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...rain stops. From the top of the stands, where it is less damp, this congregation is a crusade with hundreds of pennants strewn in the glowering breeze. The button sellers offer their indulgences. Their most popular model is the "March Against Racism" sold to defray the organizers' costs. It is in the same black and green color scheme as their banners and has a logo with six white, eight black, six polka dotted, and a few incomplete heads. If costs a dollar. There are also two black button models. One is a $.2 bargain, the other is larger and more...
...Johnson declared a war on poverty; the Kennedys thrilled over the technological gadgetry of crisis situation rooms that made macho solutions more tempt ing. The public has come to demand outsize Presidents, and then to be disappointed with them. Think of it: this man might have to press the button - though for nearly 30 years no one has pressed the button. Summit meetings have been dramatized as if the drawn-out process of wary reconciliation can be achieved only by one particular, indispensable President...
...Administration or through ad hoc measures. One example: the increase in mail subsidies approved by Congress two weeks ago to help some ailing airlines deal with hard times. In a recent editorial, the Wall Street Journal charged that the idea of an RFC revival was "sillier than a WIN button" because it would only increase the Government borrowing that has helped put companies in a capital squeeze. Economist Henry Kaufman, a partner of Salomon Bros., a Wall Street brokerage house, argues that federal billions could best be used to finance projects offering a long-term return to the nation: developing...
...made graceless by O'Neill's wooden dialogue. But Arvin Brown's staging has a rich visual impact reminiscent of Fellini. A dwarf of a maid scuttles around the dinner table, which is dominated by a jolly drunken uncle (John Braden) sucking on lobster shells. Button-nosed Spinster Teresa Wright alternately gig gles and blushes in a new dress while Geraldine Fitzgerald presides as super-mother, projecting the presence of a queen, whatever the state of her court's dishevelment...
...Wilbur Mills (D-Ark.) accepts a position as chairman of Boston's new Combat Zone Development Authority. Sporting a hair transplant and a WIN button, Mills unveils a new program for light-traffic hours, modeled after the MTA's highly successful Dime Time. "With unemployment at 12 per cent, not everyone can afford our usual rates," Mills says. "That's why we need the Buck Fuck...