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There is hope for the hirsute, however. Evangelist Billy Graham, in New York City for a crusade at Shea Stadium, fingered his collar-length silver-blond curls and gave his blessing to the Age of Aquarius. "I don't object to long hair in any way," he insists. "I have nothing but love for those who wear it." Today Billy Graham, tomorrow the world...
...from Wichita, Kans. "Why, I never heard of such a thing." The general audience is indeed something to stretch Anglo-Saxon and North European credulity. It is a religious occasion presided over by the spiritual leader of 600 million Catholics; yet at times it resembles nothing so much as Shea Stadium on banner night, with overtones of the Christmas show at Radio City Music Hall, the National Spelling Bee and the state fair...
...like to suggest that there is the possibility of taking direct action against the war and against the draft while remaining within the bounds of the law. The Shea bill is now Massachusetts law and it states quite explicitly that no inhabitant of the Commonwealth who is in the military forces shall he required to serve outside the territorial limits of the United States in hostilities not initially authorized or subsequently ratified by a formal declaration of war. In other words it is against the law at this time to force any Massachusetts man to fight in Vietnam or Laos...
...backed up by the pressure of public opinion. Men who are 1-A and their families should request the State Selective Service System to suspend operations until such time as the Federal government can guarantee that each Massachusetts man in the armed forces will receive the protection of the Shea bill...
Died. H. James Shea Jr., 30, Massachusetts Democratic state legislator who sponsored the bill under which state residents may refuse to fight abroad in undeclared wars, thereby setting up a possible constitutional test of the Viet Nam War; of a single gunshot wound in the head by his own hand (.38 cal. revolver); in Newton, Mass...