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...Altar. In his Washington office, Attorney General Katzenbach, shirt sleeves rolled up, studied an enlarged map of Selma. Two telephone lines, fed into an office squawk box, echoed with brisk reports from Aide John Doar on the scene. At 3:56 p.m., Katzenbach phoned Presidential Aide Bill Moyers at the White House. "We're right at the critical moment," said he. "I'll keep you posted...
Double Date. His latest public act is his latest novel. In 1963, Esquire announced that Mailer had undertaken to write a New Novel against monthly deadlines, the way Dickens used to write. The first installment, published two months after the assassination of President Kennedy, began in brisk damn-said-the-duchess style: "I met Jack Kennedy in November 1946. We were both war heroes, and both of us had just been elected to Congress. We went out one night on a double date . . . and I seduced a girl who would have been bored by a diamond...
...Neapolitans relieve their guests of everything from cars and clothes to wallets and women. The police labor mightily but in vain. Last week 110 men accused of stealing hundreds of cars languished in jail as they awaited trial. Even in their absence, the theft of cars continues at a brisk thousand a month. One two-car Neapolitan family had its Fiat stolen in the morning, its brand-new Alfa Romeo in the afternoon. A Roman visitor found his car where he had parked it the night before-only the motor was gone...
...Brisk Disasters. Norman Paperman is a successful smalltime Broadway pressagent. His gift is for talk, not action. His dream is to get away from job, winter, phony people and their "Death Row" wait for heart disease or cancer "or one of the less predictable trapdoors" to get them. He comes to an uncommercialized Caribbean island called Amerigo. He falls in love with a rundown resort. The owner has it up for sale. Atlas offers to back him. The poor sap says...
Owens, erect and brisk at 64, readily concedes that his Selma University is wildly misnamed. It is not a full college, much less a university, since only its three theology students study for four years. It cannot get accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools even as a junior college, because it has no science building, pays its faculty $1,000 less than the required minimum of $4,500, and has no teachers with master's degrees in science, mathematics, English, business or social science. Owens' problem is money. In fund raising, he says, "you always...