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...house" was the old Hearst Mansion--huge, beautiful and filled with smiling young people. What kind of family is this? I said to myself. Everyone was friendly, talkative, young and beautiful. We ate a great meal, sang some folk songs, and then someone announced that there would be a "lecture" to explain the principles that bind the family together. Again my mind was speeding--could this be a political group? Religious? Drug commune? No, no, I told myself, stop being so doubtful, keep an open mind...
When I got back to the city I called my friend Buster, who thought I'd vanished for two weeks. I told him to pick me up (I was at the Hearst house again) and not ask any questions. In twenty minutes he drove up in his V.W. and a meek, frightened sinner crawled into the front seat. I tried to explain my story to him but I was undergoing culture shock and was virtually incomprehensible. When we went out with his friends later I winced at four letter words and sexual allusions, couldn't converse sensibly, and was basically...
When we went into the city the next day I ran into Moon people all over. They were all so friendly, so warm, and I was being tempted back to the farm. They made Buster and me promise to come to dinner at the Hearst House that evening. I was weak and confused; Buster was wise. He put me on the next bus heading east
Trod Softly. The family's caution was understandable. "The S.L.A. was reading the Examiner as the voice of the Hearsts, and Patty's life hung in the balance," says William Randolph Hearst III, 26, her cousin and an Examiner reporter. For that reason, the morning Chronicle, with which the Examiner shares printing facilities, also trod softly at first, sitting for days on an exclusive by Reporter Tim Findley identifying the S.L.A. leaders by name. Findley later quit in disgust. Other energetic Examiner newcomers, hired in a drive to help restore long-lost prestige and sinking circulation (TIME...
...funny thing happened on the way to the debut. Patty Hearst surfaced. "This is the kind of newsbreak we want on the show," crowed a staffer, but ABC failed to hustle her parents on camera. Instead, Arledge had to make do with Howard being joshed, on tape, by Senators Edward Kennedy and Lowell Weicker. Monday-morning quarterbacks will have their greatest field day with Howard's uncharacteristic tension. "Our show will have a different feel with Howard," Arledge had boasted. But alas, even Cosell's talent for sardonic invective was dulled. Obviously reading from cue cards, he made...