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...housewives alongside gentle, earnest students and older radicals. That was not true last week for the third round of Moratorium observances. In too many cities across the nation, the day belonged to a new breed of hard-eyed youth-Brownshirts of radicalism drawn from the streets, many of only high-school age. The keynote was sounded by the Chicago Seven's Tom Hayden, who told a San Fernando Valley State College audience: "We turned out over a million people for the Moratorium last fall, and the Establishment's response was to congratulate us because there was no violence...
...would have been closer to the Weathermen's days of rage in Chicago.) The other significant fact of what happened here was the make-up of the crowd. In Washington, the demonstrators had been Weathermen, their allied groups and close followers. Here, the ranks included younger teen-agers (the high-school revolutionaries all those books are being written about), many non-students, teeny-bopper girls, and ghetto blacks. Weathermen, NAC people and the like were present, but in the minority...
Many of the marchers were high-school students and street people from communities around Boston like Fall River, Lowell, Dedham. NAC members had been organizing them during the winter. These were kids who had no trouble regarding cops as the enemy, who had no reticence about fighting and breaking windows. Abbie Hoffman had asked at the big rally at the Common, "How many here are going to rock the cradle and how many are going to cradle that rock?" These kids were ready...
...survey also reported that the highest proprortion of births to women married less than eight months was among women with only one to three years of high-school education...
Both sons of auto mechanics, Reds and Dino are high-school dropouts who long ago learned to hustle in the streets of Washington, D.C. Two years ago, they were snorting or shooting heroin, snatching purses and breaking into parked cars. They gave up drugs and street crime when they discovered the New Thing, founded by Colin ("Topper") Carew, 27, a former Boston gang leader who will soon earn a bachelor's degree from Yale. Financed mainly by foundation grants, the New Thing is, according to Carew, "a black arts high school in Washington for kids who have rejected public...