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Some of the more conspiratorial amateur speculation about the kidnaping has turned on Steve Weed and is based on rumored and exaggerated reports about his own radical connections. They are more modish than real. The son of a stockbroker in nearby Palo Alto, Weed was graduated from Princeton with a degree in philosophy and physics in 1969; he was captain of the track team and was mildly active in the antiwar movement. True, he was friendly with several members of the university's loosely
...Community Welcome Bureau." They were young-most of them still in their teens-many of them wearing sweatshirts labeled with such slogans as I FEEL FREE!, SONO TUO FRATELLO! (I am your brother) and DIESES JAHR TAIZE (This year, Taizé). The youngsters had not come for some modish Jesus rock festival. The goal of this growing annual pilgrimage is the country monastery of Taizé, where 70 monks live simply in the service...
Dapper in his modish suit, his silver hair carefully coiffed, Garner Ted Armstrong looked out from the television screen last week and talked to his nationwide audience about their eyes liquefying, their bodies vaporizing and their cities vanishing in a nuclear holocaust. The "end times," he warned, were near. Garner Ted and his father, Herbert W. Armstrong, are the watchful guardians of Pasadena's Worldwide Church of God, a clannish, bizarre, 40-year-old sect (TIME, May 15, 1972) that has made the end times something of a stock in trade. Now it appears that Founder Herbert and Heir...
Alvin's old-school brand of charm is a welcome change from the modish mustachio of Dick Williams. He spent a lot of time under Leo Durocher for the Giants, and emerged in his own right as a manager for "Frisco in 1962-64. He took over Finley's Kansas City Athletics in 1966 and broke with Charles in 1968, whereupon he flew to the Indians. Alvin never got along that well with management, and GM Gabe Paul ousted him in 1970. He reminds me a lot of Hank Bauer, the crusty if effective skipper...
...Williams-Longet team beat Merv Griffin and Sandra Giles, a Riggs playmate). The 80-piece red-coated University of Houston Cougar band blared such anomalous songs as Jesus Christ, Superstar while comely majorettes did a Rockettes routine out front. Even Umpire Jerome Morton got into the act, wearing a modish gray velvet tuxedo and red ruffled shirt that the U.S.L.T.A. would surely never sanction...