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...think the Grenoble Office of Aged Persons has the right idea. I should know, for I am myself a senior citizen and work as a VISTA volunteer among the elderly in two large segregated housing complexes in this city...
...Ranch. Lady Bird spends much of her time in her comfortable apartment atop the L.B.J. broadcast building overlooking Austin and an endless green vista of plains stretching beyond the city. But home continues to be the L.B.J. Ranch, which still seems filled with Lyndon's presence. There are the three television sets he used to watch the news; the worn lounge chair big enough to accommodate his great frame; the bentwood rockers on the front porch where he and Lady Bird used to watch twilight settle over the river; and a needlepoint pillow inscribed: "This is my ranch...
Like his mother, Peter Reich repeatedly emphasizes that he is unqualified to judge the validity of his father's work. But he does share his father's idealism and social conscience. Peter has been a VISTA volunteer in Oregon, and worked with drug addicts in Boston for a while. He has been a journalist on Staten Island, N.Y., and, with two friends, even tried to start a daily newspaper in Manhattan. His book took six drafts and endless soul searches. "My father was afraid that his wives and children would write books about him, and they...
...commune of several hundred Jesus people in Saugus, Calif., escaped from a marathon ten-day grilling. Her mother, brother and stepfather captured her after a Sunday service at the Alamo commune and drove her 150 miles to what Patti calls "a grim, middle-class motel" in Chul'a Vista, Calif. Ted Patrick, whom she describes as a "softspoken middle-aged man who didn't look like he'd hurt anyone," first took her Bible away from her and then sent in five to ten deprogrammers at a time to work on her. "They told...
Many members of Ted Patrick's network see the Jesus sects not only as heretical but Communistic as well. William Rambur, of Chula Vista, a retired Navy lieutenant commander and a Roman Catholic whose own daughter is still with the Children of God after three attempts on his part to "rescue" her, says: "I can't come out and say they are affiliated with any known Communist organization, but their methods, teachings and way of life would indicate a Communist organization in some form. They follow that pattern of mindcontrol and taking over youth. They talk about...