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...took Providence police with Birmingham-type dogs to quell the brouhaha elsewhere in town. Eight Brown rioters were arrested, but the chief injuries were sustained by two policemen and a bystander. One cop was hit with a rock and the other suffered the unkindest cut of all: he was bitten...
...with tension and violence ever since last summer, when Negro students from out of town moved in to get a voter-registration drive going. A fire has gutted the students' headquarters, one Negro has been wounded by a gun blast, 27 have been arrested, and one has been bitten by a police dog. Every day clusters of Negroes march toward the courthouse to register, and every day the police methodically disperse them...
Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night poses so painful a threat to the U.S. postman as the common dog. Last year 7,372 mail carriers were bitten by Fido; many more were stayed by a snarl from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. But the postman is about to snap back...
...teen-age hero (Alan Arkin) wants to be an actor, an exotic ambition that sends flutters of horror through the hearts of Papa (Marty Greene) and Mama (Sylvia Sidney), who want him to be a druggist. His perils and pratfalls as he develops his dubious talents in a flea-bitten acting school run by a haughty, boozed-up impresario (Alan Mowbray) and his daughter (Vivian Elaine) make for broad, boisterous fun. With his syrupy delivery, chipmunk facial grimaces and gift for lighting his own finger instead of the leading lady's cigarette. Arkin is a clownish glossary of theatrical...
Coming from such a background, girls find themselves already outfitted in the chocolate uniform. It may range in attractiveness, but it is always Conventional. Woolen scarves over the head, large plaids, sneakers, eye-glasses, and thick boots are common. When they are messy it is with dirty hair, bitten nails, and too-long skirts. And when they are well-dressed, it is in a happily wholesome way, with pleated skirts, Loden coats, and the bulky cardigans that all of American teenagery is wearing. If they approach the tastefulness of the peach style at times (without ever really achieving...