Word: personals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Person Is Not Safe." City officials issued some of the sternest warnings in the nation's history against violent behavior. New York's Mayor John Lindsay promised to shake up police assignments so that, within a year, 40% more men would be walking beats (instead of riding desks). "We'll whack away at crime with every damn thing we've got," said Lindsay. Meanwhile, a county grand jury in Nashville urged that the death penalty and heavy prison sentences be imposed to halt "the avalanche of crime and arson that has come upon us," and suggested...
...wants to outlaw them under the clause in the Bonn constitution that bans anti-democratic parties. But Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger and most of his Christian Democrats would rather get at the National Democrats through a change in the electoral laws. At present, Germans vote for a party, not a person, and seats in the Bundestag are allocated according to the percentage of the national vote won by each of the parties. Kiesinger wants to change to the Anglo-American system, in which a voter in a constituency casts his ballot for one candidate and the candidate who gets the most...
...then hey I looked in the mirror and I said, 'Hey yeah. They're right.' Khyem-muh. Rudolf Nureyev can't look like I look. You know like I guess you could say I got a unique face. I mean the only person who's got a face that even comes close to mine is Margaret Rutherford. That's my idol." Cheetah also uncovered the "first great mass producer of LSD," a University of Virginia drop-out named Augustus Owsley Stanley III. Operating in a way that might have made a financial success...
...garbage please change it. Maurice." Requests can also be quite sweeping: "Dear holy God: Would you make it so there would not be any more wars? And so everyone could vote. Also every body should have a lot of fun. Nancy." Still other letters demand moral support for quite personal problems. "Dear God, Do you let your children stay up for Get Smart. I have to know. Linda." Several of the small fry pose questions that defy convincing theological answers: "Dear God, Charles my cat got run over. And if you made it happen you have to tell...
...wounds. In fact, many seemed to gain strength from their awareness of the historical significance of their roles. Acts of courage by ordinary people were common. Coles could find no definite correlation between certain psychological types and civil rights activists. Rather, he feels that it was some interaction between person and situation that determined what form behavior took. What raises Coles's book far above the level of an interesting series of case studies is the warmth of tone, the freedom from specialist jargon and the understanding of differences. Although he is a strong supporter of civil rights, Coles...