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...dwindling of Boston's hippie population, evident after the riots on the Common, before the summer season should have ended. Right now, in the fall, people still gather outside on the Charles St. sidewalks to talk and sell, but the winter will come soon, and the hippies will largely vanish. You wonder if they will come back...
...With the increasing intensity of the War in Vietnam," the Times reported in 1967, "Fortas is consulted more and more on foreign policy. As one of Johnson's closest friends, Fortas's instinct for making the wheels turn did not vanish when he donned the robe...
Much police frustration would vanish overnight if salaries rose by 50%-to what many union plumbers make. Police brains would sharpen immensely if every department in the country stopped requiring even the best-educated rookies to start out as foot patrolmen. Instead, the police ought to ease archaic seniority and allow college graduates to start as management trainees. Equally important, police duties should be drastically reduced and refined. Certainly, police should not be responsible for carting drunks to jail-one-third of all arrests. A good case could be made for putting traffic control in the hands of some other...
Moscow is facing up to family problems. Russia's rulers have never quite been able to decide what role the family should play in their master plan for the ideal state. Marx defined the family as "antiquated" and predicted that it would vanish along with capitalism; the Bolshevik coup in 1917 thus brought casual mating and divorce, and a brief fling at free love. The man who stopped it was that formidable patriarch Joseph Stalin, who proclaimed that the family was "the basic cell of society" and put himself on the side of old-fashioned peasant virtue. But even...
...fact is that many designers and their clients are getting a bit bored with the bikini. Ann Cole, of Cole of California, notes that bikinis used to account for some 45% of bathing-suit sales, but now have only about 20% of the market. "The bikini will never vanish entirely," she predicts, "but it can't be bikini year in and year out." Tom Brigance, who has created more bathing suits over the years than anyone else in the business, complains: "There is very little a designer can do with a bikini. It's like plucking an eyebrow...