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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agree with all you say except that I think you're wrong about European attitudes. The cult of the young is inanely proliferate all over the Continent and Britain. There are TV programs in which the main idea is to focus the camera on young faces; people adore them just because they're so beautifully young...
Left to Die. Around 11 a.m., Whitman boldly breezed into a parking spot reserved for university officials, near the main administration and library building at the base of the tower. Dressed in tennis sneakers, blue jeans and a pale polo shirt, he wheeled the loaded dolly toward an elevator, gave passersby the impression that he was a maintenance man. The elevator stops at the 27th floor; Whitman lugged his bizarre cargo up three flights of steps to the 30th floor. There, at a desk next to the glass-paneled door that opens onto the observation deck, he encountered Receptionist Edna...
Directing his fire west, Whitman found shop-lined Guadalupe Street, the main thoroughfare off campus?known locally as "The Drag"?astir with shoppers and strollers. Paul Sonntag, 18, lifeguard at an Austin pool and grandson of Paul Bolton, longtime friend of Lyndon Johnson and news editor of the Johnsons' Austin television station, was accompanying Claudia Rutt, 18, for a polio shot she needed before entering Texas Christian University. Claudia suddenly sank to the ground. Paul bent over her, then pitched to the sidewalk himself. Both were dead. A block north, Political Scientist Harry Walchuk, 39, a father...
...firearms has been left largely to cities and states, which have built a crazy quilt of laws, few of them stringent. Until New Jersey enacted a new gun statute last week, no state (and only Philadelphia among U.S. cities) required police permits for buying, keeping, or even roaming Main Street with a shotgun or rifle. Only seven states and a handful of municipalities require permits for handguns...
Revolutionary Meals. The call to take on expanded tasks was not limited to the army. While the main job of workers remains in industry, Mao has called on them to study military affairs, culture and, whenever possible, engage in agricultural production. Though the peasants' main task remains farming, they too should study military affairs, politics and culture and, if possible, "collectively run small plants." In addition to being a teacher, the army can engage in farming and "run some small or medium-size factories...