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Riding a milk-white steed, dazzlingly attired in a white flannel suit and golden necklace with ruby pendant, bewhiskered, 240-lb. Benjamin Purnell cut a commanding figure around the Michigan fruit-marketing community of Benton Harbor. A grade-school dropout who was the master of mostly untaught arts, he was the self-proclaimed Seventh Messenger of Christ. Though one coruscant message was celibacy, Purnell was accused more than once of seducing teen-age girls in so-called purification rites. Another tablet from Purnell's private Sinai was the promise of earthly immortality, a cup that Ben himself let pass...
Leary calls himself a Hindu, and he uses Eastern symbolism along with psychedelic experience to reject the outward-looking, "goal-directed" American attitude (disciples like to quote him to the effect that "Buddha was a dropout"). Leary is overfond of using the word "game" to put down the concerns men usually take seriously. Not that he would eliminate game playing: he says he only wants the games recognized for what they are. In practice, however, this requires a degree of judgment far beyond the capabilities of most mortals. Many a youthful LSD user, newly impressed with what suddenly seems...
Harvard establishes the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History with a $7 million grant from a former Overseer. Tom Wolfe brings news of the status dropout. An undergraduate who has taken an overdose of LSD attracks "considerable attention from the neighbors" and has to be forcibly taken to the Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Hogan's Goat opens...
Soup du Jour. Before Kinging himself, the kid from Brooklyn jumped from dropout to drummer to boxer to dancer. By the time he settled on his name and his occupation, there was nowhere to go but up to the Catskills, where the jokes, like the soup du jour, are always borscht. Notwithstanding the ethnic limitations of comic performance in the borscht belt, King kept plugging, waited to be discovered...
...year-old girl. Miranda was picked up on suspicion: both victims identified him in a lineup. He talked freely, was neither told nor knew of his right to counsel. The Arizona Supreme Court took the "hard" Escobedo line, upheld his conviction. ¶Roy A. Stewart, 28, a sixth-grade dropout, was suspected in 1963 of mugging a number of Los Angeles women, one of whom died. Arrested with his common-law wife, Stewart was grilled 4½ days before admitting that he robbed but did not kill the woman. He was sentenced to death for felony-murder...