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...Phoenix. The Rev. Gavin Griffith, 31, ran his poverty war college with the strategic aim of simply stirring the conscience of his students. Some of the outsiders shed their uniforms (ties and suits), strolled the streets on the wrong side of the Southern Pacific railroad tracks, where rickety houses lean against each other, and whiffed the foul breath of penury. Nine businessmen rode with cops as they checked vagrants in "the Deuce," a neighborhood of filthy flophouses. Some men mingled with drunks along the downtown Tenderloin skid row. Several housewives spent a day just sitting in the Greyhound bus terminal...
...Hampshire (26): Gene has 20 pledged votes; 6 others lean to H.H.H...
NINE weeks before the Democratic Convention in Chicago, Vice President Hubert Humphrey is in easy reach of a first ballot victory. 341 delegates are already committed to Humphrey and 995½ lean toward him but could conceivably turn elsewhere. Needed to nominate: 1,312. Senator Eugene McCarthy's 322½ committed votes are augmented by a mere 105½ votes leaning in his direction. The remaining 857½ votes could flow either way. They include 338 votes for favorite sons who could declare for Humphrey even before the first ballot. The probable first-ballot roll call of delegates...
Kansas (38): Bound by the unit rule, all lean to Humphrey...
...course, there are no seats. Instead, spectators can perch on random, wooden-towered scaffoldings with platforms, unless they prefer to sit on the floor or lean against a wall. The cast is casually unclothed. The men are dressed, as it were, in black jockstraps. The women are braless beneath their shirts, and on some nights topless, if they are in a mood to improvise. The cast begins speaking in tongues, but English is the least of them. The program says that the play is "somewhat like Euripides' The Bacchae," but no one is likely to recognize it. Anyway, thought...