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...Thank you for printing Hoosier Governor Welsh's denunciation of Alabama's Wallace [April 24]. It appears that Wallace's "armor-plated skin" has met its match in another Governor's valor. It is not the first time Matt Welsh has stood up for principles that are perhaps politically unpopular...
...natural grace and integrity of the truly simple man, but often seems to have achieved something closer to the contrived spontaneity of the method actor. The exactions of pride were made tolerable by an equally vast joviality-a humor that could be gentle or sardonic, and served as mask, armor and weapon of his severe stoicism...
...such words dented Wallace's armor-plated skin, he didn't show it. In the only scheduled speech of his one-day campaign kickoff, Wallace told some 300 applauding Butler University students: "I'm not a racist. I'm against interracial marriages. I think the Negro race ought to stay pure and the white race stay pure. God intended for white people to stay white, Chinese to stay yellow and Negroes to stay black. All mankind is the handiwork...
Tazieff lectures on his esoteric specialty at the University of Brussels, but drops his regular work whenever he gets a chance to confront an active volcano. Protected by fiber-glass armor that can deflect a molten bomb weighing 100 Ibs., he carefully stalks into the craters, sometimes close to the roaring throats, and plants seismographs to measure the heartbeat of lava rising deep under the mountain. He samples gases with little glass tubes poked into hot ash, studies the unstable build-up of fresh cinders. So far, Tazieff has escaped without serious injury...
...production notable for its uniformity of speech. The assassination of Caesar, when done with imaginary weapons, loses a great deal of its effect, and a ghost scene in which the ghost of Caesar merely walks onstage, pronounces his lines, and walks away, falls completely flat. The production crew created armor that rattles very loudly, which is especially annoying during what should be impressive scenes--while the soldiers are bearing Caesar's body off the stage, for instance. To top it off, several lines were fumbled...