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...Group Game. It is all in the name of kicks. "The adult world," says Marty Balin, 23, lead singer for San Francisco's most popular rock 'n' roll group, the Jefferson Airplane, "pays us all this money to play at their political benefits and society parties, and then we throw out this jargon and watch them be revoked. That's kicks." The Jefferson Air plane flies on weekends at a discotheque in Fillmore Auditorium, where projectors flash quivering, amoeba-like patterns on the walls to induce the dancers "to take a 'trip...
Brother Jeff. Cool it was. In Grenada (pop. 7,914), a white supremacist stronghold that hitherto had been thought to be too tough for civil rights workers to crack, the Governor's dic tum received its clearest vindication. "We want Brother Jefferson Davis to know that the South he represented will never rise again," proclaimed Robert Green, 32, a march leader, as he stood astride the Davis memorial in the town square. "We want Mississippi to know that it is a part of the Union. We want white folks to know we have died for the flag too." With...
Journalists who assess the Truman presidency tend to be emphatic and categorical. This new attempt, by a veteran Washington correspondent for the New York Times, is dedicated to the proposition that Harry Truman was one of the great Presidents, an exclusive company which Phillips otherwise limits to Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, both Roosevelts, Wilson and Lyndon B. Johnson. But that is only Phillips' proposition. He does not prove it; in fact, for all his desperate trying, Phillips does not convince even himself...
...Pennsylvania and New Jersey have launched ambitious programs for urban parks. California encourages communities to organize local mental-health facilities, now has centers in half its counties. But by far the most important role for the states under the new federalism is to serve, in the words of Thomas Jefferson, as "the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns." Washington may provide the cash and the broad concept, but after that it is the states' job to fashion effective programs in such critical areas as welfare, housing, air and water pollution and commuter transit...
...local despotisms as the Dallas County sheriffdom of Jim Clark, the nationally televised heavy of the Selma march last year, and to settle old scores against the likes of Al Lingo, the onetime state police chief who was humiliatingly beaten in his primary bid to become the sheriff of Jefferson County (Birmingham...