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Whatever patience he lacks on the soapbox, Lewontin makes up for in the laboratory. Academic critics and supporters acknowledge his professional competence--something radicals always need a little more of to be tenured, in order to compensate for their political beliefs. And politics is an integral part of his scientific theories. Lewontin believes the acceptance of many racial and genetic theories by scientists reflects, in part, their own elitist and racial prejudices...
...Jimmy says he was invited to buy into L'Express because it needs both cash and pizazz. Servan-Schreiber, 53, had used his magazine as an ideological soapbox for President Valery Giscard d'Estaing -whose centrist political strategy was badly mauled in last month's local elections (TIME, March 28). Largely because of the magazine's predictable politics and occasional drabness, some readers have shifted to a sprightly, aggressive rival, Le Point. While L 'Express still sells .twice as many copies as Le Point, circulation has slumped by some accounts from...
Four Boxes. Still, the two movements found more than enough to agree upon. One keynote speaker suggested that America's freedoms rest on four "boxes": the soapbox, the jury box, the ballot box and, most important, the cartridge box. The platform opposed drugs, gun control, busing, welfare, ERA, Washington, the United Nations and Communism, and endorsed police enforcement, America First and the family...
...borrowed 8-mm. camera and young men and women willing to copulate on screen for a few dollars a day. In due course he and his younger brother Artie made it big with Behind the Green Door (cost: $45,000; their gross: about $1 million), starring the ex-Ivory Soapbox Girl Marilyn Chambers. Now incorporated as the Mitchell Brothers Film Group, they are potentates of porn, operators of ten theaters in California and producers of the most expensive porn film ever, the $500,000 Sodom and Gomorrah...
...weeks end, Balsam said his petition had already received nearly 300 signatures, and that "things will really begin happening" next week. Meanwhile, Holcombe says, he will continue to plot his strategy and, in his words, "find myself a soapbox and holler...