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...difficult--what with people surging hither and yon in their daily occupations, the assaults of the shoe-shine boys, the little league, the baby carriage brigade and the woman shoppers; the subterranean rumble of the subway, the distant cacophony of bells, the mingled shouts of children and clash of pin-ball machines. Saddened (perhaps by the morning's news or the "No Loitering" sign), Harold sometimes sits at the corner table by the window and counts green book bags passing by or reads Kafka or sublimates with secretaries on their way to work...
...Jordan meets other Phoenix Islanders, she begins to feel that only the sun, sea and sand qualify as neither phony nor vicious. There is a Beat Generation bop-talker who tries to soft-sell Jordan on a cool love affair. There is a native Neanderthal man who tries to pin Jordan to the floorboards of the half-built ginmill in which he hopes to mulct the summer trade. There are assorted homosexuals, spivish repairmen and alcoholics-unanimous from TV, ad alley and publishers' row. The crisis on which the plot slowly turns is whether the Neanderthal man will complete...
...Goldwater. California's Bill Knowland. New Hampshire's Styles Bridges and other right-wing Republicans. With the McClellan committee's sordid revelations still vivid in the public mind, argued Goldwater & Co., it was good election-year politics to assault the Kennedy-Ives bill and try to pin a soft-on-labor rap on the Democrats. Decided Dwight Eisenhower: "Let's fight." Said Goldwater: "It's the only political issue we have...
...Menace. General Humberto Delgado's old friends in the government now view him as "slightly mad" and "over-ambitious." Salazar's National Union Party, unable to pin the Communist label on a career officer, has instead called Delgado "a public menace...
Thinner than usual but dressed to the usual hilt (a ring on every finger, gold pins in the lapels of his blue-grey suit, a jeweled pin in his red-speckled tie), octogenarian Negro Cultist Father Divine made one of his rare appearances to supervise a vittles-laden Feast of the Lamb, celebrating the twelfth anniversary of his marriage to his blonde "Virgin Bride," Edna Rose Ritchings, 33. While red-jacketed "Rosebuds" sang "All the Angels Love You, You Are So Beautiful, Lord," fading Father Divine jangled a silver bell to start a typical meal at his Philadelphia headquarters...