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...sexually interested in her. She began to attack teachers and friends verbally, dropped out of school and attempted to hang herself. In other cases, a 24-year-old came to believe he was the first member of a new superrace, a 20-year-old thought he was a Ku Klux Klan potentate in charge of the Mafia, and a 17-year-old decided he was the Messiah returned to earth. In each case, Kolansky and Moore theorize, pot disrupted the patient's view of reality so that the ego had to "develop a delusional system to restore...
...voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 the first time around, changed his mind and voted for the final version, and was reelected. He was assigned to the House Un-American Activities Committee and then startled its members by calling for an investigation of the Ku Klux Klan...
...colleagues: "There are two kinds of people in the world-winners and losers. I knew a loser once and he was a queer." ("That's a joke," he added.) On another occasion he told newsmen in a background briefing that he did not mind if there were Ku Klux Klansmen on the Mississippi desegregation advisory committee. Asked by a reporter if he could print that remark. Mardian nodded: "Yes-if you print that we've got N.A.A.C.P. officials on the committee as well. We need to get people together who don't talk to each other...
Such punishment dates to the twelfth century, when miscreant Crusaders serving under Richard Coeur de Lion were doused with hot pitch and then feathered. It has since been associated with America's Ku Klux Klan, but the fact is that the I.R.A. routinely used it through the 1930s. Disturbed by the rising crime in Falls Road, where the predominantly Protestant police force rarely dares to tread, the I.R.A. decided to revive the punishment for lawbreakers. So did a more militant "provisional" faction of the underground army, which sprang up during the 1969 rioting throughout Northern Ireland...
...clerical garb at the typewriter, he wrote an outspoken column for the Houston Post. Reaction was angry. Twenty-three Houston priests denounced his preconvention column as irresponsible troublemaking. Black radicals within the church were so offended by Kinsolving's attacks (he has compared black caucuses to the Ku Klux Klan) that...