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...suits arise from allegations made against The Process in The Family--The Story of Charles Manson's Dune Buggy Attack Bettalion by Edward Sanders, published by E.P. Dunton and Co., and in "Charlie and the Devil" an article excerpted from Sander's book which appears in the November issue of the Esquire...
...compiled MilLHouse (TIME, Oct. 18), a wickedly derisive splicing of Nixoniana. Novelist Richard Condon (The Manchurian Candidate) has come forth with The Vertical Smile, a politico-sexual farce whose hero, Duncan Mulligan, is a Wall Street lawyer, transvestite and presidential candidate known, lest anyone miss the point, as "Funky Dune...
...breeding gulls. Wheeling overhead, they scavenged for dead fish and refuse-and picked the beaches clean. In 1962, William C. Scharf, a biologist at Northwestern Michigan College, counted 2,500 gulls' nests on nearby Bellows Island alone. This spring he found only 300. Why? Scharf partly blames dune-buggy drivers who careen through nesting grounds, plus harmful human discards like pop-top beer-can rings, which can injure hungry gulls. But the chief reason is heavy use of chlorinated hydrocarbons: DDT and its chemical cousins, dieldrin and chlordane...
...either. Initially it had great trouble with the candidate's name, which admittedly provides endless possibilities for exploitation. (The last name especially has good possibilities. Local high school students proved the most imaginative in this respect, trimming bumper stickers to read "Stud," and pasting them on their purple VW dune buggies.) Sometimes it came out Jerry, sometimes Gerald, and one paper used to call him Harry Stubbs...
...model of the U.S. machine arrived in Houston last week for training purposes. The 800-lb. vehicle resembles a terrestrial dune buggy, and is scheduled to carry two Apollo 15 astronauts on a short test spin across the lunar surface next summer...