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...School in Winnetka, Ill. "Parents can't conceive of it until it hits them in the face." When it does hit them, they scarcely know what to do. For, unlike sex and alcohol, drugs played no part in their own rites of passage. Wails one anguished Manhattan mother: "None of us knows anything about it. It's so new." One Detroit moth er turned her daughter in to the police, because "I was scared." All too fre quently, blind rage is the response. One San Francisco father beat his boy for 45 minutes after finding marijuana...
...seemed on the brink of endorsing McCarthy. California Democratic Boss Jesse Unruh, whose delegation owns 174 votes, appeared likely to back him. Unruh hopes to run for Governor in 1970 and needs to win friends in the California party's liberal wing. McCarthy was also encouraged because virtually none of the delegates previously pledged to Robert Kennedy moved to back McGovern, who pinned his hopes on rallying the R.F.K. dissidents...
...other airlines were launching bright new advertising campaigns, decided to throw its $18 million-a-year account up for grabs. Eight top agencies, including Foote, Cone & fielding, TWA's shop since 1956, spent months of work and more than $1,000,000 to land the business. The winner? None other than Foote, Cone, which won the day with a campaign built around TWA's current "Up, up and away" theme...
...explains that the book is "more fact than fiction." That is just as well, since Pearson's fiction is pretty lifeless, even ranked with the this-is-how-it-really-is political novel. Pearson has the advantage when it comes to describing the intricacies of congressional maneuver. Still, none of the acts of avarice or ambition in the novel are half so convincing-or so appalling-as the real-life instances set forth in The Case Against Congress...
...Finding the airstrip (in Biafra), that's a problem sometimes," McGuire says. Biafra's sole airstrip is a hard-top road slightly widened by cutting away at the jungle on both sides. It is lit by two rows of lights, none of them very strong. The outboard engines of the four-engine Constellations hang out over the brush, which, if it fouls the engines, means an abrupt end to the flight...