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...Highway 80,400 yards beyond the bridge, was a phalanx of 60 state cops, headed by Colonel Al Lingo, an old crony of George Wallace's and a segregationist of the Governor's own stripe. The troopers stood three-deep across all four lanes of the highway. They wore dark blue shirts, sky-blue hard hats, carried billy clubs, sidearms and gas masks. On the sidelines were Sheriff Clark's possemen, both on horseback and afoot, ready, willing and eager for trouble...
...people are at the bridge over the Alabama River; they have to walk double file. A group of state troopers, plus white people, plus Sheriff Clark and his posse, plus Al Lingo, head of the state highway patrol, are on the other side of the bridge...
...Boston will protest police brutality in Selma, and demand immediate federal intervention there. The civil rights groups want federal action to take two forms: protective measures for Selma's Negroes, and prompt arrests of Sheriff Jim Clark, and the director of Alabama's Department of Public Safety, Colonel Al Lingo...
...cockney Casanova, Alfie leaves behind him a trail of broken hearts and gravid wombs. If worse comes to worst, Alfie is game to arrange an abortion, though not quite up to paying for it. In the lost lingo of yesteryear, Alfie is a bit of a cad, and it might follow from this that he is repellent. Quite the contrary. Terence Stamp plays him with enormously ingratiating charm, zest and skill. More important, Playwright Naughton has netted a real character, and reality exonerates itself in the theater, turning moralizing attitudes into carping ghosts at a feast...
Many so-called educational toys are mediocre gadgets whose makers hope to cash in on the wave of interest in early childhood education. Others-typically scale models-are too detailed, or "structured," in the lingo of child psychologists, which cramps a young child's imagination. "Parents who succumb to the charms of these toys are fulfilling their own frustrated needs," says Chicago Psychoanalyst Ner Littner. Another kind of toy is truly educational but hardly new. Psychologists call them "miniature people" and say that children need them "to recreate the world around them." That's the hard...