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What Toffler calls "a fire storm of change" leaves in its wake "all sorts of curious social flora-from psychedelic churches and 'free universities' to science cities in the Arctic and wife-swap clubs in California." With Yeatsian gloom, he adds: "It breeds odd personalities, too: children who at twelve are no longer childlike; adults who at 50 are children of twelve. There are anarchists who, beneath their dirty denim shirts, are outrageous conformists, and conformists who, beneath their button-down collars, are outrageous anarchists. There are married priests and atheist ministers and Jewish Zen Buddhists. We have...
...teachers off the job and one-third of its 650,000 students out of class, was called despite an earlier board offer of a 5% wage hike. The striking teachers insisted that the students must profit too. But the school board is reluctant to make the swap without hearing from those who stayed on the job and thus did not vote on the raise. The teachers' selflessness, though, may have impressed Californians, who will vote June 2 on a statewide referendum calling for a minimum boost of $350 million in state aid to public schools...
Reporters are stirring collectively at other U.S. papers, most notably at the New York Times. More than 30 Times staffers, including top reporters and critics, gathered privately one recent Sunday afternoon to discuss morale and swap complaints. Managing Editor A.M. Rosenthal says that no formal committee exists, and he has received no demands. But smaller meetings are continuing, and some approach to management is in the offing. One likely pitch: that the Times editors are out of touch with some groups, particularly students and blacks, and that their judgment about stories about those groups is sometimes uninformed. As a result...
...press corps as "our political section." He is only half kidding. Like reconnaissance patrols, newsmen head out each day to where they guess the Communists and the action are. On their return,* they file their stories and then sit down by the pool at the Hotel Royal to swap information over citron presses. Officials of the U.S. and Soviet embassies drop in regularly...
...Racks for sale dresses are stripped clean. Two women tugging on a Dior dress tear its seams. Caught in crush, one elderly lady faints and is hurried off to first aid. Survivors scurry off to corners, sort through dresses, throwing rejects on floor. They swap sizes with one another and exchange telephone numbers for later bartering. Mrs. Conroy: "You've got to hold your dresses tightly; otherwise some of those old squaws will sneak up behind you and snitch a few of them...