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Arguing that more blacks attend integrated schools in the South than in the North, Ribicoff warned that the U.S. is moving toward apartheid as big cities throughout the nation turn increasingly black while suburbs remain white. He charged that Northern liberal politicians were guilty of "hypocrisy" and did not "have the guts to face their liberal white constituents, who have fled to the suburbs for the sole purpose of avoiding having their sons and daughters go to schools with blacks." All of the most likely Democratic presidential candidates voted with Ribicoff as his plan was defeated...
Noting that nine high Greek officials had turned out to attend a luncheon in his honor at the Hotel Grande Bretagne, Stans told them that he considered this "a compliment to me and a compliment to the Government of the United States and to the wonderfully close relations that exist today between our two countries." Moreover, he said that U.S. business executives "greatly appreciate Greece's attitude toward American investment" and the "sense of security" it is giving them...
...plow and earth. Says Erv: "A farmer these days has to be a good buyer and seller-that's the important thing. But he must also be an electrician, soil analyst and veterinarian. If he isn't, he's sunk." Each winter Erv and his sons attend courses in nearby towns given by the Extension Service and firms that try to keep farmers abreast of advancing farm technology. Lately Walters has added the omnipresent computer to his list of farm aids. For $80 a year a computer firm analyzes the Walters' operations, comparing them with those...
Follies is almost sans plot. Just before his old Broadway theater is to be torn down, Impresario Dmitri Weismann (read Flo Ziegfeld) orders a first and last reunion of his celebrated personnel. All the familiar types attend: Phyllis, the leggy brunette (Alexis Smith) who married well; Sally, the third-from-the-left blonde (Dorothy Collins) who didn't. The bolero-dancing couple (Victor Griffin and Jayne Turner) who bought a Fred Astaire franchise ("Styles change; you never can tell"), the wisecracking queen bee (Yvonne De Carlo) with her hive of young drones; the feathery Continental (Justine Johnston) who remembers Franz...
...sense of clammy terror. The Mephisto Waltz is not one of those really goose-fleshy horror pictures that make you edgy about opening the front door when you get home from the theater. But it is spooky enough to make you wonder just a little the next time you attend a piano recital...