Word: dropouts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...love and laughter who turned on to every stimulant-from simple, undrugged fun to crystallized "speed" (methedrine, a high-powered amphetamine), which he occasionally sold for profit. Hippies called him "Groovy." Linda Rae Fitzpatrick, 18, was the daughter of a Greenwich, Conn., spice merchant, a blonde and dreamy-eyed dropout from Maryland's exclusive Oldfields School. Alienated by whatever obscure forces from her parents-both of whom had previously been divorced -she had traded the security of exurbia for the turned-on squalor of hippie life in the East Village...
When he tried to enlist in the Navy two years ago, John Michael Newman flunked the educational tests. A high school dropout, he joined the Job Corps instead, studied so hard that he was finally able to pass the service exams. Last week John Newman, now 18, became the seventh of civilian Carpenter Kirby Newman's nine sons to enter the Navy-making the Newman family the first in the memory of naval officials to have seven brothers on active duty at the same time. Idaho communities celebrated "Newman Day"; John's home town of Twin Falls proudly...
...I.V.S. dropout was led by Donald Luce, 33, an agricultural expert from East Calais, Vt., and the director of the I.V.S. team in Viet Nam. It developed only after months of soul-searching and internal maneuvering with the official U.S. AID superstructure in Saigon. Luce and his colleagues objected primarily to the "over-Americanization" of the war effort since mid-1965, felt that air and artillery strikes in Viet Cong country, by creating more refugees, were only prolonging the war and destroying the fabric of Vietnamese society. "Protesters usually put emphasis on napalm and other so-called atrocities," said Luce...
Hippie Anthem. None has so far matched the distinctiveness and power of the Beatles' mixture-which, after all, is responsible for having boosted them into their supramusical status. Thus their flirtation with drugs and the dropout attitude behind songs like A Day in the Life disturbs many fans, not to mention worried parents. The whole Sgt. Pepper album is "drenched in drugs," as the editor of a London music magazine puts it. One track features Drummer Ringo Starr quavering, "I get high with a little help from my friends." Another number, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, evokes...
Brooklyn-born Snaith was a high school dropout who later studied architecture at New York University and, after a brief tour as a Left Bank painter, began scratching a living as an architectural draftsman in Manhattan. After a while, he caught on as a designer of commercial interiors and in 1936 joined Loewy, one of industrial design's pioneers, to help fashion the cabins of TWA's Boeing Stratoliners. Snaith became a partner in 1944, managing partner in 1956, and president in 1961. Loewy, now 74, still retains half ownership of the company, but spends six months...