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...handy metaphor for just about everything that's wrong with America: capitalistic manipulation and dehumanization: the physical and spiritual bankruptcy of the California frontier; the war mentality of the competitive nature of American life. Much of this is brought home (sometimes too explicitly) by the frighteningly familiar em???, played by Gig Young...
...water fountains, refusing to let whites be served ahead of him in stores. Somehow, he was never assaulted, though he says that several whites have "put a gun on me." He boasts today: "They cursed me and threatened me, but they never attacked me. Maybe my size scared 'em off." Wyche has been in court and in jail several times on charges stemming from civil rights activity. One case against him is still pending...
...replacement? Aaron Wildavsky, Dean of the graduate school of public affairs at the University of California at Berkeley, a nonactivist Humphrey Democrat who is to the left of Hoffer on race questions but right in step with Hoffer's views on student radicals: he's agin 'em...
Died. Major General George Gelston, 57, commander of the Maryland National Guard troops during the 1963 and 1964 racial upheavals in Cambridge, whose cool, intelligent leadership prevented almost certain bloodshed; of heart disease; in Chicago. Gelston saw his choices as three: "You can club 'em to death, you can arrest 'em, or you can let them demonstrate-controlled and protected-and hope eventually for a peaceful situation." He chose the last course, and eventually arranged the truce that allowed him to withdraw his troops...
...Institutional: Discrimination against gays is blatant. Homosexual relationships are illegal, and even if these laws are not regularly enforced, they encourage and enforce closet queencry. The bulk of the social work/psychiatric field looks upon homosexuality as a problem, and treats us as sick. Em players let it be known that our skills are acceptable only as long as our sexuality is hidden...