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...also asked if she had made any trips outside California for the purpose of planning a riot or demonstration. Several questions concerned the demonstrations which occurred at the University of California at Los Angeles following the sentencing of the Chicago 7. The Grand Jury is officially investigating an alleged Weathermen plot to purchase explosives in Tucson and transport them to California. But none of the questions Volpin was asked had any direct relation to such a plot...
Panthers, the S.D.S., Weathermen, Jordanian and Algerian guerrillas, Puerto Ricans and Mexicans who can't shoot straight, longhairs, hippies, Joe Namath, Robert Kennedy, Negro agents, Martin Luther King, Princeton professors and student demonstrators...
...made explosive gestures that largely alienated them from the sizable force of the nonviolent disaffected. A graffito observed at the University of Wisconsin: RADICALS ARE NOTHING MORE THAN EXCITED MORALISTS. Nine of the 16 portraits on the FBI's expanded Most Wanted List were those of political radicals. The Weathermen were in hiding. Angela Davis was captured at a Howard Johnson's motel in Manhattan. Many leaders of the Black Panthers were on trial, in Algerian exile ?or dead. Anger remained, but it became reflective or confused. Celebrants of Woodstock became the survivors of Altamont, the California rock festival...
Chicago's changeable weather poses other problems. Mrs. Terri D'Ancone, for example, lounges abed mornings until Husband Alfie returns from walking the family poodle and brings a firsthand, down-to-earth weather report. Other tenants rely on radio weathermen or phone for a taped rundown. The height itself worries few tenants; no acrophobe would ever think of moving in. Curtains are not really necessary, although residents use them simply to produce a sense of intimacy or to screen out the early-morning sun. One female tenant, flinging open her curtains one morning before donning a robe, confronted...
...warmth and joy to all the Weathermen...