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Like most things lovely but unsubstantial, the annual Wellesley Junior Show is short-lived. It comes in a night and is gone in another. To see it is, if not quite pure pleasure (though it borders around 70%), something everyone should go through. You shouldn't knock someone else's religion, unless you've attended a service...
...Junior Show is in all its departments the sole property of the Wellesley Junior Class. This year's production, Freewheeling, was, as always, put together by a corps of committees headed by a Supreme Soviet known as the Cape Committee (Cod, not cloak, they write the show there a few weeks before the start of school), and chaired by Linda Muller...
...enjoyable, if not much more elegant, to watch the girl hopping around in the blanket who we are told is dodging the draft. And the audience's favorite in-joke was the placing of a towel under the knees of a girl lying down on an analytic couch. Apparently Wellesley, which takes nothing for granted in its students, requires a course called "Fundamentals of the Body Movement" in which towels under knees have a totemic importance...
...hands of an aggressive woman candidate who based her campaign on the same youth-v.-age attack that Martin had used to win his first election. Hennahaired Mrs. Margaret Heckler, 35, a pert, petite (5 ft. 21 in.) lawyer-housewife from Boston's upper-class suburb of Wellesley, tossed Martin's own 1924 quotes back at him with the comment: "If the country needed vigorous service in those years, certainly today it demands even greater vigor." Peggy Heckler's only previous political post has been her position since 1963 as the only woman-and the only Republican...
Dissenting justice Paul C. Reardon '32, who was recently elected a Harvard Overseer, joined by justice Paul G. Kirk '26, called the book "literary sewage." The two were bitterly critical of the majority for relying on the testimony of professors from Harvard, Wellesley, and M.I.T. and other experts who said the book had "literary significance...