Word: dropouts
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...than six weeks the 1,700 citizens of Tylertown, Miss., waited on tiptoe for their first celebrity visitor in decades. Last week Martha Mitchell blew into town accompanied by her personal seamstress. Ostensibly on hand for the wedding of her son Jay Jennings to a local girl and fellow dropout from the University of Mississippi Law School Janis Crawford, Martha quickly took the mint out of everyone's juleps...
...symptoms, explains Psychiatrist Cyril Barnert of Los Angeles, occur on two levels. In milder cases-the great majority-the vet feels constantly depressed and unable to get involved in ordinary life. Looking like the classic student dropout, he hangs listlessly around street corners, sometimes in a marijuana haze, or drifts from one low-level job to another. Sometimes he plays at war; in Los Angeles vets often gather at the burned-out remains of an amusement park at Venice pier to stage mock battles, often using shields fashioned from turtle shells. In severe cases, a vet may brood for days...
...behind Freelandia is Ken Moss, 31, a Syracuse University dropout who claimed to have made millions in Wall Street by helping entrepreneurs get financing. After dropping out again-this time to Katmandu -Moss dreamed up a plan that seemed to to be irresistible: for an initial fee of $50, anyone could enlist in a quasi commune called Freelandia and cash in on the cheap air fares that maximum capacity, low overhead and Moss's brains would make possible...
...main actors in this part of the Watergate drama form a remarkable profile of America. There is Frank Wills, the black guard who found the tape on the lock of a Watergate building door and called the police. Reporters Bob Woodward, an Ivy Leaguer, and Carl Bernstein, a dropout from the University of Maryland, enlarged that slender thread into the picture of corruption. Judge John Sirica, the Italian American and old welterweight, applied common sense and created a new sense of justice. Senator Sam Ervin, with a little help from St. Paul and Shakespeare, provided the best civics lesson...
...staff has grown from six to 90, circulation has jumped to 415,000, and Stone's irreverent, meandering and sometimes erratic reportage has been extended to politics and society in general as the magazine grew up along with its audience. Wenner, born in New York City and a dropout from the University of California at Berkeley, grossed $6 million last year from Stone and Straight Arrow Books...