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...ring and I hear the bell." The bell finally sounded in Atlanta, a city that one member of the black-and-white group of promoters described as "too busy to hate." In sanctioning the bout, Mayor Sam Massell termed it a "demonstration of democracy." Georgia Governor Lester Maddox called it a travesty. Said he: "I hope he gets beat in the first round by the count of 30." Unable to block the bout legally, Maddox proclaimed a day of mourning...
Episcopal minister S. Lester Ralph, recently elected mayor of Somerville, told me that he felt that clergymen politicians were an untapped source for relatively "dispassionate" political service. He felt that the public would find the nationally emerging new breed acceptable because there is no danger of a church takeover of the civil order, the church being "so clearly in retreat" in society...
...Lester Gordon, Director of DAS, Gustav Papanek, former DAS director, and John Thomas, a Development Advisor, met with the students to explain that the reports were "privileged material" which were "kept confidential because of the interest in frank and free internal communications...
...will present demands for immediate declassification of DAS field reports and for termination of all DAS activities to Lester Gordon, director...
...falls back on photographer Laszlo Kovacs' repertoire of American scenic vistas to punctuate scenes-a device that seems intended, for whatever reasons, to invite comparisons with Easy Rider. Occasionally, Rafelson cuts to moments back and forth in time; this invites comparisons to another, thematically similar American film, Richard Lester's Petulia -comparisons which Five Easy Pieces courts to its own detriment...