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...Perkins, were rushed back to the U.S. immediately to see their mothers, who were critically ill. By midweek, the rest began flying home. The welcomes were short and emotional. At Virginia's Norfolk Naval Air Station, a crowd of several hundred people sang God Bless America! and Onward, Christian Soldiers as they waited in the wet night for Denton, Galanti and Navy Captain James A. Mulligan. "Hi, everybody," said Mulligan. "There's something great about kids waving American flags...
...mutters the ex-prisoner. Abandoning his pepup and soy derivative, he pushes onward to a record store. His favorites have quite literally passed on. Judy Garland, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix-all killed by various ODs. The Beatles? Fragmented. The unheard of Woodstock? While he was gone it was born, matured, grew senile and became a comic epitaph on an old emotion. Some stalwarts remain here too: Streisand, Elvis Presley, Joan Baez, The Stones. But who are the Partridge Family? Cheech and Chong? Dr. Hook and The Medicine Show...
...demonstrators who joined in increasingly militant antiwar actions from 1965 onward were only a portion of this number. Other Americans stayed at home in Dayton and Indianapolis, but doubts clawed at their idealized version of their nation and its government...
...nation is just beginning to collect its wits after the last campaigns, but the pollsters, always looking onward and upward, have already zeroed in on 1976. Two days after the election Louis Harris produced a trial heat that showed Ted Kennedy running ahead of Spiro Agnew in the presidential sweepstakes 51% to 43%. The pollsters, like journalists, are just doing their job of course, but presidential campaigns are already too long. It is a bit depressing to begin them four years in advance...
...FATHER More old parties, though not quite so ancient, take the stage in William Douglas Home's latest play. The title comes from an inane ditty dear to generations past: "Lloyd George knew my father/ My father knew Lloyd George," sung, ad infinitum, to the tune of Onward Christian Soldiers. This play features a potty old retired general (Ralph Richardson), whose thought processes seem to have stopped around World War I, and his spry-spirited wife (Peggy Ashcroft). She is resisting progress in another way by making calm, matter-of-fact preparations to commit suicide if the government bulldozes...