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...diverse Berkeley radical elements, to uncover the shape of the S.L.A. and the identities of the nine suspects. The reason for the difficulty is the Symbionese Liberation Army's small and communal organization. Explains one federal law enforcement official: "It has no visible national structure to attack. Against a commune, conventional informants are totally ineffective...
Born. To Philip F. Berrigan, 50, peace activist and former Josephite priest, and his wife and onetime fellow federal-prison inmate Elizabeth McAlister, 34, former Sacred Heart nun and also a peace activist: their first child, a girl; in Baltimore. The baby was born at Jonah House, the pacifist commune where her parents now live...
...BARRING COMMUNES. Belle Terre, L.I., is a well-to-do residential community that fills less than a square mile with 700 people in 220 homes. To preserve its character, it passed a regulation in 1970 restricting land use to one-family dwellings in which any number of related persons are allowed to live. But the zoning ordinance allows a maximum of two persons unrelated by blood, adoption or marriage to set up housekeeping. In effect, an unmarried couple could live together, but arrangements involving three or more roommates are barred. The Stony Brook campus of the State University...
...book's last stop is Thompson's visit to a far-out colony called Findhorn, near Inverness in Scotland. The Findhornians devoutly believe that "matter is a condensation of consciousness." Therefore "you can commune with plants and spirits of nature if you know how to pitch your consciousness at the same vibratory level." Thompson likes the idea, in part because it appears in so many pantheistic myths and in part because his search is for just such an evolutionary potential...
Playing the sophisticated lady in Noel Coward's 1932 commune comedy Design for Living, Vanessa Redgrave, 37, lights up London's West End every evening with brittle charm. Come morning, however, she is out on the hustings...