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...could wear himself out with all that marching. Besides, every middle-aged beard and his brother are out picketing for peace these days. So, turning from soles to souls, disillusioned Vietnik Ray Robinson Jr., 29, a Negro in blue denim, hit on the great couch-in formula for ending-the war. "We've got to show the people the only way is love," he explained. "We've got to talk and listen-everywhere." Preferably sitting...
Standing in the fields at dusk in his faded blue denim coveralls, Charlie Shuman draws new strength from his ally, the earth. His adversary for most of his 58 years has been the agricultural bureaucracy in Washington, which Shuman regards as a kind of socialistic Santa Claus engaged in a monstrous plot to make the nation's farmers live off "sugarplum subsidies" rather than the honest fruits of the soil. Unfashionably, by today's standards, Shuman distrusts government in any form, spurns its handouts. "Farming's Freedom Fighter," as he is often called, Shuman is president...
...Center's New York State Theater to twist, while Andy and fellow onlookers toasted her in champagne from below. A week later they showed up at the exclusive dinner given by the old-guard Nine O'Clockers of New York, Andy dressed in his usual black, bespotted denim work pants and Edie in a black crepe evening gown with shoulder-length white gloves, topped with ostrich feathers...
...Kill the bastards!" screamed posseman. "Go get that one!" another cried. A posseman in a blue denim jacket and cowboy hat yelled "Whooopee!" and lashed his horse to a gallop to catch and whip a fleeing Negro...
...addition, both Dallas and Montgomery Counties employ an elected sheriff and several deputies. When "necessary," a sheriff may swear in an unlimited number of possemen. In Montgomery on Tuesday it was these mounted possemen wearing denim jackets and ten-gallon hats, who trampled more than 600 demonstrators, beating several senseless. They enjoyed their work, and they went at it with rebel yells and cries of "yippee--get the bastards...