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Bill Murphy and Bill Shrout turned in their usual outstanding performances, winning two firsts each. But some of the lesser known members of the team did just as much to keep the Crimson hopes alive throughout the meet...
Keeping up with the Review's growing militancy, Cartoonist David Levine has moved from rather whimsical sketches of literary figures to savage caricatures of President Johnson and other members of his Administration. Often, a bloated, supercomplacent L.B.J. is pictured providing nourishment for lesser creatures. In one instance, he is in bed with South Viet Nam Vice President Ky, who is sucking blood from his arm through a tube. In another, Johnson is cast as a crocodile suckling generals, industrialists and a computer...
That prospective performance compares with a 4% growth last year, which was the worst since the Common Market's first full year. Earlier this year, EEC experts predicted a slowdown of lesser proportions. The German recession, however, proved more durable than anticipated; despite recent frantic efforts to revive business, a fifth of Germany's industrial capacity stands idle. This year, the country's gross national product is expected to drop about...
Negroes, in some cases with white help, also showed new strength in lesser contests. In the racially mixed Richmond district, Dr. William Ferguson Reid became the first Negro elected to the Virginia legislature since 1891. Charles City County, Va., elected a Negro sheriff, James M. Bradby, and a county clerk, lona Adkins. Bradby defeated a white incumbent of 43 years' standing. In New Orleans, Attorney Ernest Morial won a seat in Louisiana's state legislature. In Mississippi, Holmes County's Robert Clarke was elected, thus integrating the state legislature, while six other Negroes won posts as county...
...last two aspects of his talent are most in evidence in The Trials of Brother Jero and The Strong Breed, though the two one-acters rank among his lesser plays. Brother Jero is a broad spoof of a religious humbug, a con man of prophecy who lives by mulcting his worshipers, or "customers," as he calls them in moments of absent-minded lucidity. He preys on their hopes, fears and vices, his own trial and joy being inveterate womanizing...