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...Neighbor-to-Neighbor." The death of King also had a profound effect on the white conscience. Some 300 girls from Goucher, a private college outside riot-torn Baltimore, loaded cars, microbuses and a borrowed hearse with 300 cartons of food and relayed them into the city's burned-out core, racing against a 4 p.m. curfew. Many matrons in Washington and its suburbs contributed food, clothing and shelter to the capital's riot victims. In New York, 5,000 suburbanites signed up for a massive "clean-in" this week in the city's slums...
...serious both as a romance and as a treatment of the theme of emasculation. How serious may be arguable, but such an interpreation is admissible precisely because the two main characters, played by Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn, are drawn neatly and adhered to unflaggingly. Grant is a man torn between dignity and free expression; Hepburn is a woman who expresses herself...
...factories requires copious quantities of capital. Second, increasing economic competition forces every society to spend more to modernize and automate. Expensive plants age and fade as quickly as cinema sex queens; machines that have been built to last 25 years must be scrapped after ten. Man the dreamer-constantly torn between today's reality and tomorrow's potential-continually destroys capital...
Christmas "Doggerel." When Manhattan reporters complained last year about difficulties in getting access to Hubert Humphrey, Newman observed: "He is not exactly a man from whom words have to be torn against his will " When Lyndon Johnson transferred Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach to the State Department, Newman noted: "Mr. Johnson does not merely announce his appointments; he congratulates himself on having made them." And about the only joy of Christmas on the tube is Newman's annual "doggerel" reading on the Today show. A stanza from last year...
INSTEAD of seeming to muffle dissent, Johnson now argues that he is defending his own right to articulate American policy in the face of forces which would deny him a hearing. "I'm not going to sit by and let [my programs of social justice] be torn down in a partisan political year," he told a Building and Construction Workers Union conference on Monday...