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...Dick Gregory drove along the expressways, looking in vain for a good place to stall. As he approached the fair site in Flushing Meadows, he found the dividing strip between lanes on the highway lined with police. Several times a fellow demonstrator, following Galamison in his own car, drew abreast of the minister and shouted: "When are you going to stall?" Galamison cried back: "Let's keep looking...
Rugantino, a musical transported intact from Rome and sung and spoken in Italian, is a pleasant novelty on Broadway. Unobtrusive English titles are flashed on a narrow screen above the stage to keep the playgoer abreast of action and dialogue. More nearly an operetta than a musical comedy, Rugantino is lavishly and attractively costumed and atmospherically set in Rome in 1830. Its bawdry is innocent, its humor earthy, its love songs are unselfconsciously sentimental...
...occasions teach new duties; Time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still, and onward, Who would keep abreast of Truth...
...Walk a Bit." Outside the Capitol a multitude-possibly a quarter of a million people-waited to begin a hushed parade past the casket. Eight abreast, they lined up for 32 blocks outside the Capitol in such numbers that even at the rate of 6,000 an hour, there was no chance that those at the end of the line could get in before the funeral procession Monday morning. They never stopped. At 2 a.m., a wornan walked by the bier wheeling an infant asleep in a stroller. A blind man was led by the casket, his companion softly whispering...
...Giannini, he feels that this trend makes it all the more important to keep up human contacts with his customers. "We cannot," he says, "become a factory." In his cherry-walled and beige-carpeted office in San Francisco, he receives a steady stream of visitors, also seeks to keep abreast of changing banking needs by traveling much of his time. Aside from an occasional salmon-fishing expedition, most of Peterson's life is devoted to his banking work...