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...Gallagher called a "rather well synchronized" attack. Eight buildings were simultaneously hit with sulfur bombs, spray paint, small explosives, and tear gas. Reports were being filed all throughout the day. Some reports said that the acts were perpetrated by whites "who looked like members of SDS or the Commune," while other reports accused Black students of the vandalism. There were no arrests, however, and no student could be identified for disciplinary action. Bathrooms were flooded in the Student Center, sulfur bombs were released into the ventilation system and the halls of the engineering building and an acrid, burning smell pervaded...
...bizarre exhibitionism last month's wedding of Carol Lee Garrett and James J. Kimmel in a hippie commune near Novato, Calif., was indicative, if not exactly typical, of a current trend in marriages. More and more couples are breaking away from traditional mar riage ceremonies to invent their...
Among the paroxysms of the present, some words he spoke 14 years ago in Rutland, Vt. have particular relevance. "We merely want to live in peace with all the world," said Ike. "To trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that our sons may stay at home, the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches, and not for the guns and planes and tanks and ships...
...leap orders China's 74,000-odd communes to forget about any aid from Peking. They have been told that henceforth they themselves-not the government-must remunerate schoolteachers and medical personnel working in the countryside. Commune members are to make their own simple farm tools, freeing industry for more sophisticated production. Moreover, Peking is pushing a frugality theme to such a degree that celebrations for the New Year, China's biggest and happiest holiday, were woefully crimped last month...
Fighting Lethargy. The communes are already hurting: they have to feed an estimated 20 million former urbanites -including millions of now undesirable Red Guards-whom the regime has recently sent into the boondocks for lengthy spells of physical labor. The peasants' response to Mao's latest brainstorm so far seems to have been remarkably unenthusiastic: troops had to be sent to a commune in Szechwan province to "overcome local lethargy...