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...after graduation, had two children, got divorced, earned a teaching degree and moved to Shreveport, La., a city that she finds "much more conservative than Salina and very bigoted." She is still "cute as a button," as an old counselor at S.H.S. says. Rita Joyce has also grown startlingly outspoken in her opposition to the war in Viet...
...months now, the lady's outspoken statements have been conspicuously missing from the press-in obedience, no doubt, to an injunction from U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell. Henceforth, he has decreed, if his wife Martha must speak out in public, it must be in Swahili. But what husband has ever silenced his wife? Administering the oath of office to the new president of the American Newspaper Women's Club in Washington last week, Martha spoke in near-faultless Swahili: "Je unaaba kwa kweli kwemba ueazhwga . . ."*Ruled the Attorney General, who was present: "The oath in Swahili is perfectly...
Quackery Racket. Medical authorities generally are hostile. The Arthritis Foundation considers promotion of copper bracelets as an arthritis cure "part of the arthritis quackery racket that annually grosses upward of $400 million a year in the U.S." Los Angeles Orthopedic Expert Dr. Robert Kerlan is an outspoken opponent of the bracelet boom. "It's asinine, ridiculous and of no value whatsoever," he says, and warns that the bracelet may actually be harmful "in that it keeps a wearer from getting proper diagnosis." He admits only that "it might be a good thing for the dermatologists, though-all those wrists...
...most outspoken faith in Mrs. Brown has been voiced by Sir Donald Tovey, one of England's most respected musicologists. Asked by Philips to write a liner note for Mrs. Brown's record, Sir Donald bluntly declared that the composers are real: "It is the implications relevant to this phenomenon that we hope will stimulate sensible and sensitive interest and stir many who are intelligent and impartial to consider and explore the unknown of man's mind and psyche." Sir Donald dictated his liner notes to Rosemary Brown on January 1, 1970; he died...
That decision was not likely to be final. There are outspoken dissenters among the regents themselves. Said Fred Dutton, a liberal regent, of the majority decision. "The Angela Davis charade is a con game to mislead the people of this state." Moreover, a majority of students and faculty members has lined up on Angela's side. U.C.L.A.'s academic senate, composed solely of faculty members, expressing "our shock, our dismay, our rage," voted to defy the regents by taking steps to keep Miss Davis on the faculty...