Word: ens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York Bureau Chief Donald Neff and Photographer David Hume Kennerly heard the bulletin in Miami early Sunday morning: a Congressman had been killed on a remote jungle airstrip in Guyana. Neff and Kennerly, who had worked together in Saigon, were en route to another assignment in South America, but they chartered a jet and were in Georgetown, the capital of Guyana, by nightfall...
...little loudmouth takes the barren stage and tells everyone to pick a partner for a game. "One of you will be a frozen yogurt, the other a banana." Fantastic! This apparently fulfills the promise that there would be group "sharing" and mass "intimacy." Still, the participants are people who, en masse, become as obedient, as malleable as a class of terrified kindergarteners. They submit themselves with amazing unanimity to a series of silly exercises ordered from on high. Everybody stand up! Take a deep breath! Massage your leg! Jump up and down three times! Give the laugh of power...
Teng, meanwhile, was continuing to exact sweet revenge on some of his old enemies. Wu Teh, the mayor of Peking at the time of the riots and one of Teng's principal adversaries, has already been sacked and replaced by Lin Hu-chia, a Teng ally. Ch'en Hsi-lien, commander of the Peking military region, and Wang Tung-hsing, head of the secret police, have also come under attack...
...racquetwomen, led by captain Jenny Stone, open their campaign with home matches against Tufts today and Bowdoin Saturday. Their first stiff test is against Brown December 9. The Crimson edged out Brown, 4-3, last season en route to an overall 9-2 won-lost record...
Until last week, no one would have seriously equated men with lemmings. But now the lemmings would seem to have the better side of the comparison, for they kill themselves en masse for subconscious, biologically-inspired reasons. Twentieth-century man, lacking any such justification, has finally managed to do away with himself in large groups. The Jonestown affair surely marks an isolated incident, but the promise it holds for the future of our social fabric is merely a grim joke...