Word: writings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...difficult to understand how you can write of "Detroit's success with the instrument" when we have never even had any experience with it. It is also difficult to comprehend how you can quote a "Detroit police official" as saying, "With six men carrying the sticks, we can penetrate 50 men and bust up their formation and come back out," when, in fact, the weapon has never been used in any crowd-control situation in Detroit or by Detroit police officers...
Some other counter-sex methods were offered last week by London Columnist Angela Ince. Writing in the Evening News, she advised wives of Russia-bound businessmen to "1) Insist that he take an extra vest [undershirt] and his tummy pills with him; a man in a vest eating digestion tablets is as morally safe as a man can be. 2) See that he packs no fewer than four pictures of you, taken ten years ago in a bikini and a bad light. Write across them 'Counting the seconds till you get back, Darling' in purple...
Zolar, a New York astrologer, does not write a newspaper column but profits amply from every other form of astrological activity. A former clothing salesman named Bruce King, he turned to astrology during the Depression, when he learned that a certain Professor Seward had amassed a fortune peddling horoscopes on the Atlantic City boardwalk. Now 72, he supervises the distribution of more than 50 zodiacal and occult items and books all over the world. Zolar horoscopes range from $200 for a personal one down to $25 for a stock-market forecast in a plain envelope (ten choices...
...among the first actors to adopt Afro-style hair and dress. "It's just entertainment. Every time you set out to say something significant on TV, it gets chopped down. I don't say 'Hey, man, this is what's happening, baby; you gotta write it this way.' I'm just a lowly actor doing his job." Cole, whose first leading role was on the show, agrees: "If we can have a little soul scene among ourselves that can generate a little understanding, that's fine. But we're not trying...
...that her critics have to take her seriously-and she is unlikely to give them a rest. In December, Margaret Mead officially retires from her job at the museum, but she will keep her office there, install a new hall on the "Peoples of the Pacific" and continue to write. She is helping to organize the social science division for Fordham University's new Lincoln Center college and plans to keep on making trips to the South Pacific...