Word: peps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LIKE an old coach delivering his half-time pep talk, President Richard Nixon gathered his team round the table in the Cabinet Room last week to reassure them that the 1970 election was no worse than a tie-and that what counts is what happens two years hence, in 1972. The Nixon players came in two platoons: first the Cabinet members and then some 30 top-echelon White House aides. With Daughter Tricia seated beside him, Nixon spent nearly an hour laying down his analysis of the returns. His conclusion: "The election, ideologically, was enormously successful...
Even for the most liberated of women, a man sometimes comes in handy. Actress Jane Fonda's handyman last week was Lawyer-Author Mark Lane (Rush to Judgment), who flew from New York to Cleveland to spring Jane from jail. Charged with importing some 2,000 tranquilizers and pep pills from Canada and roughing up a cop and a customs agent to boot, Jane, 32, said of her overnight stay in stir: "When you think that the best people in this country are now in jail, I didn't mind it at all." For Dewi Sukarno, 30, widow...
Whenever Kataoka spots a fine specimen, he not only takes pictures but gives a pep talk as well. "Let's build more scarecrows," he tells bemused farmers. "Yours is great, but you could improve next year by adding a little more color here and a little more shape there...
...school systems where the use of various forms of "ability grouping," an increasingly debatable educational tool, has resulted in segregated classrooms. In some desegregated schools, blacks are kept out of extracurricular activities and forced to ride segregated buses. In Huntsville. Ala., 113 blacks walked out of a high school pep rally to protest the playing of Dixie, and a fight with white students ensued. The school board suspended the blacks for "leaving school without permission." One black eighth-grader in Louisiana was suspended for saying "Yes" to a white teacher instead...
Ohio Congressman Donald "Buzz" Lukens spoke briefly, warming up the audience for Goldwater with revival meeting sincerity and pep-rally enthusiasm. "When a super-lib gives you the peace sign, don't blow you high: give it back. For years that sign stood for victory." The athletic looking young politician held up two fingers-"Just give it back and say, 'With a little bit of freedom, brother.'" Talking about demonstrators outside, Lukens told the Yaffers, "The reason they come tonight is that we're getting stronger. We're more than a nuisance, we're a legitimate threat to the bases...