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Apparecently be hopes, even expects, that day will come that tell of peasant and leaders battling the enemy until the leader dies, whereupon the peasants pick up the banner and fight on even more fervently. Mao accepts the first part of the story as his fate; China stagers today because be worries that the second part will not come true...
Good or Bad. To many Frenchmen, the scene recalled the Popular Fronts that surged to power in the '30s under the banner of militant antifascism. For all the fanfare, however, the new leftist pact was a far cry from that. Although the new league agreed in general that such things as De Gaulle's force de frappe and the American bombing of North Viet Nam were bad and that birth control and capital-gains taxes were good, its members found much more to disagree on, such as whether NATO was good or bad. So divided were the parties...
...enterprise. Manhattan Adman Burt Pence, 28, and Lawyer Todd Merer, 27, invited 2,000 guests to a party in Greenwich Village last week with the theme, "Sin and Soul in the Seventies," featuring a "monster happening" at midnight with a recording of Kate Smith singing The Star-Spangled Banner, a karate exhibition, and chorines in fluorescent tights and gas masks. The party grossed $5,500, and its profits will go to finance a boutique the pair hopes to open. If they don't have enough for that, they will use the money to finance another and larger party...
...humored dig at the Western preoccupation with spy movies and has a ball with a Bond take-off entitled Impressions of the Western Cinema. He envisons a future state of espionage technology when even roses are bugged and he evokes a worldwide convention of secret agents meeting under the banner: "If you don't spy, you don't eat." Then...
Before the Supreme Court, Appellant Adderley and 31 others cited such key precedents as Edwards v. South Carolina (1963), which voided "breach of the peace" convictions of Negroes who had sung hymns and the Star-Spangled Banner outside the South Carolina statehouse. But in Edwards, countered Justice, Black, the Supreme Court merely ruled that the state law failed to regulate any specific conduct, such as statehouse visiting hours...