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...Johnson does in Washington. Some of the bonding people out of state have been wondering whether Vermont has suddenly gone crazy." So did Hoff. He immediately cut his ambitious legislative program by half and started preparing for his re-election campaign next year as if Vermont were its sane, Republican self again...
Organized by SANE (National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy), demonstrators and speakers argued that neither side has made any serious attempt to settle the war in Viet Nam, urged the U.S. to make the first move. By way of proving its good faith to Hanoi, they maintained, the Administration should immediately end the American buildup in the South and halt the bombing of North Viet Nam. Before marching around the White House, leaders of the demonstration-among them Old Socialist Norman Thomas, Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr., Pediatrician Benjamin Spock-expressed their opinions to White House Aide Chester Cooper...
...Protest leaders, who took pains to maintain order, posted more than 300 monitors to "persuade" leftist hangers-on to keep down their signs urging U.S. surrender and an immediate withdrawal from Viet Nam. To show that they, at least, were ready for negotiations any time the Communists were willing, SANE leaders capped the proceedings by sending a letter to North Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh (R.F.D. 1, Hanoi?) urging him to join the U.S. in efforts toward peace...
...typical night in Las Vegas. Otherwise sane people gambled away hundreds of thousands of dollars at the craps and roulette tables. Several thousand spectators stood around for hours while a priest and police coaxed a shot gun away from a 29-year-old man who was threatening suicide in the back seat of a taxi. On stage at the Sahara, Comedian Buddy Hackett talked for 56 minutes straight - partly about his boy hood bouts with pimples, caused by lack of sex. And at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Cassius Clay, alias Muhammad Ali, spat carefully on the floor while Eddie...
...kind of hope. These paradoxical discoveries at first surprised him; they did not fit the accepted conceptual scheme. Then he accepted what he saw and turned the investigation around. What started out as a study of the sick "subjects" became in part an investigation of the scientists, of "the sane people's" conceptions of childhood, education, and health, and of the psychiatric enterprise itself...