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...regimen Plimpton was in no hurry to establish was that of marriage. When he finally took the plunge-"a tremendous leap into a swimming pool of cold water," as he describes it-he almost forgot to tell the bride, who "really was," she admits, "among the last to know." Though the license had been acquired days in advance, the actual decision was not made until the morning of the wedding day itself. "He had been agonizing for a long time," explains Freddy, 29, who is blonde, green-eyed and a "knockout," in the dispassionate appraisal of one of George...
...John Kennedy once asked him in the White House if he would like to be President for a day. "Sure," Plimpton answered. "What day?" "The 29th of February," Kennedy replied. Richard Nixon had better watch out. Plimpton is not likely to forget that there is such a thing as leap year-and that the 29th of February comes again in 1972. · Gerald Clarke
...territory." And Laura X (she has abandoned her surname) says: "The pill is the final pollution, the exact analogue of DDT, of gadget-trapping you into functions, not organic wholes. Men have become no more human since its advent: according to many young women who have made that unenviable leap from private property to public property, they treat women worse than ever...
Despite its drawbacks, the report is still a significant leap forward from the somewhat coy "beautification" slogan espoused by the Johnson Administration. It is not without its innovative moments. It recommends, for example, that a single river basin be set aside for study of advanced concepts in water-quality management. The report also advocates a national policy to preserve existing energy resources and develop new ones over a long-term period...
Pipe and Slippers. For if it has not already happened at your house, braless converts to the Women's Liberation Movement are poised to leap right off the panels of the TV talk shows and play hell with your pipe and slippers. Sooner or later they will probably be armed with a copy of Kate Millett's Sexual Politics. Despite placards and slogans, revolutions need theoretical touchstones, dialectics to subdue the opposition. In this regard, Sexual Politics will have its uses. Without making explicit comparisons with other contemporary movements, Millett attempts to place Women...