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Desertions Up. An attempt has even been made to unionize the military. The American Serviceman's Union was founded at Fort Sill, Okla., in 1967 by Pvt. Andrew Stapp, who has since been discharged from the Army. The A.S.U. (total membership about 5,000) advocates a program that includes election of officers, an end to saluting, and recognition of the right to bargain collectively and disobey "illegal" orders...
Mirna didn't say anything when he brought the little plant into their apartment that summer. She just looked him in his twinkling eyes and let him know that she wasn't about to ask why he brought home a potted plant. He placed it on the window sill and gave it a little water. Each afternoon when he came home form work, he watered the plant. Toward the end of August, he removed the plant from the pot and put it in a wash tub. A week later Mirna said...
dearest, dearest, Soot on the sill...
...devise in the Kennedy Administration cannot control systematization. Liberal economics was the policy of "making everybody richer, directed from Washington." It distributed more fairly the output of technology, but could not limit productive efficiency for the sake of other values. "It's like putting a man on a window sill and asking him to fly," says Goodwin. "The old liberalism cannot establish communities; it can only build housing units. Liberals used to solving problems through centralization can't conceive of giving people more power in their lives...
...Manhattan discotheque, Arthur, are phonies. Narcotics agents regard hoked-up hairiness as an invaluable aid in infiltrating hippie drug circles, and servicemen feel an added hank of hair increases chances that the weekend pass will be completed. According to one mother, her son and all his friends at Fort Sill, Okla., have ordered mustaches and beards by mail...