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...House speech on that subject, Powell declared that one Esther James, a Harlem Negro, had been "extorting money from gamblers for the purpose of transmitting this money to police officers.'' Later, in a TV interview, he called Mrs. James "a bagwoman for the police department." That seemingly pointless attack on one of his own race proved to be a costly blunder...
Parietal hours perpetuate the whole clumsy American system of dating: of choosing a movie you don't really want to see, of forcing pointless conversations, of sitting for hours in an uncomfortable restaurant just to be with a girl that you like. They reinforce the notion that women are some sort of special object, to be seen at certain hours...
...Pointless Sacrifice. Little David & Co. have not done badly for a slingshot operation, but fact is that they have barely pricked the hides of Portland's Goliaths. Since Newspaper Collector Samuel Newhouse added the money-losing Journal to his chain in 1961, he has been consolidating its noneditorial operations with those of the Oregonian (which he bought in 1950), and claims to be confident of eventually turning a profit. The Oregonian has slashed its noneditorial manpower by 30%, is so fat with ads that it shows a profit of more than $1,000,000 a year...
What troubles union members is that the sacrifice seems pointless. "How good is a strike," asked one, "when you turn over three-quarters of the city's newspaper jobs to others?" And both sides-in New York and Cleveland as well as Portland-might also ask how good a strike is if, even with three dailies in the field instead of two, 30,000 fewer newspapers are sold every...
...bank clerk named Joseph K. (Tony Perkins) is arrested-or is it all just a bad dream? Two plainclothesmen burst into his bedroom, order him to dress, refuse to say what law he has broken, badger him for bribes, steal his best shirts, subject him to an apparently pointless "interrogation." And then breeze off, leaving K. in a sweat. Were they really plainclothesmen-or were they crooks? Is he really arrested-or is the whole affair a practical joke? "I've done nothing wrong," he reflects uneasily, "and still I feel guilty...