Word: dropouts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dropout Drummer. Now back in his native New York City after having lived in Los Angeles, Tree, 37, has recently appeared in such diverse places as the Electric Circus, an avant-garde nightspot, and Wall Street's Trinity Church. He has played for museums and colleges, women's clubs and love-ins. He gives many concerts in hospitals, prisons and schools for handicapped children, where his music often has a therapeutic effect. When he played for the children of a school for the deaf in Los Angeles, they reacted with smiles, laughter and expressions of awe, calling...
...first, the book seems to be an agreeable juvenile confection. The plot is almost conventionally simple and contemporary. A 23-year-old graduate student named Chris marries a 21-year-old coed-dropout named Ellen, with whom he has slept on and off for three years. The tone inclines rakishly toward the comic. Ellen is pregnant, and the marriage has to be a bit of a scramble. There is a mad, drunken bus ride on the part of the groom. In a scene of smothered hilarity, the couple receive spiritual instructions (and an introductory sex manual) from a young minister...
...road to understanding with the Soviet Union and Communist China lies through a downgrading of our own alliances and what amounts to unilateral reduction of our arms in order to demonstrate our good faith." That, he said, is an "isolationist" view. The U.S., he insisted, cannot become "a dropout in assuming the responsibility for defending peace and freedom in the world." Neither, he added, can the U.S. go it alone. "We must revitalize our alliances, not abandon them," he declared. "We must rule out unilateral disarmament, because in the real world it won't work...
Most chaplains, of course, are far more appalled at the cruelties of the war than fascinated by its glory-yet few have asked for release from service. One potential dropout, Army Captain Philip Seeker, recently returned to his unit after a week-long retreat in Tokyo, and explained why. The war, he was convinced, was still "unwise" -but not evil enough to keep him away from...
...nursing-home benefits. The New Mexicans, said HEW, were demanding Medicaid on their own terms, which were not only illegal but self-defeating. Although the state might have saved $1,000,000 by quitting Medicaid and rejoining it with a less costly plan, the immediate effect of its dropout was to make it ineligible for $12,800,000 that it was to receive in the next fiscal year under other federal programs for indigent patients. With or without federal funds, the state must care for those patients. Thus chastened, the state's Department of Health and Social Services asked...