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...admitted, then pushed to one side--as the boy says, "I sort of forgot it." In fact he does not forget it, nor does she, but if they are to get to know each other, they must pretend that they do. They develop injokes between themselves, as a safer way to experiment with intimacy. And they find new words for feelings that are too embarrassing to call by their real names, or whose names are hollow: "Hell," says the girl near the end of the play, "I love everybody. You I like...
...shouted, an 18-year-old Mississippian newly arrived in New York and identified by police only as "Larry," was simply trying to help Weiner by scaring away the gang. Later Lar ry said bitterly: "I'm scared of my life up here in New York. It's safer in Mississippi." In any event, his ruse worked and the gang fled. A dozen of them were arrested afterward and charged with crimes ranging from malicious mis chief to assault and robbery...
...handful of daredevil stoppeurs have developed their own system; the hiker slaps the side of a moving car, then quickly falls down. The driver screeches to a stop and out of fear and sympathy lakes the traveler aboard, or so survivors report. A commoner, and safer, technique is to spot the license of an oncoming car and whip out a national flag to match...
...Angeles' Dr. Harland Apfel has tried six homotransplants (person to person), and all have failed. But he has done 350 autotransplants (with the patients' own teeth), and 97% are now successful. Homotransplants of teeth, with long-term success, will have to await the finding of safer and more effective drugs or new techniques to check the rejection process...
...Mississippi also use reason of "slaughter" and "racial clash" to justify leaving the state in the hands of the White Citizens Council and the Negro population to its usual state of maleducation, harassment, and deprivation. But we do not intend to take what undoubtedly would be this "safer" course, and leave matters as they are; despite these real risks, we are going ahead with the project in the hopes that the majority of white Americans of whom Mr. Lerner speaks may realize its responsibilities to the subjected minority. Mrs. Dorothy Zeliner Mrs. Peggy Day New England Representatives SNCC...