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Former Harvard basketball stars don't just fade away, they go on to graduate school and play in the graduate school leagues. At least that's what such greats as Keith Sedlacek, Bob Inman, Leo Scully, and Frank Martin have done...
...describe the "guilty" was stern, but usually stopped short of hysterical. Furthermore, from the point of view of the victims, there was in most cases the possibility of "rehabilitation"--not Soviet style in which rehabilitation was posthumous, but rather the familiar Maoist style in which the accused would fade from the public scene for a few years and then emerge again with a new position of importance (though usually less important than previously). Finally, as is well known, the CCP has infrequently used the weapon of the purge among the top elite, as witnessed by the fact that from...
...newest psychedelic store, The Infinite Mind, which is barely a month old. Proprietor Eldon Taylor, 25, insists that The Infinite Mind is "really just a toy shop for teen-agers," but he provides the ideal station from which to start a trip. Light boxes around the walls blink and fade and oscillate, floodlights of red, blue, yellow and green flicker on a paisley-patterned tapestry while the sounds of the Beatles or Ravi Shankar boom from strategically located loudspeakers...
...what a Rock! As a Canadian officer on duty with Britain's Desert Rats he nurtures a virile stubble and seldom lets his baritone betray emotion, whether he is spraying the Germans with his flamethrower or trading insults with a grain-of-Sandhurst major (Nigel Green). From first fade-in to final fadeout, Rock more than lives up to his name...
Once these people leave their jobs, they fade out of what he calls the "public sector" of life. Many of their friends are dead. Most of the time they are alone. Convinced that community service is a pastime for the educated or the rich dilettante, these people take little interest in volunteer projects, Putnam says...