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...showed up at one rally greeted their Congressman with such prolonged boos that he went home and shot himself, "accidentally," in the hand. Another was haunted by the local witch-doctor, who went so far as to put a bloodstained coffin containing a strangled chicken outside the polling booth on election...
...American Museum of Natural History. MacArthur packed the cash in a bundle of $100 and $50 bills for Freelance Writer Francis P. Antel to deliver to the usurers who had held the 100.32-carat ruby as collateral on a loan. He then drove out to a phone booth near Palm Beach and found the stone perched like a pebble on a ledge over the door. MacArthur announced that the ruby will quickly rejoin nine other jewels recovered so far-including the priceless 563.35-carat Star of India sapphire. Why did he put up the ransom? "Public service," smiled MacArthur proudly...
Surely the duration will extend beyond Lyndon Johnson's presidency and many , more to come. Through legal action, the road from shantytown to voting booth has been cleared. Now Los Angeles has shown that the road from deprivation to decent schools, jobs and homes, may be even more tortuous and lonely. There are no short cuts, and in the aftermath of violence the people of Watts may begin to grasp that fact. Many did. "I don't want anyone to give me anything," said a Negro laborer. "All I want...
TELEVISION Wednesday, August 18 WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-10:47 p.m.).* Hot Spell (1958) with Shirley Booth and Anthony Quinn...
During the opening week, Parisians were agog at Marisol's painted wooden beach group and George Segal's plaster Woman in a Restaurant Booth. Giacometti came, stared at Mark di Suvero's jumble of wood beams titled Champion, and exclaimed, "That frightens me!" At the vernissage, César, France's leading sculptor of crushed cars, cast an evil eye on his U.S. competitor, John Chamberlain, but hailed the rest: "We feel much more affinity with America than with the School of Paris...