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Early last week, 200 students gathered near the cafeteria where Meredith was eating. They slung eggs, pop bottles, and at least one Molotov cocktail at troops and U.S. marshals. Scores of cherry bombs were hurled with slingshots. Next day, firecrackers exploded all over the campus. A Coke bottle smashed the window of a car carrying Meredith, laid open the face of an accompanying marshal...
Bravo to the author of "cocktail kissing" [Oct. 19]. It was one of the truest and funniest articles I've read in TIME. But now I'll never be able to pucker against a cheekbone without bursting out laughing...
...innocence when the world was a simpler place, science was divided into a few well-defined divisions, such as chemistry, physics and biology. At first they subdivided into specialties (acoustics, optics, biochemistry) whose names were reasonably self-explanatory. But those days are gone forever. In cocktail party chitchat and in the importunate advertisements of companies trying to pirate talented scientists, laymen are now confronted by specialties whose names mean little or nothing in normal, educated English...
Targets & Practices. The social kiss requires a behavioral code of its own. Men who once marched forward into cocktail parties with abandon, hands outstretched and mouths dry, now find themselves skulking around doorways, trying to remember whom to kiss and whom not to (skip the wife's slinky onetime roommate, don't forget the host's plain sister). General rule is to leave the initiative to the woman. The man's problem is to be ready for a kiss, but not so far committed that he cannot smoothly recover if he is offered only a hand...
Dilemmas & Differences. The hand shake may have looked awkward, certainly permitted less warmth and variety of delivery than the cocktail kiss. But it also posed fewer problems; in Chicago, for instance, where party circles often look more like squares, only good friends, college classmates and best friends of husbands and wives get kissed. In San Francisco, social kissing is frowned on for young adults and the unmarried, practiced mainly by married women over 30. Said an elderly man, withdrawing from a young woman's embrace: "I wish she wouldn't kiss me. It makes me feel...