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Largely because of such blunt accusations, Operation Abolition stirs up some kind of trouble nearly everywhere it goes. Last week Narrator Lewis, who has spoken on behalf of the film at some 75 U.S. colleges, appeared with Operation Abolition at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn, and the University of Connecticut at Storrs. As usual, well-organized campus liberals picketed the showing, jammed the hall to heckle, boo, fire loaded questions at the narrator. Praised by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, the National Review, and a number of conservative Baptist groups, Operation Abolition has come in for searching criticism...
Thompson had to chase Khrushchev halfway across Russia to deliver his message, finally caught up with him at Novosibirsk. 1.750 miles east of Moscow, and settled down for a four-hour discussion. With direct implication that his words were those chosen by President Kennedy himself. Thompson made the blunt declaration that the U.S. is dead serious in its desire to make Laos neutral. When the U.S. said neutrality, added Thompson, it meant (as it has not always in the past) complete neutrality. Thompson offered specifics of what the U.S. was prepared to do. provided the Russians were prepared to reciprocate...
...from it. Leakey rules out the possibility that the child fell or was struck by a falling branch, for there were no trees or cliffs in the neighborhood at the time. "I think we can take it for granted that the child was hit on the head by a blunt instrument." says Leakey, warming to his story. "It was murder most foul...
...whom many merchandisers consider the top shoe designer. Vivier shrugs off the complete style change between the two shoes. "After all," he says, "in geometric forms there is only the round, the pointed and the square." Inspiration for the new style came from a pair of 100-year-old blunt-toed shoes. "I hate reminiscence," says Vivier. "I did not imitate; I was inspired...
Such moments of inspiration on the part of Vivier and other major shoe designers send shivers of dread and anticipation through the shoe industry. Both the U.S.'s Capezio and England's Edward Rayne have shown modified blunt toes in their new collections. But shoe dealers who still have inventories of pointed shoes grumble that women are not ready for such radical changes. In the heady atmosphere of the arch-creator's Olympus, Vivier has no patience with such mundane complaints. Breathlessly awaiting his new-creations are Queens (England's two Elizabeths, Iran's Farah...