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...Angeles to help this man reidentify as we are willing to die in Selma." To illustrate the gulf that existed between the Negro "haves" and "have-nots," Negro State Assemblyman Mervyn Dymally recounted an exchange at the riots' height with a boy who was brandishing a Molotov cocktail...
...marchers to the West Garfield firehouse to demand that the all-white company hire Negroes. After Dessie Williams' death last week, some 200 Negroes gathered around the firehouse, shouting, jeering and throwing rocks. They taunted the firemen by setting small piles of debris ablaze, hurled a Molotov cocktail onto the roof of a mobile classroom across the street. Heaving missiles and assaulting whites, the crowd spread over a twelve-block area before it was dispersed. Seven persons were injured, among them four policemen hit by bricks and bottles. Not Satisfied. Next morning the Fire Department suspended the fire-truck...
...pastor of churches in Milwaukee and Minneapolis for 19 years, Gornitzka in 1963 was forced to move to Palm Desert, Calif., because of a skin ailment. There he discovered that he had a knack for comprehending the problems confided to him by well-to-do people he met at cocktail parties or on the golf course. Gornitzka soon found himself busy helping the friends of friends, eventually organized a full-time ministry around a nonprofit corporation called Direction...
...styled Seer Jeane Dixon is a woman of some standing in the nation's capital. For three decades she has foretold catastrophes in Washington, and not too surprisingly one of her prophecies occasionally comes true. That seems enough to satisfy her fans, who welcome her to the local cocktail-party circuit. Her biggest fan, Hearst Columnist Ruth Montgomery, has now written a book about her, A Gift of Prophecy (Morrow; $4.50)-which generously omits most of the false prophecies...
What probably accounts for this non-professional interest, beyond sales-promoting cocktail-party talk, is the opportunity Berne provides for people to take a fresh look at themselves. Nearly anyone can recognize himself in Berne's games, from Harried (the uncomplaining, noble housewife who undertakes too much and then collapses) through Kick Me ("played by men whose social manner is equivalent to wearing a sign that reads 'Please Don't Kick Me' "> to Buzz Off, Buster (the woman who leads a man to water and then waxes wroth when he attempts to drink). Even the nonprofessional...