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...notion is simple enough. He thinks the American theater should be truly national, and that Broadway would improve if its productions were to be assembled somewhere else than on Manhattan Island. This, by Scott's description, is admittedly like ''trying to drive a camel through the eye of a needle, the eye being the Holland Tunnel." But "the theater is strangling itself in the Broadway struggle," he says, "Most plays are produced on a limited-partner basis. The same money is used over and over again." And this financial centralization creates "indirect censorship"-that is, relatively...
...From Camel to Dodge, many big U.S. advertisers now substitute Negro models in their ads for Ebony (circ. 700,000), the nation's leading Negro magazine. Last year Ebony carried ads from 57 of the nation's top 100 advertisers; since 1955 its advertising revenues have soared 106% to $3,300,000. Another barometer: 20 years ago, only three U.S. radio stations offered programs tailored to Negroes. Now more than...
Back in Karachi from his U.S. visit, Camel Driver Bashir Ahmad was a changed man. Bashir, whose customary costume used to be baggy salwar pants and a sweaty turban, now swanked around town in a spiffy achkan (a knee-length formal coat) and karakul cap, saw would-be visitors by appointment only. Saddest of all, Bashir is a camel driver no more. Awaiting delivery of a truck given him by his U.S. host, Vice President Lyndon Johnson. Bashir has leased his camel and cart to a relative...
...wonder how many of your readers mused, as I did, over the contrast in your juxtaposed stories between 1) the comments and general effectiveness of a middleaged, illiterate camel-cart driver from Pakistan and 2) the comments of a young Smith College honor graduate and Peace Corps member during her short tour of duty in Nigeria...
...Pakistanis better at training their representatives than we are? Is the experience of middle age of more value than a degree from one of our better colleges? Was it to the advantage of the camel driver that he was unable to write a postcard home...