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...realistic picture: His protagonists are not "hippies." They are individuals, children of the bourgeoisie, living entirely for the very stoned present. Young, confused, vulnerable, and tragically in love with the idea of a spontaneous revolution, they live out a morality of egoism to which even the petty cruelty of schoolchildren is preferable. There at least is a coherent ethics, compared to which Richmond's counterculture is a veritable jungle. The sexism is vicious, the community is haphazard, and the allegiance is nil. Still the author insists on romanticizing the squalor, to the extent where any of its exposure begins...
Fully 15% of Omaha's 70,000 schoolchildren were on the drugs until doctors spread a warning that indiscriminate use could be dangerous. In Scituate, R.I., one doctor told a mother that her unruly second-grader did not need drugs, but "to please the school, why don't you give him them anyway?" She wisely refused-but many parents have not. Dr. Eric Denhoff, an early researcher in the field, estimates that at least half of the 6,000 children on amphetamines in Rhode Island should not be. In Seattle, one researcher found several children taking the drugs...
...Force hospital at Clark, hitherto devoted primarily to the treatment of Viet Nam War casualties, had been elaborately prepared, though in a carefully understated way. The hospital's corridors were lined with gaily colored Valentine's Day decorations and posters made by schoolchildren at the base: WELCOME HOME, WE LOVE YOU and DO YOU LAUGH INSIDE ALL OVER. The prisoners would be assigned to two-or four-man rooms, unless they require intensive care. The men would be treated as gently and gingerly as possible. The casual treatment had been planned by a battery of experts. Even former...
...Governor Daniel Walker had promised during his campaign to increase the state share of school costs from the present 35% to 50%; last week he predicted that it would take more than a year to push his plan through the legislature. Outside in the frozen parks, Chicago's schoolchildren went skating...
...Apparently anticipating a breakdown in the talks and a resumption of bombing by the U.S., Hanoi began evacuating the capital's schoolchildren to the countryside...