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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...State Teachers College sophomore. All belonged to the Minutemen, a hyper-patriotic organization whose members covertly train themselves in guerrilla warfare against the day when a Communist coup takes over the U.S. Not content to wait for the revolution, the Sunday warriors aimed last week to destroy three rustic, rundown camps that at one time or another had been used for left-wing or pacifist meetings...
...Bravo for delivering the goods in your story on American fashion designers [Sept. 9], except for an astonishing omission. Any roster of our designing Establishment without Donald Brooks is like a rundown of ranking painters that bypasses Bonnard...
Goaded by criticism of his urban programs, Johnson announced on his tour further plans to establish neighborhood centers to serve slum dwellers, directed that the number of storefront legal offices in rundown areas be increased to protect tenants from rapacious landlords, and called for the creation of a commission to undertake the first broad review of municipal codes, zones and taxation since 1931. All this -and much more that is needed-will cost money, and Lyndon Johnson may be indulging in just a little bit of rain dancing to make city dwellers feel better. This time, though, some rain...
Almost without exception, other Austin newsmen had also done well. Ten minutes after the first report, the afternoon Statesman had seven reporters on the University of Texas campus, put an issue on the streets by 2:45 with a full rundown from start to Whitman's finish. Next day the Statesman's morning partner, the American, devoted five pages to the story...
...while not yet middleaged, she found herself drifting into the crisis of purposelessness that afflicts many women in their middle years: "I lost sight of myself as a woman, as an actress-even in my friendships I was neglectful. I knew I wasn't functioning well. I became rundown physically. When you have the responsibility of a husband and children, you also have a responsibility to yourself. If you neglect yourself, you actually are neglecting them. It's unfair...