West Coast on a 22-city personal-appearance tour, Bud was confident: "We're going to be a top recording group. There's no question in my mind, never has been." Still, considering the treacherous tides of the pop music business, the family had better heed the advice of one of the songs they sing: Knock on Wood...
Voluntarily continuing their research at the Agriculture Department's Beltsville, Md., Plant Industry Station-where they are affectionately called "wocs" for "without cost"-Dermen and May patiently placed colchicine on each new bud of Siberian elm seedlings, pruned off leaves and twigs that had normal chromosome counts, and rooted double-chromosome shoots until they had developed plants with only double-chromosome cells. A dozen of these tailored plants, each 15 in. high, were recently shipped to the department's Delaware, Ohio, research station, where they will be raised until they flower and then mated with American elms. That...