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Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley has bitterly declared that he will brook no trouble from would-be demonstrators when the Democratic Convention gets underway in August. "I think the great mass of American people has had enough of those who carry Viet Cong flags in the streets of this country, and are getting fed up with the cry of police brutality," he told his wildly applauding City Council...
MBTA officials began searching again. They considered building at Alewife Brook or Braintree, the two terminals of the expanded system. But routes would not be completed there for at least five years...
...peace, not only saying that the U.S. should disarm, but that we should not scream at one another in rehearsals-or if we do it, to understand why." The collective ideal seems to fall between the Group Theater of the '30s and a 19th century Utopian experiment like Brook Farm. Actress Jenny Hecht, daughter of Ben Hecht, puts it this way: "I want to live with people close, in a state of joy and loving." This may explain the eight children who travel with the 32-member troupe, not all of whom are accounted for by the company...
...corner of Jersey and Brook-line, a lone hawker stands shivering. "Get your girl a souvenir garter," he barks, waving a cardboard with a lone garter. "Get your genuine World Series garter, last one left." There are no takers...
Mount, for his part, was purely a Yankee stay-at-home who spent most of his life in the farm country around Stony Brook, Long Island. He was a picturesque figure in a horse-drawn carriage, equipped as a studio with skylight and easel, touring the dirt roads to paint the farmers horse trading, napping, husking corn. He produced scores of paintings before his death in 1868 at 61, and among them was a charming rendition of cider-making time...