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...hour that the march was to begin drew near, the picnic-like atmosphere began to fade and people congregated around banners or famous anti-war personalities. Many of the more militant groups--including contingents from the Communist Party, Progressive Labor, a group of NLF sympathizers, and Students for a Democratic Society--moved toward the head of the Reflecting Pool so that they could be close to the front of the parade. Ironically, they ended up in what had been the segment of the march designated for "religious groups." The tactics-were clear. The militants had heard that authorities planned...
...space program, research and development in all fields (which now amounts to $17 billion), and such frills as highway beautification. Last week Wisconsin's John Byrnes, senior Republican on Ways and Means, got a call from the Interior Department informing him of a $2,000 grant for picnic facilities in his district. "That's only one of thousands," fumed Byrnes. "It's a nice thing, but it can be postponed...
...blocks way from the Boston City Club, on the fifth floor of an office building in the quiet, elegant Back Bay, quiet young women moved smartly about Kevin White's headquarters, where smiling workers crayoned the ward-by-ward returns on a wall-sized chart. Unlike Mrs. Hicks' picnic-like celebration, where there was plenty of liquor and no charts, White's headquarters were marked by an exuberant but businesslike atmosphere. Returns from each precinct were carefully tabulated; charts showing the relative strength of each candidate in each important city district were being set-up and studied. There...
...friend and foe alike. SUPERZAP THEM ALL WITH LOVE! prOclaims a sign in Los Angeles' Sans Souci Temple, a hippie commune. Manhattan hippies whose skulls were zapped by police billies during a Memorial Day "bein" in New York's East Village are now trying to arrange a picnic for the cops' kids, as well as a Mantovani record concert for the officers them selves. Charges against the hippies were dismissed last week by Criminal Court Judge Herman Weinkrantz, who said: "This court will not deny the equal protection of the law to the unwashed, unshod, unkempt...
Sons of a West Point Army major who died on a Japanese P.O.W. ship, the brothers were raised in Redondo Beach, Calif. "Tommy was the biggest bunch of trouble," recalls Mother Smothers. "He used to get Dickie and Sherry, their younger sister, to take picnic baskets to the cemetery and eat off the tombstones." At San Jose State College, they were the rage of the Phi Kappa house, and eventually they graduated to a local college hangout, where they were paid off in peanuts and beer. Their twisted versions of folk classics ("Black is the colour of my love...