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...warm afternoons in Rome, Ga., Municipal Court Judge Gary Hamilton and his wife Virginia can be found on their screened porch, apparently dozing. It is not a compulsion to sleep that these and perhaps 600,000 other Americans have in common. It is TM, or Transcendental Meditation, a ritual that they practice almost religiously twice a day and every...
...checked for weapons, and walked into the gray stone building. Later that day, a band of 100 white youths rampaged down Monument Street, overturning three Volkswagens, and other angry whites beat up a black student at near by Bunker Hill College. Thus, in scenes that have become a fall ritual since the Supreme Court outlawed segregated schools in 1954, classes opened last week in the two cities that are the primary targets in this year's battle over busing. There were surprisingly few violent incidents, in part because of the massive show of strength by law authorities in both cities...
...Angeles courthouse during the trial, shaved her head to protest his conviction and gouged an X into her forehead as a sign of loyalty. She later explained: "We have Xed ourselves out of this world." Prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi wrote in his book Helter Skelter that the mutilations became a ritual for new members, "complete to tasting the blood as it ran down their faces...
There are signs that even local interest in such forays is lessening as the ritual has become so repetitive. Ford did not draw a full house at the American Legion convention in the Minneapolis Convention Center last month...
Ford is a creature of habit. He is doing what he did for 25 years as a Congressman. It is, some have suggested, what he does best. Before he entered the Oval Office he was away 200 nights in some years, giving forgettable speeches. The ritual has been elevated now that he is in the presidency, but its basic ingredients are the same. Is the risk worth it? The answer is the same as it was in Dallas−when the gun went off. The old political urge to stand before any audience in any part of this nation will...