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...Richmond's High on Gold--and the title speaks for itself--is a swansong from the heart that seems to have taken rather a long time getting to the mouth. Five years in the composing is slightly ridiculous, given the product. Given the timing, it's a little pathetic--like a guest who arrives when the party is over, strewing confetti over an empty room and playing Cassandra after the fact...
NEVERTHELESS, the portrait is only too true. Despite his sometimes sentimental attitude towards the Aquarian paradise and his simplistic account of its corruption by the media, Richmond has drawn a life-sized and realistic picture: His protagonists are not "hippies." They are individuals, children of the bourgeoisie, living entirely for the very stoned present. Young, confused, vulnerable, and tragically in love with the idea of a spontaneous revolution, they live out a morality of egoism to which even the petty cruelty of schoolchildren is preferable. There at least is a coherent ethics, compared to which Richmond's counterculture...
...last, some G.O.P. county committeemen gagged at having the Wagner candidacy rammed down their throats. New York County (Manhattan) committeemen swallowed passively, but Kings (Brooklyn) refused to submit. So did Richmond (Staten Island). In rowdy Saturday sessions, however, Queens and The Bronx gave their support to Wagner. Rocky and Rose had won, but not overwhelmingly. Still, it was only the first inning of the game, and Wagner had yet to say firmly that he would play ball...
Last year employees of Virginia Electric and Power Co. hand-carried 2,000,000 bills to customers in Richmond and other cities, at a cost per piece that was well below the price of an 8? stamp. Other companies are turning to New York-based United Parcel Service, whose familiar dark brown vans delivered 700 million packages last year in 43 states. The company's 1971 profit rose 71% to $59.8 million. But the newest competitors to the USPS are entrepreneurs who are setting up private post offices to deliver advertising circulars, and other third-or fourth-class mail...
...Marcy Richmond, one of the women fighting for a varsity slot, said that the matches were set up "haphazardly," and seemed to "limit the opportunities of the other girls...