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...Rally. To force the integration of local hospitals in the mid-'60s, Hobson one day walked into an all-white ward in the Washington Hospital Center and calmly climbed into an empty bed. That stunt won him a brief stint in jail-but also the eventual integration of the hospital. If his bluster was good, his bluff was even better. Perhaps Hobson's most famous episode was the great rat scare. To dramatize the rodent problem in ghetto housing, he threatened almost daily to release hundreds of rats in fashionable Georgetown. He drove through Washington's black...
...part series, "Our Thalidomide Children." The stories, which began appearing in September, were sharply angled against Distillers and condemned the protracted battle as a "national shame." Distillers' latest offer to establish an $8,000,000 trust fund for all victims would, the paper claimed, "probably be insufficient to ward off simple destitution" for the most severely deformed; the paper argued that an inadequate compensation settlement "would rank as one of the worst single failures of the English legal system...
...crew-joined by twelve whites-staged a sitdown at sea. Explained Radarman Third Class Lonnie Brown, 23: "We wanted to air our views and tell the captain what was actually happening. We had to get the word across to the man who runs the ship." But Captain J.D. Ward refused to see the men. Instead he called for a general muster, and the blacks were suddenly surrounded by thousands of whites. Later they were put off the ship at San Diego for "counsel." When the carrier returned from maneuvers to pick them up, the men refused to board. They staged...
...true, even if they never really happened," is a much more convincing conclusion to a book that takes both the full character and the existence of the outside world into account. The Chief learns to assert himself on stage, too, but only inside the four walls of the ward, and not within the confines of his mind. Stepping through the window, he would merely end up back-stage, not on the road back to normal life. He would not be able to fly over the cuckoo's nest...
Churchill is played by three young actors at various stages of his youth who neatly blend into each other in the fashion of growing boys and girls in a Wonderbread commercial. Simon Ward, who carries the bulk of the film from age 18 on is a bit too smooth and pretty as the young adventurer but highly entertaining. He deports himself in the battle scenes as if he were presiding at the Grand Ball and some unfortunate occurence--Lord Whatdyecallit fainting or something--had made him all excited running around calling for a doctor. The daintily etched grease smears...