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...sociological interests- though, out of an uptight if enlightened white guilt, they said little on the record. Now, supposedly sophisticated and erudite adults, hoo-hawing and blathering in the Faculty Club, made it appear that no racial reason existed anywhere in the land. In his helpless despondency, the moderator drank himself into a calamitous state...

Author: By Larry L. king, | Title: A Former Nieman Looks Back, Part II Mailer and Styron at Harvard | 10/3/1970 | See Source »

...make heroes of these astronauts. There was Gus, Deke, Wally, and Scott. They were good men, and true, not the old wrecks the Russians sent into space from Dark Siberian plains. Neither were they for that matter the bible punching sissies who reached the moon last summer. These Seven drank and loved. Here was excitement. America needed heroes and made them in her own image. Certainly people talked of international cooperation, but we wanted to beat the Russians on our own. If they could send a satellite around the moon, we could send one around the sun and call...

Author: By Laurence Bergreen, | Title: Doctor, This is Madness.... You Will Destroy Us All | 8/4/1970 | See Source »

...tens of thousands of years thereafter, he was a hunter and gatherer of food. He had no milk cattle. A baby was usually weaned by the age of two. Nature designed milk as a food for infants, not for adults. So at that stage in human development, because adults drank no milk, they needed no lactase. Nature's plan worked smoothly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Of Man and Milk | 7/13/1970 | See Source »

...revolver underneath a used choir robe that he said was a dashiki. At a rally in West Side Church, the audience giggled throughout a speech by [Stokely] Carmichael because Sams, recruited on stage as a bodyguard, tasted the water from a pitcher to test it for poison and drank...

Author: By Garrett Epps, | Title: The Trial of Bobby Seale | 6/11/1970 | See Source »

...boating facilities. Throughout the country, the military maintains special hunting lodges, ski resorts and summer vacation houses. The rigid strictures against drinking do not apply to officers. One marveling U.S. officer remembers a dinner in East Germany during which Marshal Grechko's first deputy, Marshal Ivan Yakubovsky, drank 18 successive vodka toasts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Life in the Soviet Army | 5/4/1970 | See Source »

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