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...Cincinnati students played their ribald roles with enormous style and verve, coping with the 17th century music as if it were as familiar as La Boheme. Set Designer Paul Shortt's floating clouds, silver rain and heavenly chariots were magically effective. The double Diana switched her sex with dazzling ease, garnering great applause from Cincinnati's sophisticates-and some rather hysterical giggles from startled youngsters who came unprepared for a lesbian love duet. "R.T.J...
Medina's opinion virtually commands Judge McLean to enjoin the reclassification of Demonstrators Shortt and Wolff, provided they can meet the federal-law requirement and prove injury of more than $10,000. The effect is to bar the draft as a weapon against dissent. It is, of course, still a crime to evade the draft, Medina explained. But the First Amendment forbids draft boards to "punish these students by reclassifying them 1-A because they protested as they did over the Government's involvement in Viet...
...faced six-footers, strictly disciplined, heads closely cropped, attended by twelve pants-pressers, twelve shoeshine boys, two full-time tailors, and bevies of shy, eye-batting Japanese girls. Yet Airman Wheeler, a rebellious sort who did not like his job anyway, disregarded the orders of his superior, Lieut. William Shortt, to get his hair "clipped close from ear to crown, with only a fringe on top of the head"-a haircut variously known as a white sidewall, an Apache, a chrome-dome...
Friendly Sock. Lieut. Shortt pleaded, even offered to pay for the haircut (25?). At length Wheeler consented, went off to Tokyo, returned-unshorn. He explained gravely to Shortt that he had only visited a hospital ("I am thinking of being circumcised-as a health measure"). He had also stopped off at a brothel...
Next step is to find a drug that will kill the parasites in the liver before they have time to erupt into the bloodstream. Dr. Shortt, 61, is willing to leave that detail to the chemists; he has an idea about African sleeping sickness that he wants to get right to work...