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Producer-Director Kent Mackenzie spent a year interviewing the kids, then finally brought them together for a six-day session under the guidance of two doctors. The chosen youths come from every background, ghetto to suburbia, and from every kind of home. But as the session progresses, it becomes ap parent that they are bound together by a common sense of loss and uncertainty...
...KENT STATE, WHAT HAPPENED AND WHY by James Michener. 559 pages. Random House...
Scoggins came to Harvard from the wilds of Florida after a four-year preparatory experience at Kent School in Connecticut. He had been a star in football and crew and thought he'd like to play in Harvard Stadium. But Scoggins was drunk most of orientation week, giving the other football players a head start. Then he decided to go out for crew instead because he figured it'd be less demanding...
...protest time again in Washington. The portable latrines and first-aid stations will soon be hauled into place for the antiwar demonstrators, who, like the cherry blossoms, have become a regular feature of spring in the capital. Unlike last May, when the Cambodian invasion and the killings at Kent State and Jackson State heightened the tension between protesters and their targets, this year's preparations have been relatively amicable. March routes were quickly granted, and the old tactic of drawing a wagon train of protective buses around the White House has been scrapped as poor public relations, and because...
...Ralph Abernathy and Jane Fonda. Then the tactics escalate: May 3 and 4, Mayday demonstrators will attempt to choke off traffic on the highways leading to the Pentagon, stall cars at key intersections and bridges leading into the city. Finally, the anniversary of the killings at Kent State, May 5, is billed as "no business as usual day." In addition to the stall-ins and strike in Washington, Mayday organizers hope for a moratorium on campuses across the nation...