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Unexpected Sympathy. Thousands of new Somebodies had to overcome the barrier of illiteracy. Many learned to identify the names of the candidates they favored by staring for hours at crayon-lettered flash cards prepared by civil rights workers. Despite an election regulation that allowed just five minutes in the voting booth, some Negro novices puzzled and pondered over the mysteries of the ballot for as long as half an hour. Encouragingly-if unexpectedly-sympathetic white officials usually gave them all the time they needed, even helped confused illiterates by reading aloud the candidates' names and marking ballots when voters...
...opens with credits superimposed over a crayon drawing of grass, trees, and the like, which dissolve into Alec Guiness's boots, whence we pan up to Guiness's face. And from here Dr. Zhivago begins a long downhill trek, surprising us about every ten minutes when it can't get worse but does...
...Matisse suffered from intestinal cancer. In his town house in Nice, he painted from his bed or wheelchair, surrounded by women-his beautiful secretary, two models, a nurse, cook and maid. Even though an invalid, he still drew in masterly style using a 10-ft. bamboo pole with a crayon on its tip. With this and a pair of scissors, he created his last great masterpiece, the Chapel of the Rosary at Vence. With cut-out colored paper he designed stained glass, tile stations of the Cross, even abstract chasubles. In carving his colors with his hands in forms that...
Caught at the Pass. Innocent skiers have also developed some defensive ploys. On the lodge walls at Stowe, Vt., they crayon huge messages saying "New Yorkers, go home." Even more direct -and effective-is the practice of splitting up pairs of skis, placing them hundreds of feet apart. Sometimes husbands and wives will leave a his-her pair on one side of the lodge, their mates mated off on the other, and stomp off to have a carefree lunch. But even that is not infallible. Recently a racer at Squaw Valley stashed his Head Competitor skis in widely separated locations...
...judge told her that because he was "in charge of" the trial, Hoffa "is going to be convicted." Marie conveniently failed to explain how she and Wilson happened to run into each other at the Read House, identified him in her affidavit by circling a newspaper picture in black crayon...