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...journal of great influence you can prod our leaders into a sense of greater responsibility...
...test, Hoffman took a day off from Eh? and arrived at the studio the next morning, he says, "feeling awful. And paranoiac. I was sure the crew was asking, 'Jesus Christ, where'd they get him?' Everything Nichols told me to do, I did wrong." At one point, to prod some life into a love scene, he grabbed Actress Katharine Ross's buttocks and yanked her toward him. "When it was finally over I apologized to Nichols and to Katharine," Hoffman lugubriously remembers. "As I was putting on my coat to leave, a New York subway token fell...
...guests sleep in cottages covered with bougainvillea and liana and surrounded by vegetation so dense that it is impossible to see from one cottage to the next. There are no radios at La Gazelle d'Or, no television sets; phones can be switched off, and the only prod to physical activity is a swimming pool-unheated. Compare that with the kind of activity available at the Club Mediterranee's 650-guest "vacation village," 45 miles away at Agadir on the Atlantic. "You name it, we do it," says Manageress Marcelle Fayt. "Sailing, riding, tennis, yoga, judo, camel riding...
...Nixon Administration could prod Americans into looking anew at crime by asking that federal law be brought into line with sociological and psychological thinking?not to mention the facts of life. It should also research better ways of handling such problems as drunkenness and drug addiction. Marijuana laws, in the eyes of many young people the worst example of hypocrisy and repression, should be reexamined, with more research provided on marijuana's long-term effects...
...Nixon and his executive staff can move ahead with legislation and the new Secretary of Defense prod and cajole his generals and admirals, the new Administration will go far toward its aim. A volunteer army might help ease racial tensions, perhaps by ending the imbalance that has blacks serving in the front lines at almost three times their proportion in the population and certainly by removing the arbitrariness of the draft that puts them there. The move would also eliminate the need to force men to go to war against their consciences, and end such other distortions as paying soldiers...