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...sunshine with a religious service on the steps beneath Lincoln's massive statue. Some 25,000 people filled the calm and lovely setting below the steps and around the Reflecting Pool. Pat Boone sang the national anthem, Frank Borman gave a prayer, Kate Smith sang God Bless America. The speaker was Billy Graham, who called the nation to God and pleaded that it "stop the polarization before it is too late." At appropriate moments, or just for the fun of it, the children in the crowd waved their flags...
South African Playwright Athol Fugard should bless his actors for breathing vitality into his stillborn script. James Earl Jones pours out his rage at existence like a volcanic river of fire, and Ruby Dee's face is one of those relief maps of pain, torment and humiliation that characterize a life when it is brutal, nasty and interminable. The pair ought to get a bonus in salvage...
Full Pay. But mainly the polychromatic rally, with its shimmering flow of blue, red, green and yellow hats amid thousands of American flags, was a festive affair, accenting the positive in a kind of workers' Woodstock. Banners proclaimed GOD BLESS AMERICA and the demonstrators chanted, "All the Way with the U.S.A.!" Martial music, including From the Halls of Montezuma and The Caissons Go Rolling Along, rekindled the World War II spirits of middle-aged workers. Flag-waving demonstrators clung precariously to the uncomfortable tops of moving concrete mixers...
...note of hardhat solidarity with the nation's rulers was sounded often. WE SUPPORT NIXON AND AGNEW, One sign read; GOD BLESS THE ESTABLISHMENT. The strange bedfellowship was not lost on Peter Brennan. head of Greater New York's Building and Construction Trades Council. "We're supporting the President and the country," said Brennan, "not because he's for labor, because he isn't, but because he's our President, and we're hoping that he's right." A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany drew a similar distinction: he backed Nixon on Cambodia...
...formality. Perhaps that is why a select group of Londoners recently received his invitation to an embassy party in honor of "Mr. Francis Sinatra." At the gathering, Francis himself was informal as ever. Responding to a toast, he held his glass high, looked warmly at the guests and said: "Bless your distinguished little hearts...