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...Maryellen Fleming, 28, is a seven-year veteran of political causes, especially women's rights in Cincinnati, where she is an officer of the local chapter of the National Organization of Women. She was elected as an Ohio delegate in May. She takes the McGovern phenomenon calmly, seeing it neither as a vindication of "the system" or its last chance to accomplish good. "The system," she says, "will be around for a long time. It's a dynamic, always changing thing. What's happening now is that the McGovern people have made the changes...
...Charles Manson "family," but now and again other grisly items in the news reveal the breed. In New York this spring, police were searching for possible Devil worshipers in a grave-robbery incident. In Miami last summer, a 22-year-old woman Satanist killed a 62-year-old friend, stabbing him 46 times. Convicted of manslaughter, she drew a seven-year sentence, thanked Satan for her light penalty, and said that she had "enjoyed" the killing. In April she escaped from prison, and has not been recaptured...
...Annapolis. Ullrich fashioned a Plebe eight that captured the Sprint freshman championship in 1970. From it, he built a comparatively light varsity that snuck past Harvard and Penn last spring, then rebounded from a defeat in the morning trials at Lake Quinsigamond to win the Spring title, breaking a seven-year Harvard monopoly...
...Frenchmen, though, missed the implications of the first national referendum conducted since Georges Pompidou succeeded Charles de Gaulle as President of the Fifth Republic. In view of France's seven-year presidential term, occasional popular votes are desirable to infuse a measure of excitement into the body politic-and, perhaps, to demonstrate the viability of the President's mandate. De Gaulle himself called for five referendums during his term of office, resigning after the fifth when the voters surprisingly rejected a program for government reform on which De Gaulle had demanded a vote of confidence...
Connections were Niven's genius. They led him to Hollywood in 1934, found him room and board with Loretta Young's mother, they got him a seven-year contract with Sam Goldwyn-as well as a chance to play polo with Darryl Zanuck even before he had a speaking part...