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...Postal Service at week's end retreated from its earlier decision to allow the Dial's sponsoring stations to use their cheap mailing privileges to distribute the magazine. Instead, Public Broadcasting Communications Inc. must now apply for its own nonprofit mail permit. Vows Dial Publisher Morton Bailey Jr.: "We're going to fight this thing to the very end. We're going to play hardball on this because we're right." As Bailey comes to the plate, however, he is likely to face some smoking fastballs...
...bizarre come-on for Barnum & Bailey. Not at all. The 200 clowns were a congregation. The popcorn pass-along was part of a two-hour Christian Communion service conducted entirely in mime and gesture by the Rev. Floyd Shaffer, the red-and-white clown, who is really a Lutheran minister from Roseville, Mich. Both services and parades were among the highlights of a weeklong workshop on the use of clowning, mime, puppetry and dance in Christian worship and ministry that attracted some 350 people to the campus of New Orleans' Loyola University. More than 400 attended a second gathering...
...near the wall that the commandos intended to scale. Were they volunteers or conscripts? he wondered. If they were radicals, Carter explained, he could go along with killing them, but if they were only peasant conscripts, he wanted them knocked out temporarily. Carter was gripped by what Historian Thomas Bailey has called the "tyranny of the trivial...
...freezer full of dead cats, old pets she could not bear to part with. Two policemen wait at a Los Angeles airport boarding gate to arrest Capote for ignoring a subpoena to testify in a murder case he had researched. The situation looks hopeless until he runs into Pearl Bailey and her gaudy entourage. She gets one groupie to switch clothing with Capote and then smuggles the frightened author aboard the plane...
...kinds of women dominate the book: those, like Bailey, who are protective mother figures or good witches, and those who resemble childhood playmates. Mary Sanchez is a professional cleaning woman whom Capote accompanies as she makes her rounds of Manhattan apartments. Both writer and domestic get high on marijuana, music and laughter, but are brought down when one of Mary's clients unexpectedly returns home...