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...radicalized. Draft cards and American flags went up in smoke. The Spring Mobilization to End the War in Viet Nam brought together hundreds of thousands of protesters in San Francisco and New York. Dow Chemical's recruiters were driven off campus. Ahead for the movement lay Woodstock, Chicago, Kent State, the Days of Rage...
...years later, the children's revolution of the '60s comes straggling back, startling to recognize in the summer of 1977. As if they had been flash-frozen in 1970, demonstrators at Kent State have been trying to prevent construction of a gym near the spot where four students died. Sometimes the '60s reappear as a waxworks item of nostalgia: four young men each night take the stage of Manhattan's Winter Garden to impersonate the Beatles of long ago. Or else a splendid fable of arrogance brought low: those who warned "Never trust anyone over...
...wound in American society has been painfully reopened. The scene: Ohio's Kent State University, where National Guardsmen killed four students and injured nine others during an antiwar protest seven years ago. Last week about 100 activists stepped up their demonstrations against the ground breaking for a $6 million gymnasium annex to be built only 40 to 60 yards from the area where the shootings took place. Said one protester: "This site should not be desecrated...
...work with Songwriters Ron Nagle and Scot Matthews on a number that "would accommodate my feelings about this kind of 'pull-the-wool-over-the-eyes-of-the-public journalism.' " As for the rest of the Superman album, what can Barbra say? Only this: "Clark Kent, eat your heart...
...Kent Lanahan of Villanova, Pa. In 1949, at 19, he was standing on the running board of a car when it swerved into a utility pole. The crash crushed the young man's skull, broke his collarbone and punctured a lung. He was in a coma with a 107° fever and high pulse when doctors decided to cease treatment. A neighbor lent the parents a piece of Neumann's cassock. Soon after they touched Kent with the cloth he began to recover. Now a music teacher, Kent Lanahan says, "They couldn't explain what happened...