Word: salina
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Peeling in public for pay is a venerable occupation, but in the old sexist order the clothes came off a woman and the cheers came up from an audience ol men. But today at the Sugar Shack in Lake Geneva, Wis., or at the Red Pussycat in Salina, Kans., or the El Matador in Odebolt, Iowa, the women are watching and the men are bumping and grinding...
...particular tribe of chauvinists that New York has always bred could only observe that if relative cleanliness and efficiency were Doublet's criteria, then perhaps he would prefer Salina, Kans., or Salt Lake City. Still, if it is true that the world's great cities-ancient Rome or 19th century London, for example-have always been paradoxically noisome and even dangerous places, many New Yorkers could do with a little less greatness...
GORDON E. MAXWELL, M.D. Salina, Kans...
Afterward, some K-State students expressed resentment at the role they had felt obliged to play. Said Rowan Conrad, a graduate student: "This was a pep rally. We've been used. He came here and staged us." Donna Diehl, a junior from Salina, Kans., almost apologized: "I disapproved of the hecklers. They were dumb and weren't accomplishing anything. I found myself clapping just to show them that I didn't approve." Obviously, however, much of the cheering was an uncomplicated endorsement of the President and his message...
Then after dinner Phil Currier, a former Peace Corpsman in Borneo, once president of the Salina High student council, took the speaker's stand with an urgent yet soft-spoken speech about pollution, ecology, cities, racism and the war: "If you feel as I do, then sign a letter to President Nixon from the class of '60" protesting the war. Some of his classmates applauded respectfully. More than a few muttered "That son of a bitch!" Before the evening was over, Jerry Brewster, a former Marine helicopter pilot in Viet Nam, was circulating a counter-petition headed...