Word: mischiefism
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Marigolds & Mischief. Main targets of last week's demos were federal induction centers. In San Francisco, a crowd of 800, ranging from hippies and clerics to an actively nursing mother gathered in a nippy Bay wind for an "offertory" service. Only 87 filed forward to place their draft cards in a silver bowl for mailing to Washington...
Cincinnati's antiwarriors conducted their draft drama with a bit more panache. Sporting marigolds and sparking mischief, a group of 50-mostly students from nearby Antioch College-gathered in front of the main post office to protest the impending induction of James R. Wessner, 22, grandson-in-law of Cleveland Industrialist and Russophile Cyrus Eaton. Wessner was clad in a black Halloween "death" costume and toted a scythe-a grim tableau that found an almost exact duplicate in Des Moines. Nine young men turned in their draft cards in Cincinnati, after dipping them in a cup full of blood...
Triumph of Mischief-Making. By any logic, devaluation could have been expected to better Britain's chances of entering the Common Market, since that was one of the conditions made by France and the Common Market Commission. But Charles de Gaulle, far from trying to create a prosperous Europe that would include Britain, seemed more bent on mischief. De Gaulle's machinations, charged no less an authority than Robert V. Roosa, former U.S. Treasury Under Secretary, began a month ago when the French President caught the scent of approaching trouble for the pound. Hoping to demonstrate that Britain...
...been bothered before," explains McMahon. "They don't dare sleep in their houses any more. They sleep in the fields." His favorite story is of the Viet Cong who came back to his hut at dawn with his rifle slung over his back, whistling at the mischief he had done that night, only to find a reception committee of Prews waiting...
...people remember them: nicely brushed long hair, dark suits, faces like sassy choirboys. The other four Beatles are very much alive: thin, hippie-looking, mustachioed, bedecked in bright, bizarre uniforms. Though their expressions seem subdued, their eyes glint with a new awareness tinged with a little of the old mischief. As for the grave in the foreground: it has THE BEATLES spelled out in flowers trimmed with marijuana plants...