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Bailing the Boat. Presenting a gold medal to Teacher of the Year Mona Dayton in the Cabinet Room, Johnson expressed his delight in escaping for the nonce from "battles and soldiers and the bitterness of war," praised the Tucson first-grade teacher for having "taken the great outdoors as her classroom and the great desert as her desk." At an Agriculture Department ceremony honoring cost-cutting employees, Skipper Johnson likened the Administration's campaign against waste to "bailing a boat - you have to keep at it; there is no time to rest." Mockingly, he scolded the Agriculture...
...were Eros, whose chef-d'oeuvre in the disputed edition was a color portfolio of a white woman and Negro man, both naked, in multiple embraces; Liaison, a sex-front "newsletter" that was a compendium of sex jokes; and The Housewife's Handbook on Selective Promiscuity, a Tucson woman's clinical account of her increased pleasure with unconventional sex techniques...
...girl, Alleen Rowe, 15, as wantonly as he had once smashed a pet cat against a wall. Even so, if one of Smitty's pals, fearing that his own girl friend was next in line for liquidation, had not finally told the police all about his homicidal hero, Tucson might never have caught up with its budding Bluebeard...
Indeed, the city's police were not overly concerned when Mrs. Norma Rowe told them that Alleen had disappeared in May 1964, or even when Dr. James Fritz, a prominent heart surgeon, came in to report his two daughters missing in August 1965. In Tucson, a boom town with an unusually high proportion of transient residents, more than 50 runaway minors are reported each month. Propelled by the same aimless itch, unrestrained by permissive parents, hundreds of teenagers haunt the Speedway. They were easy bait for Smitty, who was older, more sophisticated and, as they said admiringly, "different...
...Problem. What went on in the swinging fringe of teen-age Tucson was all too clearly documented in the course of Schmid's two-week trial for the murders of Gretchen and Wendy Fritz. Juvenile authorities pointed out that many parents either did not care what their children were up to or else hesitated to check on their activities for fear of inhibiting them. The advent of birth control pills has tranquilized the fear of pregnancy among young girls who have no moral reservations about sexual activity. "What are parents and what is the community doing to fill...