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...district hobbled along with a handful of nonstriking teachers and bewildered volunteer helpers for the rest of the academic year. The Negro community vowed that none of the 350 strikers would ever be readmitted. Equally enraged, the teachers felt that their jobs were being sacrificed on the altar of Black Power. It was one of those clas sic situations in which neither side was wholly wrong, nor wholly right...
...cypress grove above the harbor, workmen labored long and lovingly on the task of refurbishing the tiny, neoclassic Chapel of Panayitsa (the Little Virgin). The centuries-old ritual was prescribed by Greek Orthodox tradition. The wedding ceremony called for the couple to walk around the altar three times; bride and groom traditionally try to be the first to step on the other's feet (the winner is then able to claim supremacy in the household). Man and wife are crowned with wreaths and drink from a cup of wine in order to symbolize the "harmony of soul and bodies." Everything...
...bust began when an FBI agent announced into a bullhorn, "This is the FBI--you have 15 seconds to clear the aisles." He repeated this statement several times, then ordered his men to move toward the altar and take positions. Five of them carried Kroll away...
Bespectacled Ray Kroll, 18, of College Springs, Wash., the Army private who is the focus for all the activities, sat quietly today near the altar reading a magazine, occasionally answering a question put to him. Several times he disappeared into the basement for a rest...
...most amusing but also pathetic entries deal with his efforts to be folksy and humbly ingratiating with voters who understood him probably even less than he understood them. He was equally at a loss when dealing with party hacks. "I feel like a cow being led garlanded to the altar," he noted, "and they probably regard me as a very doubtful old horse." He lost the election, of course, and when he returned to London, half-angry and half-shamed, he poured out his feelings in an article in the Spectator that alienated him from the Labor hierarchy and forever...