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Those students who fight back against dissenters are especially prized. In Houston, a 20-year-old Rice University graduate student, Sidney Drouilhet II, was guest of honor at a Chamber of Commerce banquet because he filed charges against three other young men for dishonoring a flag. When 150 San Diego State College students tried to half-staff a campus flag after Kent State, Bill Pierson, a 6-ft. 5-in., 250-lb. football center, held them off singlehanded for three hours and became a Horatius figure in conservative San Diego...
Camping that takes the wild out of the wilderness does not attract everyone. Among those who still prefer the wilderness untouched is KOA President Darrell Booth, a former manager of the Billings Chamber of Commerce. He took over the job in 1967 after Drum, realizing that he was a better idea man than administrator, stepped down to a vice presidency. "Roughing it is my bag," says Booth. "But as a businessman, I know that if that was all I had to offer, I'd go broke. Most people nowadays want good facilities. I'll provide them, and meanwhile...
...incarceration of freethinking, healthy people in madhouses is spiritual murder. It is a variant of the gas chamber, but it is an even more cruel variation, for the tortures of those being held are more vicious and prolonged...
...This is sort of a digression, but William Randolph Hearst was expelled from Harvard around the turn of the century for the offense of sending to every member of the Faculty a chamber pot with a picture of himself (i. e., Hearst) pasted in the bottom. Hearst, as we all know, became a minor newspaper publisher and achieved fame as the hero of a movie starring Orson Welles...
...tubes. One pointed a loaded shotgun at his head and announced that he was going to kill him and report that he had tried to escape; then the policeman lowered his gun and said he wouldn't shoot Newton because he was going to die in the gas chamber anyway. It was a common practice for the police guards to kick the foot of the bed to jar Newton's wound open and to start it bleeding under the bandage...