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...Midwest was driving, flying or hitchhiking to Lake Michigan. Boats were passing under the Manistee River bridge at the rate of 13 a min ute. Anything that would float was in the water, from rowboats, canoes and sailboats on up to a 50-ft. deep-sea fish ing boat, Mitchell, up from the Ba hamas. Said Fisherman Bob Hurtel: "If there was one boat out there, there were 5,000. You could almost walk across the water on them...
Some McCarthy dropouts strike a wistful note. Says Nobel Prizewinning Biochemist Arthur Kornberg of Stan ford, who had never worked in politics before the McCarthy campaign: "I thought I could make some contribution, but it is very disappointing to have the business-as-usual people tak ing over." McCarthy's celebrity corner is largely in despair. Actor Walter Matthau calls the Humphrey-Nixon face-off "a choice between strychnine and arsenic." Paul Newman, one of McCarthy's busiest advocates at the convention, promises "a month of serious drinking" before he decides whether to support Humphrey actively, though...
...launch into their wail ing finale, My Generation ("I hope I die before I get old"), strange things do begin to happen. Clunk! Lead Singer Roger Daltrey flings the microphone to the floor, wheels around and begins flailing at the drums played by Keith Moon. Crack! Peter Townshend breaks his guitar against the stage, jumps on it, then splinters it against a speaker cabinet. Crash! John Entwistle heaves his bass away and joins the others in a savage orgy of kicking and pushing at the loudspeakers, the drums and the mike stand...
...Evening News recently, he observed that people go to the Indianapolis 500 to see not a sport but "a blood event embodying the two principal characteristics of our time: swiftness and violence." In another report, he berated San Franciscans for back ing a bond issue to build a new sports stadium instead of channeling the money into public housing and job opportunities. On the day of Robert Kennedy's death, he refused to report the baseball scores on his nightly New York newscast. He explained: "When people view outlet, escape and entertainment...
...Opry is a big favorite in the penitentiary circuit. "We bring the prisoners a ray of sunshine in their dun geon," he says, "and they're not ashamed to respond." Furthermore, "they feel I'm one of their own." That is because Cash, lean and tough look ing at 36, sings with granite conviction and mordant wit about sadness, pain, loneliness and hard luck. Though he is not an ex-con himself, his empathy with jailbirds is a natural extension of the at titude expressed in his songs, that life both in and out of prison...