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"You see this stuff written all over," he added. "Word. like 'make
love not war' and that funny round symbol with the rocket shaped
thing inside. It's just a way of bugging your superiors."
(New York Post,
April 4, 1969.) Contributed by Seymour Britchtky,
New York, New York.
"In another case, a nine-year-old boy engaged in exploratory sexual
activity with an eight-year-old girl on a play lot. The girl's mother
later complained to the police who recorded the offense as 'assault with
intent to ravish.'''
(Christian Science Monitor,
March 31, 1969.) Contributed by Wayne
Douglas, Gainesville, Florida.
"The Beatles, and their mimicking rock-and-rollers, use the Pavlovian
techniques to produce artificial neuroses in our young people. Extensive
experiments in hypnosis and rhythm have shown how rock and roll
music leads to a destruction of the normal inhibitory mechanism of the
cerebral cortex and permits easy acceptance of immorality and disregard
of all moral norms." - Rep. James B. Utt (Rep-Calif.)
(San Francisco Chronicle,
March 30, 1969.) Contributed by Ralph D.
Miller, San Francisco, California.
"A Labor Member of Parliament, Emanuel Shinwell, asked today
in
the House of Commons for assurance that in any future talks with
which the British Government are associated, it must
be
clearly under–
stood that no Arab from any of the Arab countries will
be
allowed to
interfere with the underpants of a British soldier."
(New York Times,
February 18, 1969.) Contributed by Bernard S.
Morris, Bloomington, Indiana.
[TJhe Duchess of Windsor [i]n an article for McCall's ... opined that
there's a danger of over-emphasizing sex. "It is so much discussed and
advertised," she said, "that it's like hearing about a household product.
Since most household products are associated with drudgery, isn't it
barely possible that our young people will eventually look upon sex as
drudgery and go out of their way to avoid it?"
(The Boston Globe,
April 5, 1969.) Contributed by Mrs. Davis Herron,
Milton,
Massachusetts.
