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...owner of the new curler set plugs it into an electrical outlet and, in less time than it takes to fry ham and eggs, the plastic rollers (each containing a secret slow-cooling liquid) warm up. When the red dots on top of the curlers turn black, they are ready to be lifted off their individual rods and deployed. Without water, lotions or gels, dry hair can be curled around the hot rollers for five to ten minutes to achieve anything from a soft flip to Shirley Temple curls...
...demonstrated against the war at sit-ins or last October's Pentagon march, but even those happenings were, in the end, frustrating. "It looked more and more as if the physical types of protest-picketing and marching and all that-were having no effect except as an emotional outlet," said Jon Barbieri, 23, a Connecticut-educated Peace Corpsman who came back from India and soon entered McCarthy's campaign. Said Dan Dodd, 23, a tall, tweedy Oregonian who dropped out of Union Theological Seminary to join Gene: "I was thinking of turning in my draft card, but then...
...idea for the counseling service was proposed three weeks ago by the Reverend Theodore Evans. The group hopes, Evans said, that the chaplains' council would be "one more small outlet for students, other than the University Health Services, or any other advisory organization...
Rather than abandon such a marvelous aggression-outlet--especially as it was well-established around Boston,--the Harvard team declined Yale's invitation to join the new Intercollegiate Association. Harvard's dramatic decision secured the continued existence of rugby-style football in America and led in time to the development of the modern game...
...fault," however, may be of less value here than that of "intent" or "objective," in the sense that for many persons some of the time, and for some persons most of the time, driving is a form of aggression. It is a socially approved, or at least provided, outlet for violent behavior. Some years ago, the British novelist L.P. Hartley envisioned a future world in which public automobile accidents were staged much as the ancient Romans once held gladiatorial games. Certainly the constant broadcasting of the "holiday death toll" over festivals such as Christmas has had something of this quality...