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...political bosses." Thus Rockefeller's tabernacle of unity becomes Nixon's den of iniquity. They have each promised to support the other in the general election, but until the convention the genteel barbs will be there. While renewing his pledge to Nixon, for instance, Rockefeller took a dig at his weakness: "The party has got to make up its mind on who has a real chance of getting the votes of independents and Democrats...
...major factor in many states, either by statute or practice, is fault. Knowing this, lawyers for both husband and wife commonly dig up and expose the most sordid details of the opponent's private life, to try to prove one party "guiltier" than the other. A man shown to have been having an affair is often "punished" by a judge's harsh alimony award, whether or not his ex-wife has plenty of money of her own. Conversely, an adulteress may get nothing, even though her resources...
Barred from that fusion of minds, he went on, people retreat wholly into themselves or into a makeshift substitute like the frenetic sensuality of the plastic hippie or the cool of the hip intellectual. The hippie's stripped-down jargon--"I dig her;" "it's a groove;" "I' up tight"--thwarts emotional expression by stylizing it, he said. "Did you ever try ending a relationship by saying 'I've got to split the scene'?" The mocking wit of the hip intellectual may be worse, he said, for it skirts around honest feelings without admitting their existence. "You find it impossible...
Thesis Turned Boole. Other law schools have also encouraged students to dig into the issues raised by Viet Nam. Last week a student-faculty committee at U.C.L.A. Law School decided to try to start a Viet Nam-and-the-law course in the fall. If approved by the faculty, it will be given for credit. New York University Law School started a seminar on the subject for third-year men this semester. Students have also been probing Viet Nam on their own. The most extensive effort so far is a new book, Law and Viet Nam, by two 1967 Yale...
Last July, seventy-seven trainees arrived on the plastic campus of sunny California's University of Riverside to learn how to dig irrigation canals. Three months later the surviving forty-four shipped out to a picturesque bressaro camp in tiny town Hemet, also in the Fun State. At this point two were drafted...