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...military hated the words. "A subversive lyric," said General Luis de Franĉa Oliveira, Rio's secretary of public security. "A musical cadence of the Mao Tse-tung type that can easily serve as the anthem for student street demonstrations." In a fit of anger, police in Rio's main street arrested one group of youths merely for listening to Caminhando outside a record shop...
...wasn't going to run until John Carlos told me I had to," said Evans. But he was clearly not taking too many orders. All three 400-meter runners wore black berets to the awards ceremony, and all three stood bareheaded at attention for their national anthem...
Effective but Petty. As a way of calling attention to racial strife in the U.S., the demonstration was undeniably effective. But it was also painfully petty. East Germans, Russians, even Cubans, all stand at attention when The Star-Spangled Banner or any other national anthem is played. Other equally militant U.S. black athletes were aghast at Smith and Carlos' actions. "I came here to win a gold medal-not to talk about black power," said Ohio's Willie Davenport next day after winning the 110-meter high hurdles. He stood straight and tall and proud on the Olympic...
...small combo with electrified instruments that churns out Nashville-style country music and leads the audience in a slow rendition of God Bless America. Then on come the Taylor Sisters, Mona and Lisa, two seasoned blondes who harmonize a couple of toe-tapping standards and belt out an anthem entitled Are You for Wallace? (to the tune of Are You from Dixie...
There were no folk-style ballads strummed on guitars at the Pontifical High Mass celebrated last week at the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis. The hymns were all in Latin, as was the rest of the Mass. The offertory anthem was the 8th-century refrain, "Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat [Christ triumphs, Christ rules, Christ commands]." Nonetheless, the 350 delegates to the Fourth National Wanderer Forum sang out with a fervor rivaling that of any mod congregation. "That really felt like going to church, didn't it?" asked one rosary-fingering worshiper at the end of Mass...